Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

CAMERA! Weekly Wahe'Em-U >— CAMERA'S News Section Page Eleven LURE OF HOLLYWOOD DEPRIVES HOLLAND OF PLAY LEW CODY ADDED TO GOLDWYN'S STAR LIST Lew Cody is the latest celebrity to be added to the ever increasingGoldwyn stock company. Announcement was made this week that a long-term contract had been signed with (he star in New York, where he is now playing in a picture. Cody's excellent work as the villain in Rupert Hughes' "Souls for Sale" is responsible for his engagement. He will return to the coast as soon as he completes his present engagement and will have an important role in one of the big productions now in preparation. Cody has been in pictures for nine years and has been starred and featured most of the time. He has played for nearly all the leading companies. Before going on the screen he was a well-known stage actor in New York and in stock. He was born in Berlin, N. H., and educated at McGill University, Montreal. The Goldwyn Studios have created a sensation in film circles by the signing of such a large number of distinguished players. The stock company now consists of the following: Frank Mayo, Mae Busch, Claire Windsor, Eleanor Boardman, Helene Chadwick, Raymond Griffith, James Kirkwood, George Walsh, Hobart Bosworth, Conrad Nage!, Patsy Ruth Miller, Kate Lester, William Haines, Cecil Holland, Lucien Littlefleld, Aileen Pringle, Kathleen Key, Jean Haskell, William Orlamond, Ted Edwards, ^and the latest addition, Lew Cody. This is Jack Parker who refuses to be called Jackie because he is adverse, to appearing in the light of imitating Jackie Coogan. Jack is six years old and has been in pictures ZV2 years. "To Have and to Hold" was one of his best releases. Because motion pictures are made in Hollywood ,the people of Amsterdam, Holland, will not be able to see Peer Gynt this year. Although this statement may seem ambiguous to some and unimportant to others, it bears a deep significance because it shows to what extent the foreign field is being drawn upon for artists and artisans by the American film industry. Six months ago, Svend Gade, celebrated Danish producer and designer, came to America from Copenhagen, Denmark, to stage "Johannes Kreisler," rated as the most unique and revolutionary theatrical productions ever seen on Broadway where it enjoyed a long run this season. When Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were in New York last fall, Miss Pickford decided COMEDIAN GETS SHOCK IN FORM OF GOLD MINE Returning from Balboa, California, where he had been "shooting" scenes for his forthcoming Fox production, Al St. John, comedy star, arrived in Hollywood recently to learn that he was the owner of a potential gold mine. For the past few yeai's the comedian has been associated with a syndicate of Los Angeles business men who have been buying city and farm properties in California, and St. John gave power of attorney to his associates recently when he expected to be away from the city for several days. During the comedian's absence, the syndicate purchased an eighty-acre tract of land which at one time was considered a valuable gold claim, and at Al's suggestion the group will now endeavor to rejuvenate the once-famous property. A crew of miners will be dispatched to the discovery within the next thirty days and a new shaft will be sunk to bedrock. CALL FOR IRISH TYPES DREW MOTLEY MOB OF 'EM The Fine Arts Studio was stormed this week by a mob that gave the appearance of a Hollywood invasion by Irish insurrectionists. The cause was a call sent out by Director Fred Caldwell for Irish types to appear in the comedy feature he is about to start, entitled "Hogan in Hollywood," an original story by J. Stewart Woodhouse. Inasmuch as the script calls for a whole Irish family the mob varied from old men and women down to babes in arms, and there was a continuous flow of sons and daughters of Erin into the offices of the Caldwell company from nine a. m. until five p. m. Mr. Caldwell says he doesn't expect to be able to talk without a brogue for a week or ten days. to engage Svend Gade to design the settings for her next production because he had brought something new to the theatre and she believed he could do likewise for the screen. Gade is now busy on designs for sets for the new Pickford picture. "Film work is so new and so interesting," said Gade, "that I have decided to remain a long time in Hollywood." And that is why the people of Amsterdam, Holland, will not see Peer Gynt this year. Gade was under contract to produce this famous Ibsen play at the royal theatre in Amsterdam, where it was to be presented for an unlimited run, starting May first. Because of his desire to remain in America, the Peer Gynt production has been postponed a year. DEL ANDREWS ADDRESSES PALMER INSTRUCTORS Del Andrews, of Thomas H. Ince's staff of directors, last week addressed a meeting of the entire educational staff of the Palmer Photoplay Corporation in the Palmer Building, Hollywood. While Mr. Andrews took one of the weekly "speech-making" dates on which prominent directors, producers or writers regularly hold forth to the Palmer instructors, taking up subjects of professional interest, his talk concerned "Judgment of the Storm," the first Palmer screen production, which has just been completed under his direction. The story for the production, written by Mrs. Ethel Styles Middleton of Pittsburg, had been discovered by the Advisory Bureau, and the instructors were vitally interested in the high praise given the original story by Mr. Andrews. Wilson-Bailey, who after a long career on the stage and screen returned to her high society life in Washington, D. C, only to yield to the lure of studio life again. Now she is in Hollywood in pictures again. MISS NORMAND TO PLAY "EXTRA GIRL" Mabel Normand, inimitable comedienne of the cinema, is one of the busiest stars of the day. And she has plenty of work to look forward to, for while she is at present being photographed in the title role of "The Extra Girl," plans are already being formulated to launch into a big production of "Mary Anne," immediately upon the completion of the present vehicle. Both stories are from the pen of Mack Sennett and ideally suited to Miss Normand's individuality. The story of "The Extra Girl," embodies a big wholesome theme, and is estimated to prove an ideal vehicle for Miss Normand, star of such previous classics as "Molly'o" and more recently "Suzanna." In her present vehicle, "The Extra Girl," Miss Normand will enjoy ample opportunity to further demonstrate her wistful charm, with one of the best allstar casts ever assembled, including such artists as Ralph Graves in the male lead, George Nichols, Dot Farley, Anna Hernandez and Vernon Dent. F. Richard Jones, supervising director of Mack Sennett productions selected William A. Seiter to direct this latest classic. Homer Scott, well known as one of the best photographers in the profession, and an expert on lighting effects, is in charge of the cameras, cranking first camera himself, as he did with previous Mack Sennett productions starring Mabel Normand. Work is continuing on the filming of the interior scenes in the home of "The Extra Girl," a setting which has been declared a marvel of realism, and which took four weeks until completely constructed in every detail. Phylis Haver had started in this picture, but, according to report, a disagreement brought about the substitution of Miss Normand. POLICE CHIEF OAKS AID MRS. REID ON HER FILM Chief of Police Oaks not only gave Mrs. Wallace Reid permission to film a number of scenes for "Human Wreckage," her anti-narcotic film, in and around the Los Angeles city jail but also loaned her a squad of policemen to work in the picture and assist in handling several hundred "hop-heads," drug addicts and "types" who appear in the scenes. Chief of Police Oaks, as a member of the organization committee of the Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League which is sponsoring the Reid film, has been deeply interested in the development of the production and has visited the Ince studios many times to confer with Mrs. Reid about the picture.