Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

CAMERA I "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" five EARLE TO DIRECT THEDA NEW YORK, Dec. 6.— Ferdinand Earle will direct Theda Bara in "The Easiest Way" for Selznick. Production will start as soon as the script is completed. The picture will be an art super-feature. Earle arrived here a few weeks ago with the key print of "The Rubaiyat," cut the negative of the picture that has been two years in production and turned it over for release. Hodkinson is slated to handle it. Earle's contract with David O. Selznick to picturize Eugene Walter's melodrama, with strong emphasis on pictorial beauty, will not interfere with his personal production of "Faust." Earle's elaborate preparations for this art production are nearing completion at his studio workshop in Hollywood under direction of Paul Detlefson, who will head Earle's western unit. HOPPER THROUGH E. Mason Hopper's contract with Goldwyn expired Monday. Hopper is the last of the original Goldwyn directors, who included Reginald Barker, Frank Lloyd, Clarence Badger, Victor Schertzinger, Mason Litson and Wallace Worsley. PREVIEW MAKE-UP-LESS PICTURE "Tansy," said to be the first picture with players who used no make-up, was previewed at the Ambassador theater last night. It is a Burr Nickle Production starring Alma Taylor. Vincent Coleman, screen juvenile, was married in Chicago to Marjorie Grant, a featured dancer in "The Perfect Fool." Mr. Coleman has closed his stage engagement and will again devote his attention to the screen. On her return from Paris, Andree Peyro, Pathe player and aviatrix, brings news of motion picture conditions in France: The burden of taxes imposed on motion picture theaters has become so heavy that French exhibitors state they will close down their houses if the taxation continues. Such a move will not immediately affect American motion pictures as films reaching the French market are generally sold outright to foreign distributors who will suffer any loss. The Gaumont organization in Paris is said to be mapping out an extensive production program with the idea of invading the American market. ARREST FILM PROMOTER Norman E. Cameron, president of the Educational Film corporation of Missouri, was arrested this week in Kansas City on a warrant signed by the district attorney of Los Angeles county. He is charged with embezzling .|15,000 in violation of California blue sky laws. Cameron has been sought since April. ^^Hollywood Confessions^^ Appears CHICAGO, Nov. 23.— Editor Camera !— Who is this Guy— Price ? And what is he trying to do — pull a press agent stunt for the Hollywood Publishing company? The "short-lived but famous brochure" — "The Sins of Hollywood" — has been on sale in Chicago for months, and nobody got wildly excited about it. Its sale has been confined mostly to morons, "wise-crackers" (the boys who like to step into a smoking room, or a parlor, and tell the world how much they know about actors and actresses) and a few really honest motion picture fans who wanted to learn how vile and despicable an ex-motion picture scribe could become. But now comes ASSEMBLE INDEPENDENTS Plans of independent producers on the west coast for a protective association of their own, announced exclusively in Camera! last week, are progressing toward fruition. The preliminary organization meeting will be held at Fine Arts studio, December 14 (Thursday) at 7 p. m. Every independent producer in the southland has been invited to participate. Producers already enlisted for the cause include Doubleday Productions, G. M. Anderson Productions, Chester Bennett Productions, Halperin Productions, Charles Seeling Productions, Jess Robbins Productions and Al Rogell Productions. Along the Rialto NEW YORK, Dec. 1.— Rodolph Valentino appeared in supreme court today to appeal from the injunction restraining him from working for anyone but Famous PlayersLasky corporation. His attorney described him as a "young man who was unable to speak English when he arrived here eight months prior to making the present contract," and "wholly unfamiliar with the salaries paid to motion picture stars." Louise Marshall, Lasky attorney, stated that Valentino's contract called for $325,000 in three years. George Auger, circus giant signed by Harold Lloyd for his next comedy, died in Bridgeport, Conn., last week. Auger was 8 fe'et, 7J4 inches tall, and was 36 years old. He was with Ringling Brothers' circus. D. W. Gritlith's "The Birth of a Nation" is being revived at Selwyn theater for a week, as part of Griffith's annual repertory season. "Intolerance" will follow. Service to Producer Justice to Performer Special Department for Children — National Types THE SERVICE BUREAU The same care is given in the selection of the supporting atmosphere as is given to the cast 1036 South Hill St. General Phones 821-071 this bird. Price, to tell Chicagoans that Hollywood is wildly agitated over the forbidden (in Hollywood) volume; and the chances are good that the book will have a considerable sale here. What is the big idea with the Hearst people anyhow ? Are they trying to pull down enough screen idols to make easier sailing for the dumbbell favorite of Lord Didmore? In the history of motion pictures, nothing has ever approached the brazen efforts of the Hearst clan to buy the highest screen honors for a young woman whom Mae Tinee calls "the wooden Miss Davies." In Chicago, money has been spent like water to put "Knighthood" over. "The Prisoner of Zenda" was "bought" out of the Roosevelt theater; renters of hundreds of billboards were generously compensated in return for the giving up of their leases for a time; and every writer on the staffs of the Hearst Chicago dailies was pressed into service, and compelled to give his — or her — department over to the gushy boosting of the impossible Marion. And along comes Mr. Guy Price with his sly little quip about "The Sins of Hollywood!" Today a new publication made its appearance on our news stands; "Hollywood Confessions"— a nasty mess of salacious junk, naming no one in particular, and making no effort to be anything except a dirty attack on the morality of motion picture people in general. It is from the Hollywood Publishing company, 428 Wall street, Los Angeles. Unless I miss my guess, the man behind the gun was at one time connected with a shortlived Los Angeles motion picture publication. * * * Have you read Cinea, the leading French motion picture magazine? In the November 3 number, Louis Delluc — the foremost European screen authority — names the greatest stars of the screen. His American screen choices are Hayakawa, Hart, Fairbanks, Ray, Chaplin, Nazimova, Mabel Normand, Priscilla Dean, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Norma Talmadge, and Pauline Frederick. In France, Delluc is considered the oracle supreme. * * Wouldn't it be nice if some of the movie knockers told us about "The Producer Who Once Carried a Spear!" I'm getting awfully tired of reading that statement. JOHN D. CAHILL. Subdividers Builde R. E. WHITLEY CO. REALTORS Investments W/ Rentals Choice Hollywood and Suburban Properties Distinctive Home Sites 6034 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD Holly 925 Holly 2579