Universal Weekly (1924-1936)

12 Universal Weekly Vol. 24, No. 23 Rupert Hughes and Mary Pickford to Officiate At Sixtieth Year Banquet Honoring Carl Laemmle RUPERT HUGHES, widely known novelist, has accepted the honor of being Master of Ceremonies at the Carl Laemmle Sixty Year Banquet, to be held at the Biltmore Hotel, January Seventeenth next, according to announce ment from the committee handling advance arrangements for the affair. Hughes is probably the only man of prominence in the motion picture industry who has never been associated with either Carl Laemmle or Universal and in announcing him as master of ceremonies the committee explains that his attitude and platform will be unbiased and aboveboard. Mary Pickford will act as hostess to the Universal Alumni, having accepted the airplane-delivered invitation, illustrated herewith. This Sixty Year Banquet is being tendered Carl Laemmle by former employees of the film produced who are calling themselves the Universal Alumni. All those picture personages who went to cinema school in the old days under Mr. Laemmle's banner are expected to gather again on January seventeenth to do him honor. This date will also mark two other important mile stones in the life of Carl Laemmle, in addition to his sixtieth birthday. It officially starts Carl Laemmle's t w e n t y-first year in the moving picture business and it is almost the exact tenth anniversary of the first Straight from the Shoulder Talk ever issued by the President of Universal. These Straight from the Shoulder Talks have been a feature of his business life ever since, and have been he most distinctive advertisement ever originated by any person or firm in the moving jpicture business. Straight from the Shoulder Talk, Straight from the Shoulder Deeds, have been synonymous mottos and actions of Universal from its very inception and are so recognized by thousands and thousands of exhibitors throughout the world. In addition to being the birthday of Carl Laemmle, it is interesting to note that January 17 is also the birthday Universal "Alumni" Will Give Dinner at Biltmore, Los Angeles, to Mark Twenty-first Year in Film Business and Tenth in Straight-fromthe-Shoulder Talks and Actions. ■A This is the invitation that mas delivered to Mary Pick ford by airplane. of Benjamin Franklin, great American patriot, scientist, diplomat and financier; of Israel Putnam, general and agriculturist; of John A. Mitchell, editor and publisher; A. B. Frost, illustrator; and Admiral Beatty of the British Navy. It is also the anniversary of the Battle of Cownens, where Colonel Morgan defeated Major Tarleton and captured the majority of his troops, and the date of the anniversary of the abdication in 1893 of Queen Lil of Hawaii. It is also the anniversr.ry of the Battle of 1872 of Belfors in the general action before Sedan which terminated the Franco-Prussian War and enabled Bismarck to crown Emperor Frederick in the Palace of Versailles the following day. Many other things happened on this day too, but none of them bear any construc tive significance in connection with Carl Laemmle's birthday, so we refrain from mentioning them. Among those who are eligible to the Universal Alumni by force of having had Universals training ten or more years ago are the following — Mary Pickford, Mae Murray, Bob Leonard, Lon Chaney, Lois Weber, Al Christie, King Baggot, Allan Dwan, Lois Wilson, Harry Pollard, Marguerita Fisher, J. Farrell McDonald, Francis Ford, Jack Ford, Harry Carey, Harry Myers, Herbert Brenon, Dorothy Phillips, Louise Glaum, Kenneth Harlan, Alec Francis, Louise Fazenda, Carter De Haven, Edith Roberts, Jane Novak, Eva Novak, Claire McDowell. Martha Mattox, Mildred Harris, Leah Baird, John Francis Dillon, Tod Browning, John Adolphi, Wheeler Oakman, Frank Mayo, Colleen Moore, Max Asher, Gertrude Astor, Clarence Badger, William Beaudine, Wallace Beery, Belle Bennett, Curtis Benton, Constance Binney, Hobart Bosworth, Pearl White, Lew Cody, Betty Compson, Jim Corbett, Mildred Davis, Priscilla Dean, Pedro De Cordoba, Reaves Eason, Raymond Griffith, Jean Hersholt, George Hackathorne, Marie Prevost, Erich von Stroheim, Hobart Henley, Jack Holt, Clara Horton, Jack Hoxie, Rupert Julian, Annette Kellerman, Roy Stewart, William A. Seiter, Katherine and Jane Lee, Henry Lehrman, Ford Sterling, Herbert Rawlinson, Ann Little, Louise Lovely, Lee Moran, Mary MacLaren, Cleo Madison, Molly Malonc, Hank Mann, Owen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Anna Q. Nilsson, G. Raymond Nye, Matt Moore. Jack Perrin, Jack Pickford, Jasu Pitts, Lillian Rich, Fritzle Ridgway, George Sargent, Edward Sedgwick, Eileen Sedg\\nck, Myrtle Stedman, Ben Turpin, Beatrice Van, Marie Walcamp, Ben Wilson, Esther Ralston, J. Warren Kerrigan, Anna Pavlowa, Ralph Graves, Gladys Brockwell, Maude George, Mae Busch, Niles Welsh, Hoot Gibson, Carmel Myers, Henrv MacRae, Isadore Bernstein, Lina Basquette (Mrs. Warner). Neal Burns, Edward Burns, {Continued on Page 37)