Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Jun 1921-Apr 1922)

Representatives Nat. Ass. Motion Picture Industry Ask Repeal Existing Excise Taxes ILLIAM A. BRADY, PresW ident of the National As sociation of the Motion Pieture Industry and Saul E. Rogers, Chairman of the assoeiation’s Taxation Committee, returned Thursday from Washington where they spent three days conferring with members of the Senate Finance Committee on the questions of taxation and tariff as affecting the motion picture industry. They were cordially received by members of the Committee and found the Senators with whom they talked heartily in sympathy with the industry’s plea for relief from its present excessive taxation. There was evidenced also an earnest desire on the part of the Senators to lighten the industry’s taxation burden if a way ean be found to provide sufficient revenue from other sources to meet the government’s needs. The National Association representatives also found a strong sentiment in the Senate Finanee Committee against the proposed 30% advalcrem tar-ff on foreign film which 18 included in the House Revenue Bill that is now under consideration in the Senate. Mr. Brady and Mr. Rogers were given individual hearings by Senators Reed Smoot of Utah, James E. Watson of Indiana William M. Calder of New York, Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin and others. They urged the repeal of all three existing excise taxes on seating, admissions and film rental and the substitution of a general sales tax such as the 3% tax called for in the Smoot Bill to apply to all manufactured articles. Regal Films Annouce The They Will Release Thirty-two Metro Pictures fer Coming Year ident of Metro Pictures Corporation, has announced its projected releases for the coming R ICHARD A. ROWLAND, pres year. They consist of the Rex Ingram productions of ‘‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,’’ “Turn to the Right’’ and ‘‘The Conquering ,Power’’; seven special productions each for Bert Lytell, Viola Dana, Alice Lake and _ Gareth Hughes; and the Nazimova production of ‘‘Camille.”’ The Lytell pictures ‘nelude ‘‘A Trip to Paradise,’’ a Maxwell Karger production of a play by Franz Molnar, as translated and adapted for the sereen by Benjamin F, Glazer, and scenarioized by June Mathis; “‘Junk,’’ a Maxwell Karger production of Kenneth Harris’ Saturday Evening Post story, with continuity by Miss Mathis; ‘‘Lady Fingers,’’ Bayard Veiller production of Jackson Gregory’s story, as scenarioized by Lenore Coffey and four others. Viola Dana will be seen in ‘‘The Match Breaker,’’ a Dallas M. Fitzgerald production of the story by Meta White, done into continuity by Arthur J. Zellner;.in the Bayard Veiller production of Frank R. Adams’ story, ‘‘There Are No Villains,’’ as adapted by Mary O’Hara; in Alice D. G. Miller’s ‘‘The Fourteenth Lover,’’ under the directien of Harry Beaumont; in ‘‘The Cave Lady,’’ by James Cullen; in ‘‘The Page Six Digitized by Go gle Five Dollar Baby.’’ by Irvin S. Cobb; in ‘‘That Girl Patsy,’ by J. Mullen Feigl, and in John A. Moroso’s ‘‘Rings and Things.”’ For Alice Lake’s starring appearances have been chosen ‘‘The Infamous Miss Revell,’’ a Dallas M. Fitzgerald production of W. Carey Wonderly’s story, whose scenraio was written by Arthur J. Zellner; ‘‘The Claim,’’ whose title may be changed ; ‘‘Double Cure,’’ by Edgar Selwyn; “‘The Hole in the Wall,’’ by Fred Jackson; ‘‘June Jeopardy,’’ by Inez Hayes Irwin; ‘‘The Making of EIeanor Jay.’’ by Thompson Buchanan, and ‘‘Moonlight,’’ by George Kibbe Turner. Gareth Hughes will appear in seven George D. Baker productions for S-L (Arthur Sawyer and Herbert Lubin), to be distributed by Metro. Two already have been completed at the Metro studios in Hollywood. Ineluding these the seven of Hughes pictures are: ‘‘The Hunch,’’ by Percival Wilde; ‘‘Garments of Truth,’’ from Freeman Tilden’s story in The Pictorial Review; ‘‘Little Eva Ascends,’’ Thomas Beers’ story as published in The Saturday Evening Post; Ben Ames Williams’ story, “Barber John’s Boy,’’ from Munsey’s Magazine; “The Gay and Festive Claverhouse.’’ by Anne Clegg Warner, and ‘Tommy Carteret,”’ by Justus Miles Forman. Released thru Regal. NEW YO ‘“‘LAVENDER AND OLD LACE”’ N interesting tribute has been A paid to ‘‘Lavender and Old Laece’’ by Mr. Dave Russell, Manager of the Strand Theatre, one of the down town houses in St. Louis, who has booked that charming p.cture for an engagement at his house after it had already played the Columbia, another down town theatre. . Mr. Russell realized the many values contained in the production and after seeing the splendid business done by the Columbia on the attraction decided that it was good enough to bring back to the Strand and has accordingly arranged to do so. ‘*Lavender and Old Lace,’’ a Hodkinson release, was made by the Reneo Film Corporation, under the d.reetion of Lloyd Ingraham, from the world-read novel of Myrtle Reed. It is perfectly enacted by an all-artist cast headed by Seena Owen, Marguerite Snow and Lewis Bennison. Thru Famous Players Film Service, Ltd. Are you a Canadian ? Subscribe to the Digest Canada’s first and only Motion Picture Trade Paper — Canadian News from allover the Dominion Scene from “PUPPETS OF FATE,” Starring VIOLA DANA Metro star. Thru Regal Films. ginal trom PUBLIC LIB RARY