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

(/rt?e/v 7udo//v * <Jb////(g& * 7/t /Yayertfom ^ «i Maurice Costello — immaculate evening-clothes, town car, dimples and all — has come to life again. Vitagraph's long-time matinee idol has signed with the Consolidated Film Company, to star in a serial, "The Crimson Stain Mystery." His salary and his contract disclose the long-concealed fact that his middle name is George Wash in That Biograph heroine of many sprightly romances, Isabel Rae, has joined the Fox Company, where rumor has it that she will continue to misbehave and be cruelly treated in ingenue roles. It will come as a severe disappointment to the many admirers of William Farnum to learn that he may desert the screen to star in a spoken play, if he can find a suitable one. Perhaps letters of protest from his friends and admirers may cause him to change his mind. Ella Hall has deserted her unconsolable opposite, Bob Leonard, and will play her emotions against Herbert Rawlinson's in her coming picture, "Little Eva Edgarton." Miss Hall confesses she does not know whether the hyphen is permanently out of the Hall-Leonard combination. Edna Mayo recently escaped a severe horse-whipping thru her quick wit. She stopped a drunken teamster who was beating his horses, and when he threatened to turn the whip on her, she held on to the lash with her finger-tips until a policeman hove in sight. In court, when the teamster stated that a wife and children were dependent upon him, Miss Mayo supplied him money, extracted a promise from him, and even re-shod his horse. All of which goes a long way toward having a big heart under a nimble wit. Donald Brian, the popular dancer and musical-comedy leading man, the same Donald who flirted with and won "The Merry Widow," is about to take a second dip into pictures. Famous Players will chaperon him this time. Murdock MacQuarrie, the dean of "old men," has checked his trunk from the Signal to the American studio. He will shortly follow with a production, "The Sign of the Spade," in which Alan Forest and Helene Rosson will co-star. Norma Talmadge has been chosen as the bright particular guest of honor in Jersey City during "Made in New Jersey Week." She will not only be the "Jersey City maid" in a special Motion Picture, but will be the city's guest at the official banquet, and her pretty face will adorn the official badge of the celebration. With the exception of her close friends, Myrtle Stedman sprang a decided surprise on her admirers when she sang some beautiful solos in the rotunda of the PanamaCalifornia Exposition. It was discovered that her voice was not only very sweet, but was powerful enough to be accompanied by the largest organ in the world. The secret is out why Jimmie Morrison, the Vitagraph lead, is in disgrace. Some time ago he escorted a very respectable female to a tavern and persuaded her to taste raw liquor for the first time. After that he deserted her, and she staggered back to the Vitagraph yard alone. "Gasoline," the Vitagraph cat, has never been quite the same sweet grimalkin since. "Gasoline" was Jimmie's victim. Geraldine Farrar and Lou-Tellegen are speeding their way westward with the echoes of grand opera and the stage far behind, and the Lasky studio at Hollywood luring them on. During the summer they will play opposite to each other in a variety of romantic dramas. The most serious accident that has ever yet occurred to so large a number of studioplayers recently happened near Los Angeles, when a sightseeing auto, filled with members of the American Company in costume for "Saul of Tarsus," plunged into a twenty-foot gully beside a mountain road. Director McDonough had a leg broken, and nearly all the company were badly injured or hurt. Word was phoned to Los Angeles, and ambulances and police-wagons came to the unfortunate sufferers' rescue. Enid Markey is about to transfer her affections from the studio to the stage. It is only temporary, however. She is on her way to New York, where she will appear in the prolog of "Civilization," which will run during the summer at the Criterion Theater. Partially from her own plans, Clara Kimball Young's new studio has just been started, and will be rushed to a finish, in Flushing. L. I., New York. Italian gardens, an artificial lake and a waterfall are among the novelties planned for the studio grounds. Mary Pickford's erstwhile director and leading man, James Kirkwood, has just signed the papers wherewith he will sponsor and direct Mary Miles Minter for the term of twelve moons. He will guide "Little Mary IPs" star for the American Company. 145