Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

As August approaches, marking the
beginning of new theatrical sea-
son, interesting announcements are
made by the film companies relative to
their forthcoming production schedules
These are especially significant this
year because Of the predominance OF
dialogue and music In the creations of
this erstwhile silent industry.
The extent to which the movies have
raided the Broadway stage and Tin
Pan alley for talkie stars and compos-
ers also is revealed.
Plans for the preparation by Para
mount Of 200 talking and musical pro-
auctions were announced recently by
Jesse L. Lasky at the company's annual
sales convention.
Sixty-five feature-length produc-
tons, eighty one-and-two-reel short
features and fifty-two issues of the new
Paramount sound news are included in
the schedule. Thirty-six of the feature
pictures are placed in the category OF
important specials" while the remain.
der will be starring vehicles for the
actors and actresses under contract to
Paramount. Silent versions of practi-
cally all the audible features are
planned.
Among players brought to the sound
screen from the legitimate fields OF
musical comedy and drama, to be In
Guided In the new seasons roster, are
the Four Marx Brothers, Dennis King
Moran and Mack, Mary Eaton, Oscar
Shaw, Helen Morgan, Dan Healy
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDon-
aid, Gertrude Lawrence, Helen Kane
"Skeets" Gallagher, Jeanne Eagels
Ruth Chatterton, Walter Huston
Claudette Colbert, Hal Sicily, o. p
Heggie, Chester Morris, Edward Gran
dali, Charles Ruggles, Kay Francis
Harry Green, Florence Eldridge, Fred
eric March and Laura Hope Crews.
Those motion picture stars and fea-
tured players whom Paramount points
to as having made good in the talkie
medium include Clara Bow, George
Bancroft Richard Arlen, Buddy" Rog-
ers. Richard Dix, Evelyn Brent, Wil-
liam Powell, Gary Cooper, Give Brook
Esther Ralston and Harold Lloyd. now
making the first dialogue production
Among the feature productions sched-
uled for general release in the season
starting August are THE -Four Feath-
ers," the Cooper Schoedsack African
epic; 1.-THE Mysterious DR.. Flu Manchu, -
with Warner GLAND; 1.-THE Cocoanuts. y
starring the Marx brothers; The
Dance of Life" from the stage hit
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the first Moran-and- Mack talking COM
edy; "Glorifying the American Girl, -
with Mary Eaton and Dan Healy; THE
Love Parade" with Maurice Chevalier;
THE Vagabond King" starring Dennis
King; Escape" from the Galsworthy
story; THE Return of Sherlock
Holmes; "Kibitzer," from the Broad
way play: 1.-THE Green Murder Case;
1.-The Virginian";; THE Soul of
France" an epic Of the war produced
by the French government, and Hun
garian Rhapsody" a story of Viennese
life produced at the UFA studios in
Germany.
Forty-eight sound films are an
nounced for production by Fox Film
Corporation during the 1e29-1930 sea-
son. OF these features, SO will be all
talking, some with music and singing;
will be musical revenues. and 5 are re-
ferred to- as special offerings with
dialogue sequences.
Will Rogers will appear in two films,
Lenore Uric in two, George Jessel in
three, william Collier in two, Paul
Mtini in four, Walter Catlett in six.
Helen Chandler in six, Marguerite
Churchill in three, Norma Terris and j.
Harold Murphy in two, Owen Davis,
jr., in four, Richard Keene in four,
Charlotte Henry In three and Lola