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

Page Twenty r 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. 'The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry' "Megaphone" (Continued from Page 5) Camera! COY WATSON, JR. CHILD LEADS Age 10. Reproductions, Publicity Still Finishing Photography LITTLE MARION WARDE Classical, Character, Ballet and Step-dancing 423-4 MUSIC ARTS BUILDING 233 SOUTH BROADWAY PHONE 821-181 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." Commercial Photographer Phone 437902 5874 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 ♦ Acting and Make-Up for the Stage { and Films \ Walter Frederick Seely Shadowed Photography 1448 North Wilcox (One-half block west of Cahuenga at Sunset.) Telephone 439-774 Hunchback of Notre Dame," the new spectacle production. Now he has entered the ranks of directors and his first picture will "tell the tale." It was written by himself, continuity by Raymond L. Schrock. Sheehan has been given what studio officials say is the most complete staff ever assigned to a unit. Jack Sullivan, the crack assistant director of the studio, who handled the crowds in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Merry-Go-Round," is hfs assistant. Ralph Dietrick, one of the best known cutters, has been assigned to cut the picture, and is sitting through production as script secretary by day and cutting at night, armed with his own intimate knowledge of every "shot." The picture is being cut as it progresses, so that when the last scene is taken the whole picture will be complete ready to show, this being one of several innovations in sneehan's method of production. 1 he famous novelist is rehearsing the players just as they are rehearsed for a stage play ; then entire sequences are "shot" without pause. The saving of time is incredible. A notable cast is playing in the new Sheehan vehicle, including Howard Truesdell, Gladys Hulette, Edgar Kennedy and others. of railroad men that was ever written, h is a drama of life in the raw, of people wit! their feet on the ground, a graphic story ol how the threads of civilization's destiny pas: thru the fingers of skilled men who glimpsi that civilization only thru the clicking of tel cgraph instruments and the passing of "thn trains." 1 Brown was entrusted with the making of thi' picture shortly after Universal heads had seet the completed film of "The Acquittal," whid he recently directed. This screen version of thil famous stage play by Rita Wciman will un doubtedly be classed as one of the finest pic < tures of the coming year. Other big produc tions which have stamped Brown's work as o exceptional merit are "The Great Redeemer' and "The Last of the Mohicans" which hi made jointly with Maurice Tourneur. "The Signal Tower" which is to be releasee as a multiple reel feature, will require nim or ten weeks in the making. Even boards and plaster must at some time pay their farewell tribute to art. After three years of gracing one of the green canyons of Universay City the famous Italian Villa built during the summer of 1920 for "Foolish Wives," was burned to the ground for a big scene in "Hook and Ladder," Hoot Gibson's latest starring feature. The Villa is one of the largest individual building sets ever constructed for a motion picture and its classic beauty has made it a landmark on the Universal lot. Universal technical men unfortunate enough to have a streak of sentiment were sad as the flames ate thru the wooden framework and the stucco finish crumbled to ashes. Its burning finished one of the most spectacular night scenes filmed at Universal City in many a month. For a sheer thrilling spectacle it even eclipsed the night shots of the mammoth sets of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." The scenes came as a dramatic climax to the story, which is built around the thrilling life of a fireman and a dozen cameras ground out their action as Hoot in the role of the fireman climbed to the balcony of the burning building and rescued the tiny Mildred June and leaped with her from the balcony to the fireman net below. "Hook and Ladder" is an original story by Edward Sedgwick, who is directing the filming of the picture. Others in the cast are Edwards Davis, famous preacher-actor, Philo McCullough and Frank Beal. With four car loads of equipment including two mammoth electric generators, dozens of Winfield lights, giant sun arcs and spot lights, and a full-sized collapsible "signal tower," the Clarence L. Brown special pulled out of the Southern Pacific station for Fort Bragg, 150 miles north of San Francisco, where many of the scenes for "The Signal Tower" will be filmed under his direction. Brown is accompanied by a cast of seven persons and a production unit of more than twenty workmen, including electricians, technical men and carpenters. Charlie Dorian, Brown's veteran assistant who has "second Megaphoned" all of the Brown productions, will be in charge of the crew. Ernst Laemmlc is second assistant. "The Signal Tower," Wadsworth Camp's prize short story, will be produced by Universal with Virginia Valli and an all-star cast. "The Signal Tower" is probably the greatest tribute to the self-sacrifice and devotion to duty B Herbert Rawlinson has abandoned the ath letic swing of his natural walk, now patrollini a set at Universal City in the measured, footed gait of a uniformed policeman. He has begun work on his latest Universa starring vehicle, "The Jack O* Clubs" an adapf*~* talion from the famous magazine story of th same name by Gerald Beaumont. In this pic ture Rawlinson slips out of the groove o jaunty roles for which he is so well know for the most difficult bit of characterization tha he has essayed" in a long time. His role is that of an easy natured Irish who is transformed into a whirlwind fightin, machine when he is crowded on the beat b| a hard boiled street gang, led by a tough gen tleman who used to be a prize lighter. Thi gentleman and the Irish cop stage a sensation: encounter and the cop wins the light, promo tion in rank and the regard of the boys. Since Eddie Gribbon is cast for the "ex pug." the screen fight should prove exception ally realistic. Both Rawlinson and Gribbc* are clever boxers and husky lads. | Robert Hill, who guided the filming of Raw linson's last picture. "His Mystery Girl," wi direct the new vehicle. Others in the supporting cast are Ruth D\v> cr, Johnny Fox, Jr., and Joe Singleton. An old time tandem bicycle — the kind th| song "A Bicycle Built for Two" was writte, ^ around two decades and more ago, is one the queer sights of the old Bowery, seen "Morality," Owen Kildare's famous story "II Mamie Rose." being filmed at Universal Qt with Mary Philbin as the star. The Bower is reproduced complete in every detail at Un versal City for the picture, even to the elevate tracks and queer old-time steam trains th; were used before electricity came into popul; use. The old fashioned bicycle bloomers seen in the early Charles Dana Gibson, is revivi with the bike itself. Gladys Johnson appears? the bloomer girl, in queer little hat and wic bloomers embellished by brass buttons. Sr rides over the cobbles on the odd "safety then the very last word in modern conveyanc The story* is laid in the immediate "pre-aut< mobile" period., when the bicycle was the rag rnd the "horseless carriage" a rumored invei tion in France. Later in the story the fir automobile to appear in the ctreets of Ne York is shown ; a queer buggy like affair stee cd by a lever and propelled by a "one lunget motor much like a modern pumping engine. Irving Cummings, picture director, has fine eye for brewery trucks. Incidentally tl hardest task, almost, that he faced in puttir the picture on the screen, was the quest of th obsolete and interesting vehicle. Cummings' order for a brewery truck broug) to Universal City a modern motor truck. I rejected it, and a horse-drawn truck was sul stituted but this too was modern. Finally, afti a long search, he found an old time brewei truck in a livery stable. The wagons we: simply rows of heavy pipe, arranged to ho the barrels, mounted on truck wheels. Tl quaint old vehicle is one of many interest!!