Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

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S2 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. IS. LE GALLIENNE, ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S FOREMOST AUTHORS, WRITES SCENARIO FOR EQUITABLE Richard Le Gallienne, poet, novelist and critic, has at last succumbed to the jingle of the screen dollars. He has just completed a five-act scenario for the Equitable Motion Pictures Corporation, entitled "The Chain Invisible,” which he has constructed with a foreword of more or less interest to the producing company and’ the public at large. "The Chain Invisible,” says Le Gallienne, “is founded on the proposition that a healthy, normal man and woman, each entirely dissimilar from the other in birth, breeding, education, tastes, temperament and disposition, must inevitably fall in love with each other — provided they are constantly thrown into each other’s society and have absolutely no opportunity for conversation or intimacy with any other human being. “This theory is advanced on the belief that such falling in love is merely the inexorable working of nature — that two people so living are bound together by an invisible chain which merely stretches if they chance to be separated afterwards. But the chain never breaks.” Le Gallienne, who has withstood all advances by film companies in the past, decided to arrange the Equitable scenario after seeing two of that company’s finished productions, “Trilby” and “The Price.” In order to get the principal parts into right hands, it was decided to have twenty copies of the scenario written and one given to each of the noted players associated with Equitable, and then have the players themselves vote as to who should play the important roles. Among those who will be asked to vote are Robert Edeson, Kathryn Osterman, Lenore Ulrich, Florence Reed, Clara Whipple, Lily Cahill, Robert T. Haines, Margarita Fischer, Edwin Arden, Brandon Tynan, Alexandra Carlisle, Gail Kane, Katharine Kaelred, Charles J. Ross, Hilda Spong, Molly McIntyre, Helen Ware, and Thomas A. Wise. The men will have two votes each, and the women one, which will even the matter of counts. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN VANCOUVER OFFICES Several important changes have recently taken place in the Vancouver, B. C., film exchanges. E. R. Fauser, formerly manager of the Pathe branch, and before that, of the Mutual, has taken charge of the Dominion Film Exchange, Ltd., recently formed by J. R. Muir and associates, and quarters have been secured in the Leigh Spencer Building. This exchange handles the World Film Corporation’s features and the Minusa Gold Fibre Screen in British Columbia, and is closely connected with the Dominion theatres in Vancouver and Victoria. The Pathe exchange, in the same building, is now managed by Andrew P. Keegan, who was transferred from St. John, N. B„ when the business of the Pathe Film Syndi cate, Ltd., in Western Canada, was taken over by Pathe’s Famous Film Syndicate of Quebec, which now controls this brand in the entire Dominion. The name of the distributing company has just been changed to Specialty Film Import, Limited. I. Soskin, manager of the Vancouver office of the Famous Players Film Service, Ltd., Canadian distributors of the Paramount program, has been transferred to Calgary, where he will in future have charge of the premium coupon system maintained by the company. His brother, Ben Soskin, is now in charge of the Vancouver branch. INGENUE LEAD OF PRESENT BROADWAY SUCCESS FOR “DEVIL’S DARLING,” MUTUAL Francine Larrimore, ingenue lead of “Some Baby” at the Fulton theatre, New York, has been engaged by the Gaumont Company to appear in the next Rialto Star three reel feature on the Mutual program, produced by William Haddock. The title of this photoplay, in which one of Broadway’s most popular current stars will be seen, is “The Devil’s Darling.” Miss Larrimore will play the role of an innocent girl who comes under the influence of a wicked adventuress who tries all her wiles to VOGUE FILMS, INC., WILL MAKE COMEDIES FOR MUTUAL Announcement is made of a new comedy producing company, Vogue Films, Inc., which will have its first release on the Mutual program in November. Studios have been obtained in Los Angeles, and work is already in progress. There will be no announcement as to comedians until later, except that they will be of the artistically eccentric kind, set in stories that have understandable plots. The managing director of the new organization is said to be one of the best producers of the country, and equally well known abroad. The entire financing of the company was done in the West. JEANNE EAGELS CAST FOR NEW ARNOLD DALY PICTURE Arnold Daly, who is producing the “Ashton-Kirk” series of features for Pathe, has engaged Jeanne Eagels for his new picture, “The House of Fear.” Miss Eagels started in upon a theatrical career at the age of twelve, and as she says “played almost every kind of a part in stock and repertoire” for four years in the west. Then came musical comedy for two years, with Richard Carle and “The Pink Lady,” and then a season with Billie Burke at the Lyceum. Last season she played the lead with Julian Eltinge in “The Crinoline Girl.” She has been engaged for a new stage production to be seen in New York soon. EDNA GOODRICH AND TOM MEIGHEN IN THE FIRST LASKY PICTURE FEATURING THE STAGE STAR FRANCINE LARRIMORE force the younger girl to sell her soul. Francine Larrimore is an American girl, pure and simple, although she boasts the distinction of foreign birth, having been born in Rouen, France. While she did not appear in New York in A. H. Woods’ “Over Night,” she became the idol of the entire United States as she toured it with her company. Miss Larrimore became known to Broadway when she played with the Princess players in “Any Night.” MRS. WHIFFEN TO APPEAR IN “BARBARA” FOR METRO Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, who has entertained and delighted playgoers in this country for two generations, during the last of which by her delineation of elderly women parts, has been engaged by the Popular Plays and Players to appear in the big five part feature production, “Barbara Fritchie,” which will be released on the Metro program. Mary Miles Minter will have the stellar role in the production and Mrs. Whiffen will play the part of her grandmother, in the Clyde Fitch version and dramatization of the famous poem. For more than a quarter of a century Mrs. Whiffen has played important grand dame and “old women” parts in notable Broadway productions. At present she is playing in “Moloch,” Holbrook Blinn’s production at the New Amsterdam theatre, New York. Table of contents will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover.