Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

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2550 Motion Picture News "Borrowed Plumes" To Be Arrow Release Le Roy Scott's novelette, "Borrowed Plumes." which was published in Smart Set Magazine, will be picturized by Welcome Productions for release through Arrow Pictures Corporation, according to an agreement just entered into between the two organizations. The picture will be made in New York under the direction of Victor Hugo Halperin. The cast is headed by Marjorie Daw, Arnold Daly, Niles Welch, Louise Carter and Dagmar Godowsky, and includes also Wheeler Oakman, Peggy Kelly, Marie Shaffer, Jack Thorne, Jack Burdette, Sebastian Droste, George Humbert and Jill Lynn. "Borrowed Plumes" will be released as one of the twenty-four Golden Arrow first run features for 1925-26. Schlesinger to London for "Sea Beast" Premier ARRANGEMENTS for a London premiere of "The Sea Beast," the John Barrymore starring vehicle, will be made by Gus Schlesinger, in charge of Warner Bros, foreign department, who left New York last week bound for the English capital. Schlesinger expects to remain abroad until next spring, stopping in Paris and other capitals and key centers on the continent to acquaint exhibitors with the attractions included in the Warner Forty. Kleeblatt Press Creates New Max Ree Joints M-G-M Staff of Designers Among the latest arrivals in Holly wood is Max Ree, noted stage scenic and costume creator, who has joined the staff of costume creators at the Metro-Goldwyn-Ma; er studio. Ree came to America from Copenhagen in 1923. His first work was for the Greenwich Village Follies. A year later he c'esigned important numbers for the Msic Box Review and other reviews. Just before leaving for the coast he completed designs for costumes for Constance and Norma Talmadge. Department Walsh Will Start Fourth For Chadwick George Walsh will start work shortly on the fourth of his series of six features for Chadwick Pictures Corporation. The picture will be a screen version of the Robert E. Pinkerton novel. ' The Test of Donald Norton." The cast is now being selected. The Ei-win S. Kleeblatt Press, printers of motion picture accessories, has created a new department, to handle complete advertising, publicity and exploitation campaigns for motion picture producers and distributors. The department will be directed by Charles Reed Jones, formerly director of advertising and publicity for Chadwick Pictures Corporation. Jones and his staff have already taken over tha advertising and publicity of the Chadwick concern. "Non-Stop Flight" Next For Emory Johnson Emory Johnson is preparing to film a dramatization of the recent non-stop flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. It will be his next big special for F. B. 0. and will be an original story by his mother, Emilie Johnson. She is preparing the continuity at La Jolla, California. The melodrama will be called "The Non-Stop Flight." It is scheduled to go into pradvct'on w'thin the next few weeks. Scenes from "The Ancient Mariner," the dramatic -fantasy of the screen produced by Fox Film and based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the upper left hand! corner is a reproduction of a Dore illustration for the famous poem.