Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

80 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 15. CISSY FITZGERALD, MUTUAL STAR, LONG A STAGE FAVORITE Cissy Fitzgerald, who will shortly make her appearance as a Mutual star in “A Corner in Cats,” a rollicking single reel comedy being screened at the Gaumont studios for release in the regular Mutual program, was christened Marie Kathleen Cecelia Fitzgerald. Cissy Fitzgerald first came to this country from England in “The Gaiety Girls” Company, after a long and successful run at the famous Daly theatre in London. She scored a tremendous success, and before she had been here very long she was under contract with Charles Frohman, making her first appearance in “The Family,” one of the most successful productions of the season. She did not remain in America very long, however, not because she didn’t like it, but because she was called home to accept a more lucrative engagement. Miss Fitzgerald returned to America CISSY FITZGERALD about eighteen months ago. Shortly after she arrived, she was engaged by the Vitagraph Company, and remained there for some time, playing comedy leads. INCE’S “GOLDEN CLAW” FOR THIRD WEEK AT KNICKERBOCKER Conspicuous among the third week’s Triangle pictures at the Knickerbocker, New York, will be Thomas H. Ince’s “The Golden Claw,” with Bessie Barriscale as the star. Douglas Fairbanks returned Sunday night, October 3, from Los Angeles, where he had been screened in “The Lamb” and “Double Trouble” for the Griffith studio. On Monday he was at Riverdale in and about the Triangle studio on the outskirts of New York, getting ready to work in his new comedy vehicle, “His Name in the Papers.” The young star took very modestly the chorus of praise for “The Lamb,” which scored such a hit at the Knickerbocker opening. Carlyle Ellis has been appointed Western press representative of the Triangle. On Monday, October 4, he started for the | THEDA BARA AS SHE APPEARS IN THE | NAME PART OF THE FOX PRODUCTION OF “CARMEN” jiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllil!ll^ coast, where for the present he will make his offices at the Triangle branch exchange in Los Angeles. ONE-NIGHT STAND LIFE FORMS BASIS OF CUB COMEDY A satire on a traveling troupe playing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and on theatrical life such as is experienced by a small one-night stand company forms the basis for the Cub comedy release of Friday, October 15. It is called “Taking a Chance.” Those who understand the ways of a small traveling theatrical organization will find in this picture a faithful portrayal of such a company’s trials and tribulations. George Ovey is featured in the cast, which includes George George, Louis Fitzroy, Jefferson Osborne, Arthur Mund, Goldie Colwell, Janet Sully and others. plU!llllllll!lllll!llllllllll]|lllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lil|||||||||||iil|||||||||||||l|llll!i;illll|lll|ll|i;illlilll||lllll|llliy | LOOKS FOR THE “NEWS” LIKE | THE DAILY PAPER Detroit, Mich., Sept. 29. j I Editor, Motion Picture News, 220 West 42nd Street, New York City. 1 Dear Sir: Having formed the habit I | of looking for the “Motion Picture | | News” as regularly as I look for the I | daily paper, and using the same for 1 § reference almost exclusively, I am led 1 I to believe that the majority of exhib | 1 itors in the United States do likewise, g i and I wish to state now that I would g 1 not want to get along without it, even | I though it were possible. | I beg to remain, with best wishes for | | the continued success of “Motion Pic S I ture News.” Respectfully, | A. J. MOELLER, Secretary, M. P. E. L. of A., | Michigan Branch No. 4. | MuiiiriiiAtniiimitniniiAjiii()nimtiiiihiiniitmniiiititiiitiiihiiiiiifthniiiMiiiitimmiij|^iiiiifminMii;ii[i^ EQUITABLE BUYS FILM STARRING LORRAINE Lillian Lorraine, star in Ziegfeld Follies, Shubert’s Winter Garden, and later in the bigger Keith vaudeville houses, is to be a feature on the Equitable program early in the forthcoming schedule, at a date in December to be definitely set and announced shortly. Miss Lorraine, who established herself as a perfectly good and satisfactory screen LILLIAN LORRAINE possibility in the Pathe serial “Neal of the Navy,” will appear on the Equitable program in an elaborate production of an original work, entitled “The Lady of Perfume,” which was produced by Messrs. Horkheimer at their Long Beach (Cal.) studios, especially for Equitable. H. M. Horkheimer, who was present at the showing of “The Lady of Perfume” at the Equitable projection rooms, said: “It took us thirteen weeks of time, four days a week, to complete this picture, and we did not start on it until Miss Lorraine had more than proven her screen value. In some of the scenes in “Neal of the Navy” Miss Lorraine was called upon for highly emotional work, and met the requirements without the slightest struggle.” “The Lady of Perfume” is in five acts and was staged amid beautiful surroundings. FOUNDRY SCENES IN “WIRELESS” ALL TAKEN IN STUDIO George Fitzmaurice, whose Gold Rooster play “Via Wireless” has just been 'released by Pathe, has been reading with much interest the many complimentary reviews which have been written about the picture. One thing in particular has interested him : almost without exception the critics have praised the remarkable scenes in the gun foundry, showing the casting of a gun. “The highest compliment I could get,” says Fitz “Those foundry scenes were all taken in the Pathe studio in Jersey City.” Table of contents will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover.