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DOLORES DEL RIO AGAIN.
Hollywood: "Is it burlesque?" seems to be the thought uppermost the minds of film producers these days, with the trend toward bigger and funnier pictures. Charley Chase is one comedian who doesn't always, agree with his Loss, Hal Roach, however And when there's a difference of opin- in as to what should be done, Charley usually has his way. The comedian is one of the few com- edy stars who insist upon sincer- ity in their stories and characteri- zations. Chase will not work in story with impossible angles and he also taboos freaky make-ups.
"My dominating idea in com- edy work is to make everything believable," he declares. "I like to think, that every man in an audience could imagine himself in any character-und also in the same situations.
"As soon as a character is bur. lesqued or dressed in an impos- sible manner, the sincerity of the story is lost. For example, if we are using an Indian in a film. I want him to be an Indian. The idea of making him up with a set of impossible whiskers because some persons might consider the make-up funny is all wrong.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.
"RAG" MELODRAMA.
UNDERGRADUATES AS FILM.
PRODUCERS.
"London, Oct. 14. Two films presented yesterday at a trade performance at the London Hippodrome, W.C., "Si-, lence" and "Saucy Suzanne form a singular contrast.
The first is not only a British film, but also one produced by n group of Oxford undergraduates at a cost of only £300. It deals with the care of a girl-Countess Ina Bubna takes this part-who la dumb, the cure being obtained by shock.
.
The producers, Messrs. Hugh Brooke and John Greenidge, de- scrive the film as a two-reel melo- drama in a fantastic setting. The trouble with it is that it is a little too much of a 'varsity pro- duction. a little too much of a "rag." You must have a 'varsity training or something pretty equivalent to apprcelate the eddy- ing about of the film in melodra- matie scenes which laugh at them- selves. The general public will be puzzled. On the other hand this short picture is full of alacrity and
needs effort. It more sub-titles to rescue it from point to point as it is
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The boyish haphazardness of this film is far superior to the cheap sophistication of "Saucy Suzanne," a German Ufa produc- tion. Here we have accomplish- Led picture-taking wasted upon
story centring round an actress' who loses some of her under- clothes. An unpleasant note runs through this film and the atten exag-tion of the film censors might well be directed to some of the sub- titling. Altogether the piece la a melancholy example of the employ sometimes made of the cinema- tographic act.
"Many comedies in my opinion are rained by this tendency to ex- aggerate stories and appearances of the characters. I don't mean that there should be no geration whatever because some fines situations must be stretched a little. But the burlesque stuff is out as far as my films, are con-
cerned."
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Chase has followed his ideas pretty closely himself and Charicy is what Hollywood terms Mac- cess. He has just completed a two- reeler based on aviation, it being one of the dozen flying "quickies" made since Lindbergh's sensational
achievement.
ing
Miscellanea Wandering around the cinema town: Tom Geraghty and his daughter, Carmelita, just driv
Carmelita, like her father, has done a lot around the movie studios she's working) in. comedies now
but her ambition is to become i Cecil B. De- Mille atár.
行 "A Woman" in Pawr," now Gaumont British film shown pri- vately in London yesterday, is Stayton, and proves that Britain based upon a play by Mr. Frank can hold its own in the production of good "feature" films.
more out of those two "kids" than any other director in filmland.
Everyone in Hollywood has a hobby. Robert Edeson's is collect- ing hats. He now has more than 70 varied styles of headgear. And he has used all of them at one time or another in pictures.
Zion National Park, Utah:- Hollywood for a moment.
Such is a fitting, description of Grauman's Egyptain theatre, a canyon here, bigh in the moun- six months ago one of the most tains
and 65 miles from the famous movie houses in America nearest railroad station. It is here, only the best of Hollywood's in the most gorgeous setting imag- products were shown there
inable, that a small band of movie
are filming part of.. Helen. Hunt Jackson's novel, "Ramona."
now it has become a second-run folk theatre. Mary Astor and Ben Lyon going into the Montmartre Edwin Carewe wanted the most Mary's pictures certainly beautiful country possible don't belie her beauty she some of the scenes in "Ramona.".
Movies Move On.
for
in a lovely creature, even though So he spent several weeks scour sometimes a bit upstage... ing the mountain regions of Utah Marion Davies driving toward and Nevada and finally picked this her studio
wonder if an-spot. The company arrived a few other star will ever have as pala- days later, travelling first by train Tiad a dressing bungalow us she and then by auto. his. .Marion Nixon and Laura LaPlante going into Henry's.... Heary, one of Charlie Chaplin's Now, this particular section of staunchest friends, has the second the park has the appearance of best-known cafe in the film ham-a movie studio. An exact replica let...
there go Jack Hoxie and of the hacienda mentioned in the Nila Cavalier"..."Sally" Randbook has been built here. Kleig talking to Jim Mitchell, a news-lights are scattered around with paper writer.
Here comes Colleen Moore who does insist upon telling me of her exciting vacation in New Colleen walked out on First National when her husband, John McCormick, quit
York
and
portable dynamos to furnish their power. The usual supply of cameras, is much in evidence. A three-piece orchestra is here. Make-up, puttees, megaphones and make-up. boxe complete the cinema atmosphere.
Carewe spent a lot of
money
he returned at a salary $2,500 to bring his crew up here, but it
a week higher than her previous was well spent-despite
one
however
the
few actresses in Holly- wond could get away with it, economy wave which is supposed- Sally Eilers and Words fail when it comes to de- ly sweeping the celluloid colony. Matty Kemp corning out of a heighbourhood theatre
they suribing the scenic wonders that sure make a good looking couple will serve as a background to Miss
Jackson's ..almost another Junet Gay-
love story? Only a nor-Charley Farrell combina-
camera can reveal those, towering tioty
stone walls as they are.
"natural" in that role.
Ramona. Sho is n
Dick Arlen and his bride of not such successes in "What Price Dolores Del Rio, who scored long ago, Jobyna Balaton. Glory," "Resurrection" and "The Dick and Jobyna played the best Leves of Carmen," is even more love scene. I have ever seen for lovely as "Wings" just three hours after they were married. .and it nil landed on the outting" floor... Corinne Griffith' going into the United Artists studio. Clara Bow with her red hair fly ing in all directions as usual.
Fox Productions.
room
of
Baxter Fools 'Em. There was considerable. talk in film circles when Warner Baxter was signed to. portray the young Indian, Alessandro, one Ramona's lovers. Movie folk said that Baxter wasn't the type for an William Fox is continuing to Indian, But he fooled them. show other film producers how to It seems that most large pro- make money."Right now he has ductions these days bring to light two pictures in preparation that new "discoveries," This one is no will be sequels to two of the big- exception. Roland Drew, former gest money-makers in screen his-New York newspaper reporter, tory. Laurence Stallings and Maxwho has been banging around the well Anderson are now busy writ- film town as an actor for the last Ing "The Cock-Eyed World" as a two years, is at last "coming out." sequel to their "What Price Glory.” In coming to Utah to, nim Raoul Walsh, who directed "What sequences of a story supposedly Price Glory," will again handle the laid entirely within a hundred megaphone and his cast will include dies of Hollywood, Carewe is Dolores Del Rio, Victor McLaglen merely following the precedent of and Edmund Lowe.
other producers. They are all Fox's second smart move was to gifted with a 'complex that almost pair Charles: Farrell and Janet forces them to change the stories Gaynor for the second time in for which they pay big prices. Lady "Cristilinda." Frank Borz- However, the film will he far mors. gc, who directed them in picturesque here than it would be "Seventh Heaven," will again do possible to make it in southern the bossing Borzage can get. California
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