Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-12
FILMOGRAMS
Bits From the Studios and Theaters.

pageant fame, is prominently cast IN
Flying Elephants" current Hal Roach
Pathe comedy.
Back from honeymoon IN Tia
Juana. where she was married to Logan
Metcalf. "a Los Angeles bond broker
Madge Bellamy is at work on her new
Fox picture THE Sport Girl" Arthur
Rosson is directing. THE Sport Girl
is based on an original story by John
stone. Johnny Mack Brown, the foot
ball star. has the leading masculine
role.
Motion pictures taken In 1898 and
! 1905 are used in New Works Sweet
heart" the new curiosities' subject re-
leased by Educational, which compares
scenes and events of that day with the
present. One sequence compares Firth
avenue in 1905 with the same scene to-
day. Another depicts the Fire Depart
! in 1898 and then the present-day motor
equipments going to blaze.
"Souvenirs," Tiffany-Stahl color
classic. now being filmed at the West
Coast studios. has IN its cast Anna May
Wong. Esther Garcia. Joyzelle Joyner
and Harold Miller The picture. which
is being directed by Hans Reinhardt.
the Austrian director, is story on an
old sea captain who has three souvenirs
of past love affairs which developed In
Spain. Japan and Honolulu.
Walter Hagan. the golf champion, has
been signed by Tiffany-Stahl Produc-
tons to make series OF features III
which golf will be the predominating
theme and only the golf champion VIII
be starred.
Donald Keith. supporting Clara Bow
in MY Lady of WhimS." Is Boston
boy and a cousin of Francis Ford. an
other screen favorite, although not even
mechanically related to the famous
Henry Ford.
The most famous triangle in the
world is filmed in THE Private Life OF
Helen of Troy" the First National pic
ture now showing at the Metropolitan
Theater. Irate husbands whose wives
have skipped off with other men have
done q number of terrible things in re-
venge, but none Of them ever started q
Trojan war.
Making THE Gorilla" into a movie
required a staff Of technicians larger
than the cast appearing In the picture
There were 9 people in the cast and 80
technicians.
The wooden horse, familiar to all
schoolboyS as the ruse by which u.e
ancient city Of Troy was captured. ap-
pears in all its glory and magnitude in
THE Private Life OF Helen Of Troy"
the First National picture. The horse
built for the picture was more than 100
feet high.
Director Alexander Oumansky of the
Fox Theater permanent ballet. who has
been "a director of the dance" in every
capital of Europe. has created a new
interlude, suggesting, in this instance.
st. Valentines day and what 1t means
to the sweethearts Of the world.
Clara Beranger has been assigned to
write the adaptation and continuity for
the screen version of George Kelly's
Pathe release. Miss Beranger. who has
been associated with william c. De
Mile as scenarist, has written the script
for many Of that producer-dtrector's
outstanding motion pictures.
It will be in entirely different roles
than his portrayal in The Little Shop
herd OF Kingdom Come" his current
First National picture. that Richard
Barthelmess will next appear before the
cameras His two forthcoming Aims are
Roulette" and "Out of the Ruins" The
first is by Fanny Hurst, the second by
Philip Gibbs. -.
Charles Puffy. Hungarian stage and
screen comedian, wrote the original
story. THE Last Cab" which William
K. Howard is TO direct at the De Mile
studio for Pathe. Puffy Is a well known
continental player and erstwhile lead
ing comedian for Ufa, the famous Ger
man studio. THE Last Cab" Is a tense
drama laid In the country he knows so
well. II features Rudolph Schildkraut