Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1919)

August p , I p I Q 1257 Universal Educationals Are Sought For Harry Levey, general manager of the Universal Educational and Industrial Departments, returned this week from a several days' visit in the west, during which time he visited lousiness acquaintances in Cleveland, Chicago and other points. Incidentally, he announced that he had brought back to New York the largest contract for the distribution of educational pictures in the history of the industry. ' Mr. Levey is supervising the pro ■ duction of several thousand feet of educational film devoted to the rubbt r industry. One of his cameramen is at present in the South Seas, and while there will take several thousand feet of film on the Islands of Sumatra, Java and Borneo. New Christie Special in Preparation Al E. Christie has started production upon his new Christie Special in two reels featuring Edith Roberts, Neal Bums and Eddie Barrj-. Neal liurns not only is Miss Roberts' main support, but is author of the story as well. The picture, which will be ready for release sometime in September, will be called "He Married His Wife." Woman in State Rights Distribution Field It has remained for Cleveland to produce a woman state rights distributor. Miss Margaret Celestia Perron, has accomplished two important things. She paid $40,000.00 for the Ohio rights of the picture, " Determination," which is to be made shortly, said to be about the biggest price ever paid for the Ohio rights. Vivian Martin Returns to New York Vivian Martin, who tripped away from Broadway three and a half years ago for a fling at motion pictures after her stage successes in " Stop Thief," " Officer 666 " and " The Only Son" and who has been making from nine to eleven pictures annually ever since, has returned to New York for her first visit. Second Part of jose Film in Making The first half of "Mothers of Men," the first of the Edward Jose Productions for Film Specials, Inc., featuring Claire Whitney and Lumsden Hare, has just been completed. This takes in the German Episodes of the book. Part 2, which is composed of the French Episodes of this novel by Henry William Warner and DeWitte Kaplan, was started last week with Martha Mansfield in the role of the French girl, "Paulette." Mr. Jose is using some remarkably elaborate sets for "Mothers of Men," one of them a typical German bier garten, in which almost three hundred extras take part. There will also be an elaborate wedding scene, and several settings giving opportunity for the display of ultra smart fashions in the gowns worn by Martha Mansfield. Pauline Fredrick in " The Peace of Roaring River," a Goldwyn feature Kremer Resurrects Features Many Popular Pictures Including " Skinner's Dress Suit " Are Offered <<gKINNER'S DRESS SUIT" will second time very shortly. This will be followed later by the other two in the Skinner series, " Skinner's Bubble " and " Skinner's Baby." These features will be released State Rights by Victor Kremer Film Features. It was decided to put out new prints on these pictures after hundreds of inquiries had come from exhibitors asking why Skinner was not on the market again. " Skinner's Dress Suit " is the story of Henry Irving Dodge, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The picture features, as does the other Skinner stories, Bryant WashRurn and Hazel (Honey) Daly. The story of the rise of a man of ability from a clerk to a partner in ner's Dress Suit " a second time. A full complement of new advertising matter will be put out. with the picture. Victor Kremer also is planning to distribute other Essanay feature pictures, beginning early in the fall, probably in September. The first releases will be a block of ten pictures, to be released one a week through state right buyers. These vinll include two Henrv B. Walthall pictures, " The Misleading Lady " and " Little Shoes," two of the best pictures made by this genius of the screen ; the best of the Taylor Holmes features, " Efficiency Edgar's Courtship"; a Bryant Washburn mystery play, " The Alster Case " ; " The Man Trail," with Captain Richard C. Travers, the star who quitted photo Star Aids Stage Women's War Relief Miss Constance Binnej', who will star for Realart Pictures spent all of her spare time last week in the interest of the Stage W'omen's War Relief. This organization is presenting a series of twelve photodramtic productions in which appear the foremost stage celebrities of the present day. The play in which Miss Binney starred was known as "Tom's Little Star." It was written by Islrs. Otis Skinner, and associated with Miss Binney in the cast were Blanche Bates, William Jefferson, Wheeler Dryden, Henry Hull, Lucia Moore and John W^ Cope. his firm, after having been a drudge pigy^ to enter the armv when the war for years, because he invested in a dress suit and moved among the men who amounted to something, attracted unusually wide attention. Exhibitors, who ordinarily use only first run pictures, have expressed themselves as desiring to make an exception in this case and to run " Skin broke out; four Jack Gardner western dramas, " The Range Boss," " Open Places," " Men of the Desert " and " Land of Long Shadows," and " The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row," featuring Mr. Travers and Sallie Fisher. Campaign to Exploit Pauline Supreme Pictures Plan Far Reaching Advertising of Serial with Hypnotist Well Known Players in Blanche Sweet Cast A Zulu village has been constructed in Tejunga Pass near Los Angeles for use in the production starring Blanche Sweet titled "A Woman of Pleasure," an English melodrama by James Willard. The storj', which was picturized by George Elwood Jenks, and is being directed by Wallace Worsley, has been enlarged upon for screen purposes to a size of seven reels. In the cast are several well known players including Wheeler Oakman. Wilfred Lucas, Spottiswoode Aitken, Joseph Swickard and Frederick Starr, not to exclude the rising juvenile. Wesley Barry. William Desmond in " A Sage Brush Hamlet," a Robertson-Cole release T ROBERT PAULINE, hypnotist J » and vaudeville headliner, who has just commenced work on the new Supreme Pictures, Inc., serial, temporarily entitled "Brewster's ^M^-sterious Millions", is to be given a great exploitation and publicity campaign covering numerous phases of motion picture advertising, according to Mr. Sidney Reynolds, president of the Supreme Pictures, who goes on to state that every city in the United States with a population of 25,000 and over is under consideration for a bill-board campaign wherein twenty-four sheets will be utilized with a design which, it is planned, will be a box-office smash. This poster campaign is being definitely determined with representatives of the poster com panies and artists are already working on the designs. r^Ir. Reynolds adds that a string of 1,500 newspapers is to be utilized to carry the message of J. Robert Pauline across the country while a series of special articles on h^-pnotism and the spirit world are being prepared for use in magazines and Sunday Supplements. One of these series has already been accepted by a syndicate which represents a string of several hundred newspapers in the country — the article going to one newspaper in each city exclusively. Mr. Rej^nolds also announces that the motion picture exhibitors will be acquainted with the merits of his serial through the advertising pages A real monster of the deep, with J. W. Horne, of Universal, its proud captor, beside it