Paramount Pep (1922)

Paramount Pep fourteen Why Go to France? When you can enjoy such a neat reproduction of a French street scene erected at our West Coast studio. This French scene was set up for Sam Wood, who is directing Gloria Swanson in “Her Gilded Cage.’’ William de Mille and Company Escape Mountain Landslide by Hair’s Breadth William de Mille and several members of his company narrowly escaped death recently while at work on "Nice People,” the producer’s current picture, according to word received from the West Coast. While en route to a location high in the hills of Southern California, the producer and his party motored across a piece of mountain road that detached itself from the adjoining cliff and swept in a tremendous landslide into the valley below just after the party crossed it. Fortunately for all concerned, the entire company had crossed in advance of the landslide. Luck also favored them in that there was another road available as an exist from their mountain perch. In the party were William de Mille, Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Conrad Nagel, Ethel Wales and members of the staff. B. Cory Kilvert, Famous “Kiddie” Artist, Now Making Art Titles for Us B. Cory Kilvert, celebrated artist formerly with “Life,” “Scribner’s” and other national magazines; originator of the “Kilvert Kiddies” and immortalized by O. Henry in several of his stories, is now on the staff of our title department at the Lasky studio, where he will do special colored titles for motion pictures. A personal friend of Penrhyn Stanlaws, also an artist of national reputation, Mr. Kilvert will probaljly do his first work in this new I'leid on Mr. Stanlaws’ production, “Pink Gods,” soon to be made. Marvelous Productions (Continued from Page 12) which really goes beyond your expectations — such clothes, such situations and such a cast. Never before has such splendor and value been crowded into one production as in “Her Gilded Cage.” William de Mille’s production, “Nice People,” the stage success that ran for two years in New York and still running successfully in the larger cities in the U. S., deals with the most prominent theme and topic of today — the flapper and her problems. Who is better fitted to typify the flapper than Behe Daniels with Wallace Reid playing opposite her and Conrad Nagel and Julia Faye being part of the excellent cast? Can you imagine the possibilities alone with the topic of the story? You can see the value of the production with this splendid cast and direction, by the man who made “Mid Summer Madness.” This production without the slightest doubt will prove one of the finest box office attractions we have had in a long while. Then comes Rodolph Valentino — the greatest single box office attraction ever offered at any theatre, in “Blood and Sand.” Not alone Valentino hut Nita Naldi who played Passion in “Experience.” As an indication of the calibre of acting offered by this pair, we will relate a little incident which took place at the studio recently. When V’alentino and Naldi were working before the camera, the entire personnel unconsciously drew around them and watched with awe the wonderful acting of this pair. Can you picture Valentino doing a Spanish dance with Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee playing the beautiful Spanish wife? This production was directed by Fred Nihlo, the one and same man who directed “The Three Musketeers”— that alone should be enough for any exhibitor to know, that together with this marvelous story, under the guiding hand of this capable director and with Rodolph Valentino, Nita Naldi and Lila Lee, it will do a record-breaking business at his box-office. Then conies “The Siren Call,” starring Dorothy Dalton, whose stock has jumped 200 per cent, since her wonderful performances in “Moran of the Lady Letty,” and “The Crimson Challenge.” She is supported in this production by David Powell and Mitchell Lewis, who depict a marvelous conflict for the love of this woman through the entire pnxluction. Now comes the surprise picture for September — “While Satan Sleeps,” starring Jack Holt, is the name of it, and we want it to be as big a surprise to you as it was to us, so look at it the first opportunity you have. Last but not least in the two months’ releases of the greatest series of pictures in the history of motion pictures, is that master of stage-craft Cecil B. DeMille’s “Manslaughter,” the famous story by Alice Ducr Miller, one of the biggest selling stories on the market today. Not alone from these values does “Manslaughter” appeal, but it takes you back to the days of “Male and Female” and shows Tommy Meighan again under the DeMille banner, playing the Irish (Continued on Next Page)