Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

Always Delightful — Restful — Different — Enchanting ! "The Ambassador is one of the most beautiful places I know o/" MADAME GALLI CURCI — declares in one of a large number of UNSOLICITED COMMENTS by world famous celebrities. "Certainly no hotel located in any large city has such extensive and beautiful grounds." For keenest enjoyment of your visit to California, make reservations at — the Los Angeles NO HOTEL IN THE WORLD OFFERS MORE VARIED ATTRACTIONS—Superb 27-acre park, with miniature golf course, open-air plunge and tennis courts. Riding, hunting and all sports, including 18-hole Rancho Golf Club. Motion picture theater and 35 smart shops within the hotel. Famous Cocoanut Grove for dancing nightly. Write for Chef's Cook-book of California Recipes ATTRACTIVE SUMMER RATES BEN L. FRANK, Manager 20 bx -~i-.} Irving Berlin has signed a contract with United Artists to write the story lyrics and complete musical score of a talking picture to be called "Say It With Music" and to star Harry Richman of "George White's Scandals," by special arrangement with George White. exteriors for the picture are being filmed. Condemned to Devil's Island," Blair Niles' sensational story of the French penal colony in the Guineas, has been selected by Samuel Goldwyn as the next Ronald Colman picture to follow "The Rescue." Alice White, who was recently elevated to stardom, is to be teamed with Jack Mulhall in the First National production, "Ritzy Rosie," which Mervyn LeRoy will direct. It sounds like an excellent combination. JUST to prove that the talkies will not relegate to the background all of the established stars of the silent screen, Lupe Velez has gone to New York to appear in a new singie featuring Harry Richman. On August 20, Florence Vidor became the bride of Jascha Heifetz, world famous violinist. Miss Vidor divorced her husband, the famous film director, King Vidor, in 1927. He is now married to Eleanor Boardman. The next Karl Dane-George K. Arthur vehicle to be filmed is "All at Sea" and will be directed by Charles F. Reisner. /""•eorge Bancroft, representative of the ^-* rougher and ruggeder element in the movies, will change his outward appearance at least in his next photoplay. Instead of appearing as a two-gun sheriff or something, he will be seen in the tailored attire suitable to his enactment of the title role of "The Wolf of Wall Street." In the cast with him will be Fay Wray. Alberta Vaughn, starring in FBO's "Racing Blood" series, has just announced her engagement to William Lait, multi-millionaire of Pasadena, California. Miss Vaughn and Mr. Lait expect to be married during the Christmas holidays. Fans may expect hereafter, in all the big pictures at least, to have music with their reels. Canned accompaniment is being prepared for Dolores Del Rio's "Revenge," for Vilma Banky's "The Rescue," for Norma Talmadge's "The Woman Disputed" and for D. W. Griffith's "The Battle of the Sexes." ►athe has borrowed Renee Adoree from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play the lead ing feminine role in "The Spieler." Adoree 's role is that of a high diver in a small carnival show. Alan Hale, Clyde Cook and Fred Kohler are featured, with Tay Garnett directing. Miss Raoul Walsh will play the lead and also direct "The Caballero's Way," an O'Henry story which Fox Films will produce as an all-dialogue Movietone feature. Maria Alba and George O'Brien are the two other principals in the cast. THEY get tougher and tougher, the titles of Phyllis Haver's pictures. No sooner has she finished "Sal of Singapore" than she's cast in " The Shady Lady." The adjective in this case, let it be made clear, refers not only to complexion but mostly to reputation. The company of "Redskin," the Richard Dix Indian picture in Tecnicolor, is camping out in tents on a desert one hundred and fifty miles from civilization, where the P. &A. Our hero, Mr. Dempsey of the prizefight ring and the cinemas, demonstrates he is Jack of all trades. He is planting a fervid right smack to the jaw of Estelle Taylor, his wife, with whom he is co-starring on the legitimate stage in "The Big Fight." This picture shows David Belasco coaching Sharper indeed than a serpent's tooth the Samuel Goldwyn company has found it to have a thankless Childs. For after seeking to have the chain of restaurants of that name to co-operate in staging Vilma Banky's newest picture, the rumor has it that Mr. Childs failed to be properly overcome and wanted to censor all scenes taken in his places. The settings for Vilma 's film thus will have to be built. 14