Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov 1924 - Feb 1925)

Page 28 Exhibitors Trade Review Ethel Barrymore. Clive Brook has been signed for the part of Solomon, which Claude King played on the stage. ^ ^ ^ Elaine Sterne, former scenario writer and now prominent as a writer of magazine and vaudeville sketches, has been especially engaged to prepare the adaptation of "Uriah's Son", which the Earl Hudson units of First National will film. Production has started on "Siege", adapted from the famous novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, at Universal 'City. The new picture is notable for two reasons ; first in that it marks the first time Virginia Valli and Eugene O'Brien have been co-starred, and secondly because it is the first strictly modern production of Svend Gade, the celebrated Danish director, whose first work at Universal was with Mary Philbin making "Fifth Avenue Models". * A' * Marguerite de la Motte, who is! featured with Conrad Nagel and Lewis Stone in Robert Z. Leonard's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of "Cheaper to Marry", has completed her role in the .'■creen version of Samuel Shipman's stage hit and is on her way to New York. The first print of the Frank Woods production "Let Women Alone" was received this week by Producers Distributing Corporation and according to reports it passed a critical screening for the releasing company's officials with flying colors. Harriet Hammond is the first player to be selected for the cast of Elinor Glyn's forthcoming production of "Man and Maitl", which Victor Schertzinger is shortly to begin shooting at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios at Culver City. Technical preparations for the making of this picture have been imder way for siome time. * * * With the engaging of Marion Orth and Elaine Sterne, well-known scenario and magazine writers, Farl Hudson's First National units now have a formidable staff to carry out the literary phases of the Eastern production program arranged by General Manager R. A. Rowland. * * * Word comes from the coast that camera work has been finished on "The Summons", the Katherine Newlin Burt story directed by Robert Vignola from the adaptation made by Albert Shelby Levino. This picture is now being cut and titled under Vignola's supervision. Here is Milton Sills in a truly domestic pose. The First National star is shown in the garden of his Hollywood home. On the strength of the firstt selections it is safe to say an excellent cast will support Shirley Mason in her forthcoming star series release "The Scarlet Honeymoon", which is incidentally, the first picture to be directed by Alan Hale, the one time thespian, who was elevated by Fox Film Corporation to the rank of director, a short while ago. * * * Marjorie Daw reported to the Eastern Studios of First National pictures this week for her featured role in the screen version of Beale Davis' novel, "One Way Street", which Earl J. Hudson has just put into production under the direction of John Francis Dillon. ^ Alma Rubens, the screen's stateliest beauty, as the result of her excellent work in "Gerald Cranston's Lady," has been signed to a long-term contract by Fox Film Corporation, according to an official annovmcement made by that company. * * * Frank Lloyd has selected a new title for his forthcoming First National picture based upon the May Edginton story, "Judgment". He will call it "Her Husband's Secret". Photography on the film has been completed and Mr. Lloyd is now editing it and assisting in the titling. **A box-office film. Is certain to prove a box-office hit in any theatre, for it possesses all the essentials of a good audience picture." Exhibitors Trade Review said that of wuh Owen Moore, Maij Cair Ralph Lewis and Marguevited^iaMotte no. ^'&r^ An Associated Exhibitors Release Hollywood Closeups Aileen Pringle will play the feminine lead in M. C. Levee's "One Year to Live," the newspaper serial story by John Hunter to be produced for First National. By special arrangements with MetroGoldwyn with which organization Miss Fringe is under long term contract, M. C. Levee yesterday signed for the services of this popular star. Clara Bow, the super-flapper of the screen, has made the quickest cross-country picture to picture jump on record. Monday at 4:30 she played her final scenes in "The Adventurous Sex" at Niagara Falls, that evening she boarded the train at Buffalo for Los Angeles, arriving on Friday at 2:15 in makeup and costume. * * * Willard Louis, rotund Warner Bros, star, has flatly made the assertion that the scenario writers have conspired against him. After the finish of the "Lover of Camille" wherein Willard gorges himself at a big rabbit stew dinner, he thought the eating scenes in future pictures would be finished but in his present role of "The Man Without a Conscience' he was forced to eat a huge plate of ham and eggs and French fried potatoes. * * * Antonio Moreno is confined to his home by a cold, which attacked him on the final day of filming scenes for the Frank Lloyd production "Judgment," at the United Studios. * * * Milton Sills is turning a deaf ear to Broadway (N. Y.) producers with offers of parts for the first time in his career. An inevitable aftermath of every season of his in New York in the past has been a sifting of stage offers, accompanied by the usual uncertainty regarding the wisdom of the final choice — for no one can foretell success and circumstance. * * * Pat O'Malley, following the completion of "Tomorrow's Love" for Paramount, will next burst forth in the character of the managing editor of a big city newspaper. Pat has signed contracts to play one of the leading parts in "The Fighting Cub," to be produced by Crown Productions, Inc. * * ♦ Louise Fazenda has begun a riotous role — the most amusing, in her opinion, she has ever played — as the festive grass widow, who has had "two" and is looking for the "third" in "Cheaper to Marry," a Robert Z. Leonard production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Never has she been so conversational, nor vamped so vigorously as in this current production in which she plays opposite Claude Gillingwater. * * * M. C. Levee, President of the United Studios, has been forced out of his own plant due to the capacity producing activities there of independent producers. * * * Under the direction of Irving Cummings, Mr. Levee's own producing company will shortly start the picturization of John Hunter's, "One Year to Live" at the McClune Studios where the producer has leased space for the making of his initial photoplay under his new First National contract. * * * "Buster" Collier holds dear among his treasures a recent gift from the late Thomas H. Ince of a print of an early Triangle picture "The Bugle Call," featuring the young actor when 13 years old. The production was supervised by Mr. Ince and taken at the famous Inceville, the site of his first studio.