Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1925)

2652 Motion Picture N e w s Quartet of action stills from "Flaming Waters," an F. B. O. release. F. B. O. Busy With Production Four Gold Bonds and Fifteen Star Series Features Still to be Completed J I. SCHXITZER, vice-president of F. B. 0. announces that his company • will produce at least four Gold Bond specials in addition to at least fifteen star series features before the current program is completed. The first of the remaining big features to go into production at the coast studios is •"King of the Turf," a racing melodrama by Joseph Louis Vance and John C. Brownell. James Hogan has been engaged to direct and has casting started. Emory Johnson will shortly start production on a film dealing with aviation and dramatizing the recent non-stop flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. Laura Jean Libbey's "A Poor Girl's Romance" also has a place on the schedule. It will go into production shortly after the first of the year. "Hearts and Fists" to be Associated Release g J T EARTS AND FISTS," a I J drama of the lumber camps "** adapted from a story of the same name which appeared in the American Magazine, will be released by Associated Exhibitors in the near future. It was produced by H. C. Weaver Productions under the direction of Lloyd Ingraham and features Marguerite de la Motte and John Bowers. Through the courtesy of the Nubugan Lumber Company the lumber camp scenes were pictured in one of the best and most upto-date lumber camps in the Northwest. The supporting cast includes, Alan Hale, Charles Hill Mailes, Kent Meade, Jack Curtis, Howard Russel and Lois Ingraham, daughter of the director. The fourth of the new features will be "The Isle of Retribution," from the novel by Edeson Marshall. It is described as an outdoor story with a strong melodramatic flavor. The star feature series are those which are being made by Fred Thomson, Evelvn Brent, Dick Talmadge. Lefty Flynn, Tom Tyler and Bob Custer. These will keep the big F. B. 0. plant functioning at full speed for some time to come. Recent Gold Bond specials completed and shortly to be released include "The Midnight Flyer," directed by Tom Forman and costarring Dorothy Devore and Cullen Landis, and "Flaming Waters," featuring Mary Carr, Pauline Garon and Malcolm McGregor. Columbia Releases Nearing Completion Negatives for coming releases of the Columbia 1926 season are at present undergoing the finishing process and prints will go to the exhibitors on scheduled time. Among the pictures now nearing completion are "The Handsome Brute," "Lure of the Wild," "Ladies of Leisure," "Fate of a Flirt" and "The Thrill Hunter." Hal Roach is Supervising "The Devil Horse" Hal Roach is in daily conference with Fred Wood Jackman on "The Devil Horse," in which Rex, the equine star, is being featured, as filming nears completion. The Lady and the Killer are the two horses who support Rex and the human cast comprises Yakima Canutt, Gladys McConnell and Robert Kortman. Gotham to Start Four New Productions Soon Production will be started on the last four productions to be made by Gotham for release this year immediately after Thanksgiving as a result of a flying trip to the coast madie by Sam Sax of Gotham productions and Lumas Film Corporation who has just returned to Xew York. Filming will be started on "The Speed Limit" the day after Thanksgiving and the rest will follow in the order named : "Hearts and Spangles," "Racing Blood" and "The Sign of the Claw." Three Promoted in F. B. O. Sales Department Three promotions have been made in the sales department of F. B. 0. during the past week. Miss M. C. Cantor who has been with the company for the past eight years in a secretarial capacity has been appointed chief clerk. Max Fader, who has served for an equally long period was placed in charge of the contract department, and Ed McGuire succeeds Fader in charge of the contract record department. Two Added to ''Behind the Front" Cast Director Edward Sutherland has added Chester Conklin and Hayden Stevenson to the cast of "Behind the Front," the comedy of the A. E. F. he is now making for Paramount. Mary Brian is featured with Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Highlights from "The Ridin' Streak," an F. B. O. production.