The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

424 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 11, 1926 OUT OF "The Exile of the Self Condemned TO THE Highest Pinnacle of Fame! THE ROUTE ^Beau Geste has traveled in a few short months WHO IS HE? ' — the unique and most popular hero of contemporary drama! Produced by Herbert Brenon for Paramount Pictures From Major C. P. Wren's novel of the same title Making New Records Daily in NEW YORK LONDON BOSTON LOS ANGELES Criterion Plaza Tremont Forum Philadelphia and San Francisco; also Chicago and others to follow Selected by Paramount Pictures as their initial road tour presentation. Has scored such a success ten units are now being booked for two years exclusively in this department. Donh miss it Will not he seen elsewhere For Terms and Dates Address INDIVIDUAL FILMS, Inc. 1118-1119 Longacre Bldg. 1476 Broadway, N. Y. C. A. Griffith Grey, Mgr. A.X. Erlanger, Booking Exchange New Amsterdam Theatre Bldg., New York City Stern Brothers Offer "Laugh Month" Line Up JULIUS STERX, president of the Stern Film Corporation, makers of Stern Brothers Comedies for Universal release, has just wired from Los Angeles to the home office in New York to select the five strongest comedies in the entire Stern Brothers line-up for release during Laugh Month, the annual January celebration on behalf of comedy product. As a result of these instructions on the pait of the comedy producing company chief, Beno Rubel, secretary and New York executive of the Stern organization, announces the following releases: "Buster's Picnic," a Buster Brown Universal Junior Jewel comedy, "Snookums' Playmate," one of "The Newlyweds and Their Baby" series; "What'll You Have," a new "Excuse Maker" comedy: "Jane's Fhrtation," of the "What Happened to Jane" series, and "By George," one of the "Let George Do It" comedies. These comedies, Rubel states, mark the high point of the Stern Priscilla Dean's "Slipping Wives" Priscilla Dtan's tirst lial Roach coniedj' for Pathe release has been titled "Slipping Wives." Priscilla Dean's first Hal Roach Comedy, "Slipping Wives," with Herbert Rawlinson in the male lead, has been completed. It seemed that all the "Wives" titles has been thought of, but you can always trust H. M. Walker, title editor of the Hal Roach studios, to think up a new one. Brothers line-up. They are saicf to be ideal for offering as the feature of an all-comedy program, for instance, or for presentation as unusual comedies in January programs. All have had pre-release try-outs and are proven box-office naturals, he says. Extra posters and advertising accessories are in the exchanges for these comedies so that exhibitors may take full advantage of the Laugh Month drive. These comedies already have been set in by most of the big circuits and independent firstrun houses. Big Boy'' in Line to Take High Honors "Big Boy," the three-year-old "leading man" of EducationalJuvenile Comedies, was described by the Providence, R. I., News as one of the coming juvenile players now appearing in the movies. Under the heading "'Big Boy' Is Coming to the Front," the News said: "The fan must have his child actor to worship and since Jackie Coogan has bobbed his hair and entered a military academy, elevating him to the ranks of manhood, movie-goers may just as well turn their attention to the little fellow who plays under the name of 'Big Boy.' Y'ou'll find him under a big sombrero, wearing overalls and an infectious grin. He is a decidedly likeable kid and is fast gaining a big following." Do it early, advise Muriel Kingston, Cullen Landit, Walter P. Lewis and Louis DuPre, of Pathe.