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Phone Broadway 32 Los Angeles PASADENA SAN DIEGO 614 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. 624 First National Bank Bldg. SEATTLE PORTLAND .SAN FRANCISCO OAKLAND NEW YORK G. GENNERT 206-8-10 So. SPRING ST. DE BRIES HAVE BECOME REAL POPULAR STOLEN Camera No. 1 1 42, with Stillar Lense No. 88240, was stolen from our Chicago office recent- ly- Camera No. 1 1 63, with E. Krauss Lense was stolen from R. W. Walter at Belshoffei Studio. It is the duty of all interested in the motion picture business to do their utmost to curb this thieving. Neither of above cameras had magazines. If $250 you have any information, For Conviction of communicate with us Thieves $250 For Rescue of Cameras PROTECT YOURSELF BY HELPING US TO CONVICT THE THIEVES 1 NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE 1 CAMERA! The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry Page Three WALTER RICHARDSON Two Years with Williamson, Ltd. Playing the Lead Leading Man with Australian Tour Edith Roberts in Eighteen Months ‘Alias Miss Dodd’’ Leading Man, This Week Alcazar Theatre, Superba Theatre San Francisco CALVERT CARTER GOLDA MADDEN Playing Judge Prouty in At present playing the heavy with the “THE FIGHTING SHEPHERDESS” | Ben Wilson Serial This week at the Symphony “THE BRANDED FOUR” Coming Release: This week as Beatrice Arnold in Grimes in “DANGEROUS TO MEN” “THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN” At present with the Katherine McDonald Co. I Alhambra Playing Jorkins in “CURTAIN!” lllllllllllllilllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH Page Four The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry' CAMERA! EUGENIE BESSERER Dona Luisa Jezabel in in "EVANGELINE,” all-star cast "RIGHT OR WRONG” “Soul of Rafael” “The Fighting Shepherdess” “UNDER CRIMSON SKIES” “THE MASTER STROKE” Alhambra Theatre Symphony Theatre “BREATH OF THE GODS” "THE RED LANE” Last Week This Week At Present Playing the Vicar in At Present With ALLAN DWAN “MERELY MARY ANN,” with Shirley Mason ill{llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllll!>lllllllllllllll!llll!lllll>lllllllllllll>lllllll>ll!lllllllllllllllllllll>IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJj| ll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllll|IJI SIDNEY FRANKLIN TENNY WRIGHT 1 Playing Cash Bailey with IRVIN V. WILLAT PRODUCTION 1 Who has been associated with PAUL SCARDON : j Coming Releases: four years for the past | In Maurice Tourneur’s ‘‘GLORY OF LOVE” 1 Now Directing BLANCHE SWEET As Louis Solomon in All-Star Production in a publicity film 1 | ‘‘BLUE MOON” For Pathe’s Exploitation Program Comedy and Dramatic Parts Phone 57638 iiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir flllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIW ! CAMERA! "The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry Page Five amera Cs The Digest of the Motion Picture Industry DEVOTED TO THE NEWS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY LOLA B. ROBBINS AND RAYMOND CANNON, PUBLISHERS Entered as second class matter, August 11, 1918, at the postoffice at Los Angeles, Cal., under act of March 3, 1879. = Raymond Cannon Managing Editor Scott Macnicoll Adv. Manager g ^ H Fanchon Royer Editor Ora Brook Circulation Manager g g Price 10 cents per copy, $2.00 per year in Los A ngeles County. Outside Zone One, $2.50 per year g jg H Edited and printed on Saturday afternoon of each week at 4513 Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. (Holly 1539.) g == Hili iiifiiiiiiiii iiiii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiniiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiHiiiiH No. 10 Vol. Ill SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920 iiiiniiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CO-OPERATES WITH THE MOTION PICTURE PEOPLE’S CHURCH THE INDUSTRY Out at the Lasky studio there is a minister of the gospel That the differences which have so long occasioned an acting in the capacity of technical director for William D. under current of strife between the city of Los Angeles, Taylor in the latter’s production of “The Furnace,” by Pan. including its social and business interests, and the motion Nor is the clergyman in question one who has changed his picture industry might be analyzed and some method of profession in response to the lure of the cinema. He is in satisfactory settlement decided upon, a meeting was called fact, no other than the Reverend Neal Dodd of the Motion by the Chamber of Commerce of the city, of motion picture Picture People’s Church, and his temporary studio work is producers, business men and press Friday the 18th, at noon. being done in addition to his regular duties. He is staging, After a luncheon, which was served in the directors’ costuming, etc., a large English wedding which will form an room of the chamber, the present conditions were con- elaborate episode in the production. sidered from several different angles. The informal dis- The noteworthy point in connection with the above, is cussion was preluded with an explanatory talk by the presi- the spirit displayed by this man Avho is big enough to realize dent of the Chamber to the picture interests. In it he pointed that religion, contrary to general ministerial belief, as we to out the fallacy of the statement, at one time circulated, have known it, has a place for the theatrical man. the effect that his organization was not cordial in its atti- For several years, Reverend Dodd has quietly carried on tude toward the profession. Thereafter, upon the invita- his work among the studios, fii'm in his conviction that his tion of chair, for B. and the Mr. Loeb, attorney Louis Mayer, field was as woi’thy as any other, and that time would more other big producers, opened for the picture interests by than accomplish his plan to move his flock out of the Little explaining the prejudice of the city socially and commer- Church Around the Corner, and into the new building which cially with regard to the industry, as he has heard it from will house the Motion Picture People’s Church. latter. declined substantiate his members of the He to His idea has been as large as his feeling for the industry, statements from personal observation, however. but it is today nearing fulfillment. Upon the completion of talk Mr. Anger of the Capitol followed, in which A by his work with Lasky, Mr. Dodd will bend his spare time he laid particular stress the unfair manner in which upon effort to the organization and progress of a campaign for the newspapers have long accented misdemeanors, and the collection of the funds necessary to finish the project. alleged misdemeanors, of film people. He explained how In appreciation the profession will “see him through.” such undesirable publicity has been greatly responsible for As recent city controversies clearly show, the industry has the rancor between classes here. not been treated cordially by Los Angeles churches in the Mr. Abraham Lehr suggested that the Chamber of Com- majority of cases. This has been the result of prejudice, merce might beneficially encourage the press to give credit honest and otherwise. No wonder that our “holier” breth- where it is due and not generalize to such an extent in its attentions. recordance of such unfortunate occurrences. ren have been little annoyed by our Other angles, such as discrimination of city assessors Always, however, Ave have been able to turn for instant against studio property, were set forth. Investigation of contrast to Rev. Dodd, who has been consistently at the dis- general conditions was invited. posal of the profession. Altogether, the spirit displayed by all representatives in Not only will our regard for him be proven by the outcome question was highly commendable, and much may be ex- of this drive, but Ave will accomplish in the establishment pected as