Camera (April 1921-April 1922)

Page Eighteen Save Money by subscribing now to the industry's only representative publication. Camera! Keep thirtytwo of those good dimes open at the news stand each year. I Camera Circulation Depart mtnt, I I 4513 Sunset Blvd. I I Enclosed find %.~ for . I _ subscription to ' I your publication. . I Name _ „ I I Address . ! Professional ' I Non-Professional _ _ , I If non-professional state part of j I Camera! that is of mo.st interest to you | Digest of the Motion Picture Industry FRENCH PRODUCTION NOTES Three new picture theatres constructed for the Societe ties Cinemas Franeais are near completion. The Alhambra, at Asnieres (a suburb of Paris), having a capacity of 1,800, opens next week; the Capitole, at HAL WILSON I3oulogne-sur-Seine (;ilso a suburban hall), seating 2,00(^ is scheduled for October, and the Palais Remois, at Rheims, to hold 1,800, is to be ready next month. Edmond Boutillon, of the Casino de Clichy, etc., will be managing director of the three eseablishmenis. Pathe Consortium Cinema has reengaged Leon Mathot for a number of years. Julien Duvivier is arranging to make a screen version of Edgar Allen Poe's "Advent uies of Gordon Pym, of Nantucket." The French producer, E. E. Violet, has .gone to Budapest to produce a film, with Claude France, previously kuown as Diane Ferval, as principal. "Don Juan de Manara" is to be executed by Marcel Lherbier for Gaumont, for which Marcelle Pradot and Jacques Catelain will play the leads. Luitz Morat has returned from Italy and Sicily where he produced "La Terre du Diable" (The Land of the Devil) with Gaston Modot, Pierre Regnier and Yvonne Aurel. The Eden, at Vincennes, with a capacity of 2,000, was inaugurated last week with a special programme, including the DempseyCarpentier match. This suburban cinema is controlled by the Leon Brezillon and M. Silly group. A scenario entitled "Humanite," is being produced for the Eclipse Film Co., by Albert Dieudonne. A scene is laid at the Institute de France, and recently a number of players, attired as Academicians invaded the sacred premises to impersonate the immortals attending a literary function. The leads are held by Jean Dax Clement, Numes, Felix Ford, Mills Pierson and Lux. CAMERA "THEODORA" HAS NEW YORK OPENING Croldwyn presented for the first time in America at the Astor, in New York, recently, the Italian screen spectacle, "Theodora." This motion picture was made in Italy by the Unione Cinematografica Italian, and has not yet been released abroad, so that the presentation at the Astor was the world premiere of the first big Italian photodrama made since the war. Laura La Varnie has been cast in Douglas McClean's "The Hottentot." Ben Cohen, business associate of the Carter De Havens, is in New Y^ork. The advanced publicity work on Selig's new animal serial will be done by Joe Weil. Charles Dudley has been cast in Antnoio Moreno's new Vitagraph picture. Caroline Rankin is playing a part in "My Lady Friends," at the Majestic. Marcus Loew has booked the Warner Bros, new series of Monte Banks two-reel comedies. William Boyd and Ruth Miller, Famous Players-Lasky players, were niaiTied recently at the home of Sylvia Ashton. Burton Holmes will begin the twenty-ninth season of his personally delivered travelogues in November. Louis Duniar just returned from the Palo Alto Mountains where he has been playing the "heavy" with Texas Guinan in her latest Western production. William P. Dawson, Fox technical director with the Mitchell and Wallace companies, is convalescent from an appendicitis operation which he underwent recently. Max Rosenfleld has been appointed editor of the Paramount Exploiteer. Walter Eberhard, former editor, has resigned to join Yearsley's Flying Squadron. Abel Gance, author and producer of "I Accuse," now showing at the Strand Theatre, New York, is enroute to France on business. An interesting program is outlined for Monday's meeting of the Photoplaywrights at their clubroom on the eighth floor of the Brack Shops. INDIA BEGINS PRODUCTION Moving Picture World Calcutta, September 8. India is awakening from her slumber at last. There is activity in the leading cities among people interested in film production, as they are no longer satisfied with looking at pictures imported from America or England and think the time has arrived when they should produce on their own. I will not flood you with names of companies that have started producing, as, speaking from your standpoint — the standpoint of American production — production in India is but child's play, and the film has yet to be produced that may compare favorably with the production of the worst-equipped studio on your side. I do not speak in a spirit of disparagement of anybody. All beginners are crude, and necessarily the beginning in Indian production is crude, and millions of feet of film and millions of rupees will have yet to be thrown away before experience will be purchased, and then perhaps the industry will be in a position to produce something really worth. producing.