Exhibitors Herald (1927)

March 26, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 33 her present picture which Roy Del Ruth is directing, are Patsy Ruth’s only Warner pictures yet to be released. Coming to Los Angeles with her parents five years ago Patsy Ruth soon started screen work, Douglas MacLean being responsible for her first venture. She was named a Wampas Baby Star, in the first group selected, and within a year played Esmeralda in Universal’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame’’ and has now risen to a fan popularity exceeded by but a half dozen feminine stars. In Conference IN Hollywood {Continued from page 6) was written by Jules Verne some years ago and rewritten by 30 or more film scribes during the 18 months it was in preparation at the Culver City plant. Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christenseii, who in turn took a hand at directing it, are now in Europe recuperating while another corps of writers is attacking the story from another angle. It would not be surprising if the story were finally filmed as Jules wrote it originally ; and retitled : “Why Married Men Prefer Blonds and Brunettes.’’ When Morris Gest brought “The Miracle” company to the Coast for the San Francisco and Los Angeles engagements, practically all of the minor members of the cast accepted a cut in salary because they were coming to Hollywood and “pictures.” There were 195 or more of them and most of them drew down the munificent sum of $25 weekly and tried to live on it just to get to Holl}rwood. And now they’ve all gone back, disillusioned as to the “movies.” Only five of the cast remain and all of them are principals. Of these, Orville Caldwell, who plays the knight, lives in Hollywood and was in pictures before he went into “The Miracle”; Elinor Patterson of Chicago is getting a chance in the flickerdrama largely through the influence of her father, Joseph Medill Patterson, the millionaire-editor of Chicago; Fritz Feld, the piper of the Reinhardt spectacle, was given a job through the influence of Gest so that the latter could hold him for the next engagement of “The Miracle.” The wife of Nijinski, the famous Russian dancer who has been insane for some years, was given a bit in “Old Heidelberg” by Ernst Lubitsch and Madam Baklanova, the Moscow theatre actress who played “Megildis” in several performances, also drew a small part at a studio. The remaining 190 or more Miracle players had their expenses back to New York paid by Gest, as per Actors Equity law. ^ ^ The wife of a well known and highly paid director who got a decree of divorce from her husband in Los Angeles last week, declared on the stand that she “made” her husband what he is today. But so far no picture company has offered the ex-wife a job as a director. Several other divorces in the picture colony have been attributed to the same cause — the assumption of managerial and proprietary functions by the so-called better half on the theory that she was the author of her husband’s success. Oh, well — girls will be girls. Kirkland Ready to Shoot F. B. O. Film HOLLYWOOD. — -Lois Wilson is to play “The Gingham Girl” in the F. B. O. picture to be directed by David Kirkland. Mr. Kirkland has had the story in his hands several days ready to shoot, but had to await the return from New York of Miss Wilson. She has now arrived and work will proceed at once on the story. JOHN FORD DIRECTOR “MOTHER MACHREE” Just Finished “UP STREAM” Fox Releases Gertrude Short Now Free Lancing Appearing in “TILLIE THE TOILER” M-G-M Phone: Oladstone 1913 Stephen Roberts DIRECTOR OF “HIGH SEA BLUES” “JUNGLE HEAT” “NO CHEATING” EDUCATIONAL RELEASES