The Moving picture world (December 1920)

1062 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 25, 1920 Tom Moore, Goldwyn Star, Finishing Filming of A. C. Gunther's Noted Play, "Mr. Barnes, of New York" FAINT HEART NEVER — Bert Lytell in "The Misleading Lady," released by Metro Ormsby Film Company Preparing to Produce A. B. Ormsby, president of the Ormsby Film Corporation, Los Angeles, is preparing to produce three big stories by well known authors, which will be filmed as special productions with all star casts, during the coming year. The success of "Neptune's Bride," the company's initial production is responsible for the big 1921 program which has just been outlined. It was written and directed by Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, author of "Neptune's Daughter." The exploitation and sales department of the company is conducted by C. O'D. Blanchfield, 212 Superba Theatre Building, Los Angeles. Union Film Company on Its Third Production J. T. Whitlaw, general manager of the Union Film Company, announces that the production end has passed all expectations and that the Alt-Howell comedy unit is working constantly with hardly a break between the finish of one picture and the beginning of the next. The company is now well along with its third production. Alexander Alt, president of the company, as well as star in the comedies, plans to take Helen Howell, Al Martin, his director, and the rest of the company to the East Coast at the completion of the present picture. Mr. Alt said: "I have some special shots in view for my next two pictures and I am going to get them in the East." . Lew Cody Production Now Ready for Release Following the recent announcement that Lew Cody has entered the independent producing field, his first independent feature, "A Dangerous Pastime," is now ready for distribution through Irving M. Lesser, general manager of the Western Pictures Exploitation company. The story by Wyndham Martyn was adapted to the screen by H. Tipton Steck. James W. Home directed and the supporting cast includes, Elinor Fair and Cleo Ridgely, in the leading feminine roles, Ernest Joy, Mrs. Irving Cummings, Arthur Hoyt and Frank Elliott. NO player at the Goldwyn studios in Culver City, Cal., has had a busier year than has Tom Moore during 1920. During the twelve months this popular star has made six pictures and is nearing the end of the seventh. Pictures he has been in this year are "Toby's Bow," the comedy drama by John Taintor Foote ; "The Great Accident," from a story by Ben Ames Williams ; "Officer 666," "Stop Thief!" and "Hold Your Horses," from a story by Rupert Hughes. Now as Barnes in Archibald Clavering Gunter's old novel and play, "Mr. Barnes of New York," which is nearing comple PLANS for some of the most sensational exploitation any motion picture has ever been accorded in New York or any other city, have been made for George Arliss' screen debut in "The Devil," another Associated Exhibitors special distributed through Pathe. While announcement of the theatre will be withheld until all details have been completed, one of the foremost of Broadway's screen palaces will stage "The Devil" soon after the New Year, and will give it one of the most remarkable presentations in motion picture annals. Every effort will be made to make the motion picture version of Franz Molnar's wonderful play more sensational than was its stage presentation here about a decade ago, when two companies played "The Devil" on Broadway at the same time. Each company enjoyed the fullest prosperity. Incidentally. George Arliss starred in one and received the unanimous indorsement of the metropolitan critics. Release date for "The Devil" has not been definitely determined by Associated Exhibitors and Pathe, but should be within the next week or soon after the announcement of the New York premier is made. Tremendous interest has been aroused in "The Devil," due no doubt to the fame of the stage production which has spread throughout the world, and the personal popularity of George Arliss, who is rated as a legitimate star with such famed actors and actresses as Maude Adams, David Warfield, Ethel Barrymore, John and Lionel Barrymore and other noted players. The assembling, titling and editing of the production has been entirely completed. Final work on the art titles was accomplished during the past week. All t.hat remains now is for Associated Exhibitors and Pathe to set the release date. It is confidently expected by officials of both organizations that "The Devil" will be one of the greatest box office attractions of the new year, and that it will repeat its sensational career on the stage. Toumeur Tenders Dinner to S. Barrett McCormick On Friday evening, December 10, at the Crillon, New York, Maurice Tourneur tendered S. Barrett McCormick, formerly manager of the Rivoli Theatre, Toledo, Ohio, a dinner which was followed by an evening's entertainment by visiting a number of the different outstanding theatrical hits of Broadway. tion, the star has a role of a different sort from anything he has hitherto done. He is also scheduled to play the part of a fireman who marries a New York society girl in a screen version of William J. Hurlbut's play, "Made in Heaven." Other pictures in which Goldwyn has starred Tom Moore are Pinero's "Gay Lord Quex," R. C. Carlton's "Lord and Lady Algy," "Just for Tonight," Thompson Buchanan's "Thirty a Week," Willard Mack's "Go West, Young Man," Frederick S. Isham's "A Man and His Money," "One of the Finest," Basil King's "City of Comrades" and Charles Klein's "Heartsease." A number of the leading "legitimate" theatrical managers, the entire staff of the Guy Croswell Smith Company and many others attended the festivities. Mr. Tourneur made a short speech paying tribute to McCormick for the painstaking and successful way in which McCormick presented the premier presentation of his special allstar production, "The County Fair," at the Rivoli Theatre, Toledo, week of September 12. For it was through Manager McCormick's unique and original methods that 40,000 persons, which is over one-fifth of the entire population of Toledo, attended the Rivoli during the engagement of the Tourneur production. After the dinner, the party attended "Spanish Love" at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic, finishing the evening's entertainment at Madison Square Garden where the Six Day Bicycle Race was the attraction. Pathe Plans Exceptional Exploitation for Associated Exhibitors* "The Devil