W. W. Cohill — Casting Director (1922) 🇺🇸
This will introduce William W. Cohill, our new Casting Director of our Long Island Studio.
Mr. Cohill is a live wire from start to finish, having spent fifteen years on the legitimate stage, leaving that work to go with the Lubin Stock Company in Philadelphia. After that he was with Metro, World, Famous Players and a number of Independent Producers, until he entered the Motion Picture Agency field.
After two years in this line, he became Casting Director of the Motion Picture section of the Actors’ Equity Association, acting in this capacity for two years until he severed his connections there to become Casting Director at our Long Island Studio.
A hearty welcome to Mr. Cohill!
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Long Island News
by E. W. Wingart
George Fawcett, the veteran character actor who came from the coast especially to play the role of Captain Barzil Dunsack in George Melford’s production, Java Head, will leave this week for the Lasky studio in Hollywood, where he will assume the character roles in other forthcoming Paramount pictures.
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Following the completion of his latest picture, Back Home and Broke, Thomas Meighan has gone to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., for a two weeks’ vacation. He is accompanied on the trip by Laurance Wheat, who has played with Meighan in his last three pictures.
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Director Victor Fleming, who has just finished Dark Secrets, Dorothy Dalton’s latest picture, and Charles de Roche, the newly arrived French film actor, have left New York for Hollywood. Mr. Fleming will prepare for his next picture, The Law of the Lawless, in which Miss Dalton will be starred and supported by Mr. de Roche.
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The new Paramount player, Charles de Roche, who arrived recently from France to begin work under the guidance of American directors, was given his first glimpse of American production methods when he visited the company’s Long Island studio the other day.
After making a thorough inspection of the huge studio, de Roche exclaimed with all the fire of his French temperament:
“I shall never, no, never, go back to France! Why, we have only little studios in our country. This is marvelous. You have so many lights. I know I shall be very happy making Paramount pictures.”
Mr. de Roche, who is to play opposite Dorothy Dalton in her next Paramount picture, The Law of the Lawless, by Konrad Bercovici, visited every nook and corner of the studio. He could scarcely believe his eyes.
“No wonder American made pictures lead the world,” he said after his visit. “You have everything in the world to work with.”
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Arthur Cozine, Location Manager, has returned to the studio from Miami, Fla., where Alice Brady and her company are making South Sea Island scenes for The Leopardess, under the direction of Henry Kolker.
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Val Dixon, violinist for the Melford unit, gave a dinner party recently, at his home in Tappan, N. Y., for members of the Java Head company. Those who enjoyed the excellent food and good time were: George Melford, Jacqueline Logan, Leatrice Joy, Jack Gilbert, Albert Roscoe, Barbara Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar Young, Cy. Clegg, Mrs. Al Smith, Arthur Hull, E. W. Wingart, Rudolph Bylek, Peggy Cleary and George Dixon.
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The Round-Up
James Cruze had a round up of all his own recently when he summed the delegation shown in the above photo for a picture for PEP.
From left to right they are: two actors playing the part of pioneers, John Fox Jr., James Cruze, Director, Alan Hale and Dorothy Arzner, Script Clerk, Charles Ogle, Adam Hull Shirk and Lois Wilson.
Collection: Paramount Pep Magazine, November 1922