The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

458 MOVING PICTURE IVURLD December 5, 1925 "NOW, PAPA—" Seeing A merica First — one girl at a time, zmth wifey on the zmtcit — keeps Glen Tryon busy in Hal Roach's latest tworeel comedy, with that snappy star, "Papa, Be Good!" Pathe distributes it. "Aesop's Film Fables" Plays Two Weeks at the Strand "The Great Open Spaces," one of the popuar "Aesop's Film Fables," was held over for a second week at the Mark Strand Theatre in New York, where it was played coincidently with Rudolph Valentino's latest picture, "The Eagle." The concentrated comedy in the Paul Terry animated cartoons provides a maximum of laughs in a minimum of footage. B. Has Seven Releases for National Laugh Month FILM BOOKING OFFICES OF AMERIC.'^., IXC, has seven short subjects listed for release during January, 1926, designated as National Laugh Month. "High But Not Handsome," No. 9 of "The Adventures of Mazie," starring Alberta Vaughn, heads the imposing list of shorts. The series, based on stories by Nell Martin whicli ai>i'iarril in '\'t>]i Xntcli Matrazinc, are being adapted to the screen by Doris Anderson, and directed by Ralph Ceder. Larry Kent, Al Cooks, and Kit Guard appear in support of Alberta. "High But Not Handsome" is scheduled for January 3 release. "Mummy Love," a Blue Ribbon comedy starring Alice Ardell, will be shown on January 10. The Blue Ribbon comedies are produced by Joe Rock for Standard Cinema Corporation and F. B. O. release, and fea Western Showmen Are Keen "Inkwell" Cartoons Feature Church Fair in Jersey ^ Three of Red Seal's "Out of the-Inkwell" Cartoons, animated by Max Fleischer, were the principal feature last week of the annual fair held by the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of East Orange, New Jersey. Different booths were used to raise funds, including booths for the sale of fancy articles, candies, ice cream, soft drinks, groceries, magazines, home-made rugs, aprons, etc.; a roast beef supper brought in the most funds until the selling of seats for the Inkwell Cartoons, which topped all the others in money raised. ture a number of well known comedians in support of the delectable Alice. Another January 10 release is "The Giraffe's Long Neck," a one-reel novelty from the Bray Studios, in which Walter Lantz, the artist, acts in conjunction with the cartoon characters which he creates. "Little Andy Looney," No. 10 of "The •Adventures of Mazie," will be shown on January 17, while "n The Air," a two-reel Standard Fat Men comedy, featuring "Fat" Karr, Kewpie Ross and "Fatty" Alexander, the three fattest men on the screen, will be distributed on January 24. The same day will see the release of "Dinky Doodle At The Studio," a one-reel novelty in which Dinky Doodle cavorts merrily with Walter Lantz, his creator. January 31 is set for the release of No. 11 of "The .Adventures of Mazie" series, as vet untitled. NAT G. ROTHSTEIN A lotta folks will get a big kick outta "National Laugh Month," and the Director of Advertising, Publicity and Exploitation of F. B. O., who also is one of the guiding spirits of this great event, is one of these. HARRY BERNSTEIN, manager of Red Seal's New York Exchange, returned this week from a highly successful tour of the Middle West. Bernstein reported that everywhere he found exhibitors highly enthusiastic about "Laugh Month," when the short subject will come into its own. "More and more," he said, "exhibitors are willing to discuss the value of the short subject, not only with regard to its helping to round out a pleasing program, but as to its drawing power. They have found that by running a series of short subjects that have definite appeal, they can count on a certain number coming back for that subject regardless of the feature film. As a result, throughout the Mid-West today, exhibitors are advertising their short subjects almost on a parity with their features. In the case of the Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes particularly, to name one of our own releases, exhibitors told me that the community sing-fests brought into their theatres many of the older people who otherwise stayed away unless attracted by some particular star." During his trip Bernstein signed the Balaban and Katz Midwest Theatres, Inc., to play Red For National Laugh Month Seal's "Marvels of Motion," "K-Ko Song CarTunes," "Gems of the Screen," "Out-of-theInkwell," and the two Skiing Specials, "The Silvery Art" and "Flirting with Death" at the Chicago, Tivoli, Uptown, Harding and Senate theatres in Chicago, and their other houses on Rock Island, Blooming^ton, Elgin, Rockford, Aurora, and Peoria, 111. ; Davenport and Des Moines, la. ; and Omaha Neb. Other important exhibitors who contracted for Red Seal releases through Mr. Bernstein include Eddie Weisfeldt, general manager of Saxe's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, who signed for the entire series of "Marvels of Motion," "Geros of the Screen," and "Film Facts," in addition to "The Silvery Art." Through M. Marctis, manager of the Quimby Theatrical Enterprises, Bernstein signed up the Strand, Fort Wayne, the Quimby first run house to a solid year of of Red Seal subjects. The Strand will play the entire series of 13 "Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes," 13 "Out-of-theInkwells," 13 "Marvels of Motion," and 13 "Gems of the Screen" at the rate of one a week. Mr. Marcus .also contracted for the five-reel special, "Evolution."