The Moving picture world (May 1926-June 1926)

May 8, 1926 Moving Picture World 119 Stronger with Announcement Headed by "Special Eleven" The burden of the M-G-M program will emphasize the company's outstanding stars which are Lillian Gish, Ramon Novarro, Marion Davies, Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Buster Keaton and Mae Murray. Pictures Soon to Be Expected from M.-G.-M. Following are the pictures which have either been completed, or are now in production at the studios or scheduled for production shortly : Ramon Novarro in "Romance," a novel by Joseph Conrad; Norma Shearer in "The Waning Sex," from the play by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Norma Shearer also will appear in "Free Souls," by Adela Rogers St. John, directed by John M. Stahl; in "Polly of the Circus," by Margaret Mayo, directed by Tod Browning; and in "Upstage," a story of vaudeville life by Walter de Leon; Mae Murray will appear in "Puppets," by Benjamin Glazer ; "Altars of Desire," by Maria Thompson Davies, directed by Christy Cabanne, and in "Show Business," by Thyra Samter Winslow as well as "Laurels," by Ernest Pascal ; John Gilbert will star in "Twelve Miles Out"; Lon Chaney to star in three pictures to be selected; Buster Keaton starring in "Battling Butler," directed by Buster Keaton, with Sally O'Neil; Marion Davies starring in "The Red Mill," famous operetta, music by Victor Herbert, adaptation and continuity by Frances Marion ; Marion Davies in "Naughty Marietta," from the stage play; Marion Davies in "Polly Preferred," by Guy Bolton; John Gilbert in "The Flesh and the Devil," with Greta Garbo, directed by Clarence Brown from Herman Sudermann's novel "The Undying Past," and "Mary of Vassar." Other Cosmopolitan productions besides those starring Miss Davies will be : "The Flaming Forest," from the novel by James Oliver Curwood, continuity by Waldemar Young, directed by Reginald Barker; "The Understanding Heart," by Peter Kyne, "Captain Salvation," by Frederick William Wallace. Many All-Star Productions Listed All Star Pictures : "The Little Journey," by Rachel Crothers, directed by Harry Millarde ; "The Boy Friend," adapted from John Alexander Kirkpatrick's play "The Book of Charm," directed by Monta E«ll, with Marceline Day and John Harron; "Blarney," adapted from the story "In Praise of James Carabino," by Don Byrne, adaptation by Albert Lewin, directed by Marcel de Sano, with Renee Adoree and Ralph Graves; "There You Are," based on the novel by F. Hugh Herbert, directed by Edward Sedgwick, with Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts and George Fawcett ; "Ordeal," a novel by Dale Collins; "I Can Do It," an original by Max Marcin ; "Heaven on Earth," directed by Phil Rosen, with Renee Adoree, Conrad Nagel and Antonio D'Algy ; "Women Love Diamonds," by Carey Wilson, adaptation and continuity by Willis Goldbeck," directed by Monta Bell ; "Frisco Sal," an original by Edmund Goulding; "Three Twins," by Charles Dicksen, directed by Lew Lipton ; "Tin Hats," an original by Edward Sedgwick, directed by Sedgwick, with Owen Moore, Bert Roach and Claire Windsor;; "Shadow Lane," written and directed by Edmund Goulding; "The Gav Deceiver," adapted by Benjamin Glazer. based on Leo Ditrichstein's stage success LOUIS B. MAYER Production chief of Meiro-GoldwynMayer, recognized internationally as an outstanding authority on motion picture production "Toto," adapted from "Patachon," written by Maurice Hennequin and Felix Duqesnel, directed by John M. Stahl, with Lew Cody, Carmel Myers, Roy D'Arcy, Dorothy Phillips and Marceline Day; "Love's Blindness," an Elinor Glyn production, story, scenario and personal supervision by Elinor Glyn, with Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Lilyan Tashman and Sam de Grasse, and "The Callahans and the Murphys," from the story by Kathleen Norris. UFA productions : "A Waltz Dream," adapted from the famous comic opera by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Doermann, music by Oscar Strauss and from the novel, "Nux, the Prince Consort," by Dr. Hans Mueller, directed by Ludwig Berger, with Mady Christians, Willy Fritsch and Xenia All Pepped Up and Rarin' to Qol "Come 9Levenl" REFLECTING ALL THE ENTHUSIASM STORED UP BY THE TERRIFIC DRIVE OF LAST YEAR — M.-G.-M. convention at Hotel Pennsylvania. Standing behind the speaker's table are Felix Feist, Marcus Loew, Nicholas M. Schenck and Major Edivard Bowes.