Show LONDON FILM LETTER LEITER LONDON May 28 Perhaps 28 Perhaps no one residing outside of England fully ap appreciated appreciated ap- ap I the immensity n of the problem r lem that t e confronted r the Famous m Play Play- l Lasky ers-Lasky British Producers Ltd when it was decided to erect a British studio for the production of Paramount pictures Building conditions were and still lUll are are arc chaotic on account of or the drastic governmental restrictions upon new building building- projects and the almost prohibitive cost of or labor and materials Today therefore the wisdom of the I company's executives u in securing c n a g building already constructed tr ct and suitable suitable suit suit- able for adaptation to picture making uses rather than adopting the wasteful wasteful waste waste- ful rul and tedious course of building from the ground up seems fully revealed waste waste-I Within eight months from the time the old Id Poole street power station In Islington was was was' taken over in hi October 1919 It was completed dismantled and Batted g rebuilt entirely inside and made ready for production work And now just a It year vear ar from that latter date five productions have been completed within with with- in its walls and the sixth and seventh I are under wa way I The first two namely the Hugh Ford production of The Call of Youth oy uy Henry Arthur Jones and The Great Day by Louis N N. Parker and George Georg R. R Sims have already bee released in the United States Stales The third the Donald Crisp production of Appearances Appearances Appearances Appear ances by bv Edward Knoblock is due for American release next month the tle fourth The Mystery 1 Road directed direct direct- ed by Paul Powell is now past the cutting uttIng stage and the fifth the Donold Donold Donold Don- Don old Crisp production of HamIltons HamIlton's Hamilton's Hamiltons Hamiltons Hamilton's Ham Ham- ilton's The Princess of New York is now completed For a new concern to have hav over over- |