The Moving picture world (October 1921)

October 15, 1921 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 787 "Love Is An Awful Thing," declares Owen Moore in a new film title. And few there are who will dispute the assertion. Guy Newall and Ivy Duke are sailing from England October 20 on the Olympic. They are commg to this country under the personal management of Harry Reichenbach. The noted British players are bnnging with them some prints of "The Bigamist," in which they are costarred and which Newall directed. The picture will be distributed m this country by one of the most prominent organizations. It is probable that the visitors will make at least two pictures while they are here. * * It is understood that Arthur Tarshis is to resign from Pioneer in the near future and return to the advertising department of Women's Wear. * * * Edwin Russell, one of the leading distributors in japan, recently arrived from the Orient and is visiting New York, making the Arrow offices his headquarters. * * ■» Senator lames J. Walker is now well enough to sit up and take notice, following a double operation performed on him at the Broad Street Hospital. * * * The New York Globe carried a story the other night to the effect that Charlie Chaplin was to sail for the United States this zveek. What oj the projected meeting with Doug and Mary and the subsequent trip around the world? * ♦ ♦ Max Linder waited until Douglas Fairbanks was safely on the high seas before announcing that he intends to make a burlesque production of "The Three Musketeers." Like "Be My Wife," his latest picture, the burlesque will be released by Goldwyn when it is completed. Linder is famous for more than one reason in the motion picture world. He had a leading role in the first film comedy ever made, for one thing. The comedian will have one great aid in making a burlesque on D'Artagnan's blustering ways, for like Dumas' hero, Linder is a remarkable swordsman. He learned the art (for he considers it one) in his native Paris, and if anybody can possibly burlesque Fairbanks' acrobatic fencing, Linder is the man. * * * In place of Joe Weil, who was originally engaged to prepare the serialized version of "Adventures of Tarzan," this work has been undertaken by Maud Robinson Toombs. Special work assigned to Weil by P.ert Lubin necessitated this change. Mrs. Toombs is publicity director of fan magazine exploitation for Universal, local press representative for Century Comedies and is well known for her special stories and serial versions which she has prepared on several of the leading pictures of the past twelve months. The syndication of the newspaper version of "Adventures of Tarzan" will appear in several hundred newspapers throughout the United States beginning this week and continuing weekly in episode form for the entire fifteen chapters. * * * "Theodora," the Italian film released by Goldwyn, will go into the Astor Theatre for a run, beginning October 10. * * * Beside doing publicity on the above picture for Goldwyn, Will Page will novelize the Italian film. * * * While on location at Mommoth Mountain, California, making scenes for Jack Holt's first Paramount star picture, "The Call of the North," Joseph Henabery, the director, learned by wire that he was the proud father of a son. * * * "]'es, I'm a slapstick comedian," ad)n!ts Larry Sevion. "I consider my slapstick work an obligation to society. "Slapstick is the melodrama of comedy. It demands thrills as tvell as laughs. It isn't highbroiv — but it appeals to highbrows as u'ell as everyone else. "Slapstick has physiological effects A MODERN SIMON LEGREE Paul Bern, editor of the Goldwyn scenario department, drives Charles Kenyan, photoplaywright, and Clayton Hamilton, associate editor, to their zvork A FAIRLY GOOD DAY Lloyd "Ham" Hamilton, star in Educational-Mermaid Comedies, and Walter Morosco, son of Oliver Morosco, bag the California limit for one day's bird shooting that — 2vell, ask any doctor. A few shivers up and down the vertebrae, a few ripples of the diaphragm^ and the most iveary human is shaken into a refreshing state of good humor!" * * * Do you ever think of motion picture directors as business men as well as artists? Take Reginald Barker, who produced "The Old Nest." He's vicepresident of Richardson's, Inc., an exclusive music shop in Los Angeles. Last year he was president-director of the Motion Picture Directors' Association. Now he is on the board of the directors' building corporation, which is constructing a $200,000 cafe and club center for the Hollywood film community. * * * F. C. Creswell, Paramount district manager with headquarters at Indianapolis, was a visitor at the Famous Players-Lasky home office last week. * * * Abel Gance, .poet, dramatist and motion picture producer, whose film production, "J' Acusse," will be released soon through United Artists, had a heavy jolt in his early days as a maker of pictures as a result of which his screen career very nearly came to an end. It was when Gance was an amateur in the industry and working in Paris, where all his later and most marked film successes were made. "Like all others I had to spend many wearisome months learning the technique," said Gance. "My first film surprised me very much when I saw it in the projection room. There was nothing on the screen. Like the ape in the fable, the cameraman had forgotten to light his little lamp — in this case, the camera — and the film, unexposed or very little exposed, presented a truly negative result." So disheartened was Gance by this unfortunate beginning that he forsook the cinema at once, to take up the study of philosophy and psychology. And it was only when driven to it by the dire necessity of earning money on which to live, that he again went back into the employ of a film company. M. Gance, who has been in this country for some time, sailed October 5 for France on the Paris. With him went Louis Nalpas. * * ♦ Don Marquis, conductor of the Sun Dial in the New York Evening Sun, and Christopher Morley, keeper of the Bowling Green in the Evening Post, appear as extras in "Footlights" at the Rivoli this week. Incidentally it is understood that Marquis will leave the Evening Sun at the expiration of his contract around the first of the year and go over to the Tribune. * * * The members of the Paramount Club, which comprises a large proportion of the Paramount home office employees, have been invited by Adolph Zukor to an outing at his country estate at New City, Rockland County, N. Y., on Saturday, October 15. It will be an allday affair, Mr. Zukor having arranged for a special train leaving Weehawken at 9.20 a. m. and returning from Haverstraw at about 9 p. m. Motors will be provided from Haverstraw to New City. The day will be spent in sports and games of all descriptions. It is estimated that between ,350 and 40O members of the club will enjoy Mr. Zukor's hospitality. * * * Roy Crawford, treasurer of Associated Exhibitors, is on a trip through the Middle West. He plans to visit, in particular, the Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis branch offices of Associated Exhibitors and to spend some time in Topeka. Crawford was active in the theatrical and motion picture field of that city for many years-. This is his first opportunity to return there since his appointment to the treasurcrship of Associated Exhibitors, last spring. * * * After a two-week sojourn in the East, during which they combined business and pleasure and a survey of film conditions here, Richard Willis, general manager of Charles' Ray Productions, and Albert A. "Ghosts of Yesterday" is a photoplot that has no bearing on the heated discussions of "spirits" today.