Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1925)

; 11 II c ] f , 1 9 2 5 2905 CLAEMMLE ENTERTAINS ARL LAEMMLE, the Universal chief, did some entertaining last week. He gave a luncheon at the Madison Hotel in honor of Here Mclntyre, general manager of Universal's branch offices in Australia and New Zealand — who is in New York on his first trip to America, and James V. Bryson, general manager of the European Motion Picture Company of England, Universal distributor in the British Isles. The luncheon was Mclntyre's introduction to the home office perscnnel. He has been the Australian manager for several years and has done much to put Universal in an enviable position in that quarter of the globe. Both Mclntyre and Bryson made impressive talks to the guests who included Mrs. Mclntyre, Wanda Wiley, the Century comedy star, now in New York; Mr. Laemmle, E. H. Goldstein. P. D. Cochrane, Paul Gulick, Joe Weil, Meyer Schine. Julius and Abe Stern, Ned Marin, Fred McConnell, Julius Singer, Sydney Singerman, Maurice Pivar, Charles Paine, Oscar Binder, Dave Bader and Henry Clay Bate. T PRINCETON'S FAVORITE HE Princeton Seniors like the Yale Seniors can spot beauty and talent when they see it. When the graduating class of Princeton passed on their annual statistics, a compilation of favorite choices determined by vote each year at Commencement time. Norma Shearer was achieved the honor of being voted "the most popular motion picture actress." This actress' rise to the heights is one of the outstanding events of the past season. It was just a few months ago that she was doing "extra" work, then Metro-Goldwyn executives, appreciating her personality and emotional capabilities, assigned to her leading roles. She was destined for stardom from the moment that she appeared in "The Snob" and "He Who Gets Slapped." -As Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth — and the western universities haven't been heard from — their favorite film choice is causing us considerable suspense. But it would be no surprise to us if she sweeps all the collective campuses of the United States. N ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING ORMAN TAUROG, director of Mermaid comedies, donated his megaphone to Judge James Trout of San Francisco the other day in order that the jurist might shout the wedding ceremony to him and Jufie Leonard. The bride is well known in Hollywood film circles. Those who stood up with them and doubled as witnesses were E. H. Allen, general manager of several units producing comedies for Educational, and his wife. ]ay Hunt, iiho plays the title character in "Lisihtnin " (Fox/, uho is an inveterate yarn spinner (meaning Li^htniti Bill Jones and not Hunt) and has just been directed to put his hand on this "lie detector" and repeat the story of how he drove the suarm of bees across the prairie. L PRESENTING THE COLORS AST Friday night found Holbrook Blinn washing off his Mexican make-up and discarding his flamboyant clothes and the twopint hat — which he wears in "The Dove," in order to bedeck himself in the regulation "soup and fish" so that he might represent Marion Davies at the Hotel Plaza. The occasion called for the presentation of a complete set of colors to the United States World War Amps, an organization composed of badly disabled veterans of the Argonne and ChateauThierry. Miss Davies had arranged to present the colors in person, but she had a picture engagement to fulfil on the Coast. So Mr. Blinn doubled for her. G GLORIFYING GLORIA LORIA SWANSON is going to have a reproduction of herself in oils. A study of her will be executed by Charles G. Sheldon, internationally known portrait painter, who has just arrived in Los Angeles. Having painted Lady Diana Manners, Baroness de Granicourt, Mary Pickford, Fritz Kreisler and several miscellaneous princesses and dukes, what is more natural than Mr. Sheldon's turning his attention to the Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudraye? Banquet of ff arner Bros, officials, stars, players, directors, executives and exchange managers at the Ambassador, Los Angeles, iihile the recent ff arner Bros, convention ivas in session on the West Coast. Many familiar faces tcill be recognized.