Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

Eleventh Hour Flashes From the Film Studios their production, which had the working title of "Tomorrow." The cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Lawrence Gray, John St. Polis, and Robert Edeson. TOSH O sti ■iEPH Hergesheimer is writing the story and dialogue for Ronald Colman's next picture. "TpHE Flying Ensign" has been chosen -' as the final title for Ramon Novarro's new picture, a story of aviation, which was formerly called "Gold Braid." Anita Page has a leading rdle. T AVRA. L.\ F*L.\NTE had to take -*— ' a scream test for "The Last Warning," an adaptation of the stage play of the same name based on the book by Wadsworth Camp, called "The House of Fear." She screams as well as she screens. TT/ESLEY Ruggles has been ^^ selected to direct "The Shannons of Broadway," the screen adaptation of the Broadway success which will also star the Gleasons in the screen rdles. ■p.^QLEL Torres, who played -*-* the feminine lead in "White Shadows in The South Seas," has been signed on a long-term contract by Metro-Goldwj'n-Mayer. Anna Q. Nilsson has returned ■^* to screen work after having been laid up for six months with a broken hip, which she got in a fall from her horse. She has not entirely recovered but manages to get about for her scenes in "Blockade" for FBO. Wii,LiA.M J. Locke, The English author, is to do an original screen story for Norma Talmadge. It is reported that Joseph ^L Schenck will pay fifty thousand dollars for it. NORM.\N Trevor, stage and screen actor, who has been out of pictures for the last six months, due to a nervous breakdown, has returned to film work and will ■pvoROTHY M.^CKAiLL and Jack Mulhall -*-^ will do team work together again in another picture for First National, "Children of the Ritz." "TUMMOX," the Fannie Hurst stor\-, is -'-^ now being prepared for production at United Artists. Herbert Brenon is the director in charge, but the cast has not, as yet, been assembled. Tan '^ ti An exhibition of shear bravery on the part of Josephine Dunn, made perfect by the fact that she has, about the turkey's neck, a scissors hold ADOLPH Menjoc is to do "The ■'*■ Concert," the stage success of the late Leo Dietrichstein, for his next picture. He is not in favor of the talkies. T^olores del Rio and Edwin Carewe will ■*-^ be back from Eurofje shortly to start work on "Evangeline," which is to be filmed in the East. "\Trs. Tom Mix has declared that she is ^^^ not divorcing Tom, who it is refMDrted has settled eight -hundred thousand dollars on her. 'TPoM Reed, the title wxiter, has a new ■* contract for six months with Universal. R ALPH Graves has the lead in "Flying Marine" for Columbia. ■PNorcLAS Fairbanks will use a good deal ^~^ of dramatic soliloquy for his The Iron Mask." This is the first time anything of the sort has been done in a talkie. " "^Toah's Ark," the big Warner picture, ■'-^ had its premiere in Hollywood on November i . appear in "The College Coquette" for Columbia pictures. "Dauline Garon and Lincoln Stedman -* have been added to the cast of Paramount's "Redskin," the Richard Dix picture. ■Q ARBARA Bedford is to appear in "Scarlet •*-' Seas" with Richard Barthelmess. ■ Norma Talm.vdge will appear in print shortly. She is contributing the chapter on motion pictures in "An Outline of Careers for Women," which is just published by Doubleday Doran and Company. It is one of forty-three contributed by distinguished women, leaders in their professions or business. ATay Mc.\voy will co-star with Monte ■'-'-* Blue in "No Defense." ture, which has gone under the name of "Street Fair," has been retitled " Christine. "Charles Morton, Rudolph Schildkraut are in the cast also. William K. Howard is directing. ■XyfARGUERITE DE LA MoTTE ■'--' had her jaw dislocated in a fight scene by Dorothy Revier, the villainess in "The Iron Mask." Dorothy packs a nastywallop and even the Swiss guards hesitate in approaching her. A NOTHER catastrophe in "The ■^ Iron Mask" — one of twohundred horses galloping'through the Village of St. Germain, threw a shoe, which struck the tripod of one of the cameras, causing a good deal of damage, and narrowly missing the right eye of Henry Sharp, the chief camera man. TT'iCTOR McLaglen's next pic" ture will be called "Captain Lash." TpHE Fred Niblo picture star■*• ring Joan Crawford, which had the working title of "Adrienne Lecou\Teur," has been changed to the more poetic title "Dream of Love." ToHN Gilbert's latest picture, "The " Masks of the Devil," directed by Victor Seastrom, has just been finished. Tt is reported that Pola Negri has been ■*• signed by Path6 to star in three talking pictures. The a ■p"MiL Jannings's next will ' be "T •*— ' Seeder," for Paramount. It's to be circus story on the type of "Variety," his great European success. ■puPERT JixiAN is to direct Ben Hecht's XV "The Doomed Regiment" for Metro(joldwyn-Mayer. It is a thrilling murder mystery story concerning twelve young British officers who are killed one after another in a London fog. Greta H/ Hale, ha lARTMEN, the wife of .Man has taken up her screen work again after a lapse of six years. She is to appear in "She Goes to War," a picture directed by Henry King for Inspiration. 1INA Basqcette has the leading femir -' part opp)osite Jean Hersholt in "' iinme 'The New Generation," a story by Fannie Hurst, being made at Columbia Studios. /^HARLiE Chaplin has chosen Virginia ^^-' Cherrill, a beautiful unknown blonde, for his lead in "City Lights." 8