Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

2553 Fox Starts Eight Productions "A Trip to Chinatown" Included; Modern Sequences of "Ancient Mariner" Being Shot N o v e m her 2 8, 1 925 "Irene" Fashion Show To Be Done in Color The elaborate fashion show episode which will be a feature of ''Irene," the forthcoming: First National picture starring Colleen Moore, will be photographed in color by the Techni-eolor process. Sixty of Hollywood's most beautiful women have been engaged to form the background for the fashion sequences. The cast in support of Miss Moore includes Lloyd Hughes, George K. Arthur, Kate Price, Charles Murray, Maryon Aye, Ida Darling, Eva Novak, Bess Flowers, Cora Macy, Betty Francisco, Edward Earle, Lydia Yeamans Titus and Lawrence Wheat. Alfred E. Green is directing. Gillingwater 111, Leaves "Men of Steel" Cast Claude Gillingwater has been compelled to withdraw from First National's '-Men of Steel" cast because of illness. He came from Hollywood to go to Birmingham with the company, but contracted a slight cold which has steadily grown worse. He was advised by his physician to return to Hollywood. His place in the cast has not yet been filled. Benge Added to "Ancient Mariner" Cast Wilson Benge has been added to the cast of "The Ancient Mariner," which Fox will release for the coming ( Ihristmas holidays. He will have a part in the modern version of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge classic. The story as originally written will be presented as a fantasy in conjunction with the present day conception. Scenes from the Universal production, "The Calgary Stampede". AMONG the eight new productions put in work at the Fox West Coast studios, according to the latest telegraphic bulletin received from Winfield K. Sheehan, vice president and general mana-. ger of Fox Film Corporation, is "A Trip to Chinatown," one of the ten plays by Charles Hoyt which had a long run on Broadway some years ago. Other productions just started are "The Palace of Pleasure," "Daybreak," Tom Mix in "My Own Pal," "The Johnstown Flood," ' The Gilded Butterfly," Buck Jones in "The Gentle Cyclone," and the modern sequences of "The Ancient Mariner." Robert Kerr will direct "A Trip to Chinatown," under the personal supervision of George E. Marshall. The role of the comedy widow will be played by Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe will enact the leading male part. J. Farrell MacDonald and Harry Woods have important character parts. It will be released February 7. "The Palace of Pleasure" is being directed by Emmett Flynn from the Adolph Paul play, "Lola Montez." Betty Compson plays Lola, Edmund Lowe lias the leading male role and Henry Kolker, Harvey Clark, Jacques Rollens and Nina Romano make up the supporting cast. This production will be released January 10. "Daybreak" is being directed by Rowland V. Lee. This is based on a play of Hungarian life by Dorothy Brandon. Lou Tellegen, Jacqueline Logan, Walter Pidgeon (loaned by Joseph M. Schenck), Charles Lane, Gustave von Seyferi'z and Roy Atwill are included in the cast. January 17 has been set as the release date. In "My Own Pal," Tom Mix appears as the protector of an orphan girl. The story is based on Gerald Beaumont's "The Gallant ELEVEN F. B. 0. companies are al work or preparing to start production, and as a consequence an exceptionally busy Winter is being looked forward to. One of the first to get under way in the early winter is James Hogan, who has started "King of the Turf,' a racing melodrama by Louis .Joseph Vance and John C. Brownell. Kenneth Harlan, Dolores Costello and Henry B. Walthall have the leading roles. "Flaming Waters," the Associate 1 Arts production, is being cut and edited by Harmon Weight. Mary Carr, Pauline Gaioi end Malcolm McGregor are the featured players. "The Midnight Flyer," a raihoal melodrama, is also in the hands of the editors. It was directed by Tom Forman, with Dorothy Devore and Cullen Land s in the featured roles. Emory Johnson is preparing to start production on "The Non-Stop Flight," a dramatization of the recent air flight to Hawaii. Evelyn Brent has finished "A Broadway Lady" and will start this week on "Bright Lights." Both are Fred Kennedy Myton stories. Guardsman," and filming has been started under the direction of J. G. Blystone. Olive Borden plays the leading feminine role and the supporting cast includes Tom Santschi, Paul Panzer, Jacques Rollens, Grace Goodall and Virginia Marshall. It will be released February 28. Irving Cummings has started filming "The Johnstown Flood" with George O'Brien and Florence Gilbert in the leading roles. Anders Randolph, Paul Nicholson, Paul Panzer and Georgie Harris are also in the cast. Released January 31. Buck Jones has started work on "The Gentle Cyclone" under the direction of W. S. Van Dyke. This production, which will be released May 9, is the sixth Jones has made this season, and the cast includes Rose Blossom, Marion Harlan, Kathleen Myers, Jay Hunt, Will Walling, Reed House, Stanton Heck, Grant Withers and Oliver Hardy. Chester Bennett has started filming the modern sequences of "The Ancient Mariner," the Fox special Christmas production. "The Gilded Butterfly," with Alma Rubens and Bert Lytell in the leading roles, is being directed by John Griffith with a supporting cast including Frank Keenan, Herbert Rawlinson and Vera Lewis. January 3 is the date scheduled for release of this feature. Production is now well aloi g < n "The First Year," the Frank Craven stage play which Frank Borzage is directing with a cast comprising Matt Moore and Kathryn Perry as the newlyweds, and Virginia Madison, Frank Currier, Margaret Livingston, John Patrick, Frank Cooley and Carolynne Snowden in support. It will be released January 24. Fred Thomson is preparing for his next picture and Dick Talmadge is at work on "So This is Mex co." Lefty Flynn is another star who is preparing to get under way shortly in a football drama, while Tom Tyler is shooting exteriors for "The Cowboy Musketeer." Eleven F. B. O. Units at Work Busy Winter is Launched with Well Known Stars Starting New Productions CHARLIE CHAPLIN A Dog's Life Released Nov, 22 Pafhepicture — ^3^~