Camera (April 1920-April 1921)

''age Six 'The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry CAMERA! FILM CAPITAL PRODUCTION NOTES DOMINION FILM COMPANY, INCORPORATED, STARTS PRODUCTION New York Ciry. July 5tli. Ht-niy McRae has been engaged as supervising director o( the new company, which is to produce the Ralph Connor stories. The fir.st to be filmed is "The Foreigner." The policy of the company will be to produce big outdoor pictures. Ernest Shipman, President and General Manager, says he will spend ?100,000 on these productions. These pictures are to be released through First National. LA CARMEN PRODUCTIONS TO START About July 15th .Mr. Barber will have completed his cast for his first five-reel dramatic production. Antonio Stanich, operatic star, has been engaged for leading man. The balance of the cast will be announced shortly. Dolores Lopez is the author of the first story. BUTLER FINISHES The Butlers. Senior and Junior, Dave and his Dad, have their third picture, "Girls Don't Gamble Any More," cut and titled; and if they live up to their past reputation, before the ink is dried on this, they will have their fourth under way. We hear the title of the next is to be, "Us Boys Are Taking an Awful Chance." LASKY ACTIVITIES George Melford will soon begin work on "The Faith Healer," from the stage play by the late William Vaughan Moody. Milton Sills and Mabel Julienne Scott will play the leading roles. The scenario for this picture was written by Frank Condon. William de Mille will start .Monday on the Cosmo Hamilton novel, "His Friend and His Wife." Thus far the only members of the cast named are the two loading principals, Conrad Nagle and Ora Carewe. Lila Lee will support Wallace Reid in "Always Audacious." which will start production July Itith. Cecil B. de :\Iille will start Monday. AT THE VITAGRAPH Earle Williams has returned from Catalina where he has spent a week's vacation, while Director Chester Bennett and Harvey Thew prepared the continuity on his next feature, "The Romance Promoters." Production is expected to start today. William Duncan and his leading woman. Edith Johnson, returned this week from Denver, where they represented Vitagraph at the Annual Convention oi the Kocxy Mountain Screen Club. The star will start another serial shortly. Larry Semon has started on a new comedy. Semon has just returned from a business trip to New York. Antonio Moreno and a company of serial players have returned from location at Truckee. and expect to go back again Monday, to finish the tenth episode of "The V'eiled Mystery." Jimmy Aubrey has started a new comedy under the direction of Jess Robbins. Robert Kerr has joined the staff to collaborate with T)irector Robbins on stories. "Hidden Dangers" will be completed some time this month. Joe Ryan and Jean Paige start Monday on the fifteenth episode of this serial. ^ Vitagraph Studio contemplates e.xtensive expansion. A force of workmen have started work on the eighth studio. It is said (hat the work will involve an expenditure of $100,000. and will be completed by September 1st. JOHN INCE STARTS "Some One in the House," from the stage play which was adapted for the screen by Marc Robbins and Lois Zellm r, is under way. It is a master crook story, to be directed by John Ince with an all star cast. NEW MANAGER FOR WHITE & HAMILTON Henry J. Arenz has been appointed general manager of Jack Whiii' and Lloyd Hamilton comedies now beinj; produced at the Astra Studios. The company is planning a trip to Catalina for locations for their next picture. GLADYS GEORGE LEAVES INCE One year ago Gladys George was taken from the stage production, "The Better 'Ole," by Mr. Ince. Her first i)art was opposite Charles Ray in "Red Hot Dollars." Since then she has played leads with Lloyd Hughes and Douglas Mac Lean. The critics agree that Miss George furnishes an exception to the claim that leading women take no interest in their work. No announcement has as yet been made concerning her plans for the future. BIG PLANS FOR LINCOLN MILLER PRODUCTIONS Production on an extensive scale is contemplated by the Lincoln Miller Film Company, according to first Xvah'I I'v^vir.ceri^":?* from Mr. Lincoln himself. It is the intention of the company to produce fifty-two single reelers and eight five reelers during the next year. There will be two companies devoted to making the five-reel comedy dramas, and it is their aim to make four pictures each a year. One of these companies will feature Charles Meredith, who has left Famous Players to join this organization. Mr. Meredith will be remembered as having played with Constance Talmadge, Marie Walcamp, Dorothy Dalton, Marguerite Clark and other well known screen favorites. The other five-reel company will make comedy dramas featuring Christian Rub. His stories will be written by Geo Hall and Reinhold Hirsch. Mr. John West, who is a well known European director, will act as co-director with Mr. Miller. "SOMETHING MORE' The Hermann Film Company is expected to start production next week on "Something More." Margaret Lockwood, former Broadway player, will be the assistant director as well as art director. UNIVERSAL Harry Carey and his company, under the direction of Val Paul, have gone to Barstow to spend ten days doing the desert scenes of "Sundown Slim." Tod Browning is doing the first sequence of "Outside the Law" with Priscilla Dean. Jacques Jaccard is starting on "The Law of Average." This is the third picture at Little Bear. Albert Russell has finished the final episode of "The Moon Riders," the serial starring Art Acord, which has been nine months in filming. Louise Lorraine has resumed work in "The Lightning's Eye," Elmo Lincoln's serial. The company was interrupted during the filming of the tenth episode by an accident in which Miss Lorraine sustained two broken ribs. Hoot Gibson, directed by Leo Maloney. has jtist finished "A Gambling Fool," and starts on another Western. "Grinning (Jranger," Monday. Dorothy Woods plays opposite Hoot. Fred Fishback has finished his two-reel comedy entitled "Cracked Wedding Bells." The Universal Scenario Department has acquired "The Gilded Dream," a magazine story by Katherine Leiser Robbins, for ("armel Myers. Doris Schroeder is preparing the scenario. "Black Friday." a novel by Frederic S. Isham. is being adapted for Frank Mayo. Jack Ford is to direct Mayo in this new one. Harry Brown. Universal's chief electrician, is supervising the construction of a new motor generating station, which is to supply Universal City with light and power. Eric Von Stroheim is scheduled to start production on "Foolish Wives" Monday, and will go to San Diego to photograph the Exposition Grounds. MAYER STUDIO TO CLOSE .•\s soon as Mildred Harris Chaplin and Anita Stewart finish their productions the Mayer Studio will close for six or seven weeks. .Mrs. Chaplin is going to New York and Miss Stewart is expecting to visit Honolulu. Louis B. Mayer is planning to add three special companies to produce all star features, in addition to the companies he now has, to begin work early in September. Virginia Norden has arrived with a number of new books and plays selected for Mr. Mayer's next year's productions. CASTING "THE SPENDERS" .fflck Conway, who directs Benjamin B. Hampton's pictures, is casting the new seven-reel photoplay of Harry Leon Wilson's novel, at Brunton's Studio. Production will start in a few days. TOURNEUR RETURNS After spending eight weeks at Catalina Island the Maurice Tourneur Company has returned to its Universal City Studio to finish interiors. BARRISCALE COMPANY GOES NORTH Bessie Barriscale and the entire cast of her new Robertson-Cole production, "The Proken Gate," have gone to Pleasanton. ("alif.. where two weeks will be spent in filming exteriors.