Moving Picture World (Jan-Feb 1927)

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February 12, 1927 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 475 Closes Merger Deal Earl W. Hammons, who heads new Educations company. Hew Educational Company Consolidates All Units Educational has acquired minority stock in all Educational exchanges and has consolidated producing units supplying its product, E. W. Hammons announces. A new corporation, Educational Pictures, Inc., is formed, with Mr. Hammons as president. It is authorized to issue $3,500,000 preferred stock and 250,000 shares of common stock. There positively will be no changes in controlling interest or executives. All stockholders in the consolidated companies become stockholders in the new corporation. Those consolidated include four companies heretofore controlled by Gauntlett & Co., Inc., which produced the Lloyd Hamilton, Lupino Lane, Mermaid, Tuxedo, Juvenile and Cameo comedies, all made at the Educational studios. ArlenRalston Jobyna Ralston and Richard Arlen were married last week at Riverside, at Southern California’s famous “Place of Honeymoons,” the Mission Inn. They were accompanied only by “Buddy” Ralston. the bride’s brother, and Audrey Brown of Los Angeles. Pathe Ball Coming The Patlie Club’s first annual entertainment and ball will be held at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York, on Lincoln's Birthday, evening, February 12. Stars from Pathe as well as acts and ensembles from the Keith circuit through the courtesy of E. F. Albee, and the Vincent Lopez Orchestra will be featured. It is expected to be an outstanding feature of the season’s entertainments. Laemmle Invites Suggestions For Film Improvement Flans Annual Award to Writers Everywhere In an effort to develop practical, helpful and constructive ideas and sugestions for the advancement of the quality and usefulness of moving pictures, Carl Laemmle, president of Universal Pictures Corporation, announces the establishment of what will be known as the Laemmle award. This annual award will consist of annual prizes amounting in the aggregate to $5,000, open to writers on newspapers, magazines and trade journals in all parts of the world. The award will be divided into twelve individual prizes, the major one of which amounts to $2,500 and ranging downward to $100. In case of a tie, equal prizes will be awarded. No limitation of any kind is placed upon the suggestions. The only requirement is that they be published in a recognized newspaper, magazine or trade journal and that they be sent, together with a letter, to Carl Laemmle, Laemmle Award, 730 Fifth avenue, New York. Will Hays will serve as chairman of the Board of Decision, which is as follows: Karl A. Bickel, president of the United Press; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press: Arthur H. Kirchhofer, president, National Press Club, Washington, D. C. ; James R. Quirk, editor of Photoplay Magazine; Jean Sapene, publisher of Le Matin, Paris. Hollywood is experiencing the casualties of war time. Richard Barthelmess is one of the latest to be added to the list. He broke a bone in his foot while playing tennis Sunday, which will cause production on his $1,000,000 vehicle, “The Patent Leather Kid,” to shut down at the First National studios for nearly six weeks. Last night Virginia Valli underwent an operation for appendicitis so that this petite actress will probably be kept away from the screen all during the next month. This morning it was learned that Reginald Denny will be confined to his bed for another three weeks, and that the two weeks more of production work necessary for the completion of his latest vehicle, ‘‘•Slow Down,” will likely not be reached until next June. Barbara Worth is still nursing Selection Confirmed Emmanuel Cohen, first production manager of Famous Players short features department. N. Y. Censorship Will Cost Less in Future If film censorship survives in New York State on and after July 1, of which there is considerable doubt, due to the introduction of bills in the Legislature calling for its abolishment, it will cost $73,640, according to an appropriation item included in this year’s budget that has just been submitted to the New lrork State Legislature. Last year the Legislature appropriated the sum of $94,920 to meet the running expenses of the commission, but of this amount $22,250 went for the salaries of the three commissioners, each of whom received $7,500. At the present time there is only one head to the commission, James Wingate, who asks a salafiy of $7,500. a broken wrist which she is said to have sustained while working in the Denny picture. Wallace Beery, who was bumped by Joaseballs and dynamite to such an extent that he had to be taken to the hospital, is now O. K. and has adjusted other differences with Paramount as told in the Hollywood department. Perhaps of all of the injured members of Hollywood’s colony Denny’s experience is the worst. His troubles started a month ago when it is said a double who was taking the place of Barbara Worth, hit a wall in Beverly Hills and knocked Denny up into the air before she discovered she could not drive a car. From an inside source we are told that Denny then suffered from a concussion of the brain. Later a blood clot developed which necessitated a serious operation in a local hospital. Cohen Now Head Of Paramount’s Short Features Supervises News Reel, Comedies, Novelties Plans for the establishment of a short features department, embracing the Paramount News Reel, magazine features and comedies, are announced by S. R. Kent in confirming the appointment of Emmanuel Cohen as production manager of the short features department of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Mr. Cohen, who has been head of the Pathe News Reel since its foundation 13 years ago, has just assumed his duties at Paramount. Far reaching arrangements for the development of a newsreel organization have been made by Mr. Cohen, it is stated. The news-reel, which will have back of it all of the resources of Famous Players, will have two releases a week, according to the present plans, and will be ready for its distribution at the opening of the new season next August. Mr. Kent said: ‘‘Notable among the results which we expect to achieve by our new short feature department is that it will enable us to serve exhibitors with a complete program — feature, news reel and comedies. Thus all our exchanges will, be able to take care of all types of accounts — big and small, first-run and small town — with a complete program of entertainment. Sales of the Paramount short features will be under the general direction of George W. Weeks, who also will co-operate with the outside producers of comedies. One of Mr. Cohen’s first duties will be the construction of a modern short features building. Plans for this building, which will house the production headquarters of the department, have already been drawn. Alberta Vaughn Signed Harry Cohn, vice-president in charge of production for Columbia Pictures, has signed Alberta Vaughan for the feminine lead in “The Romantic Age.” Eugene O’Brien plays the man, and is the only other player chosen for the cast so far. Lose the Cameo Tlie Film Arts Guild lias lost the Cameo Theatre, New York. It announces that, “because of its inability to obtain complete control of the film-playing policy, it has severed all its relations with that theatre.” The Cameo is a B. S. Moss house. The Guild now is seeking another theatre. Hollywood Players Suffering From an Epidemic of Injuries ( Wired by Tom Waller, Hollywood Correspondent, 10:50 P.M., Feb. 9)