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Page Eight "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERA Pickups By the Staff OPENING PROGRAM The Hollywood Community Theatre opens its fifth season on Sept. 26th, with a bill which includes "Ropes" by Daniel Wilbur Steel; "The Royal Fandango Pantoniine" by Gustavo Morales; "In 1999" by Wm. de Mille and "Crumbs that Fall" by Philip Hubbard. "Ropes," the film rights of which have been acquired by Universal, has been cast with Mary Alden, Herbert Heyes, and May Giraci. "The Royal Fandango." dance pantoniine, which includes in its cast Margaret Ijoomis, Ramon Sanianiegos, Manuel Perez, Jaquel Lanoe, Lucy Hummel, Starke Patterson, Jackson Reed and others. Peggy May and Alma Francis will be seen in "In 1999," the de Mille contribution, and John T. Prince, Theodor von Eltz, Wade Boteler, Wheeler Dryden and Philip Hubbard will appear in "Crumbs that Fall," the Hubbard playlet. PLANS REPERTOIRE COMPANY Hedwiga Reicher, who lately finished a role in "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," announces that she is forming an international repertoire company and is perfecting her plans in Oakland, California. Miss Reicher staged a production of Maeterlinck's "Monna Vanna" in Los Angeles, her first solo producing venture. She also brought Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea" and Giocosa's "The Stronger" to English audiences. ARRANGING ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS Harry Myers has been "adopted" by some two hundred California orphans. Recently he entertained them with a showing at the orphanage of "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court." Once a week Mr. Myers will sponsor a program which he and various fellow actors will arrange for the youngsters' entertainment. BEAUMONT VACATIONS Harry Beaumont has completed the producti.n of "Glass Houses," starring Viola Dana and will vacation two weeks before beginning on "Seeing's Believing," Miss Dana's forthcoming vehicle. CHIEFS PICNIC AT SEAL BEACH Universal City's department chiefs recently held their first annual inter-departmental picnic at Seal Beach, Calif. A baseball game was the feature of the day. The Hon. Marc Peter, United States Minister from Switzerland, was a recent visitor at Universal. The diplomat was accompanied by Maurice Rathbun, publicity-director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, H. M. Walker, title writer at the Hal E. Roach Studios, is spending his vacation at Palm Beach and New Orleans, Glen Cavender, who was seriously burned while on a recent camping trip, is recovering and expects to be working again presently. "Clay," originally called "The Wind along the Waste," by Maud Ansley, which J. Grubb Alexander is arranging for the screen, will serve as Miss Dupont's next starring vehicle for LTniversal. COLLEEN MOORE IN NEXT HUGHES STORY Rupert Hughes is at work writing another story for Goldwyn in which Colleen Moore will play the leading role. Otto Lederer Larry Semon, comedian-producer, will return presently from the Fresno forests where he has been working for six weeks. May McAvoy will rest for another two weeks before starting her fifth production for Realart. W. E. Keefe has taken offices at the Robert Brunton Studios in connection with his series of forthcoming five reel features in which a well known star will be featured. Colleen Moore has ended her engagement in "Slippy .McGee," Oliver Morosco's production, and plans to visit friends in San Francisco. !• rom there she will sail for Honolulu. Rush Hughes, the 19.year-old son of Rupert Hughes, the novelist, has become a photoplayer and is work ne in a Goldwvn oroduction. On its completion he will enter Princeton University. The California accident commission recently awarded |4900 compensation to the widow of Lieut. Ormer Locklear, the noted aviator who was killed while making scenes for a Fox picture. Percy Heath and Dwight Cleveland are in charge of the Realart Scenario Department dur'ng the absence of Supervising Director Elmer Harris. Mr. Harris is expected to return early in October. Marshall Neilan is en route to Los Angeles from New York, having completed arrangements for the distribution of "Penrod" with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Production will be started here within the next ton days. GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH INTERESTING PEOPLE BABY MAXINE TABANIC Little Maxine Tabanic, whose portrait appears upon the front cover of this magazine, commenced her motion picture career at the age of two years and nine months, when she filled an engagement with the National Picture Publishing Corporation of St. Louis, with which organization she made several films for the National Safety Council . Since arriving on the Coast, Maxine has supported Katherine McDonald in "The Woman's Side" besides playing in Paramount's "Crazy to Marry" and a Howard Mitchell drama for Fox. This diminutive actress is now to be seen at the Superba, where she enacts "Mitzi" in Tod Browning's Universal production "No Woman Knows." Baby Maxine will continue her picture sojourn here where she is receiving special instruction in dancing. It has been predicted that she will soon join our cleverest kiddie class. TEXAS GUINAN LEASES FINE ARTS STUDIO Thf Texas Guinan Productions have taken over the Fine Arts Studio for the production of the new series of twelve two-reel Western and Northwestern dramas in which Miss Guinan will star under the direction of Jay Hunt. The fir.'^t six stories to be released are given as follows: "Texas of the Mounted," by Charles A. Short. "The Vengeance of Texas Grey," by Mildred Moreno Sledge. "The Soul of Texas," by Mildred Moreno Sledge. "The Claws of Texas," by Mildred Moreno Sledge. "The Girl of the Border," by Charles A. Short. "The Code of Texas Storm," by Jesse J. Ormont. Richard Dix has purchased a home in the Beverly Hills section of Los Angeles. Mildred Davis, who has been ill with tonsilitis, has resumed her work at the Hal E. Roach Studios. Ralph Graves, in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage to an eastern star, has purchased a home in Beverly Hills. Harry Lorraine is enacting a principle role in "The Infidel," Katherine MacDonald's current picture, which James Young is directing. Bob Woods, formerly scenic artist for Charlie Chaplin, has been engaged by the Century Film Corporation to head its scenic art department. William Carrol, Joe King and Goro Kino are playing parts in "Yellow Men and Gold," the Goldwyn production which Irvin Willat is directing. Anita Loos returned to New York the other day after a week's visit to Ohio with the family of her husband, John Emerson, director and playwright. Wanita Thomas, recent winner of a beauty contest conducted by a newspaper in Des Moines, la., has been chosen for a minor role in "Smilin' Through," the current Norma Talmadge picture.