Motion Picture News (Sep-Oct 1922)

1732 Motion Picture New George Eastman has been the recipient of a striking tribute paid him by Dr. Frank C. Doan, pastor of the Unitarian Church of Rochester. Dr. Doan, in the course of his eulogistic address. said that Mr. Eastman has done a daring thing in building his theatre. “ He has the wit to see,” said the pastor. “ that the moving picture is here to stay, whether we will or no, and that it is destined, whether we like it or not, to be a great educational factor PICTURES AND PEOPLE next week. Aboard the Limite are Mary and, of course, Douj Charlotte Pickford, John Fan banks and wife. The party wi detrain at the Grand Centn and the line of march will be u Fifth Avenue to the Plaz; thence to the Ritz, onward t the Algonquin, then over to Broadway theatre to se “ Douglas Fairbanks in Robi: Hood. ’ ’ “ Stand back on the side walk, v.ou! Hold horses ! ’ ’ y o u in the lives of many thousands of people. So he goes ahead and builds a moving picture theatre that looks like a Greek temple. He makes it rich and beautiful with mural paintings where other theatres are cheap and tawdry. He proposes to show only the great dramas, greatly enacted, instead of the sensational and oft-times pornographic films which hitherto have offended our good taste.” DID you ever stop to think of the service that motion pictures can give agriculture. A booklet issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture states: “ Thousands of extension and field workers in agriculture and allied pursuits have found that motion pictures possesses a tremendous possibility for usefulness in making common property of knowledge developed by scientific investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture and in acquainting the public with the methods and significance of important lines of work being carried on by the department and the cooperating State institutions. “ The department’s films are being shown in all kinds of exhibition places, ranging from the city theatre to halls in isolated communities that heretofore have not known the ‘ magic of the screen.’ “ The outstanding need in this work is for easier and quicker distribution of films, which can be best supplied by the State institutions cooperating with the department. To them and other distributing agencies is offered the plan of purchasing prints at manufacturing charges.” Those films available for distribution are listed under the names of the bureaus that are authority for the subject matter— such as Animal Industry, Plant Industry, Forest Service, States Relations Service, Entomology, Agricultural Economics, Public Roads, Biological Survey, Chemistry. These bureaus are all sub-divided in subjects pertinent to the general title. The films available comprise a series of nearly two hundred one, two and three reelers. >Jc 4c ROBIN HOOD has left Sherwood Forest to make a pilgrimage to New York. The Fairbanks party which is travel ing via the Canadian Pacific expects to reach Gotham early D ALPH BLOCK writes in that lie is hitting the bock trai this week for Hollywood and environs. You will find him on the Lasky lot for a while {in charge, probably, of severa units. Cheerio and success and all that sort of thing. MARCEL MORHANGE, general manager of the New York Film Exchange, Buenos Aires, is in Gotham for a short stay. During the past ten days, Mr. Morhange has contracted for all the Mermaid comedies, all of the Goldwyn and Vitagraph productions for the next three years. The territory covered by these contracts is Argentine, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Chester E. Sawyer will hereafter co-operate with S. G. Whitehead in handling the affairs of the New York Film Exchange in New York. /^iWEN MOORE skipped right over to Loew’s State theatre ^ upon his arrival in New York this week, the reason being the presentation of his picture, “ Love Is an Awful Thing.” Accompanying the Selznick star on several subsequent visits to the theatre was his wife, Kathryn Perry, who also appears in the production. rT''HE New Amsterdam theatre and roof, the home of th( A Ziegfeld Follies, is the foremost recruiting station fo: the screen. Take notice of the girls who have come unde: the spell of the camera — Diana Allen, May Hopkins, Edit! Hallor, Justine Johnstone, Lillian Lorraine, the Fairbank: twins, Mae Murray, Peggy Eleanor, Kathleen Ardell, Doro thy Mackaill, Dorothy Leeds, Martha Mansfield, Ruby d< Remer, Yvonne Shelton, Helen Lee Worthing, Peggy Shaw Mildred Reardon, Bunny Wendell, Kathryn Perry, Hildc Morena, Edna Wheaton, Jacqueline Logan, and Shannor Day. The lamented Selznick star, Olive Thomas, was Follies girl. Several have reached stardom; others are fasl approaching that exalted position. Which proves that the chorus is an excellent training school. Since these girls must be endowed with beauty of face and form and possess charm, grace and poise before Dr. Ziegfeld selects them, il stands to reason that half the battle is won if they want tc climb upward. Keen observation and study will attend tc the rest. If they are adaptable they can quickly learn the art of make-up and the art of pantomime. . * x * HERBERT RAWLINSON has been cleared of the charges made against him by Dorothy Clark. The district attor ney of Los Angeles County has made the announcement that Rawlinson would not be required to answer the formal complaint because the investigators believed that the story told by the Clark girl and her mother was not of a nature that would be believed by any reasonable person. Will the yellow journals cany this news in headlines? Thev will not. ^ HE Fox people don’t believe in taking any chances with Tony, Tom Mix’s pony. They have taken out a half million dollar policy on his life. The loss of .Tony would be as tragic as the loss of Fritz Kreisler’s St rad. L> TIMOR reaches us that Mildred Davis, the little lady who has encouraged Harold Lloyd to fall in love with her as his leading woman the past few seasons, has left the comedian, her contract having expired. # # # TAKE notice of what the Portland (Oregon) Telegram has to say concerning “ Grandma’s Boy ” in its issue of September 2nd. For four weeks one of Portland’s leading theatres has played a film-comedy to crowded houses. Between seventyfive and one hundred thousand people have laughed and cried over the predicaments and trials of “ Grandma’s Boy,” and there are probably as many more who would enjoy its intense human appeal if the management of the theatre continued to play it. The success of “ Grandma’s Boy ” not only in Portland,