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COMING PRODUCTIONS,

Extensiva additions - in the mechanical equipment and general improvements in studio facilities have been accomplished at the Christie Studios during the recent month when the studios were closed as far as actual production was concerned, theso additions being In preparation for the largest season of activity in the history of this or ganization, on account of the ex- tensive program of comedies to be produced for Paramount.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1927

ACROSS THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS.

A YOUNG ENGINEER'S

ADVENTURES.

ON A PUSH BICYCLE.

A young engineer, Mr. H. E. Dall, a son of Mr. John Dall, of Dunstable Road, Luton, has come back there successfully after. a hazardous journey across the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

For the last four or five years (states a Press Association Luton correspondent) Mr. Dall has been in the habit of exploring on his push bicycle various obscure parts of the Continent. and beyond. Last year he made a second vialt In the electrical department to Morocco, where he had many alone, under the direction of Wil- adventures among the various liam Perry, the capacity for studio bands and tribes of natives, and lighting has been increased thirty formed a determination that he per cent, by the addition of new would this year attempt to cross generators and a new generator the Altas_Mountains. truck. As an example of the gen- He left Luton on July 22, cross- eral additions in electrical aped to France, and made his start- pliances there have been added ten ing place Toulouse. He travelled new 100 ampere rotary spotlights, en his machine to Khenifra in the new remote control switchboard, 80 lower part of the Atlas range. new sidearcs, twenty plugging boxes, feeders and some 3000. feet

Held Up by Armed Natives. of cable, this equipment bringing

Before reaching the place, bow. the total up to capacty for four ever, he was held by armed 118- units filming at the same time in tives, who threatened him with the enclosed stages. The building knife and rifle, and then desired of bigger settings has also made it to take the machine. They did desirable for added equipment.

not, of course, know the use of it; New cutting rooms have been and Mr. Dall gave them instruc- added in the department headed by tions, but when he had completed Grace Davey. It will be possible à circle on the Atlas side of the for four directors to have complete natives he promptly pedalled away, cutting room equipment. Under and put himself out of range. the Christie system all of the direc- His appearance at Khenifra was tors preview and cut their own a complete surprise to the French comedies, under the general diree-military authorities, but he tion of Al Christie, who is super-he was compelled to stay for a allowed to proceed to Asru, where vising all of the comedies from the story stage through the editing. day. Thence he rode without fur- Four directors, William Watson, ther incident to Timhadit, and Harold Beaudine, Arvid Gillstrom, across the Middle Atlas to Assaka. and Robert Kerr, are working on new Paramount-Christie comedies,

Von Stroheim's Fame.

Was

The French Legion regards this range of mountains as in the most dangerous part of Morocco, and a large military force is necessary To be officially acclaimed by the to guard the convoys through the dramatic critics of America as the area. No military officer, it is world's greatest director of motion asserted, would cross without pictures; to be recognized by the strong escort owing to the anti- theatre-going public as one of thepathy of the native tribes.

intriguing actors on the screen; but still to be nominated by many thoughtful persons as one of the leading dramatic writers of America-this is the three-fold dis tinction that has come to Erich von Stroheim.

most

Slept in a Hut.

Mr. Dall, however, managed to reach Assaka, and there he slept in the hut of a sergeant of the Foreign Legion, who told him that he joined the Foreign because of Those who have followed von domestic trouble. He had com- Stroheim's endeavours as a screen pleted eight years of service. He writer are firm in their declaration liked the life, and he hoped to that he possesses, to a remarkable carry on for five years more. degree, a true dramatic instinct, When Mr. Dall awoke the next and a facility of expression which morning the sergeant was miss is unusual. It is a fact that everying, having gone with a force of, motion picture he has ever made men to Midelt. This also was the has been either an original story objective of Mr. Dall, who soon written by himself or else his own overtook the legionnaire. adaptation of a book or play.

The next part of his journey . These latter, it may be noted, more hazardous. Mr. Dall reach- really should be classified as origi-ed the top of the mountain range, nal stories, since von Stroheim has 10,000 feet above the level of the merely taken the germ of an idea sea, and when riding down the and clothed it with a wealth of in Sahara side of the range he pass- eident and, perhaps, a new trend of ed there many native villages. thought which has entirely changed where both he and his machine the course of the story.

were objects of great curiosity. When he pointed a camera at the natives, however, there was a general stampede, and no question of curiosity.

In "The Wedding March," von Stroheim is again in evidence in the three capacities of author, star and director, and has produced, it is said, the most remarkable work in his long list of successes.

Mr. Dall was greatly impressed by the wonderful, scenery, and Von Stroheim spent many months more than all by the deep silence on the writing of the story, mainly of the whole of the upper part of in California's isolated "High the mountain range. When he Sierras" in the neighbourhood of arrived at Rich, the European Mt. Whitney, where Alpine scenes mail had just for the production were subsequent had occupied twenty-three days 'It

ly made.

covered in less than a week. in a journey that Mr. Dall had

come in.

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Supporting the star in the prin- cipal roles of the picture are Fay

He there saw a feta, whore Wray, hailed as his "find" of the native Kaid was celebrating the present year; Zasu Pitts, whom he decoration of the Legion of Hon- has previously described as one of our, which had been bestowed the screen's greatest tragediences upon him for having brought in Dale Fuller, Maude George, the heads of six hostile natives. George Fawcett, Mathew Betz, George Nichols, Hughie Mack. scornfully laughed at

The French military officera Cesare Gravina and Sidney Bracey.that he had crossed the range his story George Bancroft's Travels.

alone on a push bicycle, but their George Bancroft, who sang and attitude changed when he pro danced his way around the world duced his passport. He was not three times, is now having a dif- allowed to go further on his ficult time shooting his through one small city.

way bicycle, but was permitted to travel with a military party in a motor lorry to Goturrama.

.

He would much rather sing and dance his way through than blaze

From this place he travelled a path with a six-shooter, but the pistol work is demanded by his alone to Bou Denib, and went on role of a gangster In "Under- from there by motor lorry to world," Paramount's pleturization

Colomb-Bechar, and thence by of Ben Hecht's crime story.

train to Oran, after spending some Before he became a leading man lttle time in the Sahara Desert. on the stage or bad thought at all about the screen, Bancroft was a

song and dance man with a suc-of the camera which would be the cess in musical comedy,

envy of any oriental potentate.

He has won an even more brilli-Because of the revealing costumes, ant reputation as a screen actor beauty of figure was as essential and has perhaps his biggest role to as beauty of face in the selection date in the crook story which of the players.

"Soft Cushlons" is a rollicking Josef von Sternberg.is directing. Co-featured are Evelyn Brent, story of oriental love and intrigue Olive Brook, Larry Semon and his way in a series of funny through which MacLean swaggers. Fred Konler,

episodes. As B daring young Movie Star Has Harem. thief, he invades the sacred Douglas MacLona has a harem! harems, woos the most beautiful For the first time in his screen slave girl, is arrested, Imprison- career, the smiling comedian hased and sentences to death, ea- an opportunity in "Soft Cushions," caping each time by his quick wits his latest: Paramount comedy, to to win the fortune and the girl. surround himself with a bevy of The late George Randolph femining beauties and "he takes Chester, originator of "Got Rick full advantage of this chance in Quick Wallingford," wrote the the unique picture.

atory of "Soft Cushions" and Eddie Raiding the ranks of Hollywood Cline, who directed, "Let It Rain" bathing beauties and beauty con- again piloted MacLean. Sue test winners, MacLean assembled Carol, a newcomer to the screen, an oriental harem for the bonofit heads a cast of notable players.

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