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

Page Six "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMER M\it Flashes r o m r 1 s c o B>> AGNES KERR CRAWFORD SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. June 20.— The film of "Youth Triumphant," first picture of the Fisher Productions recently finished at the Hollywood Studios, was brought to San Francisco last week, and has been given a pre view at the new Filmore Theatre, before the stockholders of the organization, and a few invited guests. It was much enjoyed by the small audience, as it is well filmed, and the cast contains such well known names as Anna Q. Nillson, Raymond Hatton. George Siegman, Joseph Dowling, Virginia Lee Corbin, Lucy Beaumont, Boyd Ervin, Arthur Jasmine, and Eugenie Besserer, with Glen MacWilliams at the camera. Allan Mackenzie, motion picture man of New York, and Los Angeles, has come to San Francisco with a view to settling permanently here. He will work in conjunction with Frank L. Burt, vice-president of the Pacific Studios, and expects to begin work shortly on a picture to be made at the San Mateo Studios. Jean Hersholt, who is playing Marcus in the Eric Von Stroheim production of "Greed," met with an accident last Thursday which might have been very serious. The company was working on a picnic sequence at Shell Mound Park in Oakland, and Hersholt and Gibson Gowland, as Marcus and McTeague, were staging their big fight in the story, when Gowland threw Hersholt over his head at the finish. Hersholt landed on his head and back with such force that he became unconscious, and Dr. J. W. Peck of Berkeley, who was hastily called, feared for a while that his back might be broken. The injured man was rushed to a hospital, where X-Ray pictures were taken till it was decided that the hurt was not serious. Hersholt was later able to return to work. James Flood, director for Fox, and a cast and crew of thirty-five people, arrived in San Francisco on the boat last Saturday. They had worked on the boat and did some street scenes here, and left for Los Angeles on Monday evening. The picture is being filmed under the working title of "The Best Man Wins." Walter Mayo is assistant director, and the leading roles are being played by William Russell, Dorothy Devore, Lloyd Whitlock, Edgar Sherrod, and others. Arthur B. Cohen is production manager, and arrived a day or two before the company. Robert Gordon, who lately played one the leading roles in "Main Street," and wife, and Helen Chadwick, Goldwyn st with George R. Giroux, came to San Cisco last Saturday morning for a two stay. Their visit here is part of the CI ber of Commerce Sociability Trip, di which they have visited thirty coast cit and towns to tell them about the big M< Centennial, and Motion Picture Expof to be held in Los Angeles in July. Wta here they were the guests of honor at luncheon of the local Chamber of Comnn where they presented Mayor Rolfe, ai few other leading men with the M< Centennial coins. The special half-dollal were struck off by the United States G< ernment to commemorate the one hundred anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. Victor Seastrom and the Goldwyn company filming "The Master of Men," under his direction are still doing location work near Burlingame, and at twin lakes. They have been a little delayed by a couple of dark days, but expect to finish and return to the South the latter part of the week. Mrs. Herbert Standing is spending a we* here as the guest of her daughter, 3<x Standing, who is a member of the "Greei cast. The Red Wood Films company of this city is making most interesting production plans to be carried out in the near future. They expect to make as their first picture a fivereel feature dealing with conditions in the Ruhr District. The story is by Walter Montague and has an allegorical prologue, and the whole production will be shot in the country in which the scenes are laid, which means that the company will go to England, Germany. France, and Russia. Richard Kipling will have a prominent part in the making of the picture. At the same time the organization will make short travelogues of the countries in which they work. Charles Stalling, having just finished his duties as production manager on the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," with his wife and little daughter, motored to San Francisco last week, and was here for several days just on a holiday after his long and hard work on the big picture. On Sunday Eric Von Stroheim shot the only real mob stuff in the filming of "Greed." It was supposed to be the Easter Sunday parade of the Polk Street Improvement Club, and big street scenes are enough of a novelty in San Francisco, that besides the couple of hundred extra people who were hired to work, large crowds gathered to watch the fun. In fact it looked for a while as though half the town was there. After the extensive alterations and repail that the Century Theatre will undergo aftt it is taken over July first by Louis R. Units name will be changed and it will I known in future as The Capitol. The Plaza Hotel had a surprise the otb day when it leaked out that a wedding unde romantic and most unusual circumstance had taken place under its roof. The happ bride is Emily Pinter, until a few days a| a member of the cast of "The Demi Virgln: and the proud husband, Jefferson Asher, ( Los Angeles, both well-known to both th stage and screen world. Miss Pinter's thea rical engagement came to a sudden end wit the closing of the play, and the departur of the management without the formality c paying the company, just after which sh was taken ill with a bad attack of "flu." S Ashes, who has been her admirer for som time decided that the time had come whet she needed the protection of a manly am A license was obtained and the marriagi took place with Miss Pinter still too ill ti leave her bed. Along NTextf York's Rialto By Raymond McKee Phillip Tannura, who cranks for Johnnie Walker, writes east he is so anxious to get back here that he would gladly pay his own fare back to a job. Now, Philly, here is some sound advice. Don't do it. Even first-raters, men who have spent all of their lives behindthe camera, even as you have done, are starving to death here. A job at its best here with a few exceptions, lasts only one picture. Money is tight here too, salaries small and when it's due, it's sometimes pretty hard for the employe to collect. I know more than one chap who has been lucky enough to work now and then who is carrying, instead of a bank book, notes, just notes. A word to the wise, stay where you are, and eat regularly. Ask Charlie Murray. ure of attending the "International Congress on Motion Picture Arts," held by the Authors' League. Several of the speakers gave the pictures and picture people the panning of their young lives. Now if these certain authors would just realize that even a bad picture had helped many a one of them to eat and then whose fault is it that a "high percentage is poor stuff." Didn't an author say himself that "the play's the thing?" him, the comedian is now insured for $300, 000. The premiums are said to be $25,00( yearly. Arthur Ashley, a "use-to-wuz" in pictures, is appearing in vaudeville in the dope scene from "The Man Who Came Back." He is at the 125th street theatre. John Emerson is again the head of the Actors' Equity. The annual meeting and election of officers was held in the grand ball room of the Astor Hotel, June 4th, and was attended by about 1,500 players. The regular ticket was elected, consisting of Emerson, president; Ethel Barrymore 1st vice-president; Grant Mitchell, 2nd vicepresident; Grant Stewart, recording secretary, and Frank Gilmore, treasurer. J Max Linder has signed to do a picture called "Le Clown Par Amour," written by himself. Work will commence the middle of September with Rene Hervil as producer. Studios in Paris will be used. England will see Laurette Taylor next season in "The National Anthem," by J. Hartley Manners, in which she appeared last year, at Henry Miller's Theatre in New York. Betty Blythe is in Germany working on "Chu Chin Chow." The writer of this paragraph had the pleas Will Rogers has taken out $250,000 in life insurance. With policies already issued to Juanita Hansen substituted for Mrs. Wallace Reid last week in the pulpit of the First Congregational Church in Washington. Mrs. Reid was ill, so Juanita delivered her message to the good people on the "Dope Habit."