Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1919)

i082 Motion Picture News Moments from the seven-reel feature offered by Samuel Cum mings, starring Leslie Hunt, "Some Wild Oats' Produces, Directs and Stars in Picture From scenario writer, director and producer to screen star is a jump that is seldom taken, but George Brackett Seitz, the youngest serial maker in the business, has made it and is now preparing to " present " himself under the Pathe banner. Without ceremony or blare of press agent trumpets, Mr. Seitz has stepped before the camera under his own direction in the stellar role of Frank Leon Smith's ten episode serial, " Bound and Gagged." When this is released, it will be a sort of Seitz jubilee. The leader will read something like this: "'George B. Seitz Productions, Inc., presents George B. Seitz and Marguerite Courtot in ' Bound and Gagged.' Directed by George B. Seitz." Supreme Announces a Serial J. Robert Paulding, Hypnotist, Star Brewster's Mysterious Millions" S. L. K. Serial Demands Costly Settings It is claimed by S. S. Krellberg, president and general manager of the S. L. K. Serial Corporation, that the setting in the new Helen Holmes serial are the finest ever built for a serial. In the main setting alone, the props are valued at $25,000. They are massive and beautiful. Most of the settings and paintings and furniture come from wealthy Fifth Avenue mansions. i in EVERY episode of the fifteen in the forthcoming production "Brewster's Mysterious Millions" will be a five reel feature packed into two reels, according to the announcement by Sidney Reynolds, President of Supreme Pictures. J. Robert Pauline, hypnotist and vaudevillian is the star of the production. The news that he was to make a serial production was kept as a complete secret from the film world by Mr. Reynolds who has been quietly working for the past four months with his director, William Davis, on the story for the serial, making the selection of his cast and putting the finishing touches to the new Supreme Pictures studio at Flushing, L. I. With all preparations completed and the script in perfect shape, Mr. Reynolds has given the word to Mr. Davis to "shoot." Pauline has played the big vaudeville circuits and has mystified thousands. He 'is said to have drawn one of the largest individual salaries in the twoa-day field. In commenting on this serial which he has just started to make Mr. Reynolds expressed himself vigorously to the eflfect that the demand for good, live, well-thought-out and artisticallyconceived serials was never as great as at the present time, and believes that "Brewster's Mysterious Millions" will blaze a new trail in serial ef¥ects." William S. Davis, who has been associated with a number of big stage successes is to direct "Brewster's Mysterious Millions." In the cast supporting Mr. Pauline are Stuart Holmes, Violet MacMillan, as the heroine, Peggy Shanor, Edwin Rogers, George Clarke and others. Authority on Theatre Joins Vitagraph George Randolph Chester, Vitagraph production editor, has by special arrangement enlisted the services of Arthur Edwin Krows, who will adapt for the screen several important literary works purchased by Vitagraph. Mr. Krows was for a number of years associated with Winthrop Ames at the Little Theater. He is the author of several notable works dealing with the theater and the screen. His first work for Vitagraph is the screen adaptation of " The Winchester Woman," a magazine story, now being produced under the direction of Wesley Ruggles with Alice Joyce in the stellar role. Exchanges Prepare For Drive Metro Branch Managers Ready to Handle Increased Business on New Plan More thrilb will be given the public by Helen Holmes in the S. L. K. serial " The Fatal Fortune " METRO exchanges, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border, have the docks cleared for action in preparation for their fall drive with the .Screen Classics, Inc., super-productions that Metro Pictures Corporation is to distribute under its newly announced policy. Several changes in the personnel of branch managers have now been completed and every exchange has settled flown with all plans perfected to handle the big business to come. W. E. Atkinson, business manager of Metro, who has direct personal .supervision over exchange activities, placed a new manager in charge of -Metro's San Francisco exchange this week. He is Fred W. Voight, who has been with Metro as a salesman in the Pacific coast metropolis office for three years. He succeeds L. Reichert. change at 5 So. Wabash Avenue. Mr. Grauman was recently transferred to Chicago from Milwaukee. His successor in the Wisconsin city is H. L. Conway, another salesman raised to the position of branch manager in accordance with the Metro custom. Another recent transfer was that of W. N. SkirboII, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Detroit, Mich. Mr. Skirboll's transfer made an opening for S. Mac Inlyre, a former salesman, to become branch manager in Omaha. Lubin in Sanatarium Bert Lubin, who returned to New York last week after disposing of twenty-five states for "Virtuous Men," is now at Stern's Sanatarium, New York City. Mr. Lubin has found it necessary to undergo an operation on his nose and throat. Arrangements have been made whereby the same surgeon who performed a delicate and successful operation upon Herbert Lubin will act in a similar capacity for the general sales manager of S-L Pictures. . ! To Film in Holy Lands The organization of a new company to be known as the Cosmo Pictures Corporation was announced in Los Angeles by Jules Ratzkowski, first vice-president of that concern, who has just left for Egypt and Palestine to stage a motion picture which it is J. GraujTian is poy/ un(l9r .fulL^team , said wiy cor(taifi muph pf, t^Jie , romance in charge of Metro's Chicago ex and life of the near East. President of Supreme Pictures, Sydney Reynolds, who will produce a seirial with J. Robert Pauline, hypnotist, as the star