Cheerful Film Men

Jesse L. Lasky, First Vice President of the Famous Players-Lasky Co., looks forward to a year of resumed production, despite the recent closing of its Hollywood studios (TIME, Nov. 19).

On Jan. 7, the Hollywood plant will resume operations with three companies. Gradually twelve companies will be engaged there. In 1924, 45 pictures will be made in Hollywood; 15 other film plays will be made at the Lasky studio on Long Island. This projected production of 60 pictures in 1924 compares with the 52 pictures produced in 1923. Mr. Lasky emphatically denied rumors to the effect that motion picture producers contemplated moving their studios from Hollywood to the East. Said he: "These reports about centering production in the East or about moving our studio East are entirely unfounded. Time after time we have investigated production costs and facilities, and it is a settled policy and an incontrovertible fact that Los Angeles is now and always will be the place where most of the pictures in this country will be made."