Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

CAMERA ! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" Page Seventeen CARPENTIER SINGER AND POET It is not generally known that among his accomplishments Georges Carpentier, who plays the leading role in the J. Stuart Blackton film, "A Gipsy Cavalier," is a singer of ability, and also a poet. The noted Frenchman has a rich baritone voice of melodious and sympathetic quality, and a wide repertory which he has learned. He knows many of the beautiful French folk songs and has completely learned 17 operatic roles. Car,pentier is now collaborating with a French dramatist in the writing of a play which 'will appear in Paris in the autumn. Among others he has written are the lyrics to a song entitled "Vagabond Philosophy" with music by Florian Brock. Sloane Hou.se, where the garden fete scenes in the J. Stuart Blackton film, "A Gipsy Cavalier" with Georges Carpentier were staged, is the London residence of Mr. Blackton. This fine old-world structure was built over 200 years ago by Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum, and contains many fine specimens of art and antique furniture. Sloane House is situated in the heart of Chelsea, and is surrounded by the studios of many artistic people. C. W. Smiley played a cop for Earle Williams and acted like he knew what a real minion of the law did under such circumstances. FRANK P. DONOVAN Director of Vltagraph, Pathe, General and Mutual Releases, Paramount Pictures, etc. GREEN ROOM CLUB New York City THE PIT CLASSIFIED WANT ADS Your advertisement will be run in this column at the rate of 1 5c per line. Minimum 75c. Phone, mail or bring in your "Wants." French cameraman at liberty; art photographer, experienced, formerly with Gaumont. expert in laboratory work and on light.,, age 30, single, knows 5 languages; wants work in America a.s cameraman or in laboratory. Marcel Lambert, Ritz Hotel, Rue Augustin, Brussels, Belgium. Wanted — Position by experienced film cutter and assistant continuity writer. Salary ,$50.00. Serial company preferred. L. R. F. Camera! laboratory work and on lights, age 30, single, knows 5 languages; wants work in America as teacher want.s Hollywood and Wilshire pupils; Tutoring; certified grammar and high school tearher wants Hollywood and Wilshire pupils; bright or backward children a specialty; class or individual instructions; references. TeleI)hone Hollywood 4149. WANTED: SCRIPT AGENT IN HOLLY wood — Out of town writer wajits repre.sentative in the studios. Agent with some critical discrimination desired. Address WRITER, Box A-7, Camera! STILL OUTFITS FOR RENT. Highest grade equipment, $r).00 iier week. Complete stock of fresh still film always on hand. I'opular prices on finishing. LITTLE, The Big Photographer, .5874 Hollywood Blvd. (cor. Bronson). Telephone .')!)7-602. FOR SALE — Full-length hair seal coat, hand .some large shawl collar, cuffs and deep band at bottom of Hud.son seal. 598-513. CINEMATOGRAPHER permanently employed at liberty for short subject and singli; day shooting. Telephone Hollywood 4471. SCREEN TESTS WANTED— If you photograph them write rates and particulars to Box 1-14, C'amera ! Pathe Camera, fully equipped. Will sacrifice If taken at once. 1302 Gordon St. 578-7G3. Mr. Rex McDougall, an English actor, who has made some fame in America, has a leading role with Georges Carpentier in the J. Stuart Blackton film, "A Gipsy Cavalier." Horace Williams, casting director of the Thomas H. Ince studios, has a placard tacked up in his offices which reads, "The Price of 'Hams' have come down." He clipped this out of an ad in ono of the leading morning newspapers and is a fitting cue for the present way of things in filmdom, slangily speaking. Dorothy Phillips is resting, preparatory to starting work on Allen Holubar's next melodrama for First National, in which she will be starred. Mr. Holubar and Harvey Gates, author of "Hurricane's Gal" and other Holubar successes, are now putting the story into continuity. Arthur Edmund Carew has moved his make-up box from the Coogan sets to his home where he will remain for a while until starting on his next production. BLACKTON STUDIOS, LONDON Mr. J. Stuart Blackton has completed^ an arrangement with the International Art'ists film company, Ltd., whereby that company, of which Mr. Alan S. Butler is president, will present "A Gipsy Cavalier," the film production presenting Georges Carpentier, and a notable cast of artistes. The Gaumont Film company will release this film throughout the United Kingdom. The Trade Show date has been set for August 31. Miss Flora Le Breton, who plays the heroine with Georges Carpentier in the J. Stuart Blackton film, "A Gipsy Cavalier" has been called by Mr. Blackton the "Dresden China Doll" of the English screen. This title has been given this charming artiste by Mr. Blackton because of her daintiness and doll-like appearance, especially in the 18th century costumes. Henry Herbert is doing a Don in the William Duncan story now being made. Edith Johnson has the role of a senorita, the daughter of the Don. The production is being directed by William Duncan, who is the star. An Appreciation AFTER many months of wandering, the first film-born of Omar and his Rubaiyat has returned to the City of the Angels, and home, with never a christening in the presence of its god father. The Public. It has been adventuring in far-off cutting rooms, possibly to prove that all the "assassins" were not confined to the tribe of Hassan. But Ferdinand Pinney Earle, creator of the production, lured his offspring back again and, although an arm was where a leg formerly functioned, an ear missing, and raiment mussed a bit, an audience of discrimination sat in a Hollywood theater, at a private showing, during which two soUci hours vanished as but a minute, so fascinating did the production prove. Mr. Earle, like Rex Ingram, came from the world of brush and canvass, to spread his art upon the greater screen. He created a new Rubaiyat with such spiritual colors', that they swayed. But his genius went further. When a mixed audience, composed of financiers, society folk, writers, artists and studio eminents burst into wildest applause time after time, at the appearance of "mere sets," one may well bow to a new genius of filmland. And all this despite the fact that the East has sent back a print of Rubaiyat which would discredit the intelligence of a school boy. It has been my fortune to see some of the most wonderful sets that this Old Earth possesses, but I may truly say that none seized me more suddenly, or broke with greater, sudden inspiration upon the view and the brain, than some of Ferdinand Earle's backgrounds, in his Rubaiyat. His vision and inspired art seem to promise something bigger and better for the future screen. The screen people, the groupings and atmosphere of Mr. Earle's Rubaiyat merge, in pastel, to sing the limpid refrain of that poem of romance and tragedy, with the grand Frederick Warde in the van. This is not a review of Mr. Earle's creation. That must come later, when that kindly physician performs many minor and not a few major operations upon the patient which — despite his adventures in a tough old world, continues "singing in the wilderness." WILLIAM E. WING. A bigger, better, finer CAMERA! is coming. The Writers' Issue will be the forerunner. It will be here soon. Fred Newmeyer, who directs the film destinies of Harold Lloyd, shot some scenes the other day just off of Hollywood Boulevard, and the way the natives eat up every movement of the company leads one to believe that they don't see movies made here. ON LOCATION? — Let the folks in Hollywood know what's doing. — Write the news and the personalities in a letter to CAMERA!