Exhibitors Herald (1925)

136 TENTH ANNIVERSARY Jones finds business bad in Saginaw it doesn’t follow that business is bad throughout Michigan. John may be a bad business man. Because Lafe Hoot is out of a job in Nashville it doesn’t follow that there is much unemployment in Tennessee. Lafe never did hold a job more than a month. Conditions generally are very good and people with money in their pockets are always willing to spend some of it for amusement. That, I believe accounts to a pronounced degree for the universal popularity of short subject comedies. “Stories by famous authors were not bought for two-reel comedies before. Mr. Fox has dignified the short comedies by seeking works of famed authors, has engaged great directors to produce them and is giving to their production the costly surroundings and artistic finish that was formerly devoted only to big features. We call it ‘Our Two Million Dollar Program.’ “Consider then the universal wish of the public to be wholesomely entertained and we have one powerful reason for the increasing demand. Add to that a pronounced step forward in selection and presentation and all of the reasons are in.” Fuchs , Versatile Artist, Works Before Camera for Fox Varieties Among the unusual pictures offered on the coming program of Fox Varieties will be “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel,” made in the New York studio of Emil Fuchs, internationally famous artist. This picture is based on a series of articles that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post under the same name and were afterward pub lished in book form. It offers an intimate view of one of the outstanding personalities in the world of art. Fuchs is unique among artists for his wonderful versatility. He is a painter, sculptor, etcher, musician and writer. Besides that, he is an athlete, fencing daily on the roof of his studio. In 1919 he was junior champion of the United States in this difficult sport. In “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel” Fuchs is shown working as a painter, then as a sculptor and finally as an etcher, creating a work called “A Modern Juno,” all designed from the same model, and showing the different forms in which a similar subject may be treated under the various art mediums in which it is created. Further, we see Fuchs fencing, at the piano and at his desk. Gathered about him also are the students to whom he gives criticism. He has painted and sketched the great ones of the earth. Through his sketch book and the paintings hung on the studio walls many of these, including King Edward VII, the Queen Mother Alexandra, King George V and Queen Mary are brought to the screen. Work on the rest of the Fox Varieties program is progressing rapidly. Several, pictures have been received from the field camera staff and are being edited with a view to keeping the program well diversified. From the foreign field, a picture of unusual beauty has been received based on life along the Nile. It is a study of the “fellaheen,” the old Egyptian laborer, who is performing his tasks today, in many instances, with the same crude implements and in the same laborious manner that he did when the Pharaohs looked down over the Valley of the Kings and built the pyramids. Another picture now in progress of editing is gathered at various points on the “A Good Program Must Have Novelties” RED SEAL PICTURES CORPORATION EDWIN MILES FADMAN President 1600 Broadway New York City The 1925-1926 Red Seal Novelty Featurettes 13 “Out-of-the-Inkwell” Fun Novelties. 13 Marvels of Motion (Fleischer Novagraph Process) 13 Gems of the Screen 13 Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes 13 Film Facts (Medley hodge-podge reels) 26 Animated Hair Cartoons by Marcus, N. Y. Times cartoonist, (300-foot length ) “Thru Three Reigns” (2 reel novelty specialty) “Flirting With Death ” (two-reel Ice-thrill novelty) “The House of Featurettes ” Has Them! June 27, 1925 Island of Cuba. It has been planned to reach places to which the tourist seldom penerates and shows scenes that are new and novel. From Australia interesting negative has been received and is being prepared for the screen. It brings out many of the interesting things to be seen on a visit to the antipodes. New camera expeditions have been organized and will leave within the next few days for protracted stays in distant lands. The plans for these trips are sure to result in pictures unlike anything ever made. Stern Announces Four Comedies; Wiley, Marian Gordon and Darling Julius Stern, president of the Century ^ilm Corporation, announces that the June release schedule of Century Comedies, distributed through Universal exchanges, is one of the strongest groups of Centuries over put out. The group consists of four fwo-reelers made by such popular stars as Wanda Wiley, Edna Marian, Eddie Gordon and Constance Darling. Opportunely, the first June release is a “Bride and Groom” picture. It is “Speak Freely” and stars Edna Marian. It was directed by William Watson, with A1 Alt and Hilliard Karr in the chief supporting roles. It recounts the hilarious adventures of a young bride and groom whose parents visit them just after there has been the first marital spat. Edna Marian, the maid, has to double as the bride while Papa and Mamma are present. Her sweetie, Hilliard Karr as a fat 'reman, gets into the mix-up and there is a complexity of humorous situations. The next June release is “Kicked About,” starring Eddie Gordon. Larry Richardson has the chief supporting role, and the comedy was directed by Noel Smith. The tworeeler gives Eddie ample opportunity to do many of his funny acrobatic stunts and shows him as an amateur detective in one mix-up after another. “Gridiron Gertie,” the Century release for June 17, is a Wanda Wiley comedy. It shows Wanda as a football substitute. Edward I. Luddy directed it and used in the cast such popular comedy players as Joe Bonner and Les Bates. Wanda gets mixed up in a football game as a substitute for her sweetheart, who is ill. She is pretty well roughed up but manages to win the game by her wits and tricky playing. This picture gives Miss Wiley an exceptional opportunity for stunt comedy work. She makes the most of it. The last June release for Century also is a “June bride” comedy. It is entitled “Married Neighbors,” and was directed by Charles Lamont. Constance Darling is the featured player, with Billy Engle and Hilliard Karr as the chief support. It is a humorous take-off on the troubles of a young married couple, just before and after the ceremony. Tom Reed Completes Film Satire for $ 350 “The Wail of the Banshee,” one of the most unusual two-reelers ever produced, was shown to newspaper men at the Universal projection rooms in New York last week. The film, written, directed and produced for $350, is dedicated by its author, Tom Reed, Western director of publicity for Universal, to all the “Vons” in the industry, including Stroheim, Sternberg, Lubitsch and Tirpitz. It is a satire on realism in the films.