The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1923, Page 11

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DEAN NEW YORK, Deo. 8—The movies have gone to Hell film what « to be the most fantastic Legos since ‘Phe Cabinet of Dr. Syligarl.”’ Universal has purchased joreen rights to “Dar * and cast Virginia Valll ax Dolores “pamned’’ is the story of the Afterdeath adventures of & girl who gas too beautiful for her own good, She was called “Grief to Mon’ be- cause trugedy befell every man who capitulated to her charms, ‘The story has a Frowdian twist Satan ina series of tableaux shows the girl the causes of her sufferings ‘on earth and reveals the careers of Der acquaintances after her death. ‘That is rich subject matter for the movies, It seems to me that motion pictures can prove far more effective with such an imaginative theme than any other medium of expres sion. AUTHORSHIP Is HIDDEN Authorship of **Damned"' was not Fevealed until screen rights were} purchased. It was written by Ethel Smith-Dorrance and is a distinct de- parture from the adventure type of] story which previously has been as-| sociated with her name. Mrs, Dorrance ¥ her film right to Crey, who wrote ‘"W of the Water} Tower" anonymously, was paid $50,- 000 for thé film rights to it Here is a deeply significant situa. | tion. Profit to be made from the} movies is becoming a primary con- sideration with fiction writers, It| appears to me that there. is danger | in this for both literature and the cinema. | The cinema in its present stage of | mechanical perfection has come to ‘@ halt in its artistic’ progress. “It ts no longer doing anything creative, If the motion picture is to become a @istinct art form its themes must be to No Dearth | of Comics Film Magnate Sees No Shortages In the opinion of Julius Stern, prosident of Century Comedies, now in New York from the West Coast, there is no moro fear of a comedy shortage than there 1s, of a lack of| news reels, Mr, Stern believes that & curtailment on the part of som producers of two-reel comedies fo lowed: the wave of longer features, {which will’ only be temporary, Mr, Stern points to the many two: ‘yeel subjects now on the market to | substantiate his scoffing that there is not such a thing as a two-reel com: ~ |ody shortage, | "Yoa, we have no shortage at pres- | ont,” Jaughed President Stern recent: |ly at a meeting of Universal execu: |tlves to map out the 1929 and 1924 |Century schedule, “We have Buddy Mesainger signed up for many series of two-reel American boy productions. Jack Earle, the youngest giant in the | world, will appear in two series of }12 comedies during this period, and |we have a contract for several other |nerles with this clever comedian. | “The Century Follies Girls will ap- pear in enough subjects to give the change-every-week exhibitor one of these comedies once weekly, while Pal, Harry Sweet, Harry McCoy, | Honry Murdock “and. even Baby | Peggy will give the exhibitors some: | thing satisfying to present to thelr | discriminating patrons, All in all, | as Century i concerned, it is atlo, to say It Mehtly, to think there is such a thing as a comedy shortage." And Stern has been in the game since 1914 y Egan Is Coming F to This Coast Thomas Egan, the opera tenor who recently entered the theatri. cal producing field, is planning to transfer his activities from New Says Film Producers Buy Too Many Poor Stories B, P. Schulberg Advises “Tryout” for Stories Before Purchase , P, Sehulbers, producer of Pre- | comp rehearsal of the motion ferred Pictures, has a plan whieh | pleture, not a production of the play. eliminates the element of chance in} When it was finished, by using our buying popular novela and plays, | imag! jon to fill in the sets, the which, after they become the prop-| costumes and the props, we knew erty of @ film company, often prove | Just what we would get out of “The to have little or no ser First Year,’ “It is a known fact,” 19 satisfactory was the result Schulberg, “that there Js one pro-|that we decided to buy the motion ducing company that in its safe | picture rights to the play. nearly $100,000 worth of stories that “The try-out cost us about $400 ® not worth producing. I'm not/and for that comparatively small giving advice to other producers, but | amount we learned to our complete J do thing that there in no excuse | gatisfaction that we would be safe for buying stories that can't be|in investing $100,000 in this prop- filmed, 1 have known producers | erty, who baught stories just because the! wy, nave done the same with a title sounded attractiv Others number of our other stories and have closed deals without reading the storles, making the purchase be-|{t seemg to me to be the logical jthing to do, No would caune the book or play was popular | think of buying a $100,000 lot upon and could be sold easily. which to erect’ a costly office bufld- “Preferred Pictures tri out ev- ery story before it is bought. We Fe 5 SSL aa by fas |ing without first making a thoro | study of the location, th ¢ no copyright on the idea, but I ¢ we are the only ones who| |values and the pi | from his site. n value. says Mr. | investor “For instance, before we paid $100,000 for “The First Year," we knew just what we were getting. We secured 25 copies of the play, and I think everyone around the studio read it. ‘Then three scenario writers prepared 4 treatment. This we turned over to a director and five actors, all of whom had read tho pla “The director and the actors spent three days rehearsing the picture, following out the treatment, and| then the producing force watched & performance, We used a bare stage, the actors were not in cos- tume, and they spoke very few lines, “It {s true that some stories have to be bought in a hurry, because vf competition. But I believe it in better to let the other fellow buy on snap judgment, and to let him hold the bagful of stories that are no good for picture purposes.” Because the world has never had a chance to see what Death Valley look like, the Smithsonian Institu- tion, Washington, D. C., commission- ed Erich von Stroheim to make sey- eral thousand feet of scenic film in addition to the scenes he is making for “Gree — 2 “They went thru the sequences| If the cells of the lungs were cutlined for the motion picture pro-' spread out flat they would form a duction, and what we saw was a surface of 480 square feet. ee Norma Shearer and Ward Crane are together in a pic- ture again, This time it is in a picture story of the modern jazz age, “Pleasure Mad,” which is the new feature at the eveloped originally for it If purses of $ were hung up for stories written di- uld like it. comedy York to Lon Angeles. “The Min strel Boy," a play with music, recently tried out in the East “Tt Make You All Clean, Anna’’ to laugh. ; sity 5 ft. And he am t d|@ worth mig’ e cinema solid, creat! plished fi follows moni So lo ways | re producers de. pend on be: novels and stage | its for screen material just so long | ill they keep the motion. picture a| second-hand, second-rate art Everett Interurban Train Leaves Track Interurt ¢ to Everett was delayed slightly Friday when one of the trucks of afternoon train ake Ballinger. The trucks were pulled back onto the tracks and the se No one was “A breath of old taken by Eulalie Jensen Play Is Presented | by Students at “U” “He Who Gets Slapped” was pre- sented Friday night at Meany hall by the University of Washing:on players under rhe guidance of Pro- femsors Albert Lovejoy and Glenz -Hughes. Gas Blast in Shaft HAZARD, Ky., Dec. §8.—Caught an explosion of dust and gns, seven miners were killed a: six others hurt tn one of the Black Hawk Coal company’s mines near here Auditorium Plans ; to Be Picked Later | m bi Week on the plans for the erection of the proposed civic audt tofium by the city council finance committee, it wags announced late} Fri Cari Laemmie certainly gave Booth Tarkington's story, “The Turmoil,” a wonderful cast when he selected the following: George Hackathorne, Pauline Garon, Emmett Corrigan, F Percy, Theodore Von Eitz, Elea nor Boardman, Edward Hearn, Bert Roach and Kenneth Gib- son. It will be noticed that Hobart Henley has three of the players who scored so heavily in “The Flirt.” been postponed for at two City Officials on : Tour of the Skagit} spasemo own, the board | ch Zalvor, of the Paris, is her first and by screen—a farshall Net amp r characterization: y of initiation to th at | Russian cabaret girt in “Te The Rende HEILIG THEATRE Third and Last Triumphant Week 5 and 8:15 ican | Two de Laxe Performances Daily—2 REMEMBER! “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” will not be shown again in Seattle for the season of 1923-24 at lower admission prices. reen Attraction of theAge! A nchback fpnredame LON ‘CHANEY Presented by i (CARL LAEMMLE UNIVERSAL! t Mausteal Pretnde MAX FISHEM and His Famous ELD FROLIC LCHESTHA . Te and 81.00 , $1.00 and $1.50 (Plus Tax) Attend the M Avold the By tinees and ping Crush! Romany’ —gyy ankles and bewitching eyes—that's the nature of the part in “The Dame,” at the Heilig again this coming week. queen, Hunchback of Seven Miners Die in | Electric Club © Dine Saturday Eve Biectric Members the Seattle club wi card part ot y evening at 7 o'clock. Few screen actresses have had a} more varied and Interesting career than Adel “Reno the Goldwyn studios. " ms Pr j tering film work, Miss W | bill clerk in the e ie twinkling Notre stage a dinner dance and t the Yacht club Satur Watson, who appears in| to by Rupert Hughes will be presented first in Los An, || Strand theater. gelos and later in New York : * OF SEATTLE and » the birthday jallaudet with | a banquet 4 r restaurant | Baturday evening at o'clock, Gal-| laudet wax the founder educa: | Short | ¥ AL|* Aw | 1c on, ‘This in the production in which Mmo. Ganna Walski, the Polish prima donna, was to co-star with Thomas Egan Broadway Walski will not include in the Western production, but will appear in the pletur to be filmed next summer at Hol fi by Chas. jumaer, President Puget Sound noclation of the deaf; Olof H Mrs. W. E, Brown, Mra, Ag n, Hugo A. Holcombe, ders und A. W. Wright J on hes version Egan has several other musical sy" for production in California by himself in collaboration with Aug Me Hugh, author of “Officer and ‘Meanest Man in the World or will ale to u Oscar | @ in KEN-| © of the University | ¢ deliver a lecture] 4 ening, at § o'clock in the mple nd University, | The Marveis The with. stereoptican ie free to the public. PROFESSOR NEDY, form Jes his schoo of Chicago, with a special de ) 8 ¢ raining JOUN > tran. and development Labor t Sixth entitled Industr lust and ja will be 11 slides, ago, to lo le ifornla and he expects to.spend part of the time at his cattle ranch near King City | will | gether pieting give a descriptive lecture to. with moving pictures, x a trip to the island of Ha-| 0; and thi Kilauea, at} » y luncheon at the Trans-| Mon Deceni Frank Mayo participated in his 29th fight for the films when he fought Charles A. t all over oldwyn lot recently for King ‘s “Wild Oranges,” wail volcano p t = "yotn lp fous to en: on was a islature of Montana, organized the “Community Sing” during the war, ation Army w | directed light opera. from unde and was a Sal She has also > finish. * Calamity y Polley Saturday which threatens humor Hoot urpase in SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Griffith’s “THE ROSE” BATES’ ORCHESTRA Kiddies Always Until Pp. After M. 20 WHITE 10c Sundays nnd The 25e nee, ¥ ah ae SS LITTL OLD All have attendance records been broken by this delightful, unforget able photoplay most 158s SiStsis my USED MAN AS | plane was bea 4; PY > | MARION DAVIES IN a] NEW YORK PLANE RUDDER “You don’ know the sea, Anna lilla, Tug come an’ ve gat towed out on voyage —yust water all round, and sun, and fresh r to make It was great sport sailing on the| ale, with the} ings of a 60-mile hite-capped sound toasing gs to Herbert A. Mun- pilot, pw, accordin intern a the air mail reached ntil plane the van Islands ran into’ 4 series f uir pockets and suddenly it be ame a game of hide and seck with cath Then the ship “I had two passengers for Ste rt island and my mechanic, J. M. ly,” Munter said." Munter landed in the lee of Stew far be-| you strong, healthy gel. Aye, it make you all clean, Anna.” San} 2e, | | | | | rt island and’ discharged his pass-| empting to take off , the mail compart- . RK. ADAMS of the Matson Une} ment becamo flooded with water. It as only by using Mechanic Kelley rudder—sending him first to wing tip then the other as funter wished to turn—that od in. It was nd it will be brought boat sa ied to a tree ack to Seattle b Time of Shows 1190— 257— 4:58 107— 9:16 ese) as ld a, E Rr by Pet] Foes ih the | | | Now Here— The First National picture, with tre- mendous power, dramatic fire and stark realism— Thomas H. Ince’s ns BLANCHE SWEET gy William Russell == ALLAGE George Marion Mi URLITZER Eugenie Besserer ALSO— = LIBERTY NEWS Irene Castle, with her new husband, sails from Seattle, Kuhn, new football captain at U. of W. Howard Manufacturing company makes wash- boards, Possible candidates for the mayor's offive. Call Main 0012 for infor- mation avout attractions at the Liberty, Strand or Coliseum. as