Camera (May 1922-April 1923)

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Page Ten IVeekly IVake-'Em-U pā€” CAMERA .''S A^czvs Section CAMERA I gl Boiled Down and Served Up! gg Some of TKis Week's Film Mews Tou May Have Overlooked. The Universal production of "Flesh," filmed under the direction of Rupert Julian, has been changed to "The Midnight Ghost." Independent production will be at its peak in March if the requests for release contracts through the Anchor Film Distributors, Inc., is any criterion. Frank Borzage, who is to make a series of super-features for First National, is casting at the United Studios for his initial production, a screen adaptation of "Terwilliger," which is to be released under the title, "Sands of Time." "Tattling Lips" is the title of the third special production which has been written for Madge Bellamy, who is being starred in a series of six big "specials" which are being made by Regal Pictures, Incorporated, on the lot of the Thomas H. Ince Studios. George Terwilliger, who recently completed a screen version of Eugene Walters' play "The Flapper" for Pyramid Pictures, Inc., which the latter renamed "What Fools Men Are," has been re-engaged by Pyramid to direct the filming of "Wife in Name Only." Harold Lloyd and his new | wife, Mildred Davis, are honeymooning in Sah Diego, the : former home of the popular comedian. They are endeavoring to travel incognito. Bob Horner, Gertrude Strickland and Charles Anderson are forming a $1,000,000 Motion Picture Corporation. A three-unit plan consisting of Drama, Comedy and Western, will go to make up the program for the coming two years. The release will be independent. L. J. O'Connor, veteran Alaskan e.xplorer, and considered one of the wealthiest men during the northern gold rush in 1898, has been signed by the Jesse D. Hampton organization to assist in the production of Rex Beach's story, "The Spoilers." Mr. O'Connor was personally acquainted with the characters around whom the story was written. Production work on "Out of the Night," the first of a series of Palmer Photoplay pictures starring Lloyd Hughes, was temporarily delayed by the illness of Joseph De Grasse, the director. De Grasse was taken ill with an attack of influenza while the company was working on location in Northern California where a number of snow scenes were filmed. The Anchor is in the market for the distribution of a series of high-class comedy dramas with a society background. Tworeel comedies are also in demand, says Morris R. Schlank. Lois Wilson, Conrad Nagel and wife, left last Wednesday for New York, where the popular actor, recently contracted by Goldwyn, will make a picture for his new employers. The trip will serve as Miss Wilson's initial invasion of the east. Alfred E. Green, director of Thomas Meighan's last five productions, has just finished filming "The Ne'er Do Well" in New York, and is expected to arrive in Los Angeles within the next few days. He will be a featured director of the Famous PlayersLasky staff, as his pictures will be released under the title of the Alfred E. Green Productions. Passengers travelling between Chicago and St. Louis via the Chicago & Alton Railroad, look forward to their trips nowadays. Each evening a complete movie program is presented, consisting of a news reel, feature production and a two-reel comedy. "The Flame of Life," starring Priscilla Dean, was featured in the initial showing, reported as a great success. George O'Hara and his company have been spending several days at Balboa where scenes have been taken for the water sequences in O'Hara's latest vehicle in the Witwer "Fighting Blood" series "The Knight That Failed." Work will be completed on the production in a few days, following which the star will be ready for the eighth picture "Christopher of Columbus." Mai St. Clair is directing the productions. Charles J. Brabin, Goldwyn's latest acquired directorial aid, will produce as his first Goldwyn effort Corrine Griffith's next starring vehicle, "Six Days." Mr. Brabin has just arrived from New York, where he sold his latest independent production, "Driven," filmed in the mountains of Georgia and considered one of the best pictures produced during 1922. He has not been active in the local film field for the last five years. Selections are being made for the cast who will appear in the Goldwyn production of "The Spoilers," to be started soon under the direction of Lambert Hillyer. Milton Sills, Noah Ceery, Barbara Bedford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert Edeson. Wallace McDonald, Mitchell Lewis, William V. Mong, Ford Sterling, Alec B. Francis, Louise Fazenda and Kate Price have been cast. Six other names will be announced to complete the eighteen stellar roles. San Francisco, Feb. 15th.ā€” Norma Talmadge. Lew Cody, Frank Lloyd, Harry Weil, Tony Gaudio, and ten other members of the cast and stalT. came to San Francisco last Tuesday to shoot some scenes for "Within the Law." On Wednesday evening quite a crowd gathered to watch Miss Talniadge (or her double) jump into the dark cold waters of the bay off Pier 46, to be followed in the plunge, and rescued by Lew Cody. N. Dragomanovich, head of the West Coast Films Corporation, left for Los Angeles on Saturday, where he will remain for a week on business for the company. They expect to resume production in the very near future on a regular schedule basis. Ted Taylor, ex-publisher of "Camera!" and now publicity man for Goldwyn, left San F"rancisco for Los Angeles on Wednesday; he will return here in a couple of weeks to continue his work for Von Stroheim's production of "McTeague." Reginald Denny, successful star of two series of "The Leather Pushers," came to San Francisco on P^riday, to make personal appearances at the California Theatre for three days, with the tenth round of the second series of his pictures, now being shown. Winfred R. Sheehan, vice-president and general manager of the Fox P'ilm Corporation, is confined to his bed at the Hotel St. Francis, very ill. Flashes from Frisco C. C. Pettijohn, vice-president Select Picture Corporation of New York, was in San Francisco several days the first of last week on business. Craig Hutchinson, director, and his company, finished "Tiberious Tinker, Press Agent," Friday, at the Paul Gerson Studios. This is the second of the series of the pictures being made from Peter B. Kyne's stories. Work on the third picture has begun. Eric Von Stroheim has finished the continuity for "McTeague," from Frank Norris' story, and has gone to Los Angeles for a few days to complete his cast. Ray Moore, of the Goldwyn forces, was in town last week on business connected with buying from the Pullman works, a private car, to be used as a set in "The Rear Car," soon to be filmed, with Clarence Badger directing. The Redwood Film Corporation of this city announces that they will begin production the first of March. They expect to work at the new Gerson Studios, and their first pictur" will be "The Three-Mile Limit," a smuggling story by Walter Montague, with an all-star cast. Sherwood McDonald will direct with Richard Kipling as co-director. Harry Carey was in San Francisco all last week appearing in a vaudeville stunt at the Golden Gate Theatre on the bill with his feature picture "Good Men and True." While in town Carey did his best to beg or bribe Chief O'Bripn into selling him a San Francisco police horse for use in the films. Phyllis Haver, of the Mack Sennett forces, came to town last week "just to shop," as she said, for she thinks San Francisco is the Paris of the West for styles and shops. Ernest Traxler, production manager for Goldwyn, spent most of last week at Colfax, and the neighborhood of the Big Dipper Copper mine at Iowa Hill, getting locations for the mine scenes in Von Stroheim's production of "McTeague." Sir Harry Lauder came to town yesterday and we ran across him, good-naturedly letting some press photographers snap pictures of him in Union Square. Sir Harry looks shorter and stouter and older than on his last American trip, but has the same smile and merry twinkle in his eyes. He is to appear for a week at the Curren Theatre here, and is enroute for Australia. Emmett J. Flynn, of Fox, is in San Francisco at the Hotel St. Francis. AQNES KERR CRAWFORD.