Screenland (Nov 1928-Apr 1929)

SCREENLAND 91 company, is just two and a half. Have you ever heard how he got into pictures? When he was thirteen months old his favorite amusement was riding a trick bicycle his father fixed up for him. A neighbor took some pictures of him with an amateur movie camera. Robert McGowan saw the pictures, realized that the child was a miniature goldmine, and promptly signed him for the Gang. Christened 'Wheezer,' he is worldfamous at two-and-a-half! They are all happy, care-free kids. Their parents, or some relative, accompany them on this tour. In Manhattan they met the Mayor, visited the Statue of Liberty and City Hall and all other points of interest, and made a great, big hit. What tales they'll have to tell the kids back home when they return to Hollywood! ~> Books for Fans {Continued from page 8) chapter on the screen. Then his weird meeting with Nina T — and a flash-back to explain how it was that she should be a priestess in a native village could be shown. Horn's determination to rescue Nina from the natives, and Little Peru's arrival in Africa would then have to be displayed on the screen to hold together the thread of the story. Finally there would be shown the rescue of Nina, the fight with the natives and the romance of Nina T — and Little Peru. A closing shot would show Trader Horn turning away from the beach as Nina and his friend sail out of his life. Perhaps the whole photoplay might be put in a frame, using Trader Horn himself as he is today in the beginning and at the end of the picture, to give a suggestion that he were actually telling the story. Can you visualize such a picture? ' Certainly it has enough story and enough material to rank with the best. Perhaps we may handle it in the way I have outlined. Perhaps not. That is a matter yet to be decided upon. But, however we do handle it, I am safe in making the boast that it will be one of the most entertaining of pictures. We intend to film it in British East Africa, at a place approximately in the center of the Dark Continent. This correctness of locale, the exciting story we have to work with, and the popularity of the book itself should certainly make it a picture worth seeing. I have never been so eager to begin work on any picture as I am to start filming Trader Horn. The circumstances surrounding the purchase of Trader Horn by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for filming purposes are interesting. On its first appearance in the bookstores, Trader Horn was not very seriously considered by the motion picture industry. As far as I know, during the first few months of the book's circulation no one made a bid to buy it for motion picture uses. Then, when it was an established best-seller, Irving Thalberg read it while abroad, and was so impressed by it that he immediately wired to the home offices in New York to purchase the book at any price. 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