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Motion Picture News
Views of the part played by bXBR, W (irner Bros, 'round-the-world broadcasting station, in the parade which marked the opening of the j\ew York
Radio Shotv, when bXBR ivas taken down to the city hall and presented to city officials: left. Betty It arner, daughter of H. M. If arner, after whom
the portable station was named; centre, the ceremony at city hall ; right, Monte Blue. W arner Bros, star, broadcasts a message to radio fans
Barrymore's courage in engaging Veidt for his supporting cast cast is worthy of comment, for it would not be lese majeste to say that Veidt is just as great an actor, in his field, as Barrymore. On this score Barrymore is quoted as saying:
"I want the best we can get. I have been warned that Veidt is so good he will 'steal the picture.' All right, if I can't keep my head above water with the rest of the cast, that's my hard luck. The public will see a real picture, anyhow."
May the best man win!
JMcCORMICKS TO VISIT US OHN McCORMICK. general manager of West Coast production for First National, and his wife. Colleen Moore, will leave for New York about September I 6. While in the metropolis McCormick will look over the new plays with a view to obtaining desirable screen material, and will confer with Eastern executives, while Miss Moore will film exteriors for her next picture, "Orchids and Ermine," from a story by Carey Wilson.
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SAMUEL GOLDWYN, JR.
HE latest important addition to the Hollywood film colony is Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., who arrived at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles on September 7, weighing seven and one-half pounds. Mrs. Goldwyn, who was Frances Howard prior to her marriage, and the baby are reported doing very well.
EFADMAN RETURNS DWIN MILES FADMAN, president of Red Star Pictures Corporation, has just returned from six months in Europe in the interests of the interchange of product across the water, and in two weeks will again journey to London and Paris. Fadman has organized his company on a genuinely international basis, with French, English and German capital interested and a directorate which includes M. Biraban, D. Frank, P. Weill, R. Maeder and Mr. Fadman. His plans are unusually interesting, embracing, as they do, a combination of American business methods with sound counsel from men intimately familiar with their sections of Europe.
M MONTE A FIGHT FAN
ONTE BLUE, who is in New York for a brief vacation, has decided to remain for the Dempsey-Tunney fight, after which he will dash back to the Coast for his next picture. He is particularly enthusiastic, his press agent asserts, over "Beyond the Pacific," his most recent vehicle.
P PAULINE STARKE ARRIVES
AULINE STARKE, who has been forging ahead as a dramatic actress of genuine ability, has arrived in New York to play the leading feminine role in "Not Herbert," Ray Rockett's production, under the direction of Howard Higgin. Production was started at the I 75th Street plant this week.
Players apfyearing in Columbia's "The False Alarm," left to right, above Ralph Lewis. Mary Carr, Priscilhi Bonner, Dorothy Reiier. Maurice Costello; below — John tlarron, Lillian Leighton. IT illiam Franey, Arthur Hoyt, and W illiani Franey again