Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1916)

Who's Who and Where Paul Dickey, author, actor, playwright, producer, is director-general of the International Film Service. Five companies of players are now at work in the Kalem studios at Jacksonville and Glendale and Hollywood, Cal. The new Ivy Close Comedy company is scheduled to start work this week at the Jacksonville studio; The animal who posed for the Paramount Pictograph feature, "Training a Lion," displayed such an interest in the operation of a moving picture camera that the camera man had some anxious moments when it became necessary for him to insert the machine between the bars of the lion's cage to take a close-up. SB Nona Thomas, of the Triangle forces, loves pets, but keeps only a canary. She says she can't have a cat, because it would eat the canary; a dog, because the landlord won't let her keep one; a horse, because she has no time to ride; or an elephant, because the apartment wouldn't hold it. David Powell, as Richard Freneau in "Gloria's Romance," enacts the role of a real villain, yet you wouldn't consider him a bit villainous if you happened to sit beside him at a ball game in New York. Dave is a great fan, and any day that his work at the studio will permit finds him in a box seat at the ball park. A $100 prize offered by Douglas Fairbanks, Triangle star, to the best scholar in the Triangle Fine Arts School maintained by the studio for its juvenile players, is proving a great incentive to the pupils. Little George Stone, Violet Radcliffe and Carmen De Rue are tied for first honors. 88 Vivian Martin writes down from the mountains that she has learned to cook old-fashioned corn pones (though in her writing it looks like she had learned to cook pine cones). An old mountain woman playing a small part in her Morosco picture, "Nell of Thunder Mountain," taught her the genuine Kentucky method. George Walsh, with the William Fox Corporation, has just taken for his bride Miss Seena Owen, one of the beauties of the screen world. When Mr. Walsh announced his marriage, thestudioites threw up their hands, gasped their surprise, then rushed to buy gifts. Mr. Walsh is now engaged in the making of a strong Western story. While the pictures of Caroline Lock" hart's "The Man from Bitter Roots" were being taken, Miss Betty Schade hurt her hand slightly on a peevish pin. For a few anguishing moments she walked around the studio with one hand clasped in the other. "Pretty sad," said Harry Hilliard cynically, "when a girl has to hold her own hand !" Montclair, N. J., will have none of the open-air motion picture theater. Two citizens asked for a permit to conduct one in the upper section of town. They asserted that their motive was not so much a commercial one as a desire to keep servant girls contented, there being no amusement near. The authorities would not grant the permit. Corinne Griffith's "Nigger, " the black dog which she brought to the Western Vitagraph studios from the top of the Sierras, is giving Corinne much anxiety by his pugnacious disposition. He has had several encounters with visiting animals and goes about with a chip on his shoulder. He was worsted only once — by a cat he had cornered, to his sorrow. George L. Sargent, who is directing the "Secret of the Submarine" serial, had a long-distance talk with his mother in New York, and says the twenty-one dollars expended was well spent. Mrs. Sargent could not believe she was talking to her son across the continent, and George says he has written her to explain that she must NOT waste precious moments in future by continually asking, "Is it YOU, George?" On a cold day in winter, following a particularly hot summer, Guy Oliver, a number of years ago, landed in Jackson, Tenn., with a theatrical company playing "The Traitor." 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