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

Page 12 Camera 1 ISetcs Section Corner Five YeaM AgO • • • • • Being a line o' type or two gleam from the pages of yesteryear. Cherished words from memory's treasun box that so indelibly impress upon us the fleetness of Time. Republishe from the "Camera!" of December 29th, 1918. D. W. Griffith is cutting his current Artcraft and has not announced when casting will begin for the next. Culver City is working three Goldwyn companies. The illness of Miss Normand has laid off her company temporarily, but she expects to be back at work in another week or so. Mae Marsh, it is expected, will be starring in about two weeks. At present Reginald Barker is in his third week with a star cast, making a Rex Beach feature. Clarence Badger is in his second week with Madge Kennedy, and H. Beaumont is in his second week with Tom Moore. Report has it that the Goldwyn companies do not expect to remain long in the West. Mae Marsh is again able to be around the different studios and is renewing her acquaintance with former friends. At Lasky's George Melford is starting with Ethel Clayton; Edward Jose is starting with a star cast; James Cruze is in the middle of a tf'ally Reid picture. Seven Universal companies are under operation. Jack Ford is starting with Harry Carey, with J. Brown at the camera; Rupert Julian is beginning a feature with himself as lead; Jack Dillon is finishing with Edith Roberts; J. P. MacGowan is on the second episode of his circus serial with Marie Walcamp; Ida May Park is finishing a Mary MacLaren picture; Harry Harvey is in the middle of a Helen Gibson Western. Lyons and Moran are making comedies. Mocks, the carpenter at the Paramount studio, is back on the job after a severe case of flu. Andy Reid, with the Clifton company, remarks that the next picture is going to carry a credit line, "Camera number effects by A. D. W. Reid." Whatdayaknowaboutthat? At the Sational, Francis Grandon is starting with Billie Rhodes, Bert Bracken having finished. Harry Pollard is directing Bill Parsons in a comedy, and Louis C.haudet is in his third week with Walthall. Joe Bretherton is cranking the camera. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lytell spent the Christmas holidays at ihe Lytell ranch in Napa County. At the Metro Studio Henry Otto is replacing George Baker with May Allison, already under way. Director Harry Franklin is finishing the first Hale Hamilton picture. John Ince is getting started with Bert Lytell. Nazimova is in the third week of her Chinese picture. Herbert Blache is in the middle of a feature with Viola Dana. Edwin Carewe and Chas. Swickard are on the waiting list. Five companies are producing. Charlie Chaplin is in the seventh week of his work on the third First National Comedy. An item of interest gleaned by William Duncan on his recent trip to New York was the fact that while all the remaining members of his family are contented to attend the evening performance at the neighborhood theatre of the weekly change of program on the Duncan-Vitagraph serial, Bill Duncan's father never fails to buy the first ticket sold for the mat Wiliiam S. Hart has started another Artcraft and expects to go to San Francisco on location this week. Hillyer is directing, as usual, with Joe August at the camera. Two companies are starting, one is under way and three are resting at the Brunton Studios. Ernest Ward is starting with Frank Keenan, Chas. Kaufman cameraman. William Worthington is starting with Hayakawa, Dal Clawson at the camera. James Kirkwood is in his second week with Jack Pickford, Tony Gaudio cranking. Kitty Gordon, Bessie Barriscale and Lillian Walker are waiting for stories. Lou Howland is assisting George Melford at Lasky's. Clara Horton is a busy little person. She is supporting Jack Pickford in his initial First National production, and is keeping up her studies at the same time. Clara knows she cannot acquire too much education and does not want to shirk any study. Henry King will soon be the only one of the "famous three" directors left at the American studios, and will probably continue to direct the William Russell productions which he has brought into such prominence. In a very short time King has risen to the very front rank of directors, and any picture directed by him is always looked forward to by the exhibitors both here and abroad. He has just returned from San Francisco where he took a number of scenes for Bill Russell's "Brass Buttons." Jack Lloyd is getting out the publicity for D. W. Griffith's picture at the Auditorium. Eddie Peil is with the Clifton company at the Paramount studios. Astra has begun work on the long-talked-of serial which is to be in fifteen episodes, starring Ruth Roland and Larkin, neither of whom is new to the serial game. Robert Ellis is directing and H. Hardy is cranking the camera. The work is being done in the Glendale studio formerly occupied by Diando. Charles Rehfeld is the casting director. Fred Bond is here, en route with a short vaudeville tour, over Pantages time. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Chaplin have gone to San Francisco to spend a few days and be present in the Bay City over New Year's Eve. Constance Talmadge is starting at the Morosco Studio under the direction of Robert Vignola, for the present leaving the guiding wing of her former director, Walter Edwards. F. E. Garbutt will handle the camera. Adolph Zukor is expected in the city Sunday. Lois Weber expects to finish first Anita Stewart picture si time during the coming week. Parke Frame is assisting Jt Hampton at the Willis and lm_ studios. Harry Lamont is playi crook parts at National, w "Go Get 'Em Parks", in E Parsons comedies. Al Jennings expects to leave New York next week. J IC \l> Oliver (Bunny) Marsh is w the Reginald Barker compa at Culver City. Lloyd Hughes and Frank C rier are at Metro with the Vi Dana company. Chas. E. Whittaker is rec ering from the flu. Tom Wilson is recovering ft the ordeal of getting away viitl twentyfive-pound turkey on I 25th inst. Ed Thomas and Omar Wh head are at Astra. Ralph and I' era Lewis art si porting Henry Walthall at National. Bert Sutch is still getting touch with Southern Califtn air. He is at Griffith's usually. Frank Braidwood is playinc juvenile with the Romayne S erfilm Company. Bertram Grassby has comple a long engagement under J. Barry, who is making a mu reel feature of a propaganda ture. Grasby has a splendid pi the heavy, one of the best he t> essayed. Mr. Grassby is one the "very worth while" film u Under the title Humanity F Corporation, Frank Borzage 11 recting Jack Mulhall at Univtr. The company is in its fifth