Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)

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28 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 31, 1927 Production Activities In West Coast Studios United Artists Warner Bros. Fox Films Paramount United Artists Fox Films ' I 'HERE will be little if anything doing at the United Artists’ studio until about the middle of January with the completion of John Barrymore’s current picture. Barrymore is the only star working at the present time. His story, with a Russian background, will be released under the title of “The Tempest.” CAMILLA HORN, German star signed by Joseph M. Schenck several months ago, plays the feminine lead. She is the third actress to be cast for the leading role. The others were Vera Veronina and Dorothy Sebastian. Illness prevented Miss Veronina from playing the part and demands for Miss Sebastian at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer necessitated her relinquishing of the role. Warner Bros. AILITH THE three-month shut» » down now in force at the Warner Brothers studio, there is little activity in evidence. Michael Curtiz is the only director now in actual production and he is just adding the finishing touches to “Tenderloin,” in which Dolores Costello is starred. THE VITAPHONE sequences of “Tenderloin” start right after Christmas. Conrad Nagel has the male lead and Mitchell Lewis, George Stone, Fred Kelcey, Pat Hartigan, Dan Wolheim and Dorothy Vernon are the other featured players. Melville Crossman did the story, while the scenario is by E. T. Lowe. . LUPE VELEZ, the beautiful Mexican girl, seen here with Rod La Rocque, the Pathe-De Mille star, will remain in Cecil B. De Mille’s pictures. WITH “THE ESCAPE” now in production, there are all told, eight companies busily engaged at the Fox studios. Edmund Lowe has also started on his latest starring vehicle, “Dressed To Kill,” with Irving Cummings directing. The story deals with the underworld and is an original by Bill Conselman and Cummings. Howard Estabrook is responsible for the continuity. MARY ASTOR has been borrowed from First National to play the feminine lead opposite Lowe. Ben Bard, Bob Perry, Joe Brown, and John Kelly are in the supporting cast. \T IRGINIA VALLI is starred in ▼ “The Escape,” with William Russell in the featured male role. Nancy Drexel, George Meeker, William Demarest and James Gordon are in the supporting cast. Richard Rosson is directing from a scenario by Paul Scofield. The screen play was adapted from Paul Armstrong’s famous stage play dealing with the underworld. Dolores del rio is back at the Fox studio as the star in 1 “The Red Dancer of Moscow.” This is her final picture under her Fox contract. RAOUL WALSH, director of “What Price Glory,” is again directing the Mexican star. Of special interest is the knowledge that Charles Farrell, one of the most popular male screen players, is appearing opposite Miss Del Rio. Others in the cast of this Russian drama are, Leila Hyams, Andreas de Segurola and Ivan Lenoff. The story is an original by H. H. Gates and Eleanor Brown. Pierre Codings did the continuity. OIS MORAN is being starred in “Love Hungry,” an original story by Victor Heerman and Randall H. Faye. Heerman is also act j ing in the role of director, while Faye doubled up and turned out the scenario. “ C OFT LIVING” stars Madge ^ Bellamy and is the usual type of light comedy that has made Miss Bellamy one of the screen’s leading box office attractions. Johnny Mack Brown, ex-football star and now movie actor, has the male lead opposite Miss Bellamy. In the supporting cast are Mary Duncan, Joyce Compton and Thomas Jefferson. The story is an original by Grace Alack, while Francis Agnew did the scenario. THE OTHER three companies in production were covered in a recent issue of the Moving Picture World. They are : “A Girl in Every Port,” starring Victor AIcLaglen ; “Lady Christilinda,” with Janet Gaynor, and “The Desert Whirlwind.” Paramount “ PARTNERS IN CRIME” now r in production at the Paramount studio brings the two Lasky corned) aces, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton to the fore in a different type of comedy. They are discarding the nondescript clothing of previous pictures and are playing their characters straight in the current picture. The story is by Grover Jones and Gilbert Pratt. Frank Strayer is directing. William Powell, Jack Luden, Arthur Housman and Albert Roccardi appear in the supporting parts. T ANE CHANDLER plays the -Lv featured supporting role opposite Clara Bow in her latest starring production, “Red Hair.” Lawrence Grant, William Austin. William (Bill) Irving, Jacqueline Gadson and Claude King are the others in the cast. The story is by Elinor Blyn, the adaptation by Percy Heath and Lloyd Corrigan and the continuity by Agnes Rrand Leahy. “Red Hair” is a Clarence Badger production. “Feel Aly Pulse,” starring Bebe Daniels; “Honky Tonk,” starring George Bancroft, and “Abie’s Irish Rose” were covered in an earlier issue of Moving Picture World. Blue Loaned To M-G-M Alonte Blue. Warner Brothers’ star, has been loaned to AletroGoldwyn-Mayer for the featured male role in “Southern Skies,” which is to be filmed in the South Seas by Robert Flaherty. Blue sails on December 30, and will be gone approximately three months. NANCY DREXEL (formerly Dorothy Kitchen) is now under contract to Fox, and will play in “The Escape,” and in "The Four Devils,” which Murnay will direct. NORMA TALMADGE and “The Dove,” her first United Artists picture, were honored by the U. S. Air Mail Service, in Hollywood, last Friday, through the christening up of a mail plane “The Dove.” Miss Talmadge placed a print of the picture on board “The Dove for New York, via Chicago. The picture opens today at the United Artists — Rialto, New York City.