Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1921 - Mar 1922)

February 25. 1922 EXHIBITORS HERALD 63 RODOLPH VALENTINO, who recently signed a three year starring contract with Paramount, as he appears in "Moran of the Lady Letty." Kineto to Get Series of "Great Statesmen" Films James A. FitzPatrick, who produced the. series of "Great Authors" for the Kineto Company, is working on a new Kineto series to be based on "Great Statesmen." Work has been started on a number of subjects, among them, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson of the Revolutionary period; James Monroe, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. Other contemplated subjects are James C. Blaine. Grover Cleveland. William McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. There will be twelve subjects in the series, each being in one reel. Canadian Amusement Man Visitor at the Lasky Studio Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Vickers and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McDonald, of Winnipeg, Canada, were visitors recently at the Lasky studio, watching a number of the companies at work. Mr. Vickers is with Kenneth Leach of the Winnipeg Amusement Company, controlling the College, Starlight and Lyceum Theatres in Winnipeg; the Strand and Savoy in Moose Jaw. and the Regent in Calgary. The men were interested in familiarizing themselves with productional work. Anita Stewart's Brother to Star in Christie Films C. H. Christie has signed up George Stewart, younger brother to Anita Stewart, to star in new Christie comedies. Stewart will begin his work in Christie pictures on his arrivel from the East. He is twenty-one years of age and has been under the tutelage of his famous sister for the last two vears. With the Procession in Los Angeles] By Harry Hammond Beall Book Vitagraph Special The William Fox circuit has booked the Vitagraph special, "Flower of the North," by James Oliver Curwood. Loris Bcrstow, producer of the David Butler pictures, is arranging to send a cameraman, and possibly several players to New York to take slum scenes to be used in the next David Butler picture wherein Dave enacts the role of a two-fisted young clergyman engaged in settlement work. * * * Webster Ci/llison, who directed the "Philo Gubb" comedies, has under advisement an offer to go to the Argentine Republic to make a series of pictures for a Spanish svndicate. * * * Irving Ccmmixgs is awaiting word from James Oliver Curwood as to whether he can come to Los Angeles to title the Curwood story which Cummings has just finished, "The Man From Hell's River." * * * Charles W. Mack, supervising director of Doubleday Productions, has gone to Vosemite Park to find locations for the next Lester Cuneo picture which Henry McCarty and Leo Meehan are writing. * * * Adolph Zckor, president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, and S. R. Kent, general manager of distribution, are in Los Angeles. * * * Los Angeles now boasts of a "home guard' film distributing organization. It is composed of several independent film producers and will market the product of the smaller producers throughout the world. Morris Schlank is president and general manager of the new concern, which is known as the Anchor Film Distributors, Inc. Other members of the board of directors are William La Planto, Ben Wilson. Harry Arnold and William Horsley. Among the producers to release their product through Anchor are the New Era Productions, Inc., National Film Corporation of America, Lincoln Features, Paragon Pictures Corporation and the Ivor McFadden Productions. * * * Agnes Ayres is recuperating and her physician has told her she may resume work within a few davs. Ptomaine did it. * * * The many Los Angeles friends of Julian Johnson, formerly dramatic editor of the Times, are rejoicing over the fact that he has been appointed manager of the editorial department of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. He was at one time editor of Photoplay Magazine, and production editor for Cosmopolitan pictures. * * * Hail the "Bool!" The "handsome matinee idol." "Mister Louis 'Bull' Montana, from Italy, Vernon and swell drawing rooms, has come into his very own as the star in two-reel comedy features to be produced by Hunt Stromberg, who, lest it be forgotten, plucked Doris May out of the ranks of leads and launched her as a successful luminary. * * * Jerome Storm is a happy man this week. He is treating all his friends to ice-cream sodas and otherwise cutting up like the dickens. The reason— a son. The newcomer has been named Jerome Griffith Storm. Mrs. Lillian Trimble Bradley has joined the staff of Chief Supervisor Frank E. Woods at the Lasky studio. Mrs. Bradley is now at the Lasky studio to study photoplay construction and technique. Despite her large stage experience in Russia, France and America the present is her first visit to a movie studio. * * * Al Christie has returned from Truckee. where he has been making a travesty called "Cold Feet." To hear the players who accompanied the director talk, it wasn't a comedy a-tall, but a reality, and all were glad to set their brogans on Southern California soil again. * * * Benjamin P. Schulberg and Louis Gasnier have joined forces, and are to produce at the Katherine MacDonald studios. Gasnier is to direct the first picture which will go into work shortly. Mr. Schulberg is well known as a producer, through the former affiliation with Famous Players-Lasky, and later with Katherine MacDonald. * * * The Los Angeles film colony is soon to be enriched by the addition of four producing units. M. C. Levee, president of United Studios, left for New York on Wednesday to arrange with Lewis J. Selznick for the transfer to United Studios of Elaine Hammerstein, Eugene O'Brien, Owen Moore and a special unit which will make balanced-cast pictures. Mr. Levee's stay in New York will be brief. It is believed that as soon as the present activities of Mr. Selznick's various units in the East can be completed he will cease studio work entirely in New York and confine his entire production output to the United Studios. * * * Gordon Pollock, cameraman for the Mission Film Corporation, now photographing "Carry on the Race,' has invented a newmirror which is calculated to solve the make-up problems of the film colony. The glass is apparently like that of an ordinary mirror, but it is tempered by a monotone filter which causes it to registerd make-up as a picture monotone rather than in the different shades of make-up. It gives the direct screen value of color and permits the actor to experiment in colored make-ups without the aid of a second party or the camera. Patents have been secured and the new mirror will be on the market in the near future. * * * Victor Herbert, nationally noted as a conductor and composer of light and grand operas will arrive in Los Angeles this week. He is to present a series of special concerts at the Kinema Theatre. * * * C. H. Christie was accompanied to Los Angeles by Sidney B. Brenicke, who is assistant to President E. W. Hammonds of Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., distributors of short subjects exclusively through 36 offices in the United States and Canada. * * * Sigmund Moos, manager of the efficiency department at Universal City, will sail for Europe on April 25 to tour the continent on a combined business and pleasure trip. He will visit France, Germany and Switzerland.