Show I London Film Letter I LONDON Oct 2 With 2 With the approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap of autumn and the revival of ot is noticeable in hi film circles here Never In Great Britain in has lias the cinema been as seriously regarded as now with the war ove over peacetime industry industry industry indus indus- try awakened from Its its enforced enforced slum slum- ber Britain is much overstocked with films 90 per cent of ot them American so far are we behind the showings showIngs showings show show- ings In the States that pictures being being being be be- ing played there now will not pot be re released released released re- re leased here for tor some eighteen months And with productions speeding up here as well as in America it looks as though we would soon be more than a 3 year ear and a half behind tho the American showings Active production Is now well under underway underway way at the new Famous Players-Lasky Players studio in Poole street Islington where the first British made Paramount picture picture pic plc- ture has been finished and the second is being filmed Work is now progressing progressing progress progress- ing at the studio studio- on Henry Arthur Jones' Jones new photoplay The Call of ot Youth It Is described as a rean really human human human hu hu- man story and a n sincere representation tion of life which is characteristic of ot the authors author's brilliant nt stage work The first to be produced of or the original original original ori ori- ginal stories written for the screen f since Mr Jesse L. L Lasky Interested British writers in this medium promIses prom prom- to rank as one of ot the classics of ot the screen Such famous British players Players play Play- ers as Ben Webster Malcolm Cherry Jack Hobbs Mary Gl Glynne Bertrude and Marjorie Hume Bume are enacting enacting en en- acting the new picture Robert A. A MacAlarney the scenario e editor itOI who ho recently arrived arrive hara from Ne New New York to assume charge of ot production production pro pro- of ot British films has received an original screen story from Sir Str James M. M Barrie which has not as u asYet asyet yet been titled and one from E E. Phillips Phillips Phillips Phil Phil- lips Oppenheim called The Thu Mystery Road Just before he sailed for tor America to study film technique at the Famous Players studio at Long Island City Edward Knoblock delivered his his' first trat original manuscript called Appear ances antes Meanwhile Donald Crisp An Englishman English English- man who achieved success as an actor in America both on the stag stage on t fog fear the screen has returned to his tt f land ds to direct i the Donald J Crisp British productions tor for Paramount In these as in all other Paramount plo plo-i tures tunes produced In England too the gal will all be British Paul Powell who directed BO a i Clayton in A uA A City Sparrow in London with M Major jor Charles H. H B BeU U the studio manager and will wUl a new production unit here hero Miss Margaret TurnbulL tai aC scenario writer has in Low Ion don after here extensive eerie at the Lasky studio in California and nU will wm do continuity for one of ot the new stories recently r received from a n noted British author Due to this interchange of or specialists v there e Is already r noticeable a a clearing up of er some of the differences c fIe between British and American films and a a abet abet- bet bet- better ter understanding between individuals in the Industry Monte Blue has Just returned to New ew York from Kentucky where shots shots' were taken for the Charles Maigne production of ot The Kentuckians w- w from the novel by John Fox Pox Jr While there he made the acquaintance o of v JU Judge Charles W. W Logan cousin go oC ot otti- otti Boone Doane Logan the man Fox Pox used as alS h hero r ero ro un under r the name of Boone Stol In lard rd Judge Logan said that Monte Monte- Blue was strikingly likely his decease I cousin both m in his lis features feature'S and nl hid 5 y j It i |