Motion Picture News (Mar-Apr 1924)

1100 1 Resume of Current News Weeklies ! :.: I' ij.ii ' .,. 1!II!IIIII!IIII!I!I1!!IIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIII!I!II!IIIII!IIIIIII1IIIH9 FOX NEWS VOL. 5— No. 40— Quebec— S. S. Mikula cuts a channel through the frozen St. Lawrence. New York — President Coolidge pays visit to New York City to address Republican Club. Philadelphia, Pa. — Two more of Uncle Sam's battleships go into junk pile at Navy Yard. New York city — 2,000 canine aristocrats compete at 48th annual show of Westminster Kennel Club. Eddystone, Pa. — Locomotives ready to run are hoisted on ship for the Argentine. North Island, Cal. — Speediest thing afloat in U. S. Navy — Scooter built for rescue work makes 60 miles an hour. Chamonix, France — At the Olympic Games — Swiss teams capture first and second honors in bobsleigh races. San Diego, Cal. — U. S. Marines keep fit by a strenuous program of sports. FOX NEWS VOL. 5, No.41.— Panama— U. S. Army Air Service planes on Central American flight. Washington, D. C. — Edwin Denby resigns as Secretary of the Navy. Syracuse, N. Y. — Crew of Syracuse U. trains for Olympic trials. Phoenix, Ariz. — Largest of Uncle Sam's 500 schools for Indians. Tokio — Fleet of lumber ships donated by Americans to rebuild Japanese homes. El Paso — General Holbrook, chief of U. S. Army Cavalry, comes to Fort Bliss. Colorado Springs — Heat follows cold so closely that winter and summer sports go on side by side. Seattle, Wash. — One of the oldest autos in existence, built in 1898, still going strong. Brattleboro", Vt. — Lars Haugen wins U. S. championship ski meet with a leap of 180 feet. FOX NEWS VOL. 5, No. 42.— Minneapolis, Minn. — Lake Minnetonka, is so over-crowded with carp that State orders them seined. New York City — Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, arrives from Europe to tell of leases before Senate committee. Arizona — U. S. is one of the world's greatest beef producing countries. Alhambra, Cal. — A castle of midgets with circus in winter quarters. Miami — "Houseboat Row." Off Porto Rico — Writh the fleet in winter practice. New Orleans, La. — Surf riding on the star fish board. On Mexican Border — 11th U. S. Cavalry from Camp Hearn, on patrol duty. St. Anton, Austria — Famous winter resort in the Tyrolean Alps under heaviest snow in 35 years. Port Richey, Fla. — Tons of dynamite are used to open a channel from the Cotee River to the Gulf of Mexico. KINOGRAMS 2331: East Pittsburgh, Pa.— First pictures every made of the making of radio vacuum tubes, a process heretofore kept secret. New York — Pedestrians struggle through sea of slush when rain falls on two inch snow ; New York — Harry F. Sinclair returns from abroad ; Piraeus, Greece — People take part in ancient rites of dipping the cross ; New York — Arthur J. Davis takes place of William H. Anderson as head of Anti-Saloon League ; San Francisco— Soldiers demonstrate new gas mask ; Washington— Gold star mothers tell president they want to be sent to France ; Berlin, Germany — Skiiers skim over ice pulled by motorcycles; New York — Tom Taggart, political leader, starts for West Indies ; Canton, O. — Boy scouts from Ohio and Pennsylvania visit McKinley's tomb ; Montreal— Cameraman visits boy's paradise on Mt. Royal. KINOGRAMS NO. 2332 : Valley Forge, Pa.— Boy Scouts visit famous Revolutionary camping ground and pay tribute to Washington ; Washington President sees great mid-winter marathon starting from Capitol; Quebec — Dog teams are off in three day international derby; Chicago— Bertell, human ' enigma, eats electric light bulb and warms self with blow torch; Manchester, N. II. — Super Brownies break through ice for winter swim, dive over hundred f cet • San Bernardino— Thousands of oranges to build "log" cabin at Orange Show ; New York— Transport St. Mihel sails for I '.•mama with contingent of troops; Oakland, Cal. — Weary shop nirls revive themselves with out door basketball : Washington— Heavy weight champion .Tack Dcmpsey calls on President Coolidge; St Joviet Que. — Exclusive pictures of ski riders whizzing over snow towed by an aeroplane. INTERNATIONAL NEWS NO. 18.— Everett Wash— Bridges washed away and highways closed. New York — The worst snowstorm of the season buries the metropolis in an ocean of slush. Paris. France Steeplejacks raise themselves aloft at Eiffel Tower. Palm Beach, Fla. — A glimpse of Palm Beach at society's "bathing hour". — New York City — Harry Sinclair, arrives from Europe to testify again in Teapot Dome scandal. Washingtdn, D. C. — Owen Roberts, Philadelphia lawyer, and Ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio, get their commissions as President Coolidge's oil investigators. Rome, Italy — Italy moves her Unknown Hero. — Tokyo, Japan — Crown Prince Hirohito, ruler of Japan, rides to his wedding through "Safety-Lane." Lake Minnetonka, Minn. — Fishermen open war on immense horde of carp. Cairo, Egypt — Egyptian "Independents" celebrate election victory. Red Bank, N. J. — Ice boats seek new records for speed. Madison Barracks, N. Y. — First Division artillery engages in spectacular winter battle training. PATHE NEWS NO. 15: Washington, D. C— Mothers of American soldier dead lying in Europe, petition Congress for transport to graves ; Cannes, France — Merry-makers indulge in spectacular floral combat ; New York City, Review drill of future officers of Merchant Marine ; Washington, D. C. — Rep. Garner, Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Gov. Smith of New York all endeavoring to reduce the income tax rates; Berlin, Germany — American food packages received by starving German children ; In The Limelight, Jeff Davis, King of Hoboes, after Gth trip around the world, says "Stay at Home" ; Glendale, Cal. — Pathe News films "San Antonio Siamese Twins" ; Jamaica, N. Y. — Newest life-saving device lessens danger of skating on ice ; Los Angeles, Cal. — "King David" newsboy, sells papers, preaches and boxes every day; Hilo, Hawaii — Pathe News gets spectacular and picturesque films of Hawaiian volcano in eruption ; Oklahoma City, Okla. (That Territory Only) — Thousands view parade in honor of visiting delegates to Shrine directors' Association. PATHE NEWS NO. 16 : Vera Cruz, Mexico— Obregon recaptures Vera Cruz — Pathe News presents exclusive pictures showing entry of Federal troops into city held by rebels ; Hilo, Hawaii— Views of seething Kilauea crater at night ; Dayton, Ohio — J. A. Macready in altitude flight reaches a height of 34.9S3 feet ; San Bernardino, Cal. — 2,000.000 oranges displayed artistically at National Orange Show; Culebra, Panama — Troops of U. S. Fleet Marine Expeditionary Force make spectacular landing for maneuvers ; Quebec, Canada — Pathe News cameraman takes part in 120-mile dog derby; San Antonio, Texas (That Territory Only) — Tourists flock to the first Annual Midwinter Celebration ; Lexington, Ky. (That Territory Only) — Visit two of America's turf kings — Man O'War and Morvich ; Valley Forge, Pa. (That Territory Only)— Boy Scouts make pilgrimage to historic land-mark ; Winter headquarters of George Washington, where he and his troops suffered the worst hardships of the Revolutionary War. All Century Units Are Busy Producing After completing "The Racing Kid," a Buddy Messinger comedy, Al Herman .started on another Messinger subject for Century entitled "The Jazz Boy," with "Spec" O'Donnell, Martha Sleeper, Harry Pringle and Countess Mariana Moya in support. Director Herman is then scheduled to produce another Century Comedy for Universal starring Pal the dog. Other Century announcements show that Harry Edwards will take charge of the giant Jack Enrle in producing "Marrying Money." Guild-Made to Produce "The Puritans" Yale University Press has completed aiT.'ui^cincnls whereby Guild-Made Pictures (The Film Guild) will immediately start production of "The Puritan," one of the forthcoming "Chronicles of America" pictures distributed bv Pathe. Motion Picture News Three situations from the Universal Comedy, " Matrimonial Agency," with Bobby Dunn and Slim Summerville. "Our Gang" Heads Pathe Schedule March 9 " The Buccaneers " is the title of the " Our Gang" comedy that features the Pathe releases for week beginning March 9, and there is also a Grantland Rice " Sportlight " on golf entitled " The National Rash." " The National Rash " deals with the sport of golf while " Love's Detour " is a comedy romance with Charles Chase. " Aesop Film Fable " release is titled " An All Star Cast." March 9 program also contains the eighth episode of "The Way of a Man," under the title of " The Fugitives." Pathe Review No. 10, the two news reels and " Topics of the Day" complete the bill. Kinograms Westinghouse in New Radio Deal Through an arrangement with Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Kinograms photographed the process of making the vacuum tube used in radio reception. The tie-up, consisted of broadcasting from three stations of the Westinghouse Company, information that this process of manufacture could be seen in Kinograms at local theatres, and naming the theatres in the vicinity of the broadcasting station. The stations which broadcasted the talks wore K D K A, at Pittsbur-,-. K Y W, at Chicago, and W B Z, at Springfield, Mass.