Loew's Metropolitan and Bijou Theatres, Brooklyn, New York, May 23, 1927

LOEW'S WEEKLY
Issued Free to Loew Patrons

Vol. 8     NEW YORK, N. Y., MAY 23, 1927      No. 36

WHO IS HOLLYWOOD'S PERFECT GIRL!

Judges gave up in despair when they were obliged to select the winner in a recent Hollywood beauty contest... and no wonder, because the prettiest girls in pictures were these semi-finalists - Joan Crawford and Dorothy Sebastian!

OLD IRISH PICNIC SCENES ENJOYED BY MASS OF EXTRAS

With several hundred extras frolicking on the lawns, the cast of "The Callahans and the Murphys" picnicked for five days last week, in one of the most interesting location trips in the history of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
A replica of an old-fashioned Irish picnic, with dance platform, hot dog stands and refreshment booths was constructed in the Verdugo Hills, and here Sally O'Neil, Lawrence Grey, Marie Dressler, Polly Moran and the rest of the cast enjoyed a lavish spread while the cameras clicked away.

GUS EDWARDS VISITS WITH OLD FRIENDS

Gus Edwards, famous song writer and vaudeville impressario, the man who discovered Lila Lee, screen celebrity, as a child actress in vaudeville, renewed old acquaintences among former stang folk when he visited the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios last week, to call on Director Jack Conway, who was once associated with Edwards on the stage.

VIDOR AND PARTY ON WAY EAST

King Vidor, now directing "The Crowd" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is on his way East from the coast, accompanied by his wife, Eleanor Boardman, who has the feminine lead in the new picture, and James Murray, who plays opposite her and is said to be one of the most promising discoveries.

SWEDEN PICKS LARS HANSON AS ITS FILM FAVORITE

Sweden, homeland of many an imported player, including Greta Garbo, recently promoted to stardom by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company and many others, has, by a popular voting contest sponsored by Filmjournalen, elected Lars Hanson, a promising Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer importation, as its most popular actor.

LAND HO!

Pauline Starke is holding down a big man's job by taking a turn at the wheel in this scene from"Captain Salvation," Cosmopolitan's new production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Ernest Torrence and George Fawcett are the featured members of a large cast.

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"MR. WU"

Lon Chaney and Louise Dresser in tense scene from "Mr. Wu," a feature attraction

AERIAL TRICKS IN "ROOKIES" THRILL
Scenes Above Clouds Lend Laughter and Terror to This Comedy

World war aces who think they know the last word in hazardous flying, may be able to learn some new aerial tricks with the showing of "Rookies," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest farce comedy.

The story is laid against a background of citizen' military training camp life.

During the filming of the air sequences the director called upon the fliers to "do their darndest," and was rewarded by a series of thrills that almost forced the cameramen to take refuge in flight.

The plane shots were filmed at altitudes varying from twenty-feet to more than a file, and the balloon thrills were taken at heights which sometimes carried cameras, director and cast far above the clouds.

The story features Karl Dane, Marceline Day, George K. Arthur and Tom O'Brien. The supporting cast includes Frank Currier, Lincoln Steadman, Gene Stone, E. H.  Calvert and the well-known film actress, Louise Lorraine.

Loew's Metropolitan
Fulton, Smith and Livingston Sts.
Theatre Open 11 A.M. to 11 P.M.
Telephone, Triangle 5617

WEEK OF MAY 23rd

JOHN BARRYMORE
IN HIS NEWEST AND GREATEST TRIUMPH
"THE BELOVED ROGUE"

VAUDEVILLE
including
MIDGETS'S PASTIME
"A TINY REVUE"
10 -- WITH A CAST OF -- 10

JULIAN HALL & BAND
With His Broadway Bats
A MINIATURE MUSICAL COMEDY
11 -- WITH A CAST OF -- 11

SCOTT BROS. & VERNON in
"GOOD TIME CHARLIE"

Other Acts

LOEW'S BIJOU
Livingston and Smith Streets
Theatre Open 1 P.M. to 11 P.M.
Telephone, Triangle 4955

Monday, May 23
2 -- Features -- 1
GEORGE WALSH
in
"The Broadway Drifter"
Jack Perrin in
"Fire and Steel"

Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24–25

2 -- Features -- 2
NORMA SHEARER
in
"The Demi Bride"with
Lew Cody and Carmel Myers
A Metro-Goldwyn_mayer Picture

JOHNNY HINES
in
"All Aboard"
with EDNA MURPHY

Thursday and Friday
May 26-27
RICHARD DIX
in
A fast-stepping ring romance
"KNOCKOUT REILLY"
with Mary Brian

A Paramount Picture

Saturday, May 28
2 -- Features -- 2
ADOLPHE MENJOU and ELEANOR BOARDMAN
in A revival of
"Sinners in Silk"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
ALICE CALHOUN
in
"Savage Passions"

Sunday, May 29
TOM MIX
in
"Outlaws of Red River"

He Kissed Many But Loved One!

John Barrymore in a scene from "The Beloved Rogue"

JOHN BARRYMORE AS THE DEVIL-MAY-CARE SONG SINGER, IRRESISTIBLE, WITTY, FROLICSOME IDOL OF THE UNDERWORLD

"THE BELOVED ROGUE" ROMANTIC SPECTACLE HERE NEXT WEEK

Of all the romantic figures in history, the most complex character is Francois Villon, fifteenth century poet of Paris, whose life inspired John Barrymore to make "The Beloved Rogue."

Villon's exploits and verses alike remain alive in the minds of men. A gentlemanly student, at the same time he found his closest friends among the beggars and the pick-pockets of the Paris streets. Writer of delightful verse, he still stooped at times to housereaking and other unworthy things where wits alone proved his salvation.

The story is told of Villon that one one occasion, craving wine, he climbed across the rooftops and through a casement window and stole two pitchers, dropping one of them to his two companions in the street below. Part of the problem thus was solved, buth there still remained the necessity of finding wind. So the three repaired to an inn, one of the number hiding beneath his cloak a pitcher filled with rain water. Villon, demanding the best wine of the tavern keeper, had the other pitcher filled with it. At an opportune moment he exchaged it for the pitcher concealed by his friend.

Lifting that one to his lips, he tasted of the contents, and, spitting furiously, denounced the inn keeper and disgustedly proclaimed the fluid to be water, which was the truth. Heaping further abuse upon the head of the landlord, he emptied the water into the wine cask, and, with his companions, strode from the place, possessed of a pitcher of excellent wine and at peace with the world.

This incident in the life of Francois Villon is one of the many amusing bits in "The Beloved Rogue"

CHANEY IN ROLE OF MANDARIN
Gift of Valuable Beads Given Him by Chinese School Girls for Costume

Lon Chaney is now the owner of a complete costume of a full-fledged Chinese mandarin.

Chaney, who for some years, has been a collector of chinese works of art, recently purchased a mandarin costume which is said to have been worn at one time by a famous mandarin of western China.

The costume was complete with the exception of the jade eads often worn by the high Oriental officials.

It was during the filming of "Mr. Wu," Lon Chaney's latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle, that Chaney secured the valuable beads that made his costume complete. They were presented to him by some two dozen Chinese girls, studnts (sic) in the Los Angeles High Schools, who claimed that they were imported direct from China following the Boxer rebellion.

In addition to these Chinese "American" girls, who play "atmosphere" parts in the picture, the supporting cast ia a notable one, including Renee Adoree, Gertrude Olmsted, Louise Dresser, Holmes Herbert, Anna May Wong, Claude King and others.

PARIS REBORN IN "BELOVED ROGUE"

The "Court of Miracles," which flourished during the reign of Louis XI in the fifteenth century, is one of the most colorful settings in "The Beloved Rogue," John Barrymore's fascinating presentation of the life of Francois Villon.

The blind see and the maimed walk in the Court of Miracles. In keeping with the name, such miracles are nightly happinings there, for the Court of Miracles is the rendezous of the beggars of the Paris streets, where the "blind" beggars remove their spectacles, the maimed unstrap their distorted arms and legs and hearing is restored to the "deaf," so that all may enjoy each other's company when the day"s activity is finished.

OH FOR THE LIFE OF A MOVIE DIRECTOR!

Following her usual custom of giving a birthday party to every director whose birth-date occurs within the time taken to produce one of her Cosmopolitan productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Marion Davies tenders a party to Sidney Franklin, director of "Quality Street." the handsome Lothario at the left is Conrad Nagel, leading man in this picturization of Sir James M. Barrie's story, who shared in the festivities.

LON CHANEY AS RUSSIAN PEASANT IN NEXT PICTURE

Lon Chaney, having in his career as "the man of a thousand faces" appeared in almost all conceivable guises, from that of a sergeant in the Marine Corps to that of a Chinese mandarin, will be seen shortly as a Russian moujik in "Terror," a story of Stig Esbern dealing with the Siberian Red Revolution of 1917. Chaney will play the role of a peasant crushed by oppression and hardship to the point where he can bear no more and revolts against his taskmasters.

OUR TRUE INTENT IS ALL FOR YOUR DELIGHT

"ADAM AND EVIL" FOR CODY-PRINGLE

"Adam and Evil" has been chosen as the new title of the initial Lew Cody-Aileen Pringle comedy vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which went into production several weeks ago under the working title, "His Brother from Brazil."

Studio executives are enthusiastic regarding the possibilities of these two popular players as a comedy team.

10,000 MILES OF FILM USED YEARLY

If the amount of film used every year by the Metro-Goldwyn-ayer studios were splices into one piece, it would cover the distance more than four times between their New York office and the studio at Culver City, California.

This rather startling information was revealed by a check of the books in the accounting office, where a record of every foot of film is kept. More than ten thousand miles of positive and negative film is used yearly in the production of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.

OLD PROSPECTORS RELIVE GOLD RUSH IN "TRAIL OF '98"

Dozens of old "sourdoughs" who cleaned up in the Klondike gold fields but couldn't get past the outposts of gambling houses on the fringe of civilization are living the days of more than a quarter-century ago by working as prospectors in "the Trail of '98," directed by Clarence Brown.

On the decks of the "City of Topeka" and the "Homer," two of the small steamers which took part in the mad rush towards the Arctic Circle in 1898, the old prospectors are working daily before the big battery of motion picture cameras which are recording Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's epic of the frozen North.

Across the shoulders at the San Pedro docks are swung the great pokes carried by the first successful miners who landed at San Francisco, when the "Excelsior" docked, bringing one-half million dollars in gold nuggets and, what was more inportant -- news of the great discovery of placer gold.

Since the famous rush the "City of Topeka" has had her name changed to "Waimes," but she has taken on her first name for picture purposes. The "Homer" has changed her name to "Excelsior" for the same reason.

UNUSUAL PET!

Rex Ingram, famous Metro-Goldwyn Director, has a strange animal for a pet--A lemur. This odd creature resembles a fox and descends from the Monkey family, having hands like those of a monkey, an inhabitant of Madagascar. "The Garden of Allah" is Ingram's latest production. Alice Terry, Rex's wife, is the star.

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