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

Page 26 Exhibitors Trade Review Hollywood Closeups The good ship Nancy is shown returning to Los Angeles with the cast of "Her Market Value" after taking a number of scenes at sea. Agnes Ayres, the star is shown in the center of the group. The picture is for Producers Distributing Corporation release. Mae Marsh is to be featured in a coming production on Vitagraph's current schedule. An announcement from the Vitagraph executive offices in Brooklyn, this week, tells of the closing of arrangements by which this popular player will have a leading role in "In the Garden of Charity," an adaptation of Basil King's popular novel, to be produced by J. Stuart Blackton. * * * Hope Loring and Louis Lighton, popular Warner Bros, writers, who have been vacationing in Honolulu for the past four weeks, have cabled that they will arrive at the studio next week. The cablegram stated further that "Eve's Lover," which they have been adapting during their absence, is completed and practically ready to go into production. * * * Raoul Walsh, who recently completed Pola Negri's latest starring picture, "East of Suez," has been signed to produce "The Spaniard" for Paramount. According to an announcement by Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president in charge of production of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, the assignment of Raoul Walsh to this important production follows as the result of the particularly fine directorial ability manifested in "East of Suez". 4< 4i « George Hackathorn arrived in New York this week for a brief vacation following the completion of his role in B. P. Schulberg's special production, "Capital Punishment." Hackathorn played the masculine lead in this Preferred Picture opposite Clara Bow. * * * George Ade, the author of "Old Home Week," arrived in Hollywood and the remarkably successful team formed by Ade and Tom Geraghty has begun the writing of the screen play. The reunion of these two in the preparation of a screen play for Meighan is reminiscent of the great success achieved by their former efforts, "Back Home and Broke" and "Woman-Proof", both Meighan starring vehicles. * * * Frederick Kennedy Myton, of the west coast scenario staff of Film Booking Ofifices, has written "Lawless Blood," a sea melo drama in which Evelyn Brent will be starred by F. B. O., according to General Manager B. P. Fineman at the Hollywood studios of the company. Myton also authored "Midnight Molly," the third Brent feature and adapted "Silk Stocking Sal," her second starring vehicle. First National Pictures has selected "I Want My Man" as the release title for "The Interpreter's House," now being made from Struthers Burt's novel, by Director Lambert Hillyer at the company's New York studios, under the supervision of Earl Hudson. Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon have the featured roles in "I Want My Man." * * * Word from the coast states that Mai St.Clair, has just finished "On Thin Ice" at the Warner Bros, studio and has been assigned to "How Baxter Butted In" as the next picture to go into production. Margaret Seddon has been engaged to play Mrs. Dyer, and ia the first of the cast selected. * * * Ernest Lubitsch stated this week that he had engaged Bert Lytell for a leading role in the new production he is preparing for Warner Bros., and that the groundwork of the picture was completed sufficient for him to announce that he would be able to begin shooting within two weeks, and perhaps sooner. *. * i): Creighton Hale, the popular juvenile actor has recovered from the injury to his leg which has incapacitated him since his starring role in the Warner Bros, production, "The Bridge of Sighs." This ever-popular actor is now ready to assume his screen activities. -* * * Whether or not Mrs. Horace Greeley said, "Go West, young woman", the prize beauties of Broadway, New York, are drifting toward Hollywood. Peggy Franklin, the pride of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1921-22, is now a screen actress. She makes her first Hollywood film appearance playing a small part in "One Year to Live", M. C. Levee's production for First National which Irving Cummings is directing. Louise Glaum is confined to her home with an illness which has puzzled several physicians called in consultation. It is believed that it is an outgrowth of a chlorine gas treatment for a cold which she took last week. The illness is declared not to be serious despite its puzzling nature. Miss Glaum is not confined to her bed, but has been ordered not to leave her home for several days. * * * Rodolpb Valentino's decision to film "Cobra," the Broadway stage success, as his first independent Ritz production will not cause any changes in his technical staff. Joseph Henabery, who came West with the star to direct "The Scarlet Power," will wield the megaphone on "Cobra." * * * Alice Calhoun, who appears in Vitagraph pictures, is gardening, and she is a careful student of scientific forestry. Recently she replanted her yard with trees destined to combine utility and beauty, and when the American Bureau of Reforestation heard about it, it sent for photographs showing her in the act of planting. These were used to further the country-wide campaign during National Tree Planting Week. * * * If Estelle Taylor doesn't marry Jack Dempsey — and there seems to be some doubt about it lately — she is going to have to spend $942, or some such sum, with Uncle Sam for postage. For she has literally hundreds of engagement presents that will have to be returned. They haven't been returned yet — and that must mean something. They are in a neat pile in her garage. * * * Naldo Morelli, Italian film star, has commenced work upon his initial starring vehicle for Bertram Bracken Productions at the California studios (formerly Grand Asher). This photoplay is a drama entitled, "The Son of Cain" and presents Morelli in one of the few straight roles which he has portrayed in this country. * * * Anielka Elter, petite Czecho-Slovakian actress, who starred In many pictures for the Berlin Film Manufacturing Company and the Sascha Kolowrat Company of Vienna, has been signed by Eric von Stroheim to play the symbolic figure of evil in "The Merry Widow." * * * Al Santell. the director, has laid aside the megaphone and taken up the shears. Having finished directing "Parisian Nights" in which Lou Tellegen and Elaine Hammerstein were co-starred, and for which Santell had collected almost every Gallic individual in Hollywood actor circles, for roles in the big Apache scenes, the director is now busily engaged cutting the film and editing it. * * * Casson Ferguson will return to the screen after a year's travel in Europe in support of Rodolph Valentino in "Cobra," the star's first Independent Ritz production. He will play the part of the star's best friend, enacted on the stage with great success by Ralph Morgan. ■if It * George Marion is now at work at the Thomas H. Ince Studios cutting and titling "Percy," the picturization of William H. Hamby's novel, "The Desert Fiddler." "Percy" features Charles Ray and will be a Pathe release.