The Film Daily (1921)

Friday, January 21, 1921 tMA DAILY Busy Time for Lasky Plant (Special to WID'S DAILY) Los Angeles— The Lasky studio expects to have a busy time of it the early part of the year. Elsie Ferguson is making "Sacred and Profane Love"; Cecil DeMille is finishing work on an elaborate caba ret scene for "Five Kisses" ("The Affairs of Anatol") ; William DeMille starts work shortly on an original story; George Melford will star! isoon on "The Money Master"; Ros'coe Arbuckle is scheduled to start on "Three Miles Out" and Wallace Reid is to make another automobile story !by Byron Morgan. In February Gloria Swanson will probably commence "The Great Moment," Elinor Glyn's original story, and Ethel Clayton "Sham." Tom Meighan will make another picture here besides finishing "The Quarry." Plan Better Express Service Shippers in every industry using express service will be asked to coDperate in the "Right Way Plan," a ,iew educational movement about to oe inaugurated in the express busi less by the American Railway Express Co. **' ; Special emphasis is to be laid on ivhat is called "starting express shipments right," in which shippers will ,pe asked to give special attention to ipomplete and accurate addressing of Ihipments and to the packing rules laid down in the Express Classification, authorized by the Interstate Tommerce Commission. Incorporations Albany — Jericho Films, Inc., Rochester, N. Y., $10,000 by Owen J. Kane, George A. Sarles and Clinton A. Devoe. Albany, N. Y. — Empire Film Laboratories, $30,000, by J. P. H. DeWindt, Jr., G. A. Kranske, L. L. Alterman. Albany, N. Y. — Dominant Pictures, $25,000. "C. C. Burr, W. T. Lackey, W. S. Tatjins. Albany, N. Y. — G. M. Laboratories. $25,000, by C. I. Funkenstein, A. O'Grady and B. J. Longstreet. Albany. N. Y.— Fortuna Films, $50,000, A. A. Deutsch, Henry Margoshes and Nancy Katz. New York — Topics of the Day, $10,000, A. J. Van Beuren, A. E. Siegal and C. J. Heermance. Los Angeles. Cal. — Atlantic Photoplay Corp., $75,000, by G. E. Isham. Annette M. Isham and Ralph Ulmer. Los Angeles — Truant Photbplay, Inc., capital, $40,000, has been formed by Jos. Wienblatt and Lew Iseman. Reelcraft will distribute the series of Alexander Alt and Helen Howell comedies. The first release will be on Feb. 12. Cuts and Flashes Thomas Meighan is nearing the completion of "The City of Silent vlen," an adaptation of "The Quarry." Star Ranch Westerns have been purchased for Northern Illinois and Indiana by the Unity Photoplays, Chicagao. Goldwyn has appointed Mrs. Maron Frances Lee as assistant to Ralph Block, editor of the scenario and research department. "Heidi," the Prizma two-reeler, has been secured by the C. B. C. Film Sales Corp., New York, for the state rights market. Final scenes for Betty Compson's third production for Goldwyn have been filmed. The editing and titling will be completed in about two weeks. Arthur Rosson directed. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., publishers of the Irving Bacheller novels, has arranged with Dial Film for a special picture edition of "The Light in the Clearing." One hundred thousand copies will be placed on the market with the picture simultaneously. Sapulpa, Okla. — The Yale Theater Co. will start work at an early date on an 1,800 seat house. Myrabel a State Righter The Myrabel Film Corp. has opened offices at 130 W. 46th St., Suite 903, where it will handle features for Greater New York and New Jersey, and also state rights. Fred Meyers is president; Leo Lebel is secretary, and F. J. M. Iredell, treasurer. Elect Advisory Committee (Special to WID'S DAILY) Minneapolis — The election of an exhibitor's advisory committee was one of the outstanding features of the meeting of Associated First National sub-franchise holders of Minnesota, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota here. Interstate Buys for Illinois (Special to WID'S DAILY) Chicago — Lee Herz of the Interstate Film Service has secured for distribution in Illinois 15 two reelers starring Mary Pickford. Four longer features have also been acquired. Granted Judgment in Brooklyn The Advance Tbeaters Enterprises operating the Echo theater at 368 Bushwick Ave. have been fined by General Sessions in Brooklyn $250 for attempting to mislead the public into believing that "Homespun Folks" was Griffith's "Way Down East." Take March, for Instance WE'VE told you that we've got an unapproachable list of big pictures for the next six months. Not pictures that we plan to make, but productions already in work or finished. The first of these six months is March. Take time to go over this list, keeping in mind, as you read, your own box-office, and see if it you don't honestly agree that every one of the pictures is a really big one — big in every sense of the word. A Hugh Ford British Production, "THE CALL OF YOUTH" We sent an American director to England to make this production of the play by Henry Arthur Jones, one of the three or four biggest dramatists in the world. And lie hunted out the most beautiful spots and the best actors in England. The result is worth the trouble. Thomas Meighan in "THE EASY ROAD," with Lila Lee You know what kind of star Meighan is — especially in heart interest roles like "The Prince Chap." He's never had a weak picture yet. He's a he-man star that men admire and women love. Tom Forman directed this, from Blair Hall's splendid story. Cosmopolitan Production, "STRAIGHT IS THE WAY" Matt Moore and a sterling cast will win all hearts in this romance of crooks, old homesteads and ouija boards. An original comedy drama from the studio which produced "Heliotrope" and "Humoresque." The story is by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, adapted by Frances Marion, and directed by Robert G. Vignola. William S. Hart in "O'MALLEY OF THE MOUNTED" Wm. S. Hart Production Laid in the great Northwest, and photographed in the original settings, this story of a member of the Mounted who disguised as a bandit to get his man is as full of thrills and heart interest as "The Testing Block." Lambert Hillyer adapted and directed from Hart's own story, and Joe August, A.S.C., photographed. Robert Z. Leonard's Production, "THE GILDED LILY" with Mae Murray You'll never forget Miss Murray as the cabaret dancer in "On With the Dance." Here she has the same sort of role, in a picture as expensively and brilliantly produced as anything ever made. The costumes and sets will take your breath away, and the strong drama of it will make you gasp. Clara S. Beranger wrote the story. Dorothy Dalton in "THE TEASER" In "The Flame of the Yukon" Miss Dalton made her greatest hit. This is her greatest picture since then. Laid in a little mining town, and full of life and passion, "The Teaser" will be a memorable picture for your box-office. Thomas H. Ince's Special, "BEAU REVEL," with Florence Vidor Louis Joseph Vance's best selling novel produced on a big scale with a cast including Lewis Stone and Lloyd Hughes. One of Ince's most elaborate productions, based on a gripping and unusual plot — the love of father and son for the same woman. (paramount (pictures AMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION )*ai LPH ZUKOR Pmi JESSE L LASKY B(ff.« CECIL D DE MILLE Vrector C*w™/ LSJS~ 11 1