Photoplay (Sep - Dec 1918)

90 services, though continuing to pay her her salary. They have now sent for her to resume work in the East. ANTONIO MORENO, after some time spent in the east with Pathe, has gone back West with the Vitagraph, the company which first starred him. Tony is playing in a Vitagraph serial with Carol Halloway. MAURICE TOURNEUR had planned to make John Van den Brock a director next fall as a reward for his excellent work during the four years he was employed making Tourneur pictures. But Van den Brock was drowned near Bar Harbor while the company was on location for scenes in "The Woman." He was standing on a rocky ledge trying to get a particularly effective bit of scenery, and lost his life when a big wave swept him off his feet. Van den Brock was the man responsible for the photography in such productions as "The Blue Bird," "Prunella," and he had "shot," during his career behind the camera, such stars as Mary Pickford, Elsie Ferguson, and Clara Kimball Young. DOROTHY GREEN comes back to the screen with Montagu Love in "Pirate's Gold," for World. Miss Green is a well known film vamp, having acted in that capacity for Fox in the Castle serial "Patria." HP HE soldier-author, "Private Peat," is ■*• making a filmization of his book for Paramount. BAD news for Eugene O'Brien's fanettes. Eugene is going back to the stage next season. Although it was reported that he was to have his own film company, it seems that Charles Dilling Photoplay Magazine Lieutenant H. Palmerson Williams, who is to wed Marguerite Clark. The formal announcement of the engagement was made by Miss Cora Clark when Marguerite returned from Washington, where she spent her vacation from film work, and where her fiance has been stationed in the Engineers' division of the army. * ,-,a' t:-. MB • . Poor little Mary has a terrible time in "The Mobilization of Johanna," her last picture under her Artcraft contract. This seems to be part of the mobilization, but then we didn't read the Rupert Hughes story from which the picture was adapted, so we don't know. ham has persuaded him to accept a leading part in a comedy-drama for a Broadway theatre. At present O'Brien is working in Norma Talmadge's new picture. FRANK REICHER, long a director for Lasky, has left that organization to handle the megaphone at the World studios in Fort Lee. His first assignment was "The Sea Waif," starring Louise Huff. FLORENCE TURNER is now playing opposite Mitchell Lewis in a miningcamp drama produced by a Spokane producing company. Miss Turner's picture work for some time was done in England, but difficulties in obtaining a passport made it impossible for her to return. f IT is rumored that Earle Williams may 1 be engaged as leading man for David Griffith in Artcraft pictures. But maybe it's only a rumor. THOSE film followers who thought Harrison Ford was unmarried will be surprised to learn that his wife is suing him for divorce. DAUL POWELL, one of those directors *■ who assisted David Griffith, has been engaged by Bluebird. Powell did "The Matrimaniac," a Fairbanks Fine Arts, "The Wild Girl of the Sierras." with Mae Marsh, and "Hell-to-Pay-Austin." under Griffith's supervision. pREIGHTON HALE decided that be^ ing an actor wasn't enough, so he has entered into the busy marts of the trade, so to say. He conducts a tiny shop in New York where antique china and pottery are offered for sale. Chinese glaze is Creighton's hobby and in his home are more than ten examples of the finest pottery. In the course of his collection, which represents a period of ten years, he has accumulated duDlicates of the less important varieties and was at a loss to know how to dispose of them until he got the idea of opening a little shop. "To tell you the truth," he said the other day, "I'm afraid my shop is going in a hole. You see I employ two young ladies to run it for me and they make a sale about once a month. The other day they sold a small jar for which I paid $200 at an auction. They let it go for $65." This is Mildred Manning, who doesn't require additional identification as the O. Henry Girl. Mildred has been taking a long vacation from her screen work. COLIN CAMPBELL, who directed all Selig's important pictures including "The Spoilers" and "The Crisis," has been loaned to Jewel to direct "The Yellow Dog." adapted from Henry Irving Dodge's Saturday Evening Post story. Dodge is the author of the Skinner stories. HAROLD LLOYD has adopted two hundred children, inmates of a Los Angeles orphanage. He takes them to the theatre every fortnight — and not always to see his own comedies, either. Then he winds up with a treat at an icecream parlor. Ask those kids who's their fav-or-ite fillum star.