Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1922)

3212 Motion Picture News Paramount Announces "Super Thirty nine ( Continued from page 3111) later to a huge ranch in Nevada where a thousand or more Indians had been marshalled for a reproduction of battle between the savages and the heroic emigrants. To provide the proper atmosphere for the screen version of Rex Beach’s great story, “ The Ne’erDo-Well,” Alfred E. Green, the director, Thomas Meighan, the* star, and the entire company are off to Panama, there to film all of the exterior scenes right where the author gathered the material for his story and laid his plot. These are but a few of the things that Paramount has done in order to provide America with its entertainment Tor the remainder of the picture season of 1922-23. Moreover, its own product will be augmented by a number of pictures produced by the Cosmopolitan Corporation, all of which will be distributed through the thirty-six Paramount branch exchanges to the exhibitors and people of the United States. Most of the “ Super Thirty-Nine ” either have been completed or are now in course of production. As for the rest, every last detail has been planned, even the players for the minor roles have been chosen, and the actual dates upon which they will first be shown to the public have been set. Here they are : Marion Davies in “ When Knighthood Was in Flower,” a Cosmopolitan Production. Adapted from the novel by Charles Major. Directed by Robert G. Vignola, with an allstar cast including Forrest Stanley, Lvn Harding and Pedro de Cordoba supporting Miss Davies. Agnes Ayres in “ Racing Hearts,” with Theodore Roberts and Richard Dix. Story by Byron Morgan. Scenario by Will M. Ritchey. Directed by Paul Powell. “ The Covered Wagon,” a James Cruze production, from the novel by Emerson Hough. Scenario by Jack Cunningham. Cast includes. Lois Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Charles Ogle, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Alan Hale, Guy Oliver and John Fox. “The Nth Commandment,” a Cosmopolitan production, with Colleen Moore, James Morrison and Eddie Phillips. Story by Fannie Hurst, scenario by Frances Marion, directed by Frank Borzage. Thomas Meighan in “The Ne’er Do-Well," by Rex Beach. Scenario by Tom J. Geraghty. Directed by Alfred E. Green. In the cast are Lila Lee, John Miltern and Laurance Wheat. Alice Brad}7 in “ The Leopardess,” by Katherine Newlin Burt. Scenario by J. Clarkson Miller. Directed by Henry Kolker. Included in the cast are Robert Ellis, Montagu Love and Charles Kent. Jack Holt in “ The Tiger’s Claw,” by Jack Cunningham. Directed by Joseph Henabery. Cast includes Eva Novak, Bertram Grassby and Claire McDowell. Pola Negri in “Bella Donna,” a George Fitzmaurice production. From the novel by Robert Hichens. Scenario by Ouida Bergere. Supporting Miss Negri are Conway Tearle, Conrad Nagel, Sigrid Holmquist, Claude King and Macey Harlam. “ Grumpy,” a William de Mille production, with Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel. From the play by Horace Hodges and T. Wigney Percyval. Scenario by Clara Beranger. Dorothy Dalton in “ Dark Secrets,” from an original story and scenario by Edmund Goulding, directed by Victor Fleming. Robert Ellis and Jose Ruben head the supporting cast. Mary Miles Minter in “The Trail of the Lonesome Fine,” supported by Antonio Moreno. From the novel by John Fox, Jr., and the play by Eugene Walter. Directed by Charles Maigne. Dorothy Dalton in “ The Law of the Lawless,” supported by Theodore Kosloff and Charles de Roche. From the Pictorial Review story by Konrad Bercovici. Scenario by E. Lloyd Sheldon. Directed by Victor Fleming. “You Can’t Fool Your Wife,” a George Melford production, with Leatrice Joy, Nita Naldi and Lewis Stone. By Waldemar Young, suggested bv a storv by Hector Turnbull. Walter Hiers in “Mr. Billings Spends His Dime,” with Jacqueline Logan. From the Red Book story by Dana Burnet. Screen play by Albert Shelby Le Vino. Directed George Fawcett and Albert Roscoe. Scenario by Waldemar Young. Betty Compson in “ The White Flower,” written and directed by Julia Crawford Ivers. Supporting cast includes Edmund Lowe, Arline Pretty, Edward Martindel and Leon Barry. Marion Davies in “Adam and Eva,” a Cosmopolitan production. From the play by Guy Bolton and George Middleton. Scenario by Luther Reed. Directed by Robert G. Vignola. “ The Go-Getter,” a Cosmopolitan production, with Seena Owen, T. Roy Barnes, Tom Lewis and William Norris. From the story by Peter B. Kyne, scenario by John Lynch. Directed by E. H. Griffith. Gloria Swanson in “ Prodigal Daughters,” Sam Wood production. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. “ The Rustle of Silk,” a George Fitzmaurice production with Betty Compson and Conway Tearle. By Cosmo Hamilton. Scenario by Ouida Bergere. Pola Negri in a George Fitzmaurice production, “ Declassee,” Ethel Barrymore’s great Empire Theatre success by Zoe Akins. Scenario by Ouida Bergere. “ Hollywood,” a James Cruze production, based upon the novelette, “ Hollywood, and the Only Child,” by Frank Condon. With a cast including Cecil B. DeMille, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt, Betty Compson, May McAvoy, Leatrice Joy, Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Theod o r e Kosloff, George Fawcett, Charles Ogle, Walter Hiers, Jacqueline Logan and others. “ Vendetta,” a Cosmopolitan production, with Lionel Barrymore and Alma Rubens. From the novel by Marie Corelli. Scenario by Frances Marion.. Directed by Alan Crosland. Thomas Meighan in “ White Heat,” from the Saturday Evening Post story by R. G. Kirk. Scenario by Percy Heath. Directed by Alfred E. Green. Gloria Swanson in “ My American Wife,” a Sam Wood production, by Monte M. Katterjohn, based on a story by Hector Turnbull. Tony Moreno appears opposite Miss Swanson. “ Adam’s Rib.” a Cecil B. DeMille production. Written by Jeanie Macpherson and featuring Milton Sills, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Kosloff, Pauline Garon, Julia Faye and many other screen favorites. Mary Miles Minter in “ Drums of Fate,” an adaptation by Will M. Ritchey of the novel. “ Sacrifice,” by Stephen French Whitman. Directed by Charles Maigne. Sup porting cast includes George Fawcett, Casson Ferguson and Robert Cain. Jack Holt in “ Nobody’s Money,” scenarized by Beulah Marie Dix from the stage play by William Le Baron, and directed by Wallace M orsley. Wanda Hawley and Julia Faye are in the cast. George Melford’s production, “Java Head,” by Joseph Hergesheimer. With Leatrice Joy, Jacqueline Logan, Raymond Hatton, Daughters,” a Sam Wood production. Adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn from the story by Joseph Hocking. Theodore Roberts and Ralph Graves are in the cast. “ The Glimpses of the Moon,” an Allan Dwan production, with Bebe Daniels and Nita Naldi. From the Agnes Ayres in “ Contraband,” by Clarence Budington Kelland. Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix. Directed by Paul Powell. Betty Compson in “ The Woman with Four Faces,” by Bayard Veiller, author of “ Within the Law,” “ The Thirteenth Chair,” etc. Gloria Swanson in “ Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” a Sam Wood production. Scenario by Monte M. Katterjohn from Charlton Andrews' adaptation of Alfred Savoir’s play. “ Only 38,” a William de Mille production, with Elliott Dexter, May McAvoy, George Fawcett and Lois Wilson. By A. E. Thomas, suggested by a story by Walter Pritchard Eaton. Screen play by Clara Beranger. Bebe Daniels and Bert Lytell in “ The Exciters,” by Martin Brown. Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers. Wallace Reid in “ A Gentleman of Leisure,” by John Stapleton and P. G. Wodehouse. Screen play by Albert Shelby LeVino. Directed by Wallace Worsley. “ Children of Jazz,” with Nita Naldi, Jacqueline Logan, Conrad Nagel and Robert Cain. By Harold Brighouse. An Alfred E. Green production. Dorothy Dalton in “ Fog Bound.” by Jack Bechdolt. Scenario by E. Lloyd Sheldon. An Irvin Willat production. Alice Brady in “ The Snow Bride,” a screen play by Sonya Levien from a story by Sonya Levien and Julie Herne. Directed by Victor Fleming. Tack Holt in Peter B. Kyne’s storv, “ The Light to Leeward.” Publicity tke Contact Point witk Public INFORMATION that keeps the public constantly apprised of Paramount’s activities comes in a steady flow from Paramount’s publicity department, headed by Charles E. McCarthy. The machinery of the department is geared to its highest development in situations where publicity is most needed. For instance, a tremendous publicity campaign has attended the American debut of Pola Negri. Comparatively little known before her arrival in America, this European actress has in a few months become the most talked of screen player in the world and her first American picture, “Bella Donna,” is being awaited eagerly as one of the biggest screen events of the season. Moreover the half-hundred other screen stars, directors and leading players appearing in Paramount pictures are being kept constantly before the public in newspapers, magazines, theatre programs, and other forms of publicity. Sheet music and books are also being utilized to bring them favorably to the attention of new audiences. From your piano Paramount players smile at you from the covers of such popular music as “Singed Wings,” “To Have and To Hold,” “Burning Sands,” “The Young Rajah,” “The Old Homestead” and other songs. From your librarv table you are reminded of Paramount pictures by the illustrated photoplay editions of such books as “Manslaughter,” “Blood and Sand,” “When Knighthood Was In Flower,” “The Young Diana,” “Burning Sands,” “Java Head,” “The Covered Wagon,” “Bella Donna,”' “Miss Lulu Bett,” “The Glimpses of the Moon” and “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Forty-eight million newspaper readers learn about Paramount pictures each week from the news sendee issued by the Paramount publicity department, this being the combined circulation of 860 news papers which have requested a weekly news service. The Paramount fashion bureau serves 210 newspaoers with a mat service illustrated by the gowns worn in Paramount pictures. Magazine editors are finding the library of several hundred thousand photographs of Paramount players and productions of increasing value to illustrate their pages with circulation-building material. The home office staff, consisting of Samuel D. Palmer, J. M. Jerauld, Austin Parker and Glendon Allvine, edit and distribute the photographs and text material prepared at the East and West Coast studios.