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The Theatrical Field
The Educational Screen
Production Notes
FIRST NATIONAL promises what should be an interesting program for the next few niontlis. Norma Talmadge has made definite plans to film Romeo and Juliet with Joseph Schildkraut, following Secrets to be directed by Frank Borzage. The prophets say that Blanche Sweet is doing remarkable work in Anna Christie. George Fitzmaurice has finished The Eternal City in Rome, with Barbara La Mar, Lionel Barrymore, Richard Bennett, Montague Love, and Bert Lytell. Richard Barthelmess* Tivcnty-One is in the cutting room, and he has started production of Pinero's 77it' Enchanted Cottage with May MacAvoy as leading woman. Constance Talmadge has begun on The Mirage. Raphael Sabatini's The Sea Haivk is in progress.
FOX productions include among others, St. Elmo, Monna Vanna, The Shepherd King, TiAs Freedom, Gentle Julia, and, in production, The Warrens of Virginia.
OLTDA'S famous children's story, /] Dog of Flanders will reach the screen as A Boy of Flanders with Jackie Coogan as Nello. Following the satisfactory completion of Long Live the King, the author, Mary Roberts Rinehart, has been asked to write another story especially for the little star, for Metro release.
BLANCHE SWEET is to play an important part in The Human Mill, which Allen Holubar will direct for Metro.
VIOLA DANA will depart from her usual comedy-dramas and start on a new type of picture with The Rosebush of a Thousand Years, soon to go into production.
A SPECIAL announcement from Goldywn says that Charles Brabin, who directed Driven and Six Days will be the director for Ben-Hur. After more than a year since the company first announced that the rights to the story had been bought, it is finally to be produced. The entire production will be filmed abroad, and it is expected to take at least a year.
GOLDWYN pictures being edited include Wild Oranges and Greed.
HALL CAINE'S The Master of Man has undergone its third change of title. It is now Name the Man.
THE cast for Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks includes Aileen Pringle, Conrad Nagel, Stuart Holmes, Mitchel Lewis, Joan Standing, Nigel de Brulier, Dale Fuller. H. Reeves-Smith, John Sainpolis, and Robert Cain.
MARY PICKFORD began work on Dorothy Vernon of JLaddon Hall with a location trip to San Francisco. The scenes taken represent one of Queen Elizabeth's "progresses." It was customary in those days for travelers to take along all their servants, household goods, and chattels. To supplement players taken from Hollywood, five hundred extras with enough horses to mount them were engaged in San Francisco.
JACK PICKFORD has finished Valley of the Wolf for Allied Producers and Distributors, ready for late fall release.
PREPARATIONS are under way for the major sequence in Douglas Fairbanks' Arabian Nights spectacle, and wMien the work is at its height it is anticipated that four thousand persons, probably one of the largest crowds ever assembled in a picture, will pass before the camera. i
ANNOUNCEMENTS from the Lasky studios include the news that WilHam S. Hart has started production of Singer Jim McKee, an original by himself, with Phyllis Haver as the feminine lead.
JAMES CRUZE'S To the Ladies is completed.
DOROTHY AlACKAILL will play an important part in Sam Wood's forthcoming picture, The Ne.vt Corner, from Kate Jordan's novel.
POLA NEGRI, after finishing My Man will play Madame Sans Gene, under direction of Sidney Olcott.
EATRICE JOY will have r in Triumph.
LEATKICE JOY will have a featured r< in the new C. B. DeMille producti(