Exhibitors Herald (1927)

28 STUDIO SECTION OF March 26, 1927 MARIE PREVOST Now starring in “The Night Bride” — Metropolitan Pictures Production for Producers Distributing Corporation SCOTT R. DUNLAP Director of “WHISPERING SAGE” By Harry St. Clair Dago FOX RELEASE / GEORGE SIDNEY A Laugliing Blizzard Coming Your Way “BIG BERTHA” Chaperoned by Me and Charlie Murray A First National Panic Many on Location {Continued from page 9) megaphone. This story has the diamond fields of South America as a background. Ray Rockett is producing. Harry Langdon has completed “Long Pants” and is working on another story. “All Aboard,” Johnny Hines’ latest, has also been completed and previewed, since my last letter. Ken Maynard is just putting the finishing touches to “The Country Beyond Law” which H. J. Brown directed and Charles R. Rogers produced for First National. A big cattle stampede on the Miller & Lux ranch near Taft, Cal., is a feature. Lewis Stone is producing “His Son,” Sam Rork production, under John Francis Dillon’s direction. Director Albert Rogell is directing another Charles R. Rogers opus, “The Sunset Derby,” which features Mary Astor and William Collier, Jr. The Tia Juana race track was used for the racing scenes. Billie Dove and Ben Lyon are co-featured in “The Tender Hour,” a George Fitzmaurice production, which is to be followed by “American Beauty,” written by Wallace Irwin. Babe Ruth’s first First National production, “Babe Comes Home” has been finished under Ted Wilde’s direction, with Anna Q. Nilsson and Louise Fazenda. 35 Principals in Brown Film Out at the big M.-G.-M. plant in Culver City, 13 companies are in work, many of these being on location. Several specials are among the list, the first of them being “The Trail of ’98,” which Clarence Brown is directing with a cast of 35 principals and 3,000 extras. The company is now in Corona, Colo., where the Chilkoot Pass sequence is being filmed from the famous Robert W. Service story. Ernst Lubitsch has returned to work after several days’ illness and is directing another picture which will make film history. It is “Old Heidelberg” with Ramon Novarro, Jean Hersholt and Norma Shearer in the featured roles. Another M.-G.-M. special now in production is “The Crowd,” King Vidor’s latest and the first since his spectacle “The Big Parade.” Eleanor Boardman and James Murray are featured. It is a story of “the big parade of peace,” an original from Vidor’s pen. Marion Davies is producing James Barrie’s play “Quality Street,” made famous years ago by Maude Adams. Sidney Franklin is directing, and Conrad Nagel plays opposite the Cosmopolitan star. “Captain Salvation” is another Cosmopolitan production now being directed by John S. Robertson with an all star cast. “Becky,” a story of back stage life, adapted by Marion Constance Blackton, has just been completed by Director John P. McCarthy. Lon Chaney is working in a mystery drama, “The Unknown,” under the direction of Tod Browning. Norman Kerry and Joan Crawford are in support. Lillian Gish will next be starred in “The Wind,” a story of the Texas Panhandle. Victor Seastrom who made “The Scarlet Letter” will direct. “The Bugle Call,” starring Jackie Coogan, is about completed under Edward Sedgwick’s direction, and Reginald Barker has just completed “The Branding Iron” with Lionel Barrymore, Aileen Pringle and others. George Hill who made such a good job of directing “Tell It to the Marines” is now directing “The Callahans and the