Pictures Press (Aug 21-28, 1920)

August 28, 1920 PICTURES PRESS 27 Production News llllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllB REALART /CUTTING and titling on “Her Beloved Villain” has been completed, and it will be released shortly as Wanda Hawley’s latest Realart vehicle. It is entirely different than either “Miss Hobbs” or “Food For Scandal,” the two earlier Ilawley releases. Sam Wood dii’ected the picture, and in it Miss Hawley is seen as a vivacious French girl. # # # Those who have been wondering as to how Bebe Daniels will be received in her new role as a Realart star will have their curiosity gratified shortly. Laboratory work on “You Never Can Tell,” the star’s initial vehicle, has been completed. Release to exhibitors will be at an early date. # # # Because of the name, “Sweet Lavender, ’ ’ a floral motif is to be carried out in the titling of the new Mary Miles Minter picture, recently completed by Paul Powell. An immense old-fashioned bouquet of pansies, jasmine, fox-glove, etc., will form the main title, while the Cornflower of Young Love, the Lavender of Steadfastness, the Loyalty of Ivy and Flamboyance of the Tiger Lily will serve to introduce the various characters of the production. Tinting of the film has been accomplished in a way to make this plan unusually effective. L-KO TTNDER the direction of Tom Buck^ ingham, Fred Fishback and William Watson, three companies are filming two-reel comedies at the L-Ko studio. Included in Buckingham’s cast are Charles Dorety, Bud Jamison and Lillian Biron, while Fishback ’s fun films will feature Zip Monberg, Esther Jackson and Meta Sterling. * # # The Great Western Serial Company, under the direction of Robert F. Hill, is filming exteriors on a San Diego location for “The Flaming Disc.” Director Chuck Reisner is cutting his recently completed comedy and will shortly start the production of another two-reeler with an entirely new cast. I Activity at Studios Increasing Rapidly | 1 "YA/ITH our golden summer § | ' ’ days blending with perfect | | harmony into the equally golden | | autumn season, come the busy | | weeks of the year in filmland. \ 1 Production companies now swel 1 | tering in the smothering heat of 1 | the East soon will begin flocking | 1 to California. The icy winter that i 1 annually grips New York and § 1 handicaps filming activities, will | 1 drive many stars and many direc | 1 tors and many other persons con \ 1 nected with the industry to Los \ 1 Angeles. | And with these companies add | 1 ed to the producing units that re | | mained in the West during the | | summer months, and with the 1 1 general schedule of production | | quickened because of the greater 1 | demand for pictures during the 1 1 fall and winter season everywhere 1 | in the United States, studio activ | | ity will be increased fully fifty per | 1 cent by October 1. | ~ 1 1 1 1 m i m m i it ti m 1 1 m m 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 m : 1 1 m i ii M a 1 1 m m n 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i C. L. CHESTER “A TRAY FULL OF TROUBLE,” the latest C. L. Chester comedy, featuring “Snooky,” the “Humanzee,” has been completed and shipped to the Educational Film Corporation in New York for release in October. Another comedy is now under way at the Chester studio under the direction of Will Campbell. KATHERINE MACDONALD “rTHE SECOND LATCH KEY,” 1 Katherine MacDonald’s seventh Associated First National production, is complete with the exception of a few minor scenes, and is now being cut and titled. Novel art titles and a system of cut backs have been employed to intensify the mystery vein which runs throughout the story. The picture was filmed from the book by C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Finis Fox wrote the scenario and Edwin Carewe handled the direction. The supporting cast includes Edmund Lowe, Lenore Lynard, Claire Du Brey, Thomas Jefferson, Howard Gave and Helena Phillips. Miss MacDonald ’s next vehicle has not been selected as yet, and the star will spend the next few days reading several stories that have been submitted to her. LOUIS B. MAYER T OtTIS B. MAYER, producer of First National attractions starring Anita Stewart and Mildred Harris Chaplin, arrived in New York this week to hold a number of conferences with First National executives. Mayer’s present contract with that organization is drawing to a close, and while in New York he will perfect his plans for the 1920-1921 production year. In addition to making Anita Stewart and Mildred Harris Chaplin star productions during the fall, Mr. Mayer plans to produce a number of books as special pictures with all-star casts. The only one of these stories announced at present is Harold MacGrath’s Saturday Evening Post serial, “Drums of Jeopardy.” But Mr. Mayer also holds the films rights to many of James Oliver Curwood’s successes, and to the works of other authors of note. B. B. HAMPTON TACK CONWAY, well known as a di** rector, is now playing the leading role in the Benjamin B. Hampton production of “The Killer,” by Stewart Edward White. E. Richard Schayer, who wrote the scenario, and Howard Hickman are co-directing this feature. Conway’s experience is unique in that he first was an actor of promise, then became a film director, and now goes back to acting again. During the past year Conway directed the several B. B. Hampton productions, among them being “The Dwelling Place of Light,” bv Winston Churchill, “The U. P. Trail,” by Zane Grey, “The Money Changers,” by Upton Sinclair, and “The Spenders,” reeently completed, from the pen of Harry Leon Wilson.