The Moving picture world (November 1921)

540 MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 3, 1921 Fitzmaurice Brings Europe's Beauty Spots to American Screen in New British Pictures When Adolph Zukor first announced the organization of Famous Players-Lasky British Producers, Ltd., for the production of Paramount pictures in Europe, he laid emphasis upon the fact that it was intended to make full use of the rarely beautiful scenery and places of historic interest in various sections of Great Britain and the Continent as locations for the pictures to be produced on the other side of the Atlantic. The full fruition of this policy is now being realized in the productions being made at the London studio by two of Paramount's foremost American producers, George Fitzmaurice and John S. Robertson. In his production of "Three Live How About Increasing Your Income? Are you acquainted with exhibitors? If so, you can't afford to pass up this splendid proposition. We want a man to sell exhibitors in every section of the country — could be handled as a side-line. Write immediately. X. Y. Z. M. P. WORLD OFFICE 516 5th AVENUE NEW YORK CITY Ghosts," recently completed, Mr. Fitzmaurice was enabled to show London as it really is. In scenes representing the Limehouse District, immortalized by Thomas Burke, it was no longer necessary to commission an art director to draw upon his imagination, however stimulated that imagination might be by the Burke stories. Instead, he took his company straight to Limehouse and filmed it as it actually exists. In another scene, though the cooperation of the London police, he was enabled to photograph Cyril Chadwick pushing a baby carriage across one of the busiest streets of the world metropolis, with the famous Royal Exchange looming up in the background. Now Fitzmaurice is producing Booth Tarkington's "The Man from Home," and it is announced that all the exterior scenes will be made at their original locations. This entails a visit to Rome, Naples, Sorrento and Capri, and Americans may look forward with keen anticipation to the privilege of seeing some rare Italian scenery as background for a production made according to American standards of a true American production genius. John S. Robertson only recently completed "Love's Boomerang," from a novel by Dion Clayton Calthrop. Some of it was filmed in France, while other scenes were filmed on a magnificent houseboat on that Thames. Most interesting of all the "Love's Boomerang" locations, however, were the grounds of the historic Beaulieu Abbey which was built by King John as a monastery in the year, 1203. Here the abbey's wonderful cloisters, the wonder and admiration of the world's architects and the mecca of tourists, formed the background for convent settings. Mr. Robertson has just started a new production, "Spanish Jade," which will take him and his company to the most picturesque spots in Spain itself, a country practically untouched by picture-makers and holding an unimagined charm in store for American audiences. As a forerunner of these productions filmed at the actual scenes of the stories, Paramount has just released Donald Crisp's production, "The Bonnie Brier Bush," based upon the Scotch stories of Ian MacLaren. Mr. Crisp took his company to Scotland and there, in and about the little village of Drumtochty, he filmed most of the scenes for the picture. cent R-C attraction, "The Barricade." Such productions as "The Stealers," "What's a Wife Worth?" "Live and Let Live" have combined to build Mr. Cabanne up as a distinct producing personality of great popularity among exhibitors, declares Mr. Rogers. "The Barricade" Heavily Booked Not the least substantial indication of returning prosperity in the motion picture industry, according to Charles R. Rogers, general manager of R-C Pictures, was the exceptional value of bookings obtained in New York City and environs for William Christy Cabanne's most re Illinois Institute Praises ' 'Fauntleroy ' ' Mary Pickford's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," a United Artists' release, has won the stamp of approval of the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research, a State-controlled institution. While Miss Pickford's film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's story was being shown at the Randolph Theatre, Chicago, a large group of children from the public welfare department of the institute saw the picture. Later the head of the Social Service branch wrote to the theatre management telling how the youngsters had enjoyed the performance and adding : "From an ethical and aesthetic standpoint it was a great relief to us to know the children were getting the clean, wholesome amusement and entertainment which the picture affords." Rosen to Direct "Across the Continent" is to be Wallace Reid's next Paramount Picture and Philip E. Rosen, who has just completed "The Champion," in which Mr. Reid stars, will again direct. It was written by Byron Morgan.