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

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Camera's Weekly Wake-em-up SPECIAL NEWS SECTION SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923 FORMER KING VIDOR STUDIO TO BE ENLARGED AT ONCE BY SOL LESSER INTERESTS Principal Pictures Corporaon's studios in Hollywood are ) be greatly enlarged inimeditely. This information comes om Sol Lesser and Michael osenberg of that organization. The Principal Pictures land onsists of some fifteen acres di?ctly adjoining that of the ouglas Fairbanks-Mary Picked studios. When it was purhased some months since by esser and associates, it was nown as the King Vidor studio, idor made individual producons at the plant prior to its ale. Among the chief additions riat will take form at once, is nother huge enclosed stage. It > the plan to equip this new tage with every modern device ar picture making. One of the orld's largest generators has een installed and complete rerganization of the electrical deartment is now under way. Two new buildings will be rected which will house the lany artists scheduled to appear 1 forthcoming Principal Piciires productions. Under the upervision of Norman Manning, he Principal Pictures studios re gradually undergoing a comlete and new building schedule, t is estimated that ha'f million ollars will be expended in the rnmediate future on the plant *'hich is necessary to accommoate the many companies !lanned for the near future. Here the Harold Bell Wright eries of features will be made, 'he first "When a Man's a Man" s now in the final production tage with "The Winning of 3arbara Worth" scheduled as he second of the Wright series, larry Langdon, the well known audeville comedian is hard at vork on the first of a series of welve feature comedies. Two )ther units are scheduled to start in the near future. Sol Lesser is now devoting the major part of his time to the production end of the film game. His time is practically consumed n organizing companies, conferring on scripts, scenarios, and ittending to the many details :hat come under his supervision. The distribution of Principal Pictures products is in the hands [)f Irving M. Lesser in the Principal Pictures New York offices. All distribution is made from the eastern end with production activities confined exclusively to Los Angeles and Hollywood. The production schedule for the coming year in so far as Principal Pictures Corporation is concerned, is a big one. Twelve features are on the new season's schedule in addition to the series of Langdon comedies. YOUNGEST LEADING LADY SIGNED BY JACK Lucile . licksen, 16-year-old leading woman, whose rapid rise to fame has few equals in the motion picture realm, has been signed by Jack Pickford as leading woman for his next picture, it has been announced. In supporting Jack in his original story of the Kentucky mountains, Miss Ricksen will enact the role of a carefree, barefooted little maiden of the hills. As a typical little girl of the mountains, with curls flowing down her back, the young motion picture star will have the greatest role of her varied career of eight years. Scores of leading women were interviewed and given screen tests by Jack and his director, George Hill, in an effort to secure a perfect type, which would be symbolic of youthful abandon closed behind the barriers of civilization in the Kentucky mountains. Miss Ricksen was chosen unanimously as the perfect type. Hollywood's youngest leading woman has had a varied career from the time she played her first bit as a Cupid in a Henry B. Walthall picture back at the Essanay eight years ago. Recently she has had leading roles in two of Marshall Neilan's greatest pictures, "The Strangers' Banquet" and "The Rendezvous." The young leading woman first began commanding public attention when she played the part of the lovely little girl in the Edgar Jones-Booth Tarkington series at Goldwyn. Then a year or two went by and she began growing up a bit, playing bigger parts in such pictures as Rupert Hughes' "The Old Nest," and "Look Your Best," "The Married Flapper," and "The Girl Who Kan Wild." COMEDIAN REMEMBERS OLD PALS WITH BIKE Al. St. John, Fox funster and erstwhile lifeguard at Long Beach, has been elected an honorary member of the Balboa Branch, American Rod Cross Volunteer Life Corps. This honor was conferred upon the stellar comedian recently following the presentation of a specially equipped sea going bicycle to the Balboa lifeguards by St. John who has not forgotten the by-gone days when he patroled a stretch of beach in search of swimmers in distress. The bicycle given by Al to the Balboa crew is a model machine with numerous attachments designed to aid in the work of resuscitation. The wheel will be employed in regular service at once. LUBITSCH TO FILM MONTMARTE STORY Ernest Lubitsch, who a couple of years ago gained world-wide fame through his motion pictures "Passion" and "Gypsy Blood," and of whose work since that time such examples as "Deception," "One Arabian Night," and "The Love of Pharaoh" were shown on the American screen, is about to start his second American production. It is to be a Warner Brothers screen classic. Since he came to this country last year, Ernest Lubitsch has directed Mary Pickford in "Rosita," a dramatic Spanish tale of the Napoleonic period, which is not only the first spectacular costume play Miss Pickford ever did, but also shows her in a highly emotion'al part, greatly varying from many of her former roles, and resembling them only in so far as it is interspersed with much delicate, subtle humor. For his second American production Ernest Lubitsch has signed a contract with Warner Brothers under which he is to make a modern, continental comedy-drama with a small all-star cast. This picture will be somewhat in the order of "Montmartre," Lubitsch's last European production of the 1860 period with Pola Negri. It presents an intimate love story and plays in the milieu of continental society. This coming Lubitsch production is arousing much interest among those familiar with the costume pictures of Lubitsch, as it will give the American public its first chance to see a modern photoplay of the celebrated director. BATTLES FIRE TO SAVE $2,500 AN HOUR Smoke from the burning sump holes in the vicinity held up production on Jackie Coogans picture "Long Live the King," this week. It is the practice of various companies which receive oil in tank cars, to empty the residue into a sump hole, and this material is burned regularly. Through an unfortunate shift in the wind, the thick black smoke drifted over on the Coogan set, and had the effect of a minor eclipse. Since Jackie was working with about two thousand extras on his big street scene, this occurence was costing the Coogan company at least $2500 an hour. Director Victor Schertzinger sent for E. A. Biby, studio manager of the Jackie Coogan Productions, but was informed that he had already left for the fire and within fifteen minutes the smoke ceased to roll over the set, which was bathed thenceforth in the justly famous California sunshine. Biby had immediately proceeded to the sump holes, where he organized a volunteer fire department and, assisted by a group of workmen from the Southern Pacific and the Southern California Edison organizations, the fire was immediately checked. This was the first time in many years that the sump hole fires have interfered with open air shooting of motion pictures, but in order to make sure that this would not occur again, Biby has made arrangements with the two companies mentioned to light their fires at five o'clock in the evening instead of nine in the morning. Theby in "The Eagle's Feather" Although Rosemary Theby was engaged in portraying one of the leading roles in support of Jackie Coogan in "Long Live the King" at the Metro studios, arrangements were made for her to also play an important part in "The Eagle's Feather," a Metro all-star special, which is being filmed under the direction of Edward Sloman. Crauford Kent has also been added to the cast of this unusual picture of the west, the complete roster of prominent players including such popular favorites as Mary Alden, James Kirkwood, Elinor Fair, Lester Cuneo, George Siegman, William Orlamond, Charles McHugh and John Elliott.