Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1915)

50 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 4. Vitagraph stars like Charles Richman, Joseph Kilgour, Ralph Ince, Paul Seardon, Tefft Johnson. James Morrison, Evart Overton, Louise Beaudet, and dainty Norma Talmadge, have been included in the cast. Hudson Maxim appears personally in the first part. The picture was presented tinder the direction of Wilfred North, and the entire production has been personally supervised in every detail by Commodore Blackton. It has been said of him that no hand is quite so deft in giving a touch of color as is his, and it has been decided by judges who know that he is a master mind of motion picture directing. SOCIAL CLUB FORMED BY PATHE EXCHANGE IN NEW YORK The employees of the Pathe Twentythird street exchange in New York City got together last week and formed a social club. The following officers were elected: Jules Burnstein, president; C. J. Fitch, secretary; Marion Luhrs, treasurer, and A. A. Corn, chairman of the entertainment committee. ADMIRALS SIGSBEE AND MARIX WITH A GROUP OF VETERANS APPEARING IN CRY OF PEACE" (Vitagraph) 'THE BATTLE 4 Months' Essanay Stay in Chattanooga Is Productive Capt. Calvert and Twenty Players, on Signal Mountain, 45 Miles From the City and 2,000 Feet Above Sea Level, Produced Plays with Society People as Extras Special to Motion Picture News Chattanooga, Tenn., July 21. CHATTANOOGA has been, heart and soul, an Essanay town for the last four months. Since the arrival four months ago of Capt. E. H. Calvert, with twenty players from the Chicago studios of the Essanay Company, to produce pictures in Chattanooga, and particularly in the mountains near here, the people of Chattanooga have treated the visitors royally. The company is spending the summer on Signal Mountain, forty-five minutes from Chattanooga by trolley and 2,000 feet above the sea level. It is perhaps the most fashionable and exclusive resort in Tennessee. Capt. and Mrs. Calvert (Lillian Drew), their son Billy, and some of his players have quarters in the Signal Mountain Inn, while the others are housed nearby in the comfortable cottages run by the hotel. Although the company has returned to Chicago for the time being, they will be back in Chattanooga before very long. In addition to the beautiful scenic effects that can be secured in this section, almost every inch of ground has some historical interest to offer. Many pictures have already been filmed in the exact locations that history has designated. Capt. Calvert is very enthusiastic over the reception he and his company have received at the hands of the town and country people, and has decided to spend all the summer here. With the aid of the Pan-Cro system of interior lighting, Director Calvert has not found it necessary to construct any interior sets. Beautiful homes, with real Chattanooga society people as the extras, have been graciously thrown open to him, as has the Country Club and the Superior court room, with the real judge, jurors, spectators carrying out those parts in the picture. Richard Travers, who went to Chicago after finishing the 6-act production, "The Man Trail" and others in which he played lead, will return to Tennessee with the company when it leaves Chicago, and will be featured in several large productions. Ruth Stonehouse, who also came down to play the lead in "The Dignified Family," a 3-act society drama, with mountain scenes to offset the formality of it, is expected to come back again during the latter part of the summer. Perhaps the most interesting work Director Calvert will turn out this summer — he is working on them now — is the famous "Tish" stories, as they appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post," by Mary Roberts Rineheart. They are being picturized in two acts to the completed story, and their titles are as follows: "Tish's Spy," "The Red-Headed Detective," "Mind Over Motor" (completed), "The Cave on Thundercloud Mountain" (completed), "A Wolf in the Fold," "Simple Lifers" and probably others later on. Miss D'Arcy is playing the part of "Tish," supported by an able cast. These stories will be released at an early date. Roy G. Booker. "NATION': DIRECTOR E. H. CALVERT AND LILLIAN DREW CHOOSING LOCATIONS FOR A FORTHCOMING ESSANAY RELEASE TURNS 300 MARK IN NEW YORK CITY With the turning of next week D. W. Griffith's spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation," will register its 300 consecutive performance at the Liberty theatre, New York. A second production is also being presented at the Brighton Beach Music Hall, so the record for Greater New York is piling up faster than was ever known before for a theatrical offering in this section.