The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

94 MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 13, 1926 Pathe Cameramen Back With Polar and African Pictures Greenland and East African Expeditions Productive of Thrilling Scenes for the Public, Via Pathe Review C"^ OMING home from icy Greenland and the jungles of > East Africa, veteran Pathe Review staf? cameramen have brought a pictorial record of thrilling experiences of two expeditions that will write new chapters in screen history. When the Smithsonian-Chrysler Expedition arrived in Boston, Dr. William Mann, superintendent of the National Zoo at Washington, who was in charge, was greeted by Emanuel Cohen. On board the City of Calcutta were two thousand animals and birds, including species never before brought to this country. Most important in the collection is a pair of young giraffes. There were half a dozen purple-faced monkeys picked up in Ceylon and believed to be the first of their kind to reach this country, the baby kudu, one of the rarest of antelope, several rare species of parrots, strange African frogs, leopards, hyenas, 70 large birds, 300 small birds, 70 monkeys and baboons IS antelope, gnu, duiker, jackals and rodents and reptiles of many species. Gone Six Months The expedition had been away just over six months, leaving New York on March 30 and arriving in Tanganyika Territory, formerly German East Africa, by way of Zanzibar. Four months were spent in the field trapping animals and birds. From the base camp, the party worked into the jungles on foot, where the specimens were trapped. Sets of 100 natives, under their Sultan, were in the hunting group. Emanuel Cohen, Editor of Pathe News and The Pathe Review, sent these cameramen "to the ends of the earth" that the Pathe Review would have the type of material that has made it renowned as the magazine of the screen. Made Elaborate Plans Lengthy negotiations and ceaseless preparations brought to the Pathe Review the exclusive film rights of the Smithsonian Chrysler Expedition, the greatest ever undertaken to capture alive specie of wild animals. Cameraman Charles Charlton was a member of the illustrous party. Cameraman Maurice Kellerman accompanied the Green Chase Now Making A Christmas Film Charley Chase has started work at the Hal Roach studios on a new Pathecomedy, built around a Christmas theme. James Parrott is directing, and its story comes from the pens of the director and star in collaboration. The supporting cast includes Eugenia Gilbert, Noah Young, Kay Des'ys and Mickie Bennett. Chase heis just completed "Many Scrappy Returns," under the direction of Parrott. land expedition, under George Palmer Putnam, the publisher, which went in search of specimens for the American Museum of Natural History, New York, with the film rights resting solely with Pathe. The Putnam Expedition had Lloyd Hamilton of Educational, peels his own potatoes. its big thrills, too. The Morrissey, the schooner which took the party into the polar region, struck a submerged rock and for a time hope was all but abandoned. On another occasion they fought a herd of enraged walrus, but the party came off victorious. Carl Dunrud of Sweetgrass, Mont., provided camera thrills by roping two large polar bears. Here's a Dog With Pall Educational Has Novelty Films Listed VARIETY in comedy and novelty in subjects marks the array of fine product completed by Educational for November release. Five two-reel comedies, four animated cartoon comedies, two one-reel comedies, three novelty subjects, and eight Kinograms make up the program for the month. A new Educational-Juvenile Comedy, "Open Spaces," has "Big Boy" in the leading role. Charles Lamont again directs this clever youngster. Neal Burns is featured in "Dodging Trouble," a Christie Comedy. Eddie Baker and Edna Marion add to the merriment. Harold Beaudine directed. Bobby Vernon's third comedy for Educational's new program is entitled "Hoot Mon." He is abetted by Frances Lee, Jack Duffy and Eddie Baker. "Flaming Romance" is a Mermaid Comedy featuring Al St. John. Aileen Lopez, Otto Fries, Qem Beauchamp and Jack Lloyd appear in the large supporting cast. Stephen Roberts directed. Lupino Lane's first comedy of the 1926-27 season is "Movieland." Kathryn McGuire, a new blond beauty, is in this. Two Cameras Ready Two Cameo Comedies will be released during the month. The first, titled "His Off Day," features that sprightly comedy team of Phil Dunham and Miss "Toy" Gallagher. George Davis is featured in "Bad Breaks." "Then and Now," the new Curiosities subject, contrasts different people and events at present as they were in the past. A unique Bruce Scenic Novelty is offered in the new picture which includes both "Hula Hula" and "Honolulu Nights." The first shows the dance motif, while the latter is more of a strictly scenic subject. Lyman H. Howe's new Hodge-Podge is titled "A Key-Hole Cruise" and is fully up to standard in excellence of photography and novel ideas. With a meaterinder for a crank, this vehicle travels like a self-starter in the Fox animal comedy, "Napoleon, Jr." "Flaming Romance" .■\1 St. John, noted for fiis acrobatic feats in short length comedies, outdoes himself in "Flaming Romance." This agile clown and athlete does a pole vault to a high balcony in escaping from some revolutionists that would make many track stars blush with envy. Aiken Lopez, a Spanish type of bea:Uy, plays opposite the comedian.