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FROM all present appearances, motion picture studio activities will be at an exceedingly low ebb all summer in and about New York. The Famous Players seem to have reached a definite decision not to re-open their big Long Island studios. The Selznick forces moved to the Coast late in April. Apparently, the only big activity will be the next production of David Griffith, to be made at the Griffith Mamaroneck studios. At this writing,
Mr. Griffith has not yet started his preliminary work and the subject is still a secret.
Will Hays was formally welcomed into the motion picture world at the dinner-dance of the Motion Picture Directors’ Association, held at the Hotel Astor on March 16. At this event Mr. Hays made his first public appearance as an active member of the motion picture industry. John Emerson was toast-master, and Sidney Alcott, president of the M. P. D. A., made the opening address.
C. C. Burr has taken over the Glendale, Long Island, studios, where all Johnny Hines comedies will be made in future.
The Pyramid, Astoria, Long Island, studios have been busy these past few weeks with Pyramid Pictures' production of “The Queen of the Moulin Rouge,” in which Martha Mansfield plays the name part. Ray Smallwood is directing, and Ben Carre, long with Maurice Tourneur, is art director.
Having completed “Fascination,” Mae Murray is now at work on a story of a New York dancing girl, which will be released under the title of either “Broadway Rose” or “The Broadway Bubble.” Bob Leonard, Mr.
Mae Murray in real life, is directing.
Ann Forrest has returned from several months abroad, making pictures and visiting her birthplace in Denmark.
She spent several weeks in New York.
Frank J. Godsol has succeeded Samuel Goldwyn as president of Goldwyn Pictures. Rumors of a combination between Goldwyn and First National have been in the air for some time, and the consolidation may have materialized by the time you read this page. Mr. Goldwyn continues as a member of the Goldwyn directorate.
Maurice Tourneur is going abroad to film “The Christian,” once screened by Vitagraph, for Goldwyn Pictures. The scenes will be shot in London, on the Isle of Man, and in Rome, in the locale of the actual action of the novel. The cast has not yet been named.
Zena Keefe has been vacationing in Cuba, after completing James Oliver Curwood’s. “Love and the Law,” under the ( Continued on page 92)
Above, Eugene O’Brien and Elaine Hammerstein take Myron Selznick into their confidence. Center: Conway
Tearle rests a bit after his last picture. Below, is Mabel Ballin in “Other Women’s • Clothes”
Gossip of the Eastern Studios
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