Exhibitors Herald (1927)

July 30, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 37 With Which Is Incorporated “New Pictures” Now after “Jack the Giant Killer” has kayoed Sharkey and the big fight has slipped into the past, things are humming in the studios. Shooting has started on Lillain Gish’s new starring role, “The Enemy,” at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Fred Niblo directs the picture. It was a successful stage hit written by Pollock. Marion Davies is ready to start work on “The Fair Co-Ed,” and her latest picture, “Tillie the Toiler,” has been awarded the blue ribbon by the Motion Picture Owners of Texas. Camera work has been finished on Fox’s “East Side West Side” and it is now being edited and titled by Hilliker and Caldwell, who edited “7th Heaven.” Erich Von Stroheim has started cutting on his latest picture, “The Wedding March,” in the Paramount studios. Ralph Graves will start direction shortly on a Warner Brothers de luxe production, “Roulette.” Graves is just about the “whole show” in this picture as he takes credit of being its author as well. Comedy teams are now all the rage, and their number increases at about the rate of guinea pigs. When the Wallace Berry-Raymond Hatton team made such a hit in “Behind the Front,” there was general stampede for comedy teams. Camera work will begin Avtgust 15 on one of the latest comedy team pictures, “The Side Show,” featuring W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, and “Two Arabian Knights,” with Louis Wolheim and William Boyd teamed together will be ready for release August 20. But it remained for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to pick something new in comedy teams. They went all the other companies one better by hooking up a female comedy combination with Marie Dressier and Polly Moran. “The Callahans and the Murphys’” starring this team is proving a great box-office attraction. F B O’s picture, “Moon of Israel,” which played to capacity during its run at the Roxy and Cameo theatres in New York, has been booked at the Metropolitan, Boston, and the Adams, Detroit. Cecil B. De Mille has re-signed Gilbert Adrian on a long term contract. Adrian designed the costumes for “The King of Kings,” and his next job is to design the costumes for “The Wreck of the Hesperus.” Columbia Adds to Cast for ^‘Perfect Thirty” Columbia has added RicardO' Cortez, Claire Windsor, and Conway Tearle to its list of players to appear in the casts of its “Perfect Thirty’’ series. They should prove a valuable asset to the Columbia line up. Shooting started last week on the prizefighting sequence vdiich supplies the climax in Columbia’s final production of the season, “The Swell-Head.’’ Ralph Graves is both director and leading man in the picture. Paramount Completes First 3 of Comedies Paramount has completed the first three of its comedies with which to take its initial bow in the realm of short features. They are Bobby Vernon in “Short Socks Billy Dooley in “Row Sailor, Row and Jimmie Adams in “Doctor Quack.’’ We are interested to see how Paramount’s short features will go over. The title of the next Florence Vidor feature has been changed from “A Celebrated Woman,’’ to “One Woman to Another.” Frank Tuttle is directing the piece, and Theodore Von Eltz is playing opposite the star. Hedda Hopper has an important supporting role. For Emil Janning’s second Paramount picture temporarily titled “Hitting for Heaven” a street a block long copied from a section of Soho, slum district of London, is being produced in minute detail on the Paramount lot at Hollywood. This, for once, will bring New York and London together, for Harold Lloyd’s next picture calls for a large street scene in New York and work will start on it soon. Camera work is scheduled to begin August 15 on “The Side Show.” In this picture W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, Paramount’s newest comedy team, will launch their joint career in a story of circus life, which was written by Percy Heath and Donald Davis, son of Owen Davis, the playwright. Young Davis now has a fat part in the stage play, “The Barker.” This picture will be Eield’s first on the West Coast. Conklin is now completing his co-starring comedy with George Bancroft, “Tell It to Sweeney.” M-G-M Releases Four Pictures in August Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starts off the new season with four new releases for August. In this group is Lon Chaney’s Russian picture, “Mockery.” I don’t know the nature of Chaney’s makeup in “Mockery,” but I don’t see how it can be better than that of the mandarin makeup in “Mr. Wu” — but just as good most assuredly. Other releases are Jackie Coogan’s “The Release Dates WE,EK OF JULY 24 “Quicksands'’— Paramount— 1593 “Galloping Thunder”— F B O— five WEEK OF JULY 31 “Cradle Snatchers” Fox— 6281 “Lonesome Ladies”— First National— 57 18 “The Devil's Saddle”— First National^— 5430 “The Prince of Ileadwaiters”— First National^— 6400 “White Pants Willie”— First National 6350 “On Ze Boulevard”— M-G-M— 5482 “Twelve Miles Out”M-G-M— 7899 WEEK OF AUGUST 7 “7lh Heaven”— Fox— 10758 “Beau Geste”— Paramount^— 10,000 “Fireman, Save My Child”— Paramount— 5399 Bugle Call,” with Claire Windsor in the leading feminine role ; “After Midnight,” starring Norma Shearer; and “Adam and Evil,” costarring Aileen Pringle and Lew Cody. Marceline Day is fortunate in that she has just been chosen for the feminine leading role in Lon Chaney’s coming MetroGoldwyn-Mayer picture, “The Hypnotist.” She plays the part of an English girl. Chaney has the part of a Scotland Yard detective and student of the occult. Marceline Day is now completing the leading feminine role in Ramon Novarro’s new film, as yet untitled. King Vidor is completing the 12 reel special, “The Crowd,” in which Eleanor Boardman and James Murray are featured. Clarence Brown is directing another special, “The Trail of ’98,” which is based on Robert W. Service’s story of the Klondike gold rush. Victor Seastrom is directing Lillian Gish’s “The Wind,” based on Dorothy Scarborough’s story of the Texas Plains. Fox Points to Advance in Motion Pictures In 1915 Fox produced “Carmen” in the record time of 18 days. Now it has just completed “The Loves of Carmen,” after almost a year of work. Raoul Walsh directed both pictures. Such is the advance that motion pictures has made in the last 12 years. Victor McLaglen and Dolores Del Rio take the leads in the latter “Carmen” version. A large portion of Fox’s coming pictures are either taken from stage plays or the stories from well known writers. May Edginton, author of the ‘Joy Girl,” featuring Olive Borden, is now writing another story for Olive, “The Girl Downstairs.” Anita Loos, that popular young defender of blondes, has written “Publicity Madness,” in