Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

CLASSIC GREENROOM ■JOTTINGS w LITTLE WHISPERINGS 1 FROM EVERYWHERE IN PLAYERDOM Dainty Marguerite Courtot has a fad — collecting tennis racquets! What for? Why, to play with, ye witless ones. And she is adept at the game, mark that. The Mutual Traveler has been working in the Minnesota woods at a mild little temp, of twenty-five below. Carl Laemmle sends out some snappy, humorous “straightfrom -the -shoulder talks” to his Universal exchange men and exhibitors. They bring a laugh. The last one was addressed to “Old Bill” Shakespeare, and hinged on that famed one’s saying, “The play’s the thing.” Our good old friend “Elaine” is cutting quite a swath in Porto Rico. Record audiences are reported on it all over the island, and there are divers namesakes, such as hats, cigars, scarfs, etc. Oh, fans! Kathlyn Williams’ favorite flowers are American Beauty roses. Get your vases ready, Kathlyn! Wheeler Oakman is a disciple of classical music — and in particular latter-day Italian opera. Edith Johnson is strictly tailor-made en promenade. No frills nor feminine fripperies for her! William N. Selig, president of the Selig Polyscope Company, believes that within the immediate few years every schoolhouse will have a Motion Picture camera. Hurry ye, O small, unwilling feet on paths of learning! Six hundred cadets from the Naval Academy at Annapolis make their debut in a coming Vitagfaph feature — supported, incidentally, by a flotilla of torpedo destroyers. Kathlyn Williams has made, unwittingly, a first enemy in Tilly, one of the elephant herd. Tilly made known her animosity by trumpeting mud all over Kathlyn’s shining six-cylindered cabriolet. Fritzi Brunette is learning to cook! She knows the old route to the male heart! And her director broadly asserts that she’s a star at boiling water. The Pittsburg Screen Club, composed of Moving Picture actors, has decided to give ten per cent, of the profits of its forthcoming ball next month to the Actors’ Fund of America. Two flivvers are about to collide headon. A bearded figure rises from a trench between the machines and announces, “Boys, there aint no war; the soldiers all went home last Christmas.” See “Peace at Any Price,” a Vitagraph comedy. (Sixty-seven) Miss Lucille Taft, of the Gaumont Company, amused herself the other day by looping-the-loop in an aeroplane over Jacksonville, Fla. Milk-and-water pastime, n’est ce pas ? Ruth Roland believes the Chicago doctor did right in allowing the deformed babe to die. Miss Roland has some very deep, very sound, and very gravely sweet views on the subject. Latest reports indicate that the players from the Coast studio of Vitagraph were snowbound and in serious difficulty in Bear Valley, California. f Speaking of “art for art’s sake,” Donald McBride, after spending a sleepless night with a severe toothache, was cast for the role of a painless dentist. Maisie, the pet collie that appeared frequently with William Duncan, is dead. Besides being used for hair restorer ads., bald heads are quite the demand in the studio. Here’s the reason. The hero or heroine is wounded. Surgeon about to shave head to operate. Cut! Enter baldy and doubles in the role. Result! — the hero and heroine still retain their wondrous locks. Well, if you must know, those stocking fillers in “Green Stockings” belong to Lillian Walker. The closing episode of “Stingaree” leaves the hero behind prison bars. Rose Melville, the original and only Sis Hopkins, she who has a funny-bone in every part of her body, has become a Kalem star. Helen Gibson has challenged' all other players to duplicate the stunts she performs in “The Hazards of Helen,” weekly Kalem release. “If I wanted to take it easy I would prefer working in straight drama, for comedy is hard work,” says Bud Duncan. Thomas Santschi has an excellent baritone voice, which he uses once in a while at the Selig studio, between scenes. 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