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

paee Fourteen Weekly IVake-'Em-U p — CAMERA'S News Section CAMERA Who's Who and What's What in Filmland This Week i Rene Plaisetty, well known director who is credited with discovering Leatrice Joy and others of fame, has been signed to supervise the new "Alex the Great" series of two-reel comedies which will soon go into production at the Powers studios. Henry Lehrman has succeeded Mai St. Clair as the director of the second series of H. C. Witwer's "Fighting Blood" stories. He began work this week on the second of the series called "She Supes To Conquer." Albert Cooke, chief comic of the "Fighting Blood" company filming the popular H. C. Witwer stories at the Power studios fell heavily the other day while fleeing from man-eating lions in an ancient Roman sequence and sustained a severe cut on the elbow and a sprained knee. After being patched up by the studio physician, however, he was able to continue his work of registering laughs. Harold Goodwin has been signed by Robertson-Cole to appear in forthcoming F. B. O. productions. Grace Darmoud is playing the leading feminine role in "Alimony," an F. B. O. production under the direction of James W. Horne. Emory Johnson has begun work on his next F. B. O. attraction "The Mailman." Ralph Lewis is to play the leading role in the production with an all-star cast in support. James Kirkwood was forced to learn all the intricacies of "riding the brake beams" for his portrayal of a down-and-outer in "The Eagle's Feather," a Metro all-star special, and now maintains that he can appreciate the oft-questioned comfort of pullmans. No sooner did House Peters finish his role in "Don't Marry for Money" than he speeded over to the Metro studio to portray the leading male role in "Held to Answer," an all-star picturization of Peter Clark MacFarlane's story, which Harold SJiaw is directing. Bela Lugosi has just completed his contract with Fox having played the heavy lead in "The Silent Command" which was directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Fredric Santley who recently closed with "Up She Goes" is working on the finishing scenes of a special feature, being made in Long Island. B< n Lyon who is playing one of the leading male roles in Sam Goldwyn's screen version of "Potash and Perlmutter" has returned from Atlantic City where they have been filming some of the exteriors. Alma Rubens has just completed "Under the Red Robe" for Cosmopolitan in which she will be starred. Miss Ruben has not as yet announced what her future plans will be. Malcolm McGregor, Metro's young athlete star who is appearing opposite Viola Dana in "The Social Code," has had so many fighting parts in the few years he has been in motion pictures that he marvels at the fact that his knuckles are still unbroken and his nose in the place it was originally intended to be. The combined weight of James Marcus and George Siegman, toth members of the cast of Rex Ingram's "Scaramouche," is 520 pounds. Going up. Many times has Otto Lederer, creator of the immortal Solomon Levy in "Abie's Irish Rose" been mentioned as a successor to David Warfield, and it is in teresting to note in this regard that his greatest ambition is to bring "The Music Master" to the screen. Otto Matiesen has a film offer under consideration that has aroused the curiosity of all his friends. He will not state just what it is, but has promised a great surprise for the near future. This is somewhat strange behavior on the part of Matie sen and leads us to believe he is due to he starred or some thing like that. It would be a great thing if they made a picture built around all the characters Matiesen has played on the stage and screen. It would seem like the history of the worlil in review. Ralph Cloninger, who recently finished a part in "The Ten Commandments" and is now at work completing the details for the filming of his own productions is contemplating a trip to his former home, Salt Lake City, where he will confer with a number of financiers and business men who are backing his venture. From there he may go to Seattle, San Francisco and other northern points for another series of conferences of similar nature before returning here to begin work. He plans to film all of the exteriors of his productions in Utah, for he believes that there are locations up there that will bring new scenic effects to the screen. Zion Valley has been mentioned as one place. Elizabeth Rhoades, a charter member of the Reliable Photoplayers Association, has completed her contract with Principal Pictures Corporation ami is now considering two very fine offers for work in forthcoming pictures. She has one of the principal roles in "A Man's Man," which was directed by Eddie dine. Charles Lawrence, who is one of the big hits in the new musical comedy "Helen of Troy, New York," which recently reopened at the Selwyn Theatre is devoting his spare time acting before the camera. Brandon Tynan has just completed playing the leading role in "Loyal Lives," for Whitman Bennett which will shortly be released, and will open at the Capitol Theatre in New York the week of July 8th. Mary Alden is now in a position of lofty independence in regard to producers and directors. While on location in Northern California during the filming of "The Eagle's Feather" for Metro, Miss Alden received individual and collective lessons from two score of cowpunchers in the art of flipping flapjacks over a campfire. "Anyone who knows anything at all understands that a good flapjack flipper is always in demand for work in restaurant windows," she said. "Scaramouche," Rex Ingram's newest Metro production, has a cosmopolitan cast. Ramon Novarro was born in Mexico, John George, Arabia; Harry J. Uyttenhove, Belgium; Lydia Yeamans Titus was born in mid-ocean; Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Edith Allen and the others are native Americans. Mr. Ingram was born in Dublin. Mickey McBan, filmland's young swimming champion, who has been training for the series of aquatic exhibitions to be held in Los Angeles in the immediate future, has mastered the intricacies of under-water swimming, and can now go from 50 to 75 feet under the surface. His goal is 125 feet, and he ought to be able to negotiate this after two mere weeks' practice. At the present time he is with the Henry Otto unit at the Fox studios which are filming "The Temple of Venus." He plays one of the big parts in this production. One of the principal loles in "Only a Shop Girl," which will be shown in this city within the next two weeks, is enacted by Josephine Adair, six-year-old fiim actress. This part affords her an unusual opportunity to display her keen artistry, and r is an odd blending of pathos am humor that she brings to Br screen in this picture. Jose phine has attained her gre^B renown as an interpreter^! street urchins. She rece^R completed one of the six fea tured roles in Prank Borzage'i "Children of Dust" at ^B United Studios. "Her Royal Highness." Ho» would that sound on a niotioi picture lot? If the titles '« some of our local film folk whe have come imm arisiocrath families of Km ope were usedir Hollywood some diiectors. Witt a number of these celebrities ft the cast, would spend all ttnii time addiessing them. Take for instance, Thais Valdernar who recently finished a verjjB teresting part in "BluebeBfl Eighth Wife" ;.t the Lask) studios she is a 1 l-kara Russian princess, and duringWj reign of the late Czar NichdM and his father her family BJ exceedingly powerful in BJ royal court. The revolutioiBj I the order of thingsw Rus ia and she was forced t< flee for her life. Her motfit father and husband were sBj and she only escaped to BJ countrj alter numerous hard ships and hairbreadth adBj tures. Now she is one of S most promising screen plaBJ and she has doffed her len{Bjl royal title for her present cuti name. Her other pictui elude "The Brass Bottle" fi "Trilby." Sara .Mullen has just returnee from location having played fij leading feminine role in I Hayes Hunter's special, "Wile Love." Miss Mullen will short); start work on a new productta which will keep her busy for B balance of the summer. Mary McLaren has stafll work on Murray Garson's nB special production in which B is playing the leading feininta' role. Robert North Bradbury isB recting a new western picture.* Universal City, "The Trail of tb Wolf," with Kdmund Cobb an Gladys McConneH in the leadto, roles. Miss McConnell is B comedy leading woman recent): "discovered" and this is her firs appearance in a western rolf Norman Kerry leaped fror Mediaeval Paris to a moder court room at Universal CitJ Forsaking the brilliant trapping of "Phoebus'' in "The Huncl back of Notre Dame," he becB "Robert Armstrong" in the W all-star east of "The Acquittal, in which he, Claire Windsot Hie-hard Travels, Barbara Bee ford and a big cast appear, j