Exhibitors Herald (1927)

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36 STUDIO SECTION OF April 23, 1927 Director Niblo enjoying his Eyeino “EYEMO” A Third Hand for the Cameraman recommends the Bell & Howell Eyemo Automatic Hand Held Standard Motion Picture Camera. Seventeen Years continuous experience in selling motion picture cameras, we state with confidence that the Eyemo is the greatest advance in taking apparatus. Bell & Howell EYEMO Daylight loading. . . . Easy to handle, fitted with high-speed Cooke F:2.5 Anastigmat lens. . . . Interchangeable Telephoto lenses. . . . And priced, with carrying case, at only ^285.00. Double Speed Model ^305.00. Daylight Loading Super-speed Film, per roll ^6.00. WRITE FOR Full information — why you must have an Eyemo to make modern motion pictures. Orders shipped same day received. BIG FREE CATALOG Send for your copy. BASS CAMERA CO. 109 No. Dezufbom St. Chicago Moving May 1st to larger quarters at 179 West Madison Street, the Heart of Chicago. Visit us. Horace Miller New BUSINESS MANAGER JESS SMITH PRODUCTIONS FOR FIRST NATIONAL RELEASE FRED STANLEY Now Collaborating with ZELDA SEARS Writing “THE AZURE SHORE” to star Marie Prevost for Metropolitan AL HALL CHIEF FIIJVI EDITOR FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES WEST COAST STUDIOS WILLIAM NIGH. DIRECTOR “THE FIRE BRIGADE” “MR. WU” M. G. M. Sylvano Balboni brings to U. S. several novel ideas in direction and photography. 11 Films Directed by Brown Prove Box Office Successes; Is It Record? 1\ /f ANY say Clarence Brown, director, holds the record for box office successes. His last 11 consecutive pictures have been outstanding hits. Not only have they been unusual money makers, but critics throughout the country have acclaimed them artistic successes as well, which proves, again, that an artistic film is not doomed to failure at the box office. Brown has always held, and substantiates his belief, that art and cash, in pictures, will mix. The noted director’s last triumph was “Flesh and the Devil,” and he is now filming “The Trail of ’98” for Metro-GoldwynMayer. The 11 pictures are “The Great Redeemer,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Foolish Matrons,” “The Acquittal,” “The Signal Tower,” “Butterfly,” “Smouldering Fires,” “The Goose Woman,” “The Eagle,” “Kiki,” “Flesh and the Devil.” All of these have been outstanding box office successes. With two of them the stories were criticised, but the unanimous consensus of opinion of the reviewers was that Brown had accomplished superb direction. Studio Notes from the Coast {Continued from page 17) town run in Los Angeles, is shooting “Two Arabian Knights” at United Artists studios. This is a Caddo production directed by Lewis Milestone. ^ * David Abel having completed an automobile picture, “The First Auto,” for Warner Brothers is to shoot a railroad story “The Black Diamond Express” for the same company. Monte Blue is starred with Edna Murphy playing the feminine lead. ^ ^ Gertrude Short has been working days and nights at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in “His Brother From Brazil,” a Bob Leonard production. * * Dorothy Yost has a string of F. B. O. plays to her credit. Her latest is “Judgment of the Hills,” which Leo Meehan is directing with Virginia Valli playing the feminine lead.