Loew's Boro Park Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, March 26, 1928

LOEW'S WEEKLY
Issued Free to Loew Patrons

Vol. 9     NEW YORK, N. Y., MARCH 26, 1928   n  No. 28

Marion Davies to Star in Jeanne Eagels' Stage Hit
"Her Cardboard Lover" to Be Directed by Robert Leonard

Marion Davies, who is now working in a new picture, not yet titled, under the direction of King Vidor, will have Robert Z. Leonard as director when she assumes the leading role in "Her Cardboard Lover," which has been selected as her next starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Carey Wilson, well-known scenario writer, will do the adaptation and continuity for "Her Cardboard Lover," the play in which Jeanne Eagels scored a great success on Broadway last season.

CODY AND PRINGLE TO CO-STAR IN "BABY CYCLONE"
Eddie Sutherland to Direct George M. Cohan Hit

Edward Sutherland, who will direct "The Baby Cyclone" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has returned to the West Coast from New York, and is starting preparations for the forthcoming picture. Lew Cody and aileen Pringle will be costarred in "The Baby Cyclone," which is an adaptation of George Cohan's farce hit.

Ramon an Expert in Many Fields

Ramon Novarro has become expert at nautical knots, as the result of his cruise in the filming of M-G-M'S "Across to Singapore."

Starts Production on "Detectives"
Film Co-Stars Team of Dane and Arthur

Marceline Day played the heroine of "Rookies," the picture that launched Karl Dane and George K. Arthur to fame as a comedy team. Now she's playing heroine for them again. Miss Day has started work as the hotel stenographer and heroine of "Detectives," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's latest comedy co-starring the two funmakers, which went into production recently.

The new story is a mystery thriller laid in a metropolitan hotel. Dane is a house detective and Arthur a bellboy, who wants to be a detective, and the pair blunder into an amazing mystery plot, their hairbreadth escapes furnishing the comedy.

John Mack Brown Given Lead in "Dancing Girl"
Joan Crawford and Dorothy Sebastian in Cast

Johnny Mack Brown, former Alabama gridiron star, who played featured parts in "The Fair Co-ed" and "The Divine Woman," has been selected by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the principal male role in "The Dancing Girl." Joan Crawford and Dorothy Sebastian have been assigned the leading feminine parts in this photoplay, which Harry Beaumont will direct from an original story by Josephine Lovett.

ROBT. Z. LEONARD SIGNS CONTRACT

Robert Z. Leonard, whose recent pictures for M-G-M include "Adam and Evil" and "Baby Mine," has signed a new long-term contract with that organization, according to announcement made last week.

Leonard, who went to college at the University of Colorado, began his theatrical career in 1904, when he sang in a quartet in a dramatic play given in Denver. Later he became associated with the California Opera Company as property manager. He was stage manager and comedian in both comic opera and drama. He starred with Trixie Friganza and played with Oliver Morosco and Shubert companies.

He began his screen career in 1910 under Francis Boggs for Selig Periscope (sic). The picture was "The Courtship of Mile Standish," and he played the hero, John Alden. He starred in other pictures before becoming a director.

Leonard has made about seventy pictures, including about thirty features.

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FORTY THOUSAND MILES WITH LINDBERGH

This is the title of a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, a short subject special coming here next week, which reviews in interesting reels the rise and aeronautical career of the Lone Eagle

This might be considered the first attempt at an historical film dealing with aviation. The popularity of this picture promises to be great. Liberally featured with maps and statistics of the flight. "Forty Thousand Miles with Lingbergh" brings effectively to the eye of the observer the detailed events which have continued to make the greatest American hero of the day.

It is, in a sense, a chapter in the history of aviation. A shot in the beginning of the film shows the first successful flight of a heavier than air machine at Kitty Hawk, S. C., when the Wright brothers first launched their plane into the air. The historic hop-off for Paris at Roosevelt Field in the misty dawn of a spring day is dramatically shown.

Other sequences of the picture lead back to this country and show the roaring millions who welcomed "Lindy" back to the United States at Washington and in New York, his decoration by the President of France and by President Coolidge.

The film ends with his recent return to St. Louis from Havana.

Excellent Cast Built Around Esther Ralston

an imposing cast surrounds Esther Ralston in "Love and Learn."

The cast picked by Frank Tuttle, director of the picture, is one which includes veterans and those who are fast becoming popular among the motion picture theatregoers. Hedda Hopper is the mother of Miss Ralston in the picture, and so well does she fit into this type of role that she always is in demand in Hollywood for parts in the various pictures. Claude King, a well-known member of the New York Theatre Guild, plays Miss Ralston's father, and does very well in the role.

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FIRE NOTICE—Look around now and choose the nearest exit to your seat. In case of fire walk (not run) to that exit. Do not try to beat your neighbor to the street.
JOHN J. DORMAN, Fire Commissioner.

Monday, March 26
FORREST STANLEY and VIRGINIA LEE CORBIN
" "Bare Knees"

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 27-28
2 -- Features -- 2
DOROTHY MACKAILL & JACK MULHALL
"Man Crazy"
Thunder, the Dog
"Wolf Fangs"

Thursday and Friday, March 29-30
2 -- Features -- 2
"BEAU SABREUR"
A sequel to "Beau Geste"
with
Noah Beery, Evelyn Brent, Gary Cooper and Mitchell Lewis
ESTHER RALSTON
"Love and Learn"

Saturday, March 31
VICTOR McLAGLEN
"A Girl in Every Port"
with Louise Brooks
An Interesting Review
"40,000 MILES WITH LINDBERGH"
Aft. Only, Episode No. 1 of "The Haunted Island"

Sunday and Monday, April 1-2
"OLD IRONSIDES"
A James Cruze Production
with
WALLACE BEERY, ESTHER RALSTON, and GEORGE BANCROFT
A "SNOOKUMS COMEDY"

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer News

NEXT WEEK
"OLD IRONSIDES"

The Splendid Story of a Great Love, Born Amid the Roar of Cannon and the Crash of Warring Ships
GALLAND "OLD IRONSIDES" SWEEPS THE SEA AGAIN
Every Red-blooded American Who Has Read of the Grand Old Warrior Vessel of the Sea Should Not Miss Seeing James Cruze's Production, "OLD IRONSIDES," Which Comes to This Theatre Next Week.

All the heroes and famous naval commodores who lived during the stirring days of 1804, live and take part in the famous battle of Tripoli Bay when the United States made the declaration, "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute."

In the production, one sees Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Commodore Edward Preble, Commodore Richard Somers and a score of other men whose names are forever engraved in the hall of fame.

James Cruze has produced many excellent pictures in the past, but none of them, not even "The Covered Wagon," can compare with the thrilling, pulse-hurrying romance of "Old Ironsides." It is his supreme achievement.

Among the cast members who give an excellent account of themselves are Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, Charles Farrell and Johnnie Walker.

ROLLICKING FIGHTERS! Wallace Beery and George Bancroft in a Scene in the James Cruze Production "OLD IRONSIDES"

LOVE AT THE HELM!
Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston in "Old Ironsides."

Dorothy Mackaill Goes "Man Crazy"
Actress Surrounded by Hosts of Handsome Men in New Comedy

Dorothy Mackaill, co-featured with Jack Mulhall in "Man Crazy," reversed that old popular song, "Put Me Among the Men."

Miss Mackaill was playing in scenes with dozens of the handsomest men in pictures for this story of New England, and it is from this fact that the picture gets its name, "Man Crazy."

SAT. AFTERNOON, MAR. 31
Episode No. 1
"The HAUNTED ISLAND"
Mystery! Thrills!

NOTES OF THE MOVIE PEOPLE

Not So Silent!

Screen players who are working in "The Actress" have discovered that the silent drama isn't so silent. During one of the sequences of the Norma Shearer starring vehicle an entire play is enacted upon a large stage with hundreds of extras (the audience) looking on. Norma Shearer, supposedly the star of the piece; Gwen Lee, another actress; Owen Moore, Virginia Pearson, Roy D'Arcy and Lee Moran all had to learn their roles in "Virginus," the play within the play, exactly as if they were appearing before a real audience. Miss Shearer and Miss Lee have never been on the stage and both declared that they actually suffered stage fright.

ON AND OFF

Tenen Holtz, character actor, had his whiskers shaved off on finishing his role in "The Trail of '98." and the next day was ordered to grow them again to play Orloff in "Diamond Handcuffs," at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. So now he's raising hirsute upholstery again. He went to the barber just a day too early.

UNWORDED DRAMA

Eleanor Boardman is wearing what is probably her strangest costume in a long time in the role of Tillie, a girl of the underworld, in "Diamond Handcuffs," at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. It is an over-dressed effect, in which modern modes are slightly exaggerated to give a "flashy" effect.

Page Sherlock Holmes!

Matthew Betz committed his 324th murder last week on the set at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.

The actor, who has gained fame as a portrayer of underworld roles, is playing "the killer" in William Haines' new starring picture, "He Learned About Women," and does his stuff by removing a bootlegger via the maxim silencer route.

After the sequence was filmed, Betz pulled out his pencil and in an idle moment figured out that he had killed precisely 324 people for screen purposes, and that at his age, if he was sentenced to life imprisonment for each one, he would be in jail for the next 12,960 years--which is quite a while.

SETS NEW RECORD!

Joan Crawford has set a record for work. She has appeared in four pictures consecutively and is about to begin on another one, without a day's rest between. Immediately after returning from location at West Point, she played in a picture with Tim McCoy, going from that into "Rose-Marie." She is just finishing in the leading feminine role opposite Ramon Novarro in "Across to Singapore," and as soon as that is completed will go into the lead of a new M-G-M production. Strangely enough, each of these pictures have taken her away on locations.

GRAY AS GANGSTER

Lawrence Gray, who recently played a young millionaire opposite Marion Davies in "The Patsy," is now playing a New York gangster opposite Eleanor Boardman. Gray has been added to the cast of "Diamond Handcuffs," John McCarthy's new production at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, playing the chief gangster character in the underworld sequence of the picture.

FASHION NOTE

A consensus of opinion shows that green is the favorite color of feminine screen stars and players. It not only photographs well, like a light, soft gray, but it is becoming to brunettes, blondes and auburn-haired girls alike. Eleanor Boardman, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Sebastian, Norma Shearer and Renee Adoree are among the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars and players who declare it their favorite color.

On Visit to Studio, Signs Contract

Polly Ann Young, who "came visiting" on the set where her sister, Loretta, was playing the feminine lead in Lon Chaney's new film, "Laugh Clown, Laugh," has herself been signed to a contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Herbert Brenon, who made the new Chaney vehicle, and his assistant director, noticed the attractive Polly Ann when she came to watch her sister at work. A series of screen tests followed, culminating in a contract as featured player. Her first role has not yet been determined.

Get Screen Rights

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has acquired film rights to Jacob Wassermann's novel, "The Masks of Erwin Reiners." Also F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, "Head and Shoulders," which was published in the Saturday Evening Post.

CAST IN CODY FILM

When Sue Carol makes her formal debut as a 1928 Wampas Baby Star she also will make her bow in an important role in Lew Cody's new untitled picture for M-G-M.

Nice Russian Baby Displays New Weapon

Fay Webb, who hails from Santa Monica, Calif., and not Moscow, as you might imagine, displays a Russian gazabo and other things, which she shows to good advantage in John Gilbert's picture, "The Cossacks."

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