The Moving picture world (May 1922)

332 MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 20, 1922 NOTED GLOBE TROTTER RETURNS FROM THE LAND OF THE TOUTED CLIMATE Jerry Beatty is back in New York from a two months' visit to California. Fashion pictures in Selznick News him that we shall not see short skirts very much longer — if any. * * * Charles Van Enger, noted cinematographer, has been selected to photograph the Goldwyn production of "The Christian," Hall Caine's famous story, which Maurice Tourneur will direct in England. Enger has been with Tourneur almost continuously for five years until recently when he photographed "The Doll's House" and "Salome" for Nazimova. Other pictures on which he cranked were "The Great Redeemer," "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Foolish Matrons." « * * Australia is planning its first moving picture exposition. It is to be held in Sydney, June 7-9, and elaborate preparations are being made for it. The show will be held in the town hall and the proceeds will be distributed to the various hospitals. * * * Many rumors have been surcharging the air anent the activities of Bebe Daniels tries out the special make-up kit prepared for her by W. H. Hazel, cabinet-maker at the Lasky studio Mae Murray. One had the star going into vaudeville. Another said she was going to Europe. Still a third that she was going to quit the pictures indefinitely. All wrong. Miss Murray is not going into vaudeville and is sticking to pictures, and right now is working early and late in the making of her newest production, "Broadway Rose." And the entire picture will be made in and around New York. * * * No sooner does Sol Lesser announce the New York premiere of the new Jackie Coogan production, "Trouble," at the Strand, May 21, than he engages that breezy young livewire, Paul Gray, to handle the national exploitation with Harry Wilson continuing as general publicist for the Coogan pictures. This is the fourth time that Gray has been in the Lesser employ and he likes it so well this time that he has decided to stick. * * * "/ Am the Law" thunders a new film. Wonder who will enforce it? * * * Lenore CoflFee, the scenarist, returned to the coast May 8. She has been visiting in New York three months. The younger set at the Algonquin luncheons regret her de Thomas Meighan, Paramount star, and Alfred E. Green, his director, have returned to Hollywood from Chicago after visiting George Ade's farm at Brooke, Ind., where the famous humorist witnessed the first running of his original photoplay, "Our Leading Citizen," in which Meighan stars. Ade has a theatre on his farm which was immediately christened "Ade's Theatre." Tom and Mrs. Meighan and Green were the guests of Ade and enjoyed the brief visit thoroughly, the actor and writer being close personal friends. While in Chicago, "The Bachelor Daddy," another Meighan picture, was shown at the Crippled Children's Hospital for several hundred kiddies who enjoyed it to the limit. The star sat in the audience, surrounded by the children, who greeted him with vociferous applause. Meisrhan has alreadv begun work in Cecil B. DeMille's "Manslaughter," while Green will shortly begin the direction of "The Ghost Breaker," starring Wallace Reid. * * * Sehnick News pictures Lizsie Robinson, of Aunusta. Georgia, who thinks she is 125 years old. She gives this advice to girls: "No matter how short her skirts may be. remember she is still your mother." * * * George Chesebro married Sophia Barman in Judge Hanby's Los Angeles court the other day. Then they departed for the Yosemite on a honeymoon, where George's company will join them to make exteriors in the great park for his mounted police serial of the Northwest. * * ♦ Sam Wood, Paramoimt producer, who has directed Gloria Swanson in all of her starring pictures, including her current release, "Beyond the Rocks." and "Her Gilded Cage," recently completed, is in New York on a vacation visit. He will remain here until about June 1, when he will return to Hollywood to direct Miss Swanson in her next Paramount picture, "The Impossible Mrs. Bellew." * « * Howard Dietz has sailed for the Island of Jamaica on a short vacation trip. Mrs. Dietz accompanied him. If Howard wants to make us real happy he will bring something back with him for us. And Howard, please don't send it to the office or to the Green Room Club as we are getting stingier and stingier about those things. Our home address is 27 Commerce street, New York City, which doesn't mean anything like it sounds as it is all dwellings. * « * Old Walt Hill, full of the dickens as usual, broadcasts that "Too Much Business" is a complaint that nobody but a title writer could make. « * * Jesse Lasky sails for Europe May 13, fearing naught concerning the superstition surrounding the date. He will be gone five weeks at least. * * * Abe Warner is back from the coast. * * • Walter K. Scott, formerly associated with the Lyman Howe Laboratories, has joined the Burton Holmes forces, with headquarters at the finely equipped and up-to-date laboratory of the Burton Holmes organization in Chicago. * « * Fablegram : 'Tis said thai a mouse is afraid of a man, a man is afraid of a woman artd a woman is afraid of a mouse. Moral: Three is a crowd. Fable : Once upon a time there was a famous author rvho recognised all the scenes in the screen version of his book. — "Aesop's Film Fables." * * * Jerry Beatty has returned to New York from Hollywood, where he was engaged for more than two months at the Laskv studio in producing "A Trip to Paramountown," a special picture for Paramount showing intimate off-sfage shots of Paramount stars and directors, and scenes for some of the fall productions in the making. Jerry brought with him a finished print of the picture, which is about 2,000 feet in length. * * * The sale of seven more photoplays was announced at the May 3 meeting of the New York Photodramatist Gub. The successful authors were Emma W. Key, Fav G. Butler, Mrs. C. J. Schilling and A. Edward Cook, Director W. W. Young and H. Addington Bruce, of the Globe, g^ave short talks. * • * James A. FitzPatrick, who directed for the Kineto, Company of America, two series of Urban Popular Classics, known as the "Great American Authors" and the "Great American Statesmen," sailed for Europe on the George Washington last Saturday to continue the same ideas with European authors and statesmen. During liis stay abroad on the Urban commission, FitzPatrick will do most of his work in England. It is Urban's plan to make the dramatic biographies of the English authors and statesmen balance the series that include the Americans. THE FIRST ASD O.XLY TIME HE WAS CAUGHT SMILING A snapshot of Buster Keaton taken during his boyhood. Buster's current offering is "Cops," a First National When this material is all in hand, FitzPatrick will return to work with Urban in editing them for release. Then he will again go to Europe to work on the Continent. In three years Urban expects to complete the entire series to cover the biggest names in literature and history from all the countries. * * * It takes a clever scientist to get ahead of the movies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is late with his "spook pictures." For some time the screen has been showing Norma Talmadge and Eugene O'Brien in the Selznick photographs of "The Ghosts of Yesterday." « * * _ Speaking of Sir Arthur, the first time we ever saw him was at the showing the other day of "The Oosed Door." which purports to be a spiritualistic film. Accompanying the English author were his two boys, a pair of unusually charming English youngsters, whose age we cannot guess, being very bad at that sort of thing. Sir Arthur seemed interested in the picture, and told us afterwards that he was vitally interested in the great possibilities moving pictures have in either transcribing literature to the screen or in familiarizing the public with spiritualism as it should be practiced. * * * Milt Hagen, exploitation manager for S. C. Caine, Inc., and co-author with Herbert Crocker of the new fox trot, "Isle of Zorda," has just made arrangements with all radio broadcasting stations to have the song, simultaneously on a certain date, broadcasted from every station in the country, "Isle of Zorda" was written in conjunction with the Pafhe picture of the same name. * * * Film titlers have begun to think in numbers with an eye to attendance. Eugene O'Brien's new picture is a case in point. Members of a great family will take personal interest in "John Smith" — if only to gloat over the ignored Browns and Joneses,