Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

2650 Motion Picture News Scenes from the F. B. O. production "Flaming Waters." Many December Fox Releases "Ancient Mariner," Christmas Special and Four Features Are on Schedule FOUR feature pictures in addition to the big Christmas special, "The Ancient Mariner," and a number of short subjects are on the Fox release schedule for the month of December. The features are "The Golden Strain," first of four Peter B. Kyne stories for the season; "When the Door Opened," based on James Oliver Curwood's story of the North woods, and "Chicken Feed," the John Golden stage piay by Guy Bolton. The big event of the month for Fox will be the showing of "The Ancient Mariner," based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's well known poem. Paul Panzer plays the title role in the fantasy sequence directed by Henry Otto, with Gladys Brockwell and Vivian Oakland in support. In the modern sequence Clara Bow is the heroine, with Earl? Williams, Leslie Fenton and Nigel de Brullier in support. The picture is scheduled for release December 20th. "When the Door Opened" is fixed for release on December 6th. Jacqueline Logan has the heroine role, with Walter McGrail, Frank Keenan, Margeret Livingston and Robert Cain in support. Two pictures are scheduled for December 13th release. They are "Wages for Wives" and Buck Jones in "The Desert's Price." The former is the screen version of "Chicken Feed." Jacqueline Logan plays the role of the bride and Creighton Hale is the bridegroom. . Florence Gilbert plays the feminine lead opposite Buck Jones in "The Desert's Price." Others in the supporting cast are Edna Marion, Montague Love, and Arthur Houseman. W. S. Van Dyke directed. "The Golden Strain," the Peter B. Kyne story is scheduled for release December 27th. Victor Schertzinger directed. Madge Bel lamy, Kenneth Harlan, Ann Pennington, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Beal, Lawford Davidson and Frank McGlynn are in the supporting cast. Two short subjects are due December 13th. They are Earle Foxe in "A Parisian Knight" and "Heavy Swells," an Imperial two-reeler. "The Flying Fool," another Imperial, with Syd Smith and Marion Harlan will be released December 27th. for Mitchell Lewis Signed "Wild Oats Lane" Marshall Neilan has signed Mitchell Lewis for a part in his production of "Wild Oats Lane," wh:ch is being produced from an adaptation by Benjamin Glazer of Gerald Beaumont's "The Gambling Chaplain." It will be released by Producers Distributing Corporation. Others in the cast include Robert Agnew and Viola Dana, who play the leads and Scott Welch, Margaret Seddon, Robert Brower, John P. MacSwinney, George Barnum, and Jerry Miley, the last three named making the first screen appearance, though they have played on the legitimate stage. Donald Keith in Cast of "Dancing Mothers" Donald Keith will appear in his first Paramount picture as the juvenile lead opposite Clara Bow in "Dancing Mothers." It is a Herbert Brenon production featuring Conway Tearle, Alice Joyce and Dorothy Gumming and was adapted by Forrest Halsey from the Selwyn-Goulding stage play of the same name. Keith's long term contract with B. P. Schulberg has been taken over by Paramount. Chadwick Prod. Schedule Progressing Eleven of the fifteen productions scheduled for release on the Chadwick 1925-26 program have already been completed and the remaining four are expected to go into production soon. The Larry Semon comedy, "The Perfect Clown" will be released December 15. George Walsh has completed two of the six productions which he is tomake; "Blue Blood" the second of the series, will be a December 15 release. "Sweet Adeline," the Charles Ray production, will be released on January 15 and "The Unchastened Woman," a special production starling Teda Bara, is a November release. Child Selected for Horses" Cast 'Sea Allan Dwan has selected Mary Elizabeth Dow, 5 years old, to play the role of Florence Vidor's daughter in "Sea Horses," the production he is now making for Paramount. Little Miss Dow has never before appeared in pictures. The production is an adaptation from Francis Brett Young's sea story. In the cast, in addition to Miss Vidor and the child are Jack Holt, George Bancroft and William Powell. "Hidden Cabin" Third for Pete Morrison The third of the Pete Morrison series of Westerns for Universal will be "The Hidden Cabin." The story was written by Frank C. Robertson and ran as a magazine serial. The supporting cast has not been announced. Comedy scenes from "The Beautiful Cheat," a Universal production.