The Motion Picture Director (1926)

19 26 THE MOTION PICTURE DIRECTOR 31 Marie Prevost and Josephine Crowell as they will be seen in “For Wives Only” which has just entered production at Metropolitan. Kathryn Perry and Allah Forrest, having completed “Easy Payments” one of the “Helen and Warren” series under direction of Tom Buckingham, are about ready to begin another. Jack Blystone is preparing “Wings of the Storm” and is engaged in selecting his cast for this fine dog story in which Virginia Brown Faire and Harry Woods will have leading roles. A1 Ray is making preparations for shooting “Whispering Wires” and R. William Neill is preparing for “The City.” Max Gold and A1 Davis have just completed the animal comedy, “The Lying Tamer.” Christie Studios Getting under way to a flying start with four comedies being produced for Educational release, the Christie studios have begun their season of shooting which will include a total of thirty tworeel comedies, both regular Christie and star series groups for issuance during the period which will start next August and continue through June 1927. In “^he Daffy Dill” Burns will be supported by Edna Marian, a leading lady who is new to Christie Comedies, Natalie Joyce and Bill Irving. William Watson directed this comedy with Gus Peterson and Frank Sullivan as the cameraman. It is a story written by Keene Thompson. Working with Watson in the new series of comedies is William Holland, a veteran assistant director who has recently joined the Christie Jimmie Adams in his first comedy for the 1926-27 season. studios and who will assist Watson and other directors alternately. The first of the Bobby Vernon comedies will be called “Dummy Love,” so named from one of the sequences in the comedy said to be among the funniest ever turned out in the studio. Harold Beaudine is directing this comedy which was written by Sig Herzig. Vernon is supported by Frances Lee, whose contract with Christie has been renewed, by Thelma Daniels, a new Christie girl as second lead, George Hall, Jack Duffy and Eddie Baker. With the addition of Duffy and Baker, two of the standbys in the Christie stock company, the Vernon comedy gets one of the biggest two-reel casts of the season. The first of the Jimmie Adams comedies produced by Christie will be a novel idea executed in a beauty parlor. Charlotte Merriam will be tbe leading lady with Adams in this comedy. The cast is further strengthened by the addition of Eddie Lambert, famous stage comedian who is at present appearing in the Will Morrissey revue in Los Angeles, Blanche Payson, the character comedienne of large avoirdupois, is also in the cast. Th is comedy was written by Frank Roland Conklin but is yet untitled. Jack Duffy is featured in the second Christie comedy of the new series which will be one of the biggest in crowds and excitement of the group. It revolves around a prize fight with Jack Duffy the innocent bystander taking most of the bumps. Walter Graham is making this with Vilet Burd and Evelyn Francisco, the girls in the cast, Phil Salvadore and Kid Wagner, two real prize fighters of some note, playing parts in the picture and Eddie Baker and Bill Irving also prominent comedy roles. Billy Dooley’s first appearance will be in one of his popular sailor roles. He has been referred to as the sappy sailor and the crazy sailor but this will be his craziest role to date. He will appear as the hypnotic subject of Jack Duffy, an amateur hypnotist, allowing full scope for the wild antics which Dooley can perform to perfection. Molly Malone plays the girl Irvin S. Cobb» who is writing: an original screen story for Cecil B. DeMille, to be called “Turkish Delight** and May Robson famous figure of the American stage who will appear in the picture.