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Evening star., 1928-10-28

A IL roads in and about Los Angeles
will lead to Fox Hills this afternoon
October 2s), when thousands will at
tend the dedication of the $4,000, 900
Fox Movietone miracle CITY," which has
grown in three months from 40 acres of
cactus and sagebrush into walled city
with replica of the Gardens Of Ver-
sailles as q setting for q great group of
buildings in which Fox Movietone pro-
ductions will be produced.
Today also will mark the second
birthday of Fox Movietone. 1t was Oc-
tober 28, 1925, that the first Fox Movie
tone subjects came into being. With
sound pictures the keynote Of the in
dustry today, William Fox, has gone
forth to create the greatest talking pic
ture plant extant.
Fifteen hundred men, working in
three eight-hour shifts q day, have kept
the wheels turning at top speed ever
since ground was broken on the site
midway between Hollywood and the
sea, on July % Of this year. Several
mammoth stages, sound proof to the
nth degree, have risen, and a score Of
other structures that harmonic with
the general layout Of the Movietone
OlIy nave uCcu 0u1lCs L LC BIOu1lQ VII
which the walled city rests Is valued
at $4,000, 900; the new structures also
are valued at $4,000, 900, and the equip
ment going into them is valued at $4,-
100000.
A 14-foot wall, $500 feet long, sur
rounds the Fox Movietone home, which
has been isolated as far as possible from
any other activity on the 350-acre tract
at Fox Hills, where Fox Aims have been
made for several years.
Putting sound into Aim is silent
job. The walls of the new stages are
three feet thick, formed of concrete for
the most part, with cork and air space
lining the inner wall. Multiple folding
doors operate silently to permit ingress
and egress. The largest privately owned
electric generating plant in the West
will provide current to operate the
works, and q 100000 air-conditioning
plant will keep the temperature inside
the studios at from 81 to 10 degrees,
regardless Of the number of lights
used in production or the temperature
outside.
Fifty thousand invitations have been
issued to the dedication, which promises
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Whence Came We?

Happily or unhappily, as you will, for
the followers of science, there has been
produced in Berlin a motion picture
that deals with. this subject. The
film, Mature and Love-" is said to
cover completely all the salient points
of the scientific side of evolution.
According to the Motion Picture
Guild, Mature and Love" makes it pos
sible to study many varieties of life as
they actually are, and not as they are
described. The picture is said to con-
tain any number Of remarkable views
of fishes, insects, deer, bats, etc.
The latter part Of the Aim, says the
Motion Picture Guild, is devoted to the
development of mankind from the pre-
historic men, such as the Neanderthal
man and Cro-Magnon man down to
and ending with people such as the
cave and cliff dwellerS.
AS an answer to the question "Where
are we going?" the film presents a
symbolical picture Of all the races of
mankind striving for some higher goal
but what that goal is, it is explained
in the film, can be answered only by
God.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Cabaret in South Seas.

THE cabaret, that popular institution
that has grown into night clubs,
supper clubs and jazz palaces Of varied
hues, has penetrated to the far distant
islands Of the South Seas, judged by
First Nationals STRANDED in Para
disc" the story of New York and the
south Seas, In which the South Sea
Island cabaret Is peopled with q motley
crowd Of patrons, from many races and
of many colors, while on the stage
at one side Is Q troupe Of dancing girls,
old-faShioned burlesque "hefties." like
Billie Watson's Beef Trust" OF days
gone by.
In this atmosphere Of gay abandon
occurs some Of the dramatic scenes be-
tween Dorothy Mackaill and Milton
Sills, who are co-featured in this George
Fitxmaurice production, which Is to be
the irst dialogue picture from First
National.
pany spent six weeks on the Hawaiian
islands making the location scenes from
the story, but has returned to the Bur-
bank Studios to complete the picture.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
To Give Sound Men, Credit.

THE sound man, newcomer to the
motion picture ranks but now as
important as the camera man, will be
given screen credit for his work Fox
officials at the Movietone studios have
issued orders providing recognition on
the screen for the men who control
the audible part of the Movietone
films.
G. E. Aiken, F. B. Mackenzie and
e. w. Hansen are the first persons to
be credited with the new rank. Aiken
has been assigned to record the sound
and dialogue of 1.-THE Ghost Talks"
Hansen is recording the dialogue for
"In Old Arizona" while Mackenzie
handled 'The Bath Between" short
subject featuring Clark and McCul-
Tough.
All are electrical engineers and went
to Hollywood recently under long-term
contracts with Fox Films.
While the camera man, In the past,
has functioned as the directors eyes,
the sound man has become the di-
rector'S ears.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.

good or bad, exert q comparatively
slight influence on attendance, and that
pictures which have been unfavorably
received by the critics have often
broken box-off1ce records"
The movie fans, en- maSSe, pay little
or no attention to the expressed opin-
ions Of the reviewers on newspapers OF
magazines. To name two extreme ex-
amples of this: 1.-THE Last Laugh" was
praised more highly by critics than
any other picture that know Of in
the history of the screen, and yet 1t
failed miserably as a box-office attrac-
ton, whereas THE Cohens and Kellys,
which was garlanded with raspberries
by the high-brows, turned out to be i'm
mensely popular with the cash Gus
toners.
On the other hand, all the really
great successes in the movies have been
approved as heartily by the critics as
they were by the public, Paeans of
critical praise greeted THE Birth of a
Nation" "The Four Horsemen Of the
Apocalypse The Covered Wagon"
THE Big Parade" and Wings" And
if you will consult the great stars of
the screen-Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie
Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Emil Jannings
and Greta Garbo, for instance-you
won't hear many complaints over the
treatment accorded them by the critics.
X X X X
Speaking as one who has been a
movie critic since the days when the
once silent drama was in its subin-
fancy, can say that the critics lot
is not a happy one. He has plenty
of provocation for feeling useless and
Intellectual, and for meditating on the
futility Of it all. He feels that he is,
after all, parasite on the body OF art
and the nourishment that he derives
from his job isn't always any too stirn-
ulating.
Yet, even the critic has one supreme
satisfaction, he knows that even though
the public ignores him, the people
whom he criticiZes do not. The in
mates of Hollywood evidently pay close
attention to their press notices, and
the reviews that are most violently
denunciatory usually manage to get
under the skin of their victims.
In spite of the fact that "The Last
Laugh" failed to find favor with the
public. the critics we're amply justified
in their praise Of it; for 1t was called
by the critics, to the attention of the
movie directors and actors, and its in
fiuence on them has been incalculably
beneficial.
When the expert showmen say that
all a critic is called upon to do is
review and report rather than criti-
cizes," they are talking nonsense, and
they know it.
All that any critic in any branch of
art Is called upon to do is to shout
forth his own private, personal views
and opinions, and the more loudly he
shouts them the better and more USE
tul critic he will be.
(Copyright, is2S.)
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Ronald and Wilma Separate.

THE current. showing of "Twe
Lovers" in which Ronald Colman
and Wilma Banky are co-starred, at
LoewiS Columbia -Theater, serves to re-
mind the public that this is the last
picture in which this famous pair of
lovers are to be seen together. New
supporting faces will appear with
Banky and .Colman in the future, for
hereafter they are to be individually
starred. 49,
Following the completion of 1.-TWO
Lovers" last Spring, Mr.. Goldwyn de-
cided to separate the players in the in
ment. and, remembering his past good
fortune in selecting future stars in
Europe, he went abroad to look for q
leading man for Miss Banky and lead
ing woman for Mr.. Colman. He re-
turned with Walter Byron, young
Englishman, to support his blonde
Hungarian star in her, next picture,
THE Awakening" and Lily Damita, q
French danSueSe and screen actress,
to play opposite Colman in his pic
turization of Joseph Conrads "The
Rescue" which has just been COM
pleted in the Catalina Islands.
Walter Byron's success in Hollywood
seems to be already assured since he
1ldo nCG1l UOlIOWGA 1lUul t1lC SUIQWyIl
studio to play the leading role oppo-
site Gloria Swanson in 1.-The Swamp"
He had had some previous screen expe-
rience in England and had attracted
the attention of Ronald Colman in
London. Colman, knowing that Mr..
Goldwyn had almost given up his search
for suitable leading man for Wilma
Banky, brought Byron to his atten-
ton, whereupon he was Immediately
signed to his present contract.
Lily Damita, whose short stay in
Hollywood has already earned her the
title of Dynamite" was understudy
to the famous Mistinguette at the
Casino de Paris some time ago, and has
headed her own troupe of dancers in
tours Of the French provinces. Ger
man picture producers saw her screen
possibilities and induced her to enter
the films, in which she achieved per-
Sonal success Before Mr.. Goldwyn's
arrival in Europe last Summer sew
eral American producers had tried in
vain to induce her, to come to Cali
fornia.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
NaSSinS, Naughty Youth.

FILMING has been completed on two
i FBo productions, 1.-THE Jazz Age"
and "The Amazing Vagabond."
"The Jazz Age" brings together an
iIlustrious array of histrionic talent in
cluding Marceline Day, Douglas Fair
banks, ir.; Henry Z. Walthall, Myrtle
Stedman and Gertrude Messenger, in a
story written for the screen by Paul
GanRelin, which concerns the escapades
Of the sub-deb set in a small town:
Among the final scenes photographed
was the wreck of one-man street car.
"The Amazing Vagabond," whose cast
Is headed by Bob Steele, FBO's young
athletic star, was finished following 3
flying expedition to Lake Arrowhead
for close-ups. Previously the Steele unit
had Spent several days among the big
trees" In the California State Redwood
Park. near Santa Cruz. The story deals
with the adventures of an incorrigible
CITY youth who is sent by his father to
the timber country for disciplinary pur-
poses.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Big Boost for Norma.

and It Is said there Is a possibility he
may do a series of screen originals,
Miss Talmadge's story will be the
first film work by Mr.. Locke, author Of
more than 80 novels and numerous
short stories. Neither the title nor the
nature of the story have been divulged.
Filmdom's acquisition Of the English
writer is regarded as coup for Joseph
M. Schenck, president and chairman OF
the board of directors Of United Artists,
who visited the novelist In France
several weeks ago and wanted him to
come to Hollywood and write Q story
for Miss Talmadge. The Lockes have
q villa at Cannes, where they have re-
sided for the past eight years. Prior to
that time they lived in the English
countryside.
Mr.. Locke, his wife. daughter Sheila
and servants have established them
selves in large Hollywood bungalow.
Some of his novels are stella Maris, "
1.-THE Beloved Vagabond," "The Rough
Road" and 'The Mountebank."
Evening star., 1928-10-28

made his designs as suggestive as pos
sible of the occult power syi11bolized In
the witches, His effects are obtained
as largely through lighting as through
physical forms and architectural treat
ment in design. To this end music,
traditional of the eleventh century, the
days of Edward the Confessor, viii be
the handmaiden of authentic celtic
color of the same period.
At the same time Macbeth" is to
be made very human and quite at
nome IN the mind and heart of the
year 1928.
It is said that in placing the COM
mission in the hands of Gordon Craig.
the impressario made but one con-
trolling suggestion: That the produc-
ton should have all the dignity of the
old school as represented by Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree and Sir Henry Irving
combined with the human interest and
the rhythm of the theater of today.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
macbeth" at the National.

THE notable production Of Shake
speare's Macbeth" by George G.
Tyler, scheduled for the National
Theater the week commencing Monday,
November II, is heralded as a sumptu-
Gus presentation and a theatrical event
Of unusual distinction. Among its
artistic aspects are stage settings de-
signed by Gordon Craig, the celebrated
European scenographer Play, players,
stage designs and music all represent
the greatness of the theater arts.
Margaret Anglin, whose most recent
appearances IN Washington were in
Sardou's Diplomacy and in the
Electra" Of Sophocles, will be seen in
the role of Lady Macbeth. Lyn Hard
ing will be seen as Macbeth" William
Farnum as Banquo and Basil Gill as
Macduff. ra~-
AS the supernatural element Is pre-
dominant In Macbeth" Mr.. Craig has
Evening star., 1928-10-28
The Dance Hall Girl.

A FTER Dorothy Revier had been as
signed by Frank r. Capra, director,
to play Snuggles, the dance-han girl,
in Submarine" she read the part, and
to the surprise of every one concerned
refused it.
"But whyP What's the matter with
the part2" asked Capra.
"I have no understanding Of such q
character" Miss Revier replied. II
don't believe Snuggles is true to life."
Capra Immediately arranged to take
Miss Revier to San Diego, Calf, where
for more than a week the leading lady
was sent to various dance halls where
she might see the type Of girl she was
supposed to portray. After one or two
trips to tango palaces she told Capra:
r "You win. I'll play Snuggles."
Then she explained the reason for
her change of heart. Miss Revier found
that the girls who frequent water front
dance halls are women who want a
Evening star., 1928-10-28

ID p. SCHULBERG, general manager
0s of Paramount's West Coast pro-
duction, Is In New York to confer with
Jesse L. LaSky.
Lasky and Schulberg will confer with
other executives Of the producing and
distribution departments on plans that
will decide the entertainment fare for
millions during the coming months.
The story and play markets are to
be secured for screen material suited
to the production units.
The trips are the result Of recently
established policy Of placing the active
personal touch with the literary, maga-
zine and theater fields to assure Para
mount the strongest screen stories
available.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

THE mystic symbols of Wall Streets
ticker tape, the thin ribbon Of
poverty or riches, fortune or failure, are
to be laid bare IN "The Wolf Of Wall
Street." George Bancroft's current pic
ture.
A complete brokerage once ticker in
StallAtion was made In the set used for
the opening sequence, and now every
v. Lee, the director, feel themselves pre-.
pared to take over the directorship Of
Doe, Roe 6s Co. and the house Of Nor
gan. The tickers are connected to di-
rect financial wire and operate within
the studio just as they do In brokerage
ofnces from coast to coast.
"The Wolf Of Wall Street" Is q story
by Doris Anderson, Paramount Scenarist.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

thrill. She says they are not bad nor
are they good. They just have not had
the social advantages Of their more
fortunate sisters. They are happy In
their butterfly existence. One man is
as good as another to the preSent-day
Snuggles as long as he can dance and
spend his earnings on . good time.
"These girls actually live for the mo-
ment," explained Miss Revier. They
are chil6ren mentally, and because no
man ever asks them to marry they
content themselves with the next best
thing. That Is why many Of my mo-
tion picture fans may not take kindly
to Struggles as they see her in 'Subma-
rine' She Is to the average person o
little understood character, one looked
down on in q way, but nevertheless she
lives and dies, too, in the only way she
knows-fun-loving, careless, not too
moral, but altogether q person deServ-
ing q great deal of sympathy, Some-
thing she does not get from either SEX"
Evening star., 1928-10-28

colonies in Los Angeles" he declared.
There are two Of them, one of poorer
classes, the other quite influential.
Many an actor and extra comes from
these colonies"
Director George Fitzmaurice, who
has just returned from the Hawaiian
Islands, says he found Hawaiian Gus
toms as accurately represented in the
Los Angeles Hawaiian colony as on The
islands themselves.
Not long ago Director Benjamin
Christensen required Chinese actors.
Chinatown supplied them all. In the
same way, other races that have tended
to colonize rather than fuse in the
American melting pot are found
segregated near the film capital, living,
dressing, talking much as they do in
their various native heaths.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Will Horoscope Candidates.

ITO give youth an opportunity, John
l. Murray Anderson, who Is shortly
presenting on Broadway his newest re-
vue, Murray Anderson's Almanac,
will give a place In this revue, Noven-
Der IS, to some American girl whose
horoscope reveals that she has qualtf-
cations which entitle her-to . career in
the theater.
Mr.. Anderson has made an arrange
ment with Grace Ellery Williams, the
astrologer. to read the horoscope Of any
youthful American girl who will send
in her name and the date, hour and
place Of her birth. The lucky girl will
be given an opportunity to appear with
Murray AnderSon's Almanac"
Evening star., 1928-10-28
SeetheWor --InHollywood

IF you cannot travel around the world,
see 1t in miniature in Southern
California. That is the advice Of
Frank Lloyd, First National director,
who doesn't refer to motion picture
sets, either. -
The only connection that the films
have with the matter is that they have
drawn to Southern California every
race of people. These people have
colonized, and except in the case of
savage or barbarous races, they may
be found within so miles of the film
capital, living almost in their natural
states.
Lloyd needed Russians and inspira-
ton for typical Russian Ideas" in
customs, costumes and settings. "It was
only necessary to visit the Russian
Evening star., 1928-10-28

THE recent publication of DR.. George
L A. Dorsey's book, why We Behave
Like Human Beings" has brought to
the front once more the most battling
and debated question of hfe-where did
we come from and where are we going?
Treated during the middle ages as
philosophical or religious problem, the
world now turns to science for the
answer.
1t was Charles Darwin's "Origin of
Species" that proved to mankind that
the solution of the riddle might be
found on the earth itself-in the rocks,
sand, fossils and various forms of plant
and animal life. Hitherto discussions
of the development of life have been
confined closely to books. One could
read about interesting discoveries and
theories, but one could not actually see
what led up to the conclusions reached
by the authors.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
A Discoverer Wonderful.

CHRISTY CABANNE, Columbia di-
~ rector, who has Just finished di-
recting "Driftwood," is credited with
having discovered more stars and di-
rectors than any other man in the
f1lm city. t4 go
Among his discoveries" are Billie
Dove, Clara Bow Norma Shearer, Rich
ard Dix, Monte Blue, Won Stroheim,
Raoul Walsh, Donald Crisp and Elmer
Clifton. In ColumbiaS "Driftwood" he
did not bring to light a newcomer. but
he rediscovered FRITZ Brunette, former
ly noted screen vampire.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

~ ECENTLY a group Of movie
theater men foregathered with
a group of movie reviewers in
i an attempt to ascertain the why
and wherefore of motion pic
ture criticism. In reporting this highly
unimportant conference, Variety says
Admissions were obtained showing
that few Of the reviewers were aware
of the principles of picture criticism
that reviews, either good or bad, ex-
erted a comparatively slight influence
on attendance and that pictures which
had been unfavorably received by the
critics had often broken box-ofhce rec
ords.
"The contention among showmen is
that a picture cannot be subjected to
the same forms Of criticism as a stage
play; that all the writer is called upon
to DO is review and report rather than
criticize.
Following the interviews the manag-
erS summed up among themselves and
passed judgment to the effect that few
of the reviewers were judging pictures
In relation to entertainment value; that
very few of the reviewers knew what
entertainment value was, and that too
much attention is given to minor defects
in production, especially since these
cannot be corrected after a picture is
released"
The upshot of it all was that the
critic was put back in the obscure place
wherein he or she belonged and that
from now on the movie producers, actors
and directors will pay no attention to
the rawlings of those who make dispar-
aging remarks about their pictures.
At least they say they won't pay any
attention to the critics; but I, for one,
am seriously inclined to doubt that they
will make good that threat. In fact,
I'm prepared to bet that all the people
high up in the perforated celluloid in
dustry will continue to read what the
critics say and will continue to be vio-
1ently irritated by their unfriendly
utteranceS.
It is true that few reviewers are
aware of the principles Of picture criti-
cisrn. the main reason for this igno-
rance being that such principles do
not exist. If they do, wish some
Snowman would tell me what they are.
A critic is supposed to submerge his
own opinions and merely tell his read
ers whether a picture is good enter
tainment or bad entertainment. But
how is a critic to know that picture
is good entertainment when it fails
even to entertain him?
Any one who could discriminate be-
tween good entertainment and bad en-
tertainment at a glance would be inf
nitely smarter than Adolph zukor,
William Fox and all three Warner
brothers put together. In view of the
fact that in the past two years the
average feature picture has represented
a financial loss for its producers, it
would seem that the producers aren't
such good guessers themselves.
1t is also true that reviews, either
Evening star., 1928-10-28

WnLIAM ]. LOCKE, English novel
ist, is writing an original story to
be filmed as Norma Talmadge's next
United Artists picture. The celebrated
writer, accompanied by his family and
servants, recently arrived for an in
definite stay In Southern California,
Evening star., 1928-10-28

OLIVE BORDEN. long a featured
- player for, Fox, has been assigned
the leading role of Goldie, gangster girl,
In Columbia's thrilling drama of the
underworld, "Stool Pigeon"
This charming actress is daily adding
to her vocabulary words and expressions
used by gangs in the shadow of the
law, and knows all about rods" :"
drills, i" 'grands" and other whatnots.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
Fox Movieton City.

to be a red letter day in the history
of pictures-silent or sound.
The largest Wurlitzer organ ever
built for inside work is being installed
on one of the upper floors OF the build
ings. and the grounds are being land
scaped and beautihed.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

It is reported that Maurice Cheva-
lier's first film venture will be entitled
"The Innocence of Paris" after G. e.
Andrews novel.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
POLLS
THEATER,

Wednesday, Nov.
Z, l:30. Seats Mrs.
Greene's Bureau,
DFoop's, 18th and
G.. Main 6493.