The Photodramatist (May 1921-Apr 1922)

Page 34 The Photodramatist for October Cute Titles "Bobbed Hair" by Hector Turnbull is the next Wanda Hawley feature instead of "Cry Baby" by John Blackwood. With Stromberg Lewis Milestone, formerly of the Ince Studios staff*, has joined the Hunt Stromberg unit as chief film editor. Sapience Marie Prevost has completed "The Girl Who Knew All About Men," from the story of Roy Clements. Doris Schroeder wrote the continuity. A Long Felt Need That the direction of motion pictures will in time be a part of the curriculum of the universities and schools of the country, is the prediction of Herbert Brenon, the director who made Norma Talmadge's picture, "The Sign on the Door." Brenon is convinced that in the future there will be in every great university a motion picture faculty, who will train the youthful mind for the profession. Brenon states that France, especially, and Italy also, were already adapting a department in their large schools devoted to motion picture instruction, and that he has seen several very capable directors turned out by the continental schools. Of course, experienced directors function as instructors, states Mr. Brenon. Columbia Course There comes the encouraging report that one of our largest universities is going to teach photoplay writing. The aim in this course is reported to be simply to train the student to write photoplays which will meet commercial needs, and to bring him in touch with the policies and needs of the various producing companies. Mrs. Patterson, who will handle this course at Columbia, explains that "there are certain fundamental principles with which every prospective writer of the photoplay must be familiar." She feels that the prospective scenario writer must know the development through which the photoplay has passed and the technique of the photoplay, which is different from that of any of the other arts. This new course, it is announced, will endeavor to give the student the fundamentals in the training for a scenario writer. New Pictures New pictures completed at the studios include : "The Gray Dawn" (Hampton), all-star; "Buddies," with Johnnie Walker; "What No Man Knows," with Clara Kimball Young; "Fate," with Clara Hamon; "The Sin Flood" (Goldwyn-Lloyd), all-star; "The Sheik" (Paramount-Melford), allstar ; "The Woman in the Case," with Betty Compson; "Don't Tell Everything" (Paramount-Wood), all-star; "The Song of Life" (Mayer-Stahl), all-star; "Lady Fingers," with Bert Lytell; "Little Eva Ascends," with Gareth Hughes; "The Mouse" (Selig-Rourke), all-star; "The Rosary" (Selig-Rourke), all-star; "Terror Trail," with Eileen Sedgwick; "Lucky Carson," with Earle Williams ; "The Fourteenth Lover," with Viola Dana; "The Daughter of Brahma" (Frothingham), allstar. "Under the Lash," with Gloria Swanson ; "The Rowdy," with Gladys Walton; "The Gray Dawn" (Hampton), all-star; "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," with Frederick Warde; "The Primal Law," with Dustin Farnum; "The Hidden Spring," with Jack Gilbert; "Hail the Woman" (Ince), all-star; "After the Show" (Wm. de Mille), all-star; "Exit the Vamp," with Ethel Clayton; "Don't Tell Everything" (Paramount), all-star; "Slippy McGee" (Morosco), all-star; "The Love Charm," with Wanda Hawley ; "Spring Fever," with Bebe Daniels; "The Happy Ending," with May McAvoy; "Fifty Candles" (Willat), all-star; "No Story at All," with Will Rogers; "Branford of Rainbow Ridge," with Hoot Gibson ; "Pardners," with Harry Carey; "The Rage of Paris," with Miss Dupont ; "The Girl Who Knew Men," with Marie Prevost; "Love Never Dies" (Vidor), all-star; "Steelheart," with William Duncan; "Lucky Carson," with Earle Williams. rPHE triumph of the season: "Getting Gertie's Garter," a farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood, a melange of small-time smut in the traveling salesman vein. This stage success is another proof of the superiority of the spoken over the silent drama — in the matter of avoiding censorship.