Variety (March 1921)

Friday, March 18, lt21 PICTURES NEWS OF FILM WORLD 37 aim Hill has sold his interest la th« Romaine Fielding Film Corp., which includes a share in one pic- ture already completed and his ihrhta to several plays. A new com- pany has been formed to take over the Hill holdings. - — Richard Dlx, who has been ap- pearing in Ooldwyn pictures for some months, has been signed by the concern as a permanent mem- ber of its stock company on the coast for two years, dating from the present month. "Dangerous Toys," a feature made by the Bradley Film Co. of Cleve- land, was purchased outright this week by L#- Lawrence Weber, Hobby North and Warner Bros. The Court of Appeals at Albany has reversed a judgment givon George Arliss for $2«.500 against Herbert Brenon for alleged breach of contract. lieorge-Irving has been engaged to direct picture for the American Cinema Co. — ^"~a Isaac Wolper's newly formed Tri- art Productions, which is to make pictures directed by Km He Kliau- tard, has taken offices in the Times building. »• Pioneer Film Corp. has acquired "peeps into the Future," a .series of two reel comedies. The pictures were made by the American Lifeo- graph Co. Commencing next mouth the As- sociated Producers, Inc., will relea.se four J. L. Frothingham productions a year. The first one will be Peter B. Kyne's well known story, "The Ten Dollar Raise." directed by Ed- ward Sloman. der direction of It William Nein. Meighan Is to 4* "Cappr Ricks" later. Buster Keaton Is about to begin on the second group of two-reel comedies for Metro, having lately completed the eighth and last of his first series. Bert LytcH and hie company of Metro players have left New York for Florida to shoot exteriors and beach scenes for "The Man Who." -The Famous ducers, studio March Henry rogy." Call of Youth," first of the Players-Lasky British Pro- Ltd.. made at the London was released in America 13. It is an adaptation of Arthur Jones' "James the The cast is all-British. Famous Players makes the be- lated announcement that "Humor- csque" is to be done in a stage ver- sion with Laurette Taylor in the principal part. Master,* was drowned off Red op do Beach, Cal„ during the taking of a wreck scene. Morris Cohn, an extra engaged by Famous Players for the filming of Sir OfTW* purser's "The Money Jennie Macpherson, author and scenarist of several Cecil B. DeMille productions, left for a vacation in Europe this week. Beatrice Bominguez, in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and Fairbanks' "The Mark of Zorro," died this week in Los Angeles, fol- lowing an operation. She bad suc- cessfully undergone one operation for appendicitis, but complications set in and a second operation was made necessary. "The Cabinet of Dr. Callgari," a cubtstic picture made In Germany, is scheduled for the Cap.tol, New York, the week of April 3. George Fawcett ia directing Con- atnnce Binney at the F. P. studio. Elliott Dexter is spending a vaca- tion in New York. L. C. Bruce, foreign exchange manager for F. P.-Lasky, is await- ing sentence on a charge of grand larceny, he having pleaded saiilty to taking $1,509 of the company's money. He was with the organiza- tion six years. asked the police to find her daughter as the result of *t< ing the girl in a picture. Miss Watklns has been missing since Augus*. Robert B. Long, for years the Pooh-Bah of D. W. Grlfllth's organi- sation, in charge of publicity, ex- ploitation and sundry other depart- ments, has resigned to take another position in the industry. Geraldine Farrar, who was foxed to cancel an engagement at the Metropolitan this week on account of Illness, announces she will do r.o more picture work until next full when she returns from Europe. She and her husband. Lou Tellegen, sail in May. Three new theatres are announced this week. The Sheridan, at Seventh avenue and 12th street, with §eats for 2.500. is nearing completion, and in the Bronx, at Burnsid** and Cres- ton avenues, a site for a theatre and store building to cost $350,000 has been bought It will seat 1.850. In East Orange, N. J., the Putnam J.a- cobson Co. has bought s plot, on which it will erect a theatre to copt $200 000. The house will seat 1.C00 land be designed by the architect who designed the Capitol and Rlalto . theatres in New York. se feet ! i Belgium, March It, children under 16 will be permitted to se« only pictures which have been spe- cially selected for them by c s aeort It Is expected in this way to improve the claws of pictures. Dr. Frank Crane is writing th<- titles for "The Woman God Changed," a coming Cosmopolitan feature. Margaret Marsh has been en- gaged by Cosmopolitan to play op- posite Lionel Barrymore in "The Boomnrang," a Cosmopolitan fea- ture to be released Mrs. J. A. Watklns of Pittsburgh Under a law which went Into ef- Forrest Stanley will have the leading male supporting role oppo- site Marion Davies in "Redemp- tion." The story is an adaptation from one of the Fannie Hurst short stories and will be directed by Frances Marlon, who also did the adaptation. /. "XATHERINE" IS HERE. "Katherlne the Great," a sister picture to "Passion." has arrived in this country. It is now being titled and? cut. George F. Miller, who handled "Civilization" for A. H. Woods, is doing the publicity for the new cinema. Hunt Strom berg, publicity di- rector for Thomas H. I nee, who came east to exploit "Lying Lips," returned Saturday for the coast. The supporting cast for Norma Talmadge's new picture, an adap- tation of Channing Pollock's play, "The Sign on the Door," will include Lew Cody, Charles Richman, Helen Weir, Paul McAllister and Robert Agnew. E. H. Brophy, assistant director j at the Norma Talmadge Studio has moved to the Whitman-Bennett Studio in Yonkers., N. Y. Lio.v'l Barrymore will create the name character cf "Boomerang Bill," f bt of the "Boston Blackie" stories, a feature of the Cosmopolitan maga- sine. to reach the screen. The play will be directed by Tom Terries, who lately Joined the Cosmopolitan Productions forces at the Inter- national studios. Another Continental film will have | its first American showing at the I Capitol, which introduced "Passion." •The Cabinet of Dr. Callgari," a I mystery story made abroad, will be i the attraction there April 3. Henry Reichenback is handling the publicity for "A Connecticut Yankee" and Will Page the "Queen of Sheba" production for the Fox Film Co. John Barrymore is working on a fllmization of "The Lotus Eaters," with Anna Q. Nillson in the leading feminine role, directed by Marshall Neilan. Max Karger took several of the principals engaged for the filming of 'The Man Who" to Jacksonville last week for the shooting of a single scene, which had to be done en a Sunday so as not to interfere with the traffic, only to find the local authorities would not issue a permit for the Sabbath. Bert Lytell has the stellar role and his chief feminine support is Virginia Valli. The Arcadia, Wilmington, Del.. seating 1.600, opened March 11. play- ing pictures, with "The Nut" the at- traction. The Topkls-Glnns Co. Is the owner. A picture theatre at Elkhis. W. Va., has been begun by Howard Day. « . The new picture house, in Barre, Vt., seating ift>5, Opened March 1 I. Another new house opened this week at Woodstock, vt. The Library. Bennington, Vt., has been reopened by the receiver of it. Miles I). Laska. casting director *t Famous Players' Astoria studio, jesigned Saturday and is succeeded oy Clayton Davis, whom it is re« Ibrted will also retire from that *o«t In the immediate future, Jules K. Ftrulatour and l\ T Po« - «rs lunched together at the Cfarldg< Tuesday, which Immodlctcly gu\e ■ise to all sorts of rumors calculated Six companies will hhortlj 1 - yorkin^ sit the Famous I'iSjoM Long [-land studios including 1 weor^e I'itzmaurice'i production of Taperirnoe" frorn Georfio V. I. to- ban's .dago play; Klsie ivrgu-on Jn "Footlights": Thomas Meighan Jn a picture version of Rooth Tars ington's "Conquest *»f Canaan" un- • "The Faith Healer"- has started on its joy-bringing, hope-inspiring way! A FTER the first showing of **The Faith **> Healer/' at the Criterion, New York, there was a unanimous agreement that George Mel- ford had created a picture more moving, more inspiring, than even "Behold My Wife!" Here eare a few of the enthusiastic press reports: "Deserves, and no doubt will have, a prosperous life for years to come. One of the most intelligently treated photoplays of the season. The most spiritual of all the films of this nature. Mr. Sills' is one of the finest por- trayals in screen history."— -Nero York World. "Deserves a long run. Beautifully produced. Not a jarring note in cast or setting."— Morning Telegraph. "WH1 lift the beholder out of himself. Not a preachment. Done with simple human directness, making a drama of the every day within the reach of every man's experience."— New York Herald. "Unusually interesting."— Neto York Times. The enthusiastic welcome indi- cates that 'The Faith Healer" will be one of the unforgettable record- breakers of the screen. It means real entertainment to every audience and real money to every exhibitor. Three column press ad-mats at your sx- change. Jesse L. Lasky presents George Melford's PRODUCTION • "The Faith Healer" ■ - ■ By William Vaughn Moody With Milton Sills and Ann Forrest Scenario by Mrs. William Vaughn Moody and Z. Wall Covington <2 (paramount (picture FAMOUS PLAYFIRSLASKY CORPORATION -