Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1925)

June 20. 1925 Since its rebuilding and additions, the Cosmopolitan studios in New York City are as fine as you uill find anywhere. They are now under the general management of M. S. Epstin. HOPEN HOUSE TO SHRINERS OLLYWOOD kept open house for the visiting Shriners who held their convention in Los Angeles last week. Every studio did itself proud in welcoming the guests who had come from every section of the United States. They registered great enthusiasm in watching the stars step through their paces and the various sets evoked much interest. At the Culver City studios they caught closeups of Elinor Glyn and Jack Conway who was directing the authors latest script, "The Only Thing." These studios entered two large and spectacular floats in the Shriners' parade And many film companies were represented with highly decorated floats. TBIG MITCH' SETTLES DOWN IKED of roaming around and calling home wherever he happened to hang his hat, Michell Lewis has arrived at Journey's End. He has purchased a homesite in Beverly Hills, California (that Edenesque spot, so highly favored by the picture stars). The Lewis lot adjoins the home of Charlie Chaplin and is directly opposite the homesite of Mary Pickford's mother. BMACFADDEN BRANCHES OUT ERNARR MacFADDEN, not content with being a publisher of a dozen magazines and a newspaper, has branched out as a film producer. His newest enterprise is the True Story Film Company, Inc., and in honor of the occasion the Astor Distributing Corporation gave a luncheon at the Astor recently. TA COLOR SCHEME HEY are going in for brightly colored lipsticks out in Hollywood— lipsticks that vary from the favorite shade of red to green and purple hues. Though many are claiming credit for originating^ ihe new shades the real origin must be credited to the studios. Under the w. k. Kleigs and Cooper-Hewitts weird effects are produced. As most of us know the natural color of the lips takes on a purple hue under the studio glare. So what would be more effective than dobbing the Hps with a purple lipstick? If this new color scheme lakes on at the studios it will only be a question of time before the drugstores will be putting in a stock of them. Eleanor Boardman has had some special green and purple sticks made, because they have better photographic values than the red. Another smart addition to milady's toilette with this new fashion is having the upper and lower eye-lids colored to match. It creates a bizarre, but attractive effect. Miss Boardman has gone in for other colors, too. She is going lo wear a blond wig, just like Alice Terry, in order to meet the critical eye of Elinor Glyn, in whose latest opus, "The Only Thing, " the plays a golden-haired princess. Conrad Nagel will play opposite as a king or duke or something (the Glyn people are always royalty, or at least spring from very aristocratic stock), and we are wondering if perhaps he might wear a coal-black wig by way of contrast. This is a suggestion to Mr. Nagel. Dorothy Devore, Warner Brothers' star, supervises the first public outing of the new family of Cameo, the dog comedian. If they all turn out little Cameot. there ivill be a merry time around the kennels. This handsome float tvas one of those entered by the Metro-GoldwynMayer in the Shriner's Pageant held in Los Angeles, and which captured first prize. On the float are Fred Niblo, Gertrude Olmstead, Renee Adoree, Louis B. Mayer, Claire Windsor, Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf. T THOSE WAR STORIES XT certainly looks as if the public is not so tired of war stories after all. While the World War ended seven years ago, producers became "scary" of making pictures that carried a war atmosphere, 1 here were too many hatreds — and people wanted to forget the late unpleasantness. After several war stories had been produced and found Not So Good from a box-office value, the sponsors checked out on them. They turned thumbs down and played their fiddles in peaceful pastures. Now comes a tide of war stories — which indicates that the public is in a more receptive mood for them. Seven years has brought a glamour. The song of hate has been dissipated. 1 hrough the past year there have been several war plays. And the coming season is dotted with them. King Vidor is busy putting over the big war scenes in "The Big Parade," the Laurence Stallings story — and on most every other lot you can discover some sort of war atmosphere. Some of the war pictures which have already reached the screen include "Isn't Life Wonderful," "I Want My Man," 'The Crowded Hour," "Friendly Enemies," "The Crimson Runner." "Recompense." "The Spirit of the U. S. A.." "The Fighting American," "New Lives for Old," "A Man Must Live," and "The Humming Bird." Those which will follow in a few weeks or months include "Buddies," "Seventh Heaven." "Havoc," "Mare Nostrum," "Out of the Ru3i." ' Yorever After," and "Back to Life."