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

$>ruary 16, 1924 0% Jiltn Sribunc Page 9 ■mes to Parting in Cinema Road jfter eight weeks, Kathryn MoOre has finished her role as Bustej Keaton's leading woman in Mfcrlock Holmes, Jr.," his latest cdedy production. Coming after hi portrayal of the leading feminit figure in A. K. Mozumdar's Ijbphysical movie, "Be,yond the ■," the Keaton engagement, accdling to Miss McGuire, was "a I of safety valve, or, to change Msimilie, like a change of diet!" llhe termination of the Keaton emgement has brought Miss Mc&re again to the necessity of de(ijng whether she will specialize ktomedies or the more dramatic Hures. Originally, she got her stt in the Mack Sennett Cornell, but as a matter of fact, the yc-r which brought her to the fijit and won her selection as a ■npas star-of-tomorrow, found II featured in a dramatic picture a in a multi-reel comedy. These Me respectively "The Silent B," which also served to introIfc Strongheart to the screen, and He Shriek of Araby," in which H was co-starred with Ben TurI Since that time, most of her Mk has been in such dramatic Mures as "The Flame of Life," si Priscilla Dean, and "The Hman of Bronze," with Clara Biball Young, and an occasional m into comedy, such as the enHement she has just concluded Hi Buster Keaton. Some playMfind themselves consistently cast B>ne or the other type of picture, I Kathryn McGuire seems to fit ■equally well either in drama or lledy. Her next picture reflectil her probable decision between Btwo types of entertainment, will Bbtless be of much interest. Aapting Next Norma \\almadge Production llada Cowan and Howard HigH, filmland's best known team of Baborating scenarists, have been Ried by John W. Considine, genii manager of the Talmadge Hipanies, to adapt Norma's next (pre. This will be based on Hhe House of Youth," a popular Bfel which has run through sev■1 editions, and will be directed BFrank Borzage. IBy the time Miss Talmadge reHns from Palm Beach, CowanIggin will have completed the Hipt, which they declare one of Hir most ambitious undertakings, "ley have just completed the ppptation of "Don't Doubt Your disband," their own original, for Ktro, and "Broken Barriers" for Dginald Barker. ave Reason for Directorial Seat jWhy do directors stand or sit tide the camera when a scene is Vng taken? ['Not in order to be handy to re directions," says George Melrd, producing "The Dawn of pmorrow" for Paramount, "but to ] in a position to see exactly how fc scene will appear on the reen." Jacqueline Logan is feared in his present picture. Lewis Company Will Make Four Features Arrangements have just been definitely concluded for the making of a series of four feature pictures by the Ralph Lewis Productions, Incorporated, which will star this favorite character actor. Of these the first will be "The Country Doctor," based on an original story by Albert G. Kenyon, who will also co-direct the series with Henry McCarty. Charles Mack is production manager for the new organization, which will commence actual filming about March first. Anna Will Referee for Snow Frolicers Anna Q. Nilsson, who has just completed her work in the leading role of Richard Walton Tully's screen production of Rex Beach's "Flowing Gold," has been selected as the first 'Q'ueen of the Snow Country of Southern California." Arrangements are being completed for California's first snow festival and carnival, to be staged at Camp Baldwin, in Big Bear Valley, and Miss Nilsson will reign during the entire festival. She expects to have Strongheart, the famous motion picture dog as her mascot. Beneath the sway of her sceptre will perform the country's greatest skaters, ski-jumpers and tobogganists. Abandons Politics for Motion Pictures Abandoning what his friends and relatives thought to be a wonderful opportunity for the sake of entering upon a screen career, Kenneth Gibson, prominent juvenile, is today glad of the decision he made in 1920 to discontinue his services as secretary to AttorneyGeneral Mitchell Palmer. Urfon the completion of his schooling in Chicago, Gibson determined to fit himself for the diplomatic corps and studied abroad with this end in view. Finding, however, that only young men with millionaire fathers should follow this profession and learning that he would have to pay more for his dress clothes than he could earn for the first four or five years in the service, he returned to America to make his home in Washington where his family resided. He then accepted the position to Attorney-General Palmer, who was in the midst of his pre-convention campaign for the Presidency. Gibson accompanied the politician on his trip to San Francisco for the Democratic National Convention, expecting to return to Washington immediately following. An excursion trip to Los Angeles, however, somewhat changed his mind and the desire to enter motion picture work won over his previous ambitions. Starting at the bottom as an "extra," in which ranks he toiled for three months, Gibson is today one of the most prominent of "coming juveniles." 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