Motion Picture News (Jan - Mar 1928)

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956-D Motion Picture News Briefs Dale Austen, winner of a beauty contest in Xew Zealand, has been assigned a part in "The Actress." Charley Bowers, producing and starring in a series of novelty comedies for Educational, has a new leading lady in the person of Betty CauldweJl, who has been playing in Universal westerns. Del Henderson, who started his screen career back in 1909 in "The Love of Lady EiTua," is the latest player picked for MG-M's "He Learned About Women." Anne Cornwall, Christie comedy star, has completed her contract for a series of Paramount-Christie two-ileelers with "Love's Young Scream." In support of Billie Dove in Frst National's "The Yellow Lily" are: Clive Brook, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Marc McDermott, Nicholas Soussanin, Bodil Rosing, Jane Winton, Charles Duffy, Lucien Prival and Paul Vicentini. Andei-s Randolph, Paul McAllister and Gardner .James are in the supporting cast of Paramount 's "Gun Shy," a tentative title. It is an original by Grover Jones and Gil Pratt. Fox Films has acquired the screen rights to one of its writer's stories, "The River Pirate." The author, Charles Francis Coe, will go to Hollywood to aid in the production of the story. The title of a new Krelbar picture, "The Pasteboard Lover," has been changed to "The Faithless Lover," to avoid confusion with a forthcoming M-G-M film, "Her Cardboard Lover." Tay Garnett, De Mille writer, was called on recently at the studio to do a scene in ' ' Skyscrap>er. ' ' "Code of the Scarlet," a mountie yarn, is to be Ken Maynard's next western effort for First National. It is an original by Forest Sheldon Avith adaptation and script by Marion Jackson. Harry J. Brown will direct the feature. "The Baby Cyclone," the comedy stage success of George M. Cohan, will be screened by M-G-M. Edward Sutherland will direct while F. Hugh Herbert will ]>r<' pare the continuity. The six sons called for in the story of "Gun Shy," which Paramount is filming, will be James Mason, Ralph Yearsley, Bruce Gordon, Leo Willis, Ethan Laidlaw and Robert Kortman. Mary Brian will play the girl, and Gardner James the boy. F. Richard Jones will be the director. Eugenia Gilbert and Charles Delaney will be the romantic leads in llobart Bosworth's new sea picture for Columbia, "Alter the Storm. ' ' Mine" for M-G-M, has signed a new longterm contract with that organization. Director Arthur Rosson has just finished "The Play Girl," Madge Bellamy's next starring vehicle. Johnny Mack Brown has the masculine lead. Others are Walter Mc(rrail, Lionel Belmore and Anita Garvin. Evelyn Selbie, who was one of the leading characters in "Wild Geese," and Roy Laidlaw have been cast for roles in TiffanyStahl's "Power," tentative. The players appearing in the Warner Bros, special, "Noah's Ark," will be headed by Dolores Costello. The story is an original by Anthony Coldeway. Michael Curtiz will direct it. Cameras start their work on April 5. Vitaphone sound will be introduced in many scenes. The titles for "A Night of Mystery," Paramount, will be written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film is an adaptation of "Captain Ferreol," the Sardou play. M-G-M signed D. Ross Lederman to make "The Deadline," a new vehicle for Flash, the company's dog-star. The story is the work of Ted Shane, ex-newspaper man. Lederman has directed some of the Rin-TinTin films. Tom Terris has started filming "Clothes Make the Woman," a Tiffany-Stahl production in which Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon head the cast. Terris will next do "The Naughty Duchess" for Tiffany-Stahl. "Children of the Sun" is the title chosen for the story which Alexander Marky will direct for Universal on a South Sea isle. The production will be an attempt to portray the origin of the fast disappearing peoples of the South Seas. Marky expects to finish the film by next summer. Practically the entire cast of George Bancroft's picture, "The Showdown," will support the star's second film, a crime story, as yet untitled, which Josef von Sternberg will direct. Allan Garcia is also a member of the cast. With production on M-G-M 's "The Tide of Empire" delayed, Joan Crawford will play one of the feminine leads in "The Dancing Girl." The other feminine principal will be Dorotliy Sel)astian. Johnny Mack Brown will play tiie male lead. HaiTy Beaumont is ready to start megaphoning. Alec B. Fraiuns and Rex Lease will support Jacqueline Logan in Cohnnbia's ' ' Broadway Daddies. ' ' Itobert Z. Leonard, director of "Baby The first group of Warner Bros, pictures to co-star May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel on the Warners 1928-29 program will be "Ladies Prefer Bonds," a temporary title. Lawrence Gray will play the part of a New York gangster op)>osite Eleanor Boardman in M-G-M 's "Diamond llandculi's," John McCarthy's new production. The cast includes Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Sebastian, Lena Malena, Sam Hardy, George Cooper. The story is an original by Carey Wilson. Alike Donlin, former big league ball player, will wear the uniform of the diamond in Richard Dix' "Knocking 'Em Over"; Roscoe Karns has just been added to the cast. George Archainbaud has started dii'ection on "Ladies of the Night Club." Barbara Leonard, a Tiffany-Stahl "find," will have the feminine lead. Daphne Pollard, who has been appearing in Sennett comedies, has joined the cast of an untitled F B 0 production featuring Joe E. Brown and Gertrude Olmsted, which Ralph Ince is directing. Gertrude Astor also appears in this picture about show people. Myrna Loy, erroneously reported to have been signed by another company, is again working on the Warner Bros. lot. On ilareh 25 she begins her first picture for the new program, temporarily titled "The One-Way Street." An important role in Lew Cody's new untitled picture for M-G-M has just been assigned Sue Carol. Noi-man Trevor has also been cast. George Melford will direct the TiffanyStahl production, "Lingerie," an original by Raymond Schrock. Helene Chadwick is in the midst of production o!i her new Excellent picture entitled "Women Who Dare." In her supporting cast are Charles Delaney, Jack Richardson, James Quinn, Nancy Price, Margaret McWade, Joseph ]\Iack, Mickey Bennett, Grace Elliott and Henry Barrows. Hariy Chandlee, who wrote the story, is personally supervising its production. Bebe Daniels has left Hollywood for the mining section of California to film mine sequences in her new Paramount vehicle, "The Fifty-Fifty Girl," in which James Hall, Constantino Romanoff, Harry Todd and Roscoe Karns support. "She Wouldn't Say Yes," the former title for the new film, has been discarded. Leo McCarey, supervisor and vice-president of the Hal Roach studio, is preparing story material for Max Davidson's next Roach comedy for M-G-M. Charles Bealian, story editor for C'ecil li. De Mille, has been signed by Fox Films to act as New York story editor. Thomas N. Heffron is preparing an original story which he will shortly direct for Tiffany-Stahl. Paramount has signed John Kirkland, newspaper man and scenarist, as a screen writer. James Hall, leading man, has also been signed to a new long-term contract by Paramount.