The Moving picture world (January 1924-February 1924)

288 MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 26, 1924 Big Arrow Contracts Finklestein and Rubin and A. H. Blank Enterprises Are Signed An important deal in the Independent market was closed this week between the Arrow Film Corporation and Fred Cubberley, representing the Finklestein & Rubin interests, Minneapolis. , By the terms of the contract, F. & R. secure the distribution rights to a number of very important Arrow pictures for the States of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and will start releasing them immediately. Another deal closed by the Arrow Film Corporation was that of the sale of two Peter B. Kyne productions, "Back to Yellow Jacket" and "One Eighth Apache" and "The Santa Fe Trail" to the A. H. Blank Enterprises, with headquarters in Kansas City, who secured these pictures for Western Missouri and Kansas, while they also secured "Back to Yellow Jacket" and "One Eighth Apache" for Iowa and Nebraska. Colleen Moore's Third Colleen Moore, will star in First National's "The Perfect Flapper." John Francis Dillon will direct and Harry O. Hoyt will write the script. This will be the third picture in which Miss Moore has worked in the past four months. C. 0. D. Instructions Postmasters Must Return Undelivered Film by a Specific Date As a result of repeated complaints from senders of C. O. D. shipments of moving picture films specific instructions have been issued by the Post Office Department that postmasters must comply with the requests of senders to return undeliverable parcels within a specified number of days. "It is desired to make the C. O. D. service an attractive and satisfactory method for the exchange and distribution of motion picture films," it is pointed out in the instructions issued by Third Assistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover. "Postmasters are enjoined to observe carefully the return requests appearing on C. O. D. shipments and to comply strictly therewith. Insured or C. O. D. shipments of films bear return postage pledges and specific return requests, and when any such parcels are undeliverable for any reason on the date specified in the return request the parcels should be immediately returned to the senders or forwarded to such person as the senders direct in the return request, rated up to show the amount of return or forwarding postage, regardless of the wishes of addressed." Editing Fox Special Fox's "Apache" Started Production has been started at the William Fox West Coast studios on "The Apache," one of the program features on the 1924 schedule in which John Gilbert is starred. Edmund Mortimer is directing the picture from the story and scenario by Charles Kenyon. Start Tom Mix Film "Mixed Manners," the latest William Fox production starring Tom Mix, was started this week at the West Coast studios. Jack Blystone, who directed Mix in "Soft Boiled," the William Fox special released early this season, also is directing this latest production from scenario by Donald Lee. Add Girls to Cast Two new girls have been added to the companies making Universal comedies. Brenda Lane, formerly with Ziegfeld Follies, will appear with Slim Summtrville, and Olive Hasbrouck, formerly with George White's "Scandals," is appearing with Bert Roach and Neely Edwards. "Warrens of Virginia" to Be Widely Publicized Elmer Clifton has returned to the William Fox New York studios with his company of players after three months spent in the vicinity of San Antonio, Texas, making the screen version of "The Warrens of Virginia." The work of cutting and editing this production is now being conducted. When "The Warrens of Virginia" is finally assembled and ready for its initial showing it will be preceded by one of the widest publicity campaigns ever given a new Fox production. This picture will be one of the biggest productions and most important box-office specials on the new Fox schedule. The stage play was written by William C. deMille and produced by David Belasco. Elmer Clifton directed this production. Wilfred Lytell and J. Barney Sherry are featured. Included in the cast are : George Bachus, Dorothy Kingdon, Robert Andrews, Jimmie Ward, Rosemary Hill, Frank Andrews, Harlan Knight, James Turfler, George Strickling, Helen Ray Kyle and Mrs. Frances Grant. "Maytime" Billboards Henry Ginsberg, Preferred Pictures' sales manager, has announced that an extensive bill posting campaign on "Maytime" will be inaugurated at once throughout Greater New York. Scene from Victor Seastrom's Production "Name the Man!" distributed by Go'dwyn. The picture is adapted from "The Master of Men," by Sir Hall Caine, and features Conrad Nagel, Mae Busch, Patsy Ruth Miller, Hobart Bosworth, Aileen Pringle and Creighton Hale