Camera - April 14, 1923 to February 16, 1924 (April 1923-February 1924)

Page Six "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERAI Fl a s e s f r o m F I* 1 S C O AGNES KERR CRAWFORD San Francisco, Cal., May 11— Victor Seastrom, (he great Swedish director now making his first picture for Goldwyn, "Masters of Men," and some twenty-five members of his cast and staff, arrived in San Francisco on Monday. They will work for a week or ten days at Half Moon Bay, and on location near Burlingame, and San Mateo. The cast includes Joseph Schildkraut, Creighton Hale, De Witt C. Jennings, and Patsy Huth Miller. James Hogan is production manager, and came to town several days ahead of the company. H. A Snow, who made the now famous "Hunting Big Game in Africa" picture, will leave in the very near future for a return trip to Africa. They will on this expedition go farther into the interior, and expect to make even bigger and better animal pictures, also to bring back to this country a whole ship load of live animals, for zoos, and public exhibition purposes. His son, Sidney Smith, will be cameraman with the party. Albert Wilkie, who has been doing the publicity for Eric Von Stroheim's production of "Greed," has resigned his position with Goldwyn, and left San Francisco on Sunday for the South, to accept a very flattering offer from the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Fitz Tidden, of this city, will take his place with the "Greed" company. .Tack Holt spent most of last week in San Francisco, and returned to the South on Sunday. Chester Conklin. Mother Ashton, little Austin Jewell, and the twins have all finished their parts in the production of "Greed," and have left for their homes in the South within the last few days. The big picnic sequence is being shot this week, and on its completion one or two other members of the cast will be released. Mrs. Jean Hersholt, and little son Allen, have arrived to be with Jean during the balance of his stay here. Something really new in the way of moving pictures had its world's Premiere at the Civic Auditorium on June 15th. It was "Frate Sole," the first moving picture operathat America has ever seen; a picture with an opera score played and sung while the action takes place on the screen. The picture is built on the life of Saint Francis of Assissi, and the story is from the pen of Marie Corsi, well known screen dramatist of Rome. It was produced under the direction of Ugo Falena, in Rome and in the actual scenes where At. Francis lived and moved. The musical score was written by Luigi Mancilelli and was rendered by an orchestra of eighty musicians, with twentyfour soloists, and fifty voices in the chorus, directed by Alexander Saslavsky. The whole • production will be given on the very highest scale of artistic performance, and Is being presented by the John Promberger Production. After the run of the picture here it will go to the Auditorium at Los Angeles. Oakland is to have a very grand fete and pageant the latter part of this month, and the first of July, on the lake at Lake Merritt. Harry Sheehan, long and well known to the picture world, is the director, and among other things a moving picture will be made in connection with the pageant. The shores of Laki Merritt will be transformed into the "Island of Oz," and our old friends the scarecrow, Ihe tin woods-man and all their com panions w ill be there assisted by a company of some five hundred people. Richard Mel» vick, well known to the silver-sheet as k daring wild west, and trick rider, and hip three wonderfully trained horses will be part of the show, and altogether it promigM to be quite some party. "The pair of Hellions," first picture made by the Steroscopic Productions, was pr% viewed at the Franklin Theatre in Oakland last week to an audience that seemed to e% joy it very much. The next picture of tq§ company will be started at the Pacific SqJ dios next week. The world's premiere of Mrs. Wallace Reid's picture "Human Wreckage" torn place at the Century Theatre here last Saturday night. The picture is not only a wonderful lesson, but a well played, and real* interesting picture. Mrs. Reid came to Sa Francisco for -the opening and made a pe» sonal appearance, and a very dignified aq)l appealing little speach. Thomas Ince and his wife were in toiaj over the week-end to be present at the ! i rat public showing performance of "Hum Wreckage." Edward Jobson of the film world of Hollywood is in San Francisco just for a littB holiday, and change of air. ¥i . •. I Fritzi Ridgeway is the headliner a! the Orpheum this week in a novelty, called W Wife's Honor." It is played in three speed! and given an effect of a picture with eve«| thing on the stage in black and white, aa shutter lighting. Along Netf York's Rialto By Raymond McKee Sophie Tucker has purchased a home in Los Angeles. "Human Wreckage," the anti-narcotic photo-drama, with Mrs Wallace Reid, distributed by the Film Booking Offices, opens in New York at the Lyric Theatre following the run of Griffith's "White Rose" in that theatre. The premiere will happen Julv first. Mimi Palmer, a new star, will make her appearance this week at the Capitol Theatre. "The Ragged Edge" is the second Distinctive Production to be released through Goldwyn The role of the young hero is played by Alfred Hunt. Police commissioner of New York City, Richard E. Enright, has written a scenario, and tells his fellow "Friars" I hat a certain producer has made arrangements with his wife to film it. D. W. 'Irifflth is casting his next picture. It will star Al Jolson, who will play two parts, that of a brown skin lover and also a straight white man. "The Meanest Man in the World," produced by Principal Pictures Corporation, in Los Angeles, will have its world premiere on Broadway with the George M. Cohan Theatre as its home. Juanita Hansen, who was cured of the drug habit, will have Mrs. Fiske's role in "The Lice of the Gods," when the piece is put on tour. William LeBarron. production manager, Joseph l iban, designer, and Luther Reed, scenario writer, of the Cosmopolitan, left for California this week to attend to the preliminaries for ihe filming on the coast of Marion Davies' next picture, "Yolande." Miss Davis is now on her way to Europe to attend the world premiere of her "Little Old New York," which opens in London. Ann Forrest is being sued for $20,000. It happened this way: about a year ago Ann was stopping at the Hotel Netherland. She came home one evening to find her jewels conspicuous by their absence. Ann phoned the police who later recovered the jewels from a woman employee of the hotel. So happy was Miss Ann that she decided not to press the charge against the poor unfortunate. So she dismissed the maid and the affair from her mind and sailed for Europe. Now this poor unfortunate, who took the gems, up and sues Miss Forrest for $20,000 for being maliciously arrested. If she wasn't, why didn't Miss Forrest press the charge, she maintains. Jaeque Tryol, president of the producing corporal on which bears his name, this week announced that Henry James, former bill ness manager of this concern, has resign* and that he is no longer affiliated with thfp concern. Bernie Dinning is in New York makiaj ready to do a special picture for Willia* Fox, with an all-star cast. Shirley will join him later. Christie Cabanne is doing one of his owr brain children at the Metro studio with ar all-star cast. The Shuberts have leased the Central Theatre to William Fox from September IB to February 1st. Fox will use the house for his special film showings, opening wit! "When Winter Conies." "Enemies of Women," with Lionel BarifH more and Alma Rubens, moves to tiM Cameo next Sunday from its eighth wee*! on Broadway, pumping from house to house [ It will run indefinitely. Alan Crosland di rected this in Mont Carlo. Minta Durfee, Roscoe's wife, will open iij a vaudeville act in New York real soon. Sbt had a wire from Fatty yesterday in Chicagi| at the Marigold Gardens saying that he was i accepted by the exclusive crowd and wat playing to capacity. Arbuckle is leading tn«; number and doing a couple of comedy falls (Continued on Page 22)