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The Evening Times from Sayre, Pennsylvania • 6

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The Evening Timesi
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Sayre, Pennsylvania
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6
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PAGE SIX SAYRE, MONDAY, APRIL ST, 1025. for Washington Prince Jailed By Creditors of the most acute problems lacing the picture business, that of rinding new faces for the screeu, the entire country will be combed, it was stated by Mr. Lasky. The School will be housed in the Paramount Long Island Studio at Astoria, Long An entire -f FOR SCREE Jesse L. Lasky Says Country Will Be Combed To Find.

Suitable Faces To Be Known As Paramount Pictures School Establishment of the Paramount Pictures School, designed to train young men and 'women tor screen acting, was announced yesterday by Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. To solve one RAINING SCHOOL PLAYERS Mosaic Memorial 1 'W, ''SIM tures and tho techn'cal details oT such scenarloJ construetion and interpretation through stage lighting, photography and practical laboratory methods. It is planned to have all these lectures printed in book form so that they may serve as a hand book to each member of the class. Every student in the class will have a chance to earn a Famous Players-Lasky contract, if in the opinion of the executive council sufficient merit is shown.

These contracts will be for one year at a reasonable salary and will give options on the players services for four additional years with adequate advance In salary for each of the four years that the options may be exercised. In addition all pupils who complete the course of instruction to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors will receive a personal letter of endorsement from Mr. Lasky together with selected film cuttings and still pictures which will serve as a recommendation for employment by other companies. All male students must be between the ages of 18 and 30, all female students between the ages of 16 and 25. All must have exceptional attractions of face and figure, good photographic qualities, good health, latent ability to act, versatility, intelligence, good principles, ambition and at least a common school education; The fee for tuition will be $500 for the term.

In addition, however, students must be prepared to pay their living expenses at the rates of $25.00 a week. Since the school term will be approximately 23 weeks, $575 will be necessary for living expenses, making a total requirement for each student of $1075. The Board of Directors of the Paramount School, realizes, however, that some young men and women possessing unusually fine qualifications might be unable to meet these expenses. Limited financial circumstances, however, need not be considered as prohibiting admission. This information should be frankly given In filling out the questionaire which will be forwarded to the applicants, because the Paramount School might find ways and means to overcome temporary difficulties.

Even after being admitted to the School the Btudents must consider themselves as being merely on probation for the first four weeks. At the end of that time if any are adjudged for any reason unfit to remain they will be permitted to return to their homes. AUTOMOBILE THIS WEEK president of wC, America, Gilbert Miller, generajl manager' for Frohmaujj John Emerson, president of the Actors' Equity Association, Thomas Meighan, screen star and Shepherd of the Lambs, and D. VV, Griffith, one of the world's foremost directors. The actual operation of the school will be in the hands of an executive council of which Mr.

Lasky is chairman. The other members are Walter Wanger, Claude H. Mitchell, John W. Butler, Edwin C. King, Tom Terriss, Bijou Fernandez, and Charles E.

McCarthy. The general plan of admission has been carefully prepared. Thirty representatives have been' appointed in different parts of the United States. The representative for this district is Irwin Zeltner 62 North State street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Any young man from eighteen to' thirty yeprs old, or any girl from sixteen to twenty-five, may send an application to the representative nearest his or her home, sending also three photographsfront view, side view, and lull length figure.

These applications will be weeded out until five from each district, or 150 in all are left. The 150 applications and the accompanying photographs will be sent to the Paramount School, where the weeding out process will continue until 75 remain. Each of these 75 will be notified by telegraph to report at one of the branch offices of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Theso central reporting points will be located in New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles. At these offices will be stationed cameramen who will make film tests of the candidates.

The cost of making these tests will be borne by the Paramount Pictures School, but the candidates will be expected to defray their own expenses from and to their homes. These film tests will be submitted to the school authorities who will select fifty as being worthy of personal interviews by Mr. Lasky or his representatives. Fifteen candidates from the easfc will report at the Paramount Long Island Studio, Fifteen from the West will go to the Famous Players-Lasky, Hollywood Studio, and twenty from the Middle West will report in Chicago. The result of the interviews with these fifty by Mr.

Lasky or his representatives will be that twenty, ten young men and ten young women, will be selected actually to enter the school. They will reach New York on July 16th and the term 'will open on July 20th. The term will close on December 5th and the graduate exercises will take place on December 12th. The curriculum of the school will in- it; WHY YALE WINS NEW HAVEN, Conn. Yale Iks been having a successful footbiU team In recent years because the players lived clean and played clean, Tad Jones, head coach, told the delegates to boys' week, yesterday.

"The players, not the coaah make the team," he said. "I did nothing but sit on the bench aid watch when Yale went down the field eighty yards against Harvaijd for a touchdown." i Egotism is the anesthesia that keeps some people on living terms wftirtliemselves. section of the building has been set apart for the school vHiichi, while It will have its own quarters, will also be amid the practical surroundings of the finest motion picture studio in the world. The school term will be six months, and twenty students, ten young men and ten young women, will compose the class for each term. These students will be drawn from all sections of the United States.

The Board of Directors of the Paramount School, has as Us chairman, Adolph Zukor, president of the Famous Players-Lasky Cor-! poration, and includes Jesse L. Lasky, Joseph Hergesheimer, the noted author, Daniel Frohman, WAVERLY Until 7 o'clock BUY An I Itus remarkable mosaic of ti les In the form of a shield, bearing the Washington coat of arms and an excellent likeness of George Washington at the early period of the Revolution, was made for one of a group of buildings surrounding the Washington Memorial Chtvpel a Valley Forge, by Nicola Ascenzo of New York. fg JAK NA5H BEY a- i mount productions will be produced to enable the students to compare their own efiorts with those of noted players. The routine work of the class will be varied and will be supplemented by allowing students, who show marked proficiency to appear as extras in current Paramount productions. As the term draws to its end, the abilities of each student will be well understood by the school authorities and the students will be graded accordingly.

To conclude the term a motion picture tpro-duction will be made by the class as a whole. Physical training will be given throughout the term in dancing, fencing, gymnastics, swimming, riding, and driving automobiles. Lectures during the term will be delivered by distinguished members ot the dramatic and motion picture professions. The series will be arranged to give the students a systematic understanding of the drama and theatre, the fiforld wide scop'e 6I'motron" pic Even a prince's finances cracked under the strain ol supporthfc the best "dressed woman in Europe," It is alleged, and Sabit Bey, Egypt, fourth husband of Mrs, Jean Nash, who has that reputatioi, was arrested in Paris on three charges of swindling preferred Ijr his creditors. The latter declared the Prince was utterly without funta and that he pawned even his first wife's jewels while he was courtfc Mrs.

Nash. His debts are said to total more than 400,000 francs. Mn. Nash divorced him a little more than a month ago eighteen Takes It Away J3alance Weekly These are real Automobiles, in good running condition. 12 Fords 7 0verlands 3 Maxwells 3 CJievrolets 1 Willys-Knight 1 Ford Sedan 30 Good Cars Come in and Buy.

This offer this week only. F. E. Wickwire Son struction in all parts and points of practical motion picture acting in the course of which the students will learn to conform to the daily routine of a busy studio. All subjects will be compulsory, and will fall into three main groups, technical instruction, physical training, and lecture.

Technical instruction will be given by the Director of the School assisted by the school photographer, a number of special instructors and the usual executive staff. The chief subdivisions of this group will be loss of self-consciousness, correct wearing of modern clothes, and period costumes, the complete art of motion picture make-up, pantomime and the playing of proper use of the hands, emotional control and character study. After the elements of acting have been taught, the students will be given parts to play in simple easy scenes, improvised to suit various standing sets about the studio or at nearby exterior locations, Iater, nb't sequences' 'fMnY fb'rmef Para after their marriage. PANTANO SENTENCED TO DIE IN CHAIR BROOKLYN N. April 27.

(United Press) Anthony J. Pan-tano, convicted of complicity in the murder of the two West End bank messengers, was sentenced today to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing during the week of June S. Sentence, which followed Pan-tano's third trial, was imposed by Justice Harry E. Lewis in supreme court. Read Times Classified "I 437 BROAD ST.

Open Evenings I elude complete" 'arfd" i 17 TTTT3 TrTTTir HTf YSXY FT TOW THNfTTTT 7TT1TH YrfcTTTTfT IHIL WILL iUBUlTlnfirUWJiK 1U BUI There is a great difference between the will to buy and the power to buy a difference which shouid not be overlooked by the prospective seller who is looking about for the proper medi- 1 um through which to advertise NEW AIR SERVICE PARIS Bi-weekly air service to Toulouse and Dakar and return will start May 1, it was announced today. The trip, which will require two days, will cover 4,500 kilometres, said to be the longest in the world among regular air voyages. also the Power a man has an article or a line of products which it is his business to sell, his wish would be to tell about his merchandise to those people who would be most likely to buy not necessarily to those people who have a desire to buy. It would be hardly logical to put an extreme qase for an automobile manufacturer to ad-vertise a $15,000 automobile in a paper with a circulation among readers hard pressed to make both ends meet to the exclusion of a paper with a smaller circulation, but which is read by persons of wealth. The former may have the will to buy, but the man of wealth has the power to buy.

Of course, the discerning man would never carry his advertising to such an extreme, but there is many an advertiser who is content to view a paper's circulation merely from a numerical standpoint rather than to find out whether the readers of that publication have the will to buy as well as the power to buy the article which he is advertising. "FT" TP EVENING has a clientele with not only the Will to buy but to buy..

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Years Available:
1891-1986