Motion Picture News (Feb-Apr 1921)

1666 Motion Picture News Buster Keaton Finishing "The Goat" With the completion of the eighth of his series of two-reel comics Buster Keaton finishes his first season with Metro Pictures Corporation. For the final in this series of national mirth makers, Keaton has chosen the title of " The Goat " and with that brand of slap-sticks all his own, proceeds to show the many excruciatingly funny mishaps that may befall a perfectly innocent bystander when old dame misfortune proceeds to name him for her victim. "The Concert" for Capitol Loyal for Five Years Fox Special in Sixth Month on B'way According to a statement from the William Fox headquarters in New York, its special production, "Over the Hill," based on Will Carleton's poem, continues to draw crowds to its Broadway showing. Though the picture is now entering upon its sixth month on Broadway, there is no diminution of the crowds Booked for Week "Guile of Women' GOLDWYN'S picturization of Herman Bahr's comedy, " The Concert," in which Leo Ditrichstein won his greatest success on the speaking stage, under the direction of David Belasco, is the attraction booked for the Capitol theatre for the week beginning Sunday, February 20, to be succeeded the following week by Will Rogers in his latest release, " Guile of Women." " The Concert " is ranked by its producers as the best high-class comedy which the firm has yet made. It was directed by Victor Schertzinger, a musician of reputation and attainment, who has put his knowledge of music to good account in directing this tale of a famous pianist and his amorous temperament. It is a type of comedy seldom attempted on the screen but has been done with such conspicuous success that it has proved beyond any doubt that high, subtle comcdv can be acted on the of February 20; ' for Next Week screen as effectively as on the speaking stage. The cast for " The Concert " includes Lewis S. Stone, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Julienne Scott, and Myrtle Stedman in the four leading roles. In Will Rogers' latest release. " Guile of Women," from a story by Peter Clark MacFarlane, short story and magazine writer, directed by Clarence G. Badger, the former cowboy has almost a straight dramatic role, but with flashes of the old Rogers humor showing through whenever there is a chance. Rogers reveals in this production a ripened mastery of the art of screen acting than influential persons in the screen world who have seen the picture screened declare place him among the very best motion picture actors of the day. In his support are Nick Cogley, Bert Sprott, Lionel Belmore, Charles A. Smily, Mary Warren and Doris Pawn. Robert Hodkinson Has Left for Atlanta Robert Hodkinson, younger son of the president of the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, left last week for Atlanta where he will remain for an extended period. Mr. Hodkinson is learning the business from the ground up and is receiving practical training in every branch thereof. Reports Business as Brisk Executive of Musical Instrument House Reports Music on Increase F)AN BARTON, who has just returned to Chicago headquarters of the Bartola Musical Instrument Company, after an ex The installation of the Motion Picture Projectors and Electrical Accessories in the Ritz Carlton Hotel for the premier showing of "THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE " was made under the personal supervision of JAS. R. CAMERON The equipment consisting of Two Simplex Projectors with Kollmorgan half size lenses Raven half tone screen. Furnished by Theatre Supply Co., 124 West 45th St., New York City. Projection under supervision of HARRY RUBENS. Presentation arranged by MR. HUGO RIESENFELD Let us handle your premier showings Perfect screen results guaranteed — only the highest type of apparatus used. Phone us the time and place of showing and leave the rest to us. All installations supervised personally by JAS. R. CAMERON tended trip through the Central West, is optimistic over the way exhibitors' business is holding up through the territory and declares that the confidence of motion picture theatre owners in the future is proved by the number of contracts for Bartolas and Barton Organs consummated within the past thirty days, as well as a number of future prospects lined up. Mr. Barton also is enthusiastic over the fact that exhibitors are coming to realize more and more the importance of music in their houses. He notes a general tendency to fall in line with the policy pursued in the most successful houses in the country in giving adequate musical atmosphere to pictures. To prove that exhibitors are firmly convinced that the future holds prosperity for them and also see the need of furnishing their patrons with better music, Mr. Barton gave out the following list of organ and Bartola contracts consummated by his organization during the past thirty days : Johnson & Johnson, Lincoln Theatre, Sterling, Illinois ; John F. Niebes. Dawn Theatre, Detroit. Michigan ; F. O. Haugen, Palace Theatre. Brookings S. D. ; Harmes & Grosebeck, Vinton Theatre. Omaha. Nebraska ; E. T. Phillips. Phillips Esrvpt Theatre, Fort Worth. Texas ; T. C. Miller, Princess Theatre, Woodstock, Illinois; East Side Amusement Companv, Eastwood Theatre, Toledo, Ohio; Markle & Small. Markle Theatre. Wymore, Nebraska : John Hess. Elite Theatre. Yankton. S. D. ; F. Bodenschatz. Grove Theatre, Elkin, Illinois; John Herziger, Bijou Theatre, Menash, Wisconsin ; \dams Theatre Comnany, Creston, la.; Oconomowoc Theatre Corporation, Oconomowoc. Wisconsin ; A. Sosnosky, Colonial Theatre, Aberdeen, S. D. " I receive a great many excellent ideas from your paper, and if every dollar I spend brought as big returns as the $3.00 I am enclosing, I should soon be a millionaire. I have not missed a copy of THE NEWS for five years." E. W. Gould (Exhibitor), Lake Grove, N. Y. Joe Martin Returns to Universal Comedies Joe Martin, the orang-outang, is again being featured in Universal comedies, it is announced by Mr. Sidney Singerman, head of the Universal program department. The monkey screen star has not been used at Universal City for many months. Harry Burns, well known as a director of comedies, has been engaged to produce a series of animal comedies featuring, Joe Martin and using the various animals in the Universal City zoo, which contains all kinds of beasts, from lions and elephants down to ant-eaters and armadillos. The first of his new comedies will be released in March. It is a tworeeler called -' The Monkey Fireman." Frank McCormack! Aids in Filming of Play Frank McCormack, who was the stage director of " Experience," George V. Hobart's spectacular play, has been chosen to assist George Fitzmaurice in the film version of the play, which will be made at the Paramount studio in Long Island City. Mr. McCormack not only was stage director with the original company in New York, but also cast and staged all the road companies of the plav. He also played " Crime " in the NewYork production. Harry Carey Entertains Police Inspectors Five Eastern police officers visited Universal City last week and watched Harry Carey making scenes for his forthcoming Universal photodramas. The police were from Boston and Chicago and had come West to take back criminals captured in Los Angeles. They were Detectives Lieutenant William P. Rohan, of Chicago; Inspector William Crawford, of Boston; Detective-Sergeant E. S. McGire, Chicago: Inspector Thomas Towle, of Boston, and Inspector Timothy Sheehan, also of Boston. Fine NightPhotography in Seitz Episode Some unique bits of night photography lend an exciting realism to the scenes occupying the greater portion of " The" Hidden Room." which is the thirteenth episode of the increasingly popular Pathe serial " Velvet Fingers," starring George B. Seitz as a resourceful and adventure-loving detective. The episode will be released February 27th. The scenes aboard the police boat show the use of searchlights to aid in the capture of Robin and his henchmen at the hut on the