Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1922)

,2 nit a r y 28, 1922 739 .1 D V A N C E VIEWS OF COMING ATTRACTIONS Live News From Producers r H A T THE M_A^^R_S S_AJT AE_0_U_T_ PJ^CJ^JJJR^S “Saturday Night” Offered Paramount Launches Drive on DeMille Picture, February 5th Release ] e Murray, Metro star, whose latest release is “Peacock Alley” Duchess of Langeais” Cast Is Completed Conway Tearle arrived in Los lgeles on January 5th, to play a iitured role in Norma Talmadge’s ixt production, “The Duchess of 1 ngeais,” work upon which began ( January 2 at the United Studios. . inouncement also was made by joducer Joseph M. Schenck that 1 edgewood Nowell had been ad(d to the cast of “ The Duchess of 1 .ngeais.” Norma Talmadge now has an alljir cast in her support. The com] -te supporting roster of princi] Is includes besides Conway Tearle :d Mr. Nowell, Adolphe Jean lenjou, Rosemary Theby, Kate Ister, Irving Cummings, Otis hrlan, and Thomas Rickets. i Frank Lloyd, considered one of L screen’s most capable directors, ill handle the megaphone for the Induction, the script of which was liEpared by Frances Marion from Ijdzac’s famous story. annie Hurst’s Plan of Marriage in Story’ When Fannie Hurst’s novel plan married life received considerle attention in the news columns lime months ago, Lewis Allen lowne, a Selznick scenarist, det ted in the newspaper articles a lirm-idea for a motion-picture i'ry. The result of Mr. Browne’s I'fk will be seen late in January, ten “Why Announce Your Marge?” starring Elaine Hammerin, will be released by Selznick. 'files Welch plays opposite Miss iimmerstein in this production. ie supporting cast includes Artr Housman, Frank Currier and mence L. Billings. The picture s directed by Alan Crosland. THE Paramount publicity and advertising department has launched a big advertising campaign for Cecil B. DeMille’s newest super-special production, “Saturday Night,” which is scheduled for general release February 5. The picture, incidentally, has been booked for simultaneous pre-release showing in New York at the Rialto and Rivoli Theatres commencing Sunday, January 22. Heralding the general release of the picture, the Saturday Evening Post in its issue of February 4 will carry a double-page advertisement announcing that it will be shown during the following week at more than 250 theatres throughout the country. In this day and date booking Paramount is following the policy used so successfully with the “Affairs of Anatol.” One of the most complete lines of accessories that Paramount has ever prepared is now available at the Exchanges. This consists of special posters, many of them done by Henry Clive; lobby displays, newspaper and teaser ads, slides, etc. These are all reproduced in the “Saturday Night” press book. It will be recalled that “Saturday Night” is the picture which Cecil B. DeMille declared was the best he had ever made. It is from an original story and scenario by Jeanie Macpherson and treats the subject of mismated marriages in a manner which is said to give the picture a widely popular appeal. The four leading characters are played by Leatrice Joy, Edith Roberts, Conrad Nagel and Jack Mower. The picture was filmed with the customary sumptuousness which distinguished the productions of Mr. DeMille, and in addition it is said to contain an unusual number of thrills. For instance, almost the first thing that Miss Joy was required to do in the filming of the picture was to drive a high-powered automobile into a dangerous skid, then run it out on a railroad trestle a hundred foot above the ground, abandon the car as an approaching electric train menaced it, and with her fellow player, Jack Mower, swing suspended below the trestle as the train rushed overhead, crushing the car to junk above them. In addition to the principals mentioned above, the cast includes Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Theodore Roberts, Sylvia Ashton and John Davidson. Metro Special Due Feb. 27 Indefinite Runs for “ Turn to the Right ” in Chicago and on Coast TWO theatres, the Mission, Los Angeles ; and the Randolph, Chicago, have secured from Metro Pictures Corporation pre-release bookings for indefinitely long exhibitions of “ Turn to the Right,” the Rex Ingram production of John Golden's great Broadway stage hit, written by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard. With these two exceptions, “Turn to the Right” will not be shown to the American public generally before February 27, the date set for opening the distribution of the newest Ingram masterpiece. The number of inquiries, either by telegraph or by letter, which have come to the exchanges and to the home offices of the company, regarding “ Turn to the Right,” promises to exceed even the multitude “ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ” called forth, declares a statement from the Metro headquarters. The tenor of the communications regarding “Turn to the Right ” is that the exhibitors had looked forward to getting a Wm. Russell Picture Is “Strength of the Pines” William Russell, the Fox star, is soon to be seen in a picture based on the novel “ Strength of the Pines.” The production is finished and is said to be one of the best in which Russell has been seen. Irene Rich is his leading woman. flying start toward a big year by showing the newest Ingram picture, declares Metro. The adaptation was done by June Mathis who is responsible for the screen versions of “ The Four Horsemen ” and “ The Conquering Power.” The cast assembled by Mr. Ingram for this production, which is said to be the most expensive picture yet produced by Metro, includes Alice Terry, Jack Mulhall, Harry Myers, George Cooper, Edward Connelly and Lydia Knott. John F. Seitz did the camera work, and Harold Grieve and Amos J. Myers were in charge of the settings. Otis Skinner, as he will appear in “ Miser Antonio,” by Booth Tarkington, which he will make for Exceptional Pictures Private Showing in St. Louis for “Jane Eyre” Dr. Arthur A. Bostwick, secretary of the libraries of St. Louis, Mrs. John S. Payne, chairman of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and more than three hundred members of the representative civic and literary organizations of that city were guests at a private showing of the Hugo Ballin-Hodkinson production, “ Jane Eyre,” at the Delmar Theatre last Friday. Mrs. John S. Payne, secretary of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, who spoke at the close of the showing, pledged herself to use her influence with every woman’s club in the city in behalf of the picture during its week’s run at the Delmar and Criterion, which started January 14th. “Fauntleroy” Reviewed by Former Diplomat When Mary Pickford’s film version of “ Little Lord Fauntleroy,” the United Artists release, was shown recently at the Lucas Theatre, Savannah, Ga., it was reviewed for the Savannah Press by Pleasant A. Stovall, editor of the newspaper, and formerly United States Minister to Switzerland. A. L. Selig, exploitation man for the Lucas, persuaded Mr. Stovall to write his views of Miss Pickford’s picture. “ Mary Pickford’s interpretation of the double role of ‘ Dearest ’ and ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ will probably never be excelled by her in the picture realm,” wrote Mr. Stovall. “And when we say that Mary Pickford cannot surpass it, it is as much as saying that the role is unapproachable.”