Moving Picture World (Nov-Dec 1927)

i8 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 17, 1927 Charlie Chaplin in “Sunnyside” A Pathe Release December 25 CHARLIE CHAPLIN in a revival of one of his funniest comedies, “Sunnyside,” attracts attention to the Pathe short feature program for the week of December 25th, which also lists “Love in a Police Station,” Mack Sennett comedy; “The Junk Man,” current Aesop Film Fable; the eighth chapter of the Pathe serial, “The Masked Menace ;” Pathe Review No. 52; “Bucking the Handicap,” a Grantland Rice Sportlight release; Topics of the Day No. 52, and Pathe News. “Love in a Police Station” is a Mack Sennett comedy featuring Madeline Hurlock and Eddie Quillan under the direction of Earle Rodney. Bowers Starts Second Charley Bowers has started production work on the second of the comedies he is making for Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. A sequence on an ostrich farm, in which thirty of the big birds will have a part, will give Bowers plenty of opportunity to use the secret and trick photographic process for which his comedies are famous. H. L. Muller, who was responsible for the direction of the initial fun vehicle, “There It Is,” is directing. Lane As Gladiator Lupino Lane is making another of his highly popular costume comedies at the Educational Studios. This time the former Follies star will be seen as a gladiator in the days of Nero. Anita Garvin has been cast as a Cleopatra-like vamp in the picture. Wallace Lupino, brother of Lupino Lane, has the principal male supporting role. “The Junk Man” is an Aesop Film Fable release of the animated cartoon comedy series which is up to their usual standard. Pathe Review No. 52 presents : “The Rider of Death Avenue ; “Lilies, Serpents and Hobgoblins:” pothographs taken by Arthur C. Pillsbury, famous naturalist, in Pathecolor of Hawaii’s rare pond lilies and ferns and “Bazaars of the Black Empire Addis Abeba, capital of Africa’s only independent empire. “Bucking the Handicap,” a Grantland Rice Sportlight release produced by John L. Hawkinson, sho\ts that the gameness of the game is in bucking the handicap. Ham’s Forward Pass Lloyd Hamilton will be a football player in his next starring comedy for Educational, which Norman Taurog will direct. Hamilton is getting in shape for some of the though gridiron scenes which feature the production. Taurog has directed Lloyd in all of the comedies in which he has been starred this season. This director-star combination seems to be a happy and successful one, for it has resulted in some of the best comedies Hamilton has ever made. Max Davidson’s Next “Pass The Gravy,” is the title bestowed upon Max Davidson’s newly completed Hal Roach comedy for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release. This will mark the first screen appearance of Gene Morgan, popular stage comedian, under his long term contract recently signed with Roach. Martha Sleeper and Spec O’Donnell are also in the cast. Fred Guiol directed, under the supervision of Leo McCarey. IT’S A WOW, AND A WALLOP, AND— When you see “Young Hollywood,” the Pathe two-reeler made by these little stars, the children of some of Screendom’s greatest stars, you’ll know what we mean. The “director” is Eric Van Stroheim, Jr., and the group includes Newton Hall, Barbara Denny, daughter of Reginald Denny; Mary Desmond, daughter of William Desmond; Tim Holt, son of Jack Holt; George Bosworth, son of Hobart Bosworth; Eileen O’Malley, daughter of Pat O’Malley, Nancy McKee, and Mike McCoy, son of Col. Tim McCoy. Any showman will tell you that his folks identify Billy Dooley, Educational’s star in “Wild Wallopps” because of the sweet girl company he always keeps in these Christie Comedies. Billy is always surrounded by a bevy of beauties. NEW SERIES IN PATHE REVIEW S BARRET McCORMICK, Editor of Pathe • Review, has lined up several distinctive novelties for the coming year’s subjects which will give added interest to the already popular magazine reel. Fontaine Fox, creator of the Toonerville Trolley, the Skipper, Aunt Eppie Hogg, and other cartoon characters of national circulation, is interviewed by the Pathe Review camera in issue No. 1 of the 1928 series. The noted cartoonist is shown at home with Mrs. Fox and their two young daughters, playing golf and in his studio drawing his pen creations. The story ends with a bit of animation which features the Trolley and some by-play between Air. Fox and the Skipper. Later on there will be interviews with other famous artists who have created universally known comic characters and these will be treated in much the same manner. Famous English and American authors will be featured in another new Pathe Review series, the first appearing in issue No. 3. This camera interview is with Charles Francis Coe, author of “Ale, Grangster.” The exploitation possibilities of these Pathe Review series are obvious and exhibitors will find newspapers running the comic strips featured only too willing to co-operate in the way of publicity; while the author series is a “natural” for bookstore exploitation. The Band Strikes Up For Chase' s Comedy For the past three days, the seventy-five piece 160th Infantry Band has been going through its paces, marching and countermarching to its own dulcet strains at the Hal Roach studios, as part of Charley Chase’s new starring vehicle for AI-G-AI release. The well-known band, however, has been a bit comouflaged, appearing in daring red uniforms, as a part of an enormous political rally. It seems that Chase is running for mayor, and things political are in a great ferment. Edna Alarian appears as Charley’s lead’ng lady, and Eugene Pallette also has a prominent role. James Parrott is directing, under the supervision of Leo AlcCarev.