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'AMUSEMENTS.'* 2 THE SfcDAY STATU TTASHINGTON, T>. C., OCTOBER 14, 1928—PART 4.' AMUSEMENTS/ BELIEVES IN YOUTH Every One a Talkie. More of Craig’s “Macbeth.” AMES says he does not SILENCE IN THE STUDIOS I? VERY picture made by First Na- ¦yjy/INTHROP *“* Personality Counts. fear youth in the theater. tional hereafter will be a dialogue picture. His career producer of notable J~)QUGLAS ROSS, the producer, who > and epitomize pure evil, hate and de- as a This announcement was made by A1 plays is marked by his discovery of 1-1 AS your family cat screen per- who struts her stuff at sls a is staging Gordon Craig’s produc- . struction. The witches are not playful a Rockett, production and studio man- x 1 ¦, chicken , little dames; they are the anti-type of ager upon sonality? ! day and keeps so busy uplifting the 4tion of “Macbeth,” a George C. Tyler number of players who since have be- at the Burbank plant, his re- angels. turn from New York recently. If no. there's a chance for him—or standard of screen acting that she promised coming come prominent on the stage. When her—in scarcely lay eggs, attraction of the sea- “The castle courtyard, with its men- I While in the East he conferred with Hollywood. ! has time to son, has this to say: acing masses, will suggest mystery, a he brought out Maurice Maeterlinck's Irving Cats playing just extra roles, so to i A monkey that has played in more firm belief D. Rossheim. president of the speak, 50 dollar pictures “My in this production is sense of dread. It is a place where “The the cast included five officials, earn cents to a a day, than most stars has earned twsed on the Betrothal" organization, and other and it while if they show knack for enough bun- premise that it be taken anything might happen, a scene of was then decided that First National a taking money to buy his owner a jis an unknown girls, June Walker. Winifred direction bring down salary checks , galow integer and not as a series of primitive passions, of lurking danger, Studios will be completely converted to they court. loomponent parts.” its tones of shadow a prelude to the Lenihan. Sylvia Field. May Collins and ' 'JRO of $7.50. Common, ordinary fleas can be pur- So far concerned, talking pictures. records as scenery is says murder of King Duncan. Flora Sheffield, who now are featured This The of Dan Kelley, casting chased outright for $3 a dozen, mit the !Mr. Ross, the guiding principle of announcement means that director at the First National Studios train'd variety receive a sal- Mr. “Tire color notes which will run the Stanley-Crandall’s Metropolitan, the straight Craig is that scenery is not to be seen. through the play as stellar names on billboards. in Burbank, are said to show that it is ary of $5 for each day's work. are represented in Ronald Colman was seen in Ames’ nioneer Vitaphone house the Earle It is to be felt rather than seen. It vertical arrangement on the curtain possible to hire the acting services of A man who specializes in supplying assists to an production of “The Green Goddess.” Theater and the Tivoli Theater, where any bird, beast or reptile, from fleas to the studios and insects atmosphere instead of i j used between scenes. These are the Vitaphone is being installed, are be with reptiles tobtruding as a picture. primitive with George Arliss in New York long to elephants and back to humming birds. offers bedbugs at $3 and $4 a dozen, j Celtic colors that were preva- Hollywood assured of a plentiful supply of talking It is with this intent that Craig has j lent. in the before had heard of him. A flock or honking geese which have According to Dan Kelley, the flea sal- twelfth century, the period Greta Nissen, another film pictures for the coming year. i wnployed screens and architectural our play. And they very popular learned to swim about strange ponds | ary scale is due to jump. i lof are beau- star, was first shown to the First National product is shown for masses for his sets in “Macbeth,” I ! tiful. American unconcernedly, no matter what mad Trained mice offer their services at public when Ames presented Deems j first run in Washington exclusively by them, drenched in a mood of mystery, fear, i "The same holds good action or noise goes on about ! $2 and $3 a day. horror, of the music. Taylor’s ballet, "The Princess of the Stanley-Crandall theaters. for their or flooded with high-lighted ! 1 There will be no orchestra. Just as earned owner 50 cents each A trained deer earns SIOO a tveek. glory of power and kingship—mood Xandu.” in Kaufman and Connelly’s mrm mmrnt for every day they appeared in scenes Snakes work for a half dollar a day es- ! fingers i were before forks, so the voice Horseback.” In this feeted not only by physical form but j I was antecedent to the instrument, “The Beggar on of Colleen Moore's “Lilac Time." I upward. by the subtle commentary satire also was Osgood Perkins, now tf^ Bozo, a trained goose who travels Lions and elephants are paid accord- and skillful Voice is predominate. Trumpets FBO's First “All-Talkie." i of to and prominent in “The Front Page” in from studio to studio in limousine, ing the lighting scheme and of authentic drums, which has always been the vbice New KANE, of Sound a to the amount and kind of work music of the twelfth York. It was Perkins' first appearance jDOBERT president received $35 a day for sharing close-ups asked of them, their minimum wage century period. of martial commands, these we will Studios, Inc., has announced the 1 “As the supernatural element fur- have, of on Broadway. with Jack Mulhall in “Lady Be Good.” being approximately $25 a day. course. But certainly the nurchase of “Stepping High.” a novel ordinary farmyard nishes the controlling motive in ‘Mac- dominant music of these armies One of Ames’ most interesting dis- An cow received Included on the list of willingwork- was Frieda bv Gene Markey, to be made into an for going about her usual business ; who seldom bees, beth.’ rare has been taken by every represented by the war song. That Is coveries is Inescort. The daugh- $3 ers receive credit are means ter of a well known London actress, ! all-talking motion picture by FBO at of munching alfalfa, providing she does Trained bees—ones who will not fly oossiblc to preserve the con- true of all armies—war songs in the the recently i tinuity and the verity of Miss Inescort, believing one in Sound Studios, Inc., or- it before a motion picture camera. Pigs ; away end who will not sting actors—- other-world bivouac, on the march, going into bat- actress ganized by the Joseph P. Kennedy in- torces from the opening witch scene on tle. a family was sufficient, turned her back I are paid $2.50 a day: horses. $2.50 and can be had for a day at SSO per swarm. In the World War there were terests for the production of ordinary dogs, $1 $2. bought he rocky, blasted heath to the final on the stage. She came to America, I talking ' up: and Single bees are outright at a •Tipperary’ and ‘Over Ttyre.’ pictures in the East. One man in Hollywood has a trained dollar each. wreck of Dunsinane. with the figure of “Our music will be authentic of the worked in the British consulate, and A 'farbeth lying then on the editorial staff of novel innovation conceived by Mr. a heap of human ashes period—songs, battle cries, such as a trade Kane will be utilized in the of' with his burnt-up ambitions. shipping journal, where she was em- direction " were sung by the soldiers 'Macbeth’ and by the ployed when “Stepping High.” the picture will be represents the greatest, troubadours that were carried Ames engaged her for by ' rimiest, with the Milne’s co-directed two men—one an expert most stupendous conflict be- armies. We will hear continually the A. A. "The Truth About motion picture director, the veen good and evil in our literature, Blayds." Last year Ames her other an What Lasky Says. echoes of this type of music carrying featured expert stage director. he supernatural overcasts and sub- through from one scene to with Leslie Howard in John Gals- Gene Markey. -nds the another, worthy’s "Escape,” the author, will col- ’ play. marking the continuity of the play—- and now, having laborate with these directors in the “In order that the tremendous power chorales, dirges, watched her growth, he has intrusted IESSE L. LASKY. first vice president production or soon to start. I want to * war songs. The music preparation of the ' scenario and the ** the evil influences may be properly alone, its character and its functions, her with Portia with George Arliss in dialogue. in charge of production of the Para- call particular attention to “Sins of * 'noted, it is necessary for the witches might be made the topic “The Merchant of Venice.” Miss Ines- Josiah mount -Famous-Lasky Corporation, has the Fathers.” starring Emil Jannings; be played of voluminous Zuro, musical impresario, re- > by men—tall. thin, cadav- comment. Os course, this means a tre- cort is still in her 20s, a young age cently named general musical director recently returned East from Hollywood, “Three Week Ends.” with Clara Bow; * ous men.

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