Motion Picture News (Mar-Apr 1923)

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1472 Motion Picture News PI us for "Ashes of Vengeance Schenck to Make This Most Elaborate Film Norma Talmadge Ever Had Showing exterior of the Auditorium theatre, Winston-Salem, N. C, and decorations on the marquee used to exploit " One Clear Call " 4 'Robin Hood" Wins^ Editorial Approval Under the caption, " 'Robin Hood' 100 per cent all right," the Seattle Star, during the showing of this United Artists release at the Liberty theatre, Seattle, ran the following editorial : "So often recently the movies have come in for harsh criticism, it is a postive pleasure to discover a film which can be whole-heartedly and enthusiastically applauded. "Such is 'Robin Hood,' showing this week at the Liberty. It is a work of downright beauty. It is gorgeously elaborate and spectacular on the one hand, and worked out in fine, thoughtful detail on the other. It is true to the legend, true to the atmosphere of mediaeval England, and always free from cheapness and vulgarity. "It is Douglas Fairbanks' masterpiece, and it is, if not a genuine work of art, at least an earnest that the movie is susceptible, when in the hands of sincere, intelligent men, of being developed as an art." Fox Picture Shown to Hospital Patients The patients in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, enjoyed a motion picture show recently given for the benefit of Captain Nicholas McDonald, a newspaper staff photographer, who was injured in a flashlight explosion. Harry Birch of the Fox Film Corporation put on the show, "The Town That Forgot God," a nine-reel feature, and "The Pirate," a two-reel comedy, comprising the program. Correction of Caption in March 17 Issue The two-column photograph appearing on Page 1311, issue of March 17th, was incorrectly captioned as showing scenes from Elmer Gifton's "Down to the Sea in Ships," distributed by W. W. Hodkinson. The scenes presented in the cut are taken from current episodes of the Pathe serial, "Plunder," starring Pearl White JOSEPH M. SCHENCK is planning to make the next Norma Talmadge picture, "Ashes of Vengeance" the most elaborate Miss Talmadge has ever appeared in, declares a statement from First National. For over a week he had Walter Isreal, head of his costume and research department, in New York buying material for 1200 costumes to be worn in some of the big scenes of the play and gathering together nearly a carload of swords, armor and high hip boots, reminiscent of the days of Charles the IX and Catherine de Medici, in which period the story of H. B. Somerville is laid. It is reported that Isreal spent a little fortune getting brocades, embroideries, laces, dress material and other material for the settings. Isreal has returned to Los An geles and has employed thirty five men and women to work on the 1200 costumes, many of which will be seen in the opening scenes of the picture which shows a ball in the Louvre. As it will take nearly three weeks to get these costumes ready Miss Talmadge will not begin working until March 25. Stephen Goosson will have charge of the sets. Frank Lloyd will again direct Miss Talmadge. This is the third Norma Talmadge picture for Mr. Lloyd. He directed "The Eternal Flame," and "Within the Law." Lloyd also directed Jackie Coogan in "Oliver Twist." In Los Angeles Mr. Schenck is taking care of the hiring of the most beautiful horses he can find. One of the big scenes will be a fox hunt in which many horses and valuable dogs will be used. Premiere for "Covered Wagon" Extensive Preparations for Opening at Criterion, N. Y., This Week \/f OST elaborate preparations have been made by Hugo Riesenfeld for the engagement of James Cruze's Paramount production, "The Covered Wagon," at the Criterion Theatre. The house was temporarily closed last Saturday night and immediately a small army of cleaners, interior decorators and carpenters took possession and have been working all week transferring the interior for the premiere performance Friday night. Last Sunday evening a pre-view of the picture version of Emerson Hough's novel of the settling of the West was' given in the ball room of the Plaza Hotel for the benefit of the New York Maternity Center and the American Fund for Devastated France, the performance being under the auspices of the Film Benefit Bureau. Fifteen hundred *ociety people were present and received the picture with frequent and enthusiastic applause. Members of the Junior League, attired in appropriate costume, acted as ushers. Dr. Riesenfeld has personally arranged the musical score for the picture and with his assistants has spent several weeks in perfecting the plans for the Criterion presentation. A prologue in which will be presented the songs of 1849 will precede the film. To the New York Public Library Dr. Riesenfeld and Paramount are indebted for the use of copies of some twelve or fourteen songs, all of which were popular in the middle of the last century but have long since been out of print. These songs not only will be sung in the prologue but have been worked into the accompaniment of the picture. On Thursday evening, over the radio from Station WEAF, of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., in New York, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., recounted to Boy Scouts and thousands of other radio fans his experiences with Indians and plainsmen while on location in Utah and Nevada with Director Cruze and his company. The subject of this original talk given by the young son of the Famous Players-Lasky vice-president was "Scouting With 'The Covered Wagon.' " The Criterion is now fronted by one of the most unique electric signs that ever blazed forth on Broadway. On the front of the theatre has been constructed the incandescent outline of a huge covered wagon fording a stream, the water effect being produced with startling realism. On the 44th street side the rear of a covered wagon is reproduced. The big Broadway sign simulates one of the big scenes of the picture, that of the fording of the Kaw River. Work on "Going Up" Is Nearly Completed The filming of " Going Up," the screen adaptation of the Cohan & Harris stage hit, which will be Douglas MacLean's first starring vehicle for Associated Exhibitors, is almost finished, according to advices received from Hollywood this week. Because of the extraordinary amount of flying which is one of the essential features of the comedy, Lloyd Ingraham, the director, divided the production work into two stages. All work with Mr. MacLean's supporting cast, which included Marjorie Daw, Hallam Cooley, Edna Murphy, FrancisMacDonald, Hughie Mack and other well known players, ended almost two weeks ago, and Mr. Ingraham and a large staff of cameramen and aviators have since been devoting their time to securing thp airplane scenes. Clara Kimball Young as she appears in " The Woman of Bronze." Metro. Police Head Urges AntiDrug Film Be Assisted Chief of Police Phillip T. Smith of New Haven, Conn., President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, has dispatched letters and telegrams to the members of his organization inviting them to go to Hollywood and assist in the filming of "The Living Dead," Mrs. Wallace Reid's picture on the narcotic evil. The action of Chief Smith, who has prepared monographs on the subject and is recognized as an authority, marks the adoption of the film as the official one of this world-wide association in the fight against drugs. This is similar to the move of the California State Federation of Women's Clubs, who recently sent their president, Mrs. W. A. Fitzgerald, to Washington to urge President Harding to give it the highest Government sanction. Mrs. Fitzgerald will also carry the message to other state federations. 4,000 Persons in Big Scene in Tully Film Some of the work Richard Walton Tully did in Paris for his forthcoming First National production of "Trilby," is coming to light in the news from Los Angeles where Tully is making elaborate preparations for the actual "shooting^' of this famous Du Maurier classic. At the Grque de Medrano he filmed 4,000 persons in the costumes of the period of which Du Maurier wrote. He brought back several thousand feet of negative. Filming of "Trilby" will begin as soon as James Young has finished directing "Wandering Daughters," his initial First National release. Fans Form Leah Baird Club in Chicago Leah Baird's admirers in Chicago have launched a Leah Baird Fans' Club, with the purpose of giving theatre party on the opening night of every Associated Exhibitors release featuring Miss Baird. The club is to hold its first " open meeting " when " Is Divorce a Failure ? " the first of the Leah Baird Specials for 1923 starts its first Chicago engagements Glen C. Lenington, of the First National Bank, Chicago, was the prime mover in the formation of the organization.