Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

2236 Motion Picture News ring as a fire-breathing, rip-snorting move director. Miss Russell is cultivating the friendship of Babe, the largest elephant. She will work with Babe in several scenes, and is taking no changes on a misunderstanding. Cameraman Paul Strand photographing one of the multitude of juvenile entrants in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Child Movie Star contest in New York City. TOFF FOR BIRMINGHAM HE Pennsylvania station, New York City, saw an assemblage of stars, executives and technical people such as it rarely witnesses the other day, when the "Men of Steel" company departed to Birmingham, Ala., for six weeks on location in the iron mines and steel mills of the U. S. Steel corporation. Included in the party were Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Mae Allison, Claude Gillingwater, George Fawcett, and Victor McLaglen. Director George Archainbaud, Business Manager Fred Stanley and several other executives preceded the party to Birmingham to make the necessary arrangements. J FILMING UNDER CANVAS OHN LOWELL, L. Case Russell and Evangeline Russell, the family trio that has been responsible for several outstanding independent productions, are now travelling through the South with Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch Wild West show, filming a picture under the working title, "On With the Show." George Terwilliger is directing, and Dave Gobbett presides at the camera. Jane Thomas has joined the troupe. The show is featuring the fact that it has a real, live movie company, director and all, to the benefit of the box-office. George Terwilliger, one of the most modest and soft-spoken of men, is introduced from the sawdust N THE CONTINENTAL TOUCH OW that the arrangement with P. A. Powers by which Eric von Stroheim will direct for Paramount, it is interesting to speculate on the possibilities of this. It would be intriguing in the extreme to see this brilliant master of the megaphone assigned to the direction of Pola Negri, who has been suitably directed only once or twice since her arrival on these shores. There would be the clash of temperaments, yes — but no more so than in a recent instance which is now history — and if the result were equally brilliant it would be well worth the fur that would fly. This, be it understood in passing, is not a rumor. Just an idle speculation. (This is not America's leading rumorous weekly). WPRE-VIEWING SAM'S OPUS ITH a number of First National executives in attendance, "Clothes Make the Pirate," Sam E. Rork's production presenting Leon Errol, was pre-viewed the other night at the Playhouse, Rye, N. Y., with great success. Marion Davies and her party arriving at Loew's State theatre, Los Angeles, for the opening of "Lights of Old Broadway" (Metro-GoldwynMayer). Left to right: Rosemary Davies, Marion, Charles Spencer Chaplin and Mrs. Chaplin, and Madame Elinor Glyn. Ethel Shannon, who heads the cast of the Henry Ginsberg release, "The Phanton Express," doesn't believe in cigarettes for ivomen — which she demonstrates with an El Ropo to Director John G. Adolfi, David Butler and Samuel Briskin, of Banner Productions. FNOT BOOSTING BERLIN ROM R. C. Steuve, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, Canton, Ohio, now touring Germany, comes the following post-card comment : "Greetings from the land where they need improvements in the moving picture business. Only one hundred years behind us!" Well, it might have been worse. What's a century or so nowadays with things scurrying along at the present lightning pace? ATOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON NYONE shouting "Tom" during the filming of "The Bad Man" would have collected a crowd rather than an individual. After being trampled upon in the rush a few times, Director J. G. Blystone resorted to all sorts of nicknames to avoid the collective "Tom," a singularly synonymous appellation (laff that off!), in this particular case. The principal "Toms" were: Tom Mix, Tom Wilson, Tom Kennedy and Tom Robinson. And we suppose they played on tom-toms after a dinner opened by a round of tomato soup, and the "torn" cats howled outside — but we must stop, before we descend to puns about p-tom-aine poisoning. Anyway, the four Toms weighed 768 pounds, in case you should want to know.