The Moving picture world (May 1922)

Alay 20, 1922 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 331 Keeping in Personal Touch FRITZ TIDDEN WITH eight fully organized, uniformed teams hitting the apple, the second season of the Motion Picture Baseball League got off to a flying start last Saturday, May 6. The commencement of the season was rendered all the more sensational by upsets which, in one instance at least, sent the preseason dopesters flying for pencils to figure out new statistics. The most unexpected surprise was the_ defeat of the almost intact Universal nine, undefeated winners of last year's championship, by the Goldwyn aggregation. The final score, 12 to 2. bore testimony to the one sided slugfest that characterized the Lions' assault upon the big U supposedly invincible nine. The batteries for the winners were : Borak and Lang, and for the losers : Missig, ChristofT and Owens. First National downed Paramount in a game featured by combinations of hits_ and errors and a sensational ninth inning finish. With a score of 8 to 0 in their favor, the Franchisers blew up in the sixth when six Paramount runners crossed the plate, errors being chiefly responsible. The Franchise pitchers, Loges_ and Best, with Kelly on the receiving end, practically won the game unsupported. With one down in the ninth, one run across already, two needed to tie. and runners on second and third. Best struck out the last two Paramount batters. The losers' batteries were : Warren, Mann and Cassidy. Metro took Pathe's scalp in a one inning war dance during which Marcus Loew's boys scored 14 runs. After that it became a baseball game, the final score being 16 to 7. Jones, for the winners, struck out 17 men. The batters for Metro: Jones and Ellsworth; for Pathe, Grant, Eschman and Hiscom. Vjtagraph showed early season batting form by hitting the offerings of two Hodkinson moundsmen for 13 runs, the final tally being 13 to 3. The batteries were: for Vitagraph, Welton and Mason; for Hodkinson, Kraft. Gallup, Sims and Kelly. Standing of the League W L Pet. First National 1 0 1,000 Goldwyn 1 0 1.000 Metro 1 0 1.000 Vitagraph 1 0 1.000 Hodkinson 0 1 000 Paramount 0 1 000 Pathe 0 1 000 Universal 0 1 000 * * ♦ Mae Murray has accepted the honorary presidency of the Motion Picture Baseball League for this year. According to a letter received by President Paul Perez. Miss ]\Turray is not only keenly interested in the progress of the league, but is an ardent fan herself. So intensely is she concerned for the development of athletics in the motion picture industry that she has volunteered to donate a cup to the winning team this year. This cup will be competed for annually to be retained eventually by the team winning it a certain amount of tirnes, the exact number to be decided later by the league representatives under Miss Murray's wishes. In expressing her pleasure at acting as the head of the league, Miss Murray has also expressed her desire to be notified of the playing schedule, stating that she intended to attend as many games as possible this summer. Further awards, for individual members of the winning team have been promised by A. G. Spalding and Bros., athletic outfitters, who are offering individual gold medals to the members of the winning team. Claridge informed us the other day that their table cloth laundry bills were slightly less than normal. * * * That everyone was bv no means in Washington, the business address of the government, was clearly pointed out on Tuesday evening, at the May Carnival held in the Hotel Astor, a well-known hostelry situated on the Broadway block bounded by two of the Roaring Forties, four and five. The affair was the termination of the moving picture popularity contest to elect the king and queen of filmdom, which was held to raise money for the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, at a dime a vote. A NEW FIELD FOR ARTISTS Gloria Swanson has set another style for milady. You have designs painted on the calves and then put on very sheer white stockings. The effect is startling and Gloria will display it in her next Paramount release, "The Gilded Cage" At a meeting of league representatives held last week it was unanimously voted to accept Miss Murray's kind offer of a cup and to express to her, the league's appreciation of her acceptance of the honorary presidency and her interest in its welfare. New York seems partially deserted this week, owing to considerable exodus in the general direction of Washington, the capital of our broad, geographically speaking, country. Mrs. Astor and Mrs. It seemed as if everyone in the industry was there, too. And everyone present had a fine time, including Bill Fox and Florenz Ziegfeld. who conducted a spirited bidding contest for votes, at ten cents a copy. This little pastime, which included marking up votes at an average of 25,000 at a throw, took place around two o'clock, with Fox bidding from the balcony and Ziggy casting ballots from a table directly under him on the dance floor. Fox was determined to elect Mary Carr and Ziggy was furiously intent on having his wife, Billie Burke, made FORE On May 25 at the Oak Ridge Golf Club, Tuckahoe, will be held the Spring moving picture golf tournament. The entries are pouring in at a rapid rate and the affair promises to exceed last Fall's tournament, which made history. Moving Picture World has again donated a silver cup as prize for one of the many classes of contestants. queen, with the latter winning out. Joseph P. Day acted as master of ceremonies in the voting contest. Edward Earle was elected king without a battle from any quarter. * * * When we made a trip to Boston over the past week end, on Saturday evening we were most cordially entertained by Dick Gorman, who runs the Tremont Temple, the largest church in Boston, which is used during the week as a moving picture theatre and a house of worship in the Baptist faith on Sundays. The picture we saw as part of Gorman's entertainment was Fox's "Monte Cristo," which was reviewed some weeks ago in Moving Picture World. i» * * Will Hays is rapidly assembling his staff. He has already selected Kirk L. Russell, a former official of the Post Office Department, and C. C. Pettijohn, who needs no introduction. The most recent addition made by Hays is Ralph Hayes, vicepresident of the Cleveland Trust Company, who was assistant to Newton D. Baker when he was Secretary of War. Hayes' bank has granted him a -leave of absence. * * * "April baby showers bring May flowers I" says Tom J. Geraghty. His amendment to the old saying is unanimously supported by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Constance Talmadge. Natalie Talmadge Keaton, Mickey Neilan and Harold Lloyd. After exhaustive research of the horoscope the Famous PlayersLasky supervising director has discovered that besides these famous screen stars — and himself — among the April babies are Will Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Ulysses S. Grant, Washington Irving, Jean Rosseau, Oliver Cromwell. William Wordsworth, Emmanuel Kant. Catherine the Great, Charlotte Bronte. Edward Gibbon, the Smith Brothers, Jesse James and Charlie Fuhr. * * * J. R. Diamond, camera chief of the Hugo Ballin Productions, has been engaged by William Nigh to photograph "Notoriety," a picture starring Maurine Powers. This does not mean that Ballin will stop producing; but Diamond explains that he has just been loaned to Nigh for a few weeks, during which time Ballin will be busy cutting his latest oicture. * « * At a recent meeting Will Hays was elected a director of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Company. * * ♦ George Kleine. who is releasing a number of his well-known specials, chief among which are "Julius Caesar" and "The Last Days of Pompeii," announces t*"" removal of his New York Exchange from 145 West Forty-fifth street to larger offices at 729 Seventh avenue.