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Lasky Announces Zane Grey Productions
Famous Author of Outdoor Works Signed for Series of His Best Stories
One of the most current and important announcements made by Mr. Lasky was to the effect that Zane Grey, one of the most famous authors on outdoor stories, has been signed It? 5 * roduction Department for all of his current and future works on the screen.
1 he first three pictures which will be produced in rapid succession will be filmed on the identical locations where the stories are laid.
1 he first is do the Last Man,” a story which is laid in Arizona and founded on a feud which is known as The Pleasant Valley War.
The next will be ‘ The Heritage of the Desert,” scenes laid in Utah where the company will be sent to make the filming.
_lhe third thus far announced will be “The Wanderer of the Wasteland.”
a*10*-' rC^ IS essentiaI17 an outdoor author. His stories breathe the bigness of the West. i Mr. Urey gave up a trip to the Caribbean which he had planned, in order to be present at the filming of his stories by our organization. He will work hand in hand with Lucien Hubbard, r\ ho m turn will collaborate with Doris Schroeder, comparing the continuities.
Victor b lemming has been selected to direct "To the Last Man,” on account of his interest and enthusiasm in stories of this sort. Work on this production will be started early in the Spring, the others following early in the year and thence forward.
Mr. Grey is tremendously enthusiastic over the arrangement as indicated by his cancelling of a trip to which he had looked forward.
In a letter to Mr. Lasky, Mr. Grey says :
“Dear Mr. Lasky: I must hasten to tell you how very happy I am over the connection with you, and to thank you for your splendid proposition, and to assure you that I feel my longedfor ideal is to be realized. And that is to put the wild, lonely, beautiful places of the West, with their past life and action, on the screen for the pleasure, education and uplift of the world, and particularly America.
"I look upon this as a magnificent opportunity for me to create and plan for the future.
“Faithfully yours,
“Zane Gray.”
Thomas Meighan Returning February 1
Thomas Meighan has cabled from Panama, where he and a company of players are making exterior scenes for “The Ne’er-Do-Well,” under the direction of Alfred E. Green, that rainy weather has delayed the shooting schedule and the company will not return to New York before the first of February.
Testimonial to Reid
Wallace Reid, after putting up one of the gamest fights of men against sickness, passed away at a sanatarium in California, January 19th at 1:40 P. M.
Never in the history of the death of a prominent star has such grief taken not only his friends in the organization, but fans numbering in the hundreds of thousands thruout the country, as did the news of his death.
It would be a vain effort on the part of type to properly eulogize this boy who has entertained the millions that have seen him on the screen.
His loss is keenly felt by the entire organization and by friends from every part of the world.
Our deepest sympathies are extended to Mrs. Wallace Reid and her family who stood by him in his hours of suffering.
Memory of his being will linger with us always, for we know that no one can take his place.