Variety (July 1919)

W O V I N G PIC T URE S 41 NEWS OF THE FILM WORLD. Luther Reed has joined the Ince staff of scenario writers. Ralph D. Robinson baa Joined the Metro publicity staff as assistant to Jack Meador. "A Very Good Young Man" la the title of Bryant Washburn's next release, which la dated tor July 6. Field Carmlohael has been appointed branch manager for the Patho Exchange In Los An- geles. . ' Violet Homing has been engaged by F. P. to play the title role In Walter Browne's morality play, "Everywoman." "Gates of Brass" Is, the second of the Frank Keenan Productions, heading the Pathe pro- gram for July"B. "Yvonne from Paris" will be released by American, July 18. Mary Miles Mlnter la the star. .-:. S Gladys Leslie has completed her .latest Vltagraph feature, "Belinda Puts Her Hair Up." ' T. Hayes Hunter, the director, has Joined the Goldwyn forces. Wallace Worsley has also joined the directing staff of Goldwyn. • - » ■ The Brighton Beach Music Hall opened July 2aia film theatre, under the direction of the Pioneer Films. , According to her mother, Mary Plckford will retire, after she has made nine more pictures, the first of which she has started work on. •>. Norma Talmadge In "The Way of a Woman" will be released by Select this month, the exact date to be announced later. • Frank Reicher has been engaged by World Films to direct Montague Love In a new five- reel feature. Dorothy Green and Arthur Ashley have be- gun work on their second picture lor World Films. It bears the title of "The Praise Agent" Frank Crane Is directing. Clara Kimball Young's latest picture, "The Better Wife," will be released by Select, July 15. Nigel Barrle la Miss Young's leading - man. Dr. William Green and George Havnes have returned to New York from Guatemala with several thousand feet of negative for Prlzma Natural Color Pictures. Scheduled for release July 14, Metro an- nounces Hale Hamilton In the double role of star and author of the comedy entitled "In His Brother's Place." Victor Nulty. before the war auditor for Kessel & Bautman, Is now in the base hospital at San Francisco as the result of gassing re- '-.;, celved In France with the Regular Army. ,..}•■ Publication of the report of an amalgam*- §{$B tlon of the F. P. Corp. and the Goldwyn Pic- tures last week, brought denial from Adolph Zukor. t Marjorle Daw has'been signed by Marshall Nellan to appear In the productions to be made by him, for the First National Exhibitors Cir- cuit. - The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has upheld the action of the'State Board of Cen- sors in their rejection of/the Rex Beach film. "The Brand." :w: Bebe Daniels, principal comedienne with the Harold Lloyd comedleB, has signed with i Famous Players-Lasky. Miss Daniels will be [.assigned to the Cecil De Mllle Co., starting ■work at Los Angeles next week. 1£. \ %' At? the F. P. Fort Lee studio Blllie Burke Is now engaged under the direction of John S. !; Itobertson In the production of a feature based ' u P°n Avery Hopwood's play, "Sadie Love." raft will be an August release. ft/*' ^^^^ mm « Henry W. Wlllard has been appointed man- | ager of the Chicago office of Realart Films I and Walter R. Scates has been placed in .[.charge of the Boston office. The New York M exchange of Realart Films is now In charge ■stj Lester W. Alder. B .Lawrence Grant and Helena Lawrence- i Grant are going to appear in and direct two- reel comedies for the newly incorporated Rlver- PTOJWgl Cd: This organization is capitalised at $10,000. The Incorporators are Theodore A. Llebler, Jr., C. M. Rosenthal and S. Gold- \ smith. The Bureau of Pictures of the American" Red Cross has received 8,000 feet of new "esatlve film from Lieut. Merle LaVoy, the , official Red Cross cameraman assigned to Constantinople and the Balkans. When jeady the new material will bo released through Educational Films. . Albert W. Eden Is the new Western Divi- sion Manager of United Picture Theatres suc- ceeding William Alexander who has been transferred to the Eastern Division. Jack i»evy has been made a special representative for the company and will travel In the Eastern territory for them.' He was formerly Detroit manager. TOO MANY CROOKS. Boston Fanny Gladys Leslie Charlotte Browning .......Jean Paige BldweiKWrlght .Huntley Gordon This is a crackerjack little feature. The story moves swiftly, 1b full of excellent comedy and keeps the Interest screwed down tight. But why.is Gladys Leslie featured? Not that Gladys doesn't do her share to provide enter- tainment She' does, but the whole show rests on the pretty shoulders of a newcomer named Jean Paige.- Miss Paige walks right Into the center of the first shot and holds down first place pretty well all the way through. She had lots of help, however, for Ralph Ince knows how to,direct, and proves It over again in this offering. The story Is from a magazine yarn by B. J. Rath. Edward J. Montague did the continuity. The photography was all to the merry, full of unusual shots with nothing easy about them. * Charlotte Browning wants to write a crook play, but thinks that she should study crooks at first hand. She Is- introduced to the hand- some young Bldwell Wright, who promises to provide her with material. She gets the Idea that Bldwell Is a crook. He's a nice fellow, but not that—goodness, no I Still, he does know a lot of underworld characters, and he brings them to Charlotte's house for a house party. The fun begins and It Is fast and furlouB. In the first place, there Is a dinner party with an exhibition of picturesque bad manners. Oil top of that comes a lawn party next door. Boston Fanny keeps all the men Inter- ested while her young pal, Slippery Slim, getB next to their bank rolls. Next, Charlotte's burglar guest Frisco Jimmy, does a little local burglary work and chases for cover. Charlotte has to hide him. She puts htm in a window seat and locks him in and forgets him. When she finally remembers to let him out ho is in a state of mind. One thing leads to another, and all things lead In the end to a final close-up that Is like all of them, but pleasantly different, too. THE UPL1FTERS. The latest Metro release starring May Alli- son is a rather light romance with more com- edy than the usual feature.of this kind. The story is an adaptation of the tale "Free," which appeared In the Saturday Evening Post, by Will Irwin. George D. Baker adapted It and Herbert Blache directed the production,. with Eugene Gaudlo turning the camera crank. The scene of action Is laid In New York, where Hortense Troutt gets mixed by the "bull-shcvlki" and blows her Job as stenog for the Sbllptcks. The more youthful of the Shllplcks is in love with her and finally trails her to her lair with the "bull-shevlki," and by the time he arrives she has had sufficient first hand information regarding them and their definitions of "free" to be willing to set- tle down In a little flat with Shtlplck, Junior, as the boss of the works, The comedy element Is furnished largely by the short-haired women and the long-haired men of the "bull-shevlki" and the presence In. their flat of little Hortense, who la forced to become the maid of all work, which Is about' the only thing that the leaders can suggest to her when she offers to contribute her bit to the cause. Miss Allison has a role that she fills ad- mirably, and her leading man, Pell Trenton, a former stock favorite In New England, looks like a find tor pictures. He played Shllplck, Jr., most aptly and was a convincing lover. Kathleen Kerrigan was one of the "types" and carried a distinctive mannerism through- out. • ". \ .•.'. '- ,'■' From a production standpoint the -picture was easy enough to shoot, for there was lit- tle expense as far as sets were concerned. i.i«j;..--i.,V, M| !if m Effig m Wrmm ■•■•#* m ifetfi tf& m XSt- r :<*w ifj ">'.-v',-.-.,*.' mi v n~ [ $mm; viX' m ir-vi n SSSSfJ lasse .■V "2te m m> "f mm*- m# «§&'* m ara|'; ...... JfM &" mm m f, Mm S&5 Wk "FOUR mm v\ ■ Jr.- . ■■;; ..-■-.v-Sft . ■■'■'■■i'wm Bands of bomb-plotters planning death and destruction In underground retreats. Attacks upon Government officers by assassins. Radical meetings and thrilling raids by re- turned soldiers and the police in defense of law and order in America— We are ready to book at once a thrilling special production that mirrors the stamping out of disorder and revolution in America - Harry Raver's \ presentation of t AUGUSTUS THOMAS inspiring and challenging drama VOLCANO starring LEAH BAIRD and a cast of 2000 persons including Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York Directed by GEORGE IRVING Every newspaper in America has paved the way for an ex- hibitor clean-up with this big Four Star special production. You will get more publicity for this picture than any'one you have played in a year. f W.W. H0DKINS0N C0RP0KATT0N 527 Fifth Avenue, New York City aiMbunngthvufhTKB(.Ixclu'ngt,!naxporaUd fy^j^sSt ■■"■ ' ■."•'. i ■:.-.'ft-L*_'?fe ; - - . .•• ■ -><x--;.r. :.'v: !■•;,-:■;:'■•■■•.■ • V ,! %. » * 1 .••' : '.'-■'• '■';'..■■;':','' , .■;...'iff" - _ -;'' :