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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SVXDAY, MAY G. 192S. 3 FORECAST AND REFLECTIONS OF THE SILENT DRAMA Loew's Playbill 'Legion of Condemned" at Metropolitan "Secret Hour and" "Love" on Other Screens.

Promnen Twosome on Local Screens i M(fal Tin CHARACTERIZED as the com panion picture to "Wings," Par Mima Hanky and Ronald Colman tn a romantic scene tn ro Lovers at 11 I 1 '-jl I ess. Lfw I II O'Xeil and Lowell Sherman, who Hour" at the Brooklyn appear this week in "The Mad Strand Theater. blow Motion Xv''-m jsBfr I' By MARTIN DICKSTEIN dl I On "The Trail of Ralph Forbes and Dolores Del Rio, who find time, among other less pleasant duties, to do a bit of romancing 'round in the film spectacle at the Astor Theater. NEWS OF STUDIO AND SCREEN The Film Arts Guild Presents "The Light of Asia" Coming to Werba's Sixty-eight New Films on Universal List. Werba's Brooklyn Theater next Monday evening, May 14.

According to a representative of the Intrepid Johnsons, "the last 15 minutes of 'Simba' are In themselves Hollywood, Port o' Dreams, and What the Visitor Is Likely to Find There Lines on "Berlin," a Forthcoming Expression of a City's Soul in Celluloid. HOLLYWOOD, despite periodic discouraging bulletins from the Chamber of Commerce of that illustrious township, is still the Mecca of high hopes and consuming ambitions that it was when Sunset blvd. was Considered 'way uptown. Each Incoming train, if you can believe the records of the larger transportation lines, still discharges its quota of palpitating boys and girls at the Los Angeles terminal, the accredited jumplng-off place for fame, fortune and (if you are at all broad-minded about such things) disappointment in the movies. Much has been written about the capital of the Kleig lights, its conquests and heartaches, its illustrious citizenry and its cafeterias, its industry and its (sh-h) intellectual lethargy.

Even more has gone down into the record about the clvlo temperament of this magic community, Its fabulous prosperity and its withering contempt for all those less fortunate souls who must eke out their drab existence beyond its Eucalyptlan boundaries. Here, with a refreshing frankness, 1s a new angle on this modern port o' dreams. It comes from Harlan Thompson, who, following his mild triumph In the musical comedy field with such thumping hits as "Little Jesse James," "Twinkle, Twinkle" and "Merry Merry," has answered the call of the Pulsating Pastels to become a scenario writer for Paramount. When Mr. Thompson takes his typewriter in hand to describe his impressions of the Camera Coast, you may be fairly certain that whatever he says, with all due respect for his cinematic peers, is so.

IKE Caesar's Gaul," according to Harlan Thompson, Hollywood is divided into three parts: The Iowans, the picture people and the original inhabitants. The Iowans look up to the picture people; the picture poeple look down on the Iowans; and the original inhabitants shut The New Films PARA MftDNT "Easy Come, Easy Go," a Paramount picture based on the play by Owen Davis; directed by Frank Tut tie; starring Richard Dix. STRAND (Manhattan) "The Big Noise," -a motion picture based on a story by Ben Hecht, directed by Allan Dwan; cast includes Chester Conklln, David Tor-rence and Alice White. ROXY "The Escape," a William Fox production adapted from the play by Paul Armstrong; directed by Richard Rosson; featuring Virginia Valll and William Films Remaining ASTOR "The Trail of "98." CAPITOL "Across to Singapore." CENTRAL "The Man Who Laughs." CRITERION "Wings." EMBASSY "Two Lovers." GAIETY "Four Sons." GLOBE "Street Angel." 44TH BT. "Abie's Irish Rose." RIVOLI "Speedy." WARNER "Glorious Betsy." Other Attractions "The Mad Hour," with Sally O'Nell, is this week's attraction at the Brooklyn Strand Theater "The Dark Angel" and "Across the Atlantic," with Monte Blue, is the feature at the Keith-Albee Momart Beginning tomorrow, Loew's Metropolitan will show "The Legion of the Condemned," with Gary Cooper At the E.

F. Albee next week will be "Partners in Crime," with Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton Today's film features at the St. George Playhouse are "Chang" and "Copperhead," starring Lionel Barry-more. telope, ostriches and a host of others. One of the great scenes of the picture is the stampede of a herd of elephants, terrorized by a Jungle fire.

This, incidentally, gave the Johnsons a real thrill because they, too, were the path of the names end narrowly escaped being trampled by the elephants in their rush for safety. SIXTY-EIGHT feature pictures will form the backbone of the Universal Pictures Corporation's schedule for 1928-29, its 22d year, according to an announcement by Carl Laemmle. It is estimated that the total expenditure for these productions will exceed by one-half million dollars che S15.5CO.OOO expended last year. this presages the most active year in the h.3tory cf the company. Twenty-one celebrated authors and playwrights contributed their best works to make up this schedule of 68 stories end One third of the total budget will oe devoted to the production of five "road show" productions; one-third will be expended on seven special productions, thlrty-cevcn star pictures, twelve features and seven "thrill" features, The remaining third will be devoted to short subjects, Including two new ssrles of "The Collegians," Ave chapter plays, western and comedy featurettes and the International Newsreel.

A special department has been created to handle the Ave road show productions. these, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" heads the list. "The Man Who Laughs." which recently had it premiere at the Central, Is another. The other three will je "Show Boat," an adaptation of Brahmins. A whole city with its ten thousand people arrayed In the fashion of 600 B.

C. took part in the pictorial climax of the unique cen-turle3-old wedding ceremony. ITinces and Maharajahs vied with each other In loaning priceless silks and tapestries for the magnificently caparisoned cavalcade of vast numbers of elephants, camels and horses. Bouts of strength of young princes for the hand of the princess were reproduced In a large arena. i The unique marriage ceremony which recently marked the romance of Miss Nancy Miller of Seattle, Washington, and the ex-Maharajah of Indore is reproduced in all its peculiar details.

The leading role of the young Buddha is played by Himansu Rai of Bombay, a graduate of Oxford, who was long Identified with the Little Theater movement of India. He gathered about him kindred spirits of the Brahmin caste, chief of which was Seeta Devi, a young schoolgirl of 'ourteen, who gives a magnificent lerformcnce as Gopa, the wife of 3otama Buddha. The role of the seer, Aslta, is played by Dyananda, a yogi, who is well known throughout the length and breadth of India for his feats of Spiritual tests. Besides being instructive the story of young Buddha is one ot mounting dramatic Intensity. It does not follow the lines of stereotyped film productions, preferring to stick close to the varieties of the legend which has been handed down through countless generations.

The Film Arts Guild has prepared a unique surrounding program, ot which the chief item of interest will be Raginl, the noted Hindu interpreter, who has made a lifelong study cf Hindu music end the other Hindu arts. She will give a special recital of Hindu songs, dances end playing on the tambura and sltar, which are Hindu instruments, accompanied by a native drummer. amount latest epic ot me air, "The Legion of the Condemned," comes to Loew's Metropolitan thea ter tomorrow "for a week's engage-ment. The photoplay deals with an unattached flying unit at the French front. Gary Cooper and Fay Wray have the leading roles.

The vaudeville program lor tne week will include Revue Fantasy, a cectacular revue: McLaughlin and Evans in a comedy skit by Edgar Allen Woolf: Pisano and Landauer. the Italian comedians in "Boom Bert and Hazel Skatelle. Helen Moretti and Diaz Monkeys. Loew's Melba Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara will be seen at Loew's Melba Theater Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in their newest comedy, wny sailors Go Wrong." The vaudeville-band Diogram will be conducted By How ard Emerson and Band, while other features will be Anthony and Rogers, and Ross and Costello. Flash.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dog star, in "Under the Black Eagle," will be the attraction from Thursday to Sunday. The leading romantic roles of the picture are played by Ralph Forbes and Marceline Day. Howard Emerson and Band will continue to conduct the band feature of the bid during the last half of the week. Davis and Nelson and four others will appear on the vaudeville bill. Gates Theater Pola Negri will be seen In one ot the most effective screen roles in "The Secret Hour," Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Loew's Gates Theater.

She is ably supported by Jean Hersholt and Kenneth Thom son. Nat C. Haines and Company in a comedy sketch will be the headline vaudeville attraction. Marine and Mona Revue, Romaine and Castle, The Three of Us, and Nelson's attend will be seen on the supporting bill. "Love," a gripping romance of Russia before the revolution, will be the screen attraction Thursday to Sunday, with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in the leading roles.

The London Palace Girls, with Adolphua and Eastman, and Pat Kennedy will top the vaudeville bill the last half of the week. Others will be Nick and TT Tl 1. umujfB vcrga, nana ana jrenb, rtu- binl and Rosa and Worden Brothers. Loew's Hillside "The Secret Hour." Pola Nerl'a starring vehicle, will be shown Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Loew's Hillside Theater. Jean Hersholt plays the middle-aged sultof and Kenneth Thnmsnn thA nvmr Dave Harris and company, O'Dunns and Day, Levlne and Gordon, Bemlce ana ransy and tne Le Rays will be seen on the vaudeville bill the first nail tne week.

Loew's Premier Pola Negri plays the role of a girl who ekes out a drab living as a waitress while she longs for love in "The Secret Hour," coming to Loew's Premier Theater Monday, Tuesday and A1UAJ1HIU Oil'. Jean Hersholt head the supporting cast. The vaudeville acts will Lola Menzell and company. Scott Brothers and Vernon, Jean Joyson and The Emllons. uu.c, jvicbiu uumwyn Aiayer ptcturization of Tolstoi's 'Anna Kar-enina," will be shown from Thursday to Sunday, with John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in the starring roles.

Mooney and Churchill Revue. Bobby King, Ketch and Wilma, Ed Mulcaby ana Aiorreii and Kiinore will appear on the vaudeville program. McNam.e at Willari Graham McNamee. the coDuIar radio announcer, will appear In person at Loew's Wlllard Theater to morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. McNamee's voice has been heard tn every American home, and now Woodhaven patrons will have the opportunity of seeing and hearing the famous announcer ail to themselves.

Other acts on the bill will be Evelyn PhHlips and company. "Our Kuma and Low and Kate and Wiley. The screen presentation will be "The secret Hour," starring pola Negri. ureta uaroo win appear opposite John Gilbert in Thursday to "Anna Karenlna," Tolstoi's famous novel, supplies the basis of the story. Slg Frtacoe and Band, uouiter ana Kose, naming youtn.

Jane and "Ginger" Rogers and Three Londons will appear on the vaude ville program tne last nan oi in week. Loew's Bay Ridge Pola Negri will be seen In "The 8e cret Hour" at Loew's Bay Ridge The. ater tomorrow. Tuevtav and WednMU day. Mildred Andre Revue, a sym phony of tone and color, will top th vaudeville bill the first half ot thl week.

Others will be Carney and Jean, Vic Plant and "company, Brysog and Morell and Ellnore. John Gilbert and Greta Garbo wig be seen In ''Love" Thursday to Suns day. Saul Brilliant and company-Alice Deyo and company. Dainty Ma. he, Tommy and Edith Thompson and Kate and Wiley will be seen on th vaudeville program the last halt ot the week.

Losw's Bedford Private C. K. Slack, who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during the World War. will be a feature at Loew's Bedford Theater Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He will appear In conjunction with the showing of "Oold Chevrons." a film depleting actual scenes on the battlefields of France.

Other vaudeville attractions will be Primrose Four, Bond and Trent, Corlnne Arbuckle and Robblns Trio. The screen presentation will be "The Secret Hour," with Pola Negri. John Gilbert and Oreta Darbo head a notable cast in "Love." their latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cos tarring vehicle, which will be shown Thursday to Sunday. Lola Menzelll and company will be the headline vaudeville attraction. Romaine and Castle, Casey and Warren.

Burns and Foran and Nimls and Kabln will complete the bill. Loew's Coney Island The screen attraction at Loew's Coney Island Theater today and tomorrow I "Sadie Thompson," Oloria flwanson's latest starring vehicle. Tuesday and Wednesday will bring Laura a Plante in "Thanks for the Buggy Ride." and Emit Jannlngs In "TartufTe. the Hypocrite." The Se cret Hour," starring Pola Negri, and "Marry the Girl." with Barbara Bedford, win oe shown Thursday and Friday. "Love," taken from Tolstois Anna Karenlna." with John Otlhert and Oreta Oarbn In tha enatarrlnaT roles, will be featured Baturda.

Sun day and Monda. COINCIDENT with the anniversary of Buddha's birth, which occurs mis moran, me ilm Arts Guild will present for three American premiere presentations at Carnegie Hall, Friday evening, May 11, and Sunday afternoon and evening, May 13, an Indian -made feature film, "The Light of Asia," which is based At the Albee Mary Brian, who will be seen next week in "Partners in Crime." on Edwin Arnold's famous masterpiece and details the early years of Gotama's existence, from his birth to the year of his renunciation. "The Light of Asia" was produced in India, beautifully photographed against authentic backgrounds, and Is enacted by an all-Hindu cast of exciting enough for a whole evening's entertainment. The spectacle of a handful of African natives, armed only with spears and shields, facing and slaying full-grown lions will thrill any one to the core. The cour- Gary Cooper He will be seen at Loew's Metropolitan next week in "Legion of the Condemned." age of these blacks, who are determined to destroy the ravagers of their flocks, is something that could not be believed If it were not recorded oy the camera." The rest of the film Is described as on a par with these last minutes.

Martin and Osa Johnson, with their cameras and the native escort "safari" is the native term trudpred through the jungles ot British East Africa and Tanganyika, their travels radiating from their base camp at Lake Paradise, for the better part of four year. Not many animals of that section escaped their cameras. There are sebras, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, enormous elephants, lecpards, an Her Retinue at Warner's "Mad Hour" Featurea New Bill at Brooklyn Strand "The Mad Hour," a story of modern youth, is occupying the screen of the Brooklyn Mark Strand Theater as the feature of a program which also includes Joseph Plun-kett's "Song and Dance Frolic." Four young featured players are seen in the leading roles of "Mad Hour." They are Sally O'Neill, Alice White, Larry Kent and Donald Reed. Other star players in prominent roles include ijwell Sherman, Norman Trevor, Tully Marshall, Margaret Livingston, Jack Eagan, Kate Price and Eddie Clayton. The photoplay was ptcturized from Elinor Glyn's sensational novel, "The Man and the Moment." It was produced by Allan Dwan.

The new stage revue, "Song and Dance was produced by Joseph Plunkett, one of the three producers who are doing this type of shows for the Stanley Company of America. Russ Morgan and the Mark Strand stage band, Charlie Wilkins, Vivienne Glenn, Jan Seller, Manoff Gifford and the Grete-Bourman Dancers are appearing in this presentation. In "The Mad Hour," Sally O'Neill is seen as a typical girl of a working class family who attempts to have a good time out of life through associ ating with a wealthy college boy (Donald Reed). She marries him after a wild party following a football victory, only to find that he has been disinherited and that they must struggle along togetner. "Chang" and "Copperhead" at St.

George Playhouse The most thrilling account of a big game hunt ever presented on a motion picture screen, "Chang," will be one of the film features at the St. George Playhouse today and tomorrow. "Chang" was brought out of the jungles of Siam by Emest B. Schoedsack end Merlon C. Cooper, who will be remembered for an earlier movie nature study, The more recent eflort of these two intrepid camera hunters discloses a number of photographic shots which, for sheer thrills and an amazing show of courage, have never before been equaled in the history of the movies.

The high dramatic spot of "Chang" arrives when a gigantic herd of elephants (Changs) stampedes within a few yards of the Schoedsack-cooper cameras. It Is a sight which cannot be easily forgotten by anyone who sees it. On the same bill, today and tomorrow, the St. George Playhouse revives one of Lionel Barrymore's more famous screen efforts, "Copperhead." A program of a somewhat lighter nature will be offered at the little cinema In Pineapple st. on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The dual features will be Bebe Daniels' latest comedy, "Feel My Pulse," and the Wallace Beery-Rarymond Hatton farce, "Wife Savers." Thursday and Friday will bring "Sporting "Goods," starring Richard Dlx and "Dressed To Kill," featuring Edmund Lowe and Mary Astor. Saturday will be another double-feature day when both "The Spoilers," starling Milton Sills, and "The Count of Ten," with Charles Ray, will be shown. Edna Ferber's novel which will shortly go into production; "Broadway," an adnptatlon of the popular play, and "The Mating Call' an adaptation of the story by Rex Beach. THE biggest scenes In what is promised to be the biggest picture that Warner Bros, have ever made will go before the cameras this week. After more than a year's research and many weeks consumed in building seta and untangling technical problems, the biblical sequence will be shot by Director Michael Curtis In Dolores Costello's next starring vehicle, "Noah's Ark." William Koenlg, manager of the Warner Studio, has been responsible for the tremendous work that has been in preparation for these scenes.

They are to be taken at Warner auxiliary studio which was srqulred by them at the time they took over the Vitagraph Company. That entire lot ot approximately thirty-eight acres I being occupied by sets and properties that are to be used for tills part of the production. Under Mr. Knenlg's supervision more thin two thousand workmen have been busy for many weeks. These Include carpenters, cement workers and laborers who have now completed the erection of a mammoth architectural structure, the center of which is the Temple of Jag hut, a replica of the stxteen-thouund-year-old place of worship figuring In this part of the story.

This piece of construction alone extends over several arres of grounds. About five thousnnd extras will be used during the next two wer ks. The casting department has been working day and night Intervlewlg and selecting the people who are to play 'atmosphere" bit In the biblical sequence. their eyes tightly when either of the others are around. "A pathetic lot, these aborigines.

They can remember the time when theirs was a quiet land; when a filling. station was a filling station and not an Egyptian temple illuminated in six colors; when a restaurant was a restaurant and not a brown derby SO feet high; When a lot of other things were a lot of other things and not a lot of movie sets gone into trade. "The original Inhabitants take It pretty And well they might, for they are a doomed race. For one thing many of them are getting along in years, and no person getting along in years has much of a chance against Hollywood Many a lightweight, of his foot-work, has had the pattern of a radiator emblem btfrlcd with him. "My first impression of Hollywood, gained shortly alter I arrived, has not yet left ms.

Looking out -of my hotel window the morning of my arrival, I saw a young man on the sidewalk below. Not that this was so remarkable In Itself, but he happened to be engaged in pulling up full-length silk stockings while waiting for a taxi. In the process the striped dressing gown he wore was blown back enough to reveal that the rest of his costume consisted cf a lacs-trimmed, pink georgette combination. expected some one to speak to the poor chap and tell him that such things just weren't done, especially in the morning but nobody did. In fact, of the hundreds of people who passed by before the taxi arrived, not one pa'd the slightest attention to him.

I knew then that Hollywood was going to be different. "In a I2W short weeks on the Paramount 'let I have grown used to anything. If a group of creatures with six eyes and green talis landed In a rocket from Mara right in my frcnt yard, I'd maybe give them a sidelong glanie as I went out to the mailbox and wonder which company was maVing that kind of an aviation picture. "The original Inhabitant Is different. He resents little things like that.

And herJ go on resenting them until that day comes when a front bumper takes htm away from it all, and he is laid to rest in a widely advertised cemetery with all modern improvements, Including a flashy electric sign over the entrance and tombstones In three colors of neon lights." Hollywood, you should know, Is something like that Pictures? They make teem there, yea, but they are, If you can believe it, Just a necessary Incident In a rather pleasant small-town scheme. It Is a charming place to visit (preferably under a short-term contract to some film producing unit) and a more delightful place to go away from once you are done with official sightseeing. For If you are not careful, Hollywood will draw you to It innocent yes, quite Innocent) heart and ycull stay and become a Booster, and soon youll get deathly tired of pictures and begin looking around for a little ranch and a few orange trees. And who'd want to go around sniffing orange blossoms and tearing at picture people all his lifef and Mrs. Martin Johnson's stirring pictorial record of big game hunting In Africa, "Simba," will begin a limited engagement at With "Glorious Betsy" and rooms where it observes that some eat sparingly, according to lean pocket-books, while others gorge according to fat ones.

An old woman who has seen many, many better days goes Into a church to pray, while a younger one goes to the river's edge and hurls herself into the dark waters. Evening comes, The process Is reversed. And then night when the city goes out to play. All a series of vivid photographic Impressions, bewildering but never confusing. Amazing camera maneuvering by Karl Freund, who photographed "Variety." Watch for the announcements of "Berlin." It is one of the things that the movies are naturally equipped to do best and don't do nearly often enough.

MOTION picture of uncommon "Berlin." it will, if everything Interest is in the offing. It Is called proceeds according to schedule, be shown at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse next week. In pictorial form, the film attempt to "express the soul of a city." Berlin is the city. The story, if it may be called a story, describes a typical day In a metropolis the metropolis of the new Germany, for example. The Introductory scenes bring the spectator to the ctty by train at five o'clock in the morning.

The camera reveals streets, typical streets, deserted save for prowling cat and, occasionally, a drowsy policeman. A group of lata revelers appears, then a laborer or two on the way to work, and then a youth delivering newspapers. The camera moves farther Into the city as It wakes up, listless at first, and then more earnestly, quickly. Soon everything Is in full swing. Children on their way to school; wheels turning slowly, then more rapidly, in the mills.

Windows fly up; bedding I aired. Clerks stream Into office buildings and the street fill with cltl-ens going industriously about their business. Traffic quickens and then whirls and people scurry In and out of its current. Moon Urn aad a brief Interlude. The camera pokes Its nose Into lunch- llert, in a crostctwn impression of the new Vitaphon film at the Warner Theater, are Mare McDermott, Posquale Amato, Dolores Costelb and Conrad Naftl fa what are tommonl referred to at tharaeterietie mood..