Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-01
Many Fine Plays
to Be Seen During
Paramount Week

New York, August 31.-The long
promised advance in motion picture
art has at last begun.
| Observers of things cinematic say
| that never before in the history of
| motion pictures have there been SO
many big and really worth while
! film productions waiting for release
as there are at this time. Critics
/ of motion pictures who have been
! demanding for years that the film
! studios develop their opportunities
! are likely 10 be satisfied this year,
| if promises and reports from produc-
! ton centers are fulfilled.
More time, effort and actual coin
| of the realm have been spent on the
| production of pictures this summer
| than ever before, observers say, and
producers are anXiously awaiting
! the new season in the hope that at
| tendance at motion picture theatres
will justify the tremendous effort
| which has been expended to i'm
prove the artistic standards of
motion pictures.
| The eyes of motion picture pro-
ducers up and down Broadway arc
entered on theatrical box offices
! throughout the country during the
week of September , to s, when
| most of the motion picture theatres
| in the United States will celebrate
! the sixth annual Paramount Week.
| Paramount Week, the first week in
| each new season, has come to be
! established in the motion picture
trade as marking the industry's best
| effort, and this year it is expected
| by producers that this Paramount
| Week will be more successful than
any other held before. The purpose
! of each annual Paramount Week is
| to focus the attention of the public
| on the advances made during the
! year in motion picture art and TO
| show that during the coming season
the theatres playing the better type
of pictures will warrant the patron
| age of their public.
AS one of the steps toword raising
| the artistic standards of pictures,
| producers of Paramount Pictures, the
| Famous Players Lasky Corporation,
| have reduced the number of pictures
| which they will release this year
| Two years ago there were 104 Para
! mount Pictures released between
| September 1st and August 31st.
Last year there were 50. and this
year there will be only 50 or one a
week. Although the number of
pictures has been radically reduced,
all the production resources of the
Famous Players Lasky Corporation
have been kept intact and will be con-
centrated on the production of these
fewer pictures. Each of the pictures,
according to an announcement by the
heads of the Corporation, will be big
ger in every way than any pictures
hitherto produced by the Company,
and as more time has been given to
tho selection Of ctnpjoc tho cti-1cr
of the players, and the choice of
directors and building of settings,
observers here say that the produce
tons made under this policy will Go
more than anything else toward off
setting the criticism which has been
leveled at film productions for the
last two or three years.
Paramount Pictures to be released
this season by the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation include the fol-
lowing:
Madge Kennedy in 1.-THE Purple
Highway" n James Cruze Special.
HOLLYWOOD" with % stars and Sc
screen celebrities: a George Arelford
| special with Jacqueline Logan.
"Salomy Jane" from the story by
Bret Harte; an Allan Dwan special
Lawful Larceny:" Gloria Swanson
, IN 'Bluebcards Eighth Wife, Sam
! Wood productions; "The Silent
! Partner" with Leatrice Joy and
Owen Moore; a Zane Grey special
ITO the Last Man" with Lois Wilson
and Richard Dix. Pola NeCri in 1.-THE
! Cheat" n George Fitzmaurce
productions James Cruces produc-
ton of "Ruggles of Red Gap" from
the famous novel by Harry Leon
Wilson: "The Marriage Maker"
William de Mile production from
Edward Knoblock's play THE Faun;"
Gloria Swanson in "ZaZa," an Allan
Dwan production: Thomas Meighan
in "Woman-Proof." from the story
by George AIDE: His Childron's
Children" with Bebe Daniels. Sam
Woods production of Arthur Trains
novel: Rudyard Kipling's THE Light
/ That Failed" produced by George
Melford: Pola NeGri supported by
Antonio Moreno in 1.-THE Spanish
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