Universal Weekly (1923-1925)

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All BIchta R«serTed' • fiilllliilMllllliiiililinillliillilllillliiliiliililiiliiiiiliiiniMiiiiiiiiiiniMiMiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiMiMiMiMiiiiiiiniiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiMinin faBllllllllinlllllllllilllllllllllinilllMilllMilllMIIIIMIIIIIIIirilllilllllllllllillllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIMIMIIIIIIIMIMIIIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIUIMIII^^ Vol. XIX MAY 10, 1924 No. 13 ^^Yanks to Trounce Qiants This Year^\ Says Dempsey (Special Story Sent to 600 Daily Papers) UNIVERSAL MOVIEGRAMS JACK DEMPSEY'S leading woman in the series of Gerald Beaumont pictures he is making for Universal will be Esther Ralston, the beautiful English girl who appeared in several of the "Leather Pushers" pictures. Others in the Dempsey pictures will be George Ovey and Chuck Reisner, both star comedians, and Hayden Stevenson, the genial "Joe Murphy" of "Leather Pushers" renown. HERBERT BLACHE, who has directed Herbert Rawlinson's two latest productions, "High Speed" and "Dark Staii-ways," has been assigned to direct "The Nightcap," the play by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin which will be made into a photoplay by Universal. 66T OVE AND GLORY" has been I J selected by Universal as the releasing title of its forthcoming Jewel production, "We Are French," a picturization of the novel by Robert H. Davis and Perley Poore Sheehan. Madge Bellamy and Charles DeRoche head a well selected cast under the direction of Rupert Julian. NORMAN KERRY, one of the four principal players in "Butterfly," has been called to New York by the death of his mother. Meanwhile, those scenes in "Butterfly" in which Kerry does not appear are being filmed at Universal City with Laura La Plante, Kenneth Harlan, Ruth Clifford and T. Roy Barnes. The latter has just been added to the cast of this Kathleen Norris story. THE Yanks not only will walk away with the 1924 American League Championship, but, in all probability, will cop the pennant from the Giants in this year's World Series, according to Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, movie star and baseball fan. Second place in the two Leagues will be won by the Tigers and Reds, respectively, he predicts. "The Yanks are just as strong as they were in '23," says Dempsey, in a forecast just received from Universal City, California, where the Champ is starring in a series of twelve two-reel ring dramas written ty Gerald Beaumont, the sports writer. "Their pitching staff is superior to that of the Giants. In Ruth, Meusel, Pipp, Witt, Dugan and Ward — a powerful hitting combination — they have almost impregnable defensive strength. Granting the Giants to be a powerful, welltrained offensive and defensive nine, the difference in the strengfth of the relative batteries will throw the balance to the Yanks. "The improvement in the Detroit WHEN the hoof and mouth disease caused an overthrow of Hoot Gibson's western picture plans, he decided to make a baseball picture instead. He acquired two veiT interesting, useful names for the cast. One is Mike Donlin, famous Giant of a decade ago, and the other is Marion Harlan, as a matter of fact, the very young daughter of Otis Harlan, but bearing a name which has guided culinary experts for half a century. All of these ingredients are being mixed pitching staff may cause the Yanks concern and, perhaps, trouble, as the Tigers are a powerful hitting team. All the Tigers need is pitching strength — they seem to have it this year — to make them a great team. "Cleveland would be a strong contender if the pitching were strengthened, but the Indians seem worse in this respect than they were in 1923. Tris Speaker will have a hard job getting better than third place. Sisler's return may help the Browns, but here again the pitching situation is the cause of their weakness, and I predict St. Louis will end in fifth place, while the Athletic will foot the first column. The White Sox, Senators and Red Sox will probably trail along in that order. But, as I said before, the Yanks with their five-star pitching staff have the edge on all the rest of the teams in either League. "My friend, the Bambino, may not make any more home runs than he did last year, but-his general value to the team will be as great as before. (Continwed on Page 40) up in screen form under the title of "Hit and Run," by Edward Sedgwick, director. MARY PHILBIN, who has completed her work in two productions at Universal City— "The Gaiety Girl" and "The Rose of Paris" — is to have a short vacation before starting on "The Best In Life," her next starring picture, from the stoi-y by Muriel Hine.