Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
Flashes From the Screen
News and Comment of the Photoplay
By C. E. Nelson.

erS, ana Laemmle eHpeCCS w llllS
stars in the June graduating
classes. Arthur Ungar, who i!
associate producer of Universal
has Just returned to Hollywood
after tour of two months among
the Western colleges. During the
Easter vacation Universal viii
order Ungar's selections to Holly.
wood for screen tests. All studio
contract directors and associate
producers will judge the results
and at the completion of the col
lege semester those judged the
best in the tests will be taken bach
to the studio, given contracts ano
assigned to parts. Between pic
lures the new players will be in
Structed in dramatic reading anc
other phases of screen acting. In
this special instruction it is plan
ned that a dozen directors serve
as teachers. I'm my opinion" says
young Laemmle, 1.-The youth ano
zeSt needed by the screen can bt
found in the colleges and univer-
stiles Of the country. We intend tc
make a thorough search fol
talent"
Did you eUer hear ho1O they
broke into the moUieS? Wen,
here are fen samples. Rich
ard HdrthelmeSS 1DaS fnUOlUed
in dramatic affairs during his
school days in Hartford, Conn,
but the career OF a newspaper
reporter 1UaS looked tOrlUdrd to.
But his mothers friend, Ala
NdsimOuG, considered him a
perfect type for her starring
picture, war Brides" and Dick
found himself launched upon q
screen career. Dorothy MackaiU
lOGS Ia gears old 10hen she ran
G,Day from ThorTle Academy, IN
London, and joined the chorus
of the London Hippodrome.
While there she made her debut
in pictures, attertUard Joining a
Paris company. Young Doug
Fairbanks hung around the
Hollywood studios so much,
iUdtching the making ct his
fathers films, that the directors
pere forced to giUe him role
to get him out Of the nay. OnG
MunSon tCent to the screen from
the stage, but she had studied
dancing and t0dS an underStudy
to Ann Pennington at one time.
Later she appeared in George
Whites stage production ct
examination Mary"
Short Flashes.
MONTA BELL, director who
once pounded a typewrite'
for Washington newspaper, has
been engaged by Paramount tt
direct Nancy Carroll in Persona
Maid" at the Eastern studio.
Elmer Rice, the author Of
Street Scene" is preparing the
screen story for United Artists.
Warner Brothers have selected
The Honor of the Family" as the
next starring vehicle for Bebt
Daniels. Ben Lyon and Mis-:
Daniels. are now completing 1--WE
Three" and then they will make
a tour of three months in Europe
Here is a chance to break intC
the movies: The Caddo Co. i!
making an effort to secure two
players of the McLaglen-Lowt
type for "Rivets." In age fol
Love-" in which Billie Dove is tt
be starred, the company wants 6
player of the Frederic Marsh type
and for Queer People" a search
is being made for a player of the
Jack Oakie variety.
Rosemary McHugh, just Si1
months old, has a part in the new
Tallulah Bankhead picture, Tar
nished Lady" Rosemary Is
blonde.
Wallace Berry few his plane tt
New York, arriving there Tuesday
Bad weather forced him down a.
several points during the trip
across the country.
The JanningS-Dietrich picture
Blue Angel" is having a long rur
in London. 1t opened there jan
uary 4.
1.-The Millionaire, starrin
George Arliss, opens in New Yorl
Tuesday. This is the first talking
picture Arliss has made in which
he takes the role of an American
The film Is based upon a story BY
Earl Derr Biggers, idle Hands,
and the dialogue was prepared BY
Booth Harrington. The support
ing players are Evelyn Knapp
David Manners, Noah Berry anc
Ivan Simpson.
Loretta Young will co-star with
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., in Il Like
Your Nerve" The story is writer
by Roland Pertwee. Miss Younf
will also have the lead in Blue
Moon" an original story by S. S
Van Dine.
Dorothy Mackaill is to star in "a
Good as New" taken from a stage
play by Thompson Buchanan.
William Powel's first starring
vehicle for Warmers. Heat Wave,
is to be started within the next II
days. Alfred E. Green directs.
Theodore Dresser is in Holly.
wood to confer regarding the film
adaptation of his American
Tragedy" Paramount will pro
duce.
Mae Murray has been signed FOL
another Radio picture. In High
Stakes" she will appear will
Lowell Sherman, who will alSC
direct.
Warren william, H. B. Warner
Reginald Owen, Joe Donahue anC
Polly Walters have parts in TIT
new Dolores Costello picture, "Tht