Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

January 22, 1927 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 273 Scenes from “Sensation tor was Lois Weber. Seekers,” a Universal Jewel featuring Billie Dove, Huntley Gordon and Roymond Bloomer. The direcThe story concerns a modern girl and the events of a thrilling life in society here and abroad. Gretta Nissen Lead With Tom Meighan Greta NLssen has been added to the east of Thomas Melghan’s latest Paramount picture, “Blind Alleys,” to play the role of his . bewildered . Cuban bride, the leading feminine role. Her selection by Associate Producer William LeBaron ended a search which had been going on for nearly a month. Miss Nissen is a distinct Nordic blonde, but her hair will photograph black.L A special camera test was given her late last week. As soon as Director Prank Tuttle > and Mr. Meighan saw it they agreed she would be suited for the role. Mr. Cell a r i> n confirmed their choice. Walsh Prepares to Make “Carmen” With “What Price Glory” on its way, Raoul Walsh is preparing to make another big picture at Fox Films West Coast Studios. It will be an elaborate version of “Carmen.” Edwin C. Hill, representative of Fox Company, has been in Spain for four months collecting genuine wardrobe for this picture. Dolores Del Rio will play Carmen. Hill has returned to New York where he is preparing data gathered abroad. Later he will go back to the west coast studios. Camera Work Progressing On Universal’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” t<T TNCLE TOM’S CABIN,” adapted from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the most famous play ever produced on the stage, is being made by Harry Pollard, one of Universal’s directorial aces, and one of the foremost directors in the industry. Uncle Tom is portrayed by James B. Lowe, a negro actor of excellent reputation ; Little Eva by Virginia Gray; Simon Legree by George Siegmann ; George Harris by Arthur Edmund Carewe ; Lawyer Marks by Lucien Littlefield, and Liza by Margarita Fischer. Other outstanding characters in this classic by such players as Mona First National Has Five in Preparation Colleen Moore’s “Orchids and Ermine,” Corinne Griffith’s “Three Hours,” Harry Langdon’s “Long Pants,” and the A. L. Rockett production of “An Affair of the Follies” (formerly “Three in Love”), constitute the cutting-room quota of First National on the West Coast. The Robert T. Kane special, temporarily known as “The Song of The Dragon,” is being cut at the Cosmopolitan Studio in New York. Ray, Little Harry, Seymour Zeliff, Vivian Oakland, Jack Mower, Gertrude Astor, Eileen Manning, Gertrude Howard and others. Pollard took his company from Los Angeles to the Mississippi River basin to get plantation scenes and sequences along the river front and aboard the oldfashioned river steamboats. The boat used by the Uncle Tom company was the Kate Adams, the only remaining sidewheeler on the river and one of the most famous boats of its day. This craft was burned to the water’s edge last week, shortly after the Universal company returned to California. Zanuck Appointed Womenfs Assistant Darryl Francis Zanuck, responsible for many of the biggest Warner scenarios, has been appointed assistant to Jack Warner, production manager of the company. Zanuck won an enviable reputation for himself as the author of some of the most successful of the Warner scripts, among them “The Limited Mail.” “Accross The Pacific,” etc., etc. He will continue to write scenarios, and supervise productions. “Paradise AJley” Has Fine Prologue Raphael Odierno, noted musical director, has prepared a special prologue for the latest Chadwick release, “Sunshine of Paradise Alley.” The prologue will be produced simultaneously in several New York theatres. Through an arrangement effected by Chadwick Pictures Corporation, Odieruo prepares special prologues on all of that company's First Division Pictures. Complete prologues are offered to all exhibitors within short distances of New York. Out-of-town showmen may obtain complete working scenarios from which they may produce their own stage presentations. Adamson Assigned to Adapt Elks ’ Film Ewart Adamson has been assigned the work of adapting to the screen John Chapman Hilder’s story, “Hello Bill,” which F. B. O. will dedicate to America’s Elkdom. Hilder is the managing editor of the Elks Magazine and certainly qualified for the work of writing an original on this subject. The story has been officially okayed by those high in Elkdom and Joseph P. Kennedy, president of F. B. O., is taking personal interest.