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

EIGHT PAG ES VI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1923 Number 33 ILM ACTRESS DIES OF BURNS! fAULINE GARON DENIES ENGAGEMENT RUMOR wbels Talk vAbout Sarazen As False ports that have been published ie Los Angeles newspapers lg the past few days to the : Pauline Garon, well-known n actress ( was engaged to y Gene Sarazen, renowned r, are vigorously denied by n dispatches to her father and ;r, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Garon ucca Street. : further stated that similar ts had been published in New newspapers and stated that :ully expected they would be tiled in the local journals, and ny inquiry for verification d be made at the Garon home her own denial should be nted. : first came into the limelight ading lady for Richard Baress in "Sonny" and was subntlv featured in Cecil B. De 's "Adam's Rib." Of late she aeen appearing in many big ictions and left for New York three weeks ago for a short ion. azen is now associated with cliff Lodge country club at Chester, near New York City. \vY NAME FOR FAIRE SOCIETY I Irginia Brown Faire, president •flrhe Regulars," announces that ■(contest for a better name for Bcluh will be a national one, for ■ lg Cummings, who has left for ■ York, will arrange to have B contest taken up by some fan W izine. The club has a memIt lip of twelve film stars and W member on the speaking stage B another, a writer. An initials was held Friday night at the I : of Grace Gordon, when By Philbin, Dorothy Devore and ■Hthy Mac Kaile "formally" Bf into the club. 'ry Arras, one of the cast for rd Walton Tully's "Flowing I now in production, is a prona 1 ice -kater, but laments the hat opportunities for practice >tnewhat limited in Southern irnia. BUILD HUGE BUCCANEER FLEET Representing the largest naval investment and the most picturesque undertaking of its kind ever recorded in motion picture history, a fleet of five large vessels of the Sixteenth Century type will be completed shortly by Frank Lloyd, independent producer director, for his production of Rafael Sabatini's "The Sea Hawk" for release as a First National picture. The five ships, ranging from 90 to 192 feet in length, one with a poop deck 52 feet above the water line, are now being constructed for Mr. Lloyd at the shipyards at San Pedro, California, under the supervision of Fred Gabouri, recognized as filmdom's leadnig authority on ship construction and periodical technique. Mr. Gabouri has been loaned to Mr. Lloyd by courtesy of Buster Keaton, and, assisted by more than three hundred draftsmen, mechanics, riggers, carpenters, electricians, sailors and common laborers, he is budding a fleet which when completed will recall the Pacifi c expeditions of Balboa, Magellan and Cabrillo, more than three hundred years ago. Producer Lloyd will produce a majority of the scenes for "The Sea Hawk" on the high seas and during the rainy season. To meet every emergency all of the odd vessels are being made seaworthy and equipped with motor power, and it is expected that those who participate in the action before the Lloyd camera will have some exciting experiences at sea. One of the ships will be a duplicate of an English frigate of the early 1 500s. From the top of the mainmast to the anchor, rudder, the bulwarks and the galleys, the minutest details of Sir Oliver Tressilian, time will be duplicated. Another ship will be a Moorish galleass, another a Moorish frigate. There will also be a pirate craft and a Spanish galleon. The Moorish frigate will be manned by more than two hundred oarsmen, four to six to an oar, and the other vessels will have oarsmen in proportionate numbers. While Mr. Gabouri's men are working night and day getting the big fleet ready to take the water, Mr. Lloyd, with Harry E. Weil, his general manager, is preparing the filming schedule and the cast. Filming is expected to begin in December and last until late in April. Despite a list of candidates numbering over a hundred, the man who will play "the sea hawk" character still remains an enigma. DICKER FOR NEW O'HARA SERIES George O'Hara, who has just completed the second installment of the "Fighting Blond" series, has been so successful in these thrilling pictures that are showing all over the land that he may appear once more in a series of pictures to be adaptd from some popular stories of college-boy life, with the hero an athlete. On the other hand, he may be featured in some dramatic productions at the R. C. Studios. O'Hara is receiving offers all the time, but when he makes his decision he will choose the vehicle that will mean the most for his future. He is ambitious to develop a wellrounded technique, which is his first concern. DAWSON IS BENNETT CHIEF Chester Bennett has promoted Douglas Dawson, who has acted as his chief assistant for two years, to the office of manager of production. GERAGHTY WILL STAY IN EAST Thomas J. (Jeraghty is now in New York editing "Pied Piper Malone," Thomas Meighan's latest vehicle, which Mr. Ceraghty adapted from the Booth Tarkington story, supervising the screen production. Instead of returning to Hollywood as he had planned, Mr. (.eraghty will begin work shortly on adapting the next starring vehicle of Gloria Swanson, so is not likely to be home for the holidays. SENNETTS MOTHER IS HERE Mrs. Katheryn Sennett, mother of Mack Sennett, arrived in Los Angeles from Danville, Province of Quebec, Canada, Tuesday afternoon to visit her son, the wellknown producer. It has been the custom of Mrs. Sennett over a period of several years to spend the winter months in California, returning to Canada each year late in April. Mrs. Sennett will make he rhome in one of the down-town hotels for a short while. Noted Star Passes Away Martha Mansfield, world-famous film star, is dead at San Antonio, Texas, as the result of severe burns sustained during the filming of "The Warrens of Virginia" there, in which she, attired in an elaborate dress, was playing the part of a southern belle. It was while waiting in her automobile for the scene to be shot that a lighted match caught fire to her apparel. She was immediately enveloped in flames. She was rushed to the hospital where she died soon after. Miss Mansfield was as well known on the legitimate stage as on the screen, and was declared to be the nation's most-photographed person. She was divorced a short time ago from a Chicago banker. COMEDY CZARS PROFIT-SHARERS That a novel profit-sharing plan for the actors, actresses and other employees associated with the Christie Comedies has been worked out was announced today by Al Christie. The novel part of this plan is the fact that the money-making proposition have nothing to do with moving pictures, but with the realty interests of the Christie brothers and their associates. While a list is not given, it is said that those of the Christie organization taking part in the reaity comnany which has been formed, include directors, actors and others from various departments of the studio, and that these interests share alike with the Christies, according to the ratio of the individual investments. All of the Christie staff have been encouraged to invest their money in Los Angeles real estate, certainly a wise move in the light of the unusal development which is going on at the present time. And it is said that the Christie Comedians regard the heads of the company as shrewd investors, and therefore are following their lead and putting their money into Los Angeles lands and houses.