Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

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CO., 1600 Broadway, New York City iBIlBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIIIIBlIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIB IIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBMBMBIIBMBIIBIIBIIBIIBIIBII& PAUL QULICK, Editor s Copyright, 1924, Universal Pictures Corp. All Bights Beserved | aillllllllllHIIIIIIIIlllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIllllllllllllllllMlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIlllHIIIIIIIHIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIlMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMlljS Vol. 19 MARCH 1, 1924 No. 3 Hope For The Amateur Writer (Special Story Sent to 600 Daily Papers) UNIVERSAL MOVIEGRAM S IRVING CUMMINGS, who has just completed his fourth picture at Universal City, will start next week on “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” a Gerald Beaumont racing story from the Red Book Magazine. He will have a cast which includes Creighton Hale, Ethel Shannon, George Cooper, Edith Yorke, Robert Brower and Charlotte Stevens. CARMELITA GERAGHTY, another of the 1924 “baby stars” picked by the Wampas for their annual ball, has taken up quarters at Universal City, where she will support Herbert Rawlinson in “High Speed.” This film is an adaptation of a magazine story by Fred. Jackson and will be produced by Herbert Blache. The cast includes also Bert Roach and Otto Hoffman. EDWARD SEDGWICK has completed the cast of the latest Hoot Gibson picture, “Forty Horse Hawkins,” written by himself and Raymond L. Schrock. It includes Anne Cornwall, Helen Gibson, Richard Tucker, John Judd, George (Buck) Connors and a dog by the name of Mickey. THE huge radio loud speaking plant which was installed at Universal City for the purpose of directing the mob scenes in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” has been placed in the Studio Inn at the picture city. At the luncheon hour it distributes to all parts of the lot the music broadcast by all the Coast stations from Seattle to San Diego. A two WITH the whole photoplay world shrieking to high heaven that the amateur author is a nuisance, threatening to send scripts back unread, etc., Universal is prepared to make a very big picture of “The Throw-Back,” which was the prizewinning story in the very successful amateur contest which it held last year. This contest was the Laemmle Scholarship Contest in Which nearly five thousand scenarios were submitted from college students in 232 institutions. An intense amount of interest was created in college circles. This was due in a large measure to the way in which the contest was conducted and the useful hints which were given in connection with it by Universal’s scenario people. Of course, there was an immense number of stories which were not even passable, but in addition to buying “The Throw-back,” which was written by William Ellwell Oliver of the University of California, Universal also purchased two others for future use, “Headlights” and “Beyond the Law.” Universal’s scenario department has never refused to read amateur offerings and never will. Furthermore, it is seriously considering another collegiate contest for the coming year. speaker unit of the same system is now being used by King Baggot for the castle scenes of Mary Philbin’s big picture, “The Inheritors.” ONLY a moving picture director could complain of the California weather this winter. It is fully up to advertising specifications. But it doesn’t suit William Duncan for a cent. If it doesn’t snow in Great Bear or some of the other well-known Cali “The Throw-back” has all the earmarks of a very big picture. In the first place, it was adapted by Raymond Schrock and the scenario was written by Harvey Gates, who performed a similar office for “Fools Highway.” In the second place, it is to be directed by Tom Forman, one of the ablest directors in California. And in the third place, it has a cast which includes some of the best players on the screen today. Pat O’Malley, who has just finished a role in “Fools Highway,” which will increase his fame immeasurably, has the leading role. Mary Astor has the leading feminine role. Others in the cast are Raymond Hatton, who will be remembered as Gringoire in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”; Edwin J. Brady, who also played an important part in “Fools Highway”; Warner Oland, who at one time was the leading “heavy” of the screen; James 0. Barrows, Taylor Carroll and Clarence Geldert. Such pains spent on the work of an amateur author argue some hope at least for writers who have persistency and the ability to face refusals at first. Oliver had tried before but that did not discourage him. There’s still hope for the amateur writer! fornia winter resorts soon it will be hard sledding for the new serial on which he is working, “The Free Trader.” NIVERSAL has just purchased the motion picture rights to “The Husband of Edith,” by George Barr McCutcheon, and it is being put into the proper form for the use of Reginald Denny. It will undoubtedly follow “The Missourian.”