Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

34 MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 1, 1927 News Of The Hollywood Studios PART of Douglas MacLean’s “Let It Rain,” will be filmed in color, we hear. ^ ^ ^ A NNA MAY WONG has been added to the cast of “Mr. Wu,” »*• Lon Chaney’s latest starring vehicle which is wrell into production at MetroGoldwynMayer Studios. * * * T OHN GILBERT’S recently completed starring vehicle is now »-* permanently titled “The Show.” It was originally known as “The Day of Souls.” * * * MITCHELL LEWIS, dramatic actor is the latest acquisition of Hal Roach. He will appear in Charley Chase’s next comedy which is being directed by James Parrott. * * * ORK on “The Cradle Snatchers,” will soon be under way according to Sol Wurtzel of the Fox Studios. Howard Hawkes has been signed to direct this comedy, which is based on the stage success of the same title. * * * O' RED NEWMEYER has been signed by Paramount to direct Mildred Davis in “Too Many Crooks.” ^ 5?: sjt A RVARD GILSTROM was signed this week to direct Christie Comedies. Seven Year Old Hostess Entertains Royal Pair “Camille” to Score Laughs Is Prediction At the Pickford-Fairbanks studio the other day we saw Norma Talmadge in one of her first stretches of work on “Camille” introduce a gag which prophesies for the screen translation of this dramatic story a few excellent laughs. A street scene in “Camille” constitutes time. On the street were several taxicabs of the old Parisian variety. We saw Miss Talmadge step inside the window of the lingerie shop facing this street and deftly soap the window' when a passer-by endeavored to converse wdth her. Even Fred Niblo who is directing this picture got a good laugh out of the vivacious manner in which Miss Talmadge applied the soap. Gilbert Roland also has a principal part in “Camille. “Camille” is a Joseph M. Schenck production. . While her sister was performing in the lingerie shop, Constance Talmadge was on a Venetian garden set in another part of United Artists studio where considerable of the action in her forthcoming vehicle “Carlotta” takes place. Marshall Neilan is directing Constance. Incidentally just before going to press, we learned that the title of Constance picture has been changed from “Carlotta to “The Vamp of Venice.” This is a John M. Considine production. Ian Keith Is Patsy Miller’s Leading Man Ian Keith, remembered for his outstanding roles in “Sunya” with Gloria Swanson, and in “The Prince of Tempters,” has been assigned the leading male role opposite Patsy Ruth Miller in her first starring picture for Warner Bros., “What Every Girl Should Know.” Charles Reisner will direct Miss Miller in this film, based on his own story. Others in the cast include Carroll Nye and Mickey McBann. A SEVEN-YEAR old girl *• playing hostess to royalty was the recent privilege of Joyce Coad. This youngster, who has become an actress of considerable note during her past two years in filmdom, met Prince and Princess Murat during their recent visit to Hollywood, through her fencing instructor, Captain Michael, who was one time a member of the Prince’s guard. Joyce played hostess to the royal couple at the F. B. O. Studios where she just finished Tom Mix at Work On “Broncho Twister” Tom Mix has started work at Fox Films West Coast Studios on “The Broncho Twister,” the second story written by Adela Rogers St. Johns especially for Mix. Helene Costello has the feminine lead. Others in the cast are Dorothy Kitchen, George Irving, Doris Lloyd, Paul Nicholson, Malcolm Waite and Jack Pennick. an important part in that company’s Gold Bond production, “The Magic Garden.” It is said at the studio that the Prince and Princess were so impressed with the little girl that they wanted to adopt her. Mrs. Raymond Coad, who is the child’s guardian, refused to relinquish her rights in that respect, however. Little Joyce at the age of six wras pronounced by the California State Board of Education to have the mentality of a child of fifteen. “The Auctioneer” Nearly Finished Alfred E. Green is entering the final stages of production of “The Auctioneer,” screen version of the David Belasco — David Warfield play, at Fox Films West Coast Studios. The cast includes George Sidney, in the title role, Marion Nixon, Gareth Hughes, Doris Lloyd, Ward Crane, Sammy Cohen and Claire McDowell. Educational Now Boasts A Real “Gym” Educational Studios boasts a gymnasium. Since it opened we have observed that its most frequent patrons are producer Jack White, Scenario Writer Ed.di.e_ Coffin, and Norman Taurog, Lloyd Hamilton’s director. Taurog tells us he is using the gymnasium to get back into shape after an attack of the ’flu which lasted for ten days. While coming out of the gymnasium we met Anita Garvis, the vamp brunette of the Educational territory who is taking studioites as well as short subject fans by storm. With her was Estelle Bradley, petite blonde wife of Charlie Lamonte. Langdon Colors Film Technicolor is establishing a precedent for Harry Langdon. We learn that Langdon for the first time since he commenced making comedies is having colored an entire reel in his next release, “Long Pants.” The technicolor is used to depict a beautiful scene with Harry Langdon as Prince Charming and Alma Bennett as the ' coveted Princess. Rags Furnished Free to Players This was a lucky week in Hollywood for “thin, starved” men, women, children, horses and dogs. The casting office at Famous Players-Lasky studio was asked by Victor Fleming, director of “The Rough Riders,” to supply the following for a Cuban sequence of the picture: Five old men in rags. Fifteen thin, starved women in rags. Twenty thin, starved children in rags. Twenty-five thin, starved Cuban soldiers in rags. Four thin, mangy horses. Three starved dogs. The thin, starved humans and animals were well fed and well paid for their work. None of them had to supply their own rags, the studio taking care of that. Hollywood Child Hostess To Royalty