The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

82 MO\'IXG PICTURE WORLD November 13, 1926 ''Sunshine of Paradise Alley" Is In Production Production was started this week on "Sunshine of Paradise Alley," fourth of Chadwick's First Division Pictures of the current season. Jack fvTelson is directing the Denman Thompson play, adapted for the screen by Josephine Quirk. Players Well Known Barbara Bedford, as "Sunshine" O'Day, heads the cast. Lucille Lee, a star in her own right, has been cast for a prominent part. Nigel Barrie, recently returned to the United States after a prolonged starring engagement with UFA, in Germany; Max Davidson, noted character comedian ; Kenneth McDonald and Tui Lorraine, Hollywood's only Anzac player, will be seen in other parts. Langdon's Long Pants For First National Harry Langdon, originator of sparkling screen fun features, is in the sixth week of production of "Long Pants," his forthcoming First National offering. The story is an original by Langdon, Frank Capra and Arthur Ripley. Capra is Langdon's director ; Ripley his scenario chief. Robert Eddy and Clarence Hernecke are collaborating on story development. "Long Pants" deals with the adventures of a bashful boy who attains his first pair of long pants. "Attentionr It Seems to be Pleasant The Fox publicity department prepared no caption to explain this scene between Madee Bellamy and Allan Dwan, her director in "Summer Bachelors." Paramount Gives Beery "Louie the Fourteenth" JAMES CRUZ'S next directorial assignment is to be "Louie the Fourteenth," with Wallace Beery as the star. B. P. Schulberg, Paramount's West Coast executive, made this announcement this week upon his return from the convention at French Lick, Ind. Cruze will begin work iinmediatel}' on the preparation of the story for the screen and expects to be read}' to begin production in about eight weeks. "Louie the Fourteenth," one of the recent successes of Broadway, was a Ziegfeld production which opened at the Cosmopolitan theatre in New York with Leon Errol in the role which Beerj' will interpret. Paramount is planning to make the picture one of the great comedy productions of the coming year. It will present Wallace Beery as a star in his own right and the lineup of productions being prepared for him has given rise to predictions by Paramount executives that he will be one of the great screen sensations of the coming year. Beery begins work at once on "Casey at the Bat," in which he will play the immortal Casey, with Raymond Hatton as his team mate. As soon as this baseball comedy is completed he will start work on "Louie the Fourteenth." This is to be followed by "The Greatest Show on Earth," an epic of American amusement with Beery's outstanding personality in the role of P. T. Barnum, about whose life the story will revolve. Monta Bell will direct this production as one of the most important film roadshows of the coming year. 4 0|I^^WtW</r,^ Buchowetzki Now to Direct *Anna Karenina' "Anna Karcnma, " Tolstoy's novel, will be the subject of an ambitious picture to be directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki for Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Irving Thalberg, studio executive, .innounced this week. This will be the first assignment of the noted Russian director under the new contract, awarded him following thz success of the completed reels of "Valencia," in which Mae Murray is being starred. "Anna Karenina," one oi' the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, is considered an .deal directorial vehicle for Buchowetzki in view of the Russian background of the novel, the action of which occurs m Moscow. He is thoroughly familiar with the locale. Trained Newspaper Man Directed Banks Monty Banks, in his new Pathc feature comedy, "Atta Boy," was fortunate in having for a director a former newspaper man, for much of this story is laid in the local, or "news," room of a big daily, with Monty playing the part of a cub reporter. Edward H. Griffith, director of the comedy, was a newspaper man. He served his apprenticeship in many cities of the East, and in many departments of newspapers before turning to films. Griffith ordered one scene retaken four times before he was satisfied that the atmosphere of a real newspaper was carried out. Hard-Boiled \ToOLS OF VASHIONHi^l George Jessel in Warner Bros.' "Private Izzy Murphy." Jne of tke 20 Gems , , "f"" Tiffany Exchanges Eveiywher'e Harry Depp, in Columbim'a "When the Wife's Away," impersonates the absentee.