Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

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388 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIX, No. 8 Newslets For Use in Your Program FACTS ABOUT FILM FOLK— YOU MAY CLIP AND PRINT THEM Myrtis "Peggy" Morgan, who plays with Rita Jolivet and Hamilton Revelle in Metro's great screen spectacle, "Lest We Forget," is well remembered for her excellent portrayals in some of the picturizations of the O. Henry stories. Miss Morgan is a Southern girl who was born on Ledgewood Plantation at Magnolia, Mississippi. She has played with Selig, World, and other companies. Nazimova has completed her second Metro starring vehicle, which is a story of gypsy life, and is now reading stories and plays in search of a suitable subject for her next picture, which will be directed by Albert Capellani. David H. Thompson, assistant production manager at the Metro studio, recalled recently, when EfBe Shannon was acting in scenes for "Her Boy," that he was once stage manager for Miss Shannon and Herbert Kelsey on the speaking stage in "The Walls of Jerico," and "Bridge." Emmy Wehlen is now working in a Metro screen version of "Good-Will and Almond Shells" a story by Kenneth L. Roberts which was published in The Saturday Evening Post. George D. Baker adapted the story and is directing the production. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew will provide their legions of admirers with many surprises when their special five-reel comedy-drama, "Pay Day," is shown on the screen. The Metro comedians have made a departure from their usual domestic comedies and produced a "regular thriller." Henry Kolker has been engaged to portray a leading role in support of Emmy Wehlen in the Metro picturization of "Good-Will and Almond Shells" by Kenneth L. Roberts. Kolker has played with leading stars including Nazimova with whom he appeared on the stage in Ibsen plays. E. Richard Schayer, of the Paralta staff of authors, has applied for enlistment in the Army Aviation Corps, and has passed the physical examinations. At the beginning of the war, Mr. Schayer served for a time in the British army. This was when he was sent over by a New York newspaper syndicate as war correspondent, with Richard Harding Davis. Louise Glaum's dressing room at the Paralta studios has been fitted up strictly to suit her tastes. Her new quarters will be known as the "Egyptian Room." Egypt and the Orient, — all that is picturesque and bizarre in color and pattern, are the things she likes best, and those will go into the fitting of the new dressing room. The atmosphere of mystery, and glamour, and incense, and strange perfumes lent by a thoroughly Oriental furnishing, will be hers at the Paralta. A most remarkable and graphic illustration of why peace without annexations or indemnities cannot be looked on with favor by the United States and her Allies at this time forms part of the 104th release of the Paramount-Bray Pictographs. Professor Douglas Johnson, of Columbia University, a student of international affairs, provided the Bray studios with the data upon which this film is based, and which proves convincingly that Prussianism must be crushed, and, in the words of President Wilson, "the world made safe for democracy." It shows the policy of conquest of the Ho Anna Q. Nilsson, a star of Goldwyn pictures. henzollerns dating from 1477 down to the plan of 1911 by which Germany was to control the backbone of Europe and hold the balance of power. Theda Bara's latest production, "The Soul of Buddha," was written, scenario and story, by the star herself while she was traveling across the continent from California. It deals with life and conditions in Java and is said to strongly develop the Oriental atmosphere. Margarita Fischer, star of the American Film Company, is a good cook. She has become so interested in doing her bit for her country by assidulously observing all meatless, wheatless and sweetless days, that she has involved herself in the editing of a War Cookbook, in which all of the recipes are tested out personally before being accepted. Belle Bennett, the pretty star of the Triangle Film Corporation, was granted permission by the company to play in Ashton Stevens' new stage drama, "Mary's Way Out," which opened at the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles on January 27. The next Pauline Frederick vehicle following "Mrs. Dane's Defense," to be released by Paramount is "Madame Jealousy," the George V. Hobart story staged recently under the direction of Robert Vignola, the scenario for which was written by Eve Unsell. Miss Frederick is now busily engaged in the production of an elaborate version of "La Tosca" at the Famous Players-Lasky studio in New York City. Margarita Fischer has just completed another feature at the Santa Barbara studios of the American Film Company, entitled "High Heels," under the direction of Lloyd Ingraham. Harley Knoles, who directs the WorldPictures, starring little Madge Evans, sent her a beautiful wrist watch for Christmas. Madge telephoned her thanks to Mr. Knoles at four a. m. The title of Sessue Hayakawa's newest Paramount picture to follow "Hidden Pearls," which will be his next release, is "The Honor of His House," from an original story and scenario by Marian Fairfax and directed by William C. DeMille. C. Gardner Sullivan, author of many successful photoplays, is responsible for "Love Me," in which Thomas H. Ince will present Dorothy Dalton following "Flare-Up-Sal." Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, who is one of the oldest producers in the motion picture industry and who is now doing a series of pictures for Paramount, recently remarked that the greatest change that had been evidenced in the industry, was in the attitude of the actors, who at first had to be kidnaped into going into a studio and who now can't be kept away. When he first made pictures, he himself played two, three and sometimes four parts in the same production. He had to do it. There weren't any actors to be had who would take the parts, despite the fact that there was little or no discrimination as to the calibre of the actor. Master Bobby Connelly, who has been engaged by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew to support them in "Gas Logic," the Metro-Drew comedy which they are now producing, has just arranged to pay his income tax, without a protest. He and his father, Joseph I. Connelly, who is a business man, signed their papers at the same time. Bobby was formerly starred in a Vitagraph series of short comedy-dramas. Recently a canvass was made of the Goldwyn studio for the purpose of learning what wartime sacrifices were being made by the stars. This is the result: Mabel Normand has given up the Sunday parties so well known in fildom's smart set. She sees her friends, of course, but quietly. Mary Garden wears only an artificial flower, never a real one, and her rooms at the Pitz-Carlton are without the roses she adores. Mae Marsh is most conscientious in carrying out her resolutions. For nearly a year she has ommitted sugar from her tea and coffee, and she does not touch candy. Her sister, Marguerite Marsh, a great letter writ. us he plainest stationery, without wa ; or . jnogram. Madge Kennedy also curtails her consumption of expensive writing paper.