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

CAMERA ! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry' Page Twenty-one SCREEN STORIETTES Those who abandon an occupation which has brought them a full measure of success for the sake of an ideal are few and therefore unusually interesting. Hence this focusing of attention on Lucy Beaumont, who has just arrived in Los Angeles to dedicate herself exclusively to enacting mother roles in motion pictures after a brilliant career of twenty years' duration on the speaking stage of New York, London and most all parts of the world. She bade farewell to the footlights just as she reached the height of her success to embrace the opportunities of reaching more and larger audiences through the medium of film because she is eager to contribute her full share towards inculcating a spirit of greater respect for mothers in the firm belief that a return to old-fashioned notions of loyalty to parents will wield more influence than any other single force towards solving most of the national and international problems confronting the world nowadays. "If the importance of mothers were more deeply impressed and if the object lessons she holds for all humanity were shown more in the close-up of men's affairs, I am confident most of this terrible inclination tc quarrel and fight would be eliminated and I think impressive characterizations on the screen in relation to the right kinds of stories will do much to help in this desirable eliminating," Miss Beaumont says. "I have high hopes of making millions of people feel the true impulses of the good mother and thereby causing them to settle down to a fenore amicable consideration of all matters in dispute. According to my way of thinking, the screen offers the greatest possible medium for spreading thoughts of goodness such as will inspire universal goodness and I aspire to be instrumental by using my knowledge of dramatic expression, whatever it may be worth, to serve such a useful purpose. It is my ideal, the ideal that has won me away from the stage for the wider latitude of the screen." "Parson Fred" isn't a sky pilot any more. He has signed a contract to star in Universal pictures. He is now co-starring with Ann Little in the Universal chapter play, "The Eagle's Talons." From the athletic field into the pulpit and now seeking fame before the camera is the thumb-nail history of Fred Thomson. While a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles several years ago he was studying to become a structural engineer, Thomson became the athletic sensation of the mest and won the national all-round track and field championship at Franklin Field, Chicago, the first time that a western athlete had ever carried off this honor. That same year he decided to enter the ministry and began his theological studies in Princeton. The next summer, as a member of the Princeton track and field team he again won the National championship at Franklin Field. Then, he went into the ministry and preached from coast to coast. During the war he served as chaplain of the 143rd Field Artillery and became known as "Parson Fred." It was during a football game on the Camp Kearney field at San Diego, in honor of Mary Pickford, honorary colonel of the regiment, that Thomson was requested by Miss Pickford to change his vocation at the end of the war from the ministry to the movies. Thomson had his leg broken during the game and during the weeks of his convalescence Miss Pickford visited him often. Miss Pickford persuaded him to appear as her leading man in one production at the end of the war. Thomson made his initial debut before the camera with her in Yes! — We Are Really Sure! Everybody Wondered If We Would Ever WE DID WE WILL WE ARE Better Join with Us Right Now MOTION PICTURE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION, Inc. MONTE WEST— Casting Director HARRY C. ELLS, Secretary-Treasurer JACK CARROLL — Studio Representative Open daily and Sunday, 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. 1614 Cahuenga Avenue Phones 435-252 435-253 Hollywood, Calif. "Service to Producer and Justice to Performer" Rapid Efficient Thorough National types of all kinds. A special department for children. The same care is given in the selection of supporting atmosphere as is given to the cast. THE SERVICE BUREAU 1036 South Hill Street Telephone: 821-071 "Make-up Headquarters of the Motion Picture Industry" the Why is it that SO MANY people prefer to buy make-up here? We believe it is because we are constantly endeavoring to give them the best in make-up at a price that carries a FAIR profit for us and because they appreciate it! .... 819 South Hill Street Telephone Pico 498 ZAN "The Love Light." He has had many important roles in pictures since that time. Thomson was signed by Universal for a long term and is now preparing reels of thrills for the motion picture public by his daring performances in "The Eagle's Talons." Daniel Boone, George Washington, General Braddock, Thomas Jefferson are living their lives over again in one corner of the city of shadowland. Boone and his hardy frontiersmen battle with real Indians — patriots of the days when America was in" the making, and grapple again with the problems of a new nation's independence. The world will see them, in a few months, in the chapter play "Daniel Boone' 'a history lesson in celluloid featuring Jack Mower and Eileen Sedgwick. Charitable enterprises seem to be demanding most of the leisure of studio workers who are popularly supposed to hie themselves to jazz palaces immediately after wiping the grease paint of labor from their brows. Raising funds for the Childrens' Hospital and the Studio Club— Hollywood's home for its ambitious girl workers — is the chief business of the day. Gaston Glass has devised a method of raising cash that has proved effective, and a warning to studio visitors. The everpresent star chair, bearing his name in large letters on its back, may be used by visitors for a substantial contribution only. Since the price of a brief rest in the coveted chair is not named by Glass until after its occupant is comfortably seated, the sum collected has mounted to a respectable figure. Olga Printzlau, Eve Unsell, June Mathis and practically all of the well known writers, are spending their waking hours adding to the building fund that is expected to serve as a foundation for a great structure that will house Hollywood's girl picture workers. Carmelita in "Rosita" When Carmelita Geraghty appeared before Ernest Lubitsch who had reviewed that day only 100 fair damsels for the role of a Spanish favorite for Mary Pickford's new production, "Rosita" which he is directing, he immediately said, "You are just the type." For that Miss Geraghty feels she is indebted to her mother's nationality, who is Spanish and from the famous De Cessaros family of San Francisco. The young actress is now appearing in the Cosmopolitan film, "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" in the making at Goldwyn's. Some Survival of Fittest Although it was released in April a year ago and was heavily booked from the beginning, Associated Exhibitors' picturization of "Silas Marner," George Eliot's classic, continues in great demand. Not only has this feature proved a popular and profitable attraction in leading theatres everywhere, but it is believed to have been booked by a larger number of non-theatrical enterprises — notably schools, than almost any other film ever made.