Paramount Around the World (1927)

Page 20 Hollywood CLARA’S STUDYING PERSIAN Proving that slie truly is possessed of an internati(.)nal mind, Clara P>o\v, pre-eminent Paramount pulchritude personality, offers proof in the form of a Fourteenth Century Persian edition of "A 'Pale of 'I'wo Cities.” The fact of the matter is that an admirer in I'eheran, Persia, was so charmed with her work that he wrote a Icmg poem in Persian to her, made it up into a snperh piece of hookmanship, illustrated it with delicate and fascinating drawings, and posted it to the star. Needless to say she has sent one of the above i)hotographs and a charming letter to the Persian. EXTRA GIRL GETS IMPORTANT ROLE IN DIX PICTURE. Not since P>etty Bronson was chosen for the role of Peter l^an several years ago, has an unknown extra girl received such an imi>cirtant opportunity from Paramount as was announced for Gladys Belmont, a seventeen year old girl from Puehlo, Colorado, who was signed for the principal feminine role opposite Richard Dix in "Redskin,” the Indian picture which is being filmed under the direction of Victor Schertzinger. Miss Belmont, who has been in Hollywood as a screen extra for a short time, was the wdnner over 463 other contestants tested for the role of Corn Blossom. Louise Brooks, slated originally for the part, will play in “The Canar>Murder Case.” CLIVE BROOK CAST IN BRITISH EPIC OF COURAGE Clive Brook has been assigned to a highly dramatic role in the Schoedsack-Cooper adventure picture, “The Four Feathers,” from A. W. Mason’s novel, upon which the producers of “Chang” and “Grass” spent a year in the depths of the Sudan filming certain thrilling sequences about which a cloak of complete concealment has been thrown. Brook will impersonate the blind lieutenant Durante of the story. Heralds the Paramount Product HARRY CORDING IN NEW JANNINGS PICTURE. Harry Cording, the player wdio murdered Emil Jannings in "The Patriot,” has been signed for an important role in t h e German star’s forthcoming Paramo u n t picture, “Sins of the Fathers.” FLORENCE VIDOR COFEATURED WITH WALLACE BEERY Florence Vidor’s fine performance in “The Patriot” found its reward in her assignment by Jesse L. Lasky to play the chief feminine role in “Tong War,” in which she will be co-featured with Wallace Beery. Miss Vidor is cast as a beautiful concert singer, while Beery will be a white leader of the tongs. Work has started under the I direction of William Wellman, who made “Wings,” “The Legion of the Condemned,” “Ladies of the Mob” and “Beggars of Life.” “Tong War” will mark Miss Vidor's first work before the camera following her marriage to Jascha Heifetz, famous violinist, with whom she is shown above. EUROPE RECLAIMS BERGER FOR ONE PICTURE Europe will tcmi>orarily reclaim one of its best kiu)wn motion picture directors when Ludwig Berger returns to Germain' and France early this fall to film one i)roduction. Berger, who is now under contract to Paramount, will leave for Europe as soon as he finishes directing Emil Jannings in “.Sins of the Feathers.” The European director has been granted a four months’ leave of absence by Paramount, The jiicture Berger is to direct in Europe is being made Ijy his own corporation and will, for the most [lart, be filmed at the Ufa studios in Berlin, although some scenes will be taken in Paris. Dr, Hans iMueller, ’Elxtr'&.l CLARA BOW REMAINS WITH PARAMOUNT Clara Bow, “It” Girl Supreme, will remain with Paramount ftw several more years. She has just signed a new long term contract. BACLANOVA. This fiery lady of the films, whose every performance is sheer magnificence, is one of the greatest pieces of dramatic property possessed by Paramount. She deserves the Foreign Legion’s utmost support. See her in “Forgotten Faces,” “Avalanche” and “The Docks of New York” and you’ll know why. noted (icrman playwright, is the author of the story and screen play. As his star, Berger will ha\ c Mady Ghristians, the girl who took the jiart of the princess in his best known European success, “ The Waltz Dream.” Gustav Froelich has been cast opijosite Miss Christians. Because of important assignments with Paramount, Berger made unavailing efforts to postpone the jiroduction of his European picture, he said. The vehicle had already been sold in all countries, however, and the director found it impossible to extend the release date. "Sins of the Fathers” is Berger's second directorial assignment with Paramount. Prior to that picture he directed Pola Negri’s “A Woman h'rom Moscow.” I THEODORE. Grand old Theodore Roberts, walking again after two years of illness, pays the Paramount Studio in Hollywood a call. Clara Bow, Malcolm St. Clair and Marshall Neilan are his hosts. VAJDA’S BROTHER "WORKING FOR PARAMOUNT Victor Voyda, brother of Ernest Vajda, has been selected by B. P. Schulherg to act as associate producer on the first Maurice Chevalier vehicle to he made by Paramount. He will act in the same capacity with the Adolphe Menjou production unit. Voyda was a stage director in Hungary before coming to America. He changed the spelling of his name to conform to the English pronunciation, while his scenarist brother retains the Hungarian version. The Chevalier picture is expected to go into production early in October, as soon as possible after the arrival of the French music hall star in this country. SHOW PHOTOS BY WIRE IN THE “CARNATION KID” An interesting novelty among the new and startling modern inventions is seen in “The Carnation Kid,” the new Christie-Douglas MacLean production, being made for Paramount, when a photo is sent by wire as a part of the plot of the picture. Arrangements were made with the American Bell Telephone Company which regularly uses this form of transmission to show a picture being received over the telegraph wires a very few seconds after it is transmitted in another city. The occasion for the use of telephoto in “The Carnation Kid” is a point in the story when the police get a picture of the real Carnation Kid by telegraph. The motion picture scenes will show the picture being received and the apparatus in actual work. FOLKS TO BE SEEN IN COMING PARAMOUNT PICTURES The cast of the Cooper-Shoedsack picture "The Four Feathers,” in which Richard Arlen, Clive Brook, Fay Wray and Noah Beerj' have leads, includes Theodore Von Eltz, .\rnold Kent and Noble Johnson. “Redskin,” starring Richard Dix with Louise Brooks in support, will also have Paul Panzer in the cast. "The Shop Worn Angel” has gone into production, with Gary Cooper, Nancy Carroll and Paul Lukas heading the cast. Lewis Milestone, who made “Two Arabian Knights” and “The Racket,” is to make one more picture for Paramount, Louis Wolheim is the only member of the cast named to date. Paul Guertzman, Mr. Lasky’s Parisian juvenile ‘discovery,’ has his first role in .Adolphe Menjou's current picture, “His Private Life.” The cast of this picture also includes Kathryn Carver, Margaret Livingston and Eugene Palette. For “The Wolf of Wall Street” George Bancroft will have two leading women, Baclanova and another star. Charles Lane, character veteran, has a prominent part in “The Canary Murder Case.” James Hall, Jean .Arthur, Ruth Taylor support William Powell in the picture.