Motion Picture Magazine, May 1914 (1914)
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GREAT ARTIST CONTEST 129 accomp 1 -'"* zA in this way: it will readily be se~ chat the winning female player may ?:ot belong to the same company as ine winner of the male prize, and it might be impossible to bring them together; hence, we may have to select the second player of the winning team from the same company in which the winner plays. Thus, if Arthur Johnson is declared the greatest male artist, the female player of the same company having the greatest number of votes will be elected to play with him in the ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE PHOTOPLAY in which the winning team is to play. After this contest has run a short time, we shall offer a prize of one hundred dollars for the best scenario, and the story of the same will be published in this maga- zine. Do not send in your scenario yet! Due announcement will be made concerning this phase of the contest, which is in reality another contest entirely. You may vote, whether you compete for the scenario prizes or not. We shall select, say, twenty of the best scenarios and submit them as "Prize Scenarios" to the different companies, offering them at "usual rates," in which their players who receive the highest number of votes shall play, and the amount received will be awarded to the writers of the scenarios. Thus, there will probably be twenty prizes or more in- stead of one. The Photoplay Clearing House and the Scenario Department of the winning company will act as the judges. Thus, if Earle Williams and Edith Storey should win first prize, the Vitagraph Com- pany are to have these players play in the prize play. And if James Cruze and Marguerite Snow should be next highest, the Thanhouser Company may have sec- ond choice out of many thousand selected scenarios, and that company may choose a play at its own price in which to feature those players. But, just now, you are concerned only in the contest of determining who are the greatest Motion Picture artists. Not only will a specially selected and admirable play be used as the medium to present the Greatest Artists as such to the public, but the studios, the newspapers at large, the theatrical reviews and the Motion Pictuee Magazine will unite pi operly to feature them and to perpetuate a record of their talent. Please send in your votes at once. Find the coupon on another page, fill it out and mail it to "Great Artist Editor, 175 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, N. Y." You may enclose two or more coupons in one envelope, provided each is signed by a different person. NotlHng but coupons will be counted I Remember that you may vote for child players, old men players, comedians, char- acter players, or any other kind, and it is not necessary that they now play leading parts. If any of these win we shall see that they get leading parts. Dont forget that a great play could be written for such unlike players as Warren Kerrigan and Flora Finch, or for Mary Fuller and Roscoe Arbuckle. Send in your votes now! THE GREAT ARTISTS AND THEIR VOTES TO DATE Last month the leading team was and JOHNSON and JOYCE third. Earle Williams (Vita) 160,385 J. Warren Kerrigan {Victor) 152,125 Mary Plckford (F. P.)130,485 Mary Fuller (Edison) 124,670 Arthur Johnson (Lub) 96,950 Alice Joyce (Kalem).. 90,730 CarlyleBlackwell (Kal) 70,310 Crane Wilbur (Pathe) 68,230 Francis Bushman (Es) 66,515 Marguerite Clayton (Essanay) .,.. 62,095 Edith Storey (Vita).. 58,285 Clara K. Young (Vita) 56,150 Florence Lawrence (Victor) 48,265 Florence Turner (FT) 40,455 Lottie Briscoe (Luo). 36,085 Maurice Costello (Vit) 34,455 Anita Stewart (Vit).. 30,365 Blanche Sweet (Mut). 28,070 True Boardman (Ess) 22,845 Lillian Walker (Vita) 20,285 G. M. Anderson (Ess) 20,065 Vivian Rich (Amer).. 18,835 King Baggot (Imp).. 18,020 Norma Talmadge (Vit) 16,400 Pauline Bush (Mai) ■ • 16,085 Ethel Clayton (Lubin) 14,890 James Cruze (Thanh) 14,695 OrmI Hawley (Lubin) 14,510 Florence LaBadie (Th) 14,470 Harry Myers (Lubin). 14,060 WILLIAMS and FULLER, with KERRIGAN and PICKFORD second, This month the count shows WILLIAMS and PICKFORD in the lead Tom Moore (Kalem).. Edwin August (Pow).. Owen Moore (Mutual) Benjamin Wilson (Ed) Leah Baird (Imp)... Gertrude McCoy (Edi) E. K. Lincoln 10,590 Mabel Normand (Key) 10,505 Beverly Bayne (Ess). Rosemary Theby (Lub) Pearl White (Pathe). Julia S. Gordon (Vit) Romaine Fielding (Lu) Leo Delaney (Vita) .. Augustus Phillips (Ed) Jessalyn Van Trump (Majestic) 8,245 Anna Nilsson (Kalem) 8,125 Kathryn Williams (Sel) ' Marguerite Snow (Th) Dorothy Kelly (Vita). Irving Cummings (Th) Guy Coombs (Kalem). Wallace Reld (Nestor) William Shay (Imp).. Ruth Roland (Kalem). Jack Richardson (Am) Frederick Church Marc MacDermott (Ed) Henry Walthall (Mut) Mary Maurice (Vita). Claire McDowell (Bio) Harry Ben ham (Than) 12,890 11,615 10,940 10,850 10,750 10,695 10,475 10,430 10,395 10,360 10,070 10,015 8,685 7,005 6,920 6,870 6,625 6.270 6,215 6,185 6,120 6,090 5,865 5,830 4,810 4,480 4,100 4,080 Billy Rhodes (Kalem) Earle Metcalf (Lubin) Marguerite Courtot (K) James Morrison (Vit) Bessie Eyton (Selig).. Sidney Drew (Vita).. Harry Carey (Bio) John Bunny (Vita)... Walter Miller 3,075 Wallle Van (Vita) 3,070 Betty Gray (Bio) 3,065 Muriel Ostrlche (Prin) 3,040 Octavla Handworth (Pathe) 3.035 Phillips Smalley (Rex) 2,970 Helen Gardner (HGCo) 2,845 Vale Boss (Edison).. Mabel Trunnelle (Ed) Chester Barnett (War) Lois Weber (Rex) .... Ethel Grandin (Vniv) W. Chrystie Miller (B) William Russell (Bio) Jane Gail (Universal) Mary Charlcson (Vit) Edward Coxen (Amer) Ford Sterling (Key).. Marguerite Fischer (Beauty) 1,810 Lillian Gish (Mutual) 1,670 Barbara Tennant (Ec) 1,660 Alice Holllster (Kal) 1,650 Rogers Lytton 1,650 4,080 4,015 3,615 3,600 3,450 3,415 3,410 3,250 2,640 2,545 2,090 2,080 2,070 2,070 2,000 1,900 1.895 1,885 1,870