The Moving picture world (May 1922)

May 13, 1922 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 167 THE paragraph below, translated from the Spanish, appeared as an advertisement in the leading papers pf Guatemala. It is indicative of the esteem with w*hich the Chalmers Publishing Company's Spanish publication is held in South America. GREAT "CINE-MUNDIAL" SONG CONTEST The "Libreria Cervantes" announce the opening of its contest for first honors among our metropolitan musicians who are ready to compete for the prize of $1,000, national currency, for the best fox trot presented by local composers and entitled "CineMundial," in honor of the great magazine of that name. The contest will close April 29. The judges, able and competent local personalities, will shortly after that date announce the name of the triumphant composer and adjudge the $1,000 prize, and besides a free yearly subscription to this important magazine to the winner. Ayestas & Co., 10a Calle Oriente, No. 5, Guatemala motion picture production and the Cinema Composers at Columbia University. Mayer's topic was "Studio Lighting." * 4< « With "French Heels," "Silk Hosiery," "Short Skirts" and "Bobbed Hair" is there any knowing "What Women Will Do?" * * ♦ A seven pound girl was born to ZaSu Pitts, in private life Mrs. Tom Gallery. * * * "Lin-Croft," the country home of Hugo and Mabel Ballin, at Westport, Conn., has been sold to Rose O'Neil, the artist, and originator of the Kewpie doll. An artistic flavor surrounds the house ; for it was at "Lin-Croft" that Ballin painted the murals which now decorate the Wisconsin State Capitol, and it was here, too, that Louis Joseph Vance, who occupied the house for a season, wrote some of his fiction. * * * Jack — "Why is Ethel so proud lately? She struts around as if she oivned the earth!" Pott — "Some scenario editor informed her that her plots were th<' best he ever returned." * * * On Monday evening, May 1, Julian Johnson, of Famous PlayersLasky Corporation, addressed the Cinema Composers at Columbia Victor Herbert, famous composer, gives Jackie Coogan his first 'cello lesson University on "The Preparation of the Photoplay from the Producer's Point of View." * * * Maibelle Heikes Justice has returned to New York from a long stay in Washington. She expects to go to the coast shortly to visit Mary Miles Minter. * * We are waiting with great interest for Elinor Glyn's forthcoming picture, "Thru Eyes of Truth," which is a picturization of Mme. GlyT's experiences in Hollywood. The ^ilra will be released by Western Pictures Exploitation Company. * * * Some wives itfill be hard to convince that "Heroes and Husbands" are synonymous. * * ♦ Nils Bouveng, production manager of the Swedish Biograph Company, who has been in this country for the past eight months, sailed on the Aquitania May 2 for Stockholm, where he will spend the summer months in the interests of his company, and incidentally take a little vacation after his continued work over here. He expects to return to America in the Fall. * ♦ ♦ Fdward Dillon thinks the time is ripe now for someone to picturize "The Johnstown Flood." Any old flood will do now that everybody thinks the country is "dry." it * * Florence Dixon had some new photos taken the other day and a friend looking at one remarked : "That looks like Hill." Miss Dixon was flabbergasted for a moment but then wised up and said : "That is Hill's work." * * * Louis Baum, general manager of Equity, sailed for Europe May 2. He will make a three months' business trip. * it "Eden and Return" is a title that indicates Mother Eve may do a come-hack. 4> * * "Should Husbands Know?" Betty Blythe's latest picture, a WhitmanBennett production for Pyramid Pictures, opens an indefinite engagement at B. S. Moss' Cameo Theatre, New York, May 7. Joe Di Lorenzo has arrived on the coast, culminating a sales trip that took him to many key cities. ^ * * ♦ Let's see, we think it was at least six months ago that we printed in this hit-or-miss department that we thought H. G. Wells's "Outline of History" had possibilities of a great picture. * * * The popularity contest for the king and queen of filmdom got a great start and is going strong. * * * "Why Announce Your Marriage?" The gossips will do it for you. * ♦ ♦ Dimitri Stephon has been appointed managing editor of "Starland Review," the series of one-reel subjects made by C. B. C. and released by R-C. * * * Tommy "Bozo" Snyder, whom Barney Gerard has been exploiting in his "Follies of the Day," left for Los Angeles this week where he will start production on the first of a series of two-reel comedies. Bozo was to have gone to Europe with "Follies of the Day," but Gerard made other plans at the last moment. if if * Eddie Cadorot, head of the Illinois exhibitor organization, came to town this week, but left Wednesday for Washington, D. C, to attend the hearing on the Lambert music tax bill. * * * Harry O. Hoyt goes to Medford, Mass., next week to start on the first Holman Day picture. * * * Hugo Riesenfeld conducted an orchestra of eighty at Carnegie Hall, May 4, as part of New York's Music Week celebration. The Ampico special film, "Immortalized," showing Eddy Brown, Alma Gluck, Leopold Godowsky, Alexander Lambert, Alfred Mirowitch, Leo Ornstein, Rosa Ponselle, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Efrom Zimbalist, ManaZucca, the entire National Symphony Orchestra and Arturo Bodansky was shown with a special music setting NOTED TRAVELER RETURNS FROM FLUSHING. LONG ISLAND Earle Hudson has been attending to his customary spring planting on his estate by Riesenfeld. Leo Ornstein, pianist and composer, was the soloist. * * * Lester Scott, sales representative for Affiliated Distributors, Inc., returned to New York this week, following a tour of the exchange centres in the interests of "I Am the Law," the Bennie ZeidmanBernie Fineman production, produced by Edwin Carew, and which Charley Burr will State right. * * * Sol and Irving Lesser, and Max Ramish, of Western Pictures Exploitation, Los Angeles, are in New York for a few weeks. if * * Sam Moscow, of the Moscow Exchange of Boston, was a visitor to New York this week. * * * The opening game of the Motion Picture Baseball League will be played between the First National and Paramount teams at the Crotona Athletic Field, May 6. SINCE Rupert Hughes has taken to directing his own pictures at the Goldwyn studios in Culver City he has been swamped by visitors. They like to hear him spouting epigrams through his megaphone. Colleen Moore, who is now being directed by him in "The Bitterness of Sweets," already has jotted down the following bits: You can't use imitation silk before the motion picture camera. The lens is even quicker to detect imitation emotion. Horace said: "He who would make others weep, must first have wept himself." Every motion picture director should have that on his waU. Ever since I was six years old people have been prophesying that I was going to kill myself with overwork. All the prophets are now dead. We could make some very fine motion pictures if we didn't have to bother with cameras and lights. The censors are going to stop crime by censoring the films. Why don't they put an end to diseases by burning the medical books which describe them? When an actor loses control of himself he loses control of his audience.