Motion Picture News (Mar-Apr 1923)

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April 21, 19 2 3 1971 Unique Los Angeles Campaign Civic Organizations Co-operation for ' An unusual campaign to tell the world the truth about Hollywood is being conducted from the Goldwyn studios in Culver City, Cal., simultaneously with the release of "Souls for Sale," the story of movie life written and directed by Rupert Hughes. The Truth-About-Hollywood campaign is in three general divisions as follows : Special showings of the picture to Los Angeles and Hollywood civic organizations, with talks by members of the cast on their experiences and daily life in motion pictures. Telegrams from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to every important chamber of commerce in the United States informing them that a true picture of life in Hollywood and the motion picture communitv is contained in "Souls for Sale." Telegrams from motion picture players and directors to their relatives and to newspapers in their and Players Ask Souls for Sale* home towns saying that they want their own people to know about the life they lead and that seeing "Souls for Sale" is equivalent to a trip to Hollywood. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce entered whole-heartedly into the Truth-About-Hollywood campaign after "Souls for Sale" was previewed by the board of directors. The telegram sent by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to brother bodies throughout the country reads as follows : "A true picture of life in Hollywood and its motion picture colony is given in Rupert Hughes' new photoplay, 'Souls for Sale,' previewed by Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce today. This film is not an attempt at propaganda, but a dramatic portrayal showing picture making in a big dignified way, faithfully depicting the dangers, hardships and stress which players undergo in their life work of weaving romance for world." Praise Given "Souls for Sale Reviewers of New York Dailies Are Unanimous in Approval of Feature GOLDWYN'S Rupert Hughes picture, " Souls for Sale," came and was seen and evidently conquered New York on Sunday last at the Capitol theatre. Quinn L. Martin wrote of it in the New York World: "A remarkable cinema, one that is as interesting a novelty as anything we have seen in the films this year." Rose elswick, The New York American : "A picture that will make countless fans all over the country rush to their favorite theatre where it is being shown." Journal of Commerce: "t justified all the preliminary praise that had been lavished on it." P. W. Gallico, Daily News : "A ten-ring movie circus ... A great audience picture. It gives you a close and interesting view of certain phases of picture making." Helen Pollock in the Telegraph: "An unusually stimulating photoplay. . . It has form and purpose, sentiment and sincerity, and during the hour and a half spent in its performance dull moments are scarcer than low rents in Manhattan." Don Allen in the Evening World : " For the benefit of those who did not read our recent review of ' Souls for Sale,' we wish to repeat that, in our estimation, the Goldwyn production of Rupert Hughes' latest and best screen effort is the best audience picture we ever saw." Landon M. Robinson in The Globe : " ' Souls for Sale ' is not a lurid, heartrending melodrama about the underworld. It is the inside ' dope ' on the movies. Mr. Hughes takes us behind the scenes and shows us motion pictures in the making." The Mail : " Distinctly the movie actor's inning. A veritable family album of all the movie stars. You can see the movie actors as they see themselves." The Sun : " With those remarkable, frantic scenes of the burning circus giving it a tremendous pull, it should gross a pile of money." Jackie Coogan's Name for Honor Tablet JACKIE C O O G A N has been paid a unique honor. The Calhoun County Pair Association, sponsors of what is declared to be the biggest county fair in the State of Michigan, wants to include Jackie's name on an honor tablet in a permanent fair building to be erected. For its diamond anniversary this organization is erecting among its permanent buildings a Boys' and Girls' Club House, wherein may be placed upon exhibition the products of the youthful inhabitants of Calhoun County. " The Association," says the letter to Jackie, " is seeking the co-operation of widely known people in the United States who are lovers of children, and who wish to aid the things that make for better childhood. "A tablet will be placed prominently in the building displaying the names of those cooperating, and we feel here that it will serve as a constant source of inspiration to the boys and girls of this county if that tablet bears your name." Douglas MacLean in " Bellbov 13." a Thos. H. Ince Production, which appears on the First National release schedule. "Sa!omy Jane" Location Picked California Hills, Forests of Bret Harte, Are Selected for Production \/f OYIXG in a cavalcade along ■^-'-l the picturesque roads near Santa Cruz, the company for the George Melford Paramount production, " Salomy Jane," will take up location soon at Boulder Creek Canyon, Cal. With more than a hundred people, an ancient stagecoach and seventy-five horses in the train, the party will resemble a group of original California pioneers rather than a company of modern motion picture players. Covering more than 1,000 miles by motor car, the Paramount location hunters found the most fitting place in California for the filming of this epic of early days in the West. The very hills' and forests which gave Bret Harte inspiration to pen the original story will be pictured. An old mining village with its primitive cabins was discovered and 500 logs were ordered to build additional houses and to restore some of the old buildings. When completed the village will be an exact reproduction of a settlement in California in 1850. The saloon, the general store, the blacksmith's shop — all will be there. The road leading through the town will be tramped down with horses to give true realism to the scene. The shades of miners, buried, perhaps, within earshot of this spot, could look down upon the scene during the filming of the drama and see men living exactly as they lived before they passed on. Beside Jacqueline Logan, George Favvcett and Maurice Flynn, the featured players, seventy-five of the best rough-riders in California will ride the range in " Salomy Jane." The featured players are supported by a cast of well-known motion picture actors. They are: William Davidson, Charles Ogle, William Quirk, G. Raymond Nye, Louise Dresser, James Neill, Tom Carrigan. Clarence Burton, Barbara B rower and Jack Padjan. Raise Price Twice for "Modern Marriage" For the engagement of Frances X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne at the E. F. Albee Victory theatre, Providence, with their screen and personal appearance in " Modern Marriage," an unusual scale of prices was put into effect without diminution of patronage. Opening at thirty-five cents top, admission was raised on Wednesday to fifty cents and on Saturday further increased to seventy-five cents. The campaign was begun with a visit to Mayor Gainer who became their escort through City Hall and around the city. The theatre owners of Rhode Island gave a luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel at which Bushman and Bayne were guests of honor. On another occasion the stars visited the State House and were received by Senator McGrane, who presented the couple to his fellow legislators.