Moving Picture World (May - Jun 1918)

866 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 11, 1918 a gentle incline known as a "ramp" and the main ramp leading to the balcony are a mass of solid concrete reinforced by steel bars. To get ready for this operation and to bring the work up to its present condition, it has taken over 250,000 feet of lumber, 70 tons of steel bars, 800 tons of rock, 450 yards of sand, 4,000 sacks of cement, 100 kegs of nails, three and a half tons of wire and about fifty tons of miscellaneous materials. The new theater will be ready September 15. A Visit to the Metro Studios. A reporter for the Moving Picture World, under the guidance of Ralph Robinson, inspected the busy studio of the Metro in Hollywood this week, in which are produced the features starring Edith Storey, Bert Lytell, Viola Dana and Bert Lytell. Harold Lockwood. On this particular day Mr. Lytell was just ready to start on a picture under the direction of Will S. Davis, while on another stage Harold Lockwood was before the camera under the direction of Fred Balshofer. Miss Storey was out on location, as was also Miss Dana. Alfred Le Vino, who has been sent out from the Eastern Metro studios to head the scenario department, was engaged in framing a story with manager of productions George D. Baker. Clark Thomas has been installed as studio manager and Horace Williams, formerly of the Lasky Company, is in charge of all the casting for the various feature productions. Cameramen Hold a Smoker. The Cinema Camera Club of California, which represents the cameramen of the Pacific coast, held an entertainment and a smoker in their new quarters on Thursday night, April 18. A Dutch lunch was served. A number of the players also were present, including "Smiling" Billy Mason, of the Christie Company, who entertained with some songs. D. W. Griffith Returns from New York. D. W. Griffith returned to Los Angeles on Thursday, April 18, after three weeks in New York and Boston completing business arrangements attendant upon the opening of "Hearts of the World" in these two cities. Air. Griffith will start work immediately on his second war picture, which he is going to produce for Artcraft. George W. Chase Seriously 111. George W. Chase, for several years a member of the Triangle playing forces, is seriously ill at Dr. Barlow's Sanitarium in Hollywood, California. He contracted a heavy cold several months ago. He continued at his work until two weeks ago when serious symptoms developed and his immediate removal to the sanitarium was ordered. Taylor to Direct Miss Pickford. William D. Taylor will direct Mary Pickford's Artcraft feature, "Captain Kidd, Jr.," taken from the stage success of that name, Taylor is now working on the scenario, and will start in to film the picture as soon as Miss Pickford returns from her Liberty Loan tour. Overholt to Write Titles for Triangle. Miles Overholt, well known in local newspaper circles and who conducted the motion picture department of the Los Angeles Examiner, has been added to the title department of the Culver City studios of the Triangle Film Corporation and will try his hand on both comedies and dramas. After leaving his position as dramatic editor with the Los Angeles Examiner Mr. Overholt accepted a position as managing editor of the Salt Lake Telegram, from which he has now resigned to join the Triangle. Christie Acquires More Land. An addition of a six and a half acre tract of land diagonally across from the Christie Film studio has been added to the possessions of that company. Right now this land is covered with lemon trees and Mr. Christie is selling the fruit at a small cost to the various Hoover grocerterias in Hollywood. The new tract will be used as the site for special sets. The companies at the Christie plant have increased so rapidly that, with the building of one more stage there will be no more room for out-of-door sets. It was particularly for this variety of set that the new tract was procured. The Christie studio already occupies the block on Sunset Boulevard from Gower to El Centro streets. Its new land possession gives it two blocks of studio frontage. Yorke-Metro Returns to Gordon Street. The Yorke-Metro company, of which Fred J. Balshofer is the president and Harold Lockwood the star, will reoccupy its former studio at 1329 Gordon street in Hollywood after May 1. Since their return here they have been occupying space at Metro's plant. At this writing their efforts are being directed in the production of Air. Lockwood's next Aletro release, "Lend Ale Your Name." Arbuckle Subscribing Heavily to Loan. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the motion picture comedian, this week subscribed $50,000 to the third Liberty Loan. This amount is credited to the First National Bank of Long Beach, California, of which team Air. Arbuckle is a member. This subscription is the comedian's third one, his total in bonds representing a splendid amount. Air. Arbuckle and his team associates are planning a series of events in Long Beach, boosting the sale of the bonds. Cleo Madison Back on the Screen. Cleo Aladison is to return to the screen after a year of intermittent vaudeville. She has a principal role in the feature picture now being made in the National Film Company's plant at Santa Alonica Boulevard and Gower street, which will be a sequel to the feature "Tarzan of the Apes." Other principals in the cast of this company are Enid Alarkey, Elmo Lincoln, Colin Kenny, Thomas Jefferson, Clyde Benson, Phil Dunham. John Cook and Nigel De Brullier. Wilfred Lucas and Bess Aleredith are co-directors. Marin Sais to Be Hayakawa's Leading Woman. Sessue Hayakawa has decided upon Alarin Sais as his leading woman. To become a member of the Hayakawa company Aliss Sais has given up a contract covering a period of eight months, during which she was to play the principal role in a serial production. Aliss Sais made her bow in filmdom w i t h the Yitagraph company in New York seven years ago. She played in the New York studio for two years and then came to California with the Bison company, leaving that concern for the Kalem institution. While with the Kalem company Aliss Sais was featured in numerous productions, among the notable ones being "The Girl from F r i s c o," "The American Girl" and "The Potter and the Clay." Aliss Sais is an ex Marin Sais. ceptional horsewoman and she has a large following among the motion picture fans, due chiefly to her splendid work in western dramas. In these her feats of horsemanship and her remarkable swimming have played