Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

24 Universal Weekly Vol. 24, No. 4 Story of Radioed “Collegians” See i RADIOS A SCENARIO | ACROSS THE ATLANTIC' $2,500 Spent by Cart Larnml Jr., 17-Year-Old Author of Play „ v— York Tim** Comply* Copyright, y NBW yoiK TOC**.' ;-x By ^Jutt 27. — A young man LONDON. h 0«ice in the ■walked into a telegr P ^ & wir*ress Btrand ye*ter^erlc^ for whlch the message to A The Bcnder charge -was nearly geventeen-year Call^S^American film producer, old-scun^W0 Amei after an op v? ho is recuperating • Young Carl s eration for ««t screen ,cr"3 ' ASS“C.W -«» •« “SS *The Collef'taving produced for some writing nnd having^ told * reporter, time.” young Laemm Jt t0 Call <■1 had intend«^ Mdue this -week, forma. wh£?h‘V" piness kept me but my father work As I knew busy with other • g^ory would delay, in the arrl^ Ul£ich Was waiting svs. less/' _N.V. TIME/ . -e.'-. V m ;r c NEED’S A SCENARIO baid the director of a movie outfit in New lork, who had his cast ready and waiting for Carl Laemmle, Jr./ to send from Europe the plot be had promised. But. because of his father’s illness, the 17 year old dramatist was delayed; so he radioed the whole scenario from London. Carl Jr is shown herewith. CLOSE, FALL *,*,7 Scenario Cabled Across Atlantic At Cost of $2,000 LONDON, Wednesday. — In order that a cast of motion-picture actors should not be forced to remain idle in Hollywood for, waul of a scenario, the first story ever to be cabled across the Atlantic was sent from London at a cost of nearly §2,000. The sender and author was Carl La'einnile, ■ Jr., Seventeen, son of the millionaire motion-picture producer who is recuperating here from an operation for appencidiits. “The story was one of a series called ‘The Collegians,' which I have been writing and having produced for some time,” said the younger Mr. Laemmle. “In the ordinary way I was going to mail it to California— it was due this week — but father’s illness made me very busy with other work, and, knowing that delays would hold up the cast who were waiting in California, I had to send it by wireless.” It was this boy who was responsible j for the world seeing “The Ilunshback of Notre Dame” on the screen He had read Victor Hugo's story scores of times, and kept worrying his father to produce it as a picture until finallj, almost ^ii despair, he gave his consent. Although he is the son of the producer, the younger Laemmle has not been allowed to find film work easier than any. other people. p*R>S / HERALO ylfcSt £,C*0SS .Q nart° *V w , itfc CatV •t MT 28-' -i,ouAotv _ce ,-,0f S eat-0'4 ®°T!rc <*>=- ~t vC mee®a!;.’0f oxytoi was V . 1, stoty i;,00'.Vna\\eA ^ Sftvo? Arete hr* father « .Tnlenftcd ; the °i^hut .dr t fat»e*w« \nteu4e4 . ,» tiro . 0crlV .it ',einR vfev^6 8 tut *WPfJ ' the 4« Costly but liils '.•■V'-'e Mr; l.AU mle, JR. Sou of C ARL who use the fl’m Pv<idu'^U-2500. < rt svTatcti from i,ad been dt .S* scenanotrb^.'s iUliess :VF duo . ^ I rofc r ov * *Mner * * f/oQER. , PHIA. r . Expensive Scenario on it. The cost of j.t0.de 3y Product $2,500. 1 f the transnnssion v .daily gevi When Carl Laemmle, Jr., s \i tures in his “ The Collegium > City by radio he created new i leading newspapers of the u i This page represents but a . i ried the story, many of thei i by a cut of young Mr. Laemr ? has ever received as much i t have as a result of u i"‘>Ve"aSa0Veh® 1 ;bSt 0f bundred^poun »9Rey/-HERALD/ PORTLAnT^/^