Variety (Dec 1927)

k 1 VARIETY PICTURES 7. 1M7 COAST NOT DEALING WITH ACWIQUTy ON tmim to OficiaUy RaepgniM Actoim' iMjT Working Out Standard Fcm^EoOn Appw^ lion for B^^rtson't Oil^. .''"'^' Los Angeles, Dec. 6. Equity win not b« ««iat witti 41- V99IL in tbe negotlatiima and adop- tion of a standard form contract lor picture actors by the members of ^tha AMoctottoB of MoUon Picture PfOdvecra. This wa.s dcoidod upon at the quarterly meeting of the pro- ducers' association, over whkdi Inr- The membera of the organisa- tkm disposed of tho swhjoot Iporr idlekly at ttoo meeUnc by a^rc^lng that the producers' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Mid SdMi^ alHHiUI MgoUtti* tbe matter with tho actors' branch of the latter orpanixntlon. This with- out referring to Jbkiuity In any way rns^yH^^ iHiwtMtiin Mid tui pt- llt^itk itwr9»*ntAiiy9u out Of. mm9 discussion on the matter. It is said that, though .Ihero was BO ^l»<rtou* aign at tlM anoating. Iko prodai ers figured that were the association to handle tho matter it- self directly, with either tho Aead- OaV ;f rlN*^^y* would leave the door oiw for the latter body to eoino Into tho plcturo Industry and obtalm ofAolal ndag n iUoii. That woro thoy oaUed upon in any way to confer on the terms of the con- tract that they might Insist that tiM dMlMolto' HKM "official Ekiulty form," which would give them the recognition in the picture field that Equity haa been striving loir te tiM ptt flvo yoara. At the iitiM time the producers, if they aro called upon, will simply bow their way out to BqaHy toy saying •that tho producers' committoo of the Academy had the matter In hand and iMKOtiating aaUafactorUy with ' ■^'i -'• ' iMiijfit^i af - ■ nil ^ «Im mo WOSOfW WiWWOB 0« WW tlon. M. C. I^vee and B. P. Schulberg are handling tho contract negotia ttoad lir tin* m^ m emif taraach of the association, while Conrad Naprcl and Hallam Cobley aro repreoent- ing the actors toranch of tho Aoadoflfty. Nagel and Cobloy aro memt>ors of tiM flAVtty committee. ■iiturtr V f FNii i^^' Bootaott^ iiirMry and treasurer of the Association of Mo- tion Picture Producers for tbe past four years, waa oloctod to the post of dMVllto ?lco-prosident. Beet- son Wftfl offered the presidency of tho body, but declined by staUng tbfti M tt Htm a pro ^tt i W i o »g»« l- Mt^ bo thoagbt It WM vr^por IhftI ik prMlttcer head It. It was voted to increase the •eopo of tho otgantsatlon.« Plana aro now on foot whereby $'r.,006 more a year will be appropriated by the producers amon« tikOWaoWoa for the operation of tlw Beetson ofllco. This additional expense will cover tho cost of the operation of the per- ■oiiMl dopartMit «t wIM Col. Jason Joy is the head. T^hc ex- pense of this department was for- merly defrayed from the profits do- iMi UNMih th« oporatlott ' ttff tht ipontral Casting Corporation for ex tra players. Thia ofBoo charged the producers 6 per e<Mit. of w% M- mosphere peoplO'a pay. John Wilson, son of Honry Lane WUaon, former ambassador to . BMbrtoo,' wd9 apiMifntofl' MMMtMft to ^ Beetson and will handle most of the detail woric of tho latter's of ,lleo. The coat of operation of the ElMilMi jotteo In tho 0aat la mm u hikve boon around $1,200 a week The association also agreed to 1260,000 from among its mem to erect and establish an ox:* perimental laboratory, for the nui- tiutl benefit of tho industry. A •ommltteo of flVo iM ai^poMliisto procure donations and mali» iaiieMI- ments on the mombern. The laboratory will cany on ex- porini«lrtg «tt a n yt l i lm that may ho auggoated for the frood of the industry, whether it be in tiick llgh ting, ph o togr a p hy, p ai n t, 1 um - hor or itIMr dovtdat Mod in the technical m$ 'fmpMi>t •.hta»<i»- 9t the .Industry. ' ■ Dr< Stern on Coast Los Angeles. Deo. 6. Dr. BmanucK Stem, medical ad- irlav 9t Pmnmmmt mmd head of the compansr** welfare work, la here from Nfw j99U mi hta umiuai viiit. U. A. SCRAPS $50,000; Sam 1^ DtrectifHlt CamRIa Horn Opposite Barrymore— TcMiriafitky Out Log kfkwim, Dac 6. After $50,000 had been expended by United Artists in making **Tem- poot.** atarring Joha Buiymore, practleaBr aU of tho flim will be scrapped for c second time. The pic- ture la to bo roquido te its ontirety by Sam Taylor with a third laadlag otaaji, CaskUkk' Horn, roeeotly im- ported from Germany to play oppo- aito Barrymoro In hia next picturf. ShiT Tourjanskyt who otartod di- recting and was later voluntarily aided by Lewis MUestone, has been reUeved of all roaponaibUiUoa. Wlion TourjaMky atartod h* iad Vara Veronina in the feminine lead.* Af- ter about 10 days of shooting she waa pulled out of the cast and ro- plMod by Doroihy BobaaHan, ob- tained from M-G-M. Miss Sebastian worked for about four weeks, when it was finally decided to take Tour- janaky off tho pletnra. M-0*1C aont word that it had cast Miss Sebas- tian in a picture which goes into production within the next 10 days And If ^oMblo thoy wo«ild like to have her back. This gave IT. A. a chance to slide in Mlag Bofa with- out ai^ difficulty. It U ozpoofod that, with Taqrior unhampered, he will finish the pro- duotion in about six weoka. Those of the original caat who romitif are Louis Wolheim, George Fawcett. Ullrich Houpt; Boris de Molena and Albert Contl. ROSCOE AILS 1 thank Boaeoo Allb tat atMiiinr them up oaich day tA hia enga^re- onMOii for BM at Fa^c Ba^Fay Thfatro. Roaeoo^o preaent act la by far tho groateat ho haa over donei Chtaa, production and goauino .i^rtlfta Roaeoo and hia L o Wtj a g t ug - Baroi rheat at any performance.- My aildi itncjia^a lboolutely cheered them. B. MOORE, Mgr. OlriMM JOHN BIMaU TORTUNETEIIER'WrmiiSPEOPLE Opening Next Week and Produced foi <Mj, TluNifh May be MmmA—'". FMmntg Week in SaoM Hdw fanowttioa OLCOn MRECTOR-QSNl OF HtrTKHFILM FIRM May Take Oirectore, Players Mi Writers wWi iUn fsr JANNDKS MAY GET m MORE 3-Yeu- Contract Drawn U^-.N0w Gate IMM! MAY DO ALL-STAR FILN FOR M. P. cm FoUx Fetat, M-G-M manager, haa proposed making a production in which every aereen star wou ld be called apodfc «• iPOiMAadr» wMi dfv* eral of the best-known directors lending a hand. The idea is that the Motion Picture ^JjjjJgJJjLJ*^*" this me.inn. Nathan Burkan, on tho club board, advised against such procod- u|ro. bolttvinc that tho eiub ifeonid become self-supporting throuirh memfberahip only. Tho matter has been shelved pending tho rotnhi of Adolph Zukor from the Coast. The club plans to rent the 17th floor of the Paramount building, but tho <|ttoto4i^f«Btal ii tM high In proportion to tho funds and Mr. Zukor will' b o ii^uaated to a rrongo a discount. Dec C. Paramount is endeav<»ing to ob tain £mil Janninsa' aignature to < throo-yoar oontnet that would mediately boost tho.QitWMI salary |3.000 a week. Jannings ia now in the second year of Ma old a&Hi ta m M, whkll has a yoar to run. He la presently re- ceiving $5,000 a week. Last year he received 14.000 weekly, and next year undor tho Gilding acalo, MiM go automatically to $6,000. Overtures at first mentioned $125,000 per ploetuffo. Iiator tho now contract lumped tho llgmre to $8,000 a week and graded up to $10,000 for the final year of the three- year agroomont waa hPMObod. Jannings has, by report, replaced Pola Negri as leader of Paramount's foreign sales. Buropoan aaloo on 'Tho Way of All Flesh" are roFort- ed to have trebled the foreign gross of any Negri yioturo over n^ado in America* Paramount haa boon consistently refusing to renew options on other stara when a aalary Increaae has - Tho'JhBiiaiijMt- ter is expected to create a fiMlaa- In thf » ovla oolony.^ of tho bjr a group of British capitaBgli h m ff l ft by Sir Edgar Wallace. . The scout for those oapitaUata In e IPhNaa. haoboeo hing various directora and stars in Hollywood, attempting to get' them to go abroad and make plethrea. With tho algnh« of Ol- cott It Is Undeistood that a number of directors will be engaged by the latter to accompany him to lK>ndon. Bo la alio MgotAtloir fkr a Bum* ber of writers and feaiture players. Olcott will leave here the end of thia week for London. The first of Mi liecwm b« «i4g thOB wm JEEF HcCARTUrS BIG VERDia UECm ALLVINE VICE MOSES Vivian Moses will retire as head of tbe Fox picture publicity and advortlaing dteparfmont In Now York next week. W. R. Sheehan has ordered Glen Allvine to step into tho vacancy. Allvine, now on tho Mr lgt «t HbHywbtfi, wfll laairo there the end of this week. He lately wont west, enROKed by Shee- han. Allvine waa then in charge of tho pubUelty for Iho COMilQr. M Broadway, New York. Moses has been with the Fox or- ganization for eight years, in the aamd fibaltlon. Mo la ana of the lending publicists of the film bu.si- ness, unusually adept at both pub- licity and advertising. It is un- known If iWMNt te $• it^ hito $it- other Fox Department. Whht to goat: difPt';ttir::: iwid igi i ' ^a'^^^-T^^ g|il»^y^.|l>i>i|M;. MifM- iiiPibit J. m^OftMf'''''^^^ * ^ Supreme Court of Kingo County, before Justice Pruhan, brought in a decision nwardtnv tho full •to •r lliMJtt BMirtotU Volght last week. McCarthy, manager of road ahow pictures, waa rlltiir l» Wo oir on tho west drio*'in Central Park, New York, when crashed from be- hind by a taxi In whieh Mias Voight wna rIdlBg. Thto was Inat July. Miss Voight asserted aho suffered a fractured skull, causing partial paralysia^ and waa brought Intt g»» t ai h iiwIiteWi* >lilB- tifr alio claimed that the McCar- thy car had passed the taxi on the left and had come to a dead stop When to IMnt, ainHit th« ool- Uaion. McCarthy Is appealing the verdict wlUch, if upheld, will cost him IMM' a» In by bimir- anoo fir lb* Tlilir M!«lHfb 'IM^ eoBdimwd to plotor* hbiiia .atagb ■isi i^ wm bo y rgliM i tA T9et% WiiihiBftoa. awl Mk. II will havo a c omp— y of C8 on tho atage. wi(||; tho house pit orehoatra oC IS h^^y slciana playing Uie acore. It ia said that the coat of the show for tho week cannot faQ under $5.0it to |i,Oii. There is no eotimato ad escact oi^erhead available. It wlH be the initial attempt te produoo an operetta of this dimen- slon fsr tho picture ho«aea, with a daaa onat of prinrlpabi Fir Iho fol* lowing week tho late Mr. Herbert's **Swoethearts" wlU bo tho Fox'a atago ahow. An Intontlas fram ac« count to fibr tho huMi tm nniiiuo with .the HeTt>^t'8 operettas should WaahingtoB take to the innoyation In the manner anticipated. Rehoarsod in New York Tho prodnctlon wHl bo made and rohoaimd In IVow Tork. At preaent there la no comtemplated further plajrlng. although It ia not unlikely that **Tho Fortune THlor^ will move hit* IMi M( FhOadolphta. afconM Its reception In Washington war* rant. It to not believed tihat the niniatvro iriiow, bowovor, success* fnl hi tho Fbz honaii , wfll Mppew at the Roxy, New Torlt, although this would be up to Roxy. in person. John Wonger te doteg ^ set* tingi ibr 1Bh0 Fntnno TiDer.** with Alexander Onousky trafnhtg the banet lioffoeott te ataging tho ZUKOR-SCHENCI JOIN Dfac^ <;isM Vite ' ' tjm Angaloa, tmi- John Monk Saun<lers is writing an original for lUohnrd Dix around Oxford Uuiveraity. England, under tltte of *'OsiiMll.'^ Panuiiount oAotate AglNIt H i'reHh material over the recent iiyvte. of American college fllms. Looking Over Northwest- Kent, Hawiey, Rowland, et 9hm Sfwit Jraiil Eaft Iios Angeles. Dec. $. Adolph Zukor. Nicholas M. Schenck and Sam K&ts are making a tour of tho norChwn honosa opor- ated by West Coast Theatres, Inc., this week with Harold B. Franklin, president of the hitter organisation. Originally Katx and Franklin were to take the trip. However, Zukor and Schenck decided they would like M look oTir ^# now nortK^n'^iit houses to be operated by West Coast in partaonhlP With P^blix and Loew. The tHp tHtl teat MM«t If dnyn, Franklin and Schenck retumlnfr here and Xats hooding aaat .with Zukor. Ith SIdnoy Xi»t. Who «teM iut Znkor. is already en route to New York .md due there Dec. 10. On the same train with him are Clay- to» Uawlosr, ptiiiaiHl if Flral Mh- tional; Richard A. Rowland, Flor- ence Strauss of F. N.'s story de- partment, Abo Sablotsky and Jacob i 'abian of tho W. R. Frofor. ^tiarold Lloyd. 3 Promotars Under Arrest, SoW Story Pictures Stock Las Angeles, Dec. 6. On a complaint Issued by Deputy District Attorney Judson, Orvllle V. Southworth, Charles A. Worden and George A. Durham, promoter of the StoiT lin«tfirM,'Ihe,» gllegod fake film cohieern. are bolng held on charges of having violated the ainte'a corporate aocnritioa act. Tho trte Wtro te«l arroatod on gnoplelon of operating a bunco game on a complnlnt secured by tho 8tnto Cor- poration Commission. Tho pio B iolo w nvo t i p or tet to have sold over $10,000 worth of worthless stock to wealthy women who fell for tbe promotion. Ac- cofdinv to tho glntn garite—tlon de- partment, the only case appears to be against Southworth, who is al- leged to bo tho brains of the con- cern. Southworth, it is claflned, Huld what he claimed to be his own personal stock to advance the de- vclopmeht <Mr hte eompany. In it- self a violation of the corporate ae- curltieB act. Also that the stock the prlaelpal Bonnie Imbrie^ Graco Yoager, Har> old Hanaon and Paul Kleuon. Arthur Klein. attMhid to tbt John Sanft atafC In thn Pax thot atro and production department, is aaid to haTo broached the plan of tho Boihirt opevottaa* with Klein F. R'S CEBHAN 5 NEVER REAOtEDAStliEiilEKI Looked 'Em Over and Sent 'Em Back—At About $75,- Doe. C First National made live pictures In Gennany during tho last year at around fM.OOO on tho negative eoit, . with tho gonoral o yo rh e ad ahov^ $7S,iO« ea«h. The picturee weft brought to America lor diatributioft v but after the F. N. olHcjIaia looked ^ thorn over they decided io aend tJbft negatives back to GogiggiHy liUhiil showing here at alL \ * It la figured that FIrat NaUonatf can get about $40,009, In aome caofi $50,000, out of a German negative op the o6ior aide. Tho balance ex- pended «tt thoM^ p|0taitik mmiMi $125,000, la reportid h to tho Trick Stuff for Srie was Mold wiliiout a permit from the state. ■ •• . ■ ■ ■ i ^ Pnuthworth Is known here as a promoter of several years' standing, while Durham is claimed to be a wrltor who rocontly antvod on the ^c^r.'^t 'rom New York. Durham, It is s'jperted, is the "angel" of the gronp and had been vlctlmlxod hhn- ; and i self, banting on only to poll out ~ lor j aome of the rooMf h# had ilink In ^e company* ; Loo Angoloa, Dec. i. Ztowli Phf9i99 to todhnloat toe of Cinema Art Service, provid- ing independent producers with special effects, glaaa ahots and trick photography, physioc's h enju l w-ti i n aro at Tit Art Sttttdi0% ^ : ; 5^^^ Cittjr Fitifiiralcl's Son L.OS Angeles, Dec. 8. Police midcd the home of Cisif Fitzgmid, ietrm, idling to af*'^ vmi h e i ami, O smund Ma rk Tue ket, on a charge of failure to provide for hia wife. Vera Tucker, and their thrii»aKnitha* old aon. - A warrant for Tucker's .in-e^ Issued followlnp a ?v\008 nied^ was alienation of affections .<<uit Tucker I by W against Immt mothor-la-law. Younp Tucker was not found at hia mother's homo.