Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

^ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiilliillllilillilil = Copyrighted 1922, by Ted Taylor Tfteff/gesi of i/re Motion Pieiure /rK/usir/ DEVOTED TO THE NEWS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY TED TAYLOR, PUBLISHER s Entered as second class matter. August 11, 1918, at the postoflice at Los Angeles, Cal., under act of March 3, 1879. Fred W. Fox Advertising Manager Ora Brook Circulation Manager Ruth Wing ..Managing Editor Doris Mortlock Assistant Editor ^= Price 10 cents per copy, $2.00 per year in Los Angeles County. Outside Zone, $2.50 per year. Canada, $3.00; Foreign, $3.50 ^= Edited and printed on Saturday afternoon of each week at 4513 Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. Phone 595-179 rTiinilllNlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllNllillllilliiiillliiniilluilliiiilliliiliiNililliiilliillliiiiiiiiiiuiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiim iiii i uiiNMiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiuiiii iiiiimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i ii iiumiuiiiiiiiiniiiu imiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiu iii iiiimii uiiiiiiiiiNNiiiiiiNiiiiiiiinuuilllir Vol. V. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1922 No. 22 ^c\ioo\ Day Essays IN g-rammar school days our favorite topic of holiday essays was : "Is the world growing better or worse?" And 10 and 12-year-olds would discuss the sins and virtues of a wide world they had not seen and knew not of. Now the topic has been changed by time. It is : "Are motion pictures becoming better or worse?" The debaters are not children, but grown-up persons. Yet they have as little knowledge of motion pictures as the children had of the world. The discussions are solemn and full of soundingphrases, yet seldom do they show more insight that the dictionary-groomed essays of school days. The merits of pictures are the merits of the world. Good pictures mingle with bad pictures. Good people mingle with bad people. It is not for us to grieve that some are bad ; it is up to us to work to make more good. R. W. share a small portion of the credit with the man who takes his risk for him. TED TAYLOR. ^ ^ 5k The Sword We Sell WHILE the Anti-Saloon league machinery is being oiled up for motion picture censorship, the Bone Dry federation of California declares it intends to use the screen to further propaganda in behalf of the Volstead act and the eighteenth amendment. "People won't listen to speeches, won't read 'literature,' won't stay put in political parties. For every voter who does do one of these things, one thousand see motion pictures." There's the professional reformer's admission of the poivcr of the screen. Maybe some day we'll use our own power for ourselves. Screen Credit for Risks THE double, who risks his life to gain heroworshippers for a star, has received credit for his daring in at least one film. Hal Martin, double, was seriously injured in diving from the mast of a ship at sea for a scene in "A Sailor Tramp," produced in England. In tribute his name was used on the screen. In the past year one or two doubles have lost their lives or have been severely hurt in performing feats for American stars. Perhaps, occasionally, some American star may Electric-Light Success SAYS Nellie Revell, the cheery prisoner of a plaster cast, in one of her "Bed-side Chats" for Variety : "Last week when I promised I wasn't going to put Edcfie Cantor's name in my column again I forgot that I wanted to tell you this story about him : I remarked that I was so glad to see that his success had not spoiled him. 'Listen, Nellie,' he said, 'no little electric sign is going to run away with me. When I first saw my name in electric lights I, of course, was happy and proud, but I soon reflected that a five-cent chewing gum had an electric sign 20 times larger than mine and so I determined to keep my head. Whenever I feel that there is danger of my becoming conceited I go and stand near that enormous chewing gum sign and it has an effect on me the advertising never intended.' "