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"Fatty" Arbuckle in "A Desert Hero," Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy The plans for the future are as great as the accomplishments of the past. Hitherto the production field has been America. Now it is to be the world. The opening of a large studio in London, with production facilities as great as those now possessed in California, is the first step in the interna- tionalization of the production department of the company. The studio will be opened this year. Prominent directors, players and writers will be sent from America and secured in Europe. The London studio will be used primarily for pictures having uropean location. Albert Kaufman is European production ^rvisor. his studio will be the production headquarters of Europe, and ures will be made in Italy, France, Scotland—wherever, in fact, opportunity for making better pictures is found. As far as possible, in future, pictures will be made in the actual spots called for by the stories. A $2,000,000 studio is to be opened on Long Island in a few months, and this will be the largest studio in the east. It will be large enough to handle eight companies at once, and will be in every way equal to the western production plants. The Long Island studio is being erected for two reasons: to allow equal facilities for excellent work to the artists who are prevented from going to California on account of New York theatrical work, and to make pictures with metropolitan settings when those are required by the stories under work. Some of the most popular of the screen stars, such as John Barrymore and Billie Burke, are kept in New York all season for stage plays, and the public would be deprived of their best work were there not perfect production facilities in the east. The production plans of the coming year, both in this and other respects, have outgrown the two studios already in operation in the east, the Fifty-sixth Street and the Fort Lee. The recent affiliation of Cosmopolitan Productions with the Famous Players-Lasky C orporation opens another wide and significant field. The greatest contemporary writers write for the Cosmopolitan Magazine, the most popu- lar monthly in the world, and their work, by this affiliation, becomes available for motion picture presentation. The Cosmopolitan Magazine has been for years the best selling of all fiction monthlies. It has pleased the public—the same public that is to be pleased by motion pictures. Among the great writers whose works will be transferred to the screen are John Galsworthy, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Elinor Glyn and Justice Miles Forman. The first Cosmopolitan release will be Robert W. Chambers' story, "The Dark Star." Another important production affiliation for the coming year is that with Sydney Chaplin, [ 2° ] Douglas Fairbanks in "Arizona"