Exhibitors Herald (1925)

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34 EXHIBITORS HERALD March 28, 1925 J ohnson Resigns F orum Theatre Post as General Manager Goring Succeeds Him as Changes in Oivnership Are Reported — Douglas MacLean to Become a Paramount Star By HARRY HAMMOND BEALL LOS ANGELES, March 17. — The resignation of Julius K. Johnson, .who has been general manager of the Forum theatre ever since its opening last May, was the big news event in picture circles here this week. Johnson, who is also one of America’s leading organists, is credited with being a big league showman. He came here from Minneapolis to open the Forum. John P. Goring, a former Paramount exploitation man, replaces him. It is understood the Producers Distributing Coporation has taken over the house. ^LAIRE WINDSOR has been chosen by ' — Reginald Barker for the feminine lead in “The White Desert,” the Courteney Ryley Cooper story he is making on the continental divide. * * * George O’Brien has been chosen to play the male lead in “The Seventh Heaven,” which Emmett Flynn will make for Fox. * * * Nicholas Schenk is on his way East after his first visit to the coast. Buster Keaton is his chaperon. * * * MacLean With Paramount Douglas MacLean has signed with Paramount, it is stated here. Sennett is to star Harry Langdon in five reelers to take Lloyd’s place on the Pathe program. ^ ^ ^ C. H. Christie, general manager of the Christie Film Corporation, who has just returned from New York, states that his company will expand their two-reel production program during the year in that six to eight producing units will make features at the Christie-Hollywood studios on Santa Monica boulevard in addition to the regular A1 Christie program in the original Hollywood studio. * Warners Buy Theatres Warner Brothers will enter the exhibition field, an arrangement having been made by which Harry and Sam Warner will assume charge of first-run theatres in key cities, while Jack Warner and Benny Ziedman will take care of production, it is announced. * * The Pantages theatre in Portland already is obtained and negotiations are pending for houses in San Francisco, Oakland and Seattle. Harry Warner is on the way East to complete negotiations in Minneapolis, Chicago and other large cities, it is stated. * * * Independent motion picture companies in the future will find it easier to obtain money, as bankers have come to take a more favorable view of the films as an investment field, according to Frank R. Wilson, president of the Motion Picture Capital Corporation, here for a series of conferences with Cecil B. DeMille and other independent producers. * * * Gloria Swanson, otherwise the Marquise de la Falaise, who is recovering from an operation in a villa near Paris, will return to Hollywood within a month to regain her health, according to a cablegram received by Milton M. Cohen, her attorney in Los Angeles. * * * PoLA Negri left Hollywood last Wednesday for New York to sail March 21 on the Leviathan for a six-weeks’ European tour. * * * Chadwick Pictures Corporation announces the appointment of William L. Sherrill, for mer president of the Frohman Amusement Corporation, to be vice-president and general manager in charge of the West Coast producing program of the organization. Dimitri Buchowetzki is engaged to direct one of the 1925-26 productions for L’niversal Pictures Corporation, according to an announcement by Carl Laemmle, president. * ^ Gayne Whitman, for the past four years leading man at the Morosco theater in Los Angeles, has signed with Warner Broithers. 4? ^ * Lawson Harris Productions have leased the old Louis B. Mayer studio for filming a series of five James Oliver Curwood stories. * * John Barrymore is signed to make a series of pictures for Warner Brothers between theatrical -engagements, playing tw^o or three pictures a year. He will begin on a story of the magnitude of “Beau Brummel” on May 15. * * * The Playhouse and Erlanger’s Mason theatre in Los Angeles have declared war on ticket scalpers by announcing that seats wall be sold only from the box offices. ^ ^ Cecil B. DeAIille has started w'ork on a solid row of new concrete buildings to replace frame construction at the Ince studios he recenth' took over in Culver City. * * * Herman Raym.\ker is signed to a long term contract by Warner Brothers to continue picture direction of Rin Tin Tin, dog star. ^ ^ ^ Lois Weber, head of the scenario department of Universal Pictures Corporation, in the future will have complete control of adaptations and continuities for “U” pictures, announces President Carl Laemmle. * * * Dorothy Cumming, Australian actress, has been signed to play in Bebe Daniels’ next Paramount picture, “The Manicure Girl.” * * * Harry O. Hoyt, who has been associated with First National pictures for the past two years, has been appointed director of production for Belasco Productions, A. H. Sebastian, general manager, announces. * * * Mabel Coleman and Sally Rand are the newest addition to the Cecil B. DeMille stock company. Ouimet Incorporates at $50,000 OTTAWA, ONT. — Notice of incorporation of a company under the laws of Canada by L. Ernest Ouimet of Montreal was given by the government in the official Canada Gazette. The new company is an incorporation of Mr. Ouimet himself under the title of L. F. Ouimet, Limited, and he has capitalized himself at $50,000. Death Calls The entire motion picture industry is saddened over the death of Lucille Ricksen, 1924 Wampas Baby Star, who died last Friday after a protracted illness. The player’s death followed that of her mother’s by three weeks. Miss Ricksen, a Chicago girl, received her early screen training at Essanay, where she played juvenile parts. Born on August 22, 1909, she was a leading woman at 12. The top picture of Miss Ricksen was taken at the time she played in the Tarkington stories produced by Goldwyn. Below is a scene from Metro-Goldwyn’s “The Denial,” one of the player’s latest pictures.