Exhibitors Herald (1927)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

December 31, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 51 Fox Studio Activity Brings Christmas Cheer (Special to the Herald) HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27.— Much of the Christmas cheer in the Fox studios this year is due to the fact that this company is unusually busy in a season when as a rule most production plants are slack in production. With plenty of work the Fox actresses, actors, “bit” players and extras will this year have the money with which to meet the calls of Santa Claus. essary. Also the personality and type of the artiste must be considered. Not all women can wear all sorts of gowns with grace! t * * In “The Private Life of Helen of Troy” a real problem presented itself. What authority has anyone for the styles of that remote period? There are no records. Poetry and the imagery of artists must supply our models — and none can say that they are accurate. By the same token, of course, there can be no basis for criticism! But wait a moment! The playgoing public has a very tenacious habit of finding something to criticise. An erudite spectator might in some way discover a flaw even in the costume of the immortal Helen. Obviously, the gowns she wore must be beautiful. They could never be grotesque. The Greeks were essentially artistic and undoubtedly simplicity was the keynote. Yet, for a picture which the world would expect to be gorgeous (as it is) absolute simplicity would have been unsatisfying. Here the artist was brought into play. Modifications of modern ideas, for the people portraying the roles are after all individuals presenting a comedy of a remote period, combined with semi-classical ideas, decorative in tone, graceful in line, suggesting the moods by their fashioning — these were the things to be striven for. In the attire of the various immortals, even greater liberties were required. Certainly, we have no basis for a costume worn by Ajax or Achilles. The gods of Olympus may have dispensed with wearing apparel altogether for all that we know! Likewise the goddesses. The result of the creative work — and it was a task of no small proportions — accomplished by Max Ree and his staff will be worthy of note. That it is beautiful there is no doubt. Middlewest Prospering, Nat Mintz Finds on Trip Prosperity throughout the Middlewest points to a very successful theatrical season, Nat L. Mintz, vice-president of Charles B. Mintz Pictures, declared following a tour of key city exchanges in the Midwest states. Mintz Pictures makes the Krazy Kat cartoons and Novelties released by Paramount, “Farmers and industrial workers alike have been fully rewarded for their labors of the past six months,” Mintz said. “Chauve Souris” Preview Given LOS ANGELES. — A preliminary performance of the celebrated Russian, “Chauve Souris,” due here this month after its New York season, will be given before an audience with no admission charged. LOU SEILER Director of TOM MIX in “Outlaws of Red River” “Great K&A Train Robbery” “No Man’s Gold” “Tumbling River” 44 Wolf Fangs” Starring “Thunder” “White Silence” Now Directing “Square Crooks” Fox Release Stephen Roberts Director MERMAID COMEDIES For Educational TITLED “The Shepherd of the Hills” “Man Crazy” “No Place to Go” “The Drop Kick” “Smile, Brother, Smile” “The Stolen Bride” All First National Productions 6372 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. Phone Gladstone 4809 Qive the Boy a Big Hand He’s Already Qot Big Feet AL BOASBERG