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

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Page 20 The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry Camet FORMS FOR THE Standard Directory Close December 4th Phones 438-856— Holly 3939 COY WATSON, JR. CHILD LEADS Age 10. Drexel 3616 HUGH HOFFMAN Scenarist and Production Supervisor Current production, "The Thrill Girl" Robert Hill, Directing Recent Releases, "Gossip," "Crossed Wires," "Town Scandal," "Sawdust." "The Untameable," "The Wild Party." RAISE SQUABS Bi$Pi'Qfiis "highest prices in 20 years. Big demand. Big money raising them.Raised in onemoniiy , ■ We ship famous breeding stock and supplies/' Little space needed to raise thern,. 1 Send 25* for book. on. MOW JO MAKE BIG HONEY RAVING SQUABS/ HOLLYWOOD SQUAB FARMS BOX I I A HOLLYWOODCAUF. 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 The Universal Megaphone By Arthur Q. Hagerman Cabaret football! It isn't an expression, it's a game, evolved by Hoot Gibson and his cohorts in a big cafe scene of his latest Universal feature, "Courtin' Calamity." Altho the picture has been in production nearl" a month the cafe scene, now in the filming, furnishes the key action to most of the important sequences in the entire play. It is here that a college youth, though l>his parents to be an anaemic, effeminate chap, proves himself a regular miniature cyclone on wheels. This is Hoot's role and when he and his gang arrive at the party the tempo of the place increases to runaway speed. When things get dull Hoot proposes a football game. Using a derbv hat for the ball the gang takes the dancing crowd like Grant took Richmond. It looked for a while as if — then the police arrived. "That's a little too soon for the cops, isn't it Ed?" Gibson asked Edward Sedgwick, his director. "If you'd given us another couple of minutes we'd have had the place weel wrecked." "Don't worry about that. We're not ready to strike this set --et," said Ed. "Courtin' Calamity," an adaptation bv Raymond L. Schrock of William Dudley Pelley's popular Saturday Evening Post story, relates the adventures of an Eastern college lad who leaves the home fold for a sojourn with a Wild West show. The play is a dramatic comedy, crammed with action. "What's the next shot?" "Say, you're shooting drammar, not pool!" Which, translated means that the cameraman was ahead of his director, playing for position. Hoot Gibson, directing scattered "cleanup" shot around a wild west circus in his newest starring feature for Universal, "Courtin" Calamity," took members of his troupe and his cameraman on a marathon hike the other day at Universal City. Nearly one hundred shots, mostly closeups and individual action scenes, were filmed during the afternooon. Virgil Miller, ace cameraman of the Gibson unit, ground out footage while speculating on how far he'd have to walk for the next locale. Virtually the entire cast figured in the final scenes of the circus stuff, including besides Hoot, Josie Sedgwick, Charles K. French, Harry Todd, G. Raymond Nye, David Torrence, W. T. McCulley and Pat Harmon. "Courtin' Calamity," is a screen version of the popular Saturday Evening Post story of the same title by William Dudley Pelley. It was adapted to the screen by Raymond L. Schrock and scenarized by E. Richard Schayer. Edward Sedgwick, regular director of the Gibson unit, has been seriously ill for sevt] weeks, but has directed principal scenes j the picture from a wheel chair. Dorothea Wolbert, known particularly her work in Hobart Henley pictures ; other Universal screen offerings, is play a principal role in support of Jack Hoxie "The Drifter," which Robert North Br bury is directing for the Universal Pictu corporation. Another player of interest in the castt Frank Rice, who graduated into acting Li rather peculiar way and achieved considl able success in odd characterizations. I used to be a mining engineer and a very scessful one. He went to live in Los Angrt and was attracted to pictures. His exc • ence in western sections and mining ar . led him naturally into moving pictures ! the West. In "The Red Warning," a Ho! picture filmed a short time apo, he recerl excellent comments on the characterizati of an old miningman. The Hoxie company is on location : Sonora, California, where mining countrjf picturesque and vivid. Margaret Morrif . the leading role opposite the star. The Stl was adapted from acques Jaccard's "Hsl Rock." Robert McKim, who for several yean-', stood out among screen players as 6B the most popular "heavies," has been setec for the heavy in "The Drifter," the newjl Hoxie starring vehicle which the Univw Pictures corporation is producing with R ert North Bradbury directing. McKim J play the role of David Kincaid in the stc which was adapted by Isadore Bernst from Jacques Jaccard's magazine stc "Hard Rock." Other players to be in the cast are 19 aret Morris, who just finished playingj Pete Morrison in a chaptcrplay, "The Gh, City," Dorothea Wolbert and Frank Rice. The company has left for Sonora wh the exteriors of the picture will be s! They will be there ten days. Too many cooks may have played ha' with the proverbial consomme, but too fg, Murphys have raised bob with the po; system at Universal City. Every day the mail arrives crowdedW letters addressed to "Mr. Murphy." J| there are three of them — all receive!*: much mail. Martin Murphy, one of the* duction managers, receives dozens of lett daily. Joe Murphy, alias Andy Gurnp^ ceives fan letters galore as well as busin letters regarding his realty operations. ■ Chas. Murphy, superintendent of the i also has a wide correspondence. Usually the fan-letters and letters dressed to the head of the zoo by visitofll has shown about come with every soft SUNSET TAXI TOURING CARS PER HOUR SPECIAL RATES ON STUDIO TRIPS AND TOURING %2 Universal City _ $1.00 Mayer Studios 2.50 Holly-Fairbanks _ „ _ „ .75 Fox Studios „ _ 75 Lasky Studios _ .75 Santa Monica 3.50 Pasadena „ 4.00 All Stations 2.50 Club Royal Culver City _ United Studios Robertson-Cole _ — Metro Studios Ambassador Hotel Venice _ — Center of Los Angeles 3.00 2.00 140 3 M _ 1.50 4.00 zoo Plantation 3JI 578-280 1720 Hudson Ave. 430-258