Exhibitors Herald (1927)

24 EXHIBITORS HERALD March 19, 1927 Eastern Studios Emptying Into West with Every Train Lloyds Back from Vacation — Roach IVins Rex Suit — Miss Avery, Warn pas Star, Announces Marriage — Rubens Joins Considine, Jr. By RAY MURRAY Hollywood, March is. — Production people are arriving on every train. Paramount’s Long Island studios are emptying into Hollywood. Vacationers are returning. Between picture folk and between contract folk are entering new jobs. Harold Lloyd reaches here with Mrs. Lloyd March 18 after a week of New York. /^N the same train are Lois Wilson, headed for the F. B. O. studios, and Frances Agnew, scenarist. A day later will come Bess Meredyth, adapter of “Ben Hur,” “Don Juan,” and other notable pieces, Blanche Sweet, Marshall Neilan and his press representative, Margaret Ettinger. Lawrence Hitt, Famous Players art director, arrived earlier in the week. He was accompanied by Van Nest Polglase. Ralph Block, editor in chief of the closing Long Island studio, will be here within a few days. Others arriving are Ray S. Harris, Sam Mintz, Fred P'leck, casting director, Julian Fleming, art director, Robert G. Vignola, director, Lynn Shores, assistant director, J. M. Jerauld and William H. W right. * * * Many notables arrived here last week. The list included John J. McGuirk, president Stanley Company, Philadelphia; E. V. Richards of the Saenger Amusement Company, New Orleans; Fred Levy of Louisville, Ky. ; H. O. Schwalbe of New York and Walter Hayes, vicepresident Mark Strand theatres. New York. They are on the Coast to confer with M. C. Levee, John McCormick and others of the First National studio. * * * Roach Wins Laiv Suits Hal Roach, comedy producer, has successfully defended the claims of Vingie E. Rowe-Lawton, who recently asserted the producer had appropriated some of her story for the filming of several motion pictures featuring the wild horse Re.x. * * * P ampas Star Is Bride Patricia Avery, one of this year’s Wampas stars, surprised her many friends with the announcement of her marriage to Merrill Pye, art director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, on April 3, 1926. They were married in Ontario, Cal. * * * Harold Dean Carsey, well known Hollywood photographer, who was recently sued by Betty Baker for alleged distribution of her photos without permission, has brought a counter complaint declaring she has damaged his reputation as a photographer to the extent of' $100,000. * * Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount director, who is making “Old Heidelberg” for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was confined to his home in Beverly Hills with influenza for several days. Work on the big M-G-M special was held up due to his illness. * * * Wampas to Meet in Mexico The Wampas boys will this year hold their annual installation at Mexicali, Mexico, next Saturday. They will breakfast at the Breakfast Club Friday morn ing and leave via Southern Pacific for the Mexican border. * * * Lya de Putti, who has been vacationing in New York, returned home last Friday and will make her next picture at Universal. * ^ * Gil Pratt, who recently signed with F. B. O. to direct several pictures, will start on his next, “Clancy’s Kosher W’edding,” today. ^ ^ Patsy Ruth Miller Vacationing Patsy Ruth Miller, who has completed her contract with Warner Brothers with the shooting of the final scenes of “The First Auto,” is enjoying her first vacation in several months. She will likely make one picture with another company in April. * * Alma Rubens, who recently left the Fox organization to become a freelance player, has signed with John W. Considine, Jr., to play the only feminine role in “Two Arabian Knights.” * * * Phyllis Haver has just signed a new long term contract with Metropolitan Pictures and will remain with that company for some time to come. At present she is playing opposite Emil Jannngs in the Paramount production “The Way of All Flesh.” ^ ^ ^ To stimulate interest in amateur theatricals and develop new faces for the screen, Reginald Barker, former president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, offers a handsome trophy cup for the best non-professional performance in 1927 in Los Angeles. ** Metropolis** Chosen for Photoplay Guide ( Special to the Herald) NEW YORK, March 15.— The Ufa-Paramount attraction, “Metropolis,” has been selected for the Photoplay Guide, the National Board of Review announced. Further, the picture has been given an asterisk and recommended to the critique committee for consideration as an exceptional picture. In making its assignment, the board said : “This selection was made because it is an absorbing, imaginative picture of the society of the future, and because of its remarkable technical innovations in settings and in cinema work. The entertainment value makes it suitable for the general audience.” San Antonio Men Form Satire Film Company (Special to the Herald) SAN ANTONIO, March 15.— The Satire Moving Picture Corporation has been organized in San Antonio by local men. Their program calls for the production of two-reel College Comedies and Western Comedies, as well as five-reel Western features. Re-Takes ^XJELL, as I said in my address before * ^ the Society for Furnishing Gargle for California Bobolinks, last week, this writing a column every week isn’t all a bed of roses, even though you do get three hundred berries every Saturday morning. * * * No, sir, one day you’re brushing elbows with James Montgomery Flagg, and a bunch of other well known artists, at a Wampas banquet held in the Elks club, with Bob Doman acting as chairman, with a string of vaudeville talent that would knock your eye out, and the next you’re eating chili with Jack Townley of the Hollywood News. And so it goes. * * Only today (this was written Saturday after the aforesaid check was received) while sitting with a jovial bunch of highpowered newspaper boys at the Montmartre, somebody said : “Well, I look for big changes in the film industry this year.” About ten years ago Freddie Schader pulled the same wise-crack while discussing the situation with the writer in New York which only goes to prove that these news hounds know what they are talking about. * * ' * Cal’s Cubs Wasn’t that thoughtful of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa, to send President Coolidge a couple of lion cubs. Cal will have to set aside a couple of hours a day now to romp with them, so it isn’t likely there’ll be any cut in the income tax this year. He won’t get around to it. * * * Stringent BUI Did you see where Parliament is considering a bill to compel exhibitors to play 7)4 per cent of British-made films in England. There’s a chance for some enterprising film bootlegger to get busy. * * Stop Me If You’ve Heard This And speaking of exhibitors it takes a lot to satisfy some of them doesn’t it. Suppose you have heard the story about the theatreman who wouldn’t buy “The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary” because he painted his own signs and the title was too long. * * * Famous Last Words “I had a great part in that picture but — ” * I see the Naked Truth Dinner this year is going to be an “international affair.” That ought to take in Hollywood, doesn’t it? R.M. Ontario Theatre Robbed in Canadian Crime Series (Special to the Herald) WALLACEBURG, ONT., March IS.— The Temple theatre is the latest Canadian theatre to suffer loss through robbery, several hundred dollars having been taken from the manager’s office early Sunday morning. Other box office robberies have taken place at Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton and Hull. Milliken Tells W.C.T.U. How to Get Good Films (Special to the Herald) BOSTON, MASS., March 15.— Carl E. Milliken, representing Will H. Hays, spoke on “How to Secure Better Pictures for Better People” at the first state conference on motion pictures of the new division of the Massachusetts State Women’s Christion Temperance Union.