Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1925)

.1/0 V 2, 19 2 5 V)S7 Sennett Selects Bathing Girls for New Comedies Mack Sennett has selected several bathing beauties who will regulai'ly appear in comedies which he will make for the Pathe program. The girls so far chosen to fill the newest designs in bathing costumes, which Gladys Rousseau, chief designer of the studio wardrobe says will feature Jockey Club, Polka dot, boulevarde stripe and cross-word puzzle motifs, are Lillian Knight, EveljTi Francisco, Lois Boyd, Marion McDonald, Delia Peterson, Dolores Mendez. Louise Loftus, Julia Duncon and Carol Wines. Two newcomers among the leading players in Sennett comedies will be given an opportunity to show their talents in pictures started at the studio last week. These are Charley Farrell and Thelma Parr, who is a graduate from the bathing girl ranks. They will have the featured roles in a comedy Eddie Cline is directing. ''Our Gang'' and Tryon at Work on New Comedies Among the new comedies started in production recently at the Hal Roach studios in Culver City are an "Our Gang" tworeeler, and a Glenn Tryon comedy vehicle being directed by James W. Horne. Tryon is doing the role of a female impersonater and has Fay Wray, James Finlayson, Jules Mendel and Noah Young as leads in his support. The "Gang" are appearing as "dolls" in the picture they are now filming under Bob McGowan's direction. Bessie Welsh, Milliard Karr and Will Hays are feature d in "Tourists De Luxe," a Century Comedy released by Universal. These scenes are taken from the picture. Pathe Lists May 3 Program ''Our Gang" and Ralph Graves Star in Comedy Releases on Schedule THE Pathe program of releases for the week of May third will bring the final chapter in the serial "Idaho," and a wide variety of short subjects in which comedy and novelty will be featured. The comedy will be supplied by two-reelers produced by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. Ralph Graves in "He Who Gets Smacked" is the Sennett production, while "Shootin' Injuns," featuring "Our Gang," is the Hal Roach contribution to the program. Graves will be seen in a story burlesquing the manlj' art of prize fighting. It was written by Felix Adler and A. H. Giebler. Lloyd Bacon directed and MoUie Malone, Eli Stanton, and Marvin' Lobach heads the supjiorting cast. "Shootin' Injuns" was directed by Bob McGowan. In it the "Gang" feels the urge to go West and slav Redskins of the wild est and savagest sort their fertile imaginations can visualize. In addition to these comedies and the serial episode, there will be a Grantland Spoi'tlight film called "Sporting Judgment," an "Aesop's Film Fable" by Paul Terry and entitled "Permanent Waves," Pathe Review No. 18, and Pathe News, Nos. 3& and 39. The tenth and final episode of "Idaho" brings the romance of Beth Cameron and "Boston" Graham, the pony express rider who throughout the story has aided the girl in her efforts to bring to justice the bandits who murdered her father, to a happy conclusion. The end filnds the outlaws rounded up and law and order established in the frontier district through the courageous efforts of the Girl Vigilante and her followers. Century Has Lengthy Program Abe Stern Returns With Word of FiftyTwo Comedies for the Coming Season A trio of stills from "Hold My Baby," a two-reel Hal Roach comedy starring Glenn Tryon. A Pathe release. ABE STERN, vice-president of Century Comedies, who has just returned from the coast, announces the most ambitious program for the coming season in the history of that organization. The company will release through Universal fiftytwo Century comedies, one each week from August 5th, 1925 to July 29th, 1926. The weekly release scheduled will include a series of twelve comedies starring Wanda Wiley, twelve starring Edna Marian, a series of twelve Buster Brown comedies, two series of six each with Eddie Gordon and Al Alt, and a series of four featuring Charles King. The Buster Brown comedies are expected to be the feature of the Century programThrough arrangement with R. F. Outcault,. cartoonist creator of the character they will be exact screen portrayals of the comic pictures. Buster Brown will be played byArthur Trimble, a boy actor of exceptional talent. Others who have been signed for this series are; Peter the dog, who will play Tige; Doreen Tuiner as Mary Jane; Katherine Young, as the mother; Charles King, as the father; Emily Gertes, as the maid, and Dorothy Vernon as the cook. The Buster Brown comedies will be released one each month. They will be directed by Charles Lamont from stories and continuities by Geoi-ge Me Williams.