Motion Picture News (Mar-Apr 1923)

1670 Motion Picture News J. C. JESSEN'S PRODUCTION NOTES BY IFIRE Studio and Player Brevities LITTLE STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE ON THE LOT Here and There Jess Robhins has completed the iilming of his fourth subject starring Edward Horton for release by Yitagraph. The title of this subject is "The Crash." Phil Goldstone is now engaged in the editing of " Danger Ahead," starring Richard Talmadge, and " Fighter's Paradise," starring Snowy Baker. Baker will make his next appearance in " The White Panther " under the direction of William Howard. William Fairbanks has been placed under contract by Phil Goldstone, and he will appear" at the head of an all-star cast in " What Women Want." Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge started their new subjects this week. The cast for Norma's new subject, titled "Ashes of Vengeance," now includes Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Josephine Crowell, Betty Francis, Claire McDowell, Courttnay Foote, James Cooley, Andre de Beranger, Boyd Irwin, Winter Hall, William Clifford, Murdock McQuarrie, Hector V. Sarno and Earl Schenenck. Frank Lloyd is directing the subject; Harry Weil is assistant director. Antonio Gaudio and Ray Burger are the first and second cameramen, respectively. The cast supporting Constance Talmadge in " Dulcy," includes Jack Mulhall, Claude Gillingwater, Ann Wilson, Ann Cornwall, Andre de Beranger, Milla Davenport, Gilbert Douglas, Lucy Beaumont and Fred Cavena. Robert Thornby is directing Guy Bates Post in " The Man from Ten Strike." The principal members of the supporting cast include Mitchell Lewis, Cleo Madison and Grace Darmond. The complete cast for "The Meanest Man in the World," adapted from George Cohan's play, includes Bert Lytell, Syrant Washburn, Blanche Sweet, Lionel Belmore, Maryon Aye, Helen Lynch, Carl Stockdale, Lincoln Stedman, William Conklin, Forrest Robinson, Victor Potel, Ward Crane, Frank Campeau and Tully Marshall. This subject is being directed by Eddie Clincat the United Studios. Charles O. Bowman and B. P. Fineman have leased space at Principal Pictures Studios and are filming " Don't Marry for Money," with Ruby de Remer, House Peters, Cyril Chadwick, Aileen Pringle, Christine Mayo and Wedgrwood Nowell in the cast. Clarence Brown is directing the production. The Forman Company, filming " The Broken Wing " for B. P. Schulberg, is back from the border south of Albuquerque, where they took the battle scenes, using fifteen hundred Indians and Mexicans. An old-time feud existed between some of the combatants and several were injured, though none fatally. Gasnier is now editing " Daugh ters of the Rich " while producing the same. Schulberg has offered a $10,000 award for acceptable titles. Warner Baxter will be starred in " Blow Your Own Horn." The production is beginning this week, though the director has not yet been named, on a continuity by Rex Taylor from the Owen Davis play. James W. Home has been placed under contract to direct for one year, following the completion of " Xow You See It," from the original by Windham Gittens and Helmar Bergman. Chester Bennett has completed the Jane Novak subject, " Divorce." Emory Johnson has completed " West Bound Limited," which glorifies the railroad men. Emile Chautard is editing " Daytime Wives." Ernest C. Warde has been placed under contract to direct for Robertson-Cole for one year. Patricia Palmer and " Ranger Bill " Miller have been selected to head an all-star cast which will interpret the latest original screen story written by J. Stewart Woodhouse. It will be produced in and around San Francisco by Max Miller Productions Company. Jules Cronjager will be chief cameraman for the filming of " Tutankhamen," which is being made by William P. S. Earle. Working with Cronjager as second cameraman will be Joe Goodrich. James Harrison is back in town after an absence of nearly two years, during which he has been playing in Eastern-made pictures. Harrison accompanied Charles H. Christie to Los Angeles this week. He was with the Christie company for three years and played in about fifty of their pictures before going West to appear in feature productions. Another ten days will see the completion of " The Girl of the Golden Wrest," which Edwin Carew is producing for First National release. At present the cameras are grinding away both day and night on the interiors of the Polka saloon, the set in which most of the action of the story takes place. Dancing instructors have been added to the technical staff of Edwin Carewe's " The Girl of the Golden West." J. Warren Kerrigan and Sylvia Breamer are learning dances of seventy years ago in order to meet the demands of the script. Betty Blythe is now completing work on " The Girl Who Got Everything," the last of her series of four starring vehicles under the banner of Whitman Bennett. The production is being filmed at the Yonkers studio. Bert Woodruff has put his name to the dotted line on a contract to work in Frank Borzage's first production for Arthur H. Jacobs, " Sands of Time." " Uncle Chet," as he is familiarly known at the studios, will be remembered for his portrayal of Old Man Green in " Paris Green " and a similar character in " Greased Lightnin'." Miss Dupont has replaced Betty Francisco in the cast of " The Broken Wing," the stage play by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, which Tom Forman began this week for B. F. Schulberg. The altered cast now reads Miriam Cooper, Kenneth Harlan, Walter Long, Miss Dupont, Richard Tucker, Evelyn Selbie, Edwin J. Brady and Ferdinand Munier. Pauline Garon, beautiful flapper of " Adam's Rib," has begun work on her role in " Sands of Time," the Frank Borzage production for First National, in which she plays the leading feminine role. Herman and Verman, colored youngsters, who brought many a laugh in Marshall Neilan's " Penrod," are appearing in the First National cast of " Penrod and Sam," now being directed by William Beaudine. The huge Gramercy Park set at the United Studios, for use in Frank Borzage's " Sands of Time," has been completed. Former residents of the artists' colony of New York are seen daily pointing out just where they had studios when they were in the East. First sets for Maurice Tourneur's " The Brass Bottle," which he will make for First National release, are going up at the United Studios in Los Angeles. Cutting and editing of James Young's " Wandering Daughters," his initial First National production, has begun at the United Studios in Los Angeles. Kathlene Martyn is the latest stage satellite to be signed by C. C. Burr. On the Goldwyn Lot The screen rights for Elinor Glyn's " Three Weeks " have been purchased. James Kirkwood has been placed under contract. Jane Mathis is preparing the continuity of " In the Palace of the King," by F. Marion Crawford. Emmett Flynn will direct. Charles J. Brabin is beginning " Six Weeks." The cast includes Corinne Griffith, Frank Mayo, Myrtle Stedman, Maude George, Claude King, Charles Clary. " The Day of Faith," an Arthur Somers Roche story, will be the first for Tod Browning. Charles Whittaker, scenarioist, is en route to the coast for Goldwyn. King Vidor is making the final scenes for " Three Wise ools." Director Clarence Barger and " Red Lights " company are at Carisso Gorge on the Mexican border. Jesse D. Hampton is this week filming the fight scenes for " The Spoilers." Edward Dillon is directing "Broadway Gold" for Goldwyn. It stars Elaine Hammerstein. The complete cast for the Cosmopolitan production being directed by George W. Hill and Frances Marion, from the Jack Boyle story, " The Daughter of McGinn," includes Colleen Moore, Forest Stanley, George Cooper, Carmelita Geraghty and Margaret Seddon. William Haines has joined the company producing " Three Wise Fools " under the direction of King Vidor. He is playing the juvenile lead. Lambert Hillyer and the company producing Jesse D. Hampton's refilming of Rex Beach's Alaskan novel, " The Spoilers," have returned to the Goldwyn studios from