The Moving picture world (November 1924-December 1924)

November 8, 1924 M OV I N G PICT V RE WORLD 155 Thos. H. Ince's "Dynamite Smith," bringing Charles Ray back into his successful type o f roles. Pathe releases the new series. Century Schedule Announces Four for November Release Century Comedies announce four two-reelers for release through Universal exchanges for November. There will be one Wanda Wiley, one Buddy Messinger, one Century Follies Girls and one Century Kids. Al Alt will also be featured with the Century Follies Girls. The Wanda Wiley release is "Sweet Dreams," scheduled for the fifth. Edward I. Luddy directed. "Don't Fall" is the Buddy Messinger comedy scheduled for release on the nineteenth. In it Buddy is supported by "Bubbles," the five-year-old colored comedian, and "Spec" O'Donnell. Arvid Gilstrom directed. The release for the twelfth is "Speed Boys," featuring the famous Century Kids, under the direction of Al Herman, veteran comedy director and responsible for many Century successes. The twenty-sixth will see the release of another of those popular Century comedies featuring Al Alt and the well known Century Follies Girls. It is called "Dancing Daisies," and in addition to being extremely funny, boasts a bevy of beauties unequaled in any tworeel production. Cutting "The Lost Chord" W. E. Shallenberger and Whitman Bennett are devoting much time to the careful cutting of the new Arrow sentiment drama, "The Lost Chord," just completed at the Bennett Studios. This production was adapted from Sir Arthur Sullivan's famous song by Wilfred Noy, who directed the picture. The cast includes Alice Lake, David Powell, Dagmar Godowsky, Henry Sedley and Faire Binney. Dr. Shallenberger is making a special point of a musical settin;; for this release, which will be in harmony with its beauty and sentiment. New Radio Tie-Up As an additional circulation-getting media for the production of "Stella Dallas," from the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, which has been published as a serial in the American Magazine, circulated as a best seller novel and syndicated in over seventy newspapers throughout the land, Samuel Goldwyn will complete nation-wide arrangements with the strongest broadcasting stations from coast to coast to have the novel broadcasted in weekly instalment form by special readers supplied by Houghton Mifflin, the publisher. Negotiations have already been completed with a station in New York; others will be arranged en route in Chicago and completed in Los Angeles and San Francisco. These readings will take place two months prior to the release of the film. "Silent Watcher9' Is Another Bulls-Eye, Reviewers Declare IHE SILENT WATCHER," from Mary Roberts Rinehart's story, "The Altar on the Hill," Frank Lloyd's first production since the sensationally successful "Sea Hawk" had its first New York showing at the Strand Theatre this week. Again has Lloyd hit the bullseye of success and produced a screen masterpiece. The reviewers on the New York newspapers gave the production as fine a set of notices as they did to "The Sea Hawk," acknowledging that the new picture is, in its totally different way, just as notable an achievement as was its predecessor from the Lloyd studios. Mordaunt Hall wrote of it in the New York Times: "Is told with simplicity and restraint, dramatic emphasis and suspense having been handled most adroitly. A singularly natural story." Harriette Underhill in the New York Herald Tribune: "'The Silent Watcher' is a fine picture and Glenn Hunter is superb in it." Dorothy Herzog in the New York Mirror : "In its simplicity, its realism, and its excellence of acting and directing, 'The Silent Watcher' ranks with the most interesting productions of the season. . . . Glenn Hunter gives a superb performance. . . . Don't miss seeing 'The Silent Watcher.' " The New York Morning Telegraph said : "Mr. Lloyd has hit another bullseye. 'The Silent Watcher' is a silent drama at its high peak." Quinn Martin in the New York World : "Is acted with great precision." George Gerhard in the New York Evening World : "A splendid picture. Frank Lloyd has tyrned out a product which will not in the least impair the laurels he won with 'The Sea Hawk.' " New Canutt Release "Yak" Canutt, that bunch of American bone, sinew and brains that won the world's cowboy championship, has finished "Romance and Rustlers," the Arrow-Great Western in which he shows the screen public some of the ability and nerve that gave him the sobriquet of "King of the Cowboys." He is acquiring a way with the ladies and soon he will be a regular *heart-mixer Take Great Westerns Freedom Film Corporation, Rochester, N. Y., of which L. D. Wolfe is president and Homer Howard sales manager, has secured the 26 Arrow-Great Westerns starring Ben Wilson, Marjory Daw, Mildred Harris, Violet La Plante, Dick Hatton, Yakima Canutt, world's champion cowboy, Ruth Stonehouse, Marilyn Mills and her equine wonders, "Star" and "Reverly." This IS the picture y^ll ne'er fo^et, You'// lao&h unti/ yout* eyes arewetr, , IP yc%i don't show it you'// 3ure regret;, oh Bifr Business / The BATrtiNCr ORIOLES A HAL ROAtn N0Y£LTy ^ATl/lte Pafhepicture