Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01
FILMOGRAMS
Bits From the Studios and Theaters.

EILM DAILY, 1.-The Movie Bradstreet,"
Il says 1t, and it is true: DAY after
day at the receiving end, running
through lot of publicity junk that
would prove insulting to the average in
telligence. If the staff of the little old
paper didn't have pretty good sense OF
humor" Yet it is this very junk that
is relied upon to sell picture productions
that run in cost sometimes up into the
millions.
1.-THE Movie Bradstreet" also calls at
tention to one of the biggest problems
of the sound picture" namely. how
best to use sound without inpairing the
action" and also "how best to use the
voice on the screen"
Out in the Northwest the picture ex-
hibitors are asking the Supreme Court
of one State to restrain a local school
from operating as a motion picture
theater.
Universal Pictures program for 1928
1929 contemplates Is "synchronized"
features and some short subjects.
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer is to make a
screen version Of "Adrienne Lecou-
vreur' French costume play, by
Scribe and lie Goude. Fred Niblo will
direct.
After a long absence, Theodore
Roberts will return to the screen IN
John Gilbert's new picture, THE Mask
of the Devil"
Will Rogers is to have a rival in Tom
Mix. who. 1t is reported, contemplates
writing pieces for the papers" Cow
HnSy
Roxy is going to do for st. Louis what
he did for Washington, direct a gala
opening program and conduct the
broadcasting for the new Fox Theater
in St. Louis.
Film Daily reports that at least 125
pictures, perhaps more, of the 1928
1929 programs of the various producing
concerns will be sound pictures"
Silent drama is making the prepare
tions Of its life to make sound drama
in the season ahead. Some wag has re-
marked that it only needed sound to
make silent drama the limit. He was,
probably, an old-fashioned "legit."
The title of the new picture by F. w
Murnau, the German director. Our
Daily Bread" is comprehensive enough
to include all the presidential campaign
issues. especially the farm problem.
Mack sennett is going to make 10
two-reel Sennett Girl comedies in tech
nicolor, and he. too, has the sound pic
| ture" bug and is considering taking out
| license.
Pathe caps the climax. The Pathe
/ Oh tr N
crow hereafter via the r. G. A. Photo
| phone. The showing Of every Pathe-
promoted picture carries the rooster a;
| its trademark. and soon that rooster
Will crow Justify whenever he appears
| An entire circus was chartered fol
| First Nationals Three Ring Marriage.
| a picture based on circus life, which
co-features Mary .Astor and Lloyc
| Hughes. Thousands Of people crowded
the tents to see scenes made for this
| romance of the SawduSt arena. and the
entire circus program was given from
start to finish, while the scenes were
made.
Take Me Home" has been definitely
accepted as the title for Bebe Daniels
next Paramount picture. Marshal
Neilan will direct. Neil Hamilton ha!
the male lead.
A new screen team has been formed
this time combining Dolores Costello
with Conrad Nagel in Glorious Betsy,
story of the love of Jerome Bona
parte, the brother of Napoleon. To-
| Betty Patterson of Baltimore. In thu
picture. Napoleon, with other plans fol
| his brother in mind, objects TO the mar
rage. and upon this fact hinges the
whole story. The marriage take'
place, but Napoleon effects separa'
ton.
Cecil B. De Mile. on his return from
a yacht cruise, found pleasant sur
prise in the form of the cross of the
| Order of the Holy Sepulchre. recently