The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

372 Cl)e Cfteatre When the Keystone Film Company was organized. Mace was not only given greater opportunity, but the embargo on publicity which the Biograph Company maintained vigorously was now lifted, and Mace became a celebrity in name, though his face was already familiar to seventy-five per cent, of mankind. In the early part of 1914 Mace decided that the time was ripe for his advent as a producer of his own films. Like so many of his successful colleagues, Mace wrote, directed and acted in the majority of the productions released by the Keystone Company; therefore he felt well equipped for the producing end of the industry when he organized the Fred Mace Film Company. In May of this year Mace came to New York from his studio at Los Angeles, Cal., for the purpose of placing the first releases of his own film company on the market; but while in the metropolis the comedian was so importuned by other producers to join their forces that at the time of this writing his future plans are somewhat befogged. In the same month Mace sailed for Europe, where it is likely he will establish outlets for the Mace productivity. Edward Sedgwick, who is nov/ playing comedy leads with the Lubin Company under the direction of Romaine Fielding, is one of the most interesting characters among the younger comedians now playing for the pictures. He comes from a family of actors and has been on the stage since he v/as four years old. He says of himself: "I was born in Galveston, Texas, November 7, 1889, and went on the stage when I was four years old, doing a singing specialty in my father's company, known in those days as the "Sedgwick Comedy Company." I played child parts and did vaudeville acts with the company until I was seven years