The Moving picture world (May 1920-June 1920)

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June 12, 1920 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1451 LOS ANGELES iBT A.H. GIEBLER, "Mountain Madness," the First Clermont Picture, Is Finished MOUNTAIN AIADNESS," the first feature made by Lloyd Carletoii Productions for Clermont Photoplays Corporation, was finished on time, despite the delays occasioned by the switchmen's strike, when a train robbery, one of the big punches in the picture, was about to be staged; the serious illness of an actress; a change of studios in the middle of the picture; several cases of Klieg eyes and other incidents and accidents to players and producer. Hannibal N. Clermont, president of Clermont Photoplays Corporation, announces the purchase of Bradley King's story, "Beyond the Cross Roads," which will be the second of the six features Lloyd Carleton Productions have contracted to produce for Selznick release. A popular Saturday Evening Post story will be the third offering, and options have been secured upon well-known books for the remaining three. The swift success of the Clermont organization has encouraged them to adopt a policy of expansion and other producing units are to be added at once. The company's present studio capacity will accommodate three units, which will be the limit of the expansion until a new studio can be built. Chinese Merchants Organize Film Company in California THE James B. Leong Productions, Inc., is one of the newest film organizations to enter the film production field on the West Coast. The company has been incorporated under the laws of California, with James B. Leong as president and general manager: D. Siu Yee Chong, secretary; Low Song Kai, treasurer; Chew Kim and T. A. Russell, directors. Most of the capital has been subscribed by prominent Chinese merchants of Los Angeles and San Francisco. The object of the company is to produce clean nictures of the higher Chinese life. "The Porcelain Bell." an original story by James B. Leong. will be one of the first productions to be made by the Chinese company, and later a popular Orientar star will be featured in a series of two-reel comedies depicting the humorous side of Chinese life. James B. Leone assisted in the technical directing of D. W. Griffith's "Broken BIos•soms. Metro's "The Red Lantern," Jesse D. Hampton's "The Pagan God," Lasky's "AU in a Night," and other productions renuiring Chinese atmosphere. The new company is negotiating for snace in one of the local community studios. Fox Officials Coining West. Comes the word from the Western Fox studio that William Fox. head of the Fox Film Corporation, and Winfield Sheehan, general manager of the same organization, are soon to bend for the West Coast, arriving here about the middle of June, with plpns of expansion and progression which will be put into effect at the Fox studio in Hollywood. Program pictures will be discontinued. according to report, and only large and spectacular plays, with all-star casts, will be produced. J. Gordon Edwards, now director of the William Farnum features, is planning to make a super-production of "The Queen of Sheba" some time .this summer. ■ ' Peacocke Working on New Sea Story. Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke, author of the story of "Neptune's Daughter," made into a film a year ago, has begun the production of a companion story which is not named as yet, but has the working title of "Sea Story" at the Bernstein studio on Boyle Heights, where the feature is being filmed. Capt. Peacocke has secured several beautiful and perfectly formed girls to play the leading parts in the sea scenes, and for some of the other action in the story, as many as seven hundred players will be needed. Harry Jones is assembling the cast and M. Mohler is doing the camera work. Lesser & Gore Form New Exchange. Articles of incorporation have been filed for a new distributing organization to be known as the Educational Film Exchange of Southern California. Gore Brothers and Sol Lesser are interested in the enterprise, and Dave Bershon, general manager of the First National Exchange, will have supervision over the new exchange. The company will handle for Southern California and Arizona, the Christie comedies, the Chester Outing pictures, the Chester Screenics, the Educational Films, and a number of other short comedies, travelogues and scenics. Special Buys Burrud Scenics. The Special Pictures Corporation, producers of the Comedyart Films, the novelty subjects that contain a comedy, a scenic and a novelty sketch on each release, announce that they have secui-ed the Burrud scenic pictures, which are being made in out-of-the-way places in this country and others, to be incorporated in the Comedyart releases. An expedition in charge of Cameraman Dick Burrud is to be sent to the frozen north, leaving Seattle about June 10. The party will be joined there by Steward Edward White and Wallace Irwin, two noted authors seeking new fields of adventure. Preview of "Suds" at Pasadena. Mary Pickford's newest picture, "Suds," which has just been finished, was given a pre-release showing at the Strand Theatre in Pasadena recently. The patrons of the house registered their hearty approval of the picture by vociferous applause and a lliiiiitiimiiiiitiii,i,itiiiii„ii„i,„„|„„„„„„„ ,„ iiiiniiiiiriiiiiiiiMriiiiiriiiiiiiriiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitHMiiiMii Attractions Week of May 30 Grauman's: "Sick-a-Bed." California: "Deep Purple." Kinema: "Passion's Playground." Clune's Broadway: "The Dark Mirror." Tally's Broadway: "The Gift Supreme." Superba: "The Path She Chose." Symphony: "In the Days of Daring." Rialto: "Below the Surface (4th week). Palace: "Romance of the Redwoods." Alhambra: Silk Husbands and Calico Wives." Victory: "That Something" (5th week)'. Garrlck: "The Dancln' Fool." demand that Miss Pickford, who was a spectator, make a speech to them — which she did. Little Mary is said to reach even greater heights in "Suds" than she reached as the little slavey in "Stella Maris." Settled Out of Court. The suit of Paul Pelich against Douglas Fairbanks for $25,000 damages has been settled out of court. Pelich was told to exercise a bronco, and in attempting to mount the animal was thrown and painfully injured. Fairbanks' claim was that the man had been instructed not to attempt to mount the bronco and that the injury resulted from disobeying orders. New Theatre for Long Beach. A $125,000 theatre and office building is soon to be erected on the east side of American avenue, between Ocean boulevard and First street, in Long Beach. To Write for Intercollegiate. Ida May Park, noted woman director, has been asked by the Intercollegiate Vocational Guidance Association to write an article on her profession as a vocation for women, to be distributed among the colleges of the country as an aid to women undergraduates who are planning to enter some occupation. Contract Let for Film Laboratory. H. J. Aldous, treasurer of the Rothacker Film Manufacturing Company, arrived from the East on May 17 to attend to the letting of the contract for the construction of the new Rothacker laboratory that is soon to be built in Hollywood. Positive film prints for the Western theatres and for Oriental trade will be made in Lor Angeles before a negative is shipped East. The First National Exhibitors' Circuit is among the Rothacker clients. "Hope Diamond Mystery" Completed. Stuart Paton has completed the final episode of "The Hone Diamond Afystery" serial for Kosmik Films, Inc., and the finishing touches are being given the production, which stars Grace Darmond. in the life story written by May Yohe, formerly Lady Francis Hope. L. C. Wheeler, treasurer of Kosmik, plans to leave for New York within the next ten days with a sample print of the serial. New Sennett Comedy Completed. "Married Life," Mack Sennett's newest comedy, with Ben Turpin. Phyllis Haver. Charlie Murray. Ford Sterling, Jimmy Finlayson, Kala Pasha, Eddie Gribbon and Louise Fazenda in the cast, has been comnleted and the negative rushed off to New York for the making of the ninety prints required by the First National Exhibitors' exchanges of the country. Elsie Ferguson Goes to Japan Elsie Ferguson, star in Paramount Pictures, has left New York for Japan. She will sail from San Francisco, June 3. on the Yokahoma and will be gone three months. Upon her return to America, she will stop at Los Angeles and make a production at the Las'-y studios before returning to New York where she expects to open in another dramatic play early in the season.