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BY c. e. NELSON.

audible screen pictures. sincere
| ly hope so, too. There is another
point, of view. All deafened peo-
| pie have the lip reading, or SHOULD
have it, and it would not hurt the
hearing people to acquire little
skill in that direction also.
Much of my pleasure from the
movies comes from watching the
lips of the actors. When some O1
them speak, they do so beauti-
fully. Others only pretend tc
speak. II the producers would
have the actors do more talking
in the making of the scenes, this
would be a great improvement, at
least to the lip readers. l think
that the producer who will make
a few reels with the actors
! actually talking will find this SyS-
| tenn profitable. The deafened can
read the lips equally as we'll as
from the front face. Signed: H.
w. T. Jenner."
WILLIAM BOYD, who first at
" tracted public attention by
his work in THE Volga Boatmen," /"
stars in a picture to be known as
Power" and he is said to do some
extraordinary stunts among the
lofty cables and towers Of one Of
CALIFORNIA; great power dams.
The star is supported by Alan
Hale and Jacqueline Logan.
Pathe has completed the pic
ture, Love Over Night" starring
Rod La ROGUE. A new featured
player, jeanette Loft, plays op-
pCSite the star, and others in the
cast are Tom Kennedy, George
Irving, Mary Carr and Richard
Tucker.
A ND, just to show that there is
= really something in all this
noise about the talking movies,
Samuel Goldwyn, during the past
week, announced that Wilma
Banky'S first starring picture,
The Awakening" had been Sc
lected by United Artists as their
initial production with the movie
tone accompaniment. DR.. Hugo
Reisenfeld has been engaged to
prepare the score and to direct
the orchestra which is to produce
the musical background and
sound effects.
Production on 1.-THE Awaken
ing" an original story by Frances
Marion, is now well under way,
under Victor Fleming's direction.
The picture is Miss Banky's first
effort to follow Two Lovers" her
final co-starring appearance with
Ronald Colman. Walter Byron,
a young English actor, has been
selected to play opposite the star.
Louis Wolheim has the leading
character role.
I OVERS of the Joseph Conrad
fiction viii have chance to
see The Rescue" in film form,
with Ronald Colman in the Lead
ing role. Few. ifsany, Of the Con-
rad books have been turned into
photoplayS, and Colman's effort
may be in the nature of an ex-
pertinent. The production Of The
Rescue" causes a poStponement
of "A Tale of Two Cities" with
Colman as the star. The Dickens
tale will be produced at a later
date Lily Damita, hailed by the
Hollywood press agents as ''the
golden girl from Paris" will be
given a chance TO show what she
can do when she plays opposite
such an accomplished actor as
the young Colman.
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THERE is considerable question
as TO whether Universal's pro-
duction Of Show Boat" will be
accompanied by words and
music" but production plans are
going ahead. Emily Fitzroy has
been selected TO play the part of
Parthenia Ann Hawks, and Alma
Rubens will be Julie. The cast
still lacks two very important
characters. Magnolia and Rave
nal, and the director, Harry Pol
lard. has been searching every
where for couple Of suitable
actor persons.
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JOHN BARRYMORE's new pic
ture, THE Tempest, which is
being hailed by the critics, shows
the star without wig and tights
and yet there are persons who
say the movies never do any
thing original" The star plays
the part Of Russian peasant,
Camilla Horn is a princess and
Louis Wolheim is a top-gergeant
a la Russo. And the work of Miss
Horn has resulted in her employ
ers announcing TO the listening
world that she lis one Of the out
standing actresses In motion pic
lures"
The Tempest" is said to have
resulted in the expenditure OF
million dollars. II is an original
story Of the Russian revolution,
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