Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)

FEBRUARY 1924 sver-to-be-remerabered Oliver Twist, was born at Glasgow. Gordon Edwards, the Fcoc director who was responsible tor The Queen of Sheba »nd The Shepherd King is a Canadian )y birth, and so is Allan Dwan, who nade the finest entertainment the icreen has yet had to offer — Robin Hood. Charles Brabin, the creator of Six Days, Driven and Foothills, who has just been entrusted bj Goldwyn with he production of Ben Hur, hails from Liverpool, and is Lancashire bred. Stuart Blackton was born in Sheffield P/cr\jre s and Pichure poer 13 «s< • Canada's Vickford star s offering. ind went to school at Eton. Donald Irisp, whom we know both as prolucer, and as the " Battling Burrows " )f Broken Blossoms, is a Londoner to he backbone. Then there is Mr. Alia Nazimova, letter known perhaps as Charles Bryant, who has produced many of his .vife's pictures, and played opposite her ime and again. Lie was born in Hertford, educated at Ardingley College, ind had a stage career of eleven years n England before deserting us for the American screen. Herbert Brenon, who made The Sign on the Door, The Garden of Allah, and many other films, is an Irishman who was educated in England. St. Paul's and King's College knew him well. Our list of proninent directors ends with Tom rerriss, another Londoner, who passed :hrough Christ's College to become an ictor and actor-manager in England before we let him go. He came back to us for a little while last year, and produced Harbour Lights and The Lights O' London, but once more we let him slip through our fingers, and America has claimed him anew. ) "> Tom Moore, of Erin. Percy Marmont. the States with Mrs. Patrick Campbell's ( oni|iaiis , after a long and cessful London career. Wyndham Standing and young Reginald Denny both COme of famous tin. ilrn.il stock, and have followed the family tradition behmd English footlights. Percy Marmont, tin unforgettable "Mark Sabre" of // Hint. > | OWl t, had a glorious sta^e record with Sir Herbert Tree, Sir George Alexander, and Cyril Maude before America di, Covered him. Howard ( iaye was a Tnr actor, too, and won his laurels with Sir Charles Hawtrey and Fori Robertson long before he was 1 w. n as a Griffith discovery. And even th his best work was still to be done in England, as Lord Byron in The Prince Of Lovers. Yet another product of the Tree School is Courtenay Foote, the Yorkshircman, and David Powell graduated to the screen via the same route, taking in Ellen Terry and Forbes-Robertson on the way. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was responsible for training Marc Maedermott, that most polished villain of the screen. Herbert Rawlinson, who was born in Brighton, went through the shops of English repertory before he captured scrcenland with that charming smile and debonair carriage which are so peculiarly his own. And this is not by any means all. H. B. Warner, whose first home was at St. John's Wood, London, Alec Francis, Thomas Holding and Gibson Gowland, have all won fame on the speaking stage in England. Even a " little list " must come to an end, but this one cannot close without claiming for England Jimmie Aubrey, the Fred Karno comedian, Sidney Ainsworth, Kate Lester and Dorothy McKaill. And last, but by no means least, England has given to America one of her strongest, " silentest " men — House Peters. (Continued on page 62.) Circle : Enid Bennett. Alec Francis. SA Here indeed is a goodly array of talent ! Some of America's very best producers, and all ours ! From England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Dominions, our players have nocked to the American Screen. The English speaking stage has sent a brilliant contribution, headed by George Arliss, who found his way to