Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

CAMERA ! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" Page Seven Pickups By The Staff Cullen Landis has received a belt made of horse hair from a fan in Utah State Penitentiary where they are showing "The Outcast of Poker Flat". Jean Hersholt has just rejected an offer to become director-general of a large film producing company in Copenhagen, Denmark — his birth-place. Forrest Robinson, character actor, has received a letter from Iceland signed by J. Ice. Paradoxical as it may seem, the letter was one of warm praise of his work in "Tol'rable David.' ' Earle Williams and Mrs. Williams have returned from a vacation spent at Pebble Beach. Alice Calhoun is happy again after an inconvenient experience with tonsilitis. William Duncan and Mrs. Duncan (Edith Johnson) returned this week from Honolulu. While in the Islands Mr. and Mrs. Duncan made several personal appearances. They report a royal time. The Mary Pickford doll, which will be an exact likeness of America's sweetheart, will be on the market in time for the next Christmas. Gordon B. Pollock, who is responsible for the exquisite photography in "Science — or God?" and "The Ninety and Nine", the Mission Film Productions, is in San Francisco, making preliminary arrangements for the production of Hans Christian Anderson'.'^ fairy story "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep." The Paramount company making "The Cowboy and the Lady" with Mary Miles Minter and Tom Moore heading the cast, under the direction of Charles Maigne, is expected to return to the Lasky studio for interior scenes. The company working on "Country Love" will spend the next ten days at Sacramento, California. All the exterior river scenes for this picture which Emile Chautard is directing, are to be filmed along the Sacramento river. Marshall Neilau s pioduction "Minnie", is now receiving its final editing and will be shown publicly in the early fall. Many prominent members of the motion picture colony and local financiers associated with Thomas H. Ince attended an informal reception tendered the producer by his studio staff upon his return from an extended stay in New York. Cecil Holland was given an ovation by the actors and employees of the Pine Arts Studio for his climax scenes in the big oriental set of "The Bishop of the Ozarks." Douglas Dawson is interviewing people by the score at R-C studios for the forthcoming story that Chester Bennett is to direct with Jane Novak. Edmund Russell writes from London to the Cosmopolitan company that he expects to return to India soon on a cinema engagement, but will return to California when Ruth St. Denis comes home to help in the directing and to take part in the new film. The p'iiy to be produced will probably be "Harischandra". Special adaptations will be mnrie to feature the dancing with Ruth St. L'eiM.' and Derelys Perdue taking the leading purtu. Milton Sills has been chosen by Edward Sloman to head an all-star cast for his first independent picture, "Blind Justice," now in production at Fine Arts. Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hope both deny the report to the effect that they will be co-starred. Each is sure of being starred individually by different producers. Max Linder cables the following greeting to his Auierican admirers: "I am home in Paris and home-sick for America." .This seems to make it a certainty that Max will return to Uncle Sam's domain after completing his nine-reel super-production in France. W. S. Smith, general manager of the Vitagraph studios in Hollywood, left Wednesday of this week for New York to meet president Albert E. Smith who is returning from Europe. Lining up of winter work for Vitagraph is the reason for Mr. Smith's departure. It is understood that Vitagraph will be humming again by, or shortly after, the first week in August. Italy's most famous theater, the Teatro Delia Scala of Milan, Italy, and the plaza facing the theater were reproduced on the huge stages of the Ganson studios in Hollywood for an episode in "Enter Madame," Clara Kimball Young's picture which Harry Garson is producing. Wallace Worsley is directing. Forrest Robinson, who is now playing a part in Mary Pickford's revival of "Tess of the Storm Country," has a painting of himself hung in the hall of fame in the Lamb's Club of New York. It happened thus: Robinson was selected to pose for Charles Chambers, the artist, for the cover of <he program for the Lamb's Gambol of 1922, and, the painting was judged so remarkably mer'torious that the club officials decided it des.erved a place among the immortals. Chambers' art was so true that a New York art critic declared it to be "a startling revelation of the art of life-like color blending." Ch.irles Ray has built a new set out in the country where he is shooting scenes for "The Girl I I,o\e". The set is an old-fashioned house and garden of the eariy seventies. The polo field at Santa Barbara was transformed into a replica of the famous "Seven Flags" polo field at Bombay for the mallet-wielding scenes in Norma Talmadge's "Voice from the Minaret." The amateur picture producer is burlesqued in "Homemade Movies," a Mack Sennett comedy that pivots about the reckless eyes of Ben Turpin. Mabel Normand will return to the Sennett lot from Europe about September 1st and will immediately start work on a special comedy feature provided for her by Mr. Sennett. Racing the storm from Riverside by motor car was the experience Pat O'Malley had last Sunday night. He had gone to that city on location with the Sloman producing company. As he was retiring for the night a telegram arrived telling him that an addition to his family was expected before morning. No time was lost in locating a high-powered automobile and Mr. O'Malley traveled the distance to the St. Vincent Hospital here in time for the doctor to whisper in his ear, "It's a girl." The child was born at 2:10 a. m., weighed seven and one-half pounds, and is the O'Malley's second daughter. This daughter's name is Sheila Patricia O'Malley. Some of the finest blue ribbon winners of this season's Southern California horse show are pictured in "Rich Men's Wives," the B P Schulberg Special Production which was directed by Gasnier, starring House Peters and Claire Windsor. Thru the efforts of Mr. Frank MacQuarrie a movement is under way in San Francisco to present a motion picture exposition at the Civic Auditorium in August. This exposition will run for one week, ending up with a society mask ball. A pageant carrying out the history of the motion picture up to the present period will be a feature attraction. The exposition management have been gathering data for over two years pertaining to the growth of pictures and many interesting relics will be on display— such as the first camera ever to film a motion picture. Every producing company of importance will be on hand with booths. Special exhibits will be shipped from Europe.