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Page Six ''The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERA! Film Capital Production Notes SPECIAL PICTURES Louise Fazenda left this week for a nationwide tour of the principal cities of America. Miss Fazenda is making a new sort of "personal appearance" tour. She is not booked to appear in a single theater, but instead will be the guest of honor at various luncheons, banquets, receptions and dances given by chambers of commerce, exhibitors' associations, press clubs, advertising clubs, and other civic bodies. She will be gone six weeks, returning to start on her first independently produced comedy for the A. L. Hart Productions in January. Stanley Laurel, English music hall comedian, who has just finished a tour of the Keith and Orpheum circuits in his own vaudeville headline act, has been placed under contract by the Special Pictures Corporation. After playing in an all-star Reggie Morris Comiclassic with Neely Edwards, Charlotte Merriam, and Dave Morris, he is to be given his own company and featured in his own releases. Marcella Pershing, niece of the general, who recently signed a contract to be featured in comedies with Neely Edwards, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin and others, has been loaned by Special, for one picture, to Art Acord. Joseph A. Quinn, special sales supervisor of Special Pictures, has returned to the studios after an extended tour of the Pacific coast. "Too Many Husbands" is the title of a Comiclassic two-reel release started this week with an all-star cast under the personal supervision of Reggie Morris. AT THE BRUNTON STUDIO Robert Kidd, head of the Rrunton Studio!> scenario department and assistant to Robert Brunton, is conducting a still hunt through the book and stage play market for material from which to adapt a series of all-star features. In addition to his editorial duties, Mr. Kidd recently completed two screen dramas of his own, which will probably be produced in the spring. Director W. S. Van Dyke has taken Ruth Roland and her troupe of cowpunchers to the town of Daggett, on the Mojave desert, to film several thousand feet of exteriors for the final episodes of the star's latest adventure serial, "The Avenging Arrow." Eddie Heam and Al. Jennings have important parts in this production. Final camera work has been completed on Benjamin B. Hampton's latest feature, "There Was a King in Egypt." Howard Hickman is the director of this production, and Claire Adams heads the cast. AT UNIVERSAL Work upon "False Colors," Priscilla Dean's forthcoming screen drama, in which the star is being directed by Stuart Paton, has commenced. Originally the story appeared in a popular magazine from the pen of Edwina Levin. It was adapted to the bcreen by Lucien Hubbard and Doris Schroeder. Edward Kull is bringing the serial, "The Diamond Queen," starring Eileen Sedgwick, to its final episodes. Eddie Polo and his company are on the high seas en route to Cuba. J. P. McGowan is heading the expedition and will direct the serial star in "The Seal of Satan," a chaptered drama which will be made in the West Indies. Vin Moore is now directing Dorothy Wolbert in "Her Pictures," a new one-reeler. Production is well started on "Cinderella Jane." Carmel Myers is starring under the direction of Rollin Sturgeon. HART COMPANY HOME Meal Hart and his company have returned from a ten-day trip through Death Valley, where location scenes for "Danger Valley" were taken. Mr. Hart is directing and starring in his pictures. GEORGE WEBB Casts of the Week Doubleday Productions "THE RANGER AND THE LAW" Directed by Robert Kelly Francelia Billington Le.ster Cuneo Roy Watson Phil Gastork Universal "THE MILLIONAIRE KID" Directed by Harry B. Harris Gladys Walton C. W. Herzinger Harold Austin Antrim Short Joe Neary Scotty McGregor Wadsworth Harris Universal "FALSE COLORS" Directed by Stuart Paton Priscilla Dean Harry Van Meter Rex Rosselli May Giraci Metro "THE UNCHARTED SEA" Directed by Wesley Ruggles Alice Lake Carl Gerard Rudolph Valentino Fred Turner Charles Mailes Rhea Haines COMPANY STARTS AT ANAHEIM The Molina Film Corporation, backed by General Royer, has recently been formed and will produce at the general's ranch near Anaheim. A series of two-reel comedies will be filmed first, starring Henrique Molina. John Hoenvest will handle the direction. AT THE GOLDWYN STUDIO Samuel Goldwyn, president of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, left New York, Saturday, for Los Angeles, where he will spend some time conferring with officials at th.e West Coast studio. Director Reginald Barker and company have arrived safely at Banff, Canada, where they will make snow scenes for Katherine Ncwlin Burt's story, "Snow Blindness." Paul Bern, directing the twelfth episode of the Booth Tarkington "Edgar" stories, completed his cast this week. Rupert Hughes is spending every day on the set where "Mr. and Miserable Jones," his first original photoplay, is being filmed under the direction of E. Mason Hopper. Clarence Badger is preparing to direct Will Rogers' next picture, which has not been named as yet. Charles Kenyon has nearly finished the continuity for his original story, "The Alibi." Elmer L. Rice has finished the screen version of "The Christian" by Hall Caine. Gerald C. Duffy is working on the continuity of an original story by Leroy Scott. AT THE REALART STUDIO Bebe Daniels has completed work in "Ducks and Drakes," her latest production. Miss Daniels will rest for a few days and then start work on a new photoplay adapted by Alice Eyton from a Nina Wilcox Putnam story in The Saturday Evening Post. Frank V. Biggy has resigned as superintendent of the laboratory. He is succeeded by Harry Ensign, who has been assistant superintendent for some time. On the day of his departure Mr. Biggy was presented with a gold watch by the studio employees in appreciation of his long service. AT VITAGRAPH The finished print of "Black Beauty" was shipped this week from Western Vitagraph to the company's laboratory and studios in Brooklyn, where it will be finally edited by I^ilHan and George Randolph Chester. It will be released early in the new year. The interior of the Florence. Ariz., prison has been duplicated at the Vitagraph studio for scenes in "Three Sevens." Antonio Moreno's first feature, now being made under the direction of Chester Bennett. Larry Semon this week completed exteriors for his new special comedy, "The Hick." and is starting studio scenes. William Duncan and Edith Johnson are working in the ninth and tenth episodes of their chapter play, "Fighting Fate." Joe Ryan, now directing his own serial, "The Purple Riders," a western story, will have ten episodes finished before the first of the year. Director Jess Robbins and Jimmy Aubrey are finishing up a new comedy. DWAN STARTS "THE PERFECT CRIME" Charles W. Herzinger is working in I^uis Gasnier's production at the Robertson-Cole studio. Monte Blue has been engaged by Allan Dwaii to play the leading role in his second Associated Producers' release, "The Perfect Crime." Work on the production has started at the Hollywood studios. Since his return from New York two weeks ago Mr. Dwan has been busy preparing the script for the picture which he himself will direct. The story is the work of Carl Clausen, and originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Jacqueline Logan, a Ziegfeld girl imported from the Follies by Mr. Dwan, will play the leading feminine role opposite Mr. Blue. The major part of the cast has not yet been chos(Continued on Pase lb)