Paramount Pep (1923)

PARAMOUNT PEP 15 Long Island Lights By Wingart Gilda Gray and her south-sea maidens from the Rendez-vous with the full orchestra from the cabaret were the feature of the Rendez-vous scene which Allan Dwan staged Friday the thirteenth at the Long Island studio for his production of “Lawful Larceny.” An exact reproduction of the popular Broadway resort was built at the studio for the scene. Glen Hunter was an interested spectator. Nita Naldi, Hope Hampton, Lew Cody, and Conrad Nagel were the featured players to appear in the scene and at the tables there was a million dollars worth of feminine pulchritude from “The Follies” and other Broadway girl shows. In the parlance of the studio the scene was a “knockout.” It is just one of the scores of striking settings which will be shown in the picture. William Miller, who was second cameraman for Alfred Green on the production of “The Ne’er Do Well,” starring Thomas Meighan, is in charge of the camera for Ralph Ince, who is making “The Law of the Lawless” with Dorothy Dalton at the Long Island Studio. Bebe Daniels, just back from a location trip in Florida, is looking her wonderful self again, having completely recovered from her recent operation for appendicitis. She is busy every day at the studio with Antonio Moreno and others in scenes for “The Exciters,” which Maurice Campbell is directing and George Webber is photographing. Rex Beach has been at the studio for the past week helping Julian Johnson put the finishing touches to “The Ne’er-Do-Well,” Alfred Green’s production with Thomas Meighan. He expressed himself as being greatly pleased with the picture, which, everyone says, will be another Meighan triumph. Lila Lee, who has been having a vacation since completing “The Ne’er-Do-Well” with Mr. Meighan, has been ill at her apartment in New York but has sufficiently recovered to be about again. She was a visitor at the studio last Friday. “Declassee” to Be Filmed With Elsie Ferguson After two years in England, Director Donald Crisp is back in the United States and on his way to California, where he will remain until about the middle of May. He has signed a new contract with our company and will be back in New York in June to direct Elsie Ferguson in “Declassee,” the recent stage success which will be made into a lavish picture at our Long Island Studio. At our London Studio, which has now been closed, he directed “The Bonnie Brier Bush,” “Appearances,” and “The Princess of New York.” Mr. Crisp enjoys the enviable distinction of being present at Buckingham Palace for the private showing to the royal family of his picture, “The Bonnie Brier Bush,” the exteriors of which were filmed in the beautiful Scottish countryside. Shirk’s Studio Gossip ^ This Is the Life Jacqueline Logan has great fun riding around the studio in the above contraption and when her horses deserted her she called for volunteers. About forty men answered the call and these two were the lucky ones to be chosen. Miss Logan finds lots to do between scenes when she is featured in a picture. ( Continued from page 12) its title. It features Theodore Kosloff, Ricardo Cortez, Eileen Percy, Robert Cain. Ralph Block is Production Editor and the adaptation is by Beulah Marie Dix of a play by Harold Brighouse. A huge set showing the library and ballroom of a fashionable home at Xmas time was the first scene. Many minor players were in the opening scenes. George Melford has taken his troupe making “Salomy Jane” to Boulder Creek, Cal., for most of the locations. The featured players in this Bret Harte story, dramatized by Paul Armstrong and adapted to the screen by Waldemar Young, are: Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett and Maurice Flynn. Besides the staff and cast, 100 other people were taken along, with 75 horses, a stage coach, etc. A few studio scenes will be made on return. Charles Maigne has “The Silent Partner” well in hand. In this are featured Beatrice Joy, Owen Moore and Robert Edeson. Ralph Block is Production Editor and the adaptation is by Sada Cowan from the Maximilian Foster story. A kitchenette apartment with Leatrice Joy making hats and dresses and cooking dinner were the first scenes shot. A lot of comedy relief was injected in the episodes to balance the heavy emotional scenes later.