Pictures Press (Aug 21-28, 1920)

52 PICTURES PRESS August 28, 1920 Production News (Continued from Page 23) and titling by Mrs. Frank Lawrence, film editor. During the editing period, Dorothy Phillips will enjoy a vacation, and Olga Linck Scholl, staff writer, will start work on the scenario for the second Holubar independent feature. SIDNEY FRANKLIN CIDNEY FRANKLIN will move his ^ company of players to the Brunton Studio next week, where work will continue on “Parrot and Company,” his initial First National release. Owing to the fact that the locale for the Harold McGrath production covers a range of territory, Franklin has decided to avail himself of two studios. He will film the dramatic interiors at the Brunton Studio and the special sets at the Hollywood Studios. BRUNTON TAUSTIN FARNUM returned to the Brunton Studios this week after an extended location jaunt to the big timber country near Fort Bragg, Calif., where scenes of lake and forest exteriors were filmed for the star’s latest independent production, “The Trail of the Axe.” an adaptation of the novel of that title by Ridgewell Cullum. Ernest C. Warde is directing and Winifred Kingston is playing opposite the star. * * * Eliot Howe has joined the Benjamin B. Hampton Company as assistant director to E. Richard Schaver and Howard Hickman, who are co-directing Stewart Edward White’s story, “The Killer ” Howe was formerly with Frank Keenan and Jesse D. Hampton. # * # Work has been completed at the Brunton Studios on Bessie Barriscale’s latest Robertson-Cole production, “The Broken Gate,” adapted from the novel by Emerson Hough. Director Paul Sehadon is now engaged in cutting and titling the picture. * * # Otto Bollman, president of the Dial Film Companv. has purchased “The Albatross,” a 180-foot steam yacht now lvin^ in Los Angeles harbor, from Albert J. Fenway, nrominent Oregon lumber merchant. The boat is a steel nleasure craft and will be used by Mr. Bollman for both personal and picture purposes. Burdette I. Kinne and Sally Forth have been added to the scenario department of the Dial Film Company. Mr. Kinne was formerly dramatic critic and literary editor of the Milwaukee Journal and Miss Forth is a contributor to Scribner’s and the Atlantic Monthly. * # * * A special preview of ‘ 1 The Money Changers” was given at the Brunton Studios this week by Benjamin B. Hampton for Upton Sinclair, author of the novel from which the picture was adapted. # # # Robert Brunton left Los Angeles this week by motor on a combined business and pleasure trip to San Francisco. Upon his return the producer will start preparatory work on a new all-star feature. INCE ‘ i TAEUCE HIGH,” a short novel by Helen Topping Miller, which appeared in two numbers of the Saturday Evening Post recently, has been purchased by Thomas H. Ince. No decision as to how the story will be utilized has been made as yet. * * # Madge Bellamy, a Broadwray stage beauty, has been obtained for a number of forthcoming Thomas H. Ince productions by John H. Blackwood, who is at present in New York as Mr. Ince’s special representative. Miss Bellamy, who is on her way to the West Coast, is the first of several young actresses whom Mr. Ince intends to engage for the coming season. # # # Casting of “The Magic Life,” a forthcoming Thomas H. Ince special, is under way and Courtney Foote has been selected for the leading role. The remainder of the cast will be announced within a few days, and production will begin before the end of the coming week. * * # “The Bronze Bell,” an Ince-Vance special, will enter production next tveek. Mr. Vance is in Los Angeles at the present time and will remain until work on the picture has been started. NATIONAL A FTER several days of filming water '*■ stuff in the bay and along the docks at San Francisco, Director Harry Revier and the company engaged on “The Son of Tarzan,” being produced as a serial for David P. Howells, have returned to the National Film Corporation studio to make some interior scenes based on the English sequence in the story. The cast for “The Son of Tarzan” includes Karla Schramm, Manilla Martan, P. Dempsey Tabler, Gordon Griffith, Eugene Burr, George Merrill, K. C. Searle and Mae Giraci. FOX pMMETT J. FLYNN, who is directing the picturization of Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in Mow About Publicity? Why not talk to a man who can write real human interest stories — and get them in the national magazines? West 5704 Why Bother Your Head About Titles We Give You the Quickest and Best Service in the City B. L,. JAMES Expert Title Maker Phone Pico 2236 218 Lissner Bldg. WM \ .S&aaiuuiiM 1 ANIMATED CARTOONS I ART TITLES • TRICK EFFECTS |pil > | | mjMBa 525 LISSNER BLDG j ELMER H. YOUNG