Moving Picture World (May-Jun 1925)

990 MOVING PICTURE WORLD June 27, 1925 iilittip Knkrifl likt ’<«/ Jim., n Moore Bros, on Same Program DIRECTORS OF METRO-GOLD WYN-MAYER PICTURES From left to right: Victor Seastrom, Mauritz Stiller, Ernest Williamson, Monta Bell, Rupert Hughes, Josef von Sternberg, Eric von Stroheim (in rear), Jack Conway, Tod Browning, Hobart Henley, King Vidor, Fred Niblo, William Wellman, Reginald Barker, Marcel de Sano, A1 Raboch, William Christy Cabanne and Benjamin Christiansen. Mayer Says Public Demand Is for New Faces on Screen “rP! kHE day of the movie star has returned and the coming year will see an avalanche of new favorites on the screen,” says Louis B. Mayer, head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. “As an indication of the return of the star vogue, our organization has just promoted to stardom four favorites, including Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert and Lon Chaney, players who have sprung into particular fame within the past year. Marion Davies, Lillian Gish and Jackie Coogan are among the stars already firmly established who will appear in our pictures. “Of recent years the star system in the movies has suffered. The so-called all star picture has been the thing. Within the past six months, however, players have again leaped into such tremendous favor among the public, that they have automatically become stars or players who are individually featured in pictures. This is true of other companies as well as our own, although it is generally conceded that Metro-GoldwynMayer has developed nearly twice as many new stars during the past year, as any other organization. “For years the demand has been ‘Give us new faces on the screen.’ For years this cry has remained unanswered. Following the merger of the Metro, Goldwyln, and Mayer companies a year ago, it became the policy of our organization to promote the presentation of new favorites. “Within the coming year, you will see many of the old favorites fall from their lofty heights of stardom. In fact, I feel every reason to predict that within twelve months, more stars of former days will cease to shine than ever disclosed in the history of films. The new faces will supplant many of those ■who are doomed to go. “A carefully prepared chart shows to a surprising degree a marked decline of popularity among many stars whose names today are household words. Only those stars who continue to show a steady increase in popularity will be seen in our productions.” Tom and Owen Both on Associated Exhibitors’ Schedule in Feature Roles For the first time in many years, the Moore brothers, Tom and Owen, will appear on the same screen program. Associated Exhibitors is the distributing company whose producers have signed up these two members of a famous screen family. Tom Moore plays the featured role opposite Eileen Percy in “Under the Rogue,” the Louis H. Moomaw production filmed in Oregon. It was originally titled “The Greatest Thing” and is a story of the underworld and regeneration. Others in the cast are Mary Alden, James Mason, Clare de Lorez and Chester Conklin. Owen Moore is appearing in “Camille of the Barbary Coast,” a Hugh Dierker production. Mae Busch is the leading woman and supporting players are Burr McIntosh, Harry T. Morey and Tammany Young. This is the second production in which Owen Moore has appeared on the Associated Exhibitors’ program. His first feature under this banner was “East of Broadway,” adapted from the Saturday Evening Post story “The Tropic of Capricorn.” Both “Under the Rogue” with Tom Moore and “Camille of the Barbary Coast” with Owen Moore are in the first group of Associated Exhibitors' features for the new sea Among the featured players who will appear in pictures produced by Mr. Mayer and his associates, Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf, during the 1925-26 season are: Renee Adoree, Conrad Nagel, Mae Busch, Claire Windsor, ZaSu Pitts, Lew Cody, Conway Tearle, Bert Roach, George K. Arthur, Mathew Betz, Edward Connelly, Carmel Meyers, Gertrude Olmstead and Katherine Bennett. Increase Stage Space The available stage space at the F. B. O. Studios in Hollywood is already proving insufficient for the increased production program and for the number of rental companies that are operating on the lot independent of F. B. O.’s own units; so the sides are being knocked out of stages No. 1 and No. 2 and they are to be converted into one huge stage. Century Lists Four Comedies for Release During June JULIUS STERN, president of Century, announces that the June release schedule of Century Comedies, distributed through Universal exchanges, is one of the strongest groups of Centuries ever put out. The group consists of four two-reelers made by such popular stars as Wanda Wiley, Edna Marian, Eddie Gordon, and Constance Darling. Opportunely, the first June release is a “bride and groom” picture. It is “Speak Freely,” and stars Edna Marian. It was directed by William Watson, with A Alt and Hilliard Karr in the chief supporting roles. It recounts the hilarious adventures of a young bride and groom whose parents visit them just after! there has been the first marital spat. The next June release is “Kicked About,” starring Eddie Gordon, Larry Richardson has the chief supporting role, and the comedy was directed by Noel Smith. The tworeeler gives Eddie ample opportunity to do many of his funny acrobatic stunts and shows him as an amateur detective in one mix-up after another. “Gridiron Gertie,” the Century release for June 17th, is a Wanda Wiley coined}-. It shows Wanda as a foot-ball substitute. Edward I. Luddy directed it and used in the cast such popular comedy players as Joe Bonner and Les Bates. The last June release for Century also is a “June bride” comedy. It is entitled “Married Neighbors,” and was directed by Charles Lamont. Constance Darling is the featured player, with Billy Engle and Hilliard Karr as the chief support. Cast for “Pace That Thrills” Earl Hudson and Director Webster Campbell have completed the cast for First National's new picture in which Ben Lyon and Mary Astor will be featured. This is “The Pace That Thrills,” written for Mr. Lyon by Byron Morgan, who wrote many of the late Wallace Reid’s automobile stories. Production began on “The Pace That Thrills” last week at First National's studios in New York. In addition to Mr. Lyon and Miss Astor, the cast includes Thomas Holding. Tully Marshall, Warner Richmond, Fritzi Brunette, Eveleyn Walsh Hall, Dorotliv Allan and George Stevens.