New York Clipper (Aug 1915)

17 GQAST DEFENDERS DQIHGS; ' BI WIL. Ik the car 'presented to: her ]>7 .ber b^ieband, Uasiy-.-EUTvuds,- Louhe; Clamn-: b'as £«eii.-<bor'e of Qii'ciSppXiy 'ax^iiDA. .JM>s'\^gB\ea dUrliiK lier (wo tttxka.pU, than, at Any other (Ime-lit hei-^catwr. I/Oiilse has.'always ,he«n' too busy to'get. aroand much. ' Her mother-has heen enJoylnK the Jaunt Trlth her. Neva Gebbeb,. of the Beauty 'Brand. Tlslted IiOS Angeies foEjtbe first time Blnce.she Joined, the fly- U!S. A company, some month's. hack. cNeva states that.Glie.Ukcs Santa .Barbara Immensely aDd.lbat she and Iier mother hATe a aaiall bangalow and lots.ot' callers. . .Neva has. advanced .In. her 'nrork confiderahly of late,, anc^ls quite, xiopular. Helek .Holmes Is. proud of the prn.ss clippings made.'from' the criticisms of the "Hazardis' of Helen", series. - Out of the very large numtwr, one has been iinfaTorablc, three. luke-warm, and all the rest-good. ■ ' Hgnbt Einc, of thp Balboa Conntany, Is pro- paring for another big feature trhlch .-will be re- leaseu by. the patbe conceiii. When 'Henry, first directed a picture, It.-vas as a .sort ot Oil in for cne 'Who had left suddenly. - This plotqro cav^ the Idea- for the famous "Who Pays"'«erlB3, whlcb are still runnlDB, and whlcb have made lots of tnoney for the ezcDange tncn as well as for the jnanafac- tiirers. No wonder that King lu held in high esteem, by'the Loue Beac^ company. ' WiLUAM D. TA.TLOB flud bIs "Olamoiid from the Sky-' Co., werc ln Los Angeles., this week» taking some animal scenes at tho Bostnck antmal arenai rii-.Oiiesei the girl,: who has the diamond,' (s 'struck down by a lion, and at the eai. a mysterlonii'a'rm romes m, and -plucks the- diamond* from the paws of the lion. The- scenes are dan^cEous In the ex- t-eme, and the people who -witnessed them pboto- cranbed wore spell-bound at the temerity of the' (ralners nn<t the artists. Taylor is working nlghv end day on the serial,, which Is a trig, success; ^-MTRTLr -Stedman undertook the Tocal eAuratlon of a. young Italian girl, lyho had been playing a ruiall bit for her In one of the Boswurth, Inc. pno- t'dplays.- "litis -was some time bark. MlSH Stcdfnan thinks she has a -budding operatic star under her -n'iog-f «sd:lB..yost]y. Jatcr»tcd4n,tho ^rl'a.future. . Bichjlbd Stanton, tbe IncevlHe director, who has beeA. directing. Wlllara Mack. In "Aloba." at Santa -Uonica,. Itad to delay the completion of hJs. feature,^ Owing-toi. an lDj4try.4o-Mr. Mack, fell'' and hurt^.bts back ,Jn one ~cf the scenes. It was quite a" bad- fall, bilt Mack appears to t>c all right new. Uck Stanton has given the screen one of the finest and most tbrllllug pbotuplays In a Jong while, and "Aloha".-will stand to his credit,for all time. Be Is now worUi^ on the ipieUmJnaxlea for anotbet' big fetaurc. Henbt Watthaix Is at present working Jn a picture, entitled "Tbe 'A'omftn Hater," which Is an adaptation from the story by H. Cliatflcid Taylor, and it ahpnld make a strong and attractive photo- filay. Walthall started in the day ufter be arrived a Chicago,, after bis visit to the PaclHc Coast on legal matters. He and Chicago seem to bave taken a liking to each other. lie writes to a Loa An- geles friend saying that several members of the Kssanay' company are saddened by tbe loss of friends in the terrible England catastrophe. ' -ft.- ItOBAST HCNLET, the leading man with the Uni- versal, wis 'tnaking quite' a " name' for 'bibseir hy writing hTs own stories, and he. is turning ,put some lolghty good ones,-(too. . At - proseht-na Is taking ihe Jead, a- ffne part, by' the way, in "The Tenor," a four reel production from Jlis own: Jien. it would more 'correct to say *'p«irts."-'for'he has a dual role, and this Is the first two-man part he has ive^ done for the screen. All of Mr. Hen- ley's relasses will be under .the. Victor .brand in the futteri." ^ Amna - Little Is finishing -on ber nart in the three reel "QUeeo of Bcaffs,^' wntch wUI also mark her last appearance wltK.the UnLvetBal. A^isa. has piven g'Md^ service, 'and> tias^.'beeii'-.vAstly popular on the program, and she will he misseit V^ore. ttan her name unplles. She bas no less' than, four en- gagemvuts offered.ber, and will take a,few<day«.to consider Jvst what she -will do and where. shek ^iH go. Certabtlv bbc- need, not.'wt>rry with., seyeral managers trying to obtain her .sendees. - .-ft What is success for a director? Perfect pro- ductions without a doubt. What qualities must a director possess to bo able to achieve dealrabV re- Rults? • 1. .ncwspoper In discussing the Imerlti of Henry Otto, of the .Imerlcan Company, Just dbrnit Lit tfac nalt on the head when It printed the fol- lowing: **Mr. Otto has the genius,of, Insplrlne his actors with his own personality and entfaiisiasm. Henry Otto can throw - the same enthusiasm Into a one or two reel picture that he can. Into a pre- tentions feature." There Is tlte right answer wltli- ont anytblns more ^ Sadie Linsblou beads ber own comrwoy nt San Mateo, -Csl. and owns most of . the Block In tbe company. It Js ber intention to rrpcat some of her Swedish stage soceesses on the screen, and she \7> mohiiig arrangements to secure thr rlgb^ to do this;' < Tbe comrian}' wl!l make one. two and three reel photoplBys,- nnd later on will go In. for more pi!et<ntlnu&.pictures. VSo. 3. LeSunt Is maklm a spleadld feature at tbe Dntversal, -wltli Frank £e«nan as his star and Stella Razeto playing opposite-tatm. LeSaint'ls a distinct acquisition to the big U forr«s, as he- la of the best regarded nroducers in the business. Stella Bazeto Is giving ber usual charming per- formance, and the photoplay Is l>eliie finely staged.' It :wlll. ba a votable. llist rcKsasc^or LieSa<nt. 6 Edxa - Maisox bas returned from Chicago, and has iinconipnmentary things to say of the dlraatc there, that Is '.'plctur«" clEnatc. for as luck would bare It, theri;-were less than five days of snnshlne during the . four weeks tbe Smalley Cmnpaiv srere •In'.fhe Windy-City. Edna Is- glad to get .back to California .again. «» . BoLLiN Stdbqeo:!, of .the Western , branch of the vltagraph- Company, is at present engaged oo a photoplay which. <was. written especlallyfor Anna Sbafcr, .and; which is well suited to her methods. Mr. sturgeon has not yet selected a name for hl.i picture, and he.takes as much pains over the titles of his productions as.he does over everything else be doea « BOTU Wedsteb .Caupbeli, and Neva Gerber cave cmirmlns rperformanccH In a cbarmlng pboto- play-called rEveryheart.v which will be- releasod under--^tbc-Beauty Brand, at • the ollotted time. Campbell has tbo title - rolo - In denght fiU stnry,- and shows strong dramatic ability, whlcb, wlt!i his natural- good .looks, goes far towards the sure success of this American release. Campt>ell likes this kind of -work and puts all.he knows into It. « "Qec, you must have been a servant your.splf, -wuDoe."- writes a. servant girl to I'anlihc Bush, after having seen .ber In one of the photoplays In whlcb «be-took the part of a character slavey, o pathctle . and noteworthy -t>erformance which has brought Jier lots- of letters from those In employ- ment as malds-and cooks. The girl goes oo to say, ••'rou know Jlst how they feel don't you ?" The letter was ^ulte a good compllmeiit. - jft It is a long- time since Harold I^-kwood was seen In a dnsl role, one in wbtch he la seen on tbe ecrecn in .two different characteni at tbe same time. He did-this In '^Pardoned,'' a two reeler produced, by Thomas RIcketts at the American recently. Bis work In this picture was excellent.- In "The Broken Cross" Harold showa .what he can do In the wBter,'ond he.can do a lot. In fact,.he spends mach ot bis spare tlme.on the Bapta Bar- bara beach 'With any of ti» astom. .wtio.. vUl.. go- wltb.hlm. -'* Vivian Rich will be seen In a real old time Western photoplay when "'In Tnnt"-: Is rrleased on the Mutual program. There was a tlma .^ffben this comclv brupecte was frequently garbed In 'Western .toga, but Rbef bed to-ahakeitbc moth tialU out when tobg.looked 'em over .for "In Trust." • Miss Bleb Is a ffne rider and loves the.«zcrulae. - C3>arles Uart- lett and Jack Klcbardson are~two-dyed-iiKtbe-wool Western old timers -who will be In the same film. Most of the scenes are in tbe open, and the seeder:; aromid Santa -Bai;h4Ta is'Of tne superlative order. « Bessie Babbibcalb Is at present -working bard In the. production of -Tbe .QoIden Claw,'' with .Frank Mills, i'A boUy: good-actress and a bully good actor opposite each other. Down at the: New York Motion Picture Corp. studios they «By that this is making an especially Interesting photoplay, and that tbe principals are giving their best to it. Miss Barrlscale Ij^.titill talking about the. wonder- ful reception she received iD.:.tbe city of former starts triumphs, San Francisco. Tliey seldom let their'.favorlteu fade, froi^memory there. In -"The Terror of the^ Mountains." Helen Bossnn tot a neat-swamping-in-one of the' caves on tbe anta Barbara beach. ■:8he was working -with her back to the beacb'-wben a huge wave came iq and gave ber an involuntary batb. Tbe company then finished the two necessary scenes "between waves." and Helen . tbioagbtf It. was all great fun. In this plcture.tbls-.'eevnDl'wn^^ear'Old leading woman bad ner fljriA^flderin o-jW^s^^ stage coach. '3lAT."-.AiL>S0N,V-whoi-Is-now playing opposite Hanld'^jqAwoodi'rat-£nQ'American studlos^made ber'BrH'pcfee^vawe'irvicftjjnth the same ector, but it-jya&inth-.xh9---T3jiiaas-'Flayers, In New York, lhat^4-of-"the American; .Co'iupany, In California. 3Sa'.-pb#0gay.''wa9/.'D4.vld Baniffl,'' and bee work a-itT»md,-!paTqI& I<ockwood as It did others, and bef .'r«narked-.£*..herj ,**SOTie day 1 hope we pla.v toeetber.'^'^li^lte olafed-tlghtilnto their hands, aod they are bappllyscqst to-the aatlsfaotlon of-i.them- selves -and:, to the,public. .. 4 iCabltlg- Blacewgli. is one of the very few young picture actors who shines In character leads. As 4.ga).gral mle,,tiie younser .nptors axe. what is kno^n ^s "."Juvenile. leads." :.Some^of Blackwell's bast '.Impersonations - ha ve been-: character ntndln.i. such, aqvtbe .yqnng-Cellow. who workedi himself up from'a machine mnq. to a Mg poUtlenl factor, in "The High Hand," and in soms-o^itbe cjia<a«ter stndlt^. while h«. -was -with the Kalem-Company, at Glendale. Blackwell likes this klnd'of .-work,:..as It gives opiiortiinitles for strength, in actingf and he Is not at.all coDtent to he .known as Jnst a Vlead." G^CB Cm^ABn .soys that she did not like ber first-ezperleme Jn pictures. In fact,, she event back to play-acting-li> stock Tvltb tbe. Si^perial. company. h> 8t liOuK. after ber flm ptctore. When the comjian.T dosed for tSioi season abo again vlsltsd the stndlo. dbe bad- first -worked Id., and -was ^n^prlscd at l»etag-recclviSl-.wlth open arms, and after, an- other pGotoplsy or two. prcludlc* ceased, and rhc ncvrr-rctumed to the speaking stage since. _bov J^UtUEceN(i.the^-actor,, who suEBQit^ Brmbardt in- America, Is beins starred in "Tbo ISsplore^'*. under tbe direction of George Melford. at the t^asky -etudlos. • Tellegen has strong sup .pott.in Dorothy Davcniwrt and Tom Forman. the latter having a strong and telUng part In the pro- duction. Tom Foiman Is rapidly becoming a very Iiop'ular favoroltc In the U^sky films. HARRIS YJUnS m SONG WILL HAVE SAME TITLES. FEIATUBES TO DB PROUVCED BY FAMOl !« coMPOSEU u.4.vr: stories b.mrd ox ' BAIiIiAS SVCCSSSteS. Charles E. Harris announces that hi< has six motion picture scenarios: ready for production im- medlately after "School Bells." the five reel fea- ture of - children which is now being ms'lc luto a picture -under the direction* of IVrry II. Wkroir for the Cborles K. Harris Feature I-ilm C<Jh^3iny Is completed. All of Mr. Uarrix' photophiys are bnsod. on songs . ho has already written, or else their names prove the title t<tr popular songs wbl'-h Mr. IMrrls will writa . Neither of the t-n'O feature pictures wfairb the company has flnlsbed or partly llol^bed, "When it Striiica Home'' and ".-Sciiool - BcU»" vntn nurani, from the title of a Karris-song, ijo .the famous song . -WTller ionnedlately .sat down sod wrote ballads to go with tbe plH.vs. "School' Bells" will not h'l given to the public, us a fong until tbe picture Is released through the World Film. The pictures wblch^Mr. VckrolT-will dlrct-t at the Klnemacolor studios, and which Mr., Harris olready has dramatized, are: "The Mrc in tbe Grate," "A Limb of the Tree." "Fcir .Sale, a Baby." "Xbc Girl Who Forgot," "The Girl from Tennessei-" ami "Somewhere the Snn Is Shining." Mr. Vekroff l.s assisted by, Kddlo Jamc:<, and tbe nhotocrapblir -work is done by ri.nrold Miller. "School Bells" will bo ah^»)lntely unlqiio In -tbn Ucid of mi>tlc0- pictures. -'Inhere ha.-* never been A picture atlen>pte(l la wblcb there were »o ma'<y children, there being over two hundred In scvivrail uf the school sfohef. .-Vrthur I>onii1d.<fun, rumem- t>ercd from "The Prince of I'lUicn," pl:iyi tbe Ical- Ing adult role, and l<;t!ielmary Oakland nnd Fnink Longacre nre the children Ktnrs. EiUHTT-TBBEB TiiocsAVD Candles tliat couUl be hauled all over a KiOzl.'iU foot studlu or concen- trated en a ten foot Hoace of -wnll would, bo the next thing to a miracle. Vet ilmt Is what thu Continental' Photoplay Corporation can .accom- plish in - their Germantown studio with their but- terleaot nltrcgen filled lamps. Tbe Continental Corpuration has achieved prac- tical peifectlon In lighting by Installing forty- two or these l.noo candlo power bulb.-* In bAnk.-i of six,'so.arranged on three font mlllng frumca thuc they can be not only lowered .and. bent In sny direction but piwbed from, one end of the studio to the other. Tbe nitrogen bulb.i hnvc a great atrvugtb i)f idtra vlolht-and orlnlc ray^ mure In fact tliuu iCooper-Hewltt tnbo.s of the same candle iKjwer. Moreover, they ccinsnmc only f»rty-flvi> per ccul. -of-Mhe- power needed In the latter lamp.s. < An- other, big feature- Him .company Ih - installing »liu- illar batteries of lamps for Ita interior work, That ought .to Jiclp some In turning out "worth while" tUms aa trid calls 'em. MISS FARR.AR'9 PROTEGE. Oerqidlne Farrar, prima donna oC the 2iIetro- jwUtan Opera Co.. who has been-af the studios of <the Jesse L. LAsky Feature Play Company, ut Hollywood, Cal.,. all Summer appcartni}. in "Ca:-- wca" ,end other production-* be/oi-e the comari. will leave a-rare remembrance 'uhen sha stniii^H hai^ Jiast .again. This .momrnto of her first Tl»lt .tOi.the iAsWy studios will be a living aaxs> —i>on>' other, in fact than little Margery l>aw, a foonevn ye«r.-old'girl,,, who looks forward to thit prosi>e<'t of a >lUa.engagement with the I^sky Compai^r. /<FOONDI<IBIG" NEXT PICK FORD SCREEN VEHICLE. Quite Inexhanstlblc,'It appears, Is the peculiar aitmle'facalty. ot'Mar? Pickford. the woald's-fore- most motion picture oar,-for creating ^haraeter.-i that ere ldc«llzelil.andi,yGt,wholly true to life.- In rapid Bnd> unlDteJsupte<i. succession, tbb inlmitablf: btar Jus prorlded' o serlesxot-indlvldually .-dtstlm-- ttve--and ,'CQUecllvely astosjsblng -film suceeases. Following'.'her -trlumtdiani -.ippearanres - in '*The Dawn of a To-morrow --nnd-"Hii.^," Miss Plakfotd will.-next^be presented In opother unusqat role.ias -"The .F<)itmdl*rg," ..tho Ftimoii^ Players' r^ease on the'.Parqmoiint progranv St-pt. 6. A .'capable tnst,.: Including- Frank 'l^'J Ht»m,-Gertrude Noromn, Donald Crisp, and Chapman, renders the stur adequate supnprt. —l oo FoujulUne;',' it Is said.- prcsonts Little Mary at ber l>est..-ln. ner most captlmtlo^ mood, her ffiast.trt- nmiHiaDt-ability and campelling pcKer. < AMERIC.lNISSrS. "UdcIo Heck, by Heck!" is tbe title of the American ^"Beaaty" convdy-drama, to. t>e released Satodoy. Ang. 28. It deals.-with a "Oirtatlous" "Jasper,''who ban a peck of tmuble. Beatrice Vun ond John SheehoD are the stars, tnder John. Step- pUng'E direction. Harold Lockwood and May A]ll-<)on, Affierlt«n feature players, bave ls>iued a brood-ilde teikila cballrngp to an.v other film couple in California. No takers as yet. Is romance dead? See *11ie ^Irlt of..Adventure," a sinele reel "iiTIyli^ A", dmna.afeaturlng Vivian Rich, .Walter. Spencer and Jack. Sichardson, to be released-Wsdnesday; Sept 1. .\ll tb« newsboys in Santa Baittara aro film actors in tbe screMqlngly funny 'Veauty" release, entitled "Green Applies.' In which Neva.Gerber and AYebster Campbell piay the m^ng roles. "Green Apples" ha.<! to, do wltl> stolen frult^: and acb.ac "tnmmlr^,'' and a lot of pirating romance. It will bo rclcas^ ^ejs4ay, Ajjg, 31.