Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)

16 MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 5, 1927 Paramount Lists Eight Short Features During This Month Brace of Two-Reel Comedies On Pathe Program for Nov. 13 DURING November Paramount will release 4 two-reel comedies and 4 one-reel cartoon comedies. Three of the two-reel short features are from the Christie studio and one from Edward Everett Horton. Two of the single reel cartoons were produced by Max Fleischer and two by Mintz Productions. The first release of the month is "Find the King,” starring Edward Everett Horton. This two-reel comedy is one of a series of 6 which that comedian will make for Paramount during the current season. “Find the King” is scheduled for distribution on November 5. Scheduled for release the same day is "The Pie Curs,” of the Charles B. Mintz “Krazy Kat” series of one-reel cartoons. “Easy Curves,” a Christie tworeel comedy starring Billy Dooley, is slated for distribution November 12. Dooley will be seen in 8 comedies during the season. “Koko’s Klock,” a one-reel cartoon produced by Max Fleischer, will be released on the same date. Jimmy Adams is starred in “Ocean Blues,” another Christie two-reel comedy which goes to the exhibitors November 19. Adams also will make 8 for Paramount this year. “For Crime’s Sake,” a Krazy Kat one-reel cartoon comedy, will be released the same day. “Mad Scrambles,” the seventh release of the month, is a Christie two-reel comedy with a featured cast. There are 12 of the Christie comedies with featured casts scheduled for the Paramount 1927-28 Contest Helps Texas Theatre Juvenile Comedies Harmonica Playing contest staged by the Liberty Theatre, Lewisville, Texas, was a “grand success,” to use the words of C. W. H. Johnston, manager of this playhouse. He described the . contest as one of the best stunts ever used in his theatre, and declared his intention of repeating it at least once a year. In his campaign to put over the harmonica contest, a national exploitation tie-up arranged by Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., through the co-operation and support of M. Hohner, Inc., harmonica manufacturers, Mr. Johnston employed extensive advance handbill advertising. These handbills were placed in all cars parked in the community for three weeks in advance of the contest. In addition, they were distributed to each house in Lewisville twice and were sent to three smaller communities near Lewisville. Not only was the Liberty Theatre management pleased with the contest, but the merchants of the city reported a big business in Hohner harmonicas. program. The last release for the month is “Koko Kicks,” one of the Inkwell Imps series, produced by Max Fleischer. “Mad Scrambles” and “Koko Kicks” will be released November 26. “ K'NG HAROLD,” latest of A»-the Henry and Polly series, and “Smith’s Cousin,” one of the Jimmy Smith series, both tworeelers. head the Pathe short feature program for the week of Educational’s new stage is imposing as well as 100% practical. The output of comedies will be accelerated not a little as a result of this addition, one of Hollywood's showplaces Educational’s “Big Boy” Chalks Up Two Comedies “Big Boy” is the busiest star at the Educational Studios just now. The youngster did not get started on his new series of eight comedies, which he is scheduled to make this year, until September, and Director Charles Lamont is omitting the customary rest between pictures in his effort to get caught up on the schedule. Two comedies have been completed thus far. They are “She’s A Boy,” a war comedy, and “Shamrock Alley,” a laughmaker with the New York tenement district as a background, and a Jewish-Irish theme. The threevear-old star is now well along in production of his third starring comedy of the season, based upon a prize-fight, temporarily titled “The Battle of the Century." Comedies Completed The Charley Chase, Max Davidson and Star units (the latter costarring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) have all completed production of their current comedies at the Hal Roach Studios. Chase has finished a bedroom farce, Davidson a thrilling comedy of the wide open spaces, and the new costarring team have done a story based upon a prize-fight, temporarily titled “The Battle of the Century.” Current Serial “The Masked Menace,” an adaptation of Clarence Buddington Kelland’s story “Still Face,” is the current Pathe serial on the theatre screens. “Horse Play” U Comedy Forwarded to New York “Horse Play,” first of the new "Keeping Up With the Joneses” series of two-reel comedies made at the Stern Brothers plant since resumption of production on that series, has arrived in the East and is reported to be an exceptional two-reeler. It was directed by Gus Meins, comedy directorial ace recently assigned by the Sterns to make the remaining “Joneses” comedies. These fun-films are adapted from the famous newspaper comic strip by Pop Momand. “Horse Play” features Harry Long and Aloysius P. McGinis, Stella Adams as Clarice McGinis, Gene Laymon as Belladonna, and a new girl. Frances Hamilton, as Julie. This comedy is the seventh of the series of thirteen being made for the current season’s release. Lane’s Whip Tricks Before the finish of his comedy of the Argentine, Lupino Lane and his brother, Wallace Lupino, became quite proficient with the long stock whips which were a part of their make-up and upon which several gags in the comedy were hung. “Snowy” Baker, the famed Australian athelete and sportsman, taught the brothers the secrets of the whip. The star and his brother are now able to do several tricks with the braided lashes. The Gangs Latest “Chicken Feed” is “Our Gang’s” latest tworeel comedy for Pathe. Farina’s baby sister. Mango, is an added attraction in the cast. November 13th, which also lists “Alien Antics,” a Grantland Rice Sportlight release; “Saved by a Keyhole,” one of Aesop’s Film Fables; Topics of the Day No. 46 ; chapter two of the current Pathe serial, “The Masked Menace” and Pathe Review No. 46. "King Harold, in which Taylor Holmes and Leah Baird cavort, is a comedy woven about an amateur theatrical. “Smith’s Cousin,” is the current release of the Jimmy Smith comedies with Mary Ann Jackson, Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt and Irving Bacon. “Alien Antics,” a Grantland Rice release of the Sportlight series, casts the spotlight of sport on games foreign to our fields of play. “The Masked Menace,” current Pathe serial with Larry Kent and Jean Arthur and an exceptional supporting cast, from an original story by Clarence Buddington Kelland entitled, “Still Face.” reaches its second chapter entitled. “An Attack at Midnight.” Pathe Review No. 46 presents “Here’s How” : The great ginger ale industry of arid America at first range; “The Sacred Mount of China” ; Budda’s Summit on the sacred mount — Wu Tai Shan with its exquisite sculpture and murals depicting Buddhism; “Tango Toes!”: The tango as it is done by representative couples of the latin countries with Arthur Murray, famous ballroom master, “doing his stuff.” The program includes issues Nos. 94 and 95 of Pathe News. Clem Beauchamp Gone; No Police Aid Asked Jerry Drew, to use the new screen name for Clem Beauchamp, is flirting with death again. The comedian, formerly one of Uncle Sam’s birdmen. gave up flying for the safer pursuit of fame in pictures after a bad airplane crash doing stunts. But now Jerry believes he’s in danger more often working in pictures than he ever was in an airplane. This week he is working atop one of Los Angeles’ skyscrapers, doing a “high and dizzy” sequence on the edges of the tall building. Robert Graves is supporting him — in more ways than one. for the chief laugh sequence of the picture will be that in which Graves carries Drew in his arms, walking a narrow ledge of stone on the cornice of the structure. Mark Sandrich, who directed a number of Lupino Lane Comedies this year, is directing the comedy. Holmes-Baird Comedy “King Harold" is the latest of the Henry and Polly domestic comedies in which Pathe presents Taylor Holmes and Leah Baird.