Motion Picture News (Mar - Apr 1926)

1942 Motion Picture News Serial Heads Pathe Week's List "The Bar-C Mystery" Included Among Releases Scheduled for April 25 THE new Pathe Western Serial, "The Ba] C Mystery," is scheduled on the list of releases tor the week of April 25 and also included are "Baby Clothe-," and "Our Gang" comedy, "Rough and Ready Romeo," an Aesop's Film Fable, "The Uncovered Wagon," a single reel Roach re-issue; Pathe Review No. 17, Topics of the Day, No. 17, and two issuer dl' Pathe News. "The Bar-C Mystery," an adaptation of the magazine story by Raymond S. Spears, ha< Dorothy Phillips as the star, and the supporting east includes Wallace McDonald, Philo McCullough, Ethel Clayton and Johnny Fox. The story revolves around a rich mine discovered on the Bar-C ranch and tlie efforts of a pair of adventurers to get pu—e—ion of the valuable property. <'. \Y. Patton produced this serial, and Robert llill directed. "Baby Clothes," a two reel comedy directed by Robert McGowan, treats of the deception practised on a rich uncle by a childless couple who tell him they have two children in order to get an allowance. Complications set in when the uncle announces his intention of paying a visit to the couple. "Rough and Ready Romeo," the Aesop's Fable conceived by Paul Terry, is a burlesque on the pioneer days, with the trail blazers riding in "flivvers" and Indians attacking on bicycles. The moral is "90% of the men looking for arguments are single." Pathe Review No. 17 shows : ' ' Sea-Going Elephants," a refuge of the giant sea] in Southern California; "A Colonial Capital," Pathe color scenes of Saigon, French Indo-China and "The Lost Empire of Africa," a camera chronicle of the American excavations to ancient Carthage, led by Count de Prorok. Topics of the Day offers the latest wit and humor from the world' press. Pathe News, the pioneer news film, offers two issues of last-minute world happenings. Color Series for Educational Will Distribute Six Two Reel Productions Done in Technicolor Process CONTRACTS were signed this week by E. W. Hammons, president of Educational Film Exchanges, and Eugene Roth, president of Romance Productions, whereby Educational will distribute a -cries of six two reel productions, done in Technicolor, to be known as Romance Productions. The stories for this series will be built around famous paintings and will In' directed by Arthur Mamie, well-known English actor, director and photographer. Prints of the firsl subject, "The Vision," in which Julanne Johnston and John Roche play the leading roles, arc in preparation and the Educational exchanges will be ready to screen this subject within two or three week-. This number tells the tragic story behind the famous painting by Sir John Millais called "Speak, Speak," which has been on view al the London Art .Museum. Posters and lobby display cards in full color are being gotten out as speedily as possible to provide for first run showings during May. These pictures are in addition to the lineup of products listed in the advertisement of the next season's program which is being made by Educational this week, as negotiations for the series were closed within the last few days. Production is in progress at the California Studio in Los Angeles, to which Roth returned from New York only a few days ago, following completion of the distribution arrangements with Educational, to take personal charge of work on the succeeding releases of this series. It is expected thai the second picture will be ready for release shortly alter the opening of the I Greater Mo\ ie Season. Universal Lists April Shorts Schedule Includes New Buster Brown Comedy ; Three More from Stern Bros. FEATl RED a ng the April comedy from I 'ni\ er al i "I ta ter's sk\ rocket, ' ' a Bu ter Brown comedy produced bj Stem Brothers and three others starring Edna Marian, Wanda Wilej and < lonstance I >arling. "Bu ter' si. j rocl et," was written and directed b;j Gu Mem-. The picture fea \ it bur Trimble as Bu iter, Doreen Turner as Mary -lane, and Pete, the dog Tige, and the ca I includes a number of popular screen kiddie-, -ecu as Buster's bunch. It is No. 8 in the series of two-reelers made from l>. F. Outcault's famous cartoons. Release date is April I in.. "Sa\ It With Love," is another two reeler in which Edna Marian is -ecu as a •'coiintix gir] in the big city." It was directed h\ Francis Corby, with K;irl Mc Carthy and Mary Land in the cast. Re leased April 7th. Billy Dooley to Appear in New Comedy Series BILLY DOOLEY will appear during the coming season in a new series of comedies bearing his own name. The sailor comedian has been in pictures but a year and has won many screen comedy honors in that short time. Dooley first appeared in the Christie comedy, "A Misfit Sailor," with which he created a favorable impression. His successive comedies were "A Goofy Gob," "A Salty Sap," and "Shore Shy." Dooley registers with exhibitors and public alike. "Painless Pain" is the Wanda Wiley comedy made by Edward I. Luddy, which actually mirrors many of Miss Wiley's former experiences. Before going on the screen she studied dentistry and in this comedy, a burlesque of a painless dental parlor, she is in her element. Jack Singleton plays opposite Miss Wiley in this picture, which is scheduled for release April 21st. The fourth release for April '"Too Many Babies," which reaches the screen April 28th, is made with the same players which are appearing in "The Excuse Maker" -cries, one of the Stern Brothers series for 1926-1927. It was directed by Scott Pembroke, with Blanche Payson in the cast as the strong-arm mother-in-law. Trio of stills from the Universal comedy. "Buster's Hunting Party"