Exhibitors Herald (Oct-Dec 1922)

62 EXHIBITORS HERALD November 4, 1922 Comedy Starring Rogers Heads List of Subjects By Pathe for October 29 Fathe's program for Oct. 29 gives first position to Will Rogers in "The Ropin' Fool." Ten subjects are listed, includ Eddie Cline to Direct Coogan in Circus Tale "Toby Tyler," famous story of circus life and a wee small lad, will be the next Jackie Coogan production. Arrangements were concluded between Irving M. Lesser, representing the Jackie Coogan Productions in New York City, and Harper and Brothers, representing the estate of the author of the well known volume. Work will start on the production immediately. Eddie Cline has been engaged to direct it. Will Rogers in "The Ropin' Fool" heads Pathe publication program for October 29. ing Pathe News Nos. 88 and 89, and Topics of the Day, No. 44. When "The Ropin' Fool" was shown at the Capitol theatre, New York, several months ago, New York newspaper reviewers agreed that this two-reeler starring the famous stage comedian was admirable as exhausting every refinement of the art of making a looped rope behave like a living thing. The Sun reviewer wrote: "The picture is fascinating with its slow-motion studies of the lariat-throwing twists with which Rogers seems to make a rope all but eat out of his hand." "Speed," Pathe serial with Charles Hutchison, reaches its second episode, called "Nerve." Other subjects are: "The Bar Cross War" with Leo Maloney in the Range Rider series; the Hal Roach comedy called "The Golf Bug;" the Harold Lloyd re-issue called "At the Old Stage Door;" "Henpecked Harry" in the Aesop's Film Fable, and Pathe Review No. 179. Principal Pictures Will Issue 2 Specials in Nov. Two specials will be published next month bv Sol and Irving Lesser and Michael Gore of Principal Pictures Corporation. They are "Chicago Sal," an Irving Cummings production with an allstar cast, and "The World's a Stage," an Elinor Glyn feature, starring Dorothy Phillips. This will be an epoch-making month in the history of the new organization. Wilson Comedies Ready Ben Wilson announces that "Love Taps," his second Monty Banks comedy, which series he is presenting for Federated Film Exchanges is finished, likewise his third Radio comedy, entitled "He's Bugs On Bugs," also issued by Federated. Making Film at Miami Helen Holmes returns to the screen in "One Million in Jewels," a melodramatic story of the secret service which J. P. McGowan is directing and playing a role in at Brush studios, Miami, for distribution by American Releasing Corporation. Better Art in Pictures Is Announced Plan of Vitagraph President Albert E. Smith, president of Vitagraph, has obtained the rights to novels and plays from twelve disting u i s h e d authors and playwrights. It is the intention of Vitagraph, according to Mr. Smith, to make the series the most ambitiously bold stroke for better art in the history of motion pictures. Each one of the twelve big specials will Albert E. Smith receive the greatest care in casting and production that high grade talent can give it. Following is the list of the big twelve: "The Ninety and Nine," by Ramsay Morris; "Master of Men," by Morgan Robertson; "A Ready Made Husband," by Rupert Hughes; "The Man Next Door," by Emerson Hough; "Hidden House,'' by Amclie Rives; "The Kidnapped Millionaires," by Frederick Upham Adams; "My Man," by Edith Ellis; "The Man From Brodney's," by George Barr McCutcheon; "A Shop Girl," by C N. and A. M. Williamson; "Steele of the Royal Mounted," by James Oliver Curwood; "The Tenderfoot," by Alfred Henry Lewis, and "Who's Who," by Richard Harding Davis. "This announcement marks the end of several months of strenuous effort," said Mr. Smith. "It is my conviction that the screen deserves, and demands, the best that is humanly possible to create. We have searched a vast field for the material contained in the twelve stories and plays we have just announced. Experts have been cmployed — men who know what the public wants. "Although no two of the series are similar, each will be found to contain the necessary elements of universal appeal, the story that has, with only the power of printed word, achieved fame for its author, should be and can be made, a powerful, irresistible boxoflirc attraction. "I am sure Vitagraph will have established the soundness of this reasoning with the production of these twelve specials." Associated Exhibitors Reports Wide Interest In Johnson's New Film Martin Johnson's latest feature thriller, "The Head Hunters of the South Seas," has gotten off to a fine start, say officials Associated Exhibitors has published the Martin Johnson feature, "The Head Hunters of the South Seas." of Associated Exhibitors, which organization is distributing the picture. Mr. Johnson's fame as a traveler, adventurer and explorer, the stories of his experience and discoveries in the South Seas, and the interest manifested in his previous adventure films have combined to cause a heavy booking demand for the present picture. Reviewers who have seen this offering have declared it the best he ever made. Martin Johnson deliberately sought out the most savage of cannibal tribes on their own ground, it is said. On their first visit to Malekula he and Mrs. Johnson were captured and held captive by these fierce head hunters. Two years after their escape they paid a return call, curious to see what the savages would do when they saw themselves upon the screen. The result was a series of revelations which are pictured in a five pait feature. Popular Players Cast in "Beautiful and Damned" A large cast of popular screen players are included in the second of tlie seven Warner Brothers productions. "The Beautiful and Dam m e d," featuring Marie Prcvost, and directed by William A. Seiter, from the novel of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Included in the cast headed by Miss Prevost are Kenneth Harlan, Louise Faz e n d a, T u 1 1 y Marshall. Harry Meyers, Cleo Ridgcly, Emmett King, Kathleen Key, Clarence Burton Parker McCoimcll Charles McHugh. Marie Prevost Walter Long, George Kuwa and Following the completion of the screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Beautiful and Damned," featuring Marie Prevost, S. L. and Jack Warner have begun preparations for "Little Church Around the Corner," an original story written by Olga Printzlau based on the stage play of the same name by Marion Russell which E. Mason Hopper will direct,