Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

154 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE F. M., Chicago. — Harry Beaumont in that Edison. Beverly Bayne in "Thru the Storm" (Essanay). Brooklyn has 1,G34,351 inhabitants, including myself. Maboabette K. T. — Ethel Grandin was the girl in "The King of Detectives" (Imp). Fritz! Brunnette was the wife in "The Militant" (Imp). Larry Peyton was the doctor in "Trapped" (Kalem). Romana Langley was the woman, Russell Bassett the fellow, Rose Furniss the daughter, and Lee Moran the sweetheart. Oriel, lG.— rauline Bush opposite Warren Kerrigan in "The Restless Spirit" (Victor). Carlotta de Felice was the girl in "Mrs. Upton's Device" (Vitagraph). You dont like to see Arthur Johnson with a baby in his arms, and are afraid he will drop it? Ah, no, child, he is used to it. Florence Hackett. Lincoln, 17.— Lillian Orth was Flossie in "The Barber Cure" (Biograph). Violet* Reid was the girl in "The Madonna of the Storm" (Biograph). Ethel Clayton in "The Scarf-piii" (Lubin). Frances Nelson was the rich man's wife in "Diversion" (Biograph). Adele Lane was Marion in "The Old vs. the New" (Selig). That was Rosemary Theby in "The Tale of Prejudice" (Lubin), and the play was written by Emmett Campbell Hall. Miss Theby did not show us much of her face. F. M., Buffalo. — G. M. Anderson was the real gambler in "The Three Gamblers" (Essanay). Marriage information forbidden. The picture was taken in California. The average annual temperature in New York is 52, in San Francisco, 55; but the lowest in New York was 6 below, while the lowest in San Francisco was 29 above. Scully Steel. — Your letter is not clear, and you did not sign your correct name. Cannot tell you who the princess was until I know the title of the film. Mrs. Bruce Mc. — Sorry, but you will have to look it up yourself, for it would take me a day. America has two famous art galleries — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington. Dorothy S. — Muriel Ostriche is with the Princess films. February, 1911, was the very first issue, but there was a dummy before that which was not sold. Elsie Greeson is with the Majestic now. John Bunny appears personally at the Vitagraph Theater. Lottie D. T. — Hazel Buckham and Robert Leonard in "From Father to Son" (Rex). Herbert Rawlinson and Mary Ruby in "One of the Bravest" (Gold Seal). Grace Cunard and Francis Ford in "The Mad Hermit" (Bison). Miriam Nesbitt and Charles Vernon in "The Necklace of Rameses" (Edison). William Shay and Leah Baird in "The Doctor's Deceit" (Imp). J. L. T., Boston. — Right you be. Words are inadequate. Half the time we cannot express our thoughts in mere words. We can feel and think what we cannot say. Remember what Rene Dounic says? "The principal merit of pantomime is that it dispenses with words." Lois Weber was Portia, and Phillips Smalley was Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" (Rex). Elfrieda. — That's the wrong title for the Lubin. Lillian Wiggins and Virginia Chester in "The Price of Jealousy" (Pathe). Dont know where that Warner was taken. William G. — Betty Gray in "The Bartered Crown" (Biograph). Tom Moore played in both of the films you mention. You have to purchase the players' pictures direct from the companies, unless you want those that we advertise as premiums. Ethel Phillips was Lil in "The Electrician's Hazard" (Kalem). Anita Stuart in "The Million-Dollar Bid" (Vitagraph). Carlyle Blackwell was Schuyler in "The Man Who Vanished" (Kalem). Lottie Briscoe was Cissy, and Arthur Johnson was the rube in "Just Cissy's Little Ways" (Lubin). Irene Howley was Mildred in "His Inspiration." A. J., Hartford. — Belle Bennett the girl in "Thru the Sluice-Gates" (Majestic). Marcus T., New Zealand. — Your telegram puzzle was correct, but a little late. You had better stay with your mother. Mexico has 7G7.274 square miles, while Canada has 3,729,GG5. There is not much chance of our annexing either one. {Continued f; There are, then, no other dangers to the eyes from frequenting Moving Picture theaters than are to be encountered in any theater, conveyance, church, street, or other gathering place of the people. Contagions, of course, are, of a truth, picked up by the eyes as well during Moving Picture performances as in school or church. But these are by no means common, and with the revised safety and protective regulations, now enforced by the city building inspectors, m page 10G) the ventilation arrangements and hygiene of the movies are superior to those of schools, churches and other public gathering places. Finally, it may be said that if the Motion Picture habit has done nothing else than remind people of their eye deformities and sent them posthaste to an oculist, it has done more good for the human eyes than all of the photodrama's hasty, misinformed and maligning accusers. Short-sightedness is both mental and ocular.