Motography (Jan-Mar 1916)

270 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 5. Sifted From the Studios ATLANTIC COAST NEWS A section of the Metropolitan Opera House ballet was used for the World Film production. "The Ballet Girl." Franklin Ritchie, of the Ince Triangle Kay-Bee forces, and Mrs. Esther Bamburg of New York were married recently. Samuel J. Ryan of the Fox Company appeared on the legitimate stage in "Irish Aristocracy," "Muldoon's Picnic," "Little Johnnie Jones" and "The Yankee Prince." ' Alfred Hickman, who plays in the Fox film, "The Fourth Estate," is said to the stage production of Du Maurier's "Trilby." Theda Bara will add a Mexican adventuress to the long list of her "vampire" parts when she appears in "Gold and the Woman." The cast includes H. Cooper Cliffe, George Walsh, Carleton Macy and Pauline Barry. "The Fool's Revenge," a play which Booth. Barrett, McCullough and Edwin Forrest used as a starring vehicle, is being produced for the Fox films. Maude Gilbert and William H. Tooker have the principal roles. Fania Marinoff risks life and limb in a head first tumble down a long flight of stairs for the Pathe play, "New York," in which Florence Reed is starring. George Cooper, of the Vitagraph Company, risked his life recently when he stopped a runaway horse. Harry Handworth is directing Marguerite Leslie, who will make her first screen appearance in "The Pain Flower," for Equitable. George Anderson, Fritzi Scheff's husband, is supporting Miss Leslie. Burton King, who left the Famous Film Company to become a director for Equitable company, has begun work on "Man and His Angel," in which Jane Grey and Henri Bergman are co-starring. Adolph Majo'u, and not Irving Cummings, will play opposite Mary Boland in "Three Pairs of Shoes." Edmund Lawrence is directing the production at Triumph's Bronx studio. James Durkin, producing "The Clarion," Samuel Hopkins Adams' story in whicli Carlyle Blackwell makes his debut on tin' Equitable program, has returned from Florida, where lie lias beer filming exterior scenes. The feature will Incompleted at the Flushing studio. John Ince has taken a companj I" Buffalo i" film si enes on the ice of Lake Erie for "The Struggle." Richard Buhler and Rosetta Brice, working in "The Gods of Fate," Lubin, ing in a scene as sur\ i\ ors train wreck. make-believe on which they were seated suddenly shifted and they found themselves S curelj pinned beneath the debris of I er tr; ' the Reading railroad went to their rescue, and as the camera man kept on grinding, the accident will add realism to the play. Frank Crane is directing Kitty Gordon in "As in a Looking Glass," a picture dealing with official and social life in Washington. Maurice Tourneur has been directing "The Genius — Pierre," starring George Beban. The play, now nearing completion, contains more than 350 scenes, including the valleys of Picardy, the boulevards of Paris and sections of New York's lower east side. Frances Nelson makes her debut as a star in the World Film Corporation's production of "The Point of View," by Jules Eckert Goodman. Tom Terriss has taken the Marion Leonard studio in Brooklyn for the production of his next feature'. He will play the leading part, with Betty Holton, formerly of Famous Players, the Biograph, "the Reliance and the Metro, as Ouida Bergere has completed the motion picture adaptation of "Big Jim Garrity," which has been purchased by Pathe. George Fitzmaurice is the director and Robert Edeson the star. Clara Kimball Young, winner By 500,000 votes in a recent newspaper contest, has been entered in another popularity contest. piece, de luxe edition, is working at Gaumont winter quarters in Jacksonville. "The Dead Alive" was written for Miss Courtot by her director, Henry J. Yernot. Sydney Mason, Henry W. Pemberton and James Levering also appear in the picture, which will be released in February. Miss Courtot is among friends in Jacksonville. She spent some time there as a Kalem star. Her mother and sister are with her. Edwin Vail has become assistant to Director Yernot of the Gaumont company. Mr. Vail appeared with Norman Hackett in "The Typhoon." W. J. Butler, who has been for six 3rears with the Biograph Company, will make his initial bow as a Gaumont character actor in "The Dead Alive." The Eagle Film Company at its new studios at Arlington, is producing "Pirates of the Sky," under Myles McCarthy's direction. Scenes of the play are laid in Naples, Paris, New York, Atlanta and Jacksonville. "The Ocean Pearl" and "The Red Scorpion" will follow. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Middleton are at Jacksonville. Mr. Middleton is directing a Gaumont Mutual company at the winter studios. Alexander Gaden is working in two productions at once at the Gaumont studios, appearing opposite Lucille Taft in "The Drifter," and opposite Gertrude Robinson in "As a Woman Sows." No. 54 of the Mutual Weekly shows views of two vessels recently lost, one the cruiser "Natal," the other the liner. "Persia." The Gaumont scenario departmeiu arranges its work so that it is one month ahead of the demands of directors. Among the scripts recently purchased is a mystery story by Leslie T. Peacocke and "The Wonderful Desire" by John B. Clymer. FLORIDA luncheon of the Rotary Club of Director Richard Carrick oi the motion picture industrj . "Thi "His \ wrecking crew of Wife's Double," her firsl Mutual Mastei ■ ■ ii' ■'-' sur\ i\ ni's of a | , ... ... found their role, no, aH ■';» k ' when the pile of wreckage the .(':i1"""1" Compa: 1 . . . T mo ion mi' lire iihim r PACIFIC COAST NEWS Fay Tincher, who made her initial bow to Triangle audiences with De Wolf Hopper in "Don Quixote." is now playing the role of Widow Wedagain opposite Hopper in "Sunshine Dad," by Chester Withey. The cast includes Jewel Carman. Chester Withey, Raymond \\ ells and Eugene Pallette. "Marta of the Steppe," which William E. Wing wrote for Lillian Gish, presents life in a Russian colonjr, first in Russia, later in America. Miss Gish will appear as a peasant girl, and she is said to be studying Gorky, ["urgineff and Tolstoy. Frank Bennett, (>lua i!rc\ . Walter Long, A. 1). Sears. Pearl Elmore and Tom Wilson are in her support. Christy Cahanne will direct this Triangle Fine \n» production. Marie Mayer, who took the role of Marj Magdalene in the Passion Hay at i Iberammei gau in 1910, \ isited a motion picture studio for the firsl time when sh« was shown through thai of the American Film Companj at Santa Bar