The Film Daily (1929)

DAILY Sunday, September 22, 1929 30 Authors on Pathe List Number of Authors and Playwrights Supply Vehicles for New Program — Academy Opens New Sound School with Enrollment of 500 Students— Ralph Wilk's Personals from Studios — Other News PROMINENT NAMES IN PATHE AUTHOR LINE-UP Thirty authors are supplying scripts and stories for Pathe's forthcoming productions. The list includes: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Arthur Richman, Philip Barry, Edmund Burke, Ernest Vajda William Hurlbut, Kenyon Nicholson, Corey Ford, Gene Markey, Hugh Wiley, Herman Bernstein, Urvanstov, George and Ira Gershwin, A. W. Somerville, Joseph Franklin Poland, Howard Emmett Rogers, Jan Gelzer, Lucy Stone Terrill, Helen Hull, Paul Gangelin, Walter DeLeon, William Conselman, Ramon Guthrie, Saxon Kling, Tom Buckingham, Douglas Doty, Jack Jungmayer and George S. Brooks. Some of their short stories have been selected from "Cosmopolitan Magazine," "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Good Housekeeping," while novels and plays also are in the group. The adaptations have been by Horace Jackson, Jack Jevne, Leo Birinski, George Gray, Ray Harris, John W. Krafft, A. A. Kline, Francis Faragoh, Sidney Harrus and Earl Baldwin. A Little from "Lots" _,.____ By RALPH WILK Schildkraut in "Deadline" Joseph Schildkraut will be a reporter in Universal's "Deadline," adapted from Henry La Cossett's story by Edward T. Lowe. Other players are Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Kent, Scott Kolk and Harry Stubbs. John Robertson is the director. Cast for Featured Roles Conrad Nagel and Kay Johnson have been assigned featured parts in "The Ship from Shanghai." Louis Wolheim will have another role in this production, which Charles Brabin will direct. Bebe Daniels for "Carmen" Bebe Daniels' next starring vehicle for RKO will be a screen version of "Carmen" which will also have Technicolor sequences, it is announced. Write Music for McLaglen Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie have turned out three songs for "The Well Dressed Man," in which Victor McLaglen will sing. New Part for Chester Morris Chester Morris has been assigned an important role in Alice White's forthcoming vehicle, "Playing Around," to be directed by Mervyn LeRoy. This will be his second picture for First National. Hollyrvood JOSEPH CHERNIAVSKY likes the Coast so well he rejected a flattering offer to conduct the Roxy orchestra. He was last with Universal in charge of music, and is now considering an offer to head the musical department of another studio. * * * Jack Chefe is busy, to say the least. He is playing the role of a French artist in "The Big Gamble," a play, and is also working in a Hal Roach comedy. * * * Ann Greenway, RKO songstress, drove her own snappy roadster irt the motor caravan which transported Harry Carroll's revue to San Diego. She is a St. Paul girl who has made good in Hollywood and New York. * * * Russell J. Birdwell, Fox director, who flew 35,000 miles as a passenger and 1,000 miles while learning to fly, has won a pilot's license. He did much flying while working for the Hearst papers, spending considerable time in the air in the search for Nungesser and Coli. * * * Julie Kellar, harpist, has just completed a sound picture in which 60 harpists appear. It will be released by International Newsreel about Oct. 1. The subject also includes "Airman, Ahoy," a song Miss Kellar wrote and dedicated to Colonel Lindbergh. Harvey Thew has the distinction of having two pictures in production currently. He wrote the dialogue and adaptation for "The Man," starring John Barrymore, and "Playing Around," starring Alice White. * * * Lane Chandler, who recently completed his role in "The Forward Pass," was a member of the Montana Wesleyan University team which won the Montana football championship in 1921. He was nominated captain-elect of the 1923 football eleven, but did not return to school. He is now playing a starring role in "The Lightning Express," a Universal serial. U. A. to Film Byrne Novel "Blind Raftery," the late Donn Byrne's Irish romance, will come to the talking screen as a United Artists production with Lupe Velez and Donald Novis. George Fitzmaurice will direct. Fitzmaurice has just completed "The Locked Door," with Rod LaRocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William Boyd, Betty Bronson and Zasu Pitts. Grapewin Gets Christie Post Charley Grapewin has been named adaptor and dialoguer of talking pictures for Christie to fill the post left vacant by the resignation of Alfred A. Cohn, who has joined Warners. Cast For "Loose Ankles" Otis Harlan, Eddie Nugent and Norman Selby have been assigned prominent roles in the First National production, "Loose Angels." Dialoguing "The Behavior of Mrs. Crane" for Laura La Plante St. Polis Cast by Fox John St. Polis has been engaged by Fox for "The 3 Sisters," Movietone production featuring Louise Dresser. The picture went into rehearsal several days ago. Joyce Compton, June Collyer and Addie McPhail play the title roles. Collins and Dent Write Songs Monty Collins and Vernon Dent, who are co-featured in "Ticklish Business," new Educational-Mermaid talking comedy, wrote the words and music for the principal song used in this film. HUGH HERBERT Dialogue Supervis ion R. K. O. ^r 500 STUDIO WORKERS IN COAST SOUND SCHOOL The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences school organized in conjunction with 16 Coast studios for the teaching of the technical side of talking picture production has opened in Hollywood with an enrollment of 500, selected from among studio employes. Heads of the sound departments of all important studios are listed among the lecturers. William Irving Featured William Irving is featured in the Educational-Mermaid talking comedy, "Ticklish Business." THE Doorway of Hospitality sNTER the doorway ea* this popular hostelry and you feel at ho—. There's an atmosphere of cordial weleaeae which marks tha difference between the Hollywood Plata and ordinary hotels. Tour room, too, ha* that added of distinction. Picture* on the wall, ovas* stuffed furniture, a floor lamp and reading lamp . . . these are but a few of the feature* that make you feel at home. Plg'o Whistle Dialog Service Insures eke bait of food. 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