Motion Picture News (Apr-Jul 1915)

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52 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 11. No. 22. 4-Reel Kalems for Regular Service Every 2 Weeks The Features Will Appear on Mondays, Beginning July 12, Under the Brand Name Broadway Favorites, and Star Only Able Players WILL SHOW REPLICA OF NOTRE DAME IN FOX PICTURE Keen anticipation and much curiosity is felt over the forthcoming Fox production of "The Two Orphans," which has been written for the screen and produced by Herbert Brenon, the director of the "Kreutzer Sonata" and "The Clemenceau Case." Neither money nor care has been spared to make the present screen version of D'Ennery's drama in which Theda Bara, HERBERT BRENON AND JEAN SOTHERN IN "THE TWO ORPHANS" William E. Shay and Jean Southern are starred. Mr. Brenon himself enacts the character of Pierre, the pathetic cripple whose love for the blind girl Louise is one cf the moving motives of the drama. Every one of the massive sets used in the production has been built up with scrupulous care and minute attention to detail, such scenes, for instance, as the streets of Paris, showing the arrival of the two orphans, and the front of Notre Dame Cathedral being built to the exact scale of the original subjects. The prison of La Salpetriere alone cost $10,000 to build and required in its construction ten tons of masonry work, three miles of canvas, a dozen barrels of nails, four tons of paint, and the services of one hundred carpenters, twenty painters, ten stone masons and a score of electricians. Besides the stars mentioned the company engaged in presenting "The Two Orphans" contains such notable names as Gertrude Berkley, Frank Goldsmith, E. L. Fernandez, Sheridan Block, Mrs. Cecil Raleigh and John Daly Murphy. GEORGE KLEINE FINISHES "THE SPENDTHRIFT" George Kleine's "The Spendthrift," founded on Porter Emerson Browne's Broadway success, was finished by Director Edwin at the Kleine studios last week. • Irene Fenwick, the sta" of "The Song of Songs," will be seen in a role exactly suited to her talents in "The Spendthrift," supported by two other well known Broadway thespians in Cyril Keightley, who is appearing with Miss Fenwick in "The Song of Songs" at the Eltinge theatre, and Malcom Duncan, long known to . theatregoers as a leading man for Harrison Grey Fiske. "The Spendthrift" has been made in typical Kleine style, with its characteristic thoroughness and minute attention to detail. BEGINNING Monday, July 12, Kalem will issue on alternate Mondays a four-reel feature production in regular service. The first of the four-reelers will be a spectacular reproduction of midnight at Maxim's, now being made at the big Kalem studio, Cliffside, New Jersey. Kalem promises a series of novelties that will prove mile-posts in the motion picture business, and the international reputation for novelties possessed by this company presages something genuinely worth while. All the four-reel pictures will be marketed under the brand Broadway Favorites. In selecting principals from the stage, Kalem will use only actors who can give the same quality of performance before the camera as they have on the stage. Mere reputation in the theatrical business will not be sufficient; ability of a high order must be the keynote. Kalem has been a pioneer in the introduction of novelties to the motion picture theatre — notably its production of Boucicault's famous Irish dramas, made in Ireland; Egyptian stories produced along the Nile in Egypt; the great masterpiece "From the Manger to the Cross," depict FOUR important additions to the West Coast producing force of MinA films were made last week by the engagement of Goldie Colwell, Louis Fitzroy, George Ovey and Jefferson Osbourne to appear in forthcoming MinA releases. Miss Colwell has been with Selig's western company at Glendale, Cal, for many months, and comes to MinA with a record of some exceptionally fine picture work, particularly in the serial "The Adventures of Kathlyn." She will play feminine leads. Louis Fitzroy served withthe NestorUniversal for many years and is very ing the life of the Saviour, produced in authentic locations in Palestine and Egypt, and a host of other distinct innovations, including the employment of William J. Burns in a three-reel detective story. Kalem paid Detective Burns $8,000 for his appearance in this one picture, and it is claimed by the company that this is the largest amount ever paid to a single individual for work in one picture. SIDNEY MASON IS NOW WITH UNITED FILM SERVICE Sidney Mason, who will be remembered for his excellent work with Blanche Walsh in "The Resurrection," and also in the role in "The Count of Monte Cristo," in which he played opposite James O'Neil, has joined the United program and is appearing in Empress Photodramas with Joseph Levering and Marian Swayne. Mr. Mason appears to good advantage in the role of the artist in "The Vivisectionist," a photoplay written by Reverend Clarence* J. Harris, which will be released June 2 on the United program. Sidney Mason makes the second "Mason" on the program. well known. He was a member of one of the early Nestor companies, as was Jefferson Osbourne, who, besides, has appeared in features of the Bosworth company and other organizations. George Ovey headed his own company in the heyday of melodrama, but for the past three years has been engaged in picture work with different Pacific coast companies. The release in which these new players make their debut under the MinA banner is "Life's Mysteries." It is directed by Milton Fahrney and will be released June 3 on the regular program. THREE OF THE RECENT NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CASTS OF MINA FILMS LOUIS FITZROY GEORGE OVEY GOLDIE COLWELL "Life s Mysteries" Introduces 4 New MinA Players Goldie Colwell, Louis Fitzroy, George Ovey and Jefferson Osbourne Additions to West Coast Producing Staff Working on Release of June 3