The San Francisco Dramatic Review (1908)

THiE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC REVIIEW July 4, 1914 Los Angeles Notes of Interest in the Realm of Photoplay By RICHARD WILLIS The Only Automatic Ticket Plant in the West 263 Bush St. San Francisco AT EASTERN PRICES Hancock Bros, ^iira^^^^^^ TICKET printers! AYc Manufacture Roll Tickets In' San Francisco A BIG PRIINTIING PLAINT IN X BIG SHOW TOWN ALLES Date Book, 1914-15 Southwest Theat- rical Guide Sharing Contracts Actors' Contracts Agents' Advice Sheets Xgents, make this your headquarters. Ws date and reship paper for you WE FILL "RUSH" ORDERS QUICK ■ LOS ANGELES ■ 222-224-226 EAST FOURTH ST. I'.urton K'lnii has just coniplu'tcd a particularly fiiu- raciiij;- i)h()toplay. Won in the Stretch. The majority of the scenes were taken at (leori^e Dur- fee's famous racin.^' stahle. the home of rorl:)kin the trotter. Two thonnitih- hreds and two jjrofessional jockeys helpe 1 in the actnal race, and a Thomas tiycr was well in the action, too. * * * William Ciarwood promises I.) finish up a hhjated millionaire. Not content with a h'ii>; ranch near Los .■\ngeles and several seaside lots, he is purchasini;- .some farm lands near Santa IJarhara, and I'.illy does not Iniy to hold for a future sale, he makes use of his i)roi)erty and derives an in- come from it. 1 le says he will s^et an automohile from his income from his investments and not from his salary. Wise man. "'^ * Adele Lane of Selij^s is workiuf^ in her first animal i)icture under Director Morton. During- the story she saves her lover with the hclj) of the elei)hant. Boars and a $5000 Russian hound figure in the play. Miss Lane has always .said "no animals for me," and here she fin is herself un- afraid and rather liking the work. She will most prohably figure in other ani- mal stories at Seligs. * * * Charles Bennett, who is doing such good work with the Keystone forces, is an ardent and excellent tennis player. In years gone by Bennett was an all- round athlete, and he lays his good health to the fact that he has never given up active sports; e.xercise with- out overdoing it is his motto. Ben- nett lives at Santa Monica and man- ages to get a game or two of tennis nearly every evening. * * .\lexandra Phillips l-'ahrney ])layed under the name of .Marjorie Philli])s when she obtained her first engagement with Otis Skinner; later, when playing with .Vheles, Louis .Mann, W'ilton Lackaye and others, she used the name of Alexandra I'hillips, and then when she settled down to a lucrative income from writing ])hotoplays she u.sed her full married name, adding the Fahrney. She says her earlier experiences are invaluable in her writings. * * * Charles Ray says that ])laying Spanish roles with the tem- perature around one hundred is not all fun, especially when one is wear- ing a velvet coat and nice long, warm curls. He is playing in The Silver Bell of San Juan Mission un ler Di- rector R. B. West, which is being produced at the Kay P)ee ranch at Santa Monica, where Charlie motors every day. * * * Grace Cunard's last act in the studios before departing for her Eastern holiday was a grace- ful one. She helped a little girl make- up and dress, and even did her hair becomingly for her. (irace starts for New York Thursday to visit her peo- \Ae and expects to be gone about a month. * * * Francis Ford is going to take a thirty-days' holiday in Port- land, Maine, where he will visit his folks. He has had a strenuous time directing the Lucille Love series and acting in them. * * * j p. McGowan, the Kalem actor and producer, has completed a thrilling two-reeler, Liquid (iold, written by himself and Helen Holmes and featuring both of them. It is a tale of the oil fields, and the blowing in oi an oil well is shown correctly. I lelen Holmes ap- l)t'ars in overalls, which remind her of the time she spent in 13eath \ al- ky. * * William D. Taylor, late of the X'itagraph, who is (|uite a Broad- way favorite by reascjn of his per- formance as Ca])tain .Alvarez, has made very g()o:l as a director at the Balboa studios. His first i)r(jduction, The Judge's Wife, was su good that he was at once put on another three- ret ler. ISetty, with himself and Neva < ierlicr in the leads. * * The Photo l>layers colony of Los .\ngeles—and it is a ijig one—is looking forward eagerly to the h'amous Players" pro- duction of Edward Peple's The Spit- fire. * * Edwin August was stopped by a n^an the other day as he was li>:)king at one of his pictures in a theatre lobby. The man looked hard at Edwin and asked him if he was .August. He then said his name was -August Edwin and that he never heard the last of it, and had got into the way of .seeing all of .August's films and thinking of them until the thing had got on his nerves. .August says he seemed quite annoyed about it. * -Ask Harold Lock wood of the I'amous Players if he can remember that .Saturday evening, two years ago, \\ lu n two friends went to his land- lady and tol l her taat Harold was going to beat her out of her week's money ? They then borrowed about all he had "until Monday." When he arrived at his apartment he had a warm session with the lady, and his bewilderment was only cleared when his friends arrived and confessed to the joke. Among the Movies The si)cll of the motion picture has at last taken hold of David Belasco, for he has just made arran.gements with The Jesse L. Laskey Feature l-"ilni Company, by the terms of which ei.ght of the Belasco successes are to be performed before the camera. They are The Darling of the Gods, The Girl of the (iolden West, Sweet Kitty Bel- lairs, The Rose of Rancho, The W'ar- rens of V irginia, The Woman, A'ears of Discretion, and The Governor's Lady. Eleanor Gates has organized a film comjiany on Long Island, with E. Meet P)OStwick, late of the Savoy The- atre of this city, as producing man- ager. Grace Mcllugh, a moving picture actress, and ()vven Carter, a camera- man, were drowned in the Arkansas River near Canon City, Colorado, July 1st. Miss McHugh, mounted, was fording the river durin.g a movie scene, when she was suddenly thrown from her mount. Carter leaped into the water, seized Miss McHugh and swam with her to a sandbank. Both were ap])arently safe wdien they sud- denly sank and were drowned. It is believed the cjuick.sand swallowed them UJ). h'ine Feathers, with a cast of un- usual strength, is one of the early ])roductions by the All-Star Players at the ( (ilumbia Theatre. The Portals of the Past The following verses, written by James .A. Keane of the Keanograph Film Manufacturing Company of Fairfax, were flashed on the screen as a part of the motion-picture play, Through the Portals of the Past, which was produced at the prosper- ity dinner last Monday night: I. Through the portals of the past. From the yesterside, tlirougli the portals wide The flames disastrous roar; Pray be not affrighted, you'll .soon be delighted, And appreciate our progress the more. II. The horrors dissolved, now be it resolved We are objects of pride, not of pity; Tlic problem's been solved for the Phoenix evolved .\ nobler and far greater city. III. Optimism, tlie King. Is tlie ruler to bring San Francisco, our Queen, through the portal; Together these two go forward .to view The achievement that makes her immortal. IV. Back to the yestergate the two return. And through the mystic portals now are brought. Some loyal San Franciscans, thus to learn The miracle that confidence has wrought. V. With ashes lingering on his head, behold Old Pessimism mocks at everything, They drowned him in the waters deep and cold. And Optimism reigns, long live the King! Movies' Strike Against Prus= sia's Censor Fees 15ERLL\, July 1.—.Moving pic- ture film manufacturers, includin.g foreign companies, doin.g business in Prussia struck today against an in- crease in censorship fees. They say the increase will ruin their business. ()ne company asserts it would have to ])ay an additional $50,000 a year. The foreign companies will appeal to the American, French and Italian am- bassadors. Invents Movie Improvement WILLOWS, June 30. — Martin Soldati of Willows is .said to have closed a deal with a big moving pic- ture i)ro(lucing comi)any b\ which the company will pay him a large sum for certain moving picture improve- ments he has patented. Soldati has .gone to San h'rancisco to see about the closing of the deal. Two or three San Franciscans came up here Satur- day evening on the deal to see Sol- dati. It is said he has invented a wonderful imi^rovement to the pres- ent-day animated ])icture. Harry Spear Dies in Los Angeles Harry Spear died of tuberculosis June 13th, at 2827 N. Griffin Ave., Los Angeles. He had been ill for a year and a half and confined to his bed for nine days. He leaves a wid- ow and three children. Spear made his first appearance in San Francisco and was connected with the Belasco and Alcazar for many years. He went east and to London with The First Born, and was stage manager at Grand Opera House and Belasco theatres in Los Angeles; was six years with Henry Miller, two sea- sons with Ethel Barrymore and di- rector with the Thanhouser and Majestic film companies. He was 41 years old at his death. Sothern=Marlowe Farewell E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe departed for England last week on the Mauretania. Before leaving they announced that they would not play duringthe coming season, but would return to America next year and make their farewell tour in Shake- spearean repertoire. The plays in which they will appear are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice. Mrs. Sothern is much improved in health, and after a year's complete rest it is l)romised that she will be completely recovered. Mrs. Sothern was com- pelled to give up the stage last De- cember, while playing with Mr. Sothern in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Sothern will spend the sum- mer in England and the winter in the south of France.