Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1916)

November 25, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 3291 RUSSIAN SETTiyC FOR AMTA STEft IRT'S ^E\T In her forthcoming picture. " Tlie Girl Philippa," Anita Stewart was " Somewhere in France." In a picture she has just begun she is to be in Russia. The story is " The Glory of Yolanda," by Maibelle Heikes Justice. Miss Stewart will play Yolanda. Her leading man will be Evart Overton, while others in the cast include Denton Vane. John .'\rdizonia, Anna Brody, Bernard Siegel and Mr. Turin. This drama is being directed by Marguerite Bertsch, who has just completed the directon of Earle W illiams in the Curwood story, "The Soul Master." BILLIE BURKE'S BABY MAY BE NAMED 'GLORIA" On Monday, October 23, Billie Burke, star of George Kleine's motion picture novel. " Gloria's Romance," became a proiid and happy mother. The tiny edition of Billie Burke was ushered into the world at the Hotel Ansonia in New York City exactly at 3:15 o'clock, Monday afternoon. At that moment Mr. Ziegfeld was superintending the rehearsals of his new allstar show at a downtown theatre. It was some time before he could be found and the news imparted to him, but upon learning of the arrival he promptly dropped everything and hurried to the side of Billie. And now for the real news of the event. Several days before baby Ziegfeld was born, her fair mother told Ada Patterson, of the Xew York American staff, that if the baby was a girl, there was every likelihood in the world that she would be named " Gloria," after the role that Billie last appeared in. Billie Burke Billie Burke and Mr. Ziegfeld were married quietly in Hoboken in April, 1914. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Enzelfeld and so carefully were the arrangements for the ceremony made that no one outside the parents of the principals knew of it for several days. Miss Burke appeared in " Jerry," the play in which she was starring at the time, the evening of her marriage and it was some days later before the news of the wedding leaked out. Six Hundred People Mostly Children Attended the Opening Matinee of Pathe's " The Shielding Shadow " at the Pastime in Toledo Masterpiece Film of Missouri Buys " The Crisis " Rights Company Will Control Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia — Price Paid Is $100,000, Say.s Sherman THE Masterpiece Film Corporation, of Missouri, has purchased the rights of the Selig feature film, " The Crisis," for the States of Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, District of Cohimbia, Virginia and West Virginia. The price paid, it is stated by Harry A. Sherman, of Sherman-Elliott, Inc., was $100,000. H. P. W'olfburg, who has been affiliated with the General Film Company, for the past seven j-ears, will be in charge of the booking of " The Crisis " for the abovenamed territory. It is said to be the intention of the Masterpiece Film Corporation to book " The Crisis " as a first-class road attraction, playing the best theatres. The production will be widely exploited. Mr. W'olfburg is known among film men as a " live wire '' in every sense of that meaning, and it is anticipated that there is a great future in store for " The Crisis." Harry A. Sherman, president of Sher man-Elliott, Inc., arrived in Chicago, 111., last week for a conference with William N. Selig. Mr. Sherman is enthusiastic over the outlook for " The Crisis," and again predicts that the Selig film will prove one of the most popular film dramas of the past few years. " ' The Crisis ' has everything," declared Mr. Sherman. " There is a fine plot, a wonderful cast, and, above all. a great big story. ' The Crisis ' is more than a series of beautiful pictures — it is a drama of American life and of American people. " W'e expect to open in Chicago just as soon as an appropriate theatre is engaged," said Mr. Sherman. " Perhaps premier presentations of ' The Crisis ' will be made simultaneously in New York City and Chicago. I shall open my Western offices in Chicago within the next week or so. Their location will be made known at the proper time, and I am enthusiastic over the outcome." Faust,'" from California Motion Picture Corporation Is Nearly Ready THE film adaptation from the opera " Faust." which has been for many months in the making at the studios of the California Motion Picture Corporation, San Rafael, is now nearing completion, and, according to announced plans, will be released for indefinite runs this winter in several of the leading cities of the country. The scenario was from the pen of Captain Leslie T. Peacocke. The adaptation, according to the producers, religiously follows Goethe's original and Gurnot's operatic versions. The star of the production is Beatriz Michelena. the celebrated prima donna, whose insistency, ever since her screen debut, that the greatest of the operas be adequately produced in film version, is largely responsible for the present endeavor. As Marguerite. Miss Michelena will find it necessary to add a new type to her already long and diversified list of motion picture heroines. Something of the demand that is said to have been made upon Miss Michelena's talent and emotional responsiveness may be gathered from the fact that the big theme of the screen story is Marguerite's fall from innocence, her tribulations, as pictured in Goethe's drama, and her final redemption. HYLAND AND MACDERMOTT CAST TOGETHER Peggy Hyland, after finishing " Her Right to Live," and Marc MacDermott, after finishing his work in "Whom the Gods Destroy," are working together for their next appearance in a drama by Maibelle Heikes Justice, called " The Grand Duke." The title role, however, will be played by little Bobby Connelly. Others in the cast are Templar Saxe, Brinsley Shaw, Mrs. Remlej-, Harry Southwell, Miss Xellie Spitzer and Miss Curley. John Robertson, is in charge of the direction of this Vitagraph five-reel production.