Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1922)

410 Motion Picture News Albert Parker Directing John Barrymore At the Amsterdam Studios in West 44th street, New York. Albert Parker is directing John Barrymore i n his second production following “ The Lotus Eaters,” an adaptation of Cohan Doyle’s famous detective story, “ Sherlock Holmes.” In support of Barrymore, Director Parker, who produced “ The Isle of Regeneration ” and other Norma Talmadge pictures, has selected a cast of prominence, including Carol Dempster, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Hedda Hopper, Anders Randolph, Robert Sellable, and Roland Young. Two Selznick Pictures Near Completion Word comes from the Selznick home office that two of its productions are rapidly nearing completion. They are “ Channing of the Northwest,” starring Eugene O’Brien and directed by Ralph Ince ; and the Henry Lehrman production starring Owen Moore. Jimmy Aubrey, in his new Vitagr.aph comedy, “ The Messenger ”’ A Privilege to Exhibit “Four Horsemen” To exhibit “ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” is a privilege, declared the Rickards and Nace Amusement Enterprises, Irtc., of Phoenix, Ariz., this week in a telegram to B. F. Rosenberg, manager of Metro’s Los Angeles exchange. The Rex Ingram production for Metro of Ibanez’s famous novel recently broke all records at these exhibitors’ Rialto Theatre. “Manger to the Cross” a Holiday Attraction Vitagraph’s six-reel feature, “ From the Manger to the Cross,” is being used by many showmen in various parts of the country' as a special holiday-time offering. Many are running it for the entire week starting Christmas Day, and others are continuing it through the holidays into the New Year, and reporting much interest and good business. ances of the Past and Present ployed by Realart Doing its “ bit ” to end the unemployment problem insofar as it affects the wounded ex-service men, Realart celebrated the beginning of “ The Heart Specialist,” starring Mary' Miles Minter, by employing thirty-five disabled soldiers for certain scenes. The men were given work through the co-operation of Realart with the Hollywood “ Motion Picture Post ” of the American Legion. The picture will be released in April by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Clever Child Actor in Mermaid Comedy A new child actor, little Bobby DeVilbis, whom critics on the Coast have declared has every chance of becoming one of the screen’s most popular child actors, is to be seen with Lloyd “ Ham ” Hamilton in the latest Mermaid Comedy made for Educational featuring this popular comedian. The picture is titled “ Rolling Stones.” Katherine MacDonald as she appears in “ The Beautiful Liar,” a First National attraction Nell Shipman Picture Wins Many Bookings Nell Shipman in “The Girl from God’s Country,” the outdoor animal drama, released by M id Gunning, Inc., has been received by the big exhibitor circuits of the country as one of the strongest box-office cards of the fall and winter season, according to reports which have reached the Mrid Gunning home office recently'. The S. A. Ly-nch Southern Enterprise Circuits in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and other Southern states, booked the pictures for runs over the hundreds of theatres they' control. Other important circuits which lost no time in booking ‘‘The Girl from God’s Country” were : the entire Poli Circuit in New England; Jensen and Von Herberg, Seattle; Lubliner and Trinz Circuit, Chicago; Gore Brothers, Ramish and Lesser, Los Angeles ; Rialto theatre, San Francisco; Turner and Dahnken Circuit, San Francisco; Bernard Depkin, Baltimore, and Bingham and Cohen, Indianapolis. Scene from "The Girl from God’s Country." the Wid Gunning, Inc., special feature starring Nell Shipman Presents Powerful Theme “ Hail the Woman ” Links Intoler ined principles upon the lives of three conspicuous characters. No more vivid story of the making of a reformer has ever been pictured, it is declared, than the development of the character of Beresford’s son which is portrayed by Lloyd Hughes. M ere it not for a series of incidents entirely outside the control of his tyrannical father this son would have become as he started life, a hypocrite and a bigot. The picture portrays as well the distinction between the breadth of vision of the present generation and the past and pictures clearly the difference between the viewpoint of the people of a small town and the people of a large city. The prologue which Mr. Ince built into the picture portrays the conviction of a girl in Plymouth for flirtation and her punishment on the ducking stool, which is connected directly' with the rest of the story. A Scene from “ False Kisses,” a Uni. versal picture starring Miss DuPont Disabled Soldiers Em rHOMAS H. INCE put a powerful argument against the bluelaw's into “Hail the Woman ” his special production released by Associated First National Pictures when he created a prologue laid in Plymouth in 1620, and directly connected the intolerance of the days of the Puritan with the bigotry and intolerance of the present day. “Hail the Woman,” produced from C. Gardner Sullivan’s original story is a severe arraignment of present day' intolerance. The storycenters around Oliver Beresford, a stern and relentless old New Englander, very much the ty-pe of the modern reformer who attempts to regulate the life of his family and of the community in accordance w-ith his rigid principles of conduct. As the head of a rich small-town family the effects of his bigotryare w'ide-spread, and the picture portrays distinctly the influence of his narrow vision and his determ