The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Sep-Oct 1922)

62 THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. IN SCOTLAND. THE TRADE September: 9, 1922. (By our Glasgow Correspondent). The C.E.A. Visit—Mr. Guthrie's Enterprise —Attention, Please !—To Terpsichore—The Skirl of the Pipes.. OOD news reaches me regarding the convalescence of Mr. George Kay (the popular managing director of the Square Film Company), and soon our good friend will be on his feet again. Mr. Kay was ‘‘ caravanning "’ through the country when he was suddenly seized with illness, and his holiday-making tour was, in consequence, interrupted. All Eyes on Edinburgh. ; ‘Arrangements are now completed for the visit of the C.E.A. General Council to Edinburgh on Wednesday, September 13, and I now learn that it has been arranged to entertain the delegates to a complimentary dinner on that evening. This dinner, by the way, will take the place of the annual dinner of the Edinburgh sub-section, and all members of the Scottish branch are cordially invited to attend. A most interesting function is promised with plenty of sparkling oratory. The Caledonian Hotel will be the rendezvous for the annual dinner, and it may be taken for granted that the Scottish trade will be excellently represented. More later! Mr. Guthrie’s Enterprise. Mr. George Guthrie—the popular manager of The Picture House in Sauchiehall Street, Glaszow—tells me that he has arranged to have an information bureau in the foyer for the convenience of patrons and others, and this certainly strikes me as real enterprise. At the bureau one will be able to book rooms at hotels, ete., at the coast, and in the city; obtain information on general points; receive telephone messages; send off wires and, later perhaps, purchase stamps, ete. Taxis will also be arranged, and possibly seats booked at the various halls and theatres. Attention, Please! Notification has just reached me from my good friend—Mr. John A. Houston, secretary of the Scottish branch of the C.E.A. —of the first monthly meeting for. the new cession. I note from the agenda of business that among the topics under consideration will be the Entertainments Tax; the booking of super films; and a report of the last meeting of the C.E.A. General Council. This, therefore, promises to be quite an interesting and informative gathering, and Mr. Houston asks me to urge upon all members of the Scottish branch the importance of regularly attending the mectings. I willingly and gladly do so! To Terpsichore. I hear that Mr. St. Clair Stockwell (who controlled the managerial destinies of La Scala Picture House, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. fora goodly number of years) is now assuming a new appointment as manager of the Palais. De Danse in Berkeley Strect, Glasgow. Such a position should nicely suit a gentleman of Mr. Stockwell’s genial and cheery disposition, and I look forward to the Berkeley Street terpsichorean establishment going ahead under his vigorous direction. The Skirl of the Pipes. The season of Scottish gatherings has seen the kinematograph in more active operation this year than ever before. The presence of the King and Queen at the Braemar gathering, and the flower of the nobility in evidence at all the Highland carnivals, has given an added fillip of interest. to these gay occasions, so Digitized by Go gle picturesque in themselves, and so attractive when shown on the screen. To general interest, however, a special note of novelty is promised in the film taken by Messrs. R. G. Lawrie, Ltd., of Glasgow and London, by arrangement with Messrs. Gaumont. This film shows the great concourse of Highland pipers at theCowal gathering, Dunoon, the premier piping contest in Scot-* land. Already it has been applied for by Caledonian Societies -all over the world, Messrs. Lawrie being in direct touch with all these organisations. o The Civic Film. : More details of the film depicting the activitics of the Glasgow Corporation are to hand. For exhibition purposes, the film will be abridged; nevertheless it will extend to five reels, and something like 5,000 feet. Apart from picturing all our municipal works, hospitals, child welfare centres, and such like, the film will provide views of Loch Katrine and the Trossachs, which are now Glasgow property; and of the city’s parks on Ardgoil Estate and at Loch Lomondside. Filming in Glentilt. Scenes in ‘‘ The Romany,”’ written for the screen by Mr. Eliot Stannard, are now being filmed in Glentilt, amid scenery of the most picturesque character, with the Grampians rising sheer from the bed of the River Tilt to a height of 3,000 feet on either side. The Duke of Atholl has given the producers every facility for working on his estate, and in addition to the regular dramatic scenes of the play, a large number of pictures of the Duke's sheep and Highiand cattle have been taken, as well as picturesque Highland cottages and various landscape scenes. STRIKING FILM ADVERTISEMENT Claimed to be the largest space ever taken in this country to advertise a film. A wonderful display made by the Savoy Picture House, Grimsby, to advertise the Gaumont serial, ‘‘ The Three Musketeers.’’ This is only one of the big spaces taken by this theatre to advertise the picture. Huge spaces were taken in other parts of Grimsby, and 48-sheet positions were liberally used. Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY