Exhibitors Herald (1927)

April 23, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 53 AN ABSENT MIND FORGETS IN ‘FORGOTTEN SWEETIES” T~\ON’T be surprised if old T. O. Service opens up his serviceable old page some morning with a salute to the flag and a song and dance dedicated to a new comedy called “Forgotten Sweeties.” Hal Roach made it ; Charley Chase acted in it ; Jim Parrott (and did you know he’s Charley’s brother?) directed it; and H. M. Walker dashed off the subtitles. It’s a Pathe comedy about an absentminded Charley whose oldtime sweetheart lives across the hall with her husband. The absent mind gets Charley into the wrong apartrhent and then it gathers itself together with much explanation and that stuff called stage business. Len Powers is the gentleman who recorded the scenes on the Eastman. CAST : Charles Chase, Anita Garvin, Shirley Palmer, Mitchell Lewis. HIGHLIGHTS: The moving sequence. . . . Finding Charley in the wrong apartment. “SEE YOU IN JAIL” HAS A CAST OF GOOD COMEDIANS OU boys who have been begging producers to put Jack Mulhall into roles where he could show his bigtime stuff have an opportunity to see him in that kind of role when “See You in Jail” goes on the release charts. He’s in the chief role and Alice Day plays opposite him. From odds and ends of information it appears that the story is all about Jack, and Jack’s the whole show, with several sideshows thrown in. Fifteen days in jail proves a profitable sentence and not so long as expected. (Brief sentences are the most humorous, grammarians say.) The inventor, William Orlamond, gets things going when he sells his device to Jack and then a company is formed to handle the apparatus. It’s a First National film directed by Joseph Henabery. CAST: JACK MULHALL, Alice Day, Mack Swain, George Fawcett, Crauford Kent, John Kolb, William Orlamond, Leo White, Carl Stockdale, Burr McIntosh, Charles Clary. HIGHLIGHTS: Purchase of invention. Rescue of the hero from embezzlement charges. . . . Comedy situations. “CONVOY” WAS IN “SERVICE” BUT HERE’S THE REST OF IT V7 OU’VE already see reports of “Convoy” in the Service department so all that’s necessary in this department is fastidious facts void of “viewpoint.” Joe Boyle, for a long time an assistant director, has been protnoted to the megaphone for this vehicle by the boss, Robert Kane. The story it is based on is “The Song of the Dragon,” written by the well known author, John Taintor Foote. CAST: Dorothy Mackaill, Lowell Sherman, Lawrence Gray, William Collier, Jr., Ian Keith, Gail Kane, Vincent Serrano, Donald Reed, Eddie Gribbon, Jack Ackroyd and lone Holmes. HIGHLIGHTS: Discovery of Sylvia in spy's apartment. , . . Arrest of spy. . . . Sailing of U. S. Convoy. . . . Battle of North Sea (from official government prints). . . . At brother's bier. gentleman at the camera is Harry Mason. CAST: TOM TYLER, Elsie Tarron, Harry O’Connor, Dick Howard, Frankie Darro, Harry Woods. HIGHLIGHTS: Escape from the gallows. . . , Otudoor scenes and riding. MODERN CAMILLE IS CATALINA RACE IS BASIS A 1927 WOMAN OF SENNETT TWO REELER “^AMILLE!” You know the story. K-' Everyone knows it. Remember the lady of the Camillias who dies at the climax of one of the world’s most famous love stories? Nazimova is one of the actresses who have enacted the role in time past. Now Norma Talmadge has taken the role and is said to have modernized it with bobbed hair, short skirts and 1927 language and laws. Fred Niblo directed it from the scenario by Fred De Gresac. CAST: NORMA TALMADGE, Gilbert Roland, Lilyan Tashman, Rose Dione, Harvey Clark, Helen Jerome Eddy, Alec B. Francis, Albert Conti, Michael Visaroff, Evelyn Selbie, Etta Lee. HIGHLIGHTS: Camille’s death. . . . Tal madge's appearance. . • . Parties given by Camille. TYLER HAS FAST HORSE IN “CYCLONE OF THE RANGE” PILM BOOKING OFFICES believes it can make a star of Tom Tyler with box office pull like that of Fred Thomson. Fred is leaving F. B. O. and that leaves a good berth for Tom. They say that he has a fast horse and a fast story in “Cyclone of the Range” ; there’s a desert, a mystery, a moral and a maid. A wandering cowboy is captured and thrown into jail and threatened with the gallows. But that’s no way to end a picture or a hero and the cowboy wins his freedom and marries the lass. Robert De Lacy is the director and the WEEK OF APRIL 10 “Broadway Drifter”^— Excellent— 5760. “Long Pants'*^— First National— 5550. “The Night Bride’’ — P. D, C. — 5736. “Held by the Law”— Jewels-^— Universal^— 6929. “The Rambling Ranger”— -Blue Streak— Universal— 4439. “White Gold” — P. D. C.— 6198. “The Princess From Hoboken^— Tiffany^^6419. WEEK OF APRIL 17 “Camille”— First National— 8700. WEEK OF APRIL 24 “Cyclone of the Range”^— F. B. O.^— five. “Three Hours”— First National^5774. “Taxi! Taxi Universal— 7173. “Rookies”^— M-G-M— 6640. “Hard Fists”— Blue Streak^—Universal— -~1387. “Bitter Apples”— Warner— 5463. “The Brute”— Warner— 6901. WEEK OF MAY 1 “Mother”— F. B. O. — 6934. “All Aboard”— First National— 6300. “Tlie Love Thrill”^— Jewels^— Universal 6038. “The Broncho Buster”^— Blue Streak-^— Universal 4687. “Eyes of the Totem”H. C. Weaver— Pathe— 7 reels. “Don Desperado”Leo Maloneysix reels. 'T'HAT Catalina Island Channel swim made good production stuff for Mack Sennett for what did he do but make a camera shot of the race and make it the basis of a two reel comedy, “Catalina, Here I Come.” Eddie Quillan and Madeline Hurlock are the boy and girl in the story. She is “Aye number one” among the flock of Sennett bathing beauties who are in the race. The comedy depends on Quillan, Billy Williams photographed the picture and Earle Rodney directed. CAST : Madeline Hurlock, Eddie Quillan, Andy Clyde, Alma Bennett. HIGHLIGHTS: Shots of the real swim. . , , Eddie’s adventures with a swordfish. A POLITICAL SCHEME IN “CATCH AS CATCH CAN” QAM SAX has produced a .story about a nefarious political scheme, aimed to wreck the reputations of a lot of nice folks and aimed to replace them with crooks and moustached villains. “Catch as Catch Can” is a William Fairbanks picture directed by Charles Hutchinson, under supervision of Bischoff. The story gets away from the old-fashioned political stuff by a baseball yarn interwoven. CAST: WILLIAM FAIRBANKS, Jack Blossom, Rose Blossom, Larry Shannon, Walter Shumway, George Kotsonaros, George Chapman. HIGHLIGHTS: Wild chase in which Hastings is killed. . . . Discovery of baseball plot. NO TREASURE ISLANDS IN “THE LITTLE ADVENTURESS” '^HERE’S adventure in “The Little Adventuress” but It’s not the Treasure Island kind. After Leonard Stoddard leaves his Victoria in tears he elopes with a pretty little painter. Victoria dries her tears and elopes with Antonio, an actor. When the four unexpectedly find themselves lodged in the same country home that night the “adventure” has begun. The director is William De Mille, brother of Cecil. He has made the picture from the adaptation by Clara Beranger. Charles Boyle is the cameraman. CAST: VERA REYNOLDS, Victor Varconi, Phyllis Haver, Theodore KoslofI, Fred Walton, Robert Ober. HIGHLIGHTS: Scene of automobile trouble on the country road. . . . Robert Ober’s scene following chilly slumber in the cabin.