Evening star., 1928-06-10
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BY c. e. NELSON.

movies less than / per cent are
allowed inside the studios. The
Fox company announces that I'll
has been estimated that every
visitor admitted to a stage where
a picture is being filmed is more
| than likely to cost $100 in pro-
duction, due to interrupting thc
director and players and causing
delays, Film costs are so heavy
in salaries, lights and technical
work and demands for stages SC
pressing that lost time runs
quickly into big money. But the
main reason for the No Admis-
sion signs is that most of the
players and directors find it diff
cult to work before visitors. Peer
ing faces about a set distract the
players from the mood, the right
tempo in emotion that director
has worked hard to inStill. Some
actors and actresses cannot do
their portrayalS before outsiders. "
In other words. the players arc
shy. And it is altogether different
from the old stage days, when the
bigger the audience the bigger the
emotion. 1t was difficult for the
old-time actor to reach a serious
''emoting stage" if his audience
consisted of a scattered dozen
curious souls.
Noted i'm Passing.
THREE new screen players are
making American debuts in
1928 in leading roles. Camilla
Horn, 10, appears opposite John
Barrymore in Tempest" She
once appeared with Emil Jannings
in Faust" Ufa production.
Walter Byron, young English
actor, appears with Wilma Banky
in THE Awakening" and LIE Roy
Mason of the United States of
America is the leading man with
Dolores Del Rio in Revenge"
W. D. Griffith is directing THE
Battle of the Sexes" which is be-
ing fought in several thrilling
night club scenes. Jean Hersholt
and Phyllis Haver carry the bur-
den of the battle.
Rex Ingram and the United Ar
lists have arranged to release
THE Three Passions" an Ingram
film version Of an unpublished
novel by Cosmo Hamilton. This
is supposed to be the first of a
series of super-productions which
Ingram will produce in Europe.
Leo, the Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer
lion, is to make a personal ap-
pearance tour of the world. He is
to travel in "a specially designed
motorized apartment cage, with
patent feeding and watering
troughs and cushion springs"
Norma Shearer, back from Eu-
rope, is reading the script of her
next picture, "Ballyhoo," which is
to be the film story of the stage
play.
Lon CLANCY has completed
while the City Sleeps" and now
he travels some distance and be-
gins work in West of Zanzibar" a
mystery melodrama of the sort
which will make "the shivers trill
up and down ones vertebrae."
Society note.--Lew Cody and
Aileen Pringle, the Metro Gold
wyn-Mayer stars, are vacationing,
Lew spending his time at tennis,
ETC., around his Beverly Hills
home, while Aileen Is sitting on
the front porch overlooking the
beach at Santa Monica.
Astrological note.-It is said
that while she was dancing in
George Whites Scandals" Dor
othy Sebastian dreamed that she
was playing an important role on
the screen. The dream was so
vivid that she considered it an
omen, and, securing letters Of in
PRODUCTION from friends. she went
to Hollywood to try her luck. And
it is thus that stars are made.
Prohibition note. Deliver
ance," a picture based upon the
writings Of Prof. Irving Fisher on
prohibition, was given its first
showing in New York a few days
ago, and it is declared to be out
and-out prohibition propaganda"
The audience cheered, Kissed and
groaned.
Travel note.-~Mary and Doug.
now in Amsterdam. have dropped
the idea of a world tour. They
return TO these United States in
August. The New York Silver
Cornet Band will meet them at
the Hoboken pier.
Popularity note.-In gathering
Of film theater managers In New
Orleans a vote showed that the
little red-head, Clara Bow, was
the biggest boz-Office attraction
among the woman stars. Corinne
Griffith was second, with Billie
Dove and Colleen Moore running
a close third. OF the men. Emil
Jannings was first. John Gilbert
second, and Ronald Colman and
Richard Barthelmess running
neck and neck for third place.