Evening star., 1929-12-01
Flashes From the Screen
News and Comment of the Picture World
.BY c. E. NELSON;

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the big cast. 1.-The Bride of the
Regiment" is sound version of
the story Lady in Ermine," with
Vivienne Segal and Wallace Beery
playing the leading roles. Others
in the cast are Louise Fazenda,
Myrna 10y, Lupino Lane, Walter
Pidgeon and Alan Prior. Walter
Setter is directing rothy
Mackaill in Green Stockings" and
! Basil Pathbone and Leila HyamS
, borrowed from Metro GoldWyn-
Mayer are included in the cast.
Billie Dove is being starred in a
picture called Faithful" and
Montague Love is only one of two
leading men. Murray Anderson is
directing the Paul Whiteman pic
ture, "The King of Jazz Revue" !"
Lewis Milestone is completing "All
Quiet on the Western Front"
Barbara Kent has the leading
feminine role in "Out to Kill" and
Joseph Schildkraut has the other
lead. The Richard Dix picture,
Seven Keys to Baldpate," has
been completed and is ready for
the Eastern producers. Sally
O'Neill is to be starred in "The
Fire Walker" and Donald Brian
and Virginia Valli are to be
starred in "The Dollar Princess"
Warner Brothers are working on
several pictures, among them
Christmas Knight" with Bryant
Washburn, Helen Jerome Eddy,
Niles Welsh and others. Letters"
stars Pauline Garon and Bryan
Foy is preparing "The Potters"
for production.
THEATER records are being
broken in Washington. "Rio
Rita" is now in it's fourth week.
Sunny Side Up" has completed a
second week and the other thea
tiers have waiting lines at the box
Offices. Reports from other cities
also state that Rio Rita" is
topping the list. and one New York
theater reports that "The Last
Performance" featured at the
Little Theater last week, is being
held over on account of popular
demand. The Earle Theater
served series of college nights"
last week in connection with the
showing of "'The Forward Pass"
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Short Flashes.
ONE New York reviewer, in
speaking on the big revue,
'The Show of Shows" states that
the picture, which is a success, is
guilty of a social error" After
starting out brilliantly all in color
and continuing heroically for
nearly an hour, it slips back for a
few hundred feet in the familiar
black and white. The transition,
according to the reviewer, is bad
in going SO abruptly from the
modern to the past.
"The Love Parade" starring
Maurice Chevalier, is being billed
along Broadway as "the greatest
motion picture ever produced"
Two dollars is the top price of the
entertainment along the Gay
White Way.
Having completed work in "Hot
for Paris" Victor McLaglen has
been assigned the leading role in
"On the Level"
Paramount has selected BLACK
birds" as the next play for Evelyn
Brent. Others in the cast are
Give Brook, Paul Lukas, Helen
Ware, Eugene Paulette and Nor
gan Farley.
Word from Paris is to the effect
that Rex Ingram is making an all
Arab picture. That is, the cast is
all Arab with the exception of
Alice Terry.
Clara Bow recently underwent
an appendicitis operation at her
home in Hollywood.
Colin Give, who created the role
of Capt. Stanhope in Journeys
End" on the London stage, has
been selected for the same role in
the sound screen version of the
play, which is being produced by
Tiffany.
The Duncan Sisters have signed
long-term contract with Metro
GoldWyn-Mayer Their work in
tits a Great Life" is said to have
brought out the big contract.