Exhibitors Herald (Sep 1920)

September 18, 1920 EXHIBITORS HERALD 101 'ini'i.iraiimiiiJiinimniiiiiiimimiimiiiiii^-J'jL.ti.,,;: ..,n:i!i....;. . 't; ■ !.;...:;:! in::.:.: ,. Minim1; i: ,,4.Hi!:i:!,.,:i]iii!i:'iim! Witli tlie Procession in Los Angeles -By Harry Hammond Beall Roy Stewart is sporting a new high powered car geared to make ninety miles an hour, and he is getting full use of it while Robert Brunton decides just which starring vehicle he will use for the versatile matinee idol. * * * Noble Hearne, the assistant manager of the Superba theatre, was complimented highly by the local press on the lobby display and street ballyhoo he arranged for the showing of "Shipwrecked Among Cannibals." * * * Rupert Hughes, screen writer, author and musician, was the guest of honor at an old-fashioned barbecue given Saturday night, August 28. at the Brunton studios. The Screen Writers' Guild of the Authors" League of America gave the affair. * * * Agustin T. Whitlar, prominent educator of Peru, visited the Lasky studio and studied the making of films from an educational standpoint. He plans to introduce films into the Peruvian schools. * * * Antonio Moreno has announced that he is through with serials. Features will occupy his attention in the future. He is going to Mexico for a tour of personal appearances and will start his five-reelers for Vitagraph upon his return. * * * Mabel Xormaxd is on her way to New York. She is quoted as having said that she cannot spend the time between pictures happily unless she is near her modiste. * * * The Christie Comedy players staged a show recently for the disabled war veterans at the Arrowhead government hospital. Among the entertainers were Mr. and Mrs. William Beaudine, Dorothy Devore, Ward Caulfield and Gus Leonard. * * * Henry Woodward, Maurice Tourneur's leading man, tells how Bear Valley, where motion picture directors shoot mountain scenes, got its name. "It's because of the California girls who come up here. They're all bears," he explains. * * * Richard Dix, popular as a leading man at the Morosco stock house, is back in Los Angeles to work before the camera. He has been cast opposite Sylvia Breamer in the First National production, "Parrot and Company," which Sid Franklin is directing. * * * Paul Bern, who co-directed the forthcoming Rex Beach picture, "The North Wind's Malice." has won his own megaphone. He will direct a feature for Goldwyn in recognition of his associate directorial work with Carl Harbaugh. •it * * * Flashes of Los Angeles dramatic editors at their desks was used as a leader for a special running of Marshall Neilan's VGo and Get It," which was held at the kinema theatre for the newspaper fraternity. Accompanied by Wesley Barry, a N'eilan photographer went around to the newspaper offices and framed up impromptu flashes of such widely known dramatic critics as Guy Price of the Evening Herald, Monroe Lathrop of the Express, Mrs. Florence Lawrence and Mrs. Maude Cheatham of the Examiner, Edwin Schallert of the Times, and May Markson of the Record. * * * With enthusiasm in his heart, a contract from Thomas H. Ince in his pocket, and a new Cadillac roadster under him, Louis Stevens, scenario writer, is holding a pogrom on the boulevards around the studio. On the first day out he confused the foot throttle with the brake and crumbed a bread wagon. The second day he fractured another car's midriff, and on the third day a rail fence hurled him within walking distance of the garage. Stevens will be able to get around about three weeks before the car. COI.LEEX MOORE All dressed up, as shr appears in Marshall Xeilan'x newest First National attraction "Uinty." Miss Bradley King, who has achieved fame as a screen writer in the last year, has signed a long term contract with Thomas H. Ince. She will write continuity and originals for forthcoming Thomas H. Ince productions. * * V Hunt Stromberg, Thomas H. Ince exploitation chief, is being congratulated on "A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios," the three-reel feature film which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Million Dollar theatre. * * * Sol Lesser is on his way to Santa Barbara for a short vacation. The West Coast First National chief is going to play golf — the kind one plays with a club, as differing from the African golf so much in vogue by many filmland favorites. * * * Harry Bucquet. Allen Holubar's assistant, is to be married to a San Francisco girl at the conclusion of the final scenes for "Man, Woman, Marriage," the HolubarDorothy Phillips First National super-feature. Bucquet also assisted Holubar when he made "Ambition," the last Universal feature, soon to be released. * * * So far Courtenay Foote has been the only player selected for Louis Joseph Vance's "The Bronze Bell," which Thomas H. Ince is to produce. Clark Thomas, production manager, has not as yet chosen the director. * * * Alice Lake, once a professional dancer, is becoming so proficient as a swimmer that she will soon be able to take on professional mermaids in any kind of an aquatic contest. The Metro star has haunted the beaches near Los Angeles until she can use every stroke in the trick box of the professional. * * * With Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber in the principal roles, the Berwilla Film Corporation has started production on the Berwilla's second Selznick release serial. "The Crimson Lash." The story was written by J. Grubb Alexander and Harvey Gates. "The Branded Four." Ben Wilson's first independently produced serial, is now being issued through Select exchanges. * * * Edward Laemmle, nephew of Carl Laemmle. president of Universal, has directed his first picture at Universal City. It is called "Cinders" and stars Hoot Gibson. Laemmle has recently returned from Dutch New Guinea, where, with William F. Alder, he photographed the cannibals. * * * E. P. Hermann, president of the Hermann Film Company, has purchased a home site in Santa Monica-by-the-Sea. He will build a colonial bungalow. * * * John Emmett McCormick, First National's hustling West Coast press representative, has taken unto himself a brand new green speed demon and travels between Seventh and Broadway and Hollywood and Cahuenga in nothing flat. * * * William E. Wing's latest fiction story, "Danger," is to be screened simultaneously with the magazine publication. It is heralded as a mystery story and will be put on at Selig's. * * * Claire Adams, who came to California a year ago to appear in Benjamin B. Hampton's production of the Zane Grey story, "Riders of the Dawn," is having her first vacation. She is at Catalina Island. Dead Men Tell No Tales r DON'T FORGET ^ it happens" only 1 ONCE JO EVERY L WOMAN A