The Film Daily (1922)

:4fi brAdstreet fijC FILMDOM 2^^re(0cmizei Authority XXII No. 52 Wednesday, November 22, 1922 Price 5 Cents \ Thru Hodkinson ilin Hunter Star of Film Guild, Jries Called For in New Distribution Contract T Film Guild features starring Hunter will be distributed. _h the W. W. Hodkinson Corp., .: the coming season by the of a contract just announced by Waller Jr.. production manager r Film Guild. series includes "Second Fiddle" rank Tuttle with Mary Astor K opposite Hunter; "The Lap \ury" by Townsend Martin and Tuttle, with Martha Mansfield ring opposite the star; Percey .aye's witchcraft romance of P itan Salem "The Scarecrow" from th scenario by Jas. Ashmore Creel roi and Frank Tuttle, with Glenn Hiiter in the leading role and one ' production to be filmed from a now under consideration. liC first two productions have aire Jy been completed. Distribution D "Second Fiddle" is due to start a'ait Jan. 1. "The Scarecrow" scena-j is now being written. All will be d.cted by Frank Tuttle with technal supervision of the camera work b Waller. ilecause of the likelihood of Glenn Imter remaining for some time in "erton of the Movies," now playi , on Broadway, the third and fourth I lures will probably be filmed in the Ist. Von Stroheim With Goldwyn / (Special to THE FILM DAILY) Hollywood — Eric von Stroheim has been signed by Goldwyn Pictures. Doug and Mary ibitsch Sails Soon to Direct Mary — Doug Discards "M'sieur Beaucaire" Productions plans of the next fea res to be made by Mary Pickford d Douglas Fairbanks are rapidly suming definite shape. A cable was received yesterday by plph Kohn. assistant secretary of Iftnious Players, from Ernest Lubit|h saying that he would sail for jjmerica about the end of month. iLubitsch is under contract to the Lamilton Theatrical Corp., of which phn is vice-president. As before bted he will be loaned to Miss Pick)rd to direct one picture "Dorothy ernon of Haddon Hall." Lubitsch will arrive about Dec. 10, nd after spending a week in New ork will go to the Coast. Douglas Fairbanks has decided not 3 film "M'sieur Beaucaire" as his ext production. John Fairbanks aid yesterday that his brother would robably do a pirate story next. It > understood that Fairbanks does lOt want to follow "Robin Hood" I'ith another romantic costume Irama. Fairbanks and Miss Pickford will eave for the Coast very soon. ^'Sfnce von Stroheim left Universal there has been much conjecture as to his future plans. Several important producing companies were at various times reported interested in securing his services. 1st National Committee to Coast Members of the First National Executive Committee leave today for Hollywood. Some of the members are going from New York while others will go direct from their homes. Harry O. Schwalbe, ext .utive secretary, leaves on the Twentieth Century. A. H. Von Herberg will also leave today but may go to his home in Seattle before joining the others. Warner Bros. Engage Three Production plans of Warner Bros., made public by Harry M. Warner, include three contracts just signed. One is with Harry Rapf by which Rapf will produce several features annually for Warner Bros, for a number of years. Wm. Beaudine has been signed to direct three features a year. Monte Blue has been signed for several years. Motion Pictures to Invade and Open China — Tremendous Interests With Huge Capital Interested in Development of Educational anc' Amusement Field — Frank V. Chamberlain, Formerly With I '.mous, General Manager — To Start Development of 1,800 Houses Immediately After First of Year Backed with huge financial stipport, encouraged by leading members of the Chinese Government, and receiving the support of the largest companies in the industry, an organization has been completed to modernize the immense Chinese Empire throttgh motion picttir^s. The name of the corporation will probably be disclosed within the next few days. It will have capitalization of five or six million. While those prominent in the concern will probably not be named it can be said that one of. if not the leading spirit in the corporation will be James A. Thomas, for many years an important exectitive in China for the British-American Tobacco Co. Isaac E. Marcosson in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post included Thomas as one of the men who were leading the way for the improvement of China. Thomas has been in China almost 25 years. Laurence Reid in the Motion Picture News says "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" should "prove a winner in downtown houses." Correct, Mr. Reid and well will the exhibitors in downtown and all other theaters know it when they book it through the Al Lichtman Corp. — Advt. The .only film man identified with the organization, and known to the trade, is Frank V. Chamberlain, for over five years identified with Famous Players in various capacities, and who only lately resigned from that organization. At that time Chamberlain was in charge of the physical handling of the exchange system, occupying a very important post. Chamberlain will be general manager of the big organization which, it is said, will open about 1,800 stations equipped with projection machines. These stations can hardly be called theaters, according to the sense of the word as used here. But they will be comfortable, sanitary and fitted for the special purpose of educating and amusing the 430,000,000 natives of China, none of whom, barring about 8 per cent or 10 per cent at most, have evpi seen a motion picture. The only picture theaters in China today are in what is known as the "treaty ports." There are less than 80 of such houses, according to reliable information. It is understood that executives of the largest organizations in the industry have promised all the support necessary to those interested in the big idea. Special selection of material will be necessary, not because of censorship, but in an effort to develop the Chinese properly both as to amusement as well as education. (Continued on Page 2)