FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1929.
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Breaking into motion pictures is! the result of a combination of circumstances, luck, personality; per severance, with talent virtually last on the list, for until one does ac- tually get into action before a camera, he cannot demonstrate his ability," This is the opinion of
A NEW FILM
FIVE DIRECTORS NEEDED TO HANDLE CROWDS
Owing to the unusual size of the setting and the great number of players used in the carnival scenes of "The Street of Sin," five assist- anta were assigned to aid Mauritz Stiller, director of this new Emil Jannings' Paramount production, for the several nights required for the shooting.
A total of 900 extra players' wêre called for the carnival sequences, and the setting occupied two square acres in the Paramount atudio grounds in Hollywood.
George Yohalem, veteran direc torial assistant, was, in charge of the contingent of aides to Stiller. Yohalem was called in from the "Honeymoon Hate" vet, where Florence Vidor was essaying the star. role. His lieutenants were Otto Brower, assistant to director John Waters on Two Flaming Youths." Henry Hathaway, assiet- ant to Victor Fleming on the "Kula" production; Russell Mathews, Frank Tuttle's assistant on "The Spotlight" starring Esther Ralston; and Charles Barton, one of William Wellman's aides on the. "Legion of the Condemned" production.
EMIL JANNINGS
GETS TWO LEADING WOMEN FOR NEW FILM
Find the woman, This is the problem of every great male star when he begins a new production.
Emil Jannings had a double pro- blem when he prepared to film "The Street of Sin," his latest Paramount starring picture.
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youth
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U. S. (abbr.)
16-Fish eggs
17-Coarse, heavy shee 20-Gave
22-A receplacle 29-Aested
25-A number
26-A district, Bombay,
India
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Canada
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67-Threefold
69-Before
70-Word of assent
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27-Disclos
29-A celor
30-A card game
72-Man's name (short) 81-Vert expressing
72-Suffix--same as
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47-Interjection
49-Place (abbr.)
50-Rounded rim
52-Sets on fire
53-Separata (abbr.)
54-Bubbled up
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tower
futurity
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36-Part of verb "to be" 38-Prefix-apart"
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Ger.
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68-Small building
61-Pronoun
65-Departed
65-Raw matal
68-Group
67-A drink
68-Ballad
71-Point of compass
15-Of more recent date (abbr)
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puzzle.)
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Marie Prevost had an exciting thri in a car lately, being pursued by motor bandits, but she emerged with only an injured nose.
Harold Lloyd, who is now appearing in "Speedy," for Paramount, and whose views on motion picture. sub- jects are infrequently, but always intelligently expressed.
"I think I can safely aver that the beginning of my career in motion pictures was a result mostly of perseverance, with a little luck thrown in for good measure.
can
Norma Shearer, who recently ap peared in Douglas Fairbank's picture,
The Iron Mask."
He had to find two leading
WOTDEN.
Jannings says he owes a debt of gratitude to Brich von Stroheim, director-star, and to Morris Gest, the producer.
Erich von Stroheim discovered i Fay Wray and used her opposite him in "The Wedding March." When Jannings saw "The Wedding March," he found his first leading lady, "Fay Wray."
Morris Gest brought Olga Bak-
Douglas Fairbanks's new film is call-lanova, star of the Moscow Arti
"To begin with, as far back as I
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I sought a theatrical ed "The Iron Mask," and he appears career. I was eight when I first once again as 'Artagnan, and his tried my hand at the drama, playing three Musketeers are with him, too.
a page boy in "Hamlet" when a
travelling Shakespearean company old to play kid parts on the stage, hit the Nebraska town where I was living,
Big Chance At Twelve "But it was not until my folks moved to Omaha, about the time I was eleven, that I really gave full sway to my ambitions. I had be- come acquainted with John Lane
and too young for juveniles, 20 I took to character work, and appear ed in quite a few plays with the San Diego stock, then travelling up and down the California coast.
First Bit With Edison Company
"Then the Edison Company came to Balboa. the first moving picture company I ever saw. I became fired with the ambition every lad then: had, of getting into the movies, and I did. My first sercen bit was playing an Indian servant at a Spanish fiesta, in a story of old California.
"I realised there was a great future for motion pictures, and determined then to make
it may earper. We came to Los Angeles, and I started making my bid to get into the game in earnest. I met with resistance and discouragement at every stage I could not even
i get past a studio gate. Finally I cid, out at Universal, after days of patient waiting there, I one day pul on a make-up back of a little restaurant across from the studio- gate. and after the lunch period mingled with the crowd of extras, slipped unmolested part the gate- man, and got inside the studio for the first time.
"I subsequently obtained a job, and then met Hal Roach. Hal had a producing bug, and when he in- herited a few thousand dollars he engaged me to play in his pictures. There developed the old Lonesome Luke character, and finally the one with the shell rimmed glasses. This character, by the way, was the re- sult of my having seen a minister appearing in a stage play wearing the tortoise rima. I felt that little progress could be made using un- natural make-ups, and clothes no real human being would wear, but that on the other hand by using just the rims to distinguish myself my beatrical ambitions, but gave I could portray any character I
Dorothy Sebastian.
Connor, then leading man. in the Burwood Stock Company. In fact, he had come to live at our home. Mr. Connor took quite a fancy to me, and not only encouraged me in
me a world of help. When I was chose, and in addition would have
twelve I was given my big chance, a distinct screen individuality.
playing Little Abe in "Tess of the
In Hundreds of Pictures
| D'Urbervilles' and although it's a
"I made about one hundred one- long time since, I can recall vividly reelers in this character, and then the thrill I got that might. Subseatarted producing two-reelers, the quently, I appeared in about a frat of which was, "Bumping Into dozen other plays with the Burwood Broadway." The came three- 'Company.
reelers, and finally A Sailor Made "Later we moved from. Omaka to Man, which was a so-called feature Denver, and for the time being my length. Later came Grandma's dramatic ambitions were thwarted, Buy, Safety Last, Why Worry, although I did manage to keep close and others.
to the theatre, working props," "Five years ago we began making usher, candy butcher, electrician, or our own productions independently, any odd job that I could get.
starting with Girl Shy, and fol- "When I was about seventeen we lowing with Hot Water. The moved to San Diego, and as fortune Freshman. For Heaven's Sake, had it, Mr. Connor was there con- The Kid Brother, and now ducting a school of dramatic arts. Speedy
I went to High School and was "As a matter of record, I married. engaged by Mr. Conner to assist him Mildred Davis, and we have one in instructing his pupils in the child, Mildred Gloris, now three
afternoons. At this stage I was too and a half years old."
Theatre, to America, and after a season in New York she played the nun in "The Miracle." Jannings decided upon Mme. Baklanova for his second leading lady..
Jannings portray's ✡ reckless, domineering figure in the London slums whose regeneration comes
after a terrific climax in which death takes the woman he loves.; The two leading women were cast) as extreme characters, Fay Wray s a Salvation Army Lass, and Mme. Baklanova
as a girl of the 'streets.
The story was written by Josef von Sternberg and Benjamin Glazer, and directed by Mauritz Stiller.
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