IN MOVIELAND

Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 17021, 4 November 1927, Page 6

IN MOVIELAND

THE LOVABLE UGLY MAN.

When Will Rogers first launched out on a screen career, he was at once accepted by the picture fans as an idol, 'in spite of his broad, ugly grin and rugged features. All of his pictures were hailed with delight by all sections of the community. Then Will disappeared, and for some years he has been directing his own pictures. News now comes to hand that he has been induced to return to acting by First National Pictures, and his first under that banner will be the "Texas Steer," for which Will intends writing his own titles. The photo, in these columns is a most recent one and provides ample proof that the screen idol has lost none of, the "ugly personality" we have all learnt to love so well.

BOBBED CAMILLE,

Norma Talmadge wears bobbed hair in her screen version of "Camille," her latest starring vehicle. Miss Talmadge's "Lady of the Camellias" is every whit the "Camille" known to millions throughout the world, save that the character is brought to life on the silversheet as a fashionable siren of modern Paris. This new screen version of the Dumas classic was produced by Joseph M. Schenck for First National and directed by Fred Niblo.

& —* — FRECKLED FACE IS BOY ACTOR'S SOLE MAKE-UP.

The question of make-up keeps many a movie star in a perpetual state of worry but it never bothers Junior Coghlan, eight-year-old boy-actor whose freckled-spattered features appear prominently in "The Road to Yesterday," Cecil E. De Mille's production which commences its Australian screening soon. Over half of Junior's life has been spent in pictures, but he has yet to make the acquaintance of greasepaint, lip-stick and powder. His freckles are quite large enough to photograph admirably and as his beaming f.ace contains little else, make-up is superfluous. "The Road to Yesterday" is released by First National Pictures and featured in the cast are Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, Vera Reynolds, William Boyd and Julia Faye. *

A PICTURE OF FACTS.

Ben Burbridge's "The Gorilla Hunt," which has recently been released in the city and will soon be seen in the country theatres, is a picture that is going to cause a lot of comment both among hunters and scientists. It is a true thriller with nothing synthetic about the thrills. There is no question of doubling here, and a forty-foot python, or a charging elephant, are infinitely more thrilling than any manmade episode. From a scientific point of view it is going to provide food for thought, and many scientists that have scoffed at evolution, will think seriously before they continue their sneers.

NOTES FROM HOLLYWOOD.

Louis John Bartels, Robert Kane player, who created the role of "The Show-Off" on the stage, met recently, for the first time, Ford Sterling, who played the part in the movie. Sterling is playing a role in "Hell's Kitchen," Kane's latest First National picture, and Bartels was at the studio for some retakes on "Dance Magic," which Ben Lyon and Pauline Starke just finished for Kane. K* Mabel Swor, Robert Kane's latest discovery, who made her screen debut in "Dance Magic," featuring Ben Lyon and Pauline Starke, has been given the second feminine lead in "Hell's Kitchen," Kane's newest film. Ford Sterling, Hugh Cameron, George Sidney, Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Skeets Gallagher, Ruddy Cameron and Tammany Young are in the case which Joseph Boyle and Frank Capra are directing. It will be a First National picture.

Jack Mulhall and the other members of the company filming First National's "The Road to Romance," have been travelling all week without getting anywhere." The troupe is filming scenes on a Pullman car, presumably making a transcontinental trip, but actually remaining quite motionless inside the studio.

Actual train shots will be made later when, the interior action has been filmed. 0

"SHOOTING" A SCENE.

Often in referring to pictures in the making the statement that a scene is "shot" is made. This merely means that the locality where the actors are playing has been photographed, and the whole scene, action of the players and the minutest details have been transmitted to the celluloid strip.

Not only one camera is, used but as many as 150, as in-the case of "The King of Kings," are "shooting" at the one time. .This "battery," as it is termed, picks up the action fron* every conceivable angle so that nothing is lost of the details in scenic beauty, light and actors' every action