Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

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126 Screen and signed a contract to write exclusively for Lasky. George Bronson Howard and Paul Dickey have also signed similar contracts with the same firm. Gossip Robert Harron visited New York a short time ago on a sad errand. He brought East the body of his brother Charles, who was killed in an automobile accident in Los Angeles. One of the big deals in the film-producing game which has been hanging fire for a long time, and which has only recently been consummated, is the merger of the World and Equitable companies, through which the former concern passes out of existence. Tom Moore, of the famous Moore family of screen favorites, has reentered the field with the Lubin Company. The Blue Bird Photo Plays, Incorporated, who are soon to set forth a number of big plays featuring big stars, has issued a statement which stamps the concern as being quite different from others of its class. It has said that no stage star can secure an engagement without having already made good in at least one picture on the screen. This means that every star they will present will have a following in the smaller photo-play houses, as well as in the larger houses, because of his or her combination of stage and screen success. William Fox, a producer who has risen to the top of the game in the last year, has laid plans to build a film city on Long Island which will surpass anything of its kind in existence. Five fully equipped studios are to be included in the city. Tyrone Power has deserted the Selig Company and joined Universal, where he is working under the direction of Lois and Phillips Smalley. His first picture is "The 111 Born." That the Famous Players Company and Mary Pickford are not to sever the relationship which has been so profitable to both is made certain by the formation of a new company to be known as the Famous Players-Mary Pickford Company. In this newly organized concern, "Little Mary" is said to own fifty per cent of the stock. All her future pictures will be made by this company and released through Paramount, as has been done in the past. 8YPSY Fortune Teller A.nd Dream Book Know thy future. Will you be successful in Love, Marriage. Health, Wealth, and Business. Tells fortunes by all methods, cards, palmistry, tea cup, zodiaol ogy, etc. Gives lucky and unlucky days. Interprets dreams. A large book by mail for TEN CENTS. Earn money telling fortunes. ROYAL PUB. CO., Dept. 101 So. Norwalk, Conn. Make Your Hair Beautifully Wavy and Curly Over Night Try the new way — the Silmerine way — and you'll never again use the ruinous heated iron. The curliness will appear altogether natural. Liquid Silmerine is applied at night with a clean tooth brush. Is neither sticky nor greasy. Serves also as a splendid dressing for the hair. Directions accompany bottle. Sold by druggists everywhere.