Show J jy x u r-u aJ Hollywood STERNBERG IS A HAIL STERNBERG GENIUS Ey Dy NEA N EA Service HOLLYWOOD Cal Oct 01 1 The man who failed has come comeback back Ho lb is Josef Joset von Sternberg Von Yon Sternberg who a few years back was known as plain Joe Sternberg has more pictures ou on the shelves of film studios than any an other person in the cinema village And yet et despite his al al- almost almost most consistent flops he has bas seldom been beets without a Job that job that thatis is since he tacked some extra let letters on his name Some years ears ago Von Yon Sternberg made The Salvation Hunters for Charlie Chaplin The picture was a sensation But Dut he couldn't repeat First one studio and then another gave him a chance hop- hop hopIng hopIng Ing log that ho would come through again He lie didn't his didn't-his his films were terrible In most cases too bad to tobe tobe tobe be released Just about the tho time everyone around the celluloid hamlet was beginning to agree that Von was through and would never be able ablo to do O anything elso Chaplin sign sIgn- signed sIgned signed ed him hie to direct another film star starring starring ring Edna Purviance Chaplin was the only man mall whose faith re reo re- re unshaken but even at that he lie couldn't let the picture go out It it was too bad Chaplins Chaplin's act In shelving Von Van Sternberg's production was the final blow The director quietly faded from sight But Dut he lie couldn't bo be kept down Maybo Maybe Its It's because he be carries a cane cano and wears all allor of or his clothes about three sizes too large Hollywood loves that sort of stuff stuff regards regards it as a mark manic of ot genius Anyway Von Yon Sternberg bobbed up again as tho the director of or Un Underworld Underworld Den Ben Hecht's story of or Chicago go Practically every ery newspaper writer In Holly Hollywood Hol wood panned U U. P. P tar for signing signing- him The act was re ref regarded garde l as Just a 3 waste of ot a few fat rj Ji jp JOSEF VON STERNBERG hundred thousand dollars and aud one of ot tho best beit stories ever written The rho scriveners were wrong Underworld Is la one of ot the best ten released so far this year Naturally berg Is gloating Few know of ot the battles ho had with studio executives before re he could convince them that on Von Sternberg should be signed Now they're all trying to grab a por pore portion lion tion of ot the glory that belongs belons en en- entirely entirely entirely to B D P. P tha th tha man roan who played a II hunch Because of or the tremendous suc sue success cogs cess of ot Underworld Von ou was i assigned tho the almost Impossible task of cutting Erich on von Siro- Siro helms helm's The Th Wedding March He held that Job only A I. I few tew weeks the noted German director patch patch- patchIng patching Ing up his quarrels with studio of Of- officials Officials and returning to the cutting room roam himself Von on Sternberg Is now directing Emil JennIngs in io his bis new 1 production production tion ion as yet jet et untitled entitled And all Hollywood is fa talking his great 81 ability They're There like that out here here forgetting foi getting very quickly I |