The Moving picture world (May 1922)

394 MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 27, 1922 Keeping in Personal Touch FRITZ TIDDEN SOME indication of the highgrade of ball offered by the motion picture leaguers this year can be attested by the fact that in two starts the Universal nine, practically the same as last year, has failed to score a win. The Laemmlites were beaten Saturday by Pathe, 5-4, the strong pitching of Eschman featuring for the winners. Higgins caught for Pathe, while the losers' battery was Meisig, Christoff and Owens. Sterling work by the Paramount infield kept down Hodkinson's score and enabled the Mountaineers' to romp off with a 12-5 victory. Mann and Cassidy were the battery for the winners. Goldwyn retained the lead by defeating First National 12-9. The Franchisers scored seven runs in the sixth and tied the count ; but in the final frame the Lions hit Loges for the winning runs. Batteries : for Goldwyn, Borak, Arnold and Lang ; for First National, Loges, Best and Kelly. Welton pitched a strong game and the Vitagraph outfit beat Metro 9-4. Opportune hitting of the Metro pitchers, Jones and Smith, coupled with errors, gave the Vitagraph boys the winning runs. Standing of the League: W L P.C. I^oldwyn 2 0 1.000 Vitagraph 2 0 1.000 First National 1 1 .500 Paramount 1 1 .500 Pathe 1 1 .500 Metro 1 1 .500 Hodkinson 0 2 .000 Universal 0 2 .000 if * * Max Linder has left the coast for New York, from where he sails for I'rance on a long and well-earned vacation. * * * In answer to the various inquiries that have been raised recently ancnt the Rothafel-Moss handball contest, Rothafel feels beholden to make the following statement: "I want to assure you that the enforced delay in the handball match between B. S. Moss and myself is just as annoying to me as it is to Mr. Moss and his friends. For the last three months I have been under the doctor's care for a severe rheumatic condition, and have been forbidden to go within ten blocks of the gymnasium. Since I have been in the habit of taking my daily recreation in a couple of games of handball, you can appreciate that this state of affairs makes me pretty mad and the very mention of handball is apt to bring on a sudden attack of apoplexy. "Of course, if it were a matter of vital necessity, I could play the match right away, but I hardly believe Mr. Moss would want to play with a man who can't lift his right arm above his shoulder. I am looking forward to the event with as much impatience and anticipation as anybody else, and I feel that none of the eiitluisiastic promoters will want to violate the friendly conditions of the match by forcing it before all of the existing conditions are fair and satisfactory all around." * * Fable : Once upon a time there icas an usher in a Broadivay theatre who positively refused to accept a tip. — Aesop's Film Fables. * * * One of the worst of the bad men in the Western melodrama, "North of the Rio Grande," at the Rialto this week, is named Paul Perez. Is that nice, we ask you ? * * * Les Mason has resigned from First National to go into business for himself, editing and titling films. A story, accompanied by a tasty portrait of the young man, is published in another part of this issue, so we won't repeat the matter here. * * Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, gave a luncheon Friday at Delmonico's in honor of Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the corporation, who sailed Saturday on the Olympic for a five-week sojourn in Europe. Covers were laid for twenty-six, including Felix Kahn, Hugo Riesenfcld, Gilbert Miller, general manager of Charles Frohman, Inc., and officials and executives of Famous Players. During his stay in Europe Lasky will visit England, France, Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany, will be accompanied by Mrs. Lasky and Mr. Miller. Lasky has an appointment to meet \'icente Blasco Ibanez, author of "The Four Horsemen of the .Apocalypse" in Madrid for the purpose of discussing with him the details of the Paramount picture, "Blood and Sand." starring Rodolph \ alentino. which is now being made from Ibanez' book and play of the same name. .'\mong the authors whom Lasky is going to confer with are Sir James M. Barrie. Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, Joseph Conrad, Robert Hichens and Rudyard LOIS M EREDI T H During her current appearance in "The Czarina," at the Empire Theatre. Miss Meredith has received numerous offers to be .\-larred in moving pictures ozving to her captivating beauty and acting ability. An announcement concerning one of the offers is forthcoming Kipling, in England; Andre Rivoire and Henri Duvernois. in France; Melchior Lengyel, in Germany ; Arthur Schnitzler and Ernst Klein, in Austria ; Ferenc Molnar and Andreas Nagy, in Hungary ; Ibanez and Martinez Sierra, in Spain, and Dario Niccodemi, Gina Rocca and Enrico Serretta, in Italy. Through Miller, who has an extensive acquaintance among European authors, Lasky has been in communication with these writers, and as a result of this trip it is expected most of these authors will come to this country to write directly for the screen in the Lasky studio. On his last trip to Europe the film producer persuaded Edward Knoblock, Elinor Glyn, Henry Arthur Jones and Somerset Maugham to come to this country and study motion picture technique in his studios and write for his .screen. Others at the luncheon Friday included Eugene Zukor. Sidney R. Kent, E. E. Shauer, Julian Johnson, E. C. King, H. G. Ballance, Louis Swarts, R. W. Saunders, Frank Meyer. EIck John Ludvigh, Robert Kane. Harry Durant, Ralph Kohn, Henry Salisbury, Charles E. McCarthy, Jerome Beatty, Claud Saunders, F. V. Chamberlin, John C. Flinn, Ingvald C. Oes and Sam Wood. * * * With the recent increase in motion picture producing in Cuba and South .America has come a decision on the part of one of the large companies in Havana, the Compafiia Gloria Film, to exploit its product in the United States. Senor Marco Antonio Gonzales, who is starred in the three latest pictures, made by that company, railed "Blood Will Tell," "Cruel Dreams" and "The Monster," arrived here last week to arrange for the showing and exploitation of these pictures here. As an actor Gonzales is, perhaps, better known to his followers in Cuba and South America as Marco .\ntonio. During his stay in this country, Marco Antonio will visit the film studios in the East for the purpose of studying the technique of some of our male stars now at work, particularly, John Barrymorc and Richard Barthelmess, whose work, he states, is especially appreciated by his countrymen. « ^ * Film titters gaily settle such grave domestic issues as "The .Servant Question" and " E.rperimcnlal Marriage" regardless of consequences. « * * Paul Brunei will sail for France May 24. * « * A man said to us the other day : "You shouldn't look at that picture in the projection room. You ought to wait and see it in a theatre. It's a great picture but it needs musical accompaniment. You can't do it justice in a silent projection room." He's all wrong. No picture can