Motion Picture News (Jul - Sep 1926)

July 17 , 19 2 6 205 resigned from that position to head the same department at Columbia Pictures. Ben Grimm, publicity and advertising director of Columbia, has resigned to return to Associated Exhibitors in a similar capacity. McGrath came to MOTION PICTURE News after ten years on New York, Philadelphia and Chicago papers, and a term as Dramatic and Photoplay editor of the Detroit Times. Leaving the News to go with Vitagraph, his subsequent experience included charge of publicity and advertising for the Stoll venture in America, four years with Fox, and special exploitation on Peggy Hopkins Joyce for Associated. S JOSEPH P. KENNEDY PRESENTS OMETHING new in Broadway presentations will be flashed on two screens the coming week, when "Bigger than Barnum's" opens at the Colony and "The Two-Gun Man" at Warners. Both of these bear the main title presentation, "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents . . ." It is significant indeed that the new executive head of Film Booking Offices has achieved simultaneous Broadway shows with two of the first productions made under his administration. J m$£*w;. 7PVI . v ^ %w * . Fred Niblo at icork directing a scene for "The Temptress," a Cosmo politan production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featuring Greta Garbo. Antonio Moreno and H. B. Warner The Jigitovka, one of the most difficult of riding feats, performed by one of the troupe of Cossacks who hare come to America l<> appear in the principal cities and with John Gilbert in his Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring film, "The Cossacks' LLOU MOVES UP OUIS P. KRAMER (the man who made the Twentieth Century famous at both ends of the line), and who has been at the head of the Lubhner & Tinz publicity department for the past year in Chicago, has gone with Balaban & Katz to handle the publicity for two of their principal houses, the famous Uptown Theatre and McVickers, where he should continue to distinguish himself. His success with the L. & T. Illustrated Netvs has been described in the News in detail. He is succeeded at L. & T. by J. J. Hess, who has had 10 years of newspaper and motion picture experience, including Famous Players-Lasky and Warner Bros. AROXY, U. S. M. C. R. T daybreak on Thursday morning of last week, S. L. Rothafel (Roxy) left for Quantico, Va., to report at U. S. Marine headquarters the following day for a two-week training period. As a youth, Roxy served seven years with the Marines, and he was recently made a Major in the reserves as a result of of valuable services rendered that branch of the service. Meanwhile, the Roxy Theatre begins to assume tangible form, and he will doubtless find it considerably "grown" at the end of his training camp session. B SETTING THE HOME STAGE ACK in New York after several months at the California studio; of Famous Players-Lasky, Esther Ralston immediately threw herself into a work she has been planning since she was summoned to the West Coast to appear in "Old Ironsides." The work is the decoration and furnishing of her honeymoon apartment in a hotel on West 57th Street, which she and her husband, George Webb, leased just before the blonde leading woman received the studio call which took her across the Continent. But for Esther and George and all their visiting friends — to say nothing of the dealers in draperies and whatnots— there is the consolation that the job has behind it months of planning, with each new "plan" more artistic, and it's an even-money bet, more expensive, than its predecessor. H BEAUMONT SAILS ARRY BEAUMONT, Fox Films director, is bound for England on the S.S. Aquilania to film exterior sequences of "One Increasing Purpose," based on the A. S. M. Hutchinson novel. Accompanying him is his wife, Bradley King, who is making the adaptation, and a crew of technical workers. They will be met by the author upon their arrival, to confer on the filming in detail. Fox News Reel cameramen have been filming location shots for some time. Edmund Lowe and Alma Rubens will sail in about a month to play important roles. Olive Borden, Fox Films featured player, posing for Luis Usabal, Spanish painter, in his Hollywood studio. I sabal will d<> a large number of portraits of film notables. Hiss Borden's most recent productions are "Yellow Fingers" and "Fig Leaves," both for Fox Films