Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1923)

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June 2 , 1923 2643 Htzmaurice Will Confer with Hall Caine Director George Fitzmaurice, accompanied by his wife, Ouida Berbers, sails Saturday for London to confer with Hall Caine regarding t lie coming production for Samuel Goldwyn <>t " The Eternal City." The screen version is to tie written by Ouida Bergere and the picture is to be made in Italy. The principals in the cast will sail for Koine next month. In addition to Lionel Barrymore, who has already been announced, Bert Lytell has been signed for one of the Leading roles. Others who will have prominent parts are Barbara La Marr. Richard Bennett and Montagu Love. New Writers Join Fox Coast Forces John Russell, author, explorer and war correspondent, has again joined the ranks of Fox screen writers on the west coast. After a year in New York he has returned to Los Angeles, under contract to write original stories. Mark Edmund Jones, author of " Skin Deep," has gone to the west coast for the same purpose. Schulber g Buys Screen Rights to "May time" B. P. Schulberg, president of Preferred Pictures, has purchased from the Messrs. Shubert the screen rights to Rida Johnson Young's play, " Maytime." It is a dramatic piece set to music and is now in its seventh year of stage presentation. " The Silent Partner " is a Charles Maigne production with Leatrice Joy, Owen Moore and Robert Edeson. It will be a Paramount release. These scenes were made from the production. Warners Announce Six Productions Urst of Eighteen for Season Will Be Completed for Release Early in Fall F. B. O. offers J. Warren Kerrigan in " Man's Man from which these scenes were taken THE first six productions of the eighteen to be produced by the Warner Brothers for the coming season were announced last week By Harry M. Warner. All will be completed for release early this fall ; three are now being produced while preparations are under way for the filming of the others. The six include " The Gold Diggers," a David Belasco production; "Cornered," the play by Zelda Sears and Dodson Mitchell ; '• Lucretia Lombard," the Kathleen Norris novel being produced by Harry Rapf; "The Printer's Devil," featuring Wesley Barry; "Little Johnny Jones," featuring Johnny Hines by arrangement with C. C. Burr; and "Tiger Rose," the Belasco play starring Lenore Ulric. " Little Johnny Jones " i> rapidly nearing the stages of completion at the Warner Coast studios under the direction of Arthur Rosson. It is an adaptation by Raymond Schrock of George M. Cohan's stage success of the same name. The story deals with a valiant attempt of an American jockey to ride his favorite horse, Yankee Doodle, in the English Derby, despite the stumbling blocks placed in his path by a designing race track gambler who is eager to win the affections of the jockey's girl. In the supporting cast are Molly Malone, George Webb, Wyndham Standing, Margaret Seddon, Herbert Prior, Mervin LeRov, Fat Carr, and the wonder dog, Brownie. Charles Hines is assisting Rosson in the direction of the picture. " The Printer's Devil " is being directed by William Beaudine. from the story and scenario written by Julien Josephson. It tells the story of an heroic youngster who, in his ef forts to aid a bankrupt stranger, finds that the girl of his heart is lost in the bargain. His greater satisfaction, however, comes from the knowledge that the town's worst enemy and suitor for the girl's hand has been badly defeated. " The Gold Diggers," in which Hope Hampton will be featured, is an adaptation by Grant Carpenter of the Belasco stage play written by Avery Hopwood. While the entire cast has not as yet been selected, it is expected that theproduction will be ready for release early this fall. Harry Beaumont, director of the current Warner release, "Main Street," has been assigned the direction of the Belasco production. Beatrice Van Starts On New Witwer Series Beatrice Yan has been engaged by Film Booking Offices to prepare the continuity for the second series of H. C. Witwer " Fighting Blood " stories, production of which has begun at the P. A. Powers studios. Miss Van prepared the continuities for the first series of " Fighting Blood " stories, just completed under the supervision of Mai St. Clair, with George O'Hara and Clara Rorton in the leading roles. Logue to Adapt "Ponjola* for First National Charles A. Logue has been engaged to write the film continuity of Cynthia Stockley's '• Ponjola," which is to be the second James Young production for First National.