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

tera Camera! News Section Page 1 5 Ju mn ke CO ti\ ke pt pe In, w «in ar CO fyust Keep Fit Physically |/e are three-fourths physical,'' Jackie Vernon, popular young nile, "so we can not lay too stress on the business of ing our bodies in excellent ition, as well as our brains acand clean at all times. By ing in the best mental and ical state we acquire a likable inality, an asset not to be overd, especially in motion picture The four great requisites fe are health, love, happiness success. If one will stop to der the forty foremost artists oflie screen it will be readily disred that they consider the ph ical side of life equally as impt jnt as the mental." {miracle New Same for U. S. me Norton, who was a dashing V iese light opera star before the \Hd War and who is now an African citizen among those acetify engaged in pursuing ambiH| in the realm of photoplayers, H she has discovered a new swnym for the word America. It isKmiracle, and Miss Norton is sijere in her conviction that everytfig about Uncle Sam's domain is ntculous. "The Garden of Eden hit have been in this country sojewhere, because it is surely the Pjadise of this earth these days." Ms Norton has been East to play oj of the principal roles in "DeIvlon," which is to be the first of aieries of feature pictures the ling Productions will make for Hase through the United Producej and Distributors, the recently ojanized million-dollar company wch will introduce the innovation o distributing films direct from Hlywood instead of from New wk City as all other concerns do ■present. leats Boss in Pill Tourney (Vrthur L. Bernstein, production ilnager of the Jackie Coogan vnpany, is flushed with the exctment of a great victory. He yi the Hillcrest Country Club's fflf tournament. But his joy is not yhout a bitter alloy, for, in order tjaccomplish the laurels, he had to •Feat his former boss, Mike RosOerg of Principal Pictures Cor ration and his present boss, Jack 'ogan Sr. 'This game called golf," says r. Bernstein, "will ruin me. I i casting about right now for an 'ening with some producing comny in which the chief plays eckers or ping-pong or something e that doesn't excite my sporting ■tincts. It's worse to beat your ss at golf than it is to fail in rth when he tells a funny story, is, in fact, a social error." 'It was no social error for Arar to defeat me at golf," asserts ck Coogan Sr., in rebuttal. "It is more like a miracle!" LAUD CHIEFS AS EDITORS It used to be the fashion for the actors and not for the literary members of filmdom to deride the production executives at the various studios. Their financial shrewdness was granted, but their intelligence in other lines was declared nil. Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin, that busy team of collaborators on originals, adaptations and titles, report entirely varying experience. According to them, the production manager and vice-president of one of the largest companies here, possesses the finest flair for the right word in a title of anybody in Hollywood. A certain other studio manager sat down with them and the director on a particular production, and in a half hour has given concrete editorial suggestions which improved the cutting of a picture a hundred percent, One of our largest producers, with whom they have been associated on a story, reveals an uncanny feeling for meeting the public's expectation in plot development. Such statements seem almost heretical, and flaunting the literary fashion; but Cowan-Higgin declare that they are based on their own actual experience. So it seems there IS some hope for motion pictures after all ! CARMEL SAYS JOHN BEST Who is the greatest lover of the screen ? Here's a question that will no doubt start something among public and movie players themselves. Carmel Myers arises to remark that John Barrymore is the great lover of the silver sheet as well as the stage. And Carmel should know for she has appeared on the screen for nigh going on to five years and has been made love to — on the screen y'understand — by the greatest male "thrillers" in Hollywood. Miss Myers, who is appearing opposite Mr. Barrymore in "Beau Brummel" at the Warner Studio, has this to say: "Speaking entirely impersonally and professionally, John Barrymore is the greatest lov er on the screen. "This is not said to the detriment of the many talented screen lovers whom I have acted with in recent years. They are splendid — but Barrymore is wonderful. "There is a certain finesse, a certain polish to Mr. Barrymore's love-making that I have never encountered before among the popular lovers of the screen. "There is a sureness on Mr. Barrymore's part that I could well understand, to be irresistible. It is indeed rather hypnotic. His is not the wild, passionate flare that rakes you off your feet nor is A the mild hesitating kind that bores one. "John Barrymore could be crowned the Great Lover of the I Screen." Has Pair of Barges In his role of a little French boy in Viola Dana's new picture, small Bruce Guerin has to wear a quaint peasant costume and wooden shoes. They're so big everybody says: "Shoes, where are you going with that little boy?" "See my boats?" Bruce cries, as he clap-claps about the studio. The other day when Director George Baker called for a scene, the youngster was not in evidence, an unusual thing, as welltrained Bruce always sits quietly in his little chair by the set, playing with his toys. After a search of the studio he was discovered beside the pond in the Metro back yard. One of his shoes was valiantly surviving its duty as a "boat," floating, as Bruce explained, "out to sea," the other having wobbled a last farewell and sunk to the bottom. But it was rescued by an assistant, and, his "boats" dried out, Master Bruce returned to the set. "Anyway," he consoled himself, "on? of 'em makes a good boat. An' if I don't like it around here I'll just go to sea, I will." Jack Mintz and Jack Dawn are assistant directors to Herman C. Rayrnaker for Monty Banks' feature, "Racing Luck." "A pair of Jacks," observed Raymaker. "Yes, we've got openers, anyway," said Monty. One must be familiar with poker to appreciate the allusion. New York Xmas for Hughes New Year's Eve in New York! Theaters. Crowds. Shops. Tobogganing. All the jovs of a winter in the East. Cold. Sleet. Slush. Wet feet. Frozen ears. Blizzards. All the discomforts of the world's worst climate. These are to be the lot of Lloyd Hughes and his wife, known on the screen as Gloria Hope, this winter. Born and raised under the clear skies of Arizona, with his youth and early manhood spent in Los Angeles and its incomparable climate, Hughes has never been east of the Rockies. Now he is going — definitely and conclusively he has made up his mind to take the trip. Sometime in December he will pack his trunk, buy his ticket and get on the train. Several weeks of "playing around" will follow. Then, possibly, a picture or two at a Long Island studio. In March or April he will return. Coy U'ntson, father of Coy Watson, Jr., famous screen kid, and himself identified with the motion picture profession for over a decade, is supervising the wire effects r for Douglas Fairbanks' "The Thief I of Bagdad." Crown Jewels in Film Plot The famous smuggled crown jewels of Russia, which arc thought to be hidden in the United States, play an important part in the story of Maurice Tourneur's "Torment," new M. C. Levee photoplay for First National. Ever since the crown jewels disappeared various sensational reports have appeared in the press throughout the country, the most recent having been caused by the supposition that the jewels were in Los Angeles. In the Tourneur production replicas of some of the jewels are brought to the United States by a Russian nobleman who arranged to sell the bulk of the jewels, which are hidden in the vaults of a bank in Japan, to Americans. The Americans turn out to be a ring of notorious crooks who accompany the Russian to Japan. Just as the robbery is perfected the first earthquake of the recent catastrophe wrecks the bank and entombs all the characters of the story in the vaults. With the jewels, the crooks and their victims confined to the two rooms of the vaults and with no nourishment for days excepting the drops of water which trickle from one of the broken pipes, Tourneur weaves the most dramatic sequence he has ever attempted for the screen, it is said. Among the players are Owen Moore, Bessie Love, Josepr Kilgore, Maude George, Morgan Wallace, Jean Hersholt and George Cooper. HKLENE MAY BUILD Helene Chadwick, after two weeks in Northern California where she spent her vacation with her mother, has returned to Hollywood and has started plans for the building of her own home here. For the next few weeks Miss Chadwick will be among those absent from the Goldwyn studio and will be busy with architects and builders in planning what bids fair to be one of the most novel homes in Southern California. Before she resumes work at the studio. Miss Chadwick expects to have the building of her first house, well under way. Among the features planned for her new home by Miss Chadwick are a complete gymnasium, an aviary for a large collection of rare birds, a swimming pool large enough for canoeing and garden in which will be planted trees from all parts of the globe. The home will be electrically heated and lighted, no gas or other fuel being used anywhere in the house. For more thantwo of her five years, Priscilla Moran has been known as the "hard luck kid" of the movies. Wherever she went a jinx followed her and saddened her with death, disappointment and the sorrows of an average lifetime. At last the jinx seems to be broken. The little star is with her father and is now starting out as the star of her own producing company at the Hollywood Studios.