Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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G[ Dolores Costello and Conrad Kiagel while ma\ing 'Tenderloin.'' Right now Arthur is taking flying lessons along with Sue Carol who will play the feminine lead in the picture. — o — Bernie Fineman at Paramount startled me with the declaration that the biggest part of the year has been awarded to an absolute unknown. It turned out to be Jewel Barnes, a six ' ton elephant who is a part of the cast in Adolphe Menjou's Super of the Cayety. We who pay our sixtyfive cents and settle down to enjoy the story and acting of a motion picture, scarcely ever realize the difficulies of the smallest item in making the film. For instance, with all the years I have spent around the studios I didn't know until this month that the secret of how to photograph a diamond has long baffled cameramen. John Nickolaus, head of the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer laboratory, tells me that pinpoints of li^ht from the facets of the stone almost invariably have caused 'fog1 or halation in the film. With Cedric Gibbons, art director for the studio, John designed a special stone this month, cutting so that plane surfaces predominated, in this manner reflecting light away from the stone instead of into the the lens. To the naked eye the new stone appears C[ Irene Rich and her daughters Frances and jane. flat, but I saw a shot of it in the projection room and the film recorded a full depth and brilliancy without any reflection or distortion. Here's one by George Marion, Jr. for Partners in Crime. "It was an underworld law that jangs should not molest the sporting s;oods store of Mortimer Mertort (Sing Sing '08.)" The business acumen of Joseph M. Schenck neglects nothing. While the members of the United Artists were preparing for the nationwide radio broadcast which you undoubtedly will have heard long before you read this, Schenck had all their voices insured. If they were too hoarse to talk they collected. On page 91 there is an item about the $25,000 policy on the original Harold Lloyd horn-rimmed glasses. These are only two of the many freak policies in Hollywood. ((The old clipper ship used in Ramon J^ovarro's picture 'Across to Singapore." center of dull and Dolores Del Rio is back from Mexico with an exciting story of near shipwreck off the coast of her native land. She was with Edwin Carewe's company on location for Revenge. The yacht Carewe chartered went aground off Mazatlan, but the only casualty was one camera which was swept overboard. I think Dolores looks a great deal better and happier since 68