Camera (April 1920-April 1921)

CAMERA I "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industty" Page Nint GOTHAM GOSSIP THINGS YOU WON'T READ ANYWHERE ELSE By Frank P. Donovan Sidney Olcott is now open to offers. Address M. P. D. A. George Irving will direct for American Cinema at the Victor Studio. Chester De Vonde will direct a picture for Arthur Donaldson's new company here. James O'Neil is official adjuster of claims for the Actors' Equity Association. D. W. Griffith stock is being extensively advertised in local papers at $15.00 per share. Creighton Hale is to star in his own productions, which D. W. Griffith will supervise, 'tis said. George Berenger is suing Harry Levey on account of some propaganda feature he produced. George Sargent has renewed his Vitagraph contract. Larry Trimble leaves Selznick with two others. Directors here are at a premium. There is a greater demand than can be met. Good directors, here is your opportunity. Texas Guinan is with Victor Kremer for a series of two-reel westerns. Production will be started on the coast. There are about forty letters for Hugh Thomson at the Green Room Club with no forwarding address. Hugh is in Hollywood. Florida is making all sorts of concessions to get the picture companies to go down there. Few are going, apparently. Metro Pictures are playing the Rlvoli Theatre which is unusual, when one considers that this is a Famous Players owned house. Jack Noble has completed his second Messmore Kendal-Goldwyn special picture. It is called "Cardigan," from the book of that name. Eleven new companies have signified their intention of going to Los Angeles, and have left for that part of America, which snould be good news for Hollywood folk. Dr. Louis Stern has been appointed official physician of the Actors' Equity Association. Dr. Stern has a reputation for giving his services free to needy players. Johnny MacCutcheon's mother passed away Wednesday after a long illness. Johnny is directing "Determination" in Grantwood, N. J. The sympathies of the industry were extended him. Burton King thanks the players who sent their photos to him after reading of his intention to produce in Los Angeles, and says that he will use some of them when he goes West in about a month to make twelve features. Sidney Jarvls, the former Winter Garden star, who' now operates an agency at Broadway and 44th Street, opposite the Lambs' Club, has jobs, he informs, for six big directors who are in the $1,000 per week class. There are none available in New York. J. Chas. Hayden, who directed Henry B. Walthall, is available for propositions. Green Room Club, N. Y., is his address. Jack Harvey may direct some two-reel comedies for a new firm. He recently did an animal feature in New York. HENRY J. ARENZ General Manager Astra Film Corporation Burton George is directing for Bimberg. Ray Smallwood, Metro director, is in town. All the stock selling outfits have invaded Boston. George Walsh is going to produce in Havana, Cuba. Selznick is cutting down on production and everything else. Roland West is soon to start some new features starring his wife. Jewel Carmen. Buster Keaton's first comedy went over big at the Strand. It is called "One Week." Charlie Chaplin and Samuel Goldwyn have had several meetings the past week. Julius Singer, manager of Reelcraft exchanges, is suffering from a very bad cold. He blames it on prohibition. Emile Chautard is completing his first Ziegfeld feature at the Peerless Studios in West Fort Lee, N. J. Florence Reed is the star. Jack Dempsey wil do another serial in Los Angeles. His rival, Georges Carpentier, whom he fights in January, 1921, will also make a serial in Los Angeles. The United Booking Offices, I understand, are to make comedies and features for their own circuit, and then will release them to exhibitors. Henry Kolker has produced another "Humoresque," they say. It was made by an independent at the Selznick Studios as a State right special. Vera Gordon stars as the mother. NEW YORK NEWS By J. J. Livingston J. G. Hawkes, scenario writer, has been re-signed by Goldwyn. Henry G. Sell has just completed a picture with C. J. Bimberg entitled "What Is Love?" Harry Leonhardt has been noticed in and about Universal Studio at Fort Lee during the production of "The Devil." Edwin Carewe is another of the directors here in New York. It is rumored that he is negotiating for the production of his own pictures. Ethel Clayton, the Paramount star, who has been touring in Europe for the past seven months, has arrived in New York. Conway Tearle was the guest of honor at a recent reception tendered by Captain Edward Thompson of Long Island. Sir Oswald Stoll's productions have opened offices in New York under the management of Ralph Proctor. Dorothy Dalton has completed her theatrical venture for the season and is ready to return to pictures. Eugene O'Brien has completed his picture entitled "The Soul and Body" at the Selznick Studios and is motoring up into the country for a short vacation. Work on "Determination" has been stopped for a few days owing to the death of John L. McCutcheon's (the director) mother, who departed this life Sunday, October 24th. James Young is completing his producMon of "The Devil" with. George Arliss at the Universal Studio, Fort Lee, New Jersey, and will in all probability return to California for his next production. Captain F. F. Stoll, President of the United States Photoplay Corporation, has sold the rights of "Determination" to J. Pearson & Co. of Bombay, India, for India, Burmah and Ceylon. Geraldine Farrar has put away her motion picture make-up for the season and will take a short vacation before starting her concert work at the Metropolitan Opera House for the season of 1920-21. Vernon Steele, who has been the leading man in a number of Broadway productions, as well as with Ethel Barrymore's "Declasse" last season, has been engaged to play the lead in Alice Brady's next picture. Herbert Brenon has been engaged to direct Norma Talmadge in her next production, entitled "The Passion Flower." Work will commence on Miss Talmadge's return to the city in about two weeks. Marjorie Booth is now paying a visit to New York. After several years in California in pictures and in stock, she thinks that she will do something here in the East, and will no doubt be with us for some time to come. White Cleveland, scenario chief for Jesse D. Hampton, returned to New York from Europe on Monday. Mr. Cleveland has been touring Europe in the hopes of storing up an abundance of new ideas as well as looking over the motion picture industry in general.