Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

ESTABLISHED 1918 — A FILM MAGAZINE AND A FILM NEWSPAPER IN ONE Entered as second class matter. August 11. 1918. at the postoflice at Los Angeles, Cal.. under act of March 3, 1879. S. W. (DOC) LAWSON Publisher and Manager DELBERT E. DAVENPORT „ Editor DORIS MORTLOCK Studio Editor FRED W. FOX Advertising Manager C. NEIL LYKKE, JR Associate Editor Mareridge Building NEW YORK CITY H. H. CONGER COMPANY, National Advertising Representatives First Nat'l Bank Building CHICAGO Holbrook Building SAN FRANCISCO Price 10 cents per copy, $2.00 per year In Los Angeles County. Outside Zone, $2.50 per year. Canada, $3.00; Foreign, $3.50 Issued on Saturday afternoon of each wetk at 631S Hollywood Bou!e\ard. in I/OS AiiKcK^s. California. I'hone 4:i!)-8()!) Address All Communications to Camera! Vol.V. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1923 No. 45 Little Motions Sometimes Are Stored wifli Big Racket Fox has released a comedy called "The Wise Cracker." Fire or soda? Allan Dwan's "Glimpses of the Moon" is finished. Will he never look at it again? If signs mean anything, they don't mean to assign them to the trash-heap. It still pays to advertise. Everything is looking up excepting the stars (as a single-handed system), and they are twinkling down to the level of allstar casts. William Fox announces he has selected a strong cast for "Does It Pay?" Obviously, the object of the strong cast is to make it pay. The film, "Kissed," starring Marie Prevost, caught on fire at the theatre in What Cheer, Iowa, recently. Marie's burning kisses. Oh, What Cheer! Now that Camera! has moved into its new home in the Fuller Building, it hopes to build up fuller and fuller if only to live up to its address. If Coue's philosophy works out successfully, that picture he has just made in New York should "every day, in every way, get better and better," until finally it gets to be a knockout. H. G. Wells sprung a funny when he selected "The Passionate Friends" as the title of that much-read book of his. Wherein passion and friendship can be hooked up so conveniently is the wherefore which passeth understanding. An "extra" by the name of Shipp resented the remarks of a whole crowd of real husky cowboys the other day, and in his attempt to whip them all, he got badly beaten up. Thus, in sailing in a Shipp got wrecked. As Helene Chadwick moves out of the Goldwyn stellar constellation, Blanche Sweet, Corinne Griffith and Marie Prevost move in. Thus you have the "ins and the outs" of an out-and-out moving business always within the inside of the fields of re-enforcements. Admitting that li'l ole Noo Yawk is O. K., and that the whole world is great, the fact remains: Southern California is the only place on this mtmdane sphere to make motion pictures, and the sooner the entire producing branch of the industry gets located here the better it will be for the industry. Three famous women stars of the screen have just survived operations for appendicitis almost simultaneously. Bebe Daniels and Margaret Courtot are convalescing in the east, while Viola Dana is recovering in Los Angeles. Let us pray that this erstwhile fashion in maladi**s is not attempting a general come-back. All the human dumb-bells are not out of work. You will find some of the dumbest of them all in some of the highest positions. Why? Most any ignoramus with an ability for button-hole campaigning can rise high in politics. "Brass" often proves more effective than the mettle of true ability. But, what's the difference? No good man can be held down forever. Now that Roscoe Arbuckle knows he is not going to act on the screen again, he is busily engaged trying to ascertain whether or not he is going to direct for said screen. If the "on" is off, and the "for" is not far from it, there is yet an avenue of escape he might turn a camera crank in spite of all the other cranks. At that, it cannot be said that Fatty is receiving any of the mercy for which modern civilization is supposed to be famous. David W. Griffith, seemingly, is determined to change the habit of idolizing juvenile leading men in favor of ingenues. He has three of these vivacious little ladies in the cast of "The White Rose," which he is making in Florida now. This trio is Mae Marsh, Carol Dempster and Jane Thomas. In the meantime, several West Coast producers are wild about filling their casts with character men. If this keeps up, don't be surprised if the young leading men hold an indignation meeting. Someone has sent out anonymous letters attacking the forthcoming Motion Picture Exposition. Well, so long as it remains anonymous the motion picture industry hasn't any cause for worry, because an anonymous dissenter is too much like elusive thin air to be either impressive or effective. The anonymous one in this case might be a reformer for all we know, although the letters are signed "A Producer." This is just as likely to mean a producer of discord as of motion pictures. Meanwhile, it is to be hoped everyone desirous of seeing the film world accomplish a big, notable achievement will co-operate with augmented zeal in the herculean tasks of making the Exposition a success worthy of the industry sponsoring it.