Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

September 28. 1918 THE WEST COAST 5 What Coast Studios Are Doing BERT LYTELL. Metro star, has begun work on his new picture, " The Spender." The scenario, adapted from the story by Frederick Orin Bartlett in the " Saturday Evening Post." was written by George D. Baker and Tom Geraghty. It is the story of a man whose philosophy is " that it is better to spend than to hoard." MAY ALLISON will this week finish " Kate of Kentucky." her latest screen effort. Her next picture will be entitled, " Thirty Days," and the story was provided by Luther Reed. The scenario was written by George D. Baker and Tom Geraghty. WILLIAM S. HART will this week finish his new Artcraft vehicle. " Branding Broadway." when he will leave immediately for New York, accompanied by his entire company. He goes to the Eastern Metropolis to take up Liberty Loan work. " Branding Broadway " is a story intermixing comedy and drama. Seena Owen is his leading lady. Other members of the cast are Arthur Shirley and Andrew Robinson. " HOPE CHEST." the new Paramount picture, in which Dorothy Gish takes the lead, was delayed in its production this week because of the death of the mother of Elmer Clifton, her director. D. W. GRIFFITH has just about finished his third Artcraft release, with Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. Members of the supporting cast are Elmo Lincoln and Fred Butler. Jr. The picture has not been named. THE PICTURE. " Love's Payday," starring Rosemary Theby, was finished this week at the Triangle studios. The story relates to the fisherfolk of Newfoundland. •' CROWN JEWELS," with Clara Anderson in the lead, was another subject finished at the Triangle studios. It is a crook drama. BESSIE BARRISCALE this weelt began work on a new story, " Two-Gun Betty," under the direction of Howard Hickman. It is a comedy-drama, and was written by Mr. Hickman, with continuity by Jack Cunningham. This subject, it was stated by Hickman, is not to be released as a Paralta picture. KITTY GORDON, who recently arrived in Los Angeles, will produce her new pictures for the United Picture Theatre Corporation at the Brunton studios, according to announcement at the studios. It is expected that active production will begin within the next few weeks. LILLIAN WALKER has arranged to film some new subjects at the Brunton studios. KENNETH O'HARA. formerly publicity director for Triangle and Paralta. was this week married to Beulah Booker, Paralta's leading lady. O'Hara is now an aviation cadet at a training field in Texas. The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. J. A. Evans at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at Hollywood. The wedding is a sequence to a whirlwind courtship, and rumor has it that Miss Booker married O'Hara in spite of the fact that her grandfather had stipulated that if she wanted a portion of his fortune she was not to wed until she reached the age of 21 years. DIRECTOR CLIFF SMITH. o£ the Triangle Culver City studios, and E. Mason Hopper, returned to the studios after a deer hunting trip m the Santa Monica Mountains. Jim Adamson, the Triangle barber, was the only member of the party to bring back " deer steak." " THE MOON MAN " is the title of the third Triangle vehicle for Taylor Holmes. It is an original story by Hazel Flynn and Leigh Metcalfe. Daniel Carson Goodman is preparing the scenario. _____ DANIEL CARSON GOODMAN has completed a one-reel farce-comedy entitled. " The Great Idea." It will be sent to George Creel at Washington, chairman of the Bureau of Public Information, and will be released as a Fourth Liberty Loan propaganda picture. Taylor Holmes plays the stellar role. What Seattle Exhibitors Say JOE BRADT. of the Echo. Portland, Ore., reopened his theatre, after having it closed for a few weeks for remodeling. W. W. Kofeldt. manager of the Majestic. Portland, has enlisted in the Marines. HARRY CRISMAN. of Pe Ell. Wash., has closed his theatre. JOHN LEONARD has leased the theatre of H. H. Yates in Oakesdale, Wash. THE AURORA in Aurora. Ore., has been closed. THE AMERICAN. Dayton. Wash., has reopened. C. H. DUNLAP has purchased the Rex in Lakeview, Ore. MANAGER HOLTZCLAW. of the Circle, Portland, attracted a large crowd to his theatre one hot evening by giving away 30 ice-cooled watermelons. AMONG the recent visitors to Seattle was R. W. Lynch, the popular vicepresident of the " Triangle Distributing Company." from New York. The only story he would give was that he was surprised at Seattle's remarkble growth, but was disappointed at her climate, for he had always heard that it rained like the out here, and, instead, he found the sun shining, the birds twittering, the lovers whistling, etc., all the time he was here, while reports from New York and Chicago read that people in those cities were prostrated with the heat. has gone over to Camp Lewis with his wrist watch, given to him by the Seattle Board. R. R. Nave is well known in the Northwest, having been connected with " Triangle " for a long time. MISS C. OLNESS has been appointed as booker for " tringle." B. W. COPELAND is back in Seattle. He is here representing "The American." and will have his office located with the Pathe Company on Film Row, Seattle. Mr. Copeland is one of the oldest and best known film men in the Northwest. He was selling films out here when the old-timers were giving the Indians some of that prohibition stuff for five or six hundred acres of land on which now stands a 42-story building or million-dollar movey. Copeland had theatres of his own around Spokane for years. He also had an office near 729 Seventh avenue. New York, where THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS is published, and he says that is the reason he knows the paper is always full of live stuff, for the heads work hard for it and ALL the fellows, especially Johnston, the editor, are square fine fellows, always hustling for the news. H. L. PERCY, of Medford. Ore., one of the best small towns in the Northwest, is building a theatre patterned after the Liberty in Portland, Ore. FRANK KING, formerly one of the foremost San Francisco exhibitors, is opening an artistically-built theatre in Astoria, Ore. He is remodeling the Columbia and painting a scene of the Columbia River on the curtain and the outside of the theatre. G. G. MAXEY has just returned from his territory in Montana where he has been selling " My Four Years in Germany " with much success for " The Exhibitors' Film Exchange." Salt Lake News and Views MANAGER J. B. RODEN. of the Salt Lake office of the Fox Film Company, is persistently in Idaho these days. To the question, " What do you hear from him?" a member of his office force answered, "Just contracts." CLAUDE A. GRAY, traveling representative of the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, returned recently from a trip through the northern part of Utah, with a report of having booked the picture, Italy's Flaming Front," in every town. JOSEPH STOUT, former manager of the Triangle and World office in Salt Lake, now has the state rights for " Uncle Tom's Cabin " in Utah and reports heavy bookings. GUS HAGER, manager of the Salt Lake office of the Universal Company and W. E. Shiples, manager of the Empire theatre, went to Brigham City for Peach Day there. They got back. MRS. M. B. LA GRAN, manager of the Photoplay theatre, is taking a vacation in California. DETERMINED to have a peep behind the films, J. S. Barlow, manager of the Empress theatre at Magna and the Happy Hour theatre at Murray, has gone to Los Angeles with the declared intention of making the rounds of the moving picture studios. HENRY JOHNSON has opened the Rex theatre in Logan again, after closing it for summer vacation and renovation. JEAN GARBAZE, representative out of Denver of the General Film Company, is on a four-week-trip through Utah. He reports 100 per cent, bookings of his service in Salt Lake. F. A. WAGNER, manager of the local office of the Pathe service, is living with his young son again. When at the tender age of two months the boy left his father, going with his mother to Mt. Pleasant, the two returning when the pride of the family had reached the mature age of five months. If Wagner is to be believed, the boy has exhibited such signs of development that it will be impossible to deny him a position with the firm as a salesman. MOVING PICTURE managers from over the State who have been in Salt Lake contracting for services in the past few days include R. B. Graham, of Gingham; O. E. Mclff. of Marysvale ; E. G. Epperson, of Manti; J. H. Miller, of Heber; H. H. Jensen, of Hyrum; R. B. Thatcher, of Logan; R. E. Ryan, of Brigham City, and from Idaho. Mrs. J. W. Tanner, of Filer; G. Ridgeway. of Kimberly, and Herman J. Brown, of Boise. SEE THE COMPLETE PLAN BOOK IN THIS ISSUE MR. RAIL ROAD NAVE, as he is known among his friends, has been appointed Northwest manager of " The Triangle " office since H. H. Hum