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

Camera's Weekly Wake-em-up SPECIAL NEWS SECTION SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923 EXPOSITION IS PRACTICALLY READY With actual construction of the Exposition City" completed and n army of decorators and landcape artists adding their finishag touches to the picture, pracically everything is in readiness sr the grand opening of the .merican Historical Revue and lotion Picture Industrial Exosition to be held in Los Aneles, July 2 to August 4. Final details are now being •orked out for the presentation f the big historical pageants, nmmemorating the hundredth nniversary of the Monroe Doc'ine, and the many other specicular features of the celebraion. Contracts have been signed by le Exposition management with lore than 100 noted singers, ac)rs, impresarios, and producers f the pageants and striking en?rtainment acts, who will partiipate. Arrangements have been lade through the World Amuselent Service Association with 'heodore Kosloff, noted Russian ancer, and Emil de Recat, faious producer of pageants, to tage the historical revues and allets. The first tableaux will depict tie primitive life of the Amerian Indian before Columbus and onclude with some recent his>ry-making event. Kosloff 's bal'ts will portray the "Fall of the .ztecs," "An Easter Night in ussia," and a "Ballet of World's Nations", showing characteristic ances. The "Aztec City" that has been uilt to house the Exposition lends the atmosphere of old pain with the crude beauty of le Latin-American cities. The lain thoroughfare is the Esplaade, lined with palms and emanked with flowers and tropical lants. In a lily-pond near the ntrance will be a statue of Presient Monroe, brilliantly illuminted. All Exposition activities will adiate from the Court of Honor, n area way massed with owers, situated between the two littering Aztec towers. The most spectacular feature f the Exposition will be the picurization of "Montezuma or the 'all of the Aztecs." More than 00 persons and tons of fireworks ill be utilized in the production f this mammoth feature, said to e the most elaborate pyrotechic display ever produced. It will e staged in the new Coliseum eating 80,000 persons. ARTIST WILL PRODUCE NOVEL DOLL MOVIES Antor Novak, the Hungarian artist, has opened a studio in Hollywood for the production of a new kind of motion picture. He will put into operation his new invention in photography, which makes dolls seem to fly about, dive into the ground and be full of life and activity. He will produce motion pictures specially designed to entertain children and at the same time give them useful information. KINEMA REDUCES PRICES HUNDRED PER CENT The Kinema Theatre in Los Angeles has made a radical departure in its policy of operation. Decision was made by officials of West Coast Theatres, Inc., to have a downtown house with popular admission prices and to this effect a new scale has been initiated at the Grand Avenue and Seventh Street theatre. The price for Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are scaled at twentyfive cents all over the house, with ten cents for children and fifty cents for the big loge chairs. During the rest of the week the general admission to all parts of the theatre will be twenty-five cents excepting the loges. The tax is added to these prices and since the inception of the new policy it has been found that the move was not only a wise one, but certainly one deserving success. During the first two weeks of operating this new policy at the Kinema did a tremendous business at popular prices. West Coast Theatres, Inc., are adopting the slogan "the picture is the thing" for the Kinema and eliminating all stage and atmospheric embellishments. Greatest care is being devoted to the proper musical accompaniment of pictures and short subjects. The desire often voiced by Los Angeles theatre patrons to be able to witness pictures without the long drawn-out and often tiresome programs seems at least to have been realized with a change of the Kinema policy and not a little favorable comment has been heard. There is how provision for all those who desire nothing but pictures to go to the Kinema and observe at popular admission prices, the program of diversified screen subjects headed by first run feature picture. JOHNNY HARRON IS IN "GOLD DIGGERS" CAST A familiar face at the Warner Brothers studio these , days is that of Johnny Harron, brother of the famous Bobby who was a Griffith star for years, and the idol of the film fans. Johnny has been engaged by the Warners for a leading part in "The Gold Diggers" now in production at the West Coast Studios under the direction of Harry Beaumont. "The Gold Diggers" is from the David Belasco stage play warnerIrothers sign ernest lubitsch Ernest Lubitsch, world famous director from Europe, was today signed to a contract by the Warner Brothers. Mr. Lubitsch takes up offices in the Warner's new studios Monday at the head of his own production unit. He is to make only major productions for the Warners, one of which will be David Belasco's "Deburau," which is to be the greatest undertaking ever attempted by any motion picture organization. Lubitsch has just completed Mary Pickford's biggest picture, made under the title of "Rosina" and to be released as "The Street Singer." He comes to the new organization independent of past connections and is to commence work on the preliminary details of his first picture at once. Lubitsch is incidentally the man credited for those successful European pictures which were shown in America the past year or two. He is considered the peer of European directors. The signing of 'this important director may be recorded in film history as another step of marvelous advancement by the Warner Bros. With David Belasco under contract and a number of the most important producers and directors of the picture world signed, this company bids fair to advance considerably further in the picture field during the coming years than in the past, when it grew from a small producing unit to one of the most important film companies in the world. Hoot Gibson is on location at the Flynn ranch, in the high Sierras, where the exterior scenes of "The Ramblin' Kid" are being made. Edward Sedgwick is directing the new Gibson play, to be one of his new series of Univers;il-Gibson special productions. VANDAUS DESTROY C0STUY PART OF "SET" Sight seeing vandals, in the guise of studio visitors, this week completely destroyed an almost priceless Chinese screen on one of the sets used in the filming of "Thundergate," a First National production now being directed at the United Studios by Joseph De Grasse. The huge screen, made of teakwood, ivory and gold, stood for years in the home of a mandarin of interior China. During the revolution of Dr. Sun Yat Sen it was carried away and finally sold to an English collector at Canton. The screen eventually found its way to America and was loaned for the "Thundergate" production. The materials making up the antique had been patiently and skillfully carved by hand and the finished screen was valued at several thousand dollars. It was thickly studded with ivory miniatures as well as carved mother-of-pearl ornaments. Many of the ivory and pearl ornaments were cut from the screen by some visitor who deftly wielded a pocket-knife in his search for souvenirs of the picture set. Director De Grasse declares the article is almost completely destroyed and can never be replaced. Private detectives have been placed on the case and strangers who have recently visited the set may be questioned at length if any clue to the vandals is discovered. The discovery of the screen's destruction was made by Owen Moore, star of "Thundergate," and immediately reported to First National oflicials. Hale is in Frisco Creighton Hale, debonair leading man, whose screen career dates back to the days of the earliest D. W. Griffith pictures. "Intolerance," "The Clansman" and others, and who scored a decided hit with Los Angeles audiences a short time ago when he appeared as the star in "Just Suppose," at the Mason Opera House, is on location at San Francisco with members of the Goldwyn company, filming "The Master of Man" under I he direction of Victor Seastrom. In this picture Mr. Hale is playing the part of "Alick," a sympathetic juvenile role, which is said to allow him an unusual opportunity to demonstrate his versatility and histrionic ability.