Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture News
Date:
Nov-Dec 1925
Author:
Motion Picture News, Inc.
Publisher:
Motion Picture News, Inc.
Volume:
Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)
Leaf #:
000377
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Motion Picture News was the leading film industry trade journal during the 1920s. Founded in 1908 as a counterweight to the dominant Moving Picture World, the News was the voice for the independent, non-Trust, producers. Later Motion Picture News expanded its coverage to the entire industry, supporting the independent exhibitor with objective film reviews, summaries of programs at theatres across the nation, activities of regional exchanges in the cities with regional exchanges, and excellent coverage of the coming of sound and screenings and stage shots at the major New York City theatres. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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November 21, 19 2 5 2457 Comedy Units Busy With A Pathe Releases A number of comedy units producing for Pathe release are busy with new pictures. Clyde Cook is making one which depicts him as a "man of the times" fifty years in the future. Katherine Grant plays opposite him. "Our Gang" are on location at Catalina I -land with director Robert McGowan. Fred Guiol is directing a company which includes Tyler Brooke, George Cooper, Vivienne Oakland, Helen Gilmore, Jane Sherman and Arthur Millett. H. M. Walker, title editor for Roach, has completed the titling of "Starvation Blues," starring Clyde Cook; "Charley, My Boy," starring Charley Chase; "Good Cheer," a new "Our Gang" comedy, and "Flaming Flappers," starring Glen Tryon. Lueien Littlefield, character and make-up expert, under contract to Roach has been loaned to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a role in a feature. Chicago Contest Winner Joins Universal Mildred Bragdon, winner of an Illinois bobbed-hair beauty contest conducted by P. T. Harmon, proprietor of two large Chicago dancing establishments, has joined the Universal players at Universal City. It is claimed there were 39,000 entrants in the contest. She will be given a thorough film trvout bv Universal. Highlights from "Fire Away," an Educational release in two reels starring Al St. John. Comedies Head Pathe Program Sennett and Roach Two-Reelers Feature Releases for Week of Nov. 22nd Trio of highlights from "The Soapsuds Lady,' Pathe release starring Alice Day. THE Pathe short-feature program for the week of November 22nd is dominated by comedies. There are two two-reelers, a single reeler and an animated cartoon. In addition, on the same day Pathe will release the Charlie Chaplin comedy "A Dog's Life." Two of the two-reelers are Sennett comedies, "The Soap Suds Lady" and "Isn't Love Cuckoo?" Hal Roach offers "Papa He Good," with Glenn Tryon. "Whistling Lions" is a Roach one-reeler. Chapter nine of the Pathe serial "Wild West," a Pathe Review, "Topics of the Day" and two issues of Pathe News conclude the program. Arthur Rosson directed "The Soap Suds Lady" with Alice Day as the star. In the supporting cast are Sunshine Hart, William McCall, Billy Gilbert, Barney Helium, Danny O'Shea and Eugenia Gilbert. "Papa Be Good" is Glen Tryon's latest subject produced by Hal Roach. Marjorie Whiteis plays opposite Tryon, while others in the cast are Katherine Grant and Tyler Brooke. The subject was directed by Fred L. Guiol under the supervision of F. Richard Jones. "Isn't Love Cuckoo !" was directed by Lloyd Bacon with a cast that includes Raymond McKee, Frank Bacon, Ruth Hiatt and Marvin Lobach. "Whistling Lions" is a Roach one-reeler, directed by James Davis, with Jobyna Ralston and Jimmie Parrott the featured players, "Stolen Evidence" is the title of the ninth chapter of "Wild West," the Pathe serial featuring Jack Mulhall and Helen Ferguson. C. W. Patton is the producer of this Western chapter-play and Robert F. Hill directed. Pathe Review No. 47 presents the following three subjects : "Bird Trappers," African native hunters; "Moroccan Days," the palace of Moorish potentate in Pathecolor; and "Plundering the Sea," the camera record of the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition led bv Dr. William Beebe. "Three Paces West", Next Joe Rock Comedy Joe Rock's next Standard comedy for F. B. 0. featuring the trio of fat men, "Fat" Karr, "Kewpie" Ross and "Fatty" Alexander, is titled "Three Paces West." Lois Boyd plays the leading feminine role. The picture is being directed by "Slim" Summerville. CHARLIE CHAPLIN in A Dog's Life Released Nov, 22 Pafhepicture