Eleven Million Go to Pictures

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 25

Eleven Million Go to Pictures

American Seating Capaci ;y Statistics from Hollywood announce the existence of 25,000 picture houses in America with a seating capacity of 11,000,000. In Europe, states this dispatch from Paramount, there are 22,000; in Asia, 3,000; in Australia, 1,200, and in Africa SOO, a combined seating total of 21,000,000, or an average of 10.5 theatre seats for every 1,000 of population. 800 Films a Year It is in order to satisfy this public that SOO films a year are turned out of Hollywood. The 52,000 theatres in all parts of the world are constant in their demand for pictures. Films are to them a staple just as sugar and salt are staples to the grocer. Paramount’s contribution at present consists of six films now before the cameras; ten being cut and edited for immediate release, and six others in story preparation to be placed in production within the next three or four weeks. The pictures being cut are Harold Lloyd’s “Speedy”; Fred Thomson’s “The Pioneer Scout”; Erich von Stroheim’s “The Wedding March"; j “The Street of Sin,” with Emil Jannings; Anne Nichols's “Abie’s Irish Rose”; “Red Hair,” starring Clara Bow; the new Wallace Beery-Raymond Hatton comedy, “Partners in Crime." and Esther Ralston’s “Something Always Happens.” In Course of Production The pictures now before the camera incisor “Easy Come, Easy Go,” starring Richard Dix; “Three Sinners,” starring Pola Negri; an untitled picture starring Bebe Daniels; the big Ernst Lubitscli production, 'The Patriot,” in which Emil J;|'i uings is being starred, and a comedy featuring W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin. Another is an Adolphe Menjou picture, not yet titled. The pictures in preparation, a number representative of a normal condition at the Paramount studio, include vehicles for George Bancroft, Adolphe Menjou, Beery and Hatton, Richarc Dix, Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, anc a new one for Clara Bow, tentative!} titled “Ladies of the Mob."