Exhibitors Herald (1927)

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18 STUDIO SECTION OF November 5, 1927 A1 Cohn, having spent several weeks in the East, attending the DempseyTunney fight and viewing New York shows, has returned home to fill several assignments for stories awaiting his typewriter. * * * Prevost III Marie Prevost has been missing from the DeMille studios for several weeks. After finishing “A Blonde for a Night” she was rushed off to a hospital for an operation and is now slowly recovering. * * * Tyler With DeLacy Tom Tyler, F B O Western star, has his old director back with him again. Robert DeLacy, who turned his attention to a special for F B O, ‘‘The Red Riders of Canada,” has taken up the megaphone on Tom’s latest opus. Livingston Returns Home Margaret Livingston has just returned from New York where she spent several weeks shopping and taking in the new shows. While in the East Miss Livingston received two offers to play in stage productions and has not fully decided whether to desert pictures for one season or not. * * * Willat Gets “ Michigan Kid ” Irvin Willat will not direct “The Big Gun” for Universal, as announced in these columns several days ago. Instead he has been handed the story “The Michigan Kid,” Rex Beach's novel to transfer to the screen. * * * Josephine Lovett will do the screen adaptation of “Heat” for M-G-M. The story is by John Colton, author of the James Dugan Director of “THE DESERT PIRATE” with Tom Tyler “HER SUMMER HERO” a special with an all-star cast “THE PHANTOM OF THE RANGE with Tom Tyler FBO JASON ROBARDS JUST FINISHED “CASEY JONES” TREM-CARR PRODUCTION HAVE SIGNED WITH TIFFANY FOR “STREETS OF SHANGHAI” SCOTT R. DUNLAP Now Directing a Series of Features for Phillips Company, Ltd. Australia successful stage plays, “Devil’s Plumb Tree,” “Rain” and “The Shanghai Gesture.” * * * Charlie Byer, having finished a hero role opposite Patsy Ruth Miller for F B O is now playing the heavy in Tom Mix’s new play “Horseman of the Plains,” which Ben Stoloff is directing with Daniel Clark at the camera. * * * Hale Concentrates Comedy in Pictures Alan Hale isn’t going to give any more free performances. For years the actor-director was the geatest off-screen wisecracker in the picture colony. Now Hale is playing an important role opposite Jacqueline Logan in “The Leopard Woman” and has announced that free performances are at an end. He’s using all his comedy in pictures. * * * Alice White, having completed her role in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” for Paramount, has returned to the First National lot. * * * With the sideburns shorn and his Latin makeup vanished, Richard Dix is now his natural self again. This is because he has completed his first Latin role in “The Gay Defender” which Gregory LaCava directed at the Paramount studios. * * * George Siegmann cannot be good even if he wants to. Universal has cast him in another perfect villain role in “The Man Who Laughs” under the direction of Paul Leni. He was Simon Legree, you know, in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and ( Continued on page 27) AL HALL CHIEF FILM EDITOR FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES WEST COAST STUDIOS ELIZABETH PICKETT Fox Varieties Current Releases “Oregon — Trail’s End!” “Bah, Bah! Range Sheep!” “Seven Wonders of Washington”