Variety (March 1921)

^■■■^■M Friday, March 4, 1921 PICTURES ii COAST FILM NOTES By FRED SCHADEB. judge Valentine has handed down * decision which gives Snits Ed- wards and his wife, Eleanor Ed- wards, judgment for $2,000 against iG. A. Lyster. L. Slmonson and J. Johnson, promoters of the Califor- nia Photoplay Co., tor services. When the company dissolved *he jndividuu.s stated that the pla.,. rs should look to the company for their pay, but the courts held that the Individuals were responsible. Maurice Tourneur is to make his luctions at the Ince studios. Edward Sutherland, leading man >r T. Hayes Hunter in a Dial pro- luction. was burned about the legs it Thursday by the backfire of an fashioned revovler which was sing used in a film. Jack Pickford. who was reported the verge of death late last r ednesday as the result of pneu- >nia, is on his way to recovery. K. B. Griffith, who has been at- iding him. states that he will be tbout again in about a week or ten days. • William S. Hart is going to re- tire from active picture making for about a year. His final production under his contract to deliver nine to the Famous Player»-Lasky will be completed about the middle of April. Five of the productions have been released, and Hart figures that the four that he has completed, in addition to these, will keep him in the public eye while he is resting. The Pacific Coast Film Co.. with I John J. Hayes at the head, have started work on a scries of George - Ovey comedies at the Kssanay studios. "NVatterson Rothacker has arrived here with Wm. A. Johnson, Charles E. Pain and J. 1). Williams. Roih- acker is to open a coast film print- ing plant. The Oakley Super-Quality Pro- ductions are now located at 931 South Grand avenue. Jack Mulhall has been reengaged as loading man for the next Bebe Daniels Realart picture. signed to write for Realart stars, arriving here yesterday. The Western Motion Picture Ad- vertisers held their second meet- ing last week and were addressed by William 8. Smith of the Produ- cers' Association. Doug Fairbanks and Mary Pick- ford have been grieving over the fact that Coppet, Doug's police dog, was run down and severely injured by an automobile a week ago. The dog was presented to Doug by Henry P. Davison, New York finan- cier. Clara Kimball Young, who has been making a personal appearance tour through the south, is due back m Los Angeles. She will imme- diately start work on a new pic- ture written by Sada Cowan. Viola, Dana arrived from New York yesterday. She brought with her Mayme Krasne, the winner of a popularity contest in Omaha, Neb. Shirley Mason, the Fox star, has returned to work, having fully re- covered from her recent illness. "The Four Horsemen" is to open at the Mission theatre on Monday for a run. "Polly With a Past" is the current attraction at the house for one week. Frank J. Zimmerer has been ap- pointed art director for the Ambas- sador and Kinema theatres, working in association with S. Barret Mc- Cormick. Bill Keefe is claiming a record for the Kern company. He says it is the only producing organization in all of Los Angeles that does not have a pair of puttees on the lot. If it's true it must be a record. Gosh, 'taln't done at all in these parts, 'cause puttees make hits with pretties. SJSJSJ i ——i Alec B. Francis, who has just been signed by Famous for the Elinor Glyn picture, is on the sick list threatened with pneumonia. Roy Stewart has been engaged as leading man for Katheiine Mac- Donald. Five Universal directors have started work on as many produc- tions during the last few days. Jacques Jaccard is working on "Re- nunciation," a Peter B. Kayne story, Tod Browning on "Fanny Herself," an Edna Ferher yarn; Harry B. Harris on "The Man Tamer." in which Gladys Walton is starred; Fred LeRoy Granville on a new story, and Rollin Sturgeon on the old melodrama "Human Hearts." Norman Dawn is directing Eva Novak in "The Evil Half," an Alaskan story, the company being located in Northern Canada. In the cast are Herbert Hayes, Percy Challenger, Starke Patterson, Bar* bara Tennant, William Eagle Eye* Clyde Tracy and Millie Impolito. Edith Roberts has started work at the U. on "The Opened Shutters" under the direction of William Worthlngton. The cast includes Edward Burns. Joe Swickard, Mai Wells, Joe Singleton, Clark Corn- stock, Charles Cleary, Floyd Brown, Nola Luxford, Andy Waldron and Lorraine Wieler. Lee Kolmer is directing twd reelers at the U. CHAS. EAT, DIRECTOR. 1 In his next picture, in which : • will be presented by Arthur S. Kantf through First National release* Charles Ray makes his debut as a director. In assuming this role Ray is satisfying a long-cherished am* bition. Mr. I lane has received word from Ray that the actor has decide' to pos' 3ne his New York visit until next Dcl ..wber. Tom Forman. the director, and Thomas Meighan are to go to New- York in a few weeks to work on the screen version of "Cappy Ricks" at the Eastern Famous Players- Laaky studios. The Warner Brothers have taken over the former Jesse Hampton studios on Santa Monica boulevard, where the Special Pictures Produc- tions held forth until recently. "False Colors," the latest Pris- cilla Dean production, has been completed and Stuart Paton, who directed it, is completing the cut- ting. * Neal Hart and Webster Cullison have been in San Francisco shoot- ing water front stun* for the Pin- nacle production, "God's Gold," in which Hart is starring. Lillian Rich is playing opposite Frank Mayo in the U production, "The Truant." Mary Thurman and Monte Blue have been signed by Allan Dwan for the Saturday Evening Post story, "Johnny Cucabod," which he is making for the A. P. Mary Jane Irving, Lizette Thorne, Arthur Mil- lett and Martha Mattox are also in the cast. Sessue Hayakawa has started *ork at the Robinson-Cole stu- dios on "The Swan." William A. Brady is here to speak on the anti-blue law program. The M. P. Producers of Southern Cali- fornia have arranged a luncheon Party for him. Karl Kenton, Mack Bennett di- rector, has resigned. He had been with Bennett for a number of years. -~. Irv :1 Cobb has Mien tOfUired hv Irving Lesser to title "Peck's Bad »oy." in which Jackie Coopan is starred. The Cobb stipend for the JOD Is $1,200, picked up on the side while he was here on his lecture tour. Tod Prownintf's contract with the i-nivorsal has only a few more gpntns to run, and he lias already "»«> i 1; ,if a dozen offers from pro- ducing companies for his services. hv Cl i rm< ' Mvors is to b« dieted •Lui . 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