Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1921)

2010 Motion Picture N e'a,\ Educational Announces New "Cinal Films" THE Blanchard Film Company has begun work on the fifth of a series of slow motion specialties for Educational under the name of Cinal Films. The fourth of those novel and instructive specialties, called "The Manly Art of Self Defence," has just been released by Educational Exchanges. Miss Kellerman has acted in two of the Cinal Films, "The Art of Diving" and " High and Fancy Diving " These are the first and third releases of the series. In the second picture, " Golf," Alex Morrison, former professional at the California Country Club, solves for the golfer such difficult problems as how to keep your eye on the ball, the perfect stance, etc. "The Manly Art of Self Defense," just made available for theatre presentation, shows how the scientific boxer takes advantage of " openings " that are so brief that they are not observed by anyone outside of the ring. Young Earl France, Pacific Coast lightweight champion, and Billy McCahn, lightweight champion of Ohio, staged the bout for this picture. Quick Sales Reported on "Heart of North" Additional sales of great importance were closed this week on "The Heart of the North," the George H. Davis-Joe Brandt feature of the Canadian Northwest which is being offered on the States Right Market by Mr. Brandt and Mr. Davis. Midland Films, Inc., of Minneapolis, has taken over the feature for the Minnesota, and North and South Dakota territory. The deal was closed early in the week between Tom Burke of Midland and Mr. Brandt. Sales on "The Heart of the North" were made at the rate of almost one a day during the week just past. "Foolish Age" Announced for October Release Doris May's first starring vehicle for R-C Pictures, " The Foolish Age," was passed by the board of censors of Chicago without a single cut, the reviewers commenting enthusiastically upon its wholesomeness and high entertainment value, it is reported. " The Foolish Age " is scheduled for release October 16 but will have a pre-release screening at the Park theatre, Boston, October 10, at which time it will begin an engagement of three weeks. It is based upon an original story from the pen of Hunt Stromberg. who supervised the production. William A. Seiter directed. Scene from the Italian film spectacle, " Theodora," to be distributed by Goldwyn Five Goldwyn Sixth Soon to Be Village Built for " FIVE big productions are now under way at the Goldwyn studios on the Coast and a fifth will soon be started. A Russian village has been built near the studio for Anzia Yezierska's " Hungry Hearts," which E. Mason Hopper is directing. Bryant Washburn and Ethel Kay head the cast. Russian players have been engaged as extras to give atmosphere to the Russian portions of the photoplay. Irvin Lossman, a social worker and newspaper man who has just returned from Russia, is acting as technical adviser. Miss Kay spent her early life in Russia. Sonia Marcelle, playing the mother role, was born in Russia and has just returned from a trip to Poland. Sophie Fabian, who plays the music for the actors, has just arrived from Poland. E. A. Warren has been added to the cast of Gouverneur Morris' "Yellow Men and Gold," which Irvin V. Willat is directing with Richard Dix and Rosemary Theby 's Under Way Started; Russian Hungry Hearts " in the leading roles. The company is now at Catalina Island after spending a week at San Pedro. Two ships have been chartered to make the sea scenes. It takes Lon Chaney three hours to make up for one of his two roles in " The Octave of Claudius," by Barry Pain — the role of the hunchback. Jacqueline Logan, the "Follies" beauty, plays opposite him. Wallace Worsley is directing. Gossip at the studio has it that the hunchback will be Lon Cheney's most distinctive contribution to the screen. Director William Beaudine, Cullen Landis, Patsy Ruth Miller and the other players in Julien Josephson's picture, " The City Feller," have returned from Los Olivos where the small town scenes were filmed. Director Rowland V. Lee, Jack Abbe, Winter Blossom and others in the company acting Gouverneur Morris' Chinese fantasy "What Ho — the Cook ! " are making excellent progress on that picture. Production Speeding L at R-C Coast Studios PRODUCTION activitiei are speeding up at the I R-C Pictures Hollywood stu [ dios under the supervision of R. J. Tobin, director general of production. Pauline Frederick went on location on October 1 to begin the filming of her next R-C production, "Judith of Blue Lake Ranch," under the direction of Colin Campbell. All the rugged atmosphere of the open country of the West will be injected into "Judith of Blue Lake Ranch," together with plenty of romance and adventure. Doris May resumed work on September 28. She has I begun her second production! for R-C release, "Eden and! Return," a romantic comedy I in which the young star wffll appear as a yoimg girl com-L batting her father's efforts to make her marry only iW'' wealthy man. William A. Seiter will direct. Gasnier has also beg^l work on " Home," a tense}y| dramatic subject to which he] will give his closest attention I during the next three or fonr| weeks. Chic Sale a Stage Favorite Beyfuss Says Star Will Be as Popular on Screen as He Is on Stage CHARLES (CHIC) SALE is starred in the second offering which has been produced by Exceptional Pictures Corporation, entitled "His Nibs." Alexander Beyfuss, vice president and general manager of Exceptional Pictures, states that the same regard the vaudeville and speaking stage has for Mr. Sale the motion picture industry will have after they have seen his first photoplay endeavor, " His Nibs," which the corporation has scheduled for a trade showing in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor on October 6. .-Vniong the hundreds of the expressions of praise and admiration which Chic Sale has received are the following: Bv C. H. Bonte, Philadelphia Public Ledger: "If all vaudeville were as funny and genuinely artistic as Chic Sale, we would be enchanted." By O. O. Mclntyre, the Daily News : "A man I regard as the most artistic producer in New York — a man who has not resorted to the abracadabra and electrobiology of his more successful competitors— once told me that in his opinion Chic Sale was the greatest actor since Joseph Jefferson." The Detroit Journal : " When the final chronicles of the American stage shall be written, there \yill be much to be said for vaudeville in the earlv twentieth century." The Denver Times : " His entry into motion pictures is significant in connection with the appearance of a new type of character, the exact opposite of the groomed Adonis, which has become intensely popular through the work of its two pioneers, Charles Ray and Will Rogers. Romantic and unpolished simplicity, awkwardness of mien and homely ways form the basis of the new idea of acting. Short-Subjects in FonI at Broadway Houses I The standing that Educatiorj Film Exchanges, Inc., has won the leading distributor of short sul jects is illustrated in its showing f I the week of October 2, when fo Educational releases were run in I many big first-run houses of X«l York and Brooklyn. During tl preceding week the Selig-Rork phi toplay, "The Ne'er to Return Roa I was shown at the Strand. Beginning October 2 " Play Ball the first release of the series I Sketchografs, by Julian Ollendorl ran at the Rivoli theatre. [ At the Central theatre "Evl Leaves," another of the Sketch I grafs, was on the program. I " Lyman H. Howe's Famous Ri I on a Runaway Train," which wl shown recently for the third we I at the Capitol theatre, went into tl Brooklyn Strand. I The Capitol showed "The Lsj Hops," a Chester Outing, 3howi I a glacier in ^Montana that is a verl able cold storage plant for milliol of grasshoppers, trapped in a sno l storm as thev crossed the mounta j Kinograms Has Sessioi of League of Nation The first official motion pictuti of the season of the League of Nl tions in the Hall of Reformation I Geneva are shown this week I Education's Kinograms. Heads I many of the more important de I gations representing the fifty rl tions are seen in the views, a I Lord Robert Cecil is shown pres i ing over the meeting of the exe<l live committee. I