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Motion Picture News
Pioneer Preparing for Big Fall Campaign
All ihc dcparlincnts of the Pioneer main office in New York arc running overtime Rcttiny all the details of the fall campaiMii in order, li has alway. lucii the practice of the I'lonrn in l,iy its work out far in ;iilv;iiRr, sd iliat last minute rushes and delays will be eliminated :ind deliveries made long before release dates.
Pioneer's fall season will begin with "What Women Want", with Louise Huff as the star, while "Where Is My Husband?", with Jose Collins and Godfrey Tearlc, will follow. "The Place of Honeymoons" in which the leading roles are played by Emily Stevens and Montagu Love will be released as a special early in September.
Later fall releases will be Alma Rubens in "Thoughtless Women", and the first of the new Pioneer productions starring Violet Mersercau and Edmund Cobb.
Copperhead Series Has "Robin Hood" Theme
Much curiosity in the trade has been aroused as to the nature of the sinry rninilii^; ibrtMigh ihc Cnpperlii .i.i -ri 1, s ,,r drauKis. made Inthe r.i>.r,l IL.urll forporalion and relcjisiil liy ihu riiolo Products Export Company, 220 West 42nd street, New York city. Jim Freeman, the " Copperhead," is a character not unlike that of the outlaw Kobin Hood famed in the history and romance of the twelfth century.
Jim Freeman is ilu Robin Hood of the Bine Ridge section of North Carolina and ^o he often "gels in Dutch." A price is upon his head; he is captured; l)ut escapes to confound his pursuers. Of course he has many love adventures.
W. H. Wright Writing Titles for Chester
William H. Wright, a New York newspaper man and magazine writer has _ succeeded Katherine Hilliker as title writer for Chester Outings and Chester Screcnics. Mr. WrigTu came to C. L. Chester from the New York World. He has had considerable experience in newspaper work in New York, being a member of the New York Tribune staff for five years before he entered the magazine field as associate editor of Outing Magazine.
Blackton Finishes Another
Pathe Says "Passers By" Sets Hot Pace for " Man and His Woman "
COMMOnOr^E J. STUART BLACKTON, who has given Padie two big releases since June, in "Passers Tly " and " Man and His Woman," each of which Iiad a Broadway premiere, has jusi completed aiiollicr protluclioii iillcd "Tlu; }Um-^i nf ihc TnlliuM IVIL" In Mils prodiuiinn he will iiilrodnte .1 iiiw male star in Pallie pictures, llnui tiordoTi, English actor who crit^agcd because of his special tin,, iM, (lir iriMlin,. iMil in "The llMir.r Ml 111, ImHii,,. i;, II," May Ml A \ ii\ , w lir ,i|i|ir.d w.is a big l.n hir ill llic piij)ula[ ily iif " My Husband's Oilier Wife" and " Man ajid His Woman," is cast opposite Gordon.
While preparing his next release for Pathe, Commodore Blackton has been kept informed of the success being gained by " Passers By " and "Man and His Woman." The former, a screen version of C. Haddon Chambers' great stage play, is
selling the pace for " Man and His Woman," having been released some weeks before. The pace is a rapid one, too, says Pathe, for "Passers By" is the most successful of the entire Blackton series released thus far by Pathe.
Among the prominent first-run houses that have booked the allstar production, since its premier at the Capitol, in New York, are: Signal Amusement Co., Chattanooga; Isis, Houston; Rialto, El Paso; Orphcum, Rockford; Auditorium, South Bend; Avoy, Moline; Fisher, Danville, 111.; Family, Davenport, la.; Bijon, Pawtuckct; Broadway, Springfield, Mass. ; Capitol, Springfield, Mass.; Park, Boston ; Strand, Hartford, Victory, Providence ; St. James, Boston ; l-oew's Garrick, St. Louis; Pantages, San Francisco ; American, Troy; Strand, Amsterdam; Albany, Albany; Strand, Syracuse; Palace, Schenectady; and Avon, Utica.
Goldwyn on Capitol Screen
Company Has Had Five Weeks in Big Playhouse and More Coming
riVE solid weeks of Goldwyn ^ productions on the screen of the Capitol theatre is the record which Samuel L. Rolhapfel, manager of the Capitol theatre has handed to Samuel Goldwyn,. Two more Gohlwyn feattu'c; have been booked for later showing and another, Mabel Nonnaiul, in ihe screen version of t \,Ir's "The Slim Princes'^," ■■Imwn there the last of June and tlu lirsi of July.
The five solid weeks of Goldwyn pictures was started on Sunday, July 18, with "Going Some," based on Rex Beach's novel. It was a laughing success, the high standard of which was maintained by Will Kn^^ers in " Cupid, The CowpuiKlu-r," founded on Eleanor (iates' comedy of cowboy life. For the week of .August 1 the Capitol silversheel will reflect the new Goldwyn stellar vehicle for Tom More, "Stop Thief!", made from Cohan & Harris' production of the
t^arlylc Moore spoken farce of the same title. The week of August 8 will be devoted to the new Mary Roberts Rinehart comedy of "prep" school days, "It's a Great Life," based on her own story of " "The Empire Builders."
On August 15 a picture that the Goldwyn staff confidenllv expects to score a sensational knockout will begin a week's showing. It is " The Penally," based upon Gouvemeur Morns* novel of San Franciso's underworld.
After a week's interval the CapiUds screen will again show a Goldwyn feature with Madge Kennedy ni a dual role in "The Girl With the Jazz Heart." Sometime early fall Pauline Frederick will be seen in the picturization of Alexandre Bisson's famous plav
Madame X " The Goldwvn staff expect It to be one of the dramatic sensations of the coming film season.
Equity Film Wins Praise
State Right Men Enthusiastic After Seeing Keep to the Right "
-TpHE ofliccrs of Equity are ed as optimlsticallv ■ a
gratified at the reception being ment of s a teS^ n'^S" rded its "Keen to the Risht " r.-,f,^. siaie rights buyers indi
dcd its " Keep to th,
production — a five-reel Fdith T.,, ferro picture, the second of Eqnil . . state-rights releases. From the verdict of the many buyers wdio have seen the picture, it appears that the name of Edith Taliaferro, associated with many Proadw^iy smccs-^cs whose fame has tr;i\eUiI ihe breadth of the country, is one of the chief features of interest. While it was known that the connection of a Broadway star with a production immediately carried weight with exhibitors and fans, the popiilarity of Edith Taliaferro was never cstimat
alia
cates.
The gist of the opinion expressed Pictur-? "d-J^ '^'hat^he
aJ :, ol^ subject that is
ar above clieap sentimentality-. Alto vis? '^'''''V' the TtL^ ^".appealing tale of love
intensit). The side chts intro d ujed occasionally stand out in ex
10 the very last.
Scene from Arrow's five-reel comedy " Bachelor Apartments," in which Georgia Hopkins is starred
National Distirbution on GuaranteedjPlan
"Guaranteed Circulation" is to be one of the big assets of the Harry Levey Service Corporation releases, according to plans made public by Harry Levey, president of the company. Industrial and educational motion pictures produced by the company are to be given nation-wide distribution on a guaranteed plan.
Having; had wide experience in the distribution of this type of picture, Chester C. Kleber, secretary of the company, has been placed in charge of this end of the work and has already perfected plans along this line.
" By careful study of exhibitors' needs, Mr. Kleber knows how to fit into their program such educational pictures as will round out to best advantage an evening's entertainment," says a statement from the Levey Service headquarters.
Notes Here and There
Eileen Percey is beginning work in the film version of the Edgar Franklyn story " Beware of the Bride" under the direction of Howard M. Mitchell and the Lieut. Lockear Company is at San Francisco shooting aerial scenes over the city for "The Skywayman " leading woman. Upon completion of this subject Miss Lovelv is to be starred by the Fox organization, stories for the Lovelv productions having been selected.
Hampton del Ruth, supervising director of the Fox comedy section since his return from New York, where he went with his big special comedy which has been titled
Skirts," has been making the necessary preparations for the filming of another super-comedy.
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Sylvia Breamer Starts Franklin Directing
Sylvia Breamer has started work on the second production under her contract with Sidney A. Franklin, the director-producer. Miss Breamer will be featured in " Parrott and Company," a screen version of the novel by Harold MacGrath. The production will be filmed at the Hollywood Studios.