Variety (September 1919)

SAN FIIANCISO COAST FILM NEWS. By GUY PRICB. ' ' Los Anselea. Sept 14, Leo Ptersoa has been engaged as Juvenile ot the National Film Corporation. Walter Bdwards has decided to run again for alderman ot Culver City. BVank Beresford le back at hla desk at the Biando after a rest In the mountains. Sidney Barton,, of the Klnema staff. Is veearlng an American unlfom. H. Tipton Steok Is back at Universal writ- ing continuity. Jack Perrin baa Joined Triangle playing staff. Jack Mulhall has signed a sis months’ con- tract to appear In Paramount pictures. Jack Cunningham has been engaged to write the continuity on Frank Keenan's new screen play. Eugene Lewis la the new assistant scenario editor at Triangle. William Parker, the author, has taken up his residence in Los Angeles. CafUerine’MacDonald has been engaged by Cecil De Mine. Monte M. Katterjohn. has received word that bis brother, Fred Katterjohn, arrived safely In Siberia. William Duncan has begun work on a new Vitagraph serial. Edith Johnson will be his' leading woman. Sylvia Bremer has filed suit for divorce from her husband, Edwin W. Morrison, a theatrical manager of Australia. . — i — i ill 1 Waldemar Young has returned to Universal, where he will write original stories and con- ' tlnuity. Henry Walthall has received a letter from his brother, stating that be was severly wounded at the Battle of the Marne. ' Neva Gerber made a talk a few nights ago at the Symphony Theatre—her first local ap- pearance. 1 Director William Chaudet has returned from San Diego Canyon, whither he went to direct ; Billie Rhodes In mountain scenes. "Scraps of Paper" is the name of Fatty Arbuckle’s forthcoming propaganda picture, written by Adam Hull, Lasky publicity man. Betty Compson, Monroe Salisbury’s newest leading woman, will be seen first In “Breathes There a Man," now In course of production. The story originally appeared in Scribner’s. Henry B. Walthall’s last picture will be produced by the National, by special arrange- ment with N. W. Aronson. Walthall will soon leave the screen for the legitimate. "Hobbs In a Hurry” Is the first of the Wll- liain Russell Productions, Inc., to be released un^r the new arrangement made recently with the Fathe exchanges. Stephen Fox Is the author. Carmel Myers has been extended an Invlta- ' Hon to Japan by the Yega Sekai, a Japanese magazine which recently conducted a contest In which Miss Myers received 209,000 votes more than her nearest competitor. A stranger from Iowa approached C. Gard- ner Sullivan, Ince’s premier photoplaywright. “Who wrote that book?” he asked. "Bret Harte," replied Sullivan. "Who’s he?—Bill Hart’s little brother?" Alma Rubens, who recently filed suit against her husband, Franklyn Farnum, for divorce, entering charges of cruel treatment soon after the wedding, camouflaged the case under the title, "Alma Smith vs. William Smith. The suit Is still pending. Thomas' K. Ince has broken the ground on his new half-million dollar studio which Is to be erected one mile from the Triangle studio at Culver City. George Washington’s Mount Vernon home will be reproduced In the archi- tecture. The next super-production which the Na- tional Is contemplating as a follow-up on "Tarsan of the Apes” and the “Romance of Tarzan,” Is said to be one of the most sensa- tional and daring ever screened. The studk management Is shrouding the plans for the production In the deepest mystery. OPERATOR^!). S. C. Cincinnati, Sept. 18. Cincinnati picture operators are. in- • the lanRuage of the poet, *‘a!l - swelled up.” One of their number, Cecil M. Murray, aged 30, of 306 West 5^h street, has been awarded the distinguished service cross by General Pershing. He came here from Hamilton, O,, and was drafted Dec. 10. He has a wife and little daughter in Cincinnati. INCORPORATIONS. Ackerman inHni' Prednctlon. Manhat- tan; 160,000; C. R. Ackerman, J. C. B. Iden, R. L. Noah, 200 W. 94th St., New York. William street Amneemeait Co,, of Buf- falo; 16,000; I. P. Schofield, P. Franke, M. Rauchstadt, Buffalo, N. 7. . Joseph Frledburgr, Manhattan; pictures; $10,000; T. F. McMahon, B. C. Elliott, J. Friedburg, 414 "W, ICth Street, New York. J. W. W. Oo„ Manhattan, theatricals and pictures; $10,000; D. Lewis, J. & M. Weber, 1416 Broadway, New York. MONTREAL’S NEW HOUSE. Montreal, Sept. 18. The new Allen, opened to capacity Monday with Griffith’s “Hearts of the World.” The Allen is the first theatre built in the Notre Dame de Grace Ward, and is the latest of a string of 20 the- , atres organized for Canada by the Al- len Theatre Enterprises. It has a seating capacity of 1,000 and is handsomely decorated. The manager is H. C. La Marr, for- merly of the vaudeville team of La Marr and La Marr. The orchestra of 20 pieces is under the direction of H. Thorpe. MOTHER DIED AT CHILD BIRTH. , Los Angeles, Sept. 18. The picture people have been im- measurably saddened through the death of Mrs. Eddie Cline, who died following the birth of a child. The bereaved husband is a director with Mack Sennet. d:vgripfiths “THE SEASON’S BEST PICTURE” Eugene J. Roth, manager of the California Theatre, one of the most successful photoplay houses in America, had the first run showing of “The Great Love” in San Fran- cisco. He wired Mr. Griffith as follows; Our California Theatre has contracted for ex- clusive first showing in San Francisco for all of the D. W. Griffith features. The tremendous ovation The Great Love” received and the unanimous opinion expressed to the effect that it was the sea- son’s best picture is most gratifying to us. Accept congratulations.” D. W. Griffith’s first Artcraft picture, “The Great Love,” has been a tremendous success everywhere shown, regardless of locality. Though its premiere showings took place In the hottest month of the year, the theatres were thronged at every performance. RELEASED BY * ^^U^PLAlfERS-IAS CORPOBATION i Thim la one of a aerlca of advertliementa ahowing the aucceaa of “The Great Love" In the moat Important citlea of the United Statee.