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

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C\ M E R A ! "The Diciest of the Motion Picture Industry' he showman is today in danger of harmhimself, and of damaging the industry, hooking pictures of unscrupulous fly-byit producers who try to cash in on the hprise and prestige of others. This is | statement made by H. M. Warner, of rner Brothers, following a study of a nomenon which is preying, parasite lion, on the vitals of the motion picture astry. rhe greatest harm is done to those who e big investments," he emphatically says the motion picture business and those i at all times cater to the advancement of industry, by people trying to put over r wares dishonestly. They wait till a brity is signed for a big production, or a ous novel procured for the screen. Then f get busy, and flood the market with inor work produced years ago and now resurrected. They rope in the exhibitor by a "just as good" product, and the lure of a big name. "An instance of this came to my notice the other day. Now that we have secured the personal services of Belasco to produce his pictures, everybody is trying to pick up and exploit anything with Belasco's name on, even though made long ago. They are injuring the great work we accomplished in bringing Belasco to the motion picture fold. In one western city I recently noticed advertising on first premiere showings of Belasco pictures. "The producers will try to give the exhibitors the impression that they are getting the real article, Belasco Productions, when, as a matter of truth, all they will be getting is the name of Belasco and nothing else, not even something David Belasco knows anything about. The name happens to be the same, that is all, and it is exploited laisely. "It was the same when we produced "Why Girls Leave Home," immediately the market was flooded by spurious imitations. "Everybody who lacks originality tries to imitate. But the exhibitor who takes the imitation is kidding himself. He is putting his good money on the wrong horse. In the first place, he ruins the industry by palming off inferior stuff. In the second place, he antagonizes his patrons, who will be getting old stuff rehashed as new. And when the exhibitor sees the success of the genuine pictures and wants to play them, he will find himself nowhere, for the interest will have been killed by the inferior wares. He won't be able to interest his patrons, nor will they want to risk a second disappointment. In every way it's a bad business, and he loses." A SON OF ADVENTURE here is probably not another motion pic■ director who has led as adventurous a as has Donald Crisp, who will direct f] njola." the Sam E. Rork production for st National release. ynthia Stockley, author of "Ponjola." is 1 to have a wider knowledge of South ica, the locale of her story, than any iler living writer, but Crisp knew the S th African veldt long before this writer eyes on it. ie knows every foot of it almost ; he's p sonally acquainted with the trails and ■jjes and lie's done a lot of "soldiering" Bpugh Rhodesia. I while still a youngster of only sixteen \f\rs Donald decided he would look well in II flaming uniform of the Tenth Hussars. S in London he joined the colors and was kligned for service against the Boers in Both Africa before he could get his regiMatals. I righting "Oom Paul" Kruger, Villejoen U De Witt, earned three medals for the krenturer — the last being the D. C. M., or BRinguished conduct medal, at the battle bfTungula Heights. i Having gone through the Boer campaign a,l the World War in safety Crisp joined t British intelligence department and flew i and out of Russia twice a week for five ninths and evaded capture by the BolsheV Is each time. THE WISDOM OF WHISKERS whiskers, like whiskey, improve with age! I Thunder Face, the full-blooded Mission Mian who appeared in Edwin Carewe's •"■*e Girl of the Golden West," and who is lt>r playing the part of a bad hombre in present Carewe production, "The Bad ," attributes his film success to his It's not their beauty," says Thunder Face, ose English makes one suspicious that he a Carlisle graduate, "but it's their verility." 'With their assistance I am a Mexican tpn, a Hindu, an Arab, Egyptian, a Moor, racen or Turk and I've just finished a e as a child of Israel fleeing across the d Sea. 'If I shave and feel comfortable my artiscareer is ruined and if I don't shave my l|od disposition will soon be a total loss. Tin wearing them for art's sake — and a ibnetary consideration!" Eugenia Feiner, who recently completed an engagement at Universal City, opposite Lloyd Hughes in a feature temporarily titled "Grandpap," and who is heralded as one of the most beautiful of the screen's new faces, and who is also being highly praised as the possessor of one of the most charmingly attractive personalities recently discovered. A brilliant future of stardom is predicted for her, because in addition to her natural cinema ability, she is highly talented as a dancer.