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Man Called Back” boasts a strong cast. Conrad Nagel plays the title role, supported by Doris Kenyon, John Halliday, Juliette Compton, Reginald Owen, Mona Maris, Alan Mowbray, Mae Busch and others, Robert Florey directed from the adaptation of Andrew Soutar’s famous novel, “Silent Thunder.” It’s a good year for the independents, but we hope they won’t neglect the value of having a good publicity man or woman, and right now we hope their west coast studios will get in touch with Mary A. Roberts at 2975 Leeward Ave., Los Amgeles, Cal. She may be able to “save the day” for ’em.
Jesse J. Goldberg, Irving Lande, Manny Wolf, Jack Cunningham, Dan Totheroh and Walton Hall Smith have been added to the writing department at the Paramount studios in Hollywood.
Six M-G-M. two-reel musical revues, which are described as sounding a new note in condensed musical entertainment, will be released next season, four of the group being filmed in Technicolor. Twelve single reel Flip the Frog cartoon subjects are on the schedule, and six M-G-M. Oddities. The latter group of novelty subjects will deal with unusual aspects of wild animal life. Maxwell G. Cutler handled the technical legal work in protecting the “Flip the Frog” cartoons.
Nfoshia Mori, a\9-year-old resident of Los Angeles’ Chinatown, has won the role of Mah-Li in Columbia’s picturization of Grace Zaring Stone’s best seller, “The Bitter Tea of General Yen.”
Miss Mori’s part is second only to those enacted by Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther, the two leads in the picture. Frank Capra is directing.
Ian Keith will play the role of Tigellinus, a captain of Nero’s guard, in the spectacular romance of pagan Rome, “The Sign of the Cross,” to be produced by Cecil B. DeMille at the Paramount Hollywood studios, and Claudette Colbert has been assigned to the role of Poppaea, cour tesan wife of Nero.
This assignment cancels the recently announced plan to have Miss Colbert play the leading feminine role in “The Phantom President.”
Walter Byron and Hardie Albright, two of the younger screen actors who have been -crashing the gates of popularity in recent pictures, have been signed for important roles in support of Jack Holt in “Polo,” a story of horses, helmets and Meadowbrook. Evalyn Knapp plays the feminine lead.
"*S£he Mask of Fu Manchu” has been acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the screen and this Sax Rohmer story will be produced with Boris KarlolT in the leading role. The picture is expected to get under way in the near future, with supporting players now being assembled. Gertrude Michael, of “Unashamed” fame, may* appear. The story originally was published in Colliers.
There’s magic in a name — if the name happens to be Irene Dunne. Alfonso Alberti, floriculturist, named his favorite species of dahlias after Irene Dunne, queenly star.
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RUTH WESTON; appearing in R. K. O . Pictures