The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

[ay 2, 1914 THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIEW II Los Angeles Notes of Interest in the Realm of Photoplay By RICHARD WILLIS Adele Lane has her own ideas of hoHday which will do good. She ad a day off recently and describes er holiday as follows: "Got up ite, had breakfast, had short stroll nd looked vr- .store windows, home t^ain, started interesting book, uich, nap, more book, supper, fin- died book, early to bed, result woke ext niorning feeling like a militant iiffragette." A sensible holiday for busy lady when you come to think f it.^ * * * Carlyle Blackwell ad a heavy man who he once said ,as the best in his line he had ever ad and yet he disliked him at first ot becau .e of his appearance or is acting, but—well, the heavy tells iie tale himself. "I overheard Car- ,k talking to his assistant, quite y accident; he said he would have » let me out because I was pigeon- >ed. I watched ;nvself on the screen nd I was, but you bet I altered my ail at once, and a long engagement •as the result." * * * J. P. Mc- jovvan is a tremendous worker, both n the stage and off it. Full of ervous energy, he is never still. In scene taken the day of writing, fcGowan impersonated an escaped onvict who persuaded a girl, finely iken by Helen Holmes, to run off ith hin,, and she is rescued by her octor lover who follows them. In he main scene, McGowan, badly urt, endeavors to use a hypodermic eedle and is stopped by Helen olmcs. McGowan picked her up ith one arm and threw her on a ouch as though she was a child, and he is no 'iglitv/eight, and nearly ut one oi the rescuers out of busi- ess vvith his forcclu! acting. * * * \n exanii'le 01 the \ er.satility of Bess redyth was lurnirhed when her . rk m "The Dan<;ers of the Veldt" [s a Boer coquette could be seen in a Iheatre on one side of the street and u r strenuous acting in "The Out- jaw Reforms" i.t a theatre opposite. I^.t this time she is playing comedy cads, at which line cf work she par- irularly shines. * * William rwood dragged himself away in his pleasant surroundings at -.-mta .Barbara for v. week-end visit • liis old Los /\ngelc5 friends. Gar- ■ "d says that he will be able to lo better work than ever before, as verything is so quiet and congenial it the American studios. * * * Idwiii August is gradually getting L very strong company together for \ij l'e.<ih-Y(: I'ilms and his first in- iepcndcnt feature, the adaptation of famous novel, is well on the way. Farrell Afacdonald. the producer )f "Samson" and other successes, is he director, and Neva Dclore?:, p'Oung, beautiful and experienced, is icting opposite August. With Hal Uigust, Fngenc C)nriO''.de and Fditli iostwick. Jack Weatherbee and La)'ola O'Connor in the cast, and vith h'rank ()rmston as technical di- ector and Mary O'Connor looking ifter the scenarios, Mr. August has company and staff of extraordi- lary strength. * * * Burton King, of he "Usona," is producing a photo- alay from his own pen, entitled 'Beyond Forgiveness." It is a one- reeler and features those two clever people, Fugenie Forde and Fd. Brady. * ■'• \\ illiam D. Taylor, who was the Caj^tain Alvarez in the Vitagraph play of that name, is an Irishman with a fund of humor. Compliments upon his smart appear- ance at the Photoplayers' Clul) the other nigh I. he remarked that he HAD to because of his last name, and that hi? first name was. out of place, f(n- he did not possess a "bill" —they were all paid. * * * Harold Lockwood, the young actor who made such an impression in "Hearts Adrift" and "Tess of the Storm Country," opposite M^ry Pickford, is in New York again, where he will act with the Famous Players. * * * Paulme Bush possesses a great ad- ^■anlage over many young actresses. In the first p^acc she receives a cer- rain auKvant twice a year, left by hc" father and now she has come into a really nice nest egg owing to the sale of a large estate which her lather owi-.cd and which has just been disposed of. Determined to be a leader of note in the art she loves, Pauiine !!ush is devoting some of the money and all her spare time to strdying classic dancing, voice culture, T rench and elocution. She believe thev are all necessary to the better acting in pictures. * * * Myrtle Stedman, Hobart Bosworth's leading woman, will be seen in three extremely good pictures soon. Her fine work iii "The Valley of the Moon" is followed up by her acting in "The Odyssy of the North," the stenographer in "Burning Day- light," and as Joy in "Smoke Bel- lew." As Hobart Bosworth has been puting on all three plays at one time. Miss Stedman has been a somewhat busy lady. * * * Wilfred Lucas still receives letters from English people addressed to "Alexander Harvey," the name he was billed under in the old country when he was with the Biograph. * * * Louise Glaum is the ".Sponsor" to the LTniversal Baseball team which goes to Santa Barbara to play the "Flying A" team at the end of the week. Louise, who plays opposite Universal Ike Garney and under the direction of Harry I >iwards, is very fond of sport and a great favorite with all the boys, and she is very enthusiastic regard- ing the baseball team and attends all the matches in the company of her mother, who is as big a fan as herself. * * * Edna Maison has received a letter from a prominent Eastern suffragette which says: "I have often seen you in IMoving Pictures and have said to my.self that you have a strong independent face and that you should certainly interef t yourself in woman's greatest cause." Well—Edna has a vote but apart from that she is a most un- clubable, unpolitical, unabusive voung lady. She can get very in- dignant but she cannot argue ! * * * ".X'ativc Life in the Philip])ines," cx- l)loitcd by the Pan American Film Company, is ])laying the first class theatres on a i)ercentage basis. This week large audiences are enjoying these pictures at the Majestic Thea- tre, Los Angeles, the Broadway The- A BIG PRIINTIING PLAINT IN A m SHOW TOWN ALLES Date Book, 1913-14 Southwest Theat- rical Guide Sharing Contracts Actors' Contracts Agents' Advice Sheets Agents, make this your headquarters. We date and reship paper for you WE FILL "RUSH" ORDERS QUICK HLOS ANGELES ■ 222-224-226 EAST FOURTH ST. atre, Denver, and the J^roadway Theatre, Detroit. All three films are booked up solid until June. Six more films will be sent en tour with- in the next two or three weeks. This picture will be released to exhibitors upon a rental basis after May 15th. The California Motion Picture Co., located at San Rafael, Cal., has started work. Lucius Hendersen is acting in the capacity of director, and so far has carried his end of the business through in a praiseworthy manner. He manages to make his actors understand what he wants done and they in turn execute so rapidly that it is only a question of time liefore the company will re- lease the first feature film. The company has every advantage pos- sible—excellent light, good location, Ai scenic artists, and the best actors that can be procured. * * * Beatriz Michelina, leading woman with the company, had the misfortune to meet with a rather painful accident while working last Saturday. She was to work a scene with a small kid (baby-goat) in her arms, and while trying to catch the kid fell on -1 l)roken milk bottle, cutting her right knee. Moral—When chasing kids look out for milk bottles or they will get your goat. * * * House Peters, one of New York's most popular leading men, has join- ed the company to play the leads. The hardest work Mr. Peters has at present is traveling to and from this side ef the bay, but we understand that he intends joining the hai)py family already located here in San Rafael. * * * Clara Beyers I \\'hen and where haven't we heard of Miss Beyers! In stock in Seattle, at the Alcazar, Majestic in Los An- geles, and now she joins this clever company of players. There is no doubt but that Miss Beyers will be a strong sui)i)ort to the company. * * * Who is the busiest man at the Studio, but no matter how busy, always manages to wear a pleasant smile? Wliy, J. E. Lan.sberg, as- sistant director, of course. The New Candler Theatre is the name that has been given the imposing and beautiful new i)layhouse at 2jC) West 42nd Street, New York, close to liroadway. which will he conii)lete(l within less than a week. The date of opening has not been definitely de- cided as yet. hut it is a certainly that its doors will he thrown open to the pu!)lic early this month. The formal opening will be preceded by a Press Night, when representatives of the various news])apcrs of the city, dis- tinguished figures in public life and ])er.sons eminent in the realm of mo- tion ])h()tography will be guests of the management. * * * George Kleine, ad- mittedly the foremost producer of pho- to dramas in the world, who is one of the lessees and owners of this latest addition to the myriad New Yorl< York theatres, has made arrangement for tile ])resentation of his master- ])ieces in animated photogravure at the new Candler Theatre during the summer and early fall. Pantomimists will be then displaced by actors of the siieaking stage. .Associatetl with Mr. Kleine in the ownership of the new Candler Theatre are Sam H. Harris, of Cohan and Harris, and Sol Bloom. They have expended $750,000 in the building, this amount including the purchase of the ground site, which was formerly occupied by a public library. The new playhouse has a seating capacity of 1200. The stage is one of the most perfectly appointed in .\merica, having a depth of 33 feet, with a width of 88 feet. Sidney Drew and a big Vitagraph Movie Company arrived in St. .Augus- tine, Fla., recently, where a dramati- zation of Gunter's story, A IHorida Enchantment, will be staged as an imposing five-reel feature film. As he was driving uptown from the de- pot, an old negro, who attended local movies regularly, quietly observed: "I begs yo' parding, but ain't I seed yo face in dat oi)y hous' nex' ter de saloon ?" Drew grinned. "Guess you've got things mixed," he is said to have warbled. "You saw me in that saloon next to the opry house." Letter List Tlif folIciwiiiK li'ttpis are beiiiK Iield at Tlie Dramatic Review office subject to orders: .V.slcM. I'", (i. I^afjaiix. Harry De (2) ArcluM-. Clauile MclJonakl. Jattk Hradfu'lil. ,\. Mayo (2) Milclu-ll. R. A. Brown, Gilniorc (tele-Milies Film Co. Krain) Newman. Walter (1) Brvant, Xana Oliver. Con.'ilant ("arnev, Cliff. Priest, Frank (•.i.'^lano. Mainul P. I'arker. Dnia (2) Raymond. Rill Suckett, Everett 1j. Srliolz. n. .Stull. Tlu'lma Snell. Ralph I tiilrrwood. Lawrence Vane. Denton AVolf. Frank Wavne. ,Iiisllni< Web.ster, Frerl Wcldon, I/iicy Chaffee. CJerlrnde Cordav. Fthel CnlliK'iin. T. .1. I )( ntheriu'. l<"raiik ( ?, ) Dwlre, I';ail l':arle. lOd. l'"ini-li. Leon l-'dslcr. Howard l'',-i i-i-cl I. .lames 1''. (illdart. <'lar<-nce H. (loiildin. W. 1j. C.raliam, A. Virsinia Williams, ('. \\ . Ilowalson. R. Rrlce )loMKhton. lOUa (2) JIalsall. A. C. lloyt. Will C. lies. Marfjaret .lay. A I. C. Keanc. .las. P. KniKht. Uidiy KniKht. Fred l,voTis, l.niline Name—Postagfe Due Arburkle. linseoe (le) ){radfield. Mayo (fic) Bryant. Nana (2c) Ilanna, .Tay ( Ic) Iltnrv. Bob (3c) Mitehell. R. A. (5c) St\ill Sisters (2e) WittinK. A. K. (3c) Adele Ritchie is playine the small time.