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•OgRG&mS&Mk. J9jfLmC^& Francis Ford and Grace Cunard burnt midnight oil in plotting "The Mysterious Hand," and they are now at work making the film. Now that "spring is came," the Long Island roads are being burnt up by the following auto enthusiasts: John Bunny, Ralph Ince, Van Dyke Brooke, Maurice Costello, Edith Storey, Darwin Karr, Gladden James, George Baker and William Marston—the two latter are directors. Walter Miller has resigned from the Biograph Company "for a much- needed rest," and has not yet made plans for the future. Our gold prize for the best story in this issue goes to the author of "A Princess of the Desert." Second prize to the author of "The Ghost." We'll all be there in June at the second annual "International Expo- sition of the Moving Picture Art," and be glad to meet you there. Put it down: Grand Central Palace, New Xork City, June 8 to 13. Mary Pickford is as charming as ever as the ragged little squatter in "Tess of the Storm Country," and perhaps a little more so. And now cometh Weber and Fields to the films, and with them will probably be Lillian Russell, William Collier, Sam Bernard and William Faversham. And the cry is, Still they come! What purports to be, and perhaps is, the last word on Motion Pictures is Robert Grau's new book, "The Theater of Science," soon to be published. William Garwood will hereafter be Vivian Rich's leading man in the American Company. The Eclair studio at Fort Lee burned to the ground last month. Ladies and Gentlemen: We have with us this evening Crane Wilbur (page 48), Bryant Washburn and E. H. Calvert (page 56), Francis X. Bushman (page 59), Mary Fuller and Marc MacDermott (page 61), William D. Taylor and Marguerite Gibson (page 68), Grace Cunard and Francis Ford (page 44), Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport (page 30), Dolly Larkin and William E. Parsons (page 31), and "Old Rip" (page 133). G. M. Anderson has moved his trunk from San Francisco to Niles, and this means that Western Essanays will be better than ever. Pearl White has gone back to the Pathfi studio. And now, as a supreme and fitting climax to his wicked career, popular Jack Richardson is to play the greatest villain of all—Judas Iscariot in "The Last Supper" (American). H. B. Warner is Charles Frohman's latest Famous Player, and he will be starred in "The Lost Paradise," the great capital and labor play. According to the always truthful press reports that come from the West, Ford Sterling is getting a salary of several million dollars a week, and Director Griffiths is getting that much a minute. The Golden West is certainly prospering. Little Marguerite Courtot is Kalem's youngest star and champion tennis player. When you see "The Master Rogue," you will feel quite sure that George H. Melford has a twin brother, but he hasn't; it's he leading a double life. Marguerite Clayton, the first and only, is still denying rumors that she intends to quit the Essanay Company for the stage. Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop" is Lorimer Johnson's latest. Friends of Francis X. Bushman are saying that he has done his very best work in "Shadows." Harold Lockwood is to play opposite Mary Pickford. Since one is about six foot three and the other about three foot six, it will be a fine case of "the long and the short of it." 126