Motion Picture News (Mar-Jun 1920)

June 12, i p 2 o Goldwyn Product Sold in South America Arthur Ziehm, foreign sales manager for Goldwyn Distributing Corporation, has closed a contract at a high figure for the marketing of Goldwyn's third year product in Chile, Bolivia and Peru. The deal negotiated last week brings the largest return to Goldwyn ever realized in those South American countries. Up-to-date exploitation methods are being adopted, and exhibitors, profiting by experience, are said to have come to realize the value of creating a following for certain stars Several of the Goldwyn artists are already well established with South American motion picture fans, and their popularity has created the exhibitor's confidence in the newer favorites on the Goldwyn program, such as Will Rogers and Jack Pickford. 4787 June Mathis Adapting "The Four Horsemen" June Mathis, head of Metro's scenario staff, who recently arrived in New York from Hollywood, already is deep in the task of casting into motion picture form Vicente Blasco Ibanez's novel, " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." At Metro's Sixty-first street studios it was intimated that production of this celebrated story would start about the first of July. No mention was made of the probable members of the cast. It will be produced under the personal supervision of Maxwell Karger, Director General of Metro, with an allstar ensemble. Items Regarding Pathe (Serial Activities Robert Brtmton has selected Jack Mathers for the heavy role, Natalie Warfield for a " vamp " part, and William Brown to play characters in the new serial, starring Charles Hutchison. W. S. Van Dyke is directing the picture under Mr. Brunton's supervision. According to Pathe, reports from the branch offices show that the favorable verdict of the reviewers on " The Third Eye " is being verified by the cordial reception accorded it upon its initial showing in the various houses that booked it on release. Sixty Features on Its Schedule A MINIMUM of sixty special feature attractions, Erom fifteen independent producing organizations, will be released in exhibitor owners of sub-franchise:! by Associated First National Pictures, Inc., during the 1 1 0_? i season beginning Augusl 30 of this year and terminating about May 15, 1921. This statement, together with an explanation of production sources and the nature of releases, is contained in an announcement made this week, preliminary to an official listing of the titles of the entire schedule, which, it is said, will be available for publication next week. The new schedule carries an increase of approximately twenty-five per cent in the total number of attractions to be distributed by Associated First National for (Incoming season over the aggregate schedule for the season just ended. The summer schedule <<\ releases, which begins on June 7, witli an Allan Dvvan production, "A Splendid Hazard," presented by Mayflower, was announced I wo weeks ago. This has since been supplemented with two additional attractions, giving a total of nine itleases instead of seven. Following the initial Allan Dwan production through Associated First National will be "Married Life," first of the series of Mack Scnnett specials, to be released on June 14. " Yes or No," starring Norma Talmadge, will he given its first-run presentations the week of June 28, and will be succeeded on July 12 by the third Marshall Neilan production, which has not yet been officially announced under its releasing title, Constance Talmadge will star In "The Perfect Woman" as the production for firstrun houses the week of July 19, to be followed on August 2 by the fifth Katherme MacDonald attraction for the Circuit, entitled "The Notorious Miss Lisle." King Vidor's special feature, "The Jack Knife Man," from the famous story of the same title by Ellis Parker Butler, will be the second release for the month, with August 16 as the date, and the final attraction, concluding the summer season, will be " The Scoffer," the second Allan Dwan production to be released through First National ' / Mayflower. The fall season for First National's exhibitor members will, it is announced, begin on August 30 with " Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway," the first of Charles Ray's personally produced attractions, and adapted from George Cohan's greatest stage success. The star is reported to have taken three of constant work at the to complete this production, hich is now being cut and ediled. id is complete with the exception E about a thousand feel of impor ecle ph. Ne A scene from " The Return of Tarzan,' a Numa Pictures production, distributed by Goldwyn lin has a total of uctions to deliver to Firsl under the terms of his ct, and Marshall Neilan will .._e three special attractions after August 30, not including (he third of his releases through the Circuit, which is scheduled on the summer season list for July 12. ■ Gcqfrc McManus, the famous enrtooniwt, paid a visit lo the Chaplin studios recently and sketched the incomparable Charlie wllile the latter was makine hia next bin lauidi-produccr for First Notional ExHlbltorB1 Circuit. The picture shows Mr. and Mrs. M^Mamis with little Jack Coogon, Jr., find the world's premier fun-maker Norma Talmadge will star in four productions, including one ex ceptionally big special, and Constance Talmadge will have an equal number of new attractions for release between the dales established as the start and finish of the new season, James Oliver Curwood has been given a contract for two personally supervised productions, adapted from his own stories. The firsl will be " Nomads of the North, " on which be is now at work with a company in the north woods of Canada. Charles Kay will provide productions. ICatherine MacDonald is the only other star in the total of fifteen? who will have a maximum of five productions, one of which is before scheduled fur rch Augusl. The remainder of the schedule will be made up of three pictures starring Anita Stewart three in which Mildred Harris Chaplin will be starred, one production to be directed by Sydney Franklin and releaser! under Ins name as the producer, four releases in which Lionel Barrymorc will star under bis eon tract with Whitman Bennett, three personally produced pictures from Allan Dwan, three from Alan Mqubar, one special feature I rom Mack Sennet I, three R. A. Walsh productions, a special release with Mr. and Mrs. Carter Dc Haven in the stellar rules, and a minimum of twelve independently made specials of unusual calibre. ■ * LPEOT E SMITH *THE ISLAND^ BEGENERATION VITACR.APH J