Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

JOHN Babrymore. a former stage player, has been engaged by Warner Brothers to appear in their talking pictures. Tiffa lOY D'Arcy will again bring his teeth, monocle and art into action in a Titfany-Stahl photoplay, "The Family Row." The star is Claire Windsor; the director is James Flood. DOUGLAS Fairbanks, the elder, has begun work on his new production, ' 'The Man With the Iron Mask. THE mo\nes take on an educational aspect with the appearance of Sally O'Neill and William Collier, Jr. in "The Floating College." Matriculated also in the cast are Georgia Hale, Harvey Clark and Georgie Harris. All presumably are candidates for A.B. degrees. of thf B. Warner, noted in HoUy wood as the only li\ing man oi that name who is not a brother, has been cast in a picture sponsored by those who are, entitled "Conquest." Monte Blue and Lois Wilson are others prominent in the group of players. IiLYAN Tashman, otherwise J Mrs. Edmund Lowe, has been chosen by Paramount to personify a female menace in a sound picture co-featuring Nancy Carroll and Richard Arlen. The director is a woman, Dorothy Arzner. 1YA De Pum has just sacrij ficed twenty-foiu pounds in weight for her profession. Before making "The Scarlet Lady" for Columbia she bounced the pointer of the drug store scales up to 132. Nov^ the best she can do is 108. DOUGLAS MacLean, after a period of managing stars, blooms again as an actor in a Paramount sound picture named "The Carnation Kid." His leading woman is Frances Lee; and important in the cast is Francis McDonald. E. Mason Hopper will direct. RUTH Chatterton, famous as a Broadway actress for her part in "Daddy Long-Legs," makes her first screen lx)w as leading woman to Emil Jannings in his forthcoming production. "Sins of the Fathers." Ludwig Berger will direct them. The author is a young graduate of Columbia University with a penchant for phonetic spelling: Norman Burnstine. married to him than Carl L.aemmle, father of Carl Laemmle, Jr. and president of Universal Pictures, signed him as special representative. Paul will set forth soon for a business tour of Europe that will last a year. DOROTHY Revier's fide to prominence bids fair to rival Paul's. Here she is all at once co-starring with Jack Holt in "Submarine," and signed, too, for the second lead in Douglas Fairbanks' new picture, "The Man With the Iron Mask. ' ANOTHER of those RviatioD uniform photoplays, ' 'Hell's Angels." takes the air soon, equipped with both sound and color. The usual cast — Ben Lyon, Greta Nissen, James Hall and Thelma Todd — will enact the story. This concerns, we believe, some part of the world war H' [earse and rehearse seems to be the slogan upon which Richard Wallace has patterned his career. Formerly an undertaker, he is now director of a new Gary Cooper -Nancy Carroll film to be known as ' 'Shop Worn Angel." ENGAGEMENTS of all softs fall thick and fast to the lot of Paul Kohner. No sooner did Mary Philbin contract to be The biggest quack in Hollywood: Lon Chancy as a sideshow freak, half-man, half-duck, in a forthcoming picture entitled "West of Zanzibar." EVERY lime Walter Byron, recently imported from London by Samuel Goldwyn, looks at a picture of Gloria Swansbn, he starts singing ' '1 gotta go where you £u-e." This melodious exuberance is inspired by the fact that he has been engaged as leading man to her in "The Swamp." The picture will be directed by its author, Eric von Stroheim. M' I ARY Brian has entered .and Louise Brooks departed the cast of the forthcoming Paramount production of the S. S. Van Dine detective storv, "The Canary Murder Case." And in t^is, too, William Powell has for the first time in many moons a favorable character to show the worlrl. He will enact the part of Philo Vance, the suave sleuth. JIM TuLLY, author, playwright and press agent ex-officio to John Gilbert, will, now that he has completed tit ling his own story, "Beggars of Life, ' go to England and points east. In the course of his journeys he intends to interview George Bernard Shaw, Freud, Maxim Gorky, the former Kaiser, and, if he can find lime for it, Mussolini. ANY story having to do with the Lone Woff . requires Bert Lytell, who has already scored in nearly a score of them. He will have the principal but not the title role in"The Lone Wolf's Daughter," being made by Columbia, with Frank Capra directing. CLYDE Cook and Clive Brook are two somewhat simileu* and well-known names of players chosen for parts in Paramount's film version of ' 'Interierence," the novel by Roland Pertwee. Other players in this will he Evelyn Brent, Doris Kenyon, and William Powell. The director is Lothar Mendes. THE respect with which the , Paramount officials must regard the personality of Adolphe Menjou is expressed in the lact that he will appear next in a picture written by Ernest Vajda and duected by Frank Tultle. IN support of Ramon Novarro in "Gold Braid." M. G. M. has selected Gardener James, Eddie Nugent, Ralph Graves and Carroll Nye. George Hill will direct. AFTER a separation of ten years, since the making of 'Passion," Emil Jannings and Ernst Lubitsch have again worked together as star and director in the production of "The Patriot." MARIAN Nixon is leading woman to Richard Barthelmess in nis newest photoplay, "Out of the Ruins." The supporting cast comprises Robert Frazer, Bodil Rosmg. Emile Chautard, Eugene Pallette and Rose Dione. "npHE Butterfly Chaser" is X the name of Harold Lloyd's next picture, a speakie. AMONG the stage players that Fox has engaged for participation in Movietone subjects are Gilbert Emery, Lumsden Hare, Clifford Dempsey, Clark and McCullough, Sylvia Field, Paul Fung, Ben Holmes, Arnold Lucy and Helen Twelvetrees. BEN Lyon, Antonio Moreno and Martha Sleeper are three of the principals in FBO's "Air Legion Glennon. The director is Bert GEORGE K. Arthur returns from Scotland to co-star with Karl Dane in ' 'AH at Sea," a story written for the screen by Byron Morgan.