The Moving picture world (November 1924-December 1924)

November IS, 1924 MOVING PICTURE WORLD 253 From William Fox's "Purchased Women," an Emmett Fiynn product'on from the novel by Gilbert Frankau Pathe Short Subjects Sixth Chapter of Serial in Program For Week of November 16 "Ten Scars Make a Man," goes into its sixth chapter on the Pathe program releases for the week of November 16, supported by a strong lineup of short subject product. This chapter of the latest Patheserial is one of the most exciting episodes seen to date in this thrilling drama of the great west. Another important unit on the program of Pathe for the week is the Hal Roacli "Our Gang" comedy entitled "Fast Company." "Love's Sweet Piffle," featuring Ralph Graves, is the Mack Sennett comedy offering for the week. This production is the forth picture of the first series of Sennett Star Comedies. "Gridiron Glory," a Grantland Rice "Sportlight," is also one of the releases for the week. Pathe Review No. 46 contains three subjects. The first is a second installment of "Jungle Life in India." This subject thrills with scenes of tracking down the rhinos with both camera and gun. The second subject is "Classical Jazz." The third is a Pathecolor on American industries and covers the growing of "Cherry Coffee in Hawaii." "She Knew Her Man," animated cartoon comedy of the Aesop's Film Fables, "Topics of the Day" No. 46 and Pathe News Nos. 94 and 95 complete the program for the week. New York Critics Vote 'Hot Water" Great Fun WITHOUT a single exception New York newspaper critics declared Harold Lloyd's latest comedy one of the funniest this comedian has ever made. The picture opened, Sunday, October 26, at the Mark-Strand to the biggest business ever experienced by this theatre for an opening day. The figure reached with "Hot Water" for the opening day was close to $1,000 bigger than the opening day of "Girl Shy," while the house record for any picture was broken by several hundred dollars. The New York World stated: "It seems a little indecent that any critic should have as much fun in a theatre as I had yesterday. Something probably ought to be done also to prevent audiences becoming so demonstrative as those sitting before this new comedy, 'Hot Water,' of Harold Lloyd's. ... no one should let it pass unseen." Louella O. Parsons in the New York American said : "I defy any man, woman or child to go to the Strand Theatre this week and not laugh at Harold Lloyd's latest comedy 'Hot Water.' The mother-in-law bugaboo may be an old-time gag, but I have never in a cartoon, a short story, a motion picture, or on the stage seen any mother-in-law situations as funny as the side-splitting comedy of Josephine Crowell and Harold Lloyd. 'Hot Water' is the best comedy up to this moment I have ever seen." Mildred Spain in the New York Daily News said : " 'Hot Water' is funny. Yesterday's audience couldn't have waxed much more mirthful. Shrieks, giggles, grins and laughs — all were there. Here's a dandy picture for children. But make no mistake, grown-ups will enjoy it, too. You shouldn't let it get out of New York without seeing it." The New York Evening Bulletin : "At the Strand Theatre yesterday we waited in a dense mob for thirty minutes to get in to see Harold Llo}'d's new picture 'Hot Water.' Now that is popularity — to see the crowd one might have thought that the Strand was the only picture theatre in the whole of New York. But Lloyd is always worth waiting for; and never more so than in this picture." .; Girard Added to Cast According to advices received by George H. Davis and Samuel J. Briskin of Banner Productions, Inc., Joseph Girard has been added to the cast of "The Three Keys," which Ben Verschleiser is making on the Coast from Frederic Ormonde's novel, with Edith Roberts, Jack Mulhall and Virginia Lee Corbin in the featured roles. Edward Le Saint is directing the production, which has new been in work for about a fortnight and is scheduled for release by Banner, Dec. 15. Besides those named, the cast of "The Three Keys" includes : Gaston Glass, Miss DuPont, Charles Clary and Stuart Holmes. Among Mr. Girard's recent productions are : "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter" and "Judgment," both First National features. Paramount Signs Robert Cain Robert Cain has been engaged by Cecil B. De Mille for his new Paramount production, "The Golden Bed." He is the latest addition to the featured cast of this screen play by Jeanie Macpherson from Wallace Irwin's novel. Mr. Cain has a most interesting role in a cast which includes Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Lillian Rich, Warner Baxter, Theodore Kosloff, Julia Faye, Robert Edeson and Jane Win ton. "Good attraction" (Harrison s Reports) "Produced lavishly . . . Sustains interest . . . Good attraction for theatres that cater to strong melodrama loving patrons." Harrison's Screen Reports A Screen Find Billy Boye, the two-and-a-half-year old boy wonder who appeared in several of the Ricordo Film Corporation's two reel comedies, notably "Engaged for Ten Cents" and "The Boarding House Battle," has been placed under a five year contract by M. H. Karper, the well known playwright and head of the Karper Productions of 1480 Broadway. Mr. Karper discovered his latest protege one day at a private showing of little Billy's latest picture, "Stealing a Sweetheart," in which the tiny screen wonder displayed the rarest of screen gifts in natural pantomime unusual in screen children. The Howard Estabrook Production THE PRICE OF A PARTY Directed by Charles Giblyn with Hope Hampton, Harrison Ford, MaiyAstor Arthur Edmund Carew and Dagmar GodowsK/ Associated Exhibitors Physical Distributors -Pathe Exchange, Inc.