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

Page Twenty "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry" CAMERAl ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. A. L. Jester Famous chiropractor, just returned from 3 years chiropractic missionary service in Germany offers his services to the movie people of Hollywood at reduced rates. No charge for first consultation. 5558 Hollywod Blvd., Rm. 202-203 Hours 10-12 — 2-5, Evenings 7-8. FROM U TO YOU (Continued from Page 5) COY WATSON, JR. CHILD LEADS Age 10. Drexel 3616 Hugh Hoffman Scenarist and Production Supervisor Gladys Walton unit. Universal. Current production. "The Near Lady" Herbert Blache. Directing Recent Releases. "Gossip." 'Crossed Wires." "The Town Scandal." "Sawdust." "The Untameable." "The Wild Party." Reproductions, Publicity Still Finishing Photography LITTLE Commercial Photographer Phone 437902 5174 Hollywood Blvd. Corner Bronson ART LEE SPECIALIST ON MAKE-UP Will teach you how to Make Up Correctly. Read my references Telephone 598-207 1712 St. James Court, Hollywood, at Western MARION WARDE Acting and Make-Up for the Stage and Films Classical, Character, Ballet and Step-dancing 423-4 MUSIC ARTS BUILDING 233 SOUTH BROADWAY PHONE 821-181 Walter Frederick Seely Shadowed Photography 1448 North Wilcox (One-half block west of Cahuenga at Sunset) Telephone 439-774 mass he battles his way, breaks up a gang, and finally wins out over his crowd of enemies. The story, a recent magazine feature, is laid around the famous old Howard Street gangs of San Francisco. Much comedy enlivens the sequences. then staining the film blue. From this trick night photography under lights developed, but it never duplicated moonlight ; for years photographers studied the problem. Miller finally solved it. Adapting a novel to motion picture needs is a common feat in picturedom — and adapting a motion picture for a novel has been done — but to hold up producing on a motion picture until the novel is on the bookstore stands is something new in the picture industry. This is the situation in the case of "Pony Express," a novel purchased for picture rights before it was off the publisher's presses. Edward Sedgwick, Hoot Gibson's director, is the author of the book, which will be on the market in a few weeks. Following completion of his novel, Universal negotiated the rights for the picture, and it has been prepared for the screen. Plans were made to produce the picture at once, but on the author's suggestion the work was delayed to allow the novel to appear first, that the picture might have the benefit of the popularity the book would give it. "Pony Express" will be produced as one of the big features of the year. A virile story of the West, it will have a huge cast, headed by Gibson, and will rank as one of the important releases on the studio schedule'. Sedgwick is the author of several Gibson plays, as well as magazine stories. The new story is his first long novel. Eastern publishers who have taken over the novel rights predict that the book will be one of the big sellers of the year. I is a common thing for popular motion picture stars to have dresses, perfumes, hats and such things named in their honor. But, for the first time on record, clubs have been established in nearly two hundred American cities in honor of a favorite cinema twinkler. The young and accomplished star who has been accorded this distinction is Baby Peggy, whose name shines forth under the Universal and Century Comedies banner. This wee young lady has won the hearts of countless youngsters with her remarkable ability. Children, ever sensitive to realism, at once sensed the absolute naturalness of her acting and clambered for admission wherever her pictures were shown. Some wise parents in a large southern city decided that it would be a good idea to form a Baby Peggy club for their admiring youngsters. Membership cards were printed accordingly and distributed. Weekly dues of one cent were decided upon, the money to go to a worthy local charity. It was not long before children in other communities heard of the happy rollicking Baby Peggy club that met every week under the guidance of a chaperone and listened to her stories; or if a picture of Baby Peggy was being shown, enjoyed the droll comedy of the dark-eyed infant star. These children, too, wanted a club of their own. Every day new clubs of enthusiastic children are formed and before long it is expected that practically every important city and town in the country will have a Baby Peggy Club. All the members wear a button with Baby Peggy's picture. The new invention is a series of glass rayfilters which break up light into its component parts. When it is applied, strange tricks occur. For instance, red, which photographs as black in the ordinary film, comes out as white; blue, which appears as white in ordinary photography, tends to black. The blue sky becomes black, but without "reversing the colors of actors in the foreground, this resulting in a perfect moonlight effect. Miller is the first man to use the actual moon in motion picture photography, and is also the inventor of a color-filter by which absolute color values may be transformed into light and shadows on the screen with accuracy. This device has done much to remove the necessity of make-up for actors. Turning night into day with three bits of glass is the striking feat in photography perfected by Virgil Miller, cameraman at Universal City and inventor of a number of important effects in camera technique. Miller has perfected a "panchromatic filter" which, by reversing rays of light entering a camera lens, can turn noonday sunshine into a moonlight, on the film, so real that the effect is uncanny. Primitive "night photography' was made by aiming the camera against the sunlight, and Nervy Ned, the comical hobo first invent by James Montgomery Flagg, • the celebral artist, is again doing his comical tricks befi the camera. All of which means the return of Neely wards, the comedian, to Universal City, fo lowing an absence of some w€eks to play feature part in another studio. The comedia who varies his "Nervy Nat" pictures wi straight roles in features, has resumed o edies under the direction of William Wat! Tommy Gray is supervising the new picturi Edwards, famous in vaudeville for years one of the team of Flanagan and Edwai entered pictures a number of years ago, leaped into fame as a comedian through "Nervy Ned" pictures, the idea being based or a series of comic cartoons which appeared for a time in a national comic magazine. Besides playing in Universal comedies, his regular calling, Edwards has appeared ir. straight and character roles with Mary Miles Minter, in Jack White educational features, and other feature pictures. "Wyoming" has been completed. The William McLeod Raine novel, adapted to the screen by Isadore Bernstein, has reached j the completion of its film transcription under Robert North Bradbury's direction. It is-fc starring vehicle for Jack Hoxie. Lillian Rich, leading woman of many Universal pictures of a year or more ago, William Welsh, Claude Payton, Lon Poff, Emmett Corrigan, Ben Corbett and George Kuwa have the supporting roles. The edge of Death Valley and ranch country near there were the chief locales of the filming. Joseph Dowling, famous as "The Miracle J Man" of picturedom and one of the best known character men in the business, has Joined forces with the screen's most youthful ingenue. He has been cast by Fred Datig, Universal casting director, to play the role of Judge in Baby Peggy's newest Jewel production, "The Right to Love," now being filmed at Universal City under the direction of Jess Robbins. The picture, adapted by Lois Zellner from an original story by Bernard McConville, is the third of a series of multi-reel features starring Baby Peggv under the Universal banner. The pictures are produced jointly by Universal and Abe and Julius Stern of the Century Film Company. Dowling started his dramatic career in grand opera and after spending many years on the operatic and legitimate stages entered the motion picture field. He has had prominent roles in some of the biggest screen plays of the past few years. Others in the Baby Peggy picture are Winifred Bryson, Robert Ellis, Eleanor Faire, 1 James Corrigan, Anna Hernandez, Ned Sparks. . William E. Lawrence, Eva Thatcher, Victor j Potel and Buddy Messinger.