The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

November 29, 1926 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 275 Who's Who On The Christie Set The Star D i r e c t o Cameraman The Extra Bobby Vernon IN tlie hundreds of comedies in which Bobby Vernon has teen starred, "Hoot Mon," he tells us, is the first one in which he has essayed the role of a Scotchman. Bobby Vernon has worked in the Christie Studio for the past eight years. He goes yachting quite fre•quently with Al Christie, President of the Corporation. If there is anyone who could be upstage about the Christie lot it is Bobby, and yet he is the "very one to observe Moi iiuj Picture World : "In the Christie Studio we are all like one big family. There is no kow-towing and no bowing. Everyone is natural, and .as the result every one is happy. The next time you see a Christie picture look at it from this perspective and you will notice that this unusual atmosphere of con"viviality is reflected in our work." Bobby, as every one knows, has been a big success in this game for a long time. When he ■was with Mack Sennett eight years ago he recalls having Gloria Swanson as his leading lady and Wallace Beery as "the "heavy." Before then, when he was but sixteen years of age, he played a "father" role opposite Louise Fazenda, in an old Universal comedy. Bobby also has on his record of achievements a career in vaudeville and musical comedy. Harold Beaudine HAROLD BEAUDINE who directed "Hoot Mon" and "Dodging Trouble" entered the school of filnidom in the Biograph days. In the course of his experience he played as an extra. He joined the Christie lot in 1919. ..' Beaudine makes an effort to arrange his laughs so that they will break about every ten seconds. Figuring that one crank of the camera handle records sixteen movements, Beaudine's laugh takes place with every one hundred sixtieth movement. Beaudine, however, does not allow the idea to prevail that he makes comedies with the sole purpose of accommodating his laughs. The laughs are worked in with a feasible continuity so that one laugh inspires another, during the inspiration of which a story is told. Beaudine spends much of his spare time in theatres. "I do this chiefly to get the reaction of the audience while the comedy is being projected," he stated. The director then made known that he is guided by this reaction rather than by his own personal viewpoint in making a picture. Beaudine believes that if many theatre owners and newspaper critics would follow the same policy there would be a greater appreciation of pictures. Anton Nagy LONG before this writer was ever introduced to a typewriter, Anton Nagy was a photographer. Today not an inch of film passes out of the Christie Studio without Nagy's personal inspection and O. K. Nagy is more than a cameraman— he is supervisor of all Christie's cameramen, and expert on all matters pertaining to Christie photography. He is another man who has been with Christie for a long time. He is ending his fourteenth year with that corporation. Employees ardiind the Ciiristie lot seldom talk in anything but years about their affiliations witli the Christies. Nagy, nineteen years ago also operated a theatre in Berlin, Germany. One half cent was his top admission. Nagy interestingly recalls the days of the Champion Film Company in Jersey when cameras worked under a black shroud, and a few hundred dollars was a good-sized production budget. Clear photography is one of Nagy's absolute mottoes. By this he does not mean just being able to see characters on the screen but the technical end of photographing his characters so that they will be clear cut at all times. Nagy observes that the Christies have used the best material for their sets. Gail Lloyd OUT in Hollywood a number of very pretty young members of this colony's future constellation are constantly chaperoned about the studios by their mothers. Of course many of them do need chaperonage on this extreme edge of the woolly West. Not that the bad men of fiction do not still haunt the horizon but chiefly because the main streets have all kinds of Spanish names which might easily confuse the average American girl. Miss Gail Lloyd has been one of Hollywood's most attractive colonists for the past five months. During that time she has appeared in six Christie comedies. In addition to pulchritudinal assets she understands Spanish. She also spoke to her mother over the telephone during a slight intermission in this interview. Having seen her work in "Cool Off" and having been afforded the opportunity of personally observing her, we can readily appreciate why more than one of her friends at the Christie studio predict a brilliant future for Miss Lloyd. Miss Lloyd agreed with us tha^ there is no place like New York In fact she said it was while living on Riverside Drive thit she received her inspiration ut enter filmdom. From her hov-zs there she could look across Hudson and see Fort Lee where Jersey studios are located. Christie Come dies Keep The Whole World Laughing