Motion Picture News (Apr - Jun 1927)

2412 Motion Picture News ress" and "The Wisecrackers, " "The Beauty Parlor" series, now in course of production at the Hollywood studios of the company, is the latest series of short subjects from his pen. All these stories ran serially in Cosmopolitan Magazine. €€ WA Stellar Extra ANT to make seven dollars and a half ? ' ' asked Henry King of Rod LaRoeque. ' ' Why not ! ' ' answered Rod. "I need more people in this scene," King explained, pointing to a set used in making 'The Magic Flame' for Samuel Goldwyn. All you have to do is stand back there in the crowd and wateli Ronald Colman drive away in his automobile." All went off smoothly. The camera was grinding, the motor was started, and Ronald Colman started to shift gears. And then Cecil B. DeMille walked on the set. Having Vilma Banky 's fiance under an exclusive contract, Mr. DeMille was amazed, to say the least, to see Rod working in someone else's picture. LaRoeque got $1S)0 ■ and Samuel Goldwyn and Ronald Colman agreed that in DeMille 's next LaRoeque picture, Ronald Colman will appear as "mob stuff" for $7.50. M. Another Convention .ORE than a score of cameramen who comprise the foreign staff of the Paramount News recently held a banquet at Drouant, France. These men were brought to Paris by tlie Paramount News to formulate plans for the issuance of the Paramount News. The meeting served the same purpose abroad as the convention held by the American representatives who convened at the Hotel Roosevelt recently. Many distinguished guests attended the dinner which was Tom Carlyle building a scene with Duncan Ronaldo and Rhonda Rawsford for "The Captive Prince," a Famous Lovers Production for St. Regis presided over by S. R. Sozio, head of the Paramoimt News European staff. Other noted guests were Adolph Zukor, President of Paramount ; Albert A. Kaufman, manager of the Paramount theatres in Europe; Ike Blumenthal, Paramount manager in Central Europe and Adolph Osso, Paris manager. L Wanda's Narrow Escape AST Thursday morning Wanda Wiley, motion picture actress, narrowly escaped death in Dallas. Texa.s, when she was .saved from a flame swept sleeping porch by B. C. Hilton, a disabled fireman, who carried Miss Wiley to safety despite the fact that the flames had already burned through a partition within a few feet of her bed. Mr. Hilton was offered a movie contract, which he refused to accept the appointment of Fire Captain in tlie City of Dallas. A, Texas "Steers'' 77ns is how the remarkable scenes shoiving Chico and Diane ascending the stairs in "Seventh Heaven" iFox Films) were made. The unique effect attracted a great deal of comment at the I\eiv York opening ,LL Hollywood is laughing these days over the first of Will Rogers' titles preliminary to his being starred in "A Texas Steer," the Sam E. Roi'k special feature production for First National Pictures, based on the old Charles H. Hoyt stage success. Tlie titles were used in a trailer shown at tlie recent First National salas convention in Hollywood, and were intended to give the sales officials some idea of what to expect from "A Texas Steer." Rogers, incidentally, will do the titles for "A Texas Steer, ' ' too. Here are some of the titles : "Sam E. Rork nominates WILL ROGERS for Congress in * A Texas Steer. ' "Boys, meet Will Rogers, HIMSELF" (Closeup of Will Rogers). "Hello, folks . . . (Long shot of Rogers) . . . sorry I'm not with you tonight, but I'm headin' this way to go to work. "Sam picked ME because all Hollywood's leading men have got morality clauses in their contracts . . . and are afraid to act like Congres.smen. "Ricliard Wallace is my director. If 'A Texas Steer' is as good as his 'McFaddon's Flats,' the country '11 be safe for Democracy — because Congress will die laughing.' "Sam's got REAL troupers for the acting parts; the Follies' graduate — with sex appeal. "Anyhow, it looks like a great picture . . ouglit to clean up everything^ — except politics . . have a good time, boys." Production of "A Texas Steer" starts in Wasliington, D. C, about August 1. I'm just and it s'long.