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

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Page 14 Camera! News Section BLAME EFFICIENCY MEN Movie magnates may yet prevent closing the studios. Producers no longer need wring their hands in despair at high production. The cause for expensive pictures for which Hollywood has been searching, has been discovered by Conway Tearle, popular leading man. It's the studio efficiency man! Mr. Tearle relates of an incident that happened about a year ago. A director ordered two living room sets which played an important part in the story. The contrast of the two rooms was particularly important to some of the big situations. The director and his players linished work in one room and were ready to move into room number two. But there was no second room. "There's no sense in going to the expense of building two living rooms — you can take all your scenes in the one," was the efficiency man's explanation. The company was delayed in its work to the extent of $5,000 before the tangle was straightened out and the players could go to work. Maurice Tourneui has come to bat with the remedy. "Hire efficiency men to check the work of the efficiency men," says the director. "Or shoot all efficiency men before you 'shoot' a scene," says another director who unlike Tourneur, has daily "interviews" with an e. m. QUIET PERFORMANCE ON BRONCO As a cowpuncher, John Roche admits that he is a good opera singer. Roche is the "Buddy Briskow" of Richard Walton 'Fully s "Flowing Gold," now in production for First National. Buddy is the awkward, overgrown son of a Texas nester. Yesterday on location, it became necessary for Roche to make a flying leap onto the deck of a broom-tailed bronco, and having really been educated for grand opera rather than for the Tom Mix type of movies, he landed on the critter amidships, neglecting to arrive with a foot on either side of the brute. The mustang bethought himself of greener pastures or something more pleasant, and in the vernacular of the southwest, "went awav from there pronto." Bucking and snorting, over the hills and far away went the fiery steed, with the young actor gamely staying with him, albeit each jolt was being negotiated with the pit of his stomach in intimate contact with the saddle horn. At last, with a mighty effort, he swung .clear of the horse, striking heavily on his head, and was for a few moments stunned, but miraculously escaped serious injury. The bronco, when last seen, was headed toward Santa Barbara, and "still going strong." As if the god of ill luck had not done his worst for the day, when Roche arrived home from location at night, it was to find thai his mother had fajlen and broken her wrist while engaged in her housework. Park Train on TNT Cache I). W. Griffith returned yesterday from Virginia to his Mamaroneck studios, after photographing scenes on eleven historical spots for his Revolutionary film, "America." The surrender of Cornwallis was taken in Vorktown on the ground where it actually occurred. More than forty persons whose ancestors were present at the surrender took part in the scenes. Yorktown gave Griffith a thrill bv parking his special train on a siding around which was buried a cache of T N T said by government officials to be valued at two hundred million dollars. This is the army base for high explosives, and the tracking where the train stood was on government property. Julia Broun, ten-year-old comedienne, iv/io has appeared in eight Universal productions, is now in Sonora, Calif., on location with the Jack Hoxie company filming "The Drifter" under direction of Robert Bradbury. Marian Nixon, leading lady for Charles Jones in his latest William Fox picture, "Cupid's Fireman," has been cast opnosite John Gilbert in his new production, "Just Off Broadway." An interesting sketch by Russell Iredell of William Moran, noted character actor, as John Wilkes Booth in the Rockett Bros, production entitled "The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln." This role affords Moran further opportunity to display his superb artistry, giving to the portrayal a mellowing and realistic tone with which he has been rarely endowed heretofore. Knows About Abandonment Fen times has small Bruce Guerin been abandoned for the camera — or, if rehearsals count, 'most a hundred times — for in each of the ten films in which the clever youngster has appeared he has always been cast as a woeful, homeless waif because of his natural skill in portraying pathos. Just now he is playing with Viola Dana in a new picture, having been loaned by Warner Brothers, and, as usual, he gets abandoned while Vi goes off to have a good time with an artist. But Bruce has the satisfaction of being "found" again in the last reel, and the nice party that Vi gives for him then makes up for all the "bandonings," as Bruce calls them, that have Studded his silversheet career. William Blaisdell has been added to the cast of Monty Bank's new five-reeler, "Racing Luck." He plays the proprietor of a big New York cafe, where Monty and Helen Ferguson make a hit with their dances of Italy. Martha Franklin has been engaged to play the mother, and James Donnelly the father of Monte in the picture. Has Dope on Realtors Place: Cahuenga Pass at twilight on Sunday. Characters: Betty Compson, escort and about ten thousand motor cars with drivers. Miss Compson, in despair: "We will never get over the Pass with traffic blocked for blocks and blocks." Escort: "There must be at least twenty thousand automobiles on this boulevard, Where do they all come from?" Miss Compson: "Just the Valley real estate salesmen returning home from work, old deah." Block Will Buy Plays Within the next fortnight Ralph Block, former New York dramatic critic and more recently supervisor of productions for Famous PlayersLasky, will leave for New York to negotiate with theatrical producers for the screen rights to a number of current stage successes, which he plans to picturize and direct for next season. Block has spent more than a year with Famous, during which period he adapted twenty popular stories, books and plays. His most recent adaptation was "The Stranger," filmed under the direction of Joseph Hanaberry, with Betty Compson, Tully Marshall, Richard Dix, Lewis Stone and others in the cast. He also picturized "First and the Last," the first John Galsworthy short story to reach the screen. Louise Lorraine, leading lad, the "Fighting Blood" series, < married in the final scene of recently completed episode. Monty Banks has evolved a dance uhich, for want of a n original title, is known as "the , Waltz." He and Helen Fergu execute it in "Racing Luck," not Herman C. Raymaker is directi Some one suggested to Monty t, as "the Kiss Waltz" had been u: the dance be termed "the Osci t o r y T erpsichorean Rbapsoc Mr. Banks isn't sure whether hi being kidded or no, but the da is very delightful to witness the same. Dane Rudhyar, noted compi of modernist music, has turned i or. The prominent musician < persuaded to appear in scents "Three Weeks," now being fill at the Goldwyn studios. He pi the part of the Grand Duke of i dalia, the mythical Balkan kinga invented by Elinor Glyn for famous love story. Ralph Lewis has just receive, wire from the student body Northwestern University, his at mater, stating that his latest ture, "The Mail Man," was sho to the students there just bef the Thanksgiving holidays scored a tremendous hit. Spottiswood Aitken has comp ed his role of the sea captain Hunt Stromberg's production, "3 Fire Patrol." Finis Fox and his entire <oir/m filming "The Woman Who Sinn will live aboard an especially (h tered steam yacht for a vii cruising off the coast of Mex securing the ocean scenes for latest feature. Frank J. Hawkins, distribut manager for the United Prodm and Distributors . is now ntik his second nation-wide tour in half of his cm party, with the m object of ascertaining precis what kind of photoplays the ma of people want. Seventeen dist managers and thousands of exh. tors are co-operating with Hawkins in his communing the multitudes of movie f throughout the land. New York is the only city t has had the honor of having name used as the main title o. motion picture. Rupert Hug swings the honors to a West city in his latest photoplay, has been titled "Reno." "Scotty" Cleethorpe, casting rector for Jack White and Id Hamilton productions , doubled cently as "dance director" when arranged the routine for an Apa dance in the current Cameo ci edy, directed by Gil Pratt. Bryan Foy, son of the famous . die Foy, who is directing H* Tighe and Ned Sparks in their t two-reel comedy for United t ducers and Distributors release, <ected a temptnig offer to return the vaudeville stage in order | continue his work behind the m\ aphone.