Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

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2528 Motion Picture News November 28 1925 MOTIOJV VlCTVRE ftEWS Founded in September 1913 Publication Office: Lyon Block, Albany, N. Y. Vol. XXXII No. 22 Editorial and General Offices: 729 7th Ave., New York City Branch Offices: 845 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. Room 616 Security Bldg., Hollywood, Calif. Speaking Editorially A BIG week for news! The leading story being, of course, the contemplated United ArtistsMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer merger, of which the details are not yet clear, but the consummation of the deal is apparently only a matter of a few days, as we go to press. This is one of the industry's most significant developments. It has been hanging fire for a long time and now is about to become a reality. THEN there is the Fifteenth Anniversary Dinner of Pathe News, commented upon at length elsewhere in this issue. Under the caption "big," space should also be reserved for a picture bearing that very word in its title — "The Big Parade." Looks as if this film will set a new vogue in production. "Stella Dallas," too, came into view during the current week and aroused a lot of comment. * ■ * * WHICH reminds us of a very interesting statement made by Harry Rapf, of Metro-Goldwyn]\ layer, in an interview with one of our staff. He said most emphatically that the production forces of all companies on the Coast are striving as never before to put quality into pictures. New angles and specialization in treatment have their place in this movement. The word "quality" has been used a long time, and in many connections, but there can be no doubt that the industry is now fully alive to the fact that only quality pictures will do. The more so, as the quality theatre movement continues to spread throughout the country. The pictures have got to keep pace with the theatres. That's sound business sense, and an imperative necessity. * * You can't keep these comedians from cutting up ivhen there's a camera around! Here is Lupino Lane, flanked by Estelle Bradley and Virginia Vance, clowning between scenes of "Maid in Morocco," his first Educational-Lupino Lane comedy. IN exhibitor organization circles, there are several items of interest. Messrs. Seider, Woodhull and Cohen appeared before the A. M. P. A. and spoke in behalf of real co-operation among all branches of the industry. Joe Seider, as Business Manager of the M. P. T. O. A., announced that his platform is. and will be, strict business and no politics. That also is sound sense. The Administrative Committee of the national organization held a series of important sessions in New York. Out in Michigan, H. M. Richey, general manager of the state body, started on a tour in which he expects to visit every theatre in the Wolverine Commonwealth. That's bringing the organization to the individual exhibitor! * * * OVER in England; J. D. Williams is going ahead with his plans to create a British Hollywood near London. The plans are very extensive. And J. D.'s activities are getting columns of space in the London and provincial newspapers. -* * * JANUARY has been set aside as "National Laugh Month" by the short subjects companies and a concerted drive is already under way. This move deserves the utmost encouragement for the very good reason that the short subject is vital to the success of the theatre program; and the point should be, and no doubt will be, driven home to both the exhibitor and the public. Editorial 2525 An Editor on Broadway 2526-27 Second Editorial Page 2528 Pictures and People 2529-32 Exhibitors Service Bureau 2553-56 First Run Theatres 2559-61 General News and Special Features 2533-51 Short Subjects and Serials 2563-64 Opinions on Current Short Subjects 2562 Pre-Release Reviews on Features 2566-73 The Big Parade (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer) ; When the Door Opened (Fox); The Wedding Song (Producers Dist. Corp.); All Around Frying Pan (F. B. O.); Irish Luck (Paramount) ; Tumbleweeds (Wm. S. Hart-United Artists) ; Stage Struck (Paramount); The Wyoming Wildcat (F. B. O.) ; Bright Lights (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ; Stella Dallas (Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists) ; The Unknown Lover (WarnerVitagraph); A Man of Nerve (F. B. O.) ; Clash of the Wolves (Warner Bros.); Wolf Blood (Lee-Bradford); The Goat Getter (Rayart); The Coast Patrol (Bud Barsky). Newspaper Opinions on New Features 2590 Construction and Equipment Department 2583-89 Regional News From Correspondents 2574-81 Feature and Short Subject Release Chart 2591-94 Classified Ads 2565 Box Office Reports 2558 November 28, 1925 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. XXXII, No. 22 Published weekly uy Motion Picture News, Inc., William A. Johnston, President; E. Kendall Gilletl, Vice-President; William A. Johnston. Editor; J. S. Dickerson, Associate Editor; Oscar Cooper, Managing Editor; Fred J. Beecroft, Advertising Manager; L. H. Mason, Chicago Representative; William McCormack, I.os Angeles Representative. Subscription price, $2 per year, post paid in United States. Mexico, Hawaii. Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and some other countries; Canada. $3, foreign, $6.00. Copyright 1925. by Motion Picture News, Inc., in the United States and Great Britain. Title registered in the United States Patent Office and foreign countries. Western Union cable address is "Picknews," New York. Entered as second-class matter January 31st, 1924, at the nostoffice, Albany, X. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879.'