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THE

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Behind the Scenes

in Hollywood

KNUTE ROCKNE

[By Dorothy Herzog.)

In the event that within the next week or Bo Knate Rockne, famous Notre Dame football coach, receives hospital parole, he will hit West to enact the role of the pigakin coach in` M.-G.-M.'s production of "Good News,"

Rockne, this bureau, learns, is

favourably disposed to bow- ing into talky cellüloid. When the musical comedy, "Good News,"

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on Broadway, Rockne surprised 11 auiti- ence one eve by stepping on the stage as the coach, an actor for a per- formance gag.

WITH LOUISE.

ROUND THE CINEMAS

War Scenes the Real

Thing.

"THREE LIVE GHOSTS."

MARY BRIAN.

Captures Best Role of Year.

Culminating an intensive search that has had most of the young feminine players of Hollywood

"it's the real thing!" This was the unanimous ver-excited, Mary Brian recently was diet of one

thousand ex-Service selected for the leading role of

A few weeks ago, this space (may-men, who comprise the British and Judith Wheater in Paramount's all- be I'm cracking myself) ran a sug- German armies in the war, scones talking ploturisation of. gestion from a chap who said that, in "Three Live Ghosts,"

Edith Inasmuch s Louise Fazenda liked Artists' all-sound and all-dialogue

United Wharton's netód novel, "The Chil- antiques, she might want to pur-comedy-drama, after they chase the megaphone used for the seen the "rushes" In the studio silent version of "Hell's Angels.”

projection and sound room.

Louise opines that's no antique.

She made funsters for Mack Sennet when "Hell's Angols" wasn't even a fragment. Not that she ever in tended to make funsters, but during one picture she tripped over a chair and fell in such a ludicrous position

that the director left the ad lib' comedian. action in and Louise, pronto, was

a

William (Buster) Collier, Jr., has

A HAPPY ENDING? grabbed off the "Good News" lend, with Mary Lawlor the herolne; They're telling the story of a con- Bessie Love, in the Zelma O'Neill ference 'twixt Carl Laemmle, Jr., part opposite Gus Shy,the-and-Director-Lewis-Milestone about comedian imported from New York. "All's Quiet on the Western Front."! Edgar McGregor is to direct. According to the story Junior told McGregor is the lad who put the Milestone that he'd like the picture show on the boards originally. This to have a happy ending. Milestone is his initial motion picture, but ha cogitated. Then, tongue in cheek: knows where he goes from the "Suppose we have the Germans win. first shot.

the war!"

Mrs. Frederick Alan Crosland and her husband, a well-known- MA=" tion picture director were divorced in Los Angeles in 1927, but, became reconciled before the interioentory decrea became final. Reports from France stata that she has applied to the Nice courts for divorce,.

HEAR TELL.

There do be whispers floating yen

PUT OUT AGAIN!

Poor Raymond Hatton.

He

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best that Paramount has to offer had The part, said to be one of the

this year, will afford Miss Brian hor greatest opportunity since she was. cast as Wendy in "Peter Pan," ac cording to B. P. Schulberg, general manager of west coast production for Paramount.

The roar of cannon, the whine of bullets, the deafening crash of bursting sholla, and the eples of the soldiers as they go "over the top" create a realism seldom seen or heard in a motion picture.

Ing an

Scores of girls were, cosidered "Three Live Ghosts," directed before Miss Brian

#. by Thornton Freeland, and featur. the role.

was selected for The part required a all-star cast, including, young player of starring qualities Beryl Mercer. Charles McNaugh possessed of a definite type of ton, Claud Allister, Robert Montgirlish beauty. gomery, Hilda Vaughan, Joan Bennett, Shayle Gardner, Harry Stubbs. Jack Cooper, Jocelyn Lee, Nancy Price, and Tenen-Holtz, is now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

;

BEAU SABREUR.”

Great Film at the Majestic.

After taking a vow never to look at a woman and to devote his life to military missions for France, only to meet and fall in love with a beau tiful girl, while perforining one of these duties, forms the basis of the story of "Beau Sabreur" which will have its first local showing at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-day, and which Paramount has adapted from Percival Christopher Wren's sequel to "Beau Geste."

Her selection for the coveted role will bring to an end the vacation Miss Brian has been enjoying since. completing the lead in the. Wall Street "comedy, "The Kibitzer." Prior to that, she had a long suc- cession of leading parts, the last three of which were in "The Man 1 Love," "River of Romancu" and, "The Virginian."

Frederie March is announced to arrive home from Paramount's Long Island studios where he was appear- Ing opposite Jeanna Eagels in Jealousy" in time to play the male lead.

"The Children" is a story of the revolt of youth against the com- plications of modern society. As a novél and in serial form it attracted. International favour. Doris Ander son who. wrote. adapted and dialogued Bancroft's "The Wolf of Wren's story is laid it the quar- Wall Street" is adapting the story ters of the Foreign Legion at, for the screen. Lothar Mendes Algiers, then switches to the vast is to direct.

RUBINS'S BET.

Jack Rubins adapted "I Love You." but Jack did it in script form. Re It has been done before,

Sahara desert, where treacherous tribal chieftains do to death any one who interferes with their plots. "Beau Sabreur" is described as a melodramatic: romance, filled to the brim with heart interest as only Wren could write It.

Gary Cooper is in the title role,hearsals have started on the picture, that of Major Henri de Beaujolals Wilson his heroine and Rita Leroy starring Richard Dix and Lois the beautiful swordsman, a dashing, the vamp. Rubins volunteered to virile, and handsome officer in the read the lines of a role not yet cast French army, stationed in Arabla so that France might some day make at the initial rehearsal. He had a an empire of the desert wastes. The girl, Mary Vanbrugh, an American visiting her military uncle in Zaguig on the Sahara, is played by Evelyn

Brent,

On three occasions, Cooper saves

long scene with Dix. A chalk marked X Indicated where the camera would be for the scene.

Rubins bet Richard he could up- stage him oftener than vice versa. Dix took the bet. Two propmon chalked up the results. Dix won.

the life of the girl, then she is given He had the last line.... the opportunity of reciprocating,

Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noali The cast of 1,500 is headed by Berry, Joan Standing, William Powell, Mitchell Lewis, Roscoe Karns, Arnold Kent, Frank Relcher, Raoul Paoll, and Oscar Smith.

and hither Intimating that Jack been put out of another home. Ray The girl and boy go through a series until the closing scene.

has saving him from a certain death,votion for the 'girl go hand in hand Oakie is dissatisfied with his con- bought a plot of land in the moun of spectacular adventures, including tract with Wesley Ruggles. Westains of California and for some battles with fierce. Touaregs and is the director who discovered" renson or another had to sell out, to combats with desperate tribe leaders. Jack. Who put him under personal city fathers. who needed it Although he tries hard not to love contract and plated him from for

their business.. Undaunt her, the boy is finally conquered, and unknown to known. When heed. he purchased more land. the devotion for France and his de- signed him with Famous Players, This time on Silver Lake, Oakie marked time in this and that about 300 miles from Holly- type roll. Finally, he was, "dis"! wood. He haa to sell out covered" (a second time) to be a from there, too. The Munici good bet. His fan mail rolled inpal papas of Los Angeles figured in huge quantities. Subsequently, Silver Lake would be a swell spot for Jack is a technical star. He'll be a reservoir. Furthermore, citizens a bona-fide atar when the company needed the water. So Hatton bas announces him as such, which won't sold his property and later. Silver be long now. By that as it may,Lake will be concreted and become a 'tis said that Jack continues to reservoir. Hatton has now pur draw around $300 a week for himchased a spot in Laguna Beach. It's self. Tis also said that when he problematical -how, long he will be was loaned last to another organ- allowed to remain. isation, those having him signed to the dotted lines, corralled In the neighbourhood of $2,000 for his services. Hence, thó current whis pers,

"BIG BOY"

TWO WORK

et

Zelma O'Neill, stage star of "Good News," "Follow Through," cetera, goes to work In Famous Coines April and Al Jolson 2009

Players' screen Vērm back to the grease paint. Al bassion of the last named musical returned from a concert tour. His comedy. Twill be Mias O'Neill's next production will be an outloutboy into the cinema. Several weeks version of "Big Boy," There's more ago, she was operated on for appen. to this than meets the print. It was dicitis, but by the time the flicks while playing In "Big Boy" "that starts to grind, she'll be ready for the Warners persuaded Al to debut the grease paint. Charlie (Buddy). In a Vitaphone. "The Jazz Singer Kogers and Nancy Carrol are also Negotiations back and forth, with featured in the vocallofd. Joleon finally 'consenting. Hla cox- sent began what, in years to come, will highlight a significant historical factor in motion picture talking his tory, for The Jazz Singer" estab |lished talkies 100 per cent, sant, other producers scurrying for talky apparatus, Imported "mlkes" to. Hollywood by the hundreds, plus hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in other equipment. And now Al will bring. Big Boy, a whoop de-da racing yarn, to the silver shicet.

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``BRITISH FILMS,

Views of Mr. Seymour Hicks.

Mr. Seymour Hicks entertained a large party to dinner at the Garrick Club and took them on to see the almSleeping Partners, in which he appears

Whenever I go to America, the said, seem fated to have a bad passage - one way or the other— usually both ways. I have just come back in the Aquitanja, which had the worst time in her whole career and my first crossing was, in the old City of Rome, which, of course, promptly taught fire pe Mr. Hicks does not believe there. la any considerable market for British filmen America. This pot that Americans are prejudiced "against them," he said, “but they themselves produce so many thrilling films, ongigantic, scaló with which we cannot compete, that that Wraply

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