Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

60 EXHIBITORS HERALD Perrin. “The Santa Fe Trail,” it will be remembered, was one of his former successes among other serial numbers in which he was engaged. The subjects he will be featured in soon will be known as “Rayart’s Whirlwind Westerns.” Six pictures in the first group will be released at intervals of one month, beginning March 1. The first of the series will be, named “The Knockout Kid.” They will be made by Harry Webb at Universal City, Cal. Principal Pictures THE CARR FAMILY is a busy one. Mary Carr is busy enacting the role of Druscilla in the story, “Druscilla With a Million.” The story is being produced by Ludwig Erb for Associated Exhibitors and will be released through F. O. B. . . . . Stephen Carr is making rapid strides since the arrival of the Carr family in the moving picture mecca. . . . Luella Carr is playing a role with one of the independent producers on the F. B. O. lot, and little May Beth, whose work in “Madonna of the Streets” won her so much praise, is about to start another picture. Producers’ Distributing Corp. WHEN THE NEXT A1 Christie feature length comedy, “Stop Flirting:,” goes into production next week it will have an exceptional cast of farceurs in the leading roles. Opposite John T. Murray will be Wanda Hawley. Hallam Cooley has been signed for a role in the cast as has George Stewart, who was in Christie pictures two years ago. The picture will follow “Charlie’s Aunt” in the release schedule. . . . “Beauty and the Bad Man,” by Peter B. Kyne, the first of the new series of Frank Woods through the Producers’ Distributing Corporation, went into production this week. XXX THE HEAVY ROLE in “Friendly Enemies,” the play in which Weber and Fields will appear soon, will be filled by Stuart Holmes, it was announced last week. Other additions to the cast of this production have been: Jack Wise, of the musical comedies; Jules Hanft and Fred A. Kelsey. . . . The continuity for “The Awful Truth” will be arranged by Percy Heath, scenario writer. It is remembered as the vehicle of the speaking stage that Ina Claire scored in with success. XXX CHICAGO will have the world premier presentation of “Charlie’s Aunt,” according to a dispatch received last night from Paul C. Mooney. It will be seen at the Orpheum theatre. . . . Together with the appropriate corkscrew curls, old black bonnet and other accessories to the laughable figure came a miniature of the phoney aunt of Syd. Chaplin’s recent production to him last week from Lorrie Hayes, an English girl, who had troubled herself with designing the little figure in papier mache. Pareunoimt THOMAS MEIGHAN has finished work in “Cornin’ Through,” and when he has seen the picture through the final stages of cutting, titling and editing he will leave for Florida, where he will join George Ade for two weeks of rest. His next picture will be “Old Home Week,” an original story by Ade. While his last picture was photographed in the Long Island studios, his next will be set in large part in Florida. . . . William De Mille is directing “Men and Women,” with Richard Dix, Claire Adams and Neil Hamilton heading an imposing cast. XXX BROADWAY has contributed during the past week to the screen no less A1 St. John in scenes from “Lovemania,” an Educational-Tuxedo comedy distributed by the Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. than a score of players ; these were engaged in a number of pictures now in the process of filming at the Paramount Long Island studios. . . . Ann Pennington, Kitty Kelley, Herbert Marx, Eden Gray and Dorothy Knapp figure prominently in a house party in “A Kiss in the Dark,” which is a screen adaptation of “Aren’t We All?” The leading roles are played by Adolphe Menjou, Lillian Rich and Aileen Pringle, under the direction of Frank Tuttle. XXX BEBE DANIELS in her next production will be aided by Alice Chapin in “The Crowded Hour,” now being made in the Long Island Studio. . . . Victor Heerman, who directed “The Confidence Man,” has been signed up to direct Meighan’s next picture. Heerman arrived in New York Wednesday from the Coast with Thomas Geraghty, who has been working on the script. Century THE CURRENT CENTURY Comedy release through all Universal exchanges is the two reeler, “The Aggravatin’ Kid,” with Hilliard Karr and Buddy Messinger in the leading roles. It was directed by Edward I. Luddy, who has made several of the Wanda Wiley successes. . . . Century has undertaken a new plan of distributing and producing its work so that it is specializing in groups of high class comedies made by the various stars. Each star is the nucleus about which a series of specials is built and catalogued. It is said that these stars are known values; there is no buying in the dark. XXX FOUR COMEDY companies are now at work making pictures under the new plan to star individual Century players. Wanda Wiley is rapidly progressing in “Her Lucky Leap.” Her first picture, to be begun as soon as she is finished with the first one, is “Met By Accident.” William Watson is putting the finishing touches on the Edna Marian comedy, “Plain Luck.” Charles Lamont is just beginning work on a new Alt comedy February 7, 1925 with Hilliard Karr, Century’s fat comedian. It is called “A Leadpipe Cince,” and will be a take-off on a plumber’s life. F. B. O. HEAVY WEATHER has been reported to have delayed the shooting of “Lawless Blood,” on the Pacific, where the Evelyn Brent company has been located. . . . F. B. O. has listed three important features and five short subjects for February. “Speed Wild,” with “Lefty” Flynn, “The Cloud Rider,” with A1 Wilson, stunt aviator, and “Pirate Peggy O’Day,” with Evelyn Brent, complete the series. . . . The last two chapters of “The Go-Getters” will be shown in February; No. 11, “Ain’t Love Grand?” is set for the first of the month, and No. 12, “The Way of a Maid,” for February 15. Alberta Vaughn and George O’Hara star in this last chapter of the series. XXX THE EASIEST ONE to direct is the way John Ince expressed his approval of Jacqueline Logan, playing the lead in “Mock Marriages.” . . Wesley Ruggles, who has just completed the filming of the first episode in F. B. O.’s new series, “The Pace Makers,” invades the gridiron in the second episode where the essential part is taken from a football game. XXX FROM WESTERN TO PARLOR scenes is the measure of change that will soon be effected when Harry Garson puts Lefty Flynn into a series of new specials. . . . With many noted stars, directors and producers attending, “Broken Laws,” Mrs. Wallace Reid’s production, was given its West Coast premiere at the Rialto theatre, Los Angeles, last week. . . . C. Gardner Sullivan, now producing in his own right, has recently moved over to the F. B. O. plant at Gowers street. Fox NINE DRAMATIC productions, one educational short subject, three comedies and the usual two-a-week issues of Fox News reel, will be released by Fox Film Corporation during the coming month. The giant special to be released is “Hunting Wild Animals in Hollywood,” a thrilling burlesque novelty from an original story by Edward Moran. Other productions are “She Wolves,” a Paris story; “Tainted Souls,” “Everyman’s Wife,” from a story by E. C. Hill, and “Riders of the Purple Sage,” with Tom Mix in the lead of the story written by Zane Grey. XXX SHIRLEY MASON, Buck Jones and Edmund Lowe, each contribute a picture to the Eebruary series. “The Stardust Trail.” the Mason production, “The Trail Rider,” the Jones production, and “Once in a Lifetime,” the Lowe production, comprise that list. . . . Comedy work includes a Richard Harding Davis “Van Bibber” story, “A Spanish Romeo,” and an Imperial “Blue Blood.” . . . “The Violin Speaks” is the title of the Educational short subject to be released by Fox, while the William Farnum reissue is “Drag Harlan.” XXX A CONTRACT RESULTS from the work that Madge Bellamy did in “The Iron Horse” and “The Dancers.” The signing of this star nearly completes a well defined plan, it is said, in an effort of Fox to obtain several outstanding beautiful feminine leads. It is pointed out that others obtained were Alma Rubens and Betty Blythe. . . . Tom Delmar and Fred De Silva have been added to the cast of “The Rainbow Trail,” the picturization of Zane Grey’s story. It is a sequel to “Riders of the Purple Sage.”