The Film Spectator (Mar-Dec 1928)

Page Eighteen THE FILM SPECTATOR October 20, 1928 Reviewed in this Number DO YOUR DUTY— A First National picture. Directed by William Beaudine; from the story by Julien Josephson; continuity by Vernon Smith; photographed by Mike Joyce; art director, Max Parker; film editor, Stewart Heisler; titles by Gene Towne and Casey Robinson. The cast: Charlie Murray, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Delaney, Ed Brady, Washington Blue, Doris Dawson, Aggie Herring, George Pierce. EXCESS BAGGAGE— A Metro-GoldwjTi-Mayer picture. Directed by James Cruze; based on the play by John McGowan; continuity by Frances Marion; titles by Ralph Spence; settings by Cedric Gibbons; wardrobe by David Cox; photographed by Ira Morgan; film editor, George Hively. The cast: William Haines, Josephine Dunn, Neely Edwards, Kathleen Clifford, Greta Ganstedt, Ricardo Cortez, CjTil Chadwick. HEY. RUBE!— An F. B. O. picture. Directed by George B. Seitz; from the story by Wyndham Gittens and Louis Sarecky; continuity by Windham Gittens; titles by Randolph Bartlett; photographed by Robert Martin; edited by Ann McKnight. The cast: Hugh Trevor, Gertrude Olmsted, Ethlyne Clair, Bert Moorehouse, Walter McGrail, James Eagle. HIS LAST HAUL— An F.B.O. picture. Directed by Marshall Neilan; story by Louis A. Sarecky; continuity by W. Scott Darling; photographed by Philip Tannura; titles by Randolph Bartlett. The cast: Tom Moore, Seena Owen, Charles Mason, Al Roscoe, William Scidmore. MANHATTAN COCKTAIL— A Paramount picture. Directed by Dorothy Arzner; story by Ernest Vajda; screen play by Ethel Doherty; photographed by Harry Fischbeck; assistant director, Paul Jones; titles by George Marion, Jr.; film editor, Doris Drought. The cast: Richard Arlen, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas, Lilyan Tashman, Danny O'Shea, Bert Woodruff, Larry Steers, E. Alyn Warren, Richard Cramer, Joe Marba, Fred Esmelton. MASKS OF THE DEVIU— A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. Directed by Victor Seastrom; from the book, The Masks of Erwin Reiner, by Jacob Wassermann; treatment by Svend Gade; continuity by Frances Marion; titles by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings; settings by Cedric Gibbons; gowns by Adrian; assistant director, Harold S. Bucquet; photographed by Oliver Marsh; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. The cast: John Gilbert, Alma Rubens, Theodore Roberts, Frank Reicher, Eva von Berne, Ralph Forbes, Ethel Wales, Polly Ann Young. MOTHER KNOWS BEST— A William Fox picture. Directed by John Blystone; from the story by Edna Ferber; scenario by Marion Orth; story supervisor, Charles Klein; costumes by Harry Collins; photographed by Gilbert Warrington; titles by William Kernell and Edith Bristol; film editor, Margaret V. Clancy; editorial supervisor, Malcolm Stuart Boylan; movietone dialogue by Eugene Walter; staged by Charles Judels and David Stamper. The cast: Madge Bellamy, Louise Dresser. Barry Norton, Albert Gran, Joy Auburn, Stuart Erwiii, Lucien Littlefield, Dawn O'Day, Annette de Kirby, Ivor de Kirby. ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD— A William Fox picture. Directed bv Ir\nng Cummmgs; suggested by the play by Paul Armstrong; screen story by Sidney Lanfield and Douglas Doty; adaptation and continuity by Douglas Doty; photographed by Conrad Wells; edited by Frank Hull; supervised by James Kevin McGuinness; titles by Garrett Graham. The cast: Mary Astor, Ben Bard, Robert Elliott, John Boles, Oscar Apfel, Helen L>Tich. SINGING FOOL, THE— A Warner Brothers picture. Directed by Lloyd Bacon; story by Leslie S. Barrows; scenario by C. Graham Baker; photographed by Byron Haskins; assistant director, Frank Shaw. The cast: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Reed Howes, Edward Martindel, Arthur Housman, Da^-id Lee, Robert Emmett O'Connor. STATE STREET SADIE— A Warner Brothers picture. Directed by Archie Mayo; story by Melville Crosman; scenario by E. T. Lowe Jr.; assistant director, Frank Shaw; photographed by Barney McGill. The cast: Conrad Nagel, MjTna Loy, William Russell, Georgie Stone, Pat Hartigan. THE WOMAN DISPUTED— A United Artists picture. Directed by Henry King and Sam Taylor; adapted by C. Gardner Sullivan; from the play by Dennison Clift; art director, William Cameron Menzies; photographed by Oliver Marsh, A. S. C; technical advisors, Capt. Marco Elter and Col. Alexis Davidoff; wardrobe manager, Frank Donnellan; assistant director, Robert Florey; film editor, Hal C. Kern. The cast: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Blichael Vavitch, Boris de Fas, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Gladys Brockwell. JOHN PETERS CHARACTERS Hollywood 1068 Hotel Mark Hopkins San Francisco A place to rest near the shops and theatres. New, comfortable, quiet, airy. ( Anson Weeks' Orchestra playing ) 1 nightly in Peacock Court j GEORGE D. SMITH President and Manager