Exhibitors Herald (Jul-Sep 1922)

Tulv 22. 1922 EXHIBITORS HERALD 65 With the Procession in Los Angeles By Harry Hammond Beall BRUCE McRAE. who has been a member of the Henry Miller Company, has deserted the legitimate tor the silver sheet. He will appear in a special production which Sol Lesser will make from a story by Elinor Glynn. * * » Myron Selzxick is back from New York and says the Selznick Pictures Corporation will make only all-star productions in the future. Elaine Hammerstein and Owen Moore will appear in some of these releases. * « * Returning from New York. Gust Inglis announces Florence Yidor will appear in a series of four productions, the first to be started about September 1. » * * Malcolm Stuart Boylax. director of publicity at Universal City, is en route East for a conference with Eastern officials of the company. * * * Prominent roles in the Louis B. Mayer production of "The Dangerous Age" will be filled by Edith Roberts and Cleo Madison. * * * Arthur H. Jacobs, who produced "Triumph Pictures" for the old World program, has resigned from the B. P. Schulberg forces to produce independently. * * * Filming of "Country Love." the first Billie Dove starring vehicle fcr Metro, was started this week. Emile Chautard is directing. * * # Blanche Sweet, recently married to Marshal! Xeilan. will make her reappearance on the screen in "Quincy Adams Sawyer," which the Sawyer-Lubin organization is to make for Metro. * * * Bradley Fish, division manager of the Yitagraph Exchange branches, is in Los Angeles conferring with C. J. Marley. manager of the Los Angeles exchange. * * * Maurice Tourxeur, Richard Dix and Mae Busch. who went abroad to film scenes for "The Christian." have returned to the Goldwvn studio. Tod Browxixc will again direct Priscilla Dean. * * » Mrs. Wallace Reid will make her vaudeville debut in a local theatre. She is the wife of the Famous Players-Lasky star. * * * Trixie Frigaxza. the hefty vaudevillian announces she is going into pictures. * * * B. P. Schulberg has purchased for production, he announces, the following books and plays : "(Thing (Thing Chinaman." by Wilbur Daniel Steele: Larry Evans. "Are You a Failure:" "The Girl Who Came Back:" "Thorns and Orange Blossoms;" and "Poor Men's Wives." * * * Jack Gardxer. vaudevillian and husband of Louise Dresser, has been signed to appear in the Metro "Country Love" production. * * * The R. A. Walsh unit of the Goldwvn Company departed this week for the South Seas to filrn scenes for "Captain Blackbird." the Carey Wilson story' The cast includes House Peters. Antonio Moreno. Alma Bennett. George Siegmann. William Y. Mong and Rosemary Theby. * * * David O. Selzxick, vice-president of the Selznick Pictures Corporation, is here conferring with Myron Selznick. Paramount to Use Colors In National Advertising For the first time in the history of its seven-year-old campaign of national advertising. Paramount will use two colors in its display advertisement to appear in the Saturday Evening Post in the issue of July 29. This issue of the Post will carry a double-page spread announcing the fortyone Paramount productions listed for publication during the first six months of the vear starting August 1. Conway Tearle Engaged For Special Productions To Be Made by Selznick Following the announcement by Lewis J. Selznick. President of Select Pictures Corp., that the producing units regularly contributing t o the Select output had abandoned the restricted "star" plan and would in the future produce pictures using story, star, and production value entirely at the disc r e t i o n of the producer the announcement is made that Conway Tearle has been engaged by Selznick Picture Conway Tearle Corporation to appear in two big Selznick specials during the coming season. Myron Selznick. President of Selznick Pictures Corporation, completed arrangements with Mr. Tearle at the Xew York offices of the company recently. Until other members of the casts which will include Mr. Tearle are definitely engaged. President Myron Selznick is withholding information as to the specials in which Mr. Tearle will appear. It is stated, however, that in keeping with the new production policy Mr. Tearle will not be the only star in each cast. Other players fully as well known are being engaged for the same pictures. Two More Stars Engaged For "The Dangerous Age" Louis B. Mayer has engaged Edith Roberts and Cleo Madison for prominent roles in the all-star cast of "The Dangerous Age," John M. Stahl's new production for First National publication. In addition to the newly signed celebrities, the cast list for the picture includes Lewis Stone. Ruth Clifford. Myrtle Stedman and Richard Tucker. Radio in Century Comedy There is a smattering of science in the latest production of Brownie the Centurydog. A big radio feature with Brownie and his two chums Johnny Fox and Tackie Morgan in their mischief. Two scenes from Vitagraph's latest special "The Ladder Jinx" with Edward Horton. Margaret Landis, Tully Marshall, Otis Harlan, Colin Kenny and Tom Murray the chief fun-makers.