Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

March 2, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 413 Alice Brady Talks to Fans from Stage jj| Appears in Twenty-eight Loew Theatres in New York in Five Nights After Tour of Vicinity VERSATILE ALICE BRADY has been giving a shining example of "how to live on twenty-four hours a day" ever since, in a spirit of enterprise she consented to oblige Loew patrons by appearing in person at theatres where her pictures are being shown. Miss Brady began her whirl around the circle by appearing at the Loew house in Providence. Rhode Island, the Emery, on Monday. Mayor Gainor received the popular little actress. After a talk, Miss Brady sang "Eyes of Gray," and "Over There," and as her audience clamored for more she obliged with "Jimsy Boy." The theatre was packed and more than five thousand persons were turned away. When the little star left the house she was fairly mobbed by a part of this crowd which had remained on the outside. A "reglar feller," Miss Brady shook hands with all those who could crowd around her auto, and then, standing on the seat, made a little speech to the rest. Returning to New York Miss Brady spent a busy day at the studio on Tuesday and also on Wednesday, and on Wednesday night appeared at the Loew Theatre in New Rochelle, where "Woman and Wife," the second of her Select Pictures, was being presented. Here, practically the same program was followed out — and with the same result. Friday found the little star at the Loew theatre in Newark, "Woman and Wife" again being the picture on the bill. This rounded out Miss Brady's personal appearances for the week, but these three special occasions were only the beginning of the Select star's speaking and singing program. During the week of February 18 Miss Brady appeared in twenty-eight of the Loew theatres in New York in five nights. Announcement of her appearances at the Loew theatres has brought a flood of requests to Select for personal appearances of the star elsewhere. Most of these, of course, both star and producer will be compelled to refuse, as Miss Brady has a very busy production schedule ahead. She is engaged at present in completing the fourth of her Select pictures, a Russian story which is being directed by Charles Miller, and the final title of which has not been chosen. Screen Telegram Organized A staff of cameramen and camera correspondents who will supply the material for the Screen Telegram, the Mutual Film Corporation's twice-a-week news release, is being organized with such rapidity that before the publication of the first issue on March 3, every source of news film in the world will have been covered. Numerous subjects have been received at the laboratory and arrangements are being made for the handling of up-tothe-minute happenings until a few hours in advance of the time for shipping the completed films to the various Mutual exchanges. In planning the make-up of the Screen Telegram the same methods are being pursued as in the making of the news columns of a newspaper. No advertising "plants" will be permitted to find their way into this film, and all subjects contained in each reel will be selected only on their merits. Beach Assembles Picture Rex Beach is directing the titling and assembling of his newest picture, "Heart of the Sunset," now in process of editing in the Rex Beach Pictures Company's laboratories in New York. Pursuing the practice he established for "The Auction Block," the author will personally write the sub-titles for the new production, which is to be distributed by Goldwyn as a Rex Beach special. Mr. Beach and his aids find themselves facing a problem in assembling "Heart of the Sunset." Working under unusually favorable weather conditions at Eagle Pass and Corpus Christi, Tex., Director Frank Powell and Cameraman William Fildew photographed every scene laid out in the continuity. As a consequence-, there is a plentitude of photographically perfect film, a major portion of which cannot possibly be used Alice Brady and her leading man, Frank Morgan, during a thrilling moment in the forthcoming Select production, "The Knife." Cummings Back with Fox Irving Cummings has returned to the William Fox forces as leading man for Peggy Hyland. Mr. Cummings played opposite Virginia Pearson 'in "Sister Against Sister," "Royal Romance" and "Wrath of Love."