Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1927)

.1/ (/ V -' o , I 9 2 Y V)\l H ZelllUT W<mI 1':I.I':N LOXK'I'T IUKSKI,. uhos. r.iihcT was the late Albert II. iiovi'tt, war con-t'siioiulciii ami cilihir of \\\m Washington Post, was married 'riiursday, .May \'l. at 1 :)U) p. ni., at tlio home of the l)ri(Ie's mothei". iMiO West 71st street, .New York, to .\rthur -liilian Zeihier. foiriiei niriiii>i'r of llie stall' of the Memphis ( 'ommei-cial-.\pi)eal. Mr-. Zeliuer is now Kasteiii i-ei)resenlHl i\ u for .Mary I'ickI'ord and Doujjlas Fairbanks. Miss Dorotiiy Comei attended the bi-idr, and llie groom "s brotiier, Henry Hayes Zellner, acted as i)est man. Reverend Tiiomas E. Potterton ofiieiated. FUp from VagaljoiHla«^r I FTIilEX years a<ro two '"lioboes" .stood nnder a water tank on a railroad sidinji' in Kansas, waiting for a Californiabound freifrht train. When tlie train rnnd)led alonjj^ the i)air '■h(>pi)ed" it,, nitimateiy ai'i'ivin^' in the lan<i of eoiiventions and roses. One of the vagrants was "Jim " Tnliy. Tlie otlier was Edwin Carevve. In the years followin<r tht Los Angeles Carowe became arri\al ot thai well known as freight a film train in )roducer and director, his latest creation being the screen vei-sion '^■hJLoLsii," one of llie l*(iris Itixiciihs ichirh took i>l(irt' in tlie oriiiiiial rush to the front, luid which icas hroufxht to Americtt to take fxirt in Fox Films' "Seventh Hedveii," uill be driven front Chicngo to ISeiv York between April 25 to July 3 to exploit the film. with Rod T.aRocipie starred ami It oi)ens at the INIark Strand Satiir Tolstoy's "Resurrection, Dolores del Rio featured, day. Tully's two books, "Beggars of Life" and "Jarnegan,' have whirled him into the center of raging discussion. (Espc cially in the principal siiburb of Los Angeles!) J Jetta Goudal Arrives ETTA v^xOIDAL, Cecil B. De.Mille star, arrived in New York Saturday, May 7th, from Chicago, where she was otirtcial hostess at the ball following the exhibitors' convention. Miss Goudal is here on a vacation, and will probably return to Los Angeles the latter part of the week. Although "Fighting Love" is scheduled for an early showing, also at the Roxy, 3Iiss Goudal is undecided a.s to whether she will l)e able to remain for the New York premiere. I Roxy Entertains Booksellers .X connection with the Convention of the American Booksellers' Association, a luncheon was given at the Roxy theatre, Tuesday, by S. L. Rothafel (Roxy). The full convention attended the performance at the Roxy theatre on Wednesday, and Roxy was a speaker at the Book l.oiiise Fnzendii displays the three sets of tiviivi used in " I'he (,ity Old liird," her next stiirrinfi vehicle for If arner Bros. Director Herman Haymilker is the gentleman (it the rifihl, directly behind the doiibU' shadow. sellers' bancpiet at tlie Commodcne Hotel on Thui-sday night. Among Roxy's luncheon guests were Gertrude Lawrence, of "0 Kay;" Arthur Guiterman, poet; Homer Croy, author of "West of the Water Tower;" Dorothy W. Carmen, novelist; and Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Literarv' Review. Moth B< MKushes to Moiner s Ben .\X ALEXAXDER. young studio rlside manager of the Stern Film Corporation, sailed from Xew Yoi-k early this week aboard the Aquit<inia after a record-breaking trip from Hollywood en route to the sick-bed of his mother in FuMa. Germany. She is Mrs. Sigmund Alexander, a sister of Julius and Abe Stern, president and vice-president of the Stern Film Corporation, and of Mrs. Carl Laemmle, the deceased wife of the Universal president. Mrs. Alexander was stricken about a week ago. O Mussolini Aids Italian Films 'JR Berlin corri'si)ondent sends us a report he has just gotten from Rome to the effect that Mussolini has had a lengthy Edtvnrd Everett Horton (right), appearing in a series of tivo-reel comedies for Paramount release; John L. Slurphy (ceture) , production manager for Hollywood Productions; and Jay A. Hoice, directing the series