Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

CAMERA ! "The Digest of the Motion I'lcture Itulustry' Page Seven Pickups By The Staff REGINALD BARKER COMPANY RESCUED FROM FOREST FIRE Reginald Barker, with his company which he took up to British Columbia to film scenes for "Timber," was trapped in a forest fire while trying secure some big forest fire settings. They were so busy shooting scenes that they failed to notice the impetus with which the fire was progressing and they were soon cut off from any means of exit. The forest rangers and the Northwest mounted police came to their rescue. Those in the company were Irene Rich, Frank Keenan, Cleo Madison, Anna Wilson, Charles Condon, James Voschella, Dude Cox, Florence Browning, Sylvia Sanborn, and little Richard Headrick. Forrest Robinson left Hollywood and arrived in New York on his sixty-fourth birthday. Mr. Robinson's haste to get back to Gotham was to be with his wife on the anniversary of his birth and to close his house in the big city so as to move to Hollywood, where he expects to reside permanently. He has just finished three months with Mary Pickford in "Tess of the Storm Country." Mrs. Claire Horsholt, who for twenty years was Denmark's most popular actress, but who is now retired, has just departed from Hollywood after a year's visit with her son, Jean Hersholt, the celebrated director-actor whose latest performance as the villain in Mary Pickford's new "Tess of the Storm Country." San Francisco and its environs will be the location of special episodes for "The Young Rajah," Rudolph Valentino's new Paramount picture, and the company leaves this week for this purpose. Accompanied by his wife, Enid Bennett, Fred Niblo left Saturday for Little Bear Lake, where he has leased a secluded lodge for a week. The greater part of his baggage consisted of books, play manuscripts and scenarios to which he will devote practically all of his time in search of a suitable story for his first Louis B. Mayer offering through Metro. Mary Miles Minter and Tom Moore will return from Wyoming where, under the ditection of Charles Maigne, they have been making exterior scenes for the Paramount picture, "The Cowboy and the Lady." The titling and editing of the Harry Rapf productions for Warner Brothers, "Rags to Riches," starring Wesley Barry, has been completed. Harry Rapf, Jack and Sam Warner are going over it for the final changes before shipping east. Ernest Belcher has just finished staging a dance for the Harry Rapf production, for Warner Brothers, "Little Heroes of the Street," starring Wesley Barry. With the aid of a number of his pupils Mr. Belcher transformed the auditorium stage into the "Midnight Frolic" and Marie Prevost was in the center of the mad whirl. Jack and Sam Warner have received the plans from their new art director Edward M. Langley, for the remodeling of their studio on Sunset Blvd., and work will start immediately. Wilfred North, who has been appearing with Carter de Haven at the R-C studios, is recovering from an accident in which a stage coach overturned at a location in Seven Oaks. He is confined to his bed while several fractured ribs are knitting together. We have just had a few <jli)iipses of Hose Dione in dramatie roles and are anxiously awaiting another. Many prominent people associated with Thomas H. Ince recently attended an informal reception tendered the producer at his ranch in Culver upon his return from an extended stay in New York. Tom had been in the eastern city for five months searching for feature screen story material and on business in connection with the distribution of his pictures. "Little Heroes of the Street," the Harry Rapf production for Warner Brothers, starring Wesley Barry ,is rapidly nearing completion at the Warner Brothers West Coast studios. Richard Barthelmess is angling for the purchase of the screen rights to William Anthony McGuire's "Six Cylinder Love," which has been running in New York all season. If his plans materialize he intends to give the leading feminine role to his wife, Mary Hay. According to advices from France, where Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett star, is sojourning, the city of Auteil literally gasped when Mabel appeared at the races recently attired in a gown of gold, in which diamonds had been sewed. BIG SET ERECTED FOR "ONE WEEK OF LOVE" A tower 110 feet high has been erected in Topango Canyon for effective camera "shots" for the Selznick production, "One Week of Love," which features Elaine Hammerstein and Conway Tearle in the principle roles. To get the lumber to the location, which is far off the main highways, it was necessary to pack it on burros over a distance of several miles of mountains. "Love Is An Awful Thing," the Selznick production, starring Owen Moore, which was recently completed by Victor Heerman, has come from the cutting room and is now ready for showing. In the cast are Owen Moore, Marjorie Daw, Kathi-yn Perry (Mrs. Moore), Douglas Carter, Arthur Hoyt, Snitz Edwards and Alice Howell. John M. Stahl, director of "One Clear Call," and other Louis B. Mayer-First National attractions, is now hard at work on "The Dangerous Age." According to the present estimates, about two weeks more of "shooting" on the interior sets will be required before the film is ready for the cutting and titling stages. Adele Ritchie, who was known as "the Dresden China doll" before she left musical comedy to become Mrs. Guy Bates Post, is visiting her folks back East, and her husband is in the midst of his work on "Omar the Tentmaker." Every noontime, post puts in a radiophone call for his wife — he has installed a powerful sending machine on the set, and she motors over to a receiving station. Edward M. Kimball, father of Clara Kimball Young, is a recent addition to the cast which Richard Walton Tully has selected to support Guy Bates Post in the filming of "Omar, the Tentmaker," Tully's romantic love-play of old Persia, in which Post starred on the legitimate stage for four years. Kimball will play the brief but vivid role of the Inn-keeper. Director Orchibaud and other members of the Selznick company, are returning from Topango Canyon this week, where they have been located for several days, making "One Week of Love," which features Conway Tearle and Elaine Hammerstein. They will now occupy themselves with a few days of interior scenes at the United studios. Viola Dana has created a new dance which she will present for the approval of theatergoers in "June Madness," her new Metro starring picture. "The Wedding Dance" is the name Miss Dana has selected tor this new fantastic presentation in which she will impersonate all the principles at a wedding ceremony. For the past few weeks the Metro star has been a daily visitor at Theodore Kosloff's Imperial Russian Ballet school of dancing, where she has been working with Mr. Kosloff in developing this specialty. Chester Conklin is building a tubercular hospital in Horseshoe Valley in the Mohave Desert. He is building it in memory of his mother, and has named it the Alice Cooper Memorial Hospital.