Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1925)

May 16, 19 2 5 223\ OF PRODUCTION in detail with complete lists where information is available Davis Announces 70 Features THE DAVIS DISTRIBUTING DIVISION, INC., lists 70 features for the season This schedule includes "Tales of a Thousand and One Nights," an Ai-abian Nights spectacle, "Red Love," starring John Lowell and Evangeline Russell, 14 productions starring AI Ferguson, eight starring F. Schumann Heink, six James Oliver Curwood dramas, eight feature in which Ken Maj'nard will star, eight General Charles King Frontier features, eight De Luxe society dramas, eight Secret Sei-vice dramas stan-ing Peggy O'Day, and eight Absorbing Melodramas starring Forest Taylor and Ann BerrjTnan. F. B. O. Plans Call For 64 FILM BOOKING OFFICES announces 64 features for the 1925-26 season. Among these will be twelve specials, the balance being pi'ogram features in which there will be the Evelyn Brent series of crook melodramas; the Maurice Flynn series of comedy dramas; the Richard Talmadge series of melodrama; the Fred Thomson series of Westerns; and Bob Custer in a series of Western melodramas. The specials will include: "Drusilla With a Million," an Associated Arts Corjjoration production, based on the novel by Elizabeth Cooper and directed by F. Harmon Weight, starring Mary CaiT, with Kenneth Harlan and Priscilla Bonner in support. "Parisian Nights," a Gothic jjroduction from au original story, directed by Alfi-ed Allen Santell with Elaine Hanimerstein and Lou Tellegen co-staiTing and Reuee Adoree leading the support. "If Marriage Fails?" C. Gardner Sullivan's second independent production, featuring Jacqueline Logan, Clive Brook and Jean Hersholt. The story is an original by Mr. Sullivan. "The Keeper of the Bees," an adaptation of the novel of that title by Gene Stratton-Porter, to be directed by James Leo Meehan. "When His Love Grew Cold" and "A Poor Girl's Romance," two of the Laura Jean Libby stories which F. B. 0. have acquired for photoplay presentation through arrangements with the estate of the late author. "The Last Edition," an Emoiy Johnson production written by Mrs. Emilie Johnson. It is probable that Ralph Lewk will be engaged for the leading role in this picture. "The Isle of Retribution," a novel by Edison Marshall; "Flaming Waters," an original by E. Lloyd Sheldon; "The Midnight Flyer," a railroad melodrama; and "The Futurity Winner,' an original romance dealing with the sport of horse racing, complete the list of specials which F. B. 0. will present next year. {Editor's Note. Further pa^-tiouXars setting forth the future productions of tJds ootnparhy in greater detail will he published in an early issue of Motion Pictuke News.) Fifty-seven from First National There will be 52 regular releases and five specials. As far as determined, the list follows: Aug. 16, "The Half Way Girl" (Lloyd Hughes-Doris' Kenyon), by Lloyd Sheldon; Aug. 23, "The Comeback" (MUton Sills), by M. C. D. Crawford; Aug. 30, "Graustark" (Norma Talmadge), by George Barr McCutcheon; Sept. 6. "Shore Leave" (Richard Barthelmess & Dorothy Mackaill), by Hfubert Osborne; Sept. 13, "Classified" (Corinne Griffith), by Edna Ferber; Sept. 20, "Pace That Thrills" (Ben Lyon-Mai-y Astor), by Byron Morgan; Sept. 27, "The Dark Angel" (Geo. Fitzmaurice Prod.), by H. B. Trevelyan; Oct. 4, (Johnny Hines Prod.),; Oct. 11, "Flora Meets a Gentleman" (Barbara La MaiT), by Elsie Jean Gerard; Oct. 18, "Unguarded Hour" (Dorothy MackaUl-Lloyd Hughes), by Margaretta Tuttle; Oct. 25, "The Sea Woman" (Edwin Carewe Prod.), by Willard Robinson; Nov. 1, "The Splendid Road" (Frank Lloyd Prod.), by Vingie E. Roe; Nov. 8, "We Moderns" (Colleen Moore), by Israel Zangwill; Nov. 15, "Scarlet Saint" (Mary Astor), by Gferald Beaumont; Nov. 22, "Dangerous Mrs. Denham" (M. C. Levee Prod.), by V E. Powell; Nov. 29, "The Man She Boug;ht" (Constance Talmadge), by Pearl Doles Bell; Dee. 6; "Invisible Wounds" (Robert Kane Prod.), by Frederick Palmer; Dec. 13, "Forever After" (Corinne Griffith), by Owen Davis; Dec. 20, Norma Talmadge Prod. ; Dec. 27, Milton Silis rod. ; Jan. 3, "Waning Sex" (John Stahl Prod.), by Frederick & Fanny Hatton. "Clarissa and the Post Road" (Colleen Moore), by Grace Sartwell Mason; "A Husband for George Anne" (Colleen Moore), by Hazel Christie McDonald; "Don Juan's Three Nights" (Colleen Moore), by Ludwig Biro; "Irene" (Colleen Moore), by James Montgomery; "Paradise" (June Mathis Prod.), by Cosmo Hamilton; "Niizaretli" (June MathLs Prod.), by Clarence Buddington Kelland; "Bed and Board" (Mary Astor), by Ix-onore Coffee; "The Savage" (Earl Hudson Prod.) by Ernest Pascal ; "Out of the Ruins" (Frank Lloyd Prod.), by Sir Philip Gibbs; "Rose of Monterey" (Frank Lloyd Prod.), by Mena E. Smith & Eugenia Woodward; "Heirs Apparent" (Edwin Canw Prod.), by Sir Philip Gibbs; "Boss of Little Arcady" (All Star), by Harry Leon Wilson; "Joseph Greer and His Daughter" (All Stai), bv Henry Kitchell Webster; "The Far Cry" by Arthur Richman;"The Just Steward," liy Richard Dehan ; "Sailors' Wives," by Warner Fabian ; "Puppets," by Frances Liglitner; "The Tidal Wave," bv Hutchinson Boyd; "Hat of Destiny," by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor; ""Isles of Romance," by Richard Connell. "The Lost Worid" (Rothacker— 1st Nat'l. Prod.), by Sir Couan Doyle; "Quo Vadis," by Heinrich Sienkiewicz; "Winds of Chance' (Frank Lloyd Prod.), bv Rex Beaeii; "Viennese Medley" (June Mathis Prod.), bv Edith' O'Shaughnessv ; "Men of Steel" (Milton Sills), by R. G.' Kirk. Fox Will Have 49 TN the list of 49 features which Fox Film has announced for the '■year are the following: "The Iron Horse," the si^ectaeular romance of the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, written by Charles Kenyon and px-oduced by Jolin Ford \vith George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, J. FaiTell MacDonald. in the leading roles. "The Fool," adaptation of Channing Pollock's stage success, produced by Harry Millai-de, with Edmund Lowe in the leading role. "As No Man Has Loved," adapted from Edward Everett Hale's "The Man Without a Country" and produced under the direction of Rowland V. Lee. All three of these specials have been presented at pre-release engagements. "Havoc," produced on the English and American stages, and adapted by Edmund Goulding. Rowland V. Lee is the director and George O'Brien heads the cast, in which Madge Bellamy and Walter McGrail appear. "The Fighting Heart," based on Lan-y Evans' novel "Once to Every Man," adapted by Lillie Hayward and directed by John Ford with George O'Brien and Billie Dove in the leading roles. "The Johnstown Flood," an original story directed by Reginald Barker with Edmund Lowe, Jacqueline Logan, Alma Rubens, and Paul Panzer in principal roles. "Silieria," based on the stage play by Bartley Campbell, directed by Victor Schertzinger, from the scenario by Ed£rid Bingham. "Thank You," one of the John Golden plays, -written by Winchell Smith and Tom Cushing. The adaptation is by Frances Marion and John Ford will direct. "When The Door Opened," James Oliver Curwood's novel, to be directed by Reginald Barker from a script by Harry Chandlee. "The Dixie Merchant," based on the novel "The Chicken Wagon Family" by Bairy Bonefield, and adapted by Edfrid Bingham. Victor Schertzinger will direct a cast headed by Madge Bellamy and Jky Hunt. "The Silver Treasure," an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" to be made under the direction of RoAvland V. Lee, and scenarized by Lillie Hayward. "Kentucky Pride," a John Ford production dealing with the race track and presenting a cast which includes Hemy B. Walthall, J. Farrell MacDonald, Gertrude Astor and others. "Man-iage," a screen version of the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, to be directed by Roy Neill. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a picturization of Samuel Coleridge Tayloi-'s famous poem, adapted to the screen by Robert Lord. "East Lynne," famous stage play and novel, scenarioized by Lenore J. Coffee, directed by Emmett Flynn with a cast including Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Lou Tellegen, Marjorie Daw, Frank Keenan, Lj dia Knott, Paul Panzer and others. "Thunder Mountain," based on the John Golden play "Howdy Folks," written by Pearl Franklin, adapted by Gerald C. Duffy' and to be directed by Victor Schertzinger. "Lightnin','' a picturization of the famous Frank Bacon play, produced on the stage by John Golden. Fi-ances Marion made the adaptation and John Ford directed. Jay Hunt in the name role will be supported by Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ethel Clayton, Otis Harlan, Wallace McDonald, Richard Travers and others. "Three Bad Men," written by Charles Kenyon, and directed by Rowland V. Lee with George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Alma