Exhibitor's Trade Review (May-Aug 1925)

May 30, 1925 Page 37 PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS UPON COMPLETION of "Camille of the Barbary Coast," Mae Busch began work on her second picture for Associated Exhibitors, entitled "The Miracle of Life," as S. E. V. Taylor production. * * * ASSOCIATED EXHIBITORS has signed Edwin L. Hollywood, director, to film a new series of four productions. * * * HENRY OTTO, who directed "Dante's Inferno," has been chosen by Fox Film Corporation to make a picture based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." It is now in production at the Fox West Coast Studio. < * * * FOX FILM CORPORATION'S production of "Thank You" is under way. In the cast are George O'Brien, Jacqueline Logan, Alec Francis, Cyril Chadwick, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edith Bostwick, Vivian Ogden, James Neill, Billy Rinaldi, Maurice Murphy, Ida Moore, Robert Milasch, Lillian Lawrence, Frankie Bailey, William Courtright, Mark Fenton, Richard Cummings, Jack Ganzhorn and "Francis Powers. * ♦ LOVERS' ISLAND," a forthcoming Henri Diamant Berger picture for Associated Exhibitors, featuring Hope Hampton, James Kirkwood and Louis Wolheim, is now in its last week of production at the Diamant Studios, Fort Lee, N. J. * * * "HEADLINES," a romance of the newspaper world, adapted for screen presentation by Pete Milne and Arthur Hoerle, has been placed in production by St. Regis Pictures Corporation under the direction of E. H. Griffith. Alice Joyce appears in leading role. * * * TO THE CAST of Cecil DeMille's "The Coming of Amos," starring Rod La Rocque and directed by Paul Sloane, have been added Trixie Friganza, Noah Beery, Claude Gillingwater and Arthur Hoyt. Jetta Goudal will play the leading feminine role. Summer's Arbinger ! Torrid Season's Here. Pauline Garon, Warner Brothers star, and Mildred Davis Are Sporting Summer Furs. Keeping Tab ! Here's Director's Board Used at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio to Keep Track of Directors. "WITHOUT MERCY," the first Metropolitan production, is now under way at the Hollywood studios, with George Melford at the megaphone. "Without Mercy," adapted from the novel by John Goodwin, includes in the cast Dorothy Phillips, Vera Reynolds, Robert Ames, Patricia Palmer, Lionel Belmore, Fred Malatesta, Sidney D'Albrook, Gene Pallette and Tempe Piggott. It will be an early release through Producers Distributing Corporation. *H ♦ ♦ HARRY LANGDON has completed his work in "His First Flame," his first feature-length comedy under the Mack Sennett banner. Langdon, his director, Harry Edwards, and Arthur Ripley, scenario chief, are now cutting and editing the film. * * * THREE LEADING WOMEN support Glenn Tryon in his latest two-reel comedies for Pathe release, now in the course of production at the Hal Roach Studios under the direction of Fred L. Guiol. They are Blanche MeHaffey, Katherine Grant and Jane Sherman. Chester Conklin and James Finlayson will do the "heavy" roles. * * * INTERIORS FOR the Patheserial, "Play Ball," now in production under the direction of Spencer Bennett, are being staged at the Long Island Studio, formerly known as the Pyramid, at Astoria. F. W. Seitz is studio manager for the Pathe unit. John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, wrote the story. In the cast ar Allene Ray Walter Miller, J. Barney Sherry, Harry Semels, "Wally" Oetel and Alary Milner. * * * CAMERA WORK on "The Lucky Devil," staring Richard Dix and formerly titled "California — or Bust," has been completed. It is now being cut and edited at the Paramount Long Island studio. Richard Dix leaves New York in a few days for Hollywood, where he will made his next production for Paramount. Frank Tuttle, director, leaves next week on a brief vaaction before starting "The Crossroads of the World," starring Pola Negri. LOIS WILSON, who recently completed "Rugged Water'" at the Paramount West Coast Studio, and who is now in New York for a vacation, will be a guest of honor at the Alabama Day banquet at the Hotel Astor. PHYLLIS HAVER and Dot Farley have been added to the cast of "Rugged Water," Joseph C. Lincoln's story of the life saving service on Cape Cod, which Irvin Willat is producing for Paramount. Others in the picture are Lois Wilson, Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. * * * THOMAS MEIGHAN and Tom J. Geraghty, supervisor of Meighan productions for Paramount, have returned to the Long Island studio after a stay at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where they have been working on the adaptation of a story by Booth Tarkington for the star. The picture will soon be started under the direction of Alfred E. Green. s(i sf; s(i NEIL HAMILTON has signed a long term contract to be featured in Paramount pictures, according to Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. HARRISON FORD is in New York to assume the leading role opposite Bebe Daniels in her next picture for Paramount, "Lovers in Quarantine," to be made at the Long Island studio. * * * EDWARD SUTHERLAND, now in Hollywood to direct Raymond Griffith in his first starring venture for Paramount, "Are You a Mason?" has been signed to a longterm contract. * * * FRANK MORGAN has been signed to support Thomas Meighan in his next picture, "Whispers." Besides playing at the Paramount Long Island studio, Morgan will continue on the stage in his present role with Joseph Shildkraut in "The Firebrand." "Nothing to Wear !" Norma Shearer, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Star, Gives Her Interpretation of a Modern Chorine for the Camera.