Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

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66 EXHIBITORS HERALD April 15, 1922 With the Procession in Los Angeles By Harry Hammond Beall H. H. Van Loan has signed for a series of six pictures for Robert Thornby under the co-operative system which is nowobtaining at the R-C Studio. Van Loan has two of the stories written already, •'Thundering Silence" and "The Black Horizon." * * * Aroused at an inference contained in a petition recently filed with the city council, asking that the old "Bill" Hart studios at Bates and Effie streets be removed, William S. Hart this week issued a statement declaring he now has no control over the old structure. * * * Fred Niblo has been signed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for a series of big special productions for Paramount Picture, starring Rodolph Valentino and written by June Mathis. * * w In the hope of regaining his former health permanently Cecil B. DeMille, the noted producer and director general of the Famous Players-Lasky company, has just undergone an operation for the removal of his tonsils and he has passed the ordeal successfully. * * * Dustin Farnum's new boat, Miss Los Angeles II, this week won the Joe Fellows Day race for speed boats held over an outer course of sixty-six miles at the Los Angeles harbor. * * * For the first time in two years Louis BuRSTON will renew acquaintance with his old home folks in Brooklyn, for he will leave shortly for Xew York with a print of "Forget Me Not," the special production which co-stars Gareth Hughes and Bessie Love. The picture is to have a special showing in Xew York. * * # David Kirki.and, formerly director of Norma Talmadge and other screen notables, has been engaged by Jess Robbins Productions as scenario writer and manager of productions. * * * William Beaumne, who was for three years a Christie Comedy director, is now back in the fold and will direct the next picture to feature Neal Burns. Beaudine was absent for a short time directing a Goldwyn feature, "Watch Your Step," which is now having highly successful first-run showings. * * * The latest star to hear siren call of the vaudeville footlights is Dale Fuller. who is negotiating with two big circuits to put on a sketch in which she plays seven distinct and different roles. * * * The three suits filed against Mary Pickford for alleged breach of contracts and aggregating $34/375 damages, will be settled out of court, was the announcement made this week by attorneys. The suits were set for trial for next Monday before Judge Valentine but will be dismissed or judgment entered for the defendant before that time by stipulation, it was stated. The plaintiffs and the amount each asked were: David Kirkland Swim, $11,375; Mildred Consindino, $11,500, and Rex Taylor, $1,500. * * * Alice D. G. Miller, author of the "Fourteenth Lover" and other screen stories, has been added to the Goldwyn scenario department, of which Paul Bern is editor. Miss Miller, who was formerly associated with D. W. Griffith, is having a hard time keeping her mail from getting confused with that of Alice Duer Miller, the novelist, who recently spent several weeks at the Goldwyn studio while writing "The Man with Two Mothers." * * * Sidney Franklin has returned from New York and is busily engaged at United Studios in preparing for Constance Talmadge's next starring production for First National. Three Novels Bought By Fox for Filming Gets "The Splendid Outcast" "Trooper O'Neil" and "Alcatraz" William Fox announces the purchase of three more popular stories for screen adaptation during 1922. Stars Are Announced "The Splendid Outcast," by George Gibbs, well known novelist, will be used as a vehicle for John Gilbert. "Trooper O'Neil" from the pen of George Goodchild, has been purchased with the intention of making it a Charles Jones picture. It is a Northwest story. Tom Mix will be starred in the third "Alcatraz," written by Max Brand. "Alcatraz" is a story of romance and adventure excellently suited for the work characteristic of Mix. These books are said to be among the season's best sellers in fiction. Mr. Goodchild's story is his second used by Fox, the first having been "Tiger's Cub," produced some eighteen months ago. Obtain Hutchinson Novel Fox Film Corporation also won out in the bidding for the screen rights to "If Winter Comes," and the book will be made into a motion picture before autumn. Several companies were in the market for the A. S. M. Hutchinson novel. "If Winter Comes" was first published in England, where it is said to have been a sensation. Its publication in this country attracted equal attention. It is reported to have sold at the rate of two thousand copies a day since its publication four months ago. It will be published by Fox as a special. Report Big Bookings In Large Playhouses For Educational Week Reports of special bookings of Educational Pictures in the larger theatres to the home office of Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., indicate almost 100 per cent showings will be the rule for Educational Pictures Week, April 16 to 23. Many theatres according to the company are taking advantage of Educational's offer of a special one-sheet to tie up with Educational's national advertising campaign, which is being given free. Several theatres already have requested large numbers of these one-sheets, which will be posted about the cities in which these theatres are situated it is said. A large number of the branch exchanges were able to line up the biggest of the first run houses early in the campaign. Several others have reported their most important bookings in the last week. Among these branches are those at San Francisco, Seattle, Indianapolis and Buffalo. "Jungle Goddess" Rights Sold for Western States Louis Auerbach of the Export & Import Film Co., Inc., now offering Col. Sclig's new serial, "The Jungle Goddess," on the independent market has announced another sale on the big wild animal chapter-picture. Sol Lesser's company All Star Feature Distributors, has purchased the rights for California, Arizona and Nevada. This organization plans an immediate publication of the serial and will give it a widespread advance publicity campaign on the coast. A scene from "Too Much Business," a Vitagraph special, adapted from Earle Derr Biggers' "Saturday Evening Post" story, "John Henry and the Restless Sex."