Motography (Jan-Jun 1913)

152 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. IX, No. 5. An inspection of the completed story was made in the theater of the factory, corrections, if any, were in order, and Don Meaney, the publicity man, viewed the film story and from it wrote a synopsis which, with a still picture from the story, has been sent broadcast to exhibitors. The synopsis reads : THE GUM MAN. I. B. Right, commercial traveler for the Celebrated Chewing Gum Company of Fort Wayne, Ind., arrives in the town of Stickemville with his samples. He proceeds to the Grand Hotel across from the postoffice, registers and goes to his room. The proprietor's daughter, Mar}', brings up some ice water for the whirlwind salesman. Mr. Right endeavors to speak to the lady, but is given a cold look for his trouble. That night at the Town Hall the "natives" of the village give a box party. Mr. Right, having nothing on his mind but pleasure, purchases a ticket and goes to the big "doings." Boxes filled with lunch and delicacies are raffled off. The notable representative of the House of Guir defeats his rival, Hiram Bartlett, in purchasing a beautiful box of lunch. Inside the cover he finds a card with Mary Morgan's name on it, meaning that she is to be the salesman's partner. The two become infatuated with each other, so much so, in fact, that they fall in love and decide to be married immediately. Hiram, becoming jealous, provokes a quarrel which breaks up the happy party. Not satisfied with spoiling everybody's entertainment, Hiram informs Mary's father of the proposed elopement. The young couple return to the hotel, where they pack up their belongings. Mary's father enters the room and is rudely pushed into a chair which has been plastered with gum. The young couple leave the hotel in a hurry, proceed to the justice of peace and are married. Old father Morgan, still glued to the chair and carrying the aforesaid piece of furniture with him to the marriage mill, is overwhelmed when informed of the ceremony. There is nothing lacking but his forgiveness ; he extends that and the groom and friends pull the chair from him, but they pull too hard, with the result that the bride's father has to return home holding the chair in the position from which his zealous friends removed it. And that is the full story of a typical comedy, from typewriter to screen. Theater Magnates Form Film Company Charles Frohman, H. A. Spanuth and Alf. Hayman, all prominent in dramatic and motion-picture activities, have formed a $1,000,000 stock company in New York, which will produce motion picture films in which all the prominent artists under the Frohman management will appear in their best-known parts on the motion picture screen. The starts thus posing for the films will include Maude Adams, William Gillette, Alia Nazimova, Hattie Williams, Richard Carle, Billy Burke, Edith Wynne Mathison, John Drew, Julia Sanderson and others. Besides these recognized stars, the casts supporting them will be virtually the same as those seen on the stage. Maude Adams will portray her charming interpretation of Peter Pan. She will be supported by the same company seen with her here this winter and the films will be in the Broadway picture houses within a fortnight afterward. At the same time William Gillette will pose for films of Secret Service and Sherlock Holmes. Along with these films will come Alia Nazimova in Hichens' Bella Donna and Ibsen's The Doll's House. The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler and other plays. 'The Greater Love," March 3. Copyright 1913, American Film Mfg. Co.