Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1922 - Mar 1923)

60 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 3, 1923 ::::77ie FILM MART : : : : Production Progress featuring Glenn Hunter supported by Martha Mansfield, will be issued. + + + SAENGER AMUSEMENT company, it is announced, has contracted for the AM Star comedies produced by C. C. Burr and featuring Charles Murray, Raymond McKee and Mary Anderson, for their entire circuit of houses. Universal CAPITAL SERIES is the name of the new block of pictures which Universal will offer the exhibitors beginning on February 26. Success of the Laemm'e Nine, the company announces, encouraged it to offer this new series. Here's the lineup for the new group : "The Prisoner," George Barr McCutcheon story starring Herbert Rawlinson, published on February 26 ; "The Bolted Door," George Gibbs' story featuring Frank Mayo, March 5; "Gossip," a Gladys Walton picture based on an Edith B. Delano story. March 12; "The Midnight Guest," produced by George Archainbaud with Grace Darmond in the leading role; "Single Handed," starring Edward (Hoot) Gibsen, March 26; "His Good Name," a William Slavins McNutt story, April 2, Herbert Rawlinson "Nobody's Bride," another Rawlinson picture, April 9; "Trimmed in Scarlet," all star picture, April 16, and another Hoot Gibson attraction for April 23. + + + UNIVERSAL for the first time in six years has gone onto the open market for a picture. It has purchased Charles Brabin's attraction, "Driven," for publication as a Jewel. Universal says that the picture is being hailed as one of the strongest of the season. Burr Mcintosh, Charles Emmett Mack, Elinor Fair, George Bancroft and Emily Fitzroy are in the cast. ♦ + + "THE FLIRT," Hobart Henley's Jewel production, has had a successful run at the Randolph theatre, Chicago. Newspapers in Chicago said of it: "'The Flirt' is intensely real. It throbs with humanity."— Chicago Evening American. "It is without doubt one of the best offerings ever put out." — Chicago Tribune. Others were equally as praiseworthy. f B C • • • V» !/• V* • • • A "SHOPGIRL" is to be given an opportunity to play in C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation's next picture, "Temptation." The process of selection is this: Exchanges handling the company's "Only a Shopgirl," working in conjunction with theatres playing the feature, will select the "shopgirl" — she must be a "shopgirl," C. B. C. announces — considered the best screen material. In turn a committee comprised of Estelle Taylor, Mae Busch. ; Distribution News Joe Brandt, Harry Cohn, Director Edward I.eSaint and others will select from the entire group the one considered best fitted for a role in "Temptation." i Paramount INCREASING PRODUCTION at the Eastern plant of Paramount is under way, while on the West Coast things are less active fol lowing completion of five productions and the launching of new ones. This lull is a forerunner of capacity production shortly. In the East George Melford is making "You Can't Fool Your Wife," Waldermar Young's story, and Allan Dwan "Glimpses of the Moon," by Edith Wharton. "The Exciters," to and "Fog Bound," Dalton John C. Flfan CAN YOU IMAGINE the roars of laughter this will bring? It is a scene from "The Champeen," second of the series of Our Gang comedies produced for Pathe by Hal Roach. It will be published on January 28. In preparation are star Bebe Daniels, featuring Dorothy 'Dark Secrets" with Dorothy Dalton and "The Leopardess" with Alice Brady are now being edited. On the West Coast only four companies are working: William de Mille is making "Grumpy," Mary Miles Minter is featuring in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,' Gloria Swanson is starring in "Prodiga Daughters" and Dorothy Dalton in "Tht Law of the Lawless." Within the nex few days "The Rustle of Silk" wit! Betty Compson; "Contraband" witt Agnes Ayres; "The Cheat" with Pol; Negri and other pictures wil! be started Thomas Meighan and Company are it Panama making "The Ne'er-DoWell.' while Alice Brady and Director Henr; Kolker are in Canada making "The Snov Bride." + + + BIG THINGS ARE promised by Para mount in "The Covered Wagon," bein; completed by James Cruze. John C Flinn has left for Los Angeles, where h will confer with Jesse L. Lasky on ex ploitation features of the production, an expects to bring a print back to Ne> York with him by February. No publ cation date has been set for this Emerso Hough's epic of the great west a'.thougl through arrangement with A. Appleto & Co., publishers, an extensive boo dealers tieup is being launched. Th production will probably be shown ; advanced prices in New York, Chicag and Los Angeles before being publishe : : Associated Pictures : BOOKLET OF REVIEWS is beir issued by S L Pictures as an aid exhibitors in promoting the SL-Meti special, "Quincy Adams Sawyer." Tl brochure contains full page reproduced of reviews from the trade journals ar clippings from newspapers in New Yoi and San Francisco. There also will a reproduction of the prologue used I