Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Jul 1930)

HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH 15 Edward Small Buys Gene Towne1 s Story "The Gorilla" Comes To Playhouse the ioth Intends to Produce "Sojourn" With An All Star Cast The "open sesame" for disposing of original stories has been discovered by Gene Towne. Several days ago Towne sold the film and dialogue rights to "The Femme," his own creation, to James Cruze. This will serve as the starring vehicle for Lola Lane, the producer-director's newest satellite. Yesterday this writer disposed of another original opus to Edvvard Small. It is called "Sojourn." and will be produced by Small with an all-star cast. Towne is at present preparing the screen version and dialogue for the Cruze production and immediately following will concentrate on the Small story. This is the third original story which Towne has written and sold to Hollywood producers during the past month. His outstanding one for the year is "The Czar of Broadway," which Universal purchased and produced. New York critics have acclaimed the picture as one of the finest ever turned out by the Carl Laemmle organization. Indicative of its box-office appeal REAVES "BREEZY" EASON Reaves "Breezy" Eason, now engaged preparing a story for Pathe, will employ a number of thrilling scenes he filmed at a recent rodeo at Saugus, California, in his forthcoming production. Trick riding, calf roping and other stirring moments of the exciting cowboy carnival will be injected in the story, which is now in the making. Eason, who directed the thrill B. Reaves Eason t j->. iwavcc x^ao^ii scenes m many 0f thi big pictures of recent years, such as the chariot races in "Ben Hur," recently concluded a long-term contract with Hoot Gibson, for whom he wrote a? well as directed several most successful of his releases during the past year. is the announcement that the picture is shortly to be shown at the Loew's State Theatre in Los Angeles. Ralph Spence's Great Stage Play Returns To Local Theatre Clifford Dempsey and Frank McCormack in their original roles of Mulligan and Garrity, the dumbell detectives. This is the attraction planned for the Hollywood Playhouse by the Henry Duffy Players, starting with the Saturday matinee, May 10. "Holiday," Phillip Barry's comedy, is now in the final fortnight of its presentation at that theatre. Henry Duffy has decided on "The Gorilla" as the successor to "E liday," because of the numerous requests for its production here, and in order to give theatregoers a chance to watch McCormack and Dempsey in 'the roles they created on Broadway and with which their names were associated inseparably. As Mulligan and Garrity, they play the two detectives who are called in to guard an elderly man who has been threatened with death by a criminal known as "the gorilla" and whose continual blunders provide the comedy. "The Gorilla" was written by Ralph Spence and it proceeds to poke fun at the usual mystery play while, at the same SELECT LEADS FOR UNIVERSAL SERIAL Colonel Tim McCoy and Allene Ray have been signed by Universal for the leads in its twelve-episode chapter play, "The Indians Are Coming." Production will start May 12 under the supervision of William Lord Wright with Henry MacRae directing. Colonel McCoy as a western star has been in such pictures as "Masked Stranger," "Foreign Devils," "Humming Wires," and "Sioux Blood." Miss Ray is one of the most popular serial players. Some of her Pathe serials were "The Green Archer," "The Yellow Cameo," "The Man Without a Face," and "Terrible People." Silent and synchronized versions will be made. time, it piles up terror on terror for a nerve-wracked audience. The balance of the cast is now being chosen and rehearsals will start at once under the direction of Edwin H. Curtis. MANAGING J! AGENCY Bank of Hollywood Building HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. GRanite 6 5 0 3 Announces the opening of offices at 804-805 Bank of Hollywood Building ASSOCIATE: JACK RAYMOND