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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927.
Moran and Mack to luncheon Gary Cooper fencing expertly in "Benu Sabreur"
Wallace Beery ignoring "No Parking" sli .. Harold Lloyd joking with Edward Everette Horton,.. Bebe Daniels reading "A History of Algerla". ... Fred Kohler munching a chocolate nr.
| Jack Luden, hurrying to make, a
dontist's appointment.
Emil Jandlags working in night Clara Bow attending Five hundred people in Holly-scenes wood, who live well, ent regularly, a scenario conference on "Red have motor cars and bank accounts Hair" in a bathing suit, a rod are supported by animals, accord-leather windbreak and yellow ing to an offelal at the Paramount driving gloves... Richard Dis avoiding smiling with sun-burnt studio in Hollywood.
"There is a trained skunk sending ipa... James fall smoking in
a theatre lobby.. toy girls to college. The skunk Rogers shaking hands with Mary in in constant demand for Pickford visitors
... Mary comedies Rnd for comedy
Brian wearing # white organdy relief scenes in dramas and he
picture hut. brings his owner a comfortable living.
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Cast of Now Meighan Pleture.
Completion of casting of
Of course dogs load the list 6" four legged actors who proved they Thomas Meighan's new Para- are man's best friend by support-mount picture, un untitled vehicle, ing him. There are several hun- now being directed by James dred trained dogs in pictures, Cruze, was announced to-day by earning all the way from a few Bernard Fineman, acting aaso- dollars a day up to hundreds of ciate prodücer. thousands for each picture..
A former property man who trained his white mouad to run up a man's pant leg has had no harder work since than keeping the mouse in training.
The picture, from an original screen story by Charles and Jules Furthman is
underworld melodrania with Meighan east ny a famous criminal lawyer,
Marietta Millner, Viennese A trained goose is one of the beauty who was Meighan's lead- biggest wage-earners in the peting woman in his last picture, We're All Gamblers, is again line but there are bears, deer. cast in the chief femine role as canarios, parrots, cows, horses and nearly every other specimen Nada Winthrop, society heiress.. of field, stream and other support- ing an owner in the style to which he is accustomed.
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One ip Sixty Has Chance. One chance in sixty of getting wirk,
Charles Bill Mailca, character actor who played in "Old Iron- sides" and other recent produc- tions, in cast ng her father, Luther Winthrop, capitalist whose shady operations in the underworld plunge Meighan and his daughter into difeulties.
That is the expectation of the Wyndham Standing, stage and average extra girl of Hollywood screen actor who played with according to Fred Datig, veteran Meighan in "The Canadian," is casting director at the Paramountplaying the district attorney, who fis Meighan's friend in spite of studio.
opposing him in criminal suite
The rival ng leaders, whose fued starts the dramatic action; are played by Fred Kohler, "the
Dating knows thousands of rirla by sight, hundreds of them by name. He has watched them Come and go and has seen but few of them attain more than a'dashwolf of the screen." and by Duke
of brief success.
Datic. from figures obtained at Central Casting Bureau, has learn- ed that there are approximately 6.000 extra girls in Hollywood, Central Casting is just what its name implies. It is through Cen- tral that all of the studios secure their extra talent an employment agency for the motion picture trade,
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Martin, former vandeville artist. With them in the picture appear their girls, played respectively hy Louise Breaks and Nancy Phillips, two of the Paramount Junior
Stars for 1927.
are
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"Gurhost" Smith, former pugi- list, and King Zany, former popular songwriter, respectively as a policeman and a professional bondsman figure prominently,
whe
Datig's books show that un
Equal care was exercised in average of but one hundred extra casting of smaller parts. Shirley girls are used each working day Derman, Georgia brunette, recent- thraghout the year-one hun-y signed to a long-term Para- dred out of six thousand.
mount contract. is playing an underworld girl as one of her first, arts, and Luke Cosgrave, Director Cruze's famous friend, has shaved off his familiar white beard to play the keeper of a dive where the crooks, gather.
It is no wonder that the 'Para- mount studio oficials are at the forefront in the present move to discourage ambitious youngsters from coming to the City of Cinema.
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H. D'Abbadie D'Arrast, Para- Esther Ralston, the blonde, mount's newest director, believes mecting Anita Loos, author of in dressing for the occasion. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
This is illustrated in Adolphe Adolphe Menjou whistling opera Menjou's The Head Waiter," airs... Pola Negri, giving a D'Arrast's first picture Great Dane to a friend. Noah Famous Players-Lasky as a full- In the filming Beory Indueing friends to join his
fledged director. Trout Club.. Marietta Millner
of the action occurring in an carrying a makeup box totally exclusive resort hotel in the Swiss with steamship labels Alps, D'Arrast appeared on the set Fred Thomson jumping an eight foot wall in "Jesse James" wearing knickers, and slip on To-day when Parisian Florence Vidor entertaining
sequences are being med he an her cool veranda ... Raymond Hatton unbuttoning a first lieu-appeared at the studio in a dark blue business suit, fitting the tenunt's tunic
George Ban-
atmosphere of the scene. Curijec- croft twisting his black felt hat.
ture is rife as to whether he will William Powell pending tele- wear evening clothes for the grams collect to Richard Barthle dining room sequences in which mass. Louise Brooks bragging Menjou does his stuff as the head about the intelligence of her four waiter of an exclusive Parisian
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