Motion Picture News (Nov - Dec 1926)

2252 Motion P i c t u r c News Subjects 'an Pathe Offers Xmas Special Schedule for December 12 Includes Roach, Sennett Comedies and Serial AMONG the Pathe releases for the week (it December twelfth is an Hal Roach comedy which its producers consider appropriate for Christmas showing. It is a Charley Chase starring comedy titled "There Ain't No Santa Claus"; other attractions for the week include a Mack Sennett comedy, the fourth chapter of the Pathe serial "The House Without a Key," Pathe Review No. 50, "Top Notchers," one of Grantland Rice's Sportlights ; Topics of the Day" No. 50, "Bars and Stripes," one of the Aesop's Fables and issues 102 and 303 of Pathe News. The cast for the Christmas picture includes Eugenia Gilbert, Noah Young, Mickey Dennett and Kay Deslys. James Pa in >tt directed under the supervision of P. Richard Jones. The Sennett comedy is one of the "Jimmy Smith" series titled "Smith's Picnic," the cast for which is made up of Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt and Baby Mary Ann Jackson. Alf Goulding directed. "Suspicion" is the title of the fourth chapter of "The House Without a Key," in which Allene Ray and Walter Miller are co-featured. Frank Leon Smith fashioned the scenario from Earl Derr Biggers' Saturday Evening Post story, and Spencer Bennett directed. In this chapter the hero is torn between love and duty because he believes the girl he loves is a murderess. "Bars and Stripes" is the current release of the Aesop's Film Fables Series; Pathe Review No. 50 offers: "Fresh From the Deep," a graphic fish story from New I'.eilt'onl, Mass.; ' ' 1 tow n on the farm," the Filipino idea of harvesting; "The Flower of the Ancients," another of the Workshop of Nature Series produced by Arthur C. Pillsbury. The time-lapse camera condensing the growth-life of the flowers so that they become visible; "Nefta the Beautiful," an interlude in the journeys of Count Byron Khun de Prorok bound outward over the Sahara Desert. "Top Notchers," a Grantland Rice Sportlight, reviews in this number the headliners in various branches of sport: Babe Ruth, "Red" Grange, Tommy Hitchcock, Jr., Gene Tunney, Suzanne Lenglen, Bobby Jones — all in action. Topics of the Day, No. 50, offers the latest wit and humor gathered from the press of the world; and Pathe News, issues Nos. 102 and 103, offer topical happenings of world events. Six Stern Comedies This Month Two of "Newlyweds" Series, One "Excuse Maker" and "Buster Brown" Included UNIVERSAL will distribute six Stern Bros, comedy productions (hiring the month of December. These include five of the various comic series now being produced by the Sterns and a Buster Brown Stern Bros, twb-reeler titled "Buster's Prize Winner." which the releasing company will -end ou1 as a Universal Junior Jewel. The five releases include two "Newlyand Their Baby" comedies, a comedy of "The Excuse Maker" series, a two n eler of the "What Eappened to Jane" series, and the latesl " Let I reorge Do It" comedy. The " Newlyweds " comedies are " Si k um's Outing," which was released December first and "Snookum's Merry Christma-." a December 22 release. Sunny Mi Keen plays Snookums and Ethlyn Claire ewlywed. Jed Dooley is Nev lywed himself in the firs! named and Sid Saylor plaj t he part m the Christma i e lease. Charli King also appears in the Christma chiiiciIv. Gus Mem directed both pictures. ■ ■ A Second hand Excuse," one of the ■ ■ Excu e Maker' ' erie , is 1 he I lecember eighth release. Edna Marian is the heroine and Leon Holmes and Crank Earl are in the cast. Francis Corby directed. On December L5, ".lane's Predicament," the latest "What Happened to Jane" number, starring Wanda Wiley will be released. Earl McCarthy has the principal supporting rule. Sam Neutield directed. The late release of the year is "And George Did," a "Let George Do It" emu edy staring Sid Savior, and adapted from the George McManus cartoon strip. Dorothy Gulliver is the feminine lead in this "George" picture. Others in the cast are Colin Chase and Madalynne Field. Scott Pembroke directed it. Monty Banks Plans "Horse Shoes" as Pathe Feature Montj Banks, whose firsl picture for Pathe, "Atta l>o\," was relea-ed ill Oc lulier. is starting the second of his featured Pathe comedies which will probably be titled " Horse SI -." Wallace Lupino Given First Featured Role "Sweet Baby," a one-reel Educational comedy of the ('amen brand, which will be released mi December 5, is the firsl featured rule for Wallace Lupino, brother of Lupino Cane. Sign Priscilla Dean for New Hal Roach Pathe Comedy Hal Roach, comedy producer for Pathe, has signed Priscilla Dean for a second short feature comedy which will be started within the week. Fred Guiol is preparing for the production and is also assisting in the editing of the first which was completed last week and which created so favorable an impression with producer and star that it led to the signing of Miss Dean for another picture. Tentative selections for the cast are being made now. Estelle Bradley is Leading Lady in Hamilton Comedy Estelle Bradley, who has been appearing recently in Educational-Mermaid Comedies, has again been cast as Lloyd Hamilton's leading lady in a comedy which Norman Taurog is directing at the Educational studio. Humorous incidents in "Snookum's Tooth." one of the "Newlyweds and Their Baby" comedies released by Universal