Camera (April 1920-April 1921)

CAMERA ! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industr])" Page Seven PICKUPS BY THE STAFF AFFILIATION OF LITERARY CLUBS WITH PHOTOPLAYWRIGHTS' LEAGUE The Photoplaywrights' League of America, h-hich has its headquarters in Los Angeles, has been invitea to affiliate with the National Association of Literary Clubs. There are said to be in the neighborhood of seventeen hundred literary clubs and leagues in the United States. More or less interest exists among all of them, in writing photoplays and numerous inquiries conceiTiing conditions of membership have been received by the Photoplaywrights' League of America in response to a news item which recently appeared in the papers announcing the formation an'' purposes of the organization. The Photoplaywrights' League intends to stimulate more interest in the writing of photoplays among the intelligent class of people who constitute the membership of the various literary societies, and hopes to open up a source of material for the photoplay which has in the past been comparatively dormant. At the same time, no individual who has the ambition to write and sell scenarios, will be barred from membership. A manuscript sales department and legal protection is afforded to all its members by the league. Six sportsmen from the Goldwyn studios have returned from a three-day hunting trip on Baldwin Lake, where they bagged 175 ducks. The party included M. D. Gardner, Percy Hilburn, Jack Dunning, George Hoover, James Adamson and Alfred Middleton. John Fleming Wilson's latest story, "Uncharted Seas," has been purchased by Metro, according to an announcement by Bayard Veiller. It is now being put into continuity form for immediate filming. Herbert Brenon is to join Goldwyn. T. Hayes Hunter is starting his own company, having left Goldwyn. Sidney Olcott will also resign from Goldwyn after his present picture is completed here in New York. Mrs. George Siler, widow of the sport expert, George Siler, has been visiting at the home of her nephew, Kalla Pasha, of the Mack Sennett forces. She left for her home in Chicago last Saturday. W. W. Hawkins, of New York, president of the United Press, visited Thompson Buchanan, associate scenario editor at the Goldwyn studios, last week. Neely Edwards has finished "Pajama Wedding," the lirst of a series of twelve tworeelers for the Special Pictures Corporation, and has the second well under way. Fifteen assistant directors worked with Rex Ingram in the staging of the battle scenes tor the Metro all-star production of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Rumors that Mack Sennett is about to abandon the two-reel comedy field are met with emphatic denial from his publicity department. Don Jarvis of the Universal property department, has invented a simple device which instantly manufactures cobwebs. Hal Femer has just completed his work for Metro in Viola Dana's latest vehicle, "An Off Shore Pirate." Margery Wilson made some two-reel comedies for Reelcraft Pictures while in New York. FIRST NATIONAL STARS ATTEND OPENING Mildred Harris Chaplin and Anita Stewart journeyed to Owensboro, Kentucky, last Sunday, to be present at the opening of the New Bleich Theatre, in that city. It is one of the chain controlled by Colonel Fred Levy, franchise holder in Kentucky and Tennessee for Associated First National. CECIL HOLLAND Who ha s returned from Glacier Park, where he was on location with Marshall Neilan. Analysis of Handwriting By Fritzi Remont In submitting handwriting for tests, please write in ink, on unruled paper, and send me more than the signature, although the latter alone will be reproduced. There's not enough in a NAME to give a good analysis. c s 1. WALLACE MAC-DONALD: Mr. MacDonald's signature sends a taproot right down to the next line. That's the sort of student the young man is, always going (Continued on Page 15) SULLIVAN RETURNS FROM EUROPE C. Gardner Sullivan returned this week to the Thomas H. Ince Studios from a five months' tour of England and the Continent. Mr. Sullivan's travels, which were taken as a combined vacation and expedition in search of new material for picturlzation, carried him to Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, England and Scotland. Princess, the huge Bengal tigress which has been an inmate of the Universal City zoo for several years, will have her life sacrificed for a scene in Frank Mayo's current feature, "Tiger," directed by Jacques Jaccard. Jack (Hugh Ryan) Conway has returned from a short vacation in San Francisco, and is supervising the cutting of "The Spenders," one of his latest features. Thomas H. Ince's adaptation of Louis .Joseph. Vance's "The Bronze Bell," under the direction of James Horne, is nearing completion. Francis Love, aerial stunt man, made a change from the Speedway grand stand to a plane piloted by Lieut. N. H. Lungley in a picture last week. Anita Stewart is now taking advantage of a rest at her seaside home at Rrightwaters, Long Island. Col. R. E. Twitchell of Santa Fe, N. M.. American historian, is visiting his son, Waldo Twitchell, Goldwyn cameraman here. "Dynamite," a Hamilton-White Mermaid Comedy, starring"Ham" Hamilton, is booked for a future showing at the Kinema. Benjamin B. Hampton is shortly to have three producing units under way, according to rumor. Viola Dana and Shirley Mason have acquired a home in the Hollywood foothills. Florence Turner is taking a short vacation at her cabin in Topango Canyon. AN APPRECIATION What is the greatest thing in life? Unselfishness! Doing good for others. Charity does not begin at home, but in the blessedness of humanity. Who does not know that tine old character .nan, Tom Bates? A great misfortune has overtaken him. He is greatly in need of money. A week ago he underwent a very serious operation that will confine him to the liospital for weeks, perhaps months. The operation was so serious that it was thought possible that his leg would haye to be amputated. It is little enough we can do for our friends in misfortune. Poor Tom would greatly appreciate whatever help you can give. In a case of necessity, it is not the amount, even "the widow's mite" would be welcome. Think of the weeks of Tom's suffering; relieve his mind of worry. He has never before asked, but has always given. We feel sure that any amount, no matter how large or small, will help to relieve his distressed condition. All contributions may be sent to Tom D. Bates, Clara Barton Hospital. As we all love sunshine, bring a little of it into "Tom's" life. Pietro Sosso. (Continued on page 17)