Camera (April 1921-April 1922)

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A pre-view of Jack White's newest comedy, "Step This Way," was given at the new Wilshire Theatre last Sunday night. The Chester Bennett Company is expected to return early next week from location at Big Bear. Jane Novak Is the star of the production. B. B. Hampton's all-star production of Zane Grey's "Wild Fire" will be completed within the next two weeks. Claire Adams and Carl Ganvoort head the cast and Jean Hersholt and Elliot Howe are directing. This will be Mr. Hampton's first picture for release through Goldwyn. Dorothy Brunton, one of the favorite musical comedy stars of Australia and London, will arrive in Los Angeles this week enroute from Melbourne to London to fulfill a stage contract. .She is none other than the sister of Robert Brunton, who, it is rumored, will try to persuade her to enter motion pictures. Jack Brunton left Los Angeles Sunday for San Francisco, where he will meet his sister and mother, which latter is accompanying Miss Brunton on her trip, and bring them to Los Angeles. Lloyd Hamilton has started work on a new comedy, the sixth of his new series". Hugh Fay is directing. Camera work on the J. L. Frothingham production, "The Man Who Smiled," has been completed. Edward Sloman directed the picture, which features an all-star cast headed by Marcia Manon, William V. Mong and Mary Wynn. W. E. Keefe, who has taken a suite of offices at the studios, has received word that his comedies, "Peeps Into the Future," are meeting with great success in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. They will soon be shown in Los Angeles. AT REALART May McAvoy has started work upon Realart's thirtieth production of the current season. It is an original story by Olga Printzlau who wrote the scenarios of "Midsummer Madness," "Conrad in Quest of His Youth" and other William De Mille successes. Cast in principal roles are Raymond McKee, Fannie Midgely, Arthur Rankin, Fred Tufner, Carrie Clark Ward and Richard Rosson. Maurice Campbell will direct with Hal Rosson at the camera. Director Frank Urson is nearing the end of the Mennonite story which is the third Mary Miles Minter feature of the current season. Constance Binney is starting this week on an original story by Aubrey Stauffer, formerly a well-known exhibitor of motion pictures, with scenario by Wells Hastings. Edward Le Saint will direct. Bebe Daniels is again wearing conventional American clothes, having finished the Cuban sequence of her current production. Wanda Hawley expects to start the last of the week on Will Payne's original story which Thomas Heffron will direct from Percy Heath's scenarios. Work is proceeding rapidly on the glassing in of stages 2 and 3, to form an enclosed stage 100 feet by 160. This gives Realart a capacity of two closed stages and one open. "WAMPAS" TO EDIT NATIONAL EDITION OF HEARST YEAR BOOK Members of the Western Motion Picture Advertisers endorsed a plan at their last meeting, submitted by F. H. Eldridge, managing editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, whereby the publicity men will edit a special Motion Picture Yearly Number of this paper, to be distributed nationally to exhibitors, dramatic and motion picture editors and others interested in motion pictures. The plan, brought before the W. M. P. A. by Florence Lawrence and Al Price of the Examiner, calls for the appearance in this number of articles by the most famous writers in the country as an answer to the attacks that have been made upon the industry. In addition to these articles and sketches by prominent artists, members of the film industry will contribute stories and feature articles on the different phases of the business. Each member of the W. M. P. A. will have a hand in the preparation of this number. Benjamin B. Hampton, producer and former editor, is chairman of the advisory board of motion picture men who will cooperate with the Examiner and the W. M. P. A. in editing this number. Another speaker of the evening was John McCormick of Associated First National Pictures, who reviewed conditions as he found them on his recent trip to New York. Mr. McCormick gave a verbal and interesting report on the recent Installation Dinner of the A. M. P. A. in New York, which he attended. The creation of an Employment Bureau was instituted with Joe Jackson, chairman,, to work out a plan whereby members of the W. M. P. A. and motion picture concerns seeking publicity men could get together. ADVANCE PRESENTATION During the showing of Marshall Neilan's "Bits of Life' 'at the Kinema Theatre for the week beginning on November 19th, a clever bit of publicity in advance of the presentation was inaugurated by Richard Spier, Publicity Director of the West Coast Theatres, Inc., in cooperation with Pete Smith, the Marshall Neilan courier en avant. Arrangements were made for the j)resentation of "Bits of Life" to the inmates of the California Hospital in Los .^ngeles with a small one-man projecting machine, and Wesley Barry, the Neilan starlet, personally operated it. Over two hundred patients, who were able to witness the showing of the Neilan First National attraction, were assembled in one of the larger open dormitories and a large sheet was tacked against the well. Wesley Barry was given an ovation when he left the hospital. It is the plan of Marshall Neilan, who originally sponsored the idea of giving the hospital patients entertainment, to present each of his new pictures in a like manner. WILL VACATION With the return of Michael Gore and Adolph Hamish, President and Treasurer of the West Coast Theatres, Inc., to their ofllces, A. L. Gore, Secretary of the organization, who looked after the destinies of the circuit during the absence of his colleagues, will take a well-earned vacation. He plans to visit the Yosemite, and has made arrangements to take along a motion picture camera to record his journeys. Mr. and Mrs. William Louis Chaudet nre receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, William Louis Chaudet, Junior. DIRECTORS— LOCATION MEN When wantinK ideal Wo.slern St. or Hick Town, Remember BACHMAN STUDIO Glen. 1933 W 831 E. Wind.sor Rd., Glendale. Price way down. Day. nionlb or lease. B. L. JAMES EXPERT TITLE SERVICE Phone Pico 223G 218-19 Lissner Rldpr., 524 So. 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