Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

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Flashes from the Eastern Stars GEORGE MELFORD of Paramount has begun work on Joseph Hergesheimer’s story “Java Head.” The company, including Albert Roscoe. Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan, and Raymond Hatton, is located in Salem, Massachusetts, where all the exterior scenes will be filmed. “Java Head” is a story of Salem town in 1850. and the sea trade with China. We have seen Madge Kennedy on the stage and on the screen ; now we may hear her by radio. She spoke recently on “The High Cost of being a. Screen Star,” via the WJZ wireless station in Newark. We may have censorship troubles in these United States, but we do not have the abominable English “block system” wherein eighteen months must elapse between the booking of a picture and its appearance on the screen. Imagine booking a fashionable society play a year and a half ago when very short skirts and bobbed locks were the vogue, and seeing it today when regal coiffures and trailing gowns are in order. One would have the sensation of looking at an old Biograph revival. However, Joseph Schenck, now in London, has worked some sort of magic whereby the block system has been put out of commission. He cabled First National to ship immediately prints, advertising and other accessories of Norma Talmadge in “The Eternal Flame” and Constance in “East Is West.” Photograph (oval) by Frank Diem Marion Davies’ new picture, “Adam and Eva,” is nearing completion at the Cosmopolitan Studios. This is a modern story and a comedy. Miss Davies doffs the velvet and ermine of Princess Mary Tudor and dons the gingham of an. everyday Eva. Above are Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. (Oh, not the originals!) T. Roy Barnes as Adam and Marion Davies as Eva in her newest photoplay “Adam and Eva.” Right is Carol Dempster in “One Exciting Night.” Below, Alice Brady takes the megaphone in her own behalf in her latest Paramount picture Hugo Ballin, who is to produce Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair,” with Mabel Ballin in the role of Becky Sharp, is busy painting minature sets for the production and several portraits of Mrs. Ballin in the costumes . of the star. v ' i : ! ill A ' 5 -!■ ■ ^ 't M 1 l M 1 I ■ / -Afe *.C' j. .| . 'll • 5 i f 1 II , T k. f? D. W. Griffith tried out his latest feature, “One Exciting Night,” in a little town in Connecticut. The applause was so vociferous that residents in the vicinity of the theater sent the town marshal to investigate. Practically every scene in this picture was taken on the Griffith lot at Mamaroneck. N. Y. It is a modern mystery story and promises a full measure of excitement and thrills. Elsie Ferguson is an enthusiatic “seaplaner" since her rescue from Larchmont Bay. She was carried to safety by David Powell in his seaplane. All this, of course, being a specially arranged bit of melodrama for her new picture, “Outcast.” Good news for the Mae Marsh fans: She is to appear in the Griffith picture which follows “One Exciting Night.” A box containing two million dollars' worth of celluloid came rolling into New York last week. ( Continued on page 86) (Fifty-eight)