Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

2334 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. Xo. 16 PARAMOUNT ANNOUNCES EIGHTEEN FEATURES FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER RELEASE THE Paramount Pictures Corporation announces eighteen forthcoming releases that will be issued by it during October and November, in which its leading stars appear. The list includes : Marguerite Clark. Pauline Frederick, Mae Murray, Marie Doro, Blanche Sweet. Lenore Ulrich, Vivian Martin. Fannie Ward, Marguerite Courtot. Ann Pennington, Louise Huff, Anita King. Myrtle Stedman, Cleo Ridgely, Owen Moore, Jack Pickford, Thomas Meighan. Sessue Hayakawa, Dustin Farnum, Wallace Reid, and others. Plans were laid two years ago by each of the producing companies for efficient photodramatic and scenario departments, and they have steadily grown so that the list of writers, authors and dramatists who are now contributing to Paramount Pictures include the greatest writers of the age. Particular attention has been paid to the type of story that is accepted, and with the producing companies offering from $1,000 to $1,500 for a single idea, it is natural that they are receiving the best that is obtainable on the market. The forthcoming releases announced are : October 2, Lasky, " The Lash," Marie Doro; October 5, Lasky, "The Storm." Blanche Sweet ; October 9, Pallas. " The Intrigue." Lenore Ulrich ; October 12, Morosco, " Her Father's Son," Vivian Martin ; October 16, Lasky, " Witchcraft." Fannie Ward ; October 19. Famous Players. " The Kiss," Owen Moore and Marguerite Courtot; October 23, Famous Players. ■' The Rainbow Princess," Ann Pennington ; October 26, Famous Players, " Seventeen," Louise Huff and Jack Pickford ; October 30. Famous Players, " Miss George Washington," Marguerite Clark ; November 2, Lasky, " The Heir to the Hoorah," Meighan and King ; November 6, Lasky, " The Soul of Kuri San," Hayakawa and Stedman ; November 9, Pallas. " A Son of Erin," Dustin Farnum ; November 13, Lasky, " Unprotected," Blanche Sweet ; November 16, Lasky, " The Years of the Locust," Fannio Ward ; November 20, Famous Players, " The Heir Apparent," ^lae Murray ; November 23, Lasky, " The Yellow Pawn." Ridgely and Reid ; November 27. Famous Players, " Charlotte Corday,'' Pauline Fredcrick ; November 30, Famous Players, New York Society's Horse Show at Piping Rock, L. I. (Mutual Weekly. No. 92) '■ Martyrdom of Philip Strong," All Star Cast. These announcements come simultaneously with the establishment of exhibitors' aid departments in each of the Paramount exchanges and the contest that is being waged for approximately $10,000 in prizes for the most efficient exchange, the latter being based principally on efficient co-operation rendered the exhibitors. With each of these forthcoming productions special exhibitors aids will be distributed and the exchanges will render their clientele every assistance. During the same two months, there will be released by Paramount ten additional editions of the Paramount Pictographs, the magazine-on-the-screen, ten ParamountBray Cartoons, ten Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel Pictures and five Paramount comedies. These " little features " are booked regularly through its various exchanges. The editors of the Paramount Pictographs have formulted important plans for these two months, and each release of the magazine-on-the-screen will have four leading subjects, all of which themselves would make a single reel picture. The editors have cut each of the features to approximately 250 feet, so that in putting four little features together in a single reel release, they have a single reeler. At the Bray studios where the Paramount cartoons are manufactured, additions are being made for the staff of writers and cartoonists. Burton Holmes, the world's greatest traveler, who conducts the weekly tripsaround-the-world for Paramount, has arranged a particularly interesting series of ten trips for these two months, beginning with " A Scotch-Irish Reel," after which some intimate glimpses will be given. " In Old Ireland." From thence there will be a jump taken to the " Southern Italy " climate and from there the travelers go to " The Island of Capri." The trip also leads to " In Classic Greece " and " In Modern Athens." In the latter pictures are shown the Olympian Games in Athens and a Marathon Day in Greece. After these visits are made to " Modem Eg>-pt " and " The Real Streets of Cairo " and " Round About the Pvramids." RICHARD BENNETT'S SISTER IS WITH HIM IN "THE HIGHEST GOOD ' In the cast with Richard Bennett in the Mutual Star Production in which he is now working, " The Highest Good," are both his wife. Adrienne Morrison, and his sister, Blanche Hanson. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett and their two little daughters will return to New York, October 14, but Miss Hanson will remain at the American studios as a member of the stock companj' and will appear in other Mutual features. Some Striking Views of Tense Moments im GauftioBt's New Serial. " Vampires ; or, the Arch Criminals of Paris '