Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

■Pase Fourteen Weekly Wake-'Em-U p~CAMERA !'S News Section CAMERA I WKo's WKo and WKat's What in Filmland This Week Richard Dix is buying furniture for his new house. Jack Malone has returned to Los Angeles from the East. John Harron has completed a part in Emory Johnson's produclion "Westbound 99" at the R C studios. Roy Del Ruth has been signed by Jack White, producer of Educational-Mermaid Comedies, to direct Lige Conley. Milton Sills is a good-natured "cop" in the lead he is doing for John Gorman. He should be finished next week. Cleo Madison was called back to Los Angeles from New York to play the lead in the current Clifford-Sanford production. Wesley Barry, the popular boy star, is winding up his personal appearance tour in the East and is expected back here soon. Anna Q. Nilsson has started work in the Herbert Brenon production for Paramount, "The Rustle of Silk" with Betty Compson and Conway Tearle. Ashley Cooper has been added to the cast supporting Harry Carey in his next starring vehicle, "The Man From the Desert," being filmed at the Robertson-Cole studios. MUCH ILLUMINATION IS PLANNED FOR LUMINARIES The Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles' far-famed hostelry, within whose classic walls cinema deals involving billions have been planned and consummated, will be illuminated as never before for the annual ball of the Motion Picture Directors' Association to be staged there on February 17, an event which the "400" of Hollywood, America's film capitol, are eagerly anticipating. Inside and outside it will be lit up by the highest salaried electricians in the world, the Motion Picture Illuminating Engineers, headed by Harry Brown, their president. Gowns totalling hundreds of thousands and jewels aggregating millions will be on exhibition at this event, which is to be made even more spectacular than ever by Philip Rosen, the Lasky director who made several of Wallie Reid's greatest successes, and who is directorgeneral of the affair. Associated with him on the committee are James Hogan, of Goldwyn; William Worthington, who directed Sessue Hayakawa to international fame; Joseph de Grasse, the man who made Charles Ray famous, Roy Clem Al Herman's first Century Comedy for 1923 is finished. It is known as "A Spooky Romance" and stars Jack Cooper. Max Asher, well known comedian, is playing the part of Stephen Hopkins in Charles Ray's classic, "Miles Standish." Harry Lamont has been playing a Gypsy in the Lasky production of "The Law of the Lawless" with Dorothy Dalton as the feminine lead. Forrest Robinson and Edith Yorke are playing Mr. and Mrs. Steddon in Rupert Hughes' "Souls For Sale" at the Goldwyn studios. Antonio Moreno has just completed work in the Paramount production, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," starring Mary Miles Minter. Maude Wayne will portray "the other woman" in the Madge Bellamy picture which William Seiter has started to direct at the Ince studios. Carmel Myers is breaking her return trip from New York, by doing a picture with the Blair Coan productions in Chicago. Incidentally, she is wearing some of the new creations, the making of which originally took her 1 East. ents who showed the world how pictures were made at the recent Pageant of Progress; Wally Van, Fred Thompson, Murdock McQuarrie, and Lottie Pickford as honorary member to give the necessary feminine slant to the decorations and preparations. FRIENDSHIP FOR A BEAR BEARS GRIEF FOR ARTIST They used a big grizzly bear in some of the scenes in the Vitagraph comedy, starring Jimmie Aubrey, this week, and, therein lies a story with a moral. Helen Kesler, who is Aubrey's leading lady, took a fancy to this particular bear and proceeded to make a pet of it from the first day. Seemingly she was making fine headway towards ingratiating herself with the big brute until the final day of their "friendship," when the latter made known its full disapproval of all amicable advances by giving the actress a mean hug and then cuffing her in the face and bowling her over for a couple of goals. The result was. Miss Kesler had. to be taken to the studio emergency hospital for some mending of a few scratches and lacerations. John Bowers still lias a couple of weeks shooting in Louis Burston's Metro production "Desire." As usual, his work is a source of favorable comment. D. Ross Lederman, who has been active in San Francisco for the past few months, has returned to Hollywood as assistant to Director James W. Horne. Carmen Phillips is a member of the featured aggregation assembled by Harry Cohn and Director Ed. LeSaint for the forthcoming production "Temptation." Eric Von Stroheim, who recently signed a long-term contract with Goldvr>n, will have Ernest Traxler as production manager and Ben Reynolds as first cameraman. Freeman Wood is rapidly becoming an institution in San Francisco. He has first call in juveniles in pictures produced there. Gerson productions were the most recent producers to avail themselves of his services. Hugo Ballin, who has just finished the final editing of "Vanity Fair," is making preliminary preparations to begin work on another big production which will be the second of a series of productions which he will make here for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. The further result was, the bear became so furious in its sudden ire that not even its trainer could subdue it and the filming of the picture was held up one full day while the animal was regaining a slight semblance of its former good humor. "That's the first time in my young life that I've had my friendship so ruthlessly rejected by man or beast and it only goes to show that you can't be too careful in selecting your friends," Miss Kesler says. THEY CAN GO SKATING ON ICE IN HOLLYWOOD NOW Ice skating in Hollywood is now a reality! The first ice rink to be built in the film capitol has been constructed on a large stage at the United Studio and was used fi)st in the forthcoming Allen Holubar production, "Slander the Woman," starring Dorothy Phillips. The script of the widely read Jeffrey Deprend novel as filmed by Holubar calls for a few important ice skating scenes and as there is no rink of this kind within a radius of many hundred miles of Los Angeles, the director-producer ordered one constructed at the studio where he Katherine Hilliker and H. H. Caldwell, title editors of the Goldwyn studios are editing and titling a big foreign production starring Pola Negri in the role said to be her most seductive. The picture will be released under the title "Mad Love" the last part of February. Protean Arts has loaned Cecil Holland and Raymond Cannon, star and director respectively of Protean Productions, to the Fred Caldwell Productions for the comedy drama "Knighthood in Hollywood." Violet Schram and Gale Henry compose the feminine portion of the cast. Vic Potel is also playing an important part. Edith Lee Grant's "The Log Jam," is nearly finished. Miss Grant wrote this two-reel comedy, and is also playing the leading feminine role for Harry Takiff, a producer. James Morrison is helping Blair Coan put Chicago back on the picture map. He is playing the lead in "The Little Girl Next Door." We may expect him with us about February 15th. Edward Kimball is once more "butting." He has signed with the Hugh Dierker productions to play the butler in "The Other Side." Production will begin at the Fine Arts studios about February 6. was producing for release through Associated First National Pictures, Inc. The rink is eighty-five feet in length and fifty-five feet in width. Over eight thousand feet of inch and a quarter black pipe and seventy-six-inch valves were employed in the construction of the set while an enormous ammonia compresser distributes the freezing fluid over the large sanded surface. Late Arrival Gets Busy Fred Esmelton, well-known star of the stage and of Frank Bacon's immortal story of "Lightnin' " when produced in Australia, has just arrived in America from a two years' stay in the Antipodes. Esmelton is now trying to be in two places at one time, because he is with Ethel Clayton in "The Greater Glory" at the F. B. O. studios and is also appearing with William Russell in the latter's current production, "The White Cross." Less obtuse conversation and more keen efforts will augment the chances of success. Every time you feel like excoriating someone, excoriate yourself for feeling that way.