Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

172 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE Seena Owen has again changed her name. It used to be Signe Alien, which »s fairly euphonic Scandinavian, but now it's just plain Walsh. "Handsome" George Walsh, of the Fox Company, rang the new change of name or her, and congratulations are now in order. Because her father, as the court affidavit says, is "squandering and spending" her salary, little "Mary Sunshine," who, in private life, is Helen Marie Osborne, has had a trust fund created to take care of her studio earnings and to provide for her education. Pretty tough for a four-yearold to have to bring up father. Anita Stewart is all wrought up because a sign-painter in Fordham, New York, happened to leave the letter "t" out of "immortal." The sign reads as follows: "Anita Stewart in Six Immoral Acts in 'The Suspect/ " Miss Stewart says that a Board of Censors is urgently needed for sign-painters. While Bertha Kalich and her company were finding locations in Red Bank, N. J., they trespassed upon a beautiful private estate. Just as their camera was set up, the owner appeared, and they expected to hear a sharp reprimand. Much to their surprise, they were invited to his house, and he prepared a sumptuous dinner for them. The surprise of the evening followed when they were invited to view his private exhibition room, where he ran some excellent film for them. Miss Kalich and her company had run into a red-hot film fan without knowing it. "Real atmosphere at any cost" is the slogan of film favorites nowadays. For "The Yellow Menace," a new Oriental serial of the Unity Company, featuring Edwin Stevens, Florence Malone and Margaret Gale, Charles Fang, a sure enough Mongolian, has written a special musical score with a decided chop suey twang. We assume that the extras will be supplied by the White Mice Society. Fellow players of Marguerite Clayton are all "upsot" because she is learning to play the ukelele. Most of the weird wails that she has as yet brought forth from the Hawaiian instrument have been likened to the baying of hound "dawgs" in full cry, but every now and then Miss Clayton strikes a hit-or-miss chord that is almost as sweet as herself. The Cub Comedy Company believes in entertaining itself as well as its audiences. Its penchant runs to music, and a regular band has been organized with George Ovey swinging the baton. The Cub band made its initial public appearance recently, and managed to return to the studio unharmed. Miss Favorite's Family Closet Being the Homey Things — Clothes, Nick-nacks, Ideals and Home Comforts of My Lady Star and His Highness the Leading Man Anita Stewart has named her country place at Bayshore "The Wood Violet," and her beautiful bungalow is now nearing completion. The fair Anita is very partial to pets, and nearly every afternoon she can be seen on the Merrick Road taking a bull pup, or a canary, or a crate of prize chickens to her new home. It recently got into the papers that Tom Chatterton was the proud possessor of a poultry farm near Santa Barbara, and as a result he is being flooded with orders for new-laid eggs from the young people of the city. Perhaps they have a hunch that if they eat enough of the movie hero's eggs they will turn into picture stars themselves. Sometimes a director has pretty hard work in teaching a group of extras society manners, when they are not to the manner born. At a rehearsal of a recent Vitagraph lawn-party scene, the society folk did not show their most engaging manners, and Director Rollin Sturgeon was just a bit temperamental when he megaphoned them to "be perfectly natural and act like real society people by wiping teaspoons on the grass and putting them in their pockets as souvenirs." To see Mary Pickford-juggle the griddle and wrestle with the tea-kettle in "Tess of the Storm Country," one would imagine that she was a stranger to the culinary art, but the fact remains that Little Mary is a skillful cook, and often, in a pinch, prepares and cooks the family meal. Mary Miles Minter has good reason to be superstitious, but she isn't. On her arrival at the American studio the number (Continued on page 174)