Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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Name Address _ ~.i _ City State— SCREENLAND Xj)t Talk — Continued from page 11 The first will be Behind the Front Lines, official pictures of the World War, which will be released as a special. The second will be Sir Harry Lauder in Huntingtower, written by John Buchan. This production marks Lauder's first appearance in films. Vera Veronina, Paramount featured player, appears opposite Lauder. The Model of Montmartre, third of the foreign pictures, was produced in Paris under direction of Leonce Perret, who has directed a number of American-made pre ductions. Henri Bataille, famous French novelist, wrote the story. The cast includes Ivan Petrovitch, star of The Garden of Allah, and Louise La Grange, beautiful French artist's model, who appeared in many Paramount pictures. * * * Elinor Glyn has completed work on a new screen story, Tiger S\in, which will serve as a forthcoming starring vehicle for Greta Garbo. Madame Glyn, most of whose novels have been transferred to the screen with excellent success, plans to go abroad in the near future. Ricardo Cortez, the Paris of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, has been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a featured part in Excess Baggage, picturization of the current Broadway play which is now in production under James Cruze, with William Haines in the starring role. Stephen Tromholt's Wife, a novel by Hermann Sudermann, German author, has been purchased for the screen by MGM and will be filmed under the title, The Wonder of 'Women. This is the second Sudermann story to be screened by this company. Flesh and the Devil, was an adaptation of the German novelist's The Undying Past. Willow Wal?^, Sinclair Lewis's novel of dual identity and regeneration, published some years ago, has been purchased for the screen by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and will serve as a starring vehicle for Lon Chaney. * * * Fred Thomson and Alfred L. Werker, his director, have just returned from a tour of nearly 2,000 miles in Arizona in search of locations for scenes in Kit Carson. A number of places were found which are exactly as they were when Carson visited them on trapping expeditions. One of these is Oraibi, an Hopi Indian village of adobe buildings dating back to prehistoric days. It was visited by Coronado in 1540 Carson's trail from Taos, N. M., to Arizona is to be picked up at several points in the making of the picture. One of the spectacular sequences, the annual rendezvous between trappers, Indians and traders, is to be made at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, the second highest mountains in the United States. These are north of Flagstaff. Headquarters for the company will be established near Tuba City in a camp. Arrangements have been made for the use of several hundred Navajo Indians. Production is scheduled to begin about May 1 Nora Lane will have the leading feminine role opposite Mr. Thomson. Step right this way, Ladies and Gents We have one of the greatest attractions on the map ... A real motion picture studio in full blast . . . Closer, please . . . That's it . . . Don't crowd, folks . . . Plenty of room for everybody . . . Here on my left is the last set in which Colleen Moore worked for her picture . . . Happiness Ahead . The picture is now completed and the star is on her way to Honolulu for three weeks' vacation . . . Her mother and father accompanied her . . . Over there you will see an old-fashioned room See the quaint furniture That is for Corinne Griffith's picture, The Divine Lady . . . And there is a magnificent palace set, where Emma meets the king . . . Who is Emma? Why, surely you know — she became Lady Hamilton and was the sweetheart of Lord Nelson . . . His inspiration Just take a look at the wardrobe department. . . . See all those gorgeous gowns? . . . They are worn by Miss Griffith . . . Look at the naval uniforms of England in the early Nineteenth Century, aren't they fine? . . . Yes, ladies and gents, there is the room where Richard Barthelmess made the final scenes of his picture Roulette . . . Squalid, isn't it? Just the home of a girl who has gone the pace and is on the downgrade . . . There is where the accidental murder takes place . . . There's the big courtroom scene with real cement pillars fifty feet high . . . Also for Roulette . . . You know Barthelmess played a dual role in this film . . . And just cast your eyes in this direction for a moment, please . . . It's a scene for the big melodrama The "Whip, with Doro' thy Mackaill featured . . . Note all the jockeys, the fashionable folk out for a day at the races . . . And here is my own set, The Bar\er . . . Yes, folks, permit me to introduce myself Milton Sills, at your service . . . Miss Mackaill is featured in this picture also There are Betty Compson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., both in the picture . . . I hope you'll like it . . . There's a lot of excitement and plenty of thrills and romance . . . There is the carnival, picturesque, isn't it? And over there you will find Jack Mulhall making "The Butter and Egg Man" . . . Yes, that's Greta Nissen, his leading lady It's a theatrical story Over there is Charlie Murray, the inimitable, making "The Head Man Full of laughs, folks, one every minute Loretta Young is his leading lady She's the youngest in the studio No pun intended, either . . . There's Harry Langdon in his new comedy with Doris Dawson as leading woman Isn't she cute? . . . What about Billie Dove? . . . Oh, she will soon start a new one . . . Also Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes, who are to make "Heart to Heart" ... So you see, Ladies and gents, this is a busy lot and you'll see the greatest show of your lives if you come in now — step right up and don't crowd, folks . . . That's right . . Let that old lady through . . . Step up, closer, this way, everybody — The greatest show on the earth . . .! "War in the Dark," new starring vehicle for Greta Garbo, has gone into production at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, with Betty Blythe added to the supporting cast. Conrad Nagel has the male lead in this film, which Fred Niblo is directing from an adaptation of Ludwig Wolff's novel of European military intrigue.