Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1928)

142 Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section Learn Piano iJjPi/Z^'V Quickly by Ear Beginners and advanced students learn quickly at home — in spare time. Wonderful Niagara Method clearly shows you how. Complete course 20 lessons. 10 years successful teaching. By R. C. JAMES How I used to wish that I could sit down at the piano and pour out the golden syncopation of American melody, Hkc the jazz piano players I had heard. How I used to wish that I could be the popular one in every crowd. But I could not play a note. Niagara Method Showed Me The Way Then somewhere — just as you are reading this — I read of the Niagara Method which makes piano playing wonderfully simple. I sent for Director Wright's hook '"The Niagara Secret." 1 read the book, and I knew it was right. I followed Director Wright's principles, and in no time 1 had caught on to his ideas. So Simple — So Easy — So Delightful And the best part of it all is that there is nothing hard about the Niagara Method. 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NIAGAF WIthou Xame_ Slreet_ rttii •TTI nrnr T7il A SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 242 Clevebnd Avenue Niagi<ra Falls, N. Y. tohllc-iti.m m:ill r^^f yiiiirbnok "The Xiacara I eucl.Me 100 r..r Ijuuk 'Huw to Kiitertain at .<;/«•/. 1 PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS SENo'nO°MOnIy'^ Joit BOW LEGS AND KNOCK KNEES Women and Children— Worn with Comfort cither day or night or both nnd 1« entirely Invisible. Send Ten Cents Coin or StumpH for actual Photographs, sent In plain wrapper. OnTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE Dept. 60 _ 1032 I>oew State Bldg. I-os Angeles, Cal. 7 Casts of Current Photoplays Complete for every picture reviewed in this issue "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" — P.\RAMOUNT. — From the story by Anita Loos. Scenario by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Directed by Malcolm St. Clair. The cast: Lorelei Lee, Ruth Taylor; Dorothy Shaw, Alice White; Giis Eisnian, Ford Sterling; Henry Spoffard, Holmes Herbert; Sir Francis Beekman, Mack Swain ; Lady Beekntaii, Emily Fitzroy; Mrs. Spoffard, Trixie Friganza; Miss Chapman, Blanche Friderici; Robert, Ed Faust; Louis, Eugene Borden; Lorelei's Mother, Margaret Seddon; Lorelei's Grandfather, Luke Cosgrave; Judge, Chester Conklin ; Mr. Jennings, York Sherwood; Ltdu, Mildred Boyd. "CHICAGO" — Pathe-De Mille. — From the play by Maurine Watkins. Adapted by Lenore J. Coffee. Directed by Frank Urson. Photography by Peverell Marley. The cast: Roxie Hart, Phyllis Haver; Amos Hart, Victor V'arconi; Casley, Eugene Pallette; Katie, Virginia Bradford; Police Sergeant, Clarence Burton; District Attorney, Warner Richmond; Reporter, T. Roy Barnes; Photographer, Sidney D'AIbrook; Amos' Partner, Otto Lederer; Matron, May Robson; Velma, Julia Faye; Flynn, Robert Edeson. "THE ENEMY" — M.-G.-M. — From the story by Channing Pollock. Adapted by Willis Goldbeck. Directed by Fred Niblo. Photography by Oliver Marsh. The cast: Pauli Arndt, Lillian Gish; Carl Behrend, Ralph Forbes; Bruce Cordon, Ralph Emerson; Professor Arndt, Frank Currier; August Behrend, George Fawcett; Mitzi Wifikelmann, Fritzi Ridgeway; Frits Winkelmann, John S. Peters; Jan, Karl Dane; Baruska, Polly Moran; Kurt, Billy Kent Sheafer. "GET YOUR MAN "—Paramount.— From the story by Louis Verneuil. Adapted by Hope Loring. Directed by Dorothy Arzner. The cast: Nancy Worthington, Clara Bow; Robert de Bellecontre, Charles Rogers; Dtic de Bellecontre, Josef Swickard; Marquis de Villeneuve, Harvey Clarke; Simone de Villeneuve, Josephine Dunn; Mrs. Worthington, Frances Raymond. "THE LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED" — Par.\mount. — From the story by John Monk Saunders. Scenario by John Monk Saunders. Directed by William A. Wellman. Photography by Henry Gerrard. The cast : Christine Charteris, Fay Wray; Gale Price, Gary Cooper; Byron Dashwood, Barry Norton ; Charles Holabird, Lane Chandler; Gouzalo Vasques, Francis McDonald; Von Hohendorff, Albert Conti. "THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS"— First Nation.\l. — From the story by Peter B. Kyne. Directed by Charles J. Brabin. The cast: Bryce Cardigan, Milton Sills; Shirley Pennington, Doris Kenyon; Buck Ogilvy, Arthur Stone; John Cardigan, (jeorge Fawcett; Randeau, Paul Hurst; Pennington, Charles Sellon; Felice, Yola d'Avril; Big Boy, Phil Brady. "THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS" — Pathe-De Mille. — From the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Adapted by Harry Carr and John Farrow. Directed by Elmer Clifton. The cast: Capt. David Slocjim. Sam De Grasse; Gale Slocum, Virginia Bradford; John Hazzard. Francis Ford; John Hazzard, Jr., Frank Marion; Singapore Jack, Alan Hale; Deborah Slocum, Ethel Wales; The Bride, Josephine Norman; Zeke, Milton Holmes; Cabin Boy, James Aldine; First Mate, Budd Fine. y advertisement in rilOTorl..\Y .M.\GAZINE Is guarante "THE LOVE MART"— First National.— From the story by Edward Childs Carpenter. Adapted by Benjamin Glazer. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. The cast: Antoinette Frobelle, Billie Dove; Victor Jallot, Gilbert Roland; Poupet, Raymond Turner; Capt. Remy, Noah Beery; Jean Delicafo, Armand Kaliz; Louis Frobelle, Emil Chautard; Fleming, Boris Karloff; Caresse, Mattie Peters. "LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT" — M.-G.-M. — From the story by Tod Browning. Adapted by Waldemar Young. Direqted by Tod Browning. Photography by Merritt B. Gerstad. The cast: Burke, Lon Chaney; Lucille Balfour, Marceline Day; Sir James Hamlin, Henry B. Walthall; Butler, Percy Williams; Arthur Hibbs, Conrad Nagel ; Miss Smithson, Polly Moran ; Bat Girl, Edna Tichenor; The Stranger, Claude King. "WEST POINT" — M.-G.-M, — From the story by Raymond L. Shrock. Continuity by Raymond L. Shrock. Directed by Edward Sedgwick. The cast: Bill Wheeler, William Haines; Betty Channing, Joan Crawford; Sperrv, Neil Neely; Tex McNeil, William Bakewell; Bob Chase, Ralph Emerson; Hugh Anderson, Edward Clayton; Dana Stephens, Baury Bradford Richardson; Captain Munson, Leon Kellar; Coach Towers, Major Raymond G. Moses, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. ; Major Mullens, Major Philip B. Fleming, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. "FRENCH DRESSING" — First National. — From the story by Adelaide Heilbron. Directed by Allan Dwan. The cast: Phillip Grey, H. B.VVarner; Cynthia Grey, Lois Wilson; Henri de Briac, Clive Brook; Peggy Nash, Lilyan Tashman. "STAND AND DELIVER" — PatheDe Mille. — From the story by Sada Cowan. Directed by Donald Crisp. Photography by David Abel. The cast: Roger Norman, Rod La Rocque; Jania, Lupe Velez; Chika, Warner Oland; Capt. Dargis, Louis Natheau.x; Patch Eye, James Dime; Muja, A. Palasthy; Pietro, Frank Lanning; Blind Operator, Bernard Siegel; Commanding Officer, Clarence Burton; Krim, Charles Stevens. "GALLAGHER"— Pathe-De Mille.— From the story by Richard Harding Davis. Adapted by Elliott Clawson. Directed by Elmer Clifton. Photography by Lucieii Andriot. The cast: Gallagher, Junior Coghlan; Callahan, Harrison Ford; Clarissa, Elinor Fair; McGifity, Wade Boteler; City Editor, E. H. Calvert; Burglar, Ivan Lebedeff. "SERENADE " — Par.\mount. — From the story by Ernest Vajda. Scenario by Ernest Vajda. Directed by H. D'Abbadie D'Arrast. The cast: Franz, a Composer, Adolphe Menjou; Gretchen, His Inspiration, Kathryn Carver; Josef Brucktier, Lawrence Grant; The Dancer, Lina Basquette; Crelchen's Mother, Martha Franklin. "BECKY"— M.-G.-M.— From the story by Rayner Seelig. Scenario by Marion Constance Blackton. Directed by John F. McCarthy. Photography by John Arnold. The cast: Rebecca O'Brien McCloskey, Sally O'Neil; Dan Scarlett, Owen Moore; John Carroll Estabrook, Harry Crocker; Nan Estabrook, Gertrude Olmsted; /mwg Speigelberg, Mack Swain; Boris Abelard, Claude King,