Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

430 MOVING PICTURE WORLD February 5, 1927 Won’t Roadshow J. Barrymore’s Great Pictures NEITHER John Barrymore’s "The Beloved Rogue," nor Inspiration-Carewe's "Resurrection" will be road-showed, it was announced yesterday by United Artists, who are releasing both films. “The Beloved Rogue's” New York premiere will take place at the Mark Strand Theatre in March. The announcement stated that the sales directors of United Artists Corporation, after an open discussion of the advisability of road-showing United Artists Pictures, concurred unanimously in Joseph M. Schenck’s statement : “Our new volume distribution plan provides that exhibitors be given United Artists Pictures promptly. A year ago I promised we would do that and now we are making good. Eve-ry film that United Artists releases is big and important enough to be road-showed, for each one is a costly large-scale production with a great star name heading the cast. “However, United Artists will concentrate on pre-release and first run houses for premieres, and so give the following runs our pictures while they are fresh in the public mind.” “Resurrection,” an Inspiration Picture-Edwin Carewe production, is based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, read in eleven languages throughout the world. Rod LaRocque is Prince Dmitri and Dolores del Rio is Katusha Maslova. Marion Davies in her Cosmopolitan P. D. C. picture, “The Red Mill.” COlUMBiA S “Sweet Rosie O'Grady,” featuring Shirley Mason and Cullen Landis, is earning high praise from exhibitors who have booked it both in the States and in Canada. Following the showing of this picturization of the popular old melody at his Opera House in St. John, N. B., F. G. Spencer, owner of a circuit of theatres in Canada, wrote the following letter to Mitchell Bernstein, manager of Maritime Film Company, one of the four exchanges distributing Columbia product in Canada : “I am strongly of the opinion that ‘Sweet Rosie O'Grady,’ which I have had the pleasure of seeing at the Opera House last evening, is deserving of every commendation, and I wish to congratulate you on having obtained so fine a piece of film property. “It is positively one of those rare finds, a one hundred percent picture, and I wish to thank you for the opportunity provided us to play it in the Opera House. “Sincerely trust that your financial success with ‘Sweet Rosie O'Grady’ will be commensurate with its merits.” Comedy Completed “Ankles Preferred,” comedydrama featuring Madge Bellamy and Lawrence Gray, has been completed, wfith J. G. Blystone at the megaphone. Getting Ready Zelda Sears is preparing the script for “The Night Bride,” which stars Marie Prevost, for Metropolitan-P. D. C. Petite Kathryn Perry in “The Old Flame” for Fox. Renee Adoree playing in “Mr. Wu,” for M-G-M, with her pets. Air Drama A1 Wilson, dare-devil airman, is featured in Universal’s “Sky High Saunders,” first of a series of four air pictures which Carl Laemmle has planned. “Mac” a Toreador Victor McLaglen, the “Captain Flagg” of Fox’s “What Price Glory,” is a tore.ador in Fox’s “’Carmen,” which Raoul Walsh is now making. QAM SAX announces that im^ mediately upon completion of “Quarantined Rivals,” production will start on “Mountains of Manhattan,” a photodramatization of the sky-line of New York based on suggestions and title by Lon Young. This involves a slight realignment in the Gotham release schedule as it moves forward the position of “Mountains of Manhattan” by one release and sets back “Sinews of Steel,” scheduled in this position. “Mountains of Manhattan” in the screen story will typify an allegory of not only the physical aspect of New York’s mighty Tiffany Pictures Go Over Big On “Loop” Two Tiffany productions were feature attractions in the Loop district, Chicago, the week commencing Sunday, January 9th. They were, “One Hour of Love," featuring Jacqueline Logan and Robert Frazer, at the State-Lake, and “Sin Cargo,” featuring Shirley Mason and Robert Frazer, at the Randolph, this picture being held over a second week. A great deal of comment was caused by an independent national producing and distributing organization having two of their productions playing leading Loop theatres the same week. When Fame Began What motion picture star was first named? Who it was and how it happened is told in the gigantic Twentieth Anniversary Issue of March 26. His Twenty-first “Whispering Sage,” Scott Dunlap’s twenty-first production for Fox Films starring Buck Jones, has been completed. A strong supporting cast is headed by Natalie Joyce. It includes Emile Chautard, Carl Miller, Richard Lancaster and Albert Miller. structures of concrete and steel but also as a symbol of man’s ambition to strive to reach the top of the ladder of success. A new scenario technique which also involves unusual production effects will be used for the first time in this production. The leading character will be linked throughout the story with a giant skyscraper. Every phase of building construction starting with the blasting of the rock foundation and continuing until the glittering golf leaf is placed on the towering spire will be shown to compare with a phase of man’s struggle for social and financial supremacy. “Mountains of Manhattan” Next Feature From Gotham Pictures Owner of Big Canadian Chain Praises “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” 20 20 Don’t miss the Twentieth Anniversary Issue of MOVING PICTURE WORLD, out March 26. And don t miss being represented in it either. It will be the most remarkable document the industry ever saw. 20 20