Moving Picture World (Sep-Oct 1925)

464 MOVING PICTURE W O RLE October 10, 1925 Production News A scene in “The King on Main Street,” starring Adolphe Menjou, a Monta Bell production for Paramount. “Iron Horse” Heads October Schedule of Feature Releases from Fox Film Corp. ^ krpHE IROX HORSE,” “Thunder | Mountain,” Tom Mix in “The Everlasting Whisper,” George O’Brien in ■“The Fighting Heart” and “The Winding Stair” comprise the list of supreme attractions and starring vehicles to be released by Fox Film Corporation during October. Supplementing this line-up of feature boxoffice attractions are the two-reelers, “Tran.sients in Arcadia,” “The Heart Breaker,” “A Cloudy Romance” and “All Abroad” ; the onereelers “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel” and “Cuba Steps Out,” and the usual twice-a-week issue of the Fox News reel. “The Iron Horse,” which is now released for general distribution after innumerable sensationally successful pre-release runs throughout the country, needs no introduction to exhibitors who read the trade journals. The tales of its triumphs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and other places have been making interesting reading for the past year, and as a result exhibitors everywhere are familiar with its unquestioned box-office value. On October 11 Fox will release the Tom Mix starring vehicle, “The Everlasting Whisper,” and the supreme attraction, “Thunder Mountain.” The former is an adaptation of Jackson Gregory’s story of the same name. J. G. Blystone wielded the megaphone. Tony is seen and the cast of humans includes Alice Calhoun, Robert Cain, George Berrell, Walter James, Virginia Madison and Karl Dane. “Thunder Mountain” is an adaptation of John Golden’s stage success, “Howdy Folks.” ffiy Pearl Franklin. It was directed by Victor Schertzinger. Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton and Alec B. Francis have the leading roles. The supporting roles are filled by Jay Hunt, Zasu Pitts, Paul Panzer, Otis Harlan, Arthur Houseman. Emily Fitzroy, Dan Mason, Natalie Warfield, Maine Geary and Russell Simpson. Smiling George O’Brien’s starring vehicle. “The Fighting Heart,” is scheduled for release October 18. This was directed by John Ford. O’Brien is supported by Billie Dove. The cast includes J. Farrell MacDonald, Victor Mac • Laglen, James Marcus, Francis Powers, Harvey Clark, Colin Chase, Bert Woodruff, Fran■cis Ford, Lynn Cowan, Diana Miller, Edward Piel, Jack Herrick and Hazel Howell. “The Fighting Heart” is based on Larry Evans’ Saturday Evening Post story, “Once to Every Man.” On October 28 comes “The Winding Stair,” John Griffith Wray’s first directorial effort for Fox. It was adapted from A. E. W. Mason’s novel of the same name. The locale is wartorn Morocco. Alma Rubens is the dancer, with Edmund Lowe enacting the part of the French officer. The others are Warner Olandfi Mahlon Hamilton, Emily Fitzroy, Chester Conklin and Frank Leigh. “A Cloudy Romance” and “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel” head the Fox short subject releases on October 4. The former is a tworeel Imperial Comedy directed by Lew Seiler, with Harold Austin, Hazel Dawn, Harry Dunkinson and Jules Cowles supplying the fun. Cast Complete for “Lord Jim’’ All the principal roles have been filled for Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim,” which Victor Fleming is now directing for Paramount. The featured masculine players are Percy Marmont, Noah Beery, Raymond Hatton, Joseph Dowling, George Magrill and Duke Kahanamoku. The leading feminine role is being played by Madeline Hurlock. Other well-known actors who will take part in “Lord Jim” include Jules Cowles, J. Gunnis Davis and Nick de Ruiz. The story of “Lord Jim” was adapted by John Russell, an authority on Joseph Conrad’s works. The picture will follow the novel closely, according to George Hull, who has just completed the scenario. Butler in Leading Role David Butler has been assigned the leading role in the third Royal Picture distributed throughout the world by the Henry Ginsberg Distributing Corporation with the balance of the cast to be announced next week when the picture goes into production. The picture, an adaptation from “The Taxi Mystery,” a story of the same name by Jules Furthman, is one that demands all around versatility and Royal production officials are very well pleased with the signing of Butler. “With Pencil, Brush and Chisel” is a one-reel Fox Variety which shows Emil Fuchs, America’s foremost living artist, at work and play in his marvelous New York studios. “All Abroad” is the second of the “Married Life of Helen and Warren” series, scheduled for release October 11. Hallam Cooley and Kathryn Perry are continued in the title roles. On October 18 Fox will release three short subjects, the one-reel Variety, “Cuba Steps Out,” the two-reel Imperial Comedy, “The Heart Breaker,” and the second of the O. Henry two-reelers, “Transients in Arcadia.” “Cuba Steps Out” shows the Pearl of the Antilles at work and play ; “The Heart Breaker” is a typical Imperial with laughs from one end to the other, while “Transients in Arcadia” shows the adventures of a little shop girl in “high society.” Production Plans by Ginsberg By the first of November the Henry Ginsberg Distributing Corporation plans to have all details for the second half of the year’s schedule of Banner Productions and Royal pictures completed. The Banner series in the last half are “The Checkered Flag,” a story of the automobile speedway to be directed by John Adolfi, “Whispering Canjon,” a story of the lumber forests of the northwest, and “Brooding Eyes,” a mystery drama of the underworld. The second half of the Royal series will be “The Millionaire Policeman,” “A Desperate Moment’” and “The Phantom Express.” Vignola to Direct “Fifth Avenue’’ Robert G. Vignola, veteran director, has been engaged by A. H. Sebastian, general manager of Belasco Productions, Inc., as the director of that company’s next big production : “Fifth Avenue,” to be released by Producers Distributing Corporation. “Fifth Avenue” will be a dramatization of Arthur Stringer's story, just accepted for publication by The Saturday Evening Post, that will visualize the mystic romance, adventure, pathos and gaiety of the great metropolitan thoroughfare from which the story takes its title.