Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1916)

CLASSIC June Daye should worry just because Siegmund Lubin received a self-commendatory letter t’other day from one aspirant named May Knight. Naomi Childers, who recently announced her engagement to the manager of Shraft’s candy factory, has sorter gone back on sweets. There’s a saying “Too much is enough,” or something of the kind. Kate Price hears from the war zone that she is the only anti-fear tonic they know. Whereat Kate is more joyous than ever. Huntley Gordon, recently supporting Ethel Barrymore in “Our Mrs. McChesney,” is another recruit from the vocal boards. He has recruited himself to the Vitagraph forces. Kittens Reichert, of the Fox Films — and Kittens is her name given in baptism, too — has a large and ever-increasing family of dolls. Each doll is named after some particular star, and not always very flatteringly to the star, however. Kittens also has a “mind-child” called “Margo.” Margo accompanies her everywhere, and is the airy heroine of many astounding adventures. There are disciples and apostles of Realism — but listen here! Anita King, the Paramount girl, drove up a steep incline in a racing automobile that belonged to the famous driver, Barney Oldfield, and shot into space, landing on a cushioned platform 72 feet away. And some women are afraid of a mouse! Florence Dagmar, Lasky ingenue in Paramount Pictures, has just had a girls’ club named for her in Louisville, Ky. Since it became known that Mary Pickford wore corduroy trousers in many scenes of “Poor Little Peppina,” many have been the requests from Italian mammas for the donation of the aforesaid corduroys. So many have been the pleas, indeed, that Miss Pickford has decided to preserve strict neutrality and hold on to them herself. It isn’t safe — mixing up in these foreign affairs. First we had Gerry Farrar in “Carmen,” then Theda Bara, and now — oh, merry Fates, Charlie Chaplin! Not as “Carmen,” of course, but as “Don Jose.” The actual shooting of an actual oilwell will be one of the big scenes in “The Toilers,” starring Nance O’Neil. William Wright, the Kalem executive, says that new themes are needed in photoplays. Too many of the prominent authors seem to think that their hashedover ideas are good enough for the screen. Henry W. Pemberton spends his absentfrom-studio minutes in raising chickens and dogs. Friends of CarlyJe Blackwell, who have watched his nomadic wanderings from one company to another, can now look forward to three unchanging years. For Carlyle has signed a three-year contract with the World-Equitable. John Mason is responsible for the rise to stardom of one of the Equitable program’s best-known stock players, Clara Whipple. After viewing the finished picture in which Miss Whipple appeared with him, he declared that her work in the picture merited co-starring. It was done, and now passers-by will see Clara Whipple’s name along with the great histrionian’s. After some years with the Universal Company — years of faithful work and artistry— Edna Maison has left. She plans taking a short holiday before deciding just what her next step will be. Lives there a woman with purse so dead as to refuse Charlie Chaplin’s bloated salary? Yes. Ruth Roland is “her.” It has been connoted (?) that if the King of Comedy gets the trifle of over half a million, annually he’ll have to give $26,870 of it to Uncle Sammy for income tax. Says Miss Roland, “To be separated from that much money for taxes would surely kill me, and I dont want to die yet.” Roland Bottomley, who is Jackie Saunders’ new leading man, has had the distinction of rehearsing under Bernard Shaw, and of appearing in the London premiere of two Bernard Shaw plays. He is full of anecdotes of the famous satirist. In her latest feature production, “The Battle of Truth,” Vera Sisson doubles as her own ghost. If all spooks were as lovely as Vera, dying would outdo the dance craze. Just hang over a garden gate — the rest is E Z. That’s what Vola Smith, the dainty Biograph star, was doing — opposite the Eastern Biograph studios. D. W. Griffith came along, decreed a career for her in pictures, and there you are — voild, tout! Jose Ruben was Bernhardt’s leading man for several seasons before he joined the Filmers. He is a marvelous impersonator of female rdles. Anna Luther will return to her fans very shortly in “The Village Vampire.” Work was begun on this picture nearly three months ago, but owing to a serious operation which the young star had to undergo, it was necessary to delay the filming. “Happy” is Myrtle Reeves’ new nickname— and this notwithstanding her “vamp” roles. She has a crop of hair as sunny as her disposition — and — well — the sobriquet fits as none other could. Ruth Roland, who has been appearing in the Balboa serial, “The Red Circle,” recently received a letter from a girl in Pennsylvania who stated that she awoke one morning with a red circle around her right eye. As she had been attending the weekly instalments of “The Red Circle,” she wondered — We wonder too — We dont know what Miss Roland thinks about it, but perhaps she is wondering also. Hugo Munsterberg, the well-known psychologist, is soon to utilize the screen to teach the fundamentals of psychology in colleges. The Pallas Pictures are to give Lenore Ulrich a c^t if her favorite ending in “The Heart of Paula” is upheld by the public as well as the press. (Sixty -five) Positions Guaranteed! The Photoplay Hit of the Season The Little Book of Honest Advice "HERE LIES" By L. CASE RUSSELL WE have exhausted the first edition of “Here Lies,” but not Its demand. A second edition is now ready. This clever and timely booklet on How Not To Write photoplays is invaluable to bewildered and discouraged writers. The greatest obstacle in the road to success Is the “Has been done before” rejection slip. At least 80 per cent of the unsold scripts now on the market were written around stale plots. For the first time, these forbidden themes have been collected, classified, crucified and buried in ‘‘Here Lies.” Read what studio editors think of it: Its subtle humor is delicious, while underlying it all there is so much truth that it is worth reading many times. It is of value te the traiued and professional author, as well as to the amateur. CALDER JOHNSTONE, Universal Film Manufacturing Co., Pacific Coast Studios. It would save some of these poor beginners many a heart-ache if they would learn what to avoid, and you seem to have struck the keynote in your Dont List. LOUELLA I. PARSONS, Editor of Scenarios, Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. 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