Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1923)

In The Independent Field “Gambling Wives” Is Now in Production Red Seal in Deal with Stanley Co. Edwin Miles Fadman. president of the Red Seal Pictures Corp., 1600 Broadway, announces that he has just closed a deal with the Stanley Company of America for a solid circuit booking on the Red Seal five reel feature “Bill,” whereby the picture will be featured beginning Thanksgiving week at the Stanley Theatre and from there will go to the other Stanley houses through Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Simultaneously with this closing, it is announced that the De Luxe Film Company of Philadelphia. will distribute the film for the Red Seal Pictures in eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Hyman Buys Entire C. B. C. Product Louis Hyman, head of All Star Feature Distributors, of Los Angeles and San Francisco, has completed arrangements for the distribution rights to the entire C. B. C. product for the year. The arrangement, which was made personally with Jack Cohn of C. B. C., who is now at his company’s West Coast production centre, gives All Star the handling in California, Arizona, Nevada and the Hawaiian Islands of the series of big features on the C. B. C. program this season. “Innocence” Is Title The C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation announces that the story, “Circumstances Alter Divorce Cases,” which originally appeared in the Theatre Magazine, is being released under the title “Innocence,” featuring Anna Q. Nilsson. W. E. Shallenberger, president of the Arrow Film Corporation, announces that active production on Arrow’s big special, “Gambling Wives,” is now under way in Hollywood, where the picture is being directed by Dell Henderson. Dr. Shallenberger states that the contest, which was directed by Aldrich and Montgomery, through Mother’s Home Life Magazine, for this production, was extremely successful, thousands of contestants participating from all over the United States, with winners coming from practically every part of the country. The winners of the guaranteed parts and the opportunity tryouts were called last week by the Arrow Film Corporation, and reported at the office of Mother’s Home Life Magazine in Chicago, on Thursday, November 8, where Andrew J. Callaghan, president of Monogram Pictures, left on his initial selling trip for his company. His first stop was Chicago, where he picked up the first print of “The Mask of Lopez,’1’ which is the first picture of the Western series starring Fred Thomson that the Callaghan concern will handle on the State Right market. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Buffalo and Philadelphia will be visited by Mr. Callaghan before his return to New York the last of the week. While in they proceeded in a body to Los Angeles, and their active work in the picture began on Tuesday, November 13. The winners of the two guaranteed parts are William Liska, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and John Del Vecchio, of Schenectady, New York, while the winners of the tryouts, who if they make good, will also receive parts in “Gambling Wives,” are Ross Sedita of Birmingham, Alabama, Winifred Gallagher of Seattle, Washington, Charles Watts of Sioux City, Iowa, Clara Tschuchke of Lindhurst, New Jersey, and Dean Bell of Bassett, Nebraska. As will be readily seen, the winners, coming, from such widely scattered parts of the United States, will have an added value from a publicity and advertising standpoint in the production, says Dr. Shallenberger. Chicago Mr. Callaghan will confer with Watterson Rothacker, whose concern is doing all the printing for the Monogram Company. The second of the Thomson series, “North of Nevada,” is now in the cutting room and will be shipped East in the course of a few days. A screening of “The Mask of Lopez” for the reviewers will be held shortly and following same a public screening for all interested will be held probably at the Astor. Abraham Carlos Back on Coast Abraham Carlos, president of Carlos Production, making the Richard Talmadge productions for Truart Film Corporation, and producers also of “The Unknown Purple,” arrived in Los Angeles after an extended visit to New York where he was in conference with M. H. Hoffman, vice president of Truart, regarding the forthcoming year’s product. Upon his arrival at the Coast Mr. Carlos engaged Henry Lehrman to direct the second Talmadge production, being made under the title of the novel from which it is being adapted, "To Live or Die.” Carlos Production will only make two pictures during the year of the type of “The Unknown Purple,” upon which over six months were in the making. The second story, a well-known stage play, has been obtained and Mr. Carlos is proceeding with his preparations for its production. Coit Albertson in “Restless Wives” Coit Albertson appears in a heavy role in C. C. Burr’s new production, "Restless Wives,” with Doris Kenyon, which will be distributed on the Independent market. Gregory La Cava is the director of this Izola Forrester story from Ainslee’s Magazine. Buys Burr Product Mastodon Films, Inc., through its representative, Lester F. Scott, Jr., closed contracts for the distribution of all C. C. Burr productions in the Wisconsin territory to the Mid-west Film Company (C. W. Trampe. manager), Toy Building, Milwaukee. Wisconsin. Second Monogram Now Being Edited