Motion Picture Magazine (Mar-Jul 1918)

■ TfTeM ,OTION ptCTUR MAGAZINE I!* says that if Biddy can be induced to pose for the camera he'll engage her as an extra. He believes in encouraging originality every time. William Russell has just bought a forty-thousand-doilar residence in Santa Barbara. He said it was a necessary extravagance, for not a landlord in that flower-bedecked burg would harbor his eleven canine friends. Who ever heard of a dawg with make-up? That's what the Diando studios has to come to. Baby Marie Osborne's newest vehicle was rapidly nearly completion when the "pup died on her," to quote Props. There was nothing for it but to get a dog of the same type and embellish it with spots like the dear departed. They had to run a pre-view of the film for the scenic artist in order that the spots might be the right size and in proper position. Elsie Ferguson is coming to Los Angeles under Famous Players-Lasky management, and Cavalieri has promised to get here in the late spring. Fred Stone will appear as a circus clown under the same management, and Billie Burke's bringing baby to sniff at California air. New York's White Way will look deserted this summer and every landlord in Hollywood is grinning cheerfully at the .outlook. Henry Walthall has been laid up for several weeks with a severe grippe attack and it will be necessary to put in a lot of night-work now in order to release his new feature on time. We heard a funny one on Sessue Hayakawa the otbe day. They haven't been able to put it across because ** everybody insists it is a press-agent's tale. The funny here we have theda bara in one of her care-free moments. seated on m:ss bara's left is j Gordon edwards, who has been miss bara's director for more than a year and who has guided her stellar destinies in "cleopatra," "du barry" and "the rose of blood." on miss bara's richt is young "jack" edwards. a cornell student, who is seen casting admiring glances at miss bara. part is that it is true, but then you know everybody will believe fiction and deny truth in movieland. Mr. Hayakawa wanted to immortalize Hashimura Togo in perfection of screen rendition and registered with a Japanese^ agency as house-boy. In a few days he received an offer and took the position in a Hollywood home. On the third day he served dinner and to his dismay found among the guests three of his most intimate friends. That ended the career of Togo, for Sessue didn't even wait to bring the soup, but fled back to Laskyville with the tale of an experience which he had not expected to incorporate in the screen version of a Japanese schoolboy. They've all got the laugh on him now and the public wont believe that he really "hired out" at all. J. Warren Kerrigan has started production on his new play, a romantic comedy-drama, directed by Reginald Barker. It is doubtful whether Lois Wilson will be able to support the star in this production, as she has already started work with another company at the same studio. The saddest event in Filmland was the passing of Franklin Ritchie, creator of Ben Cameron in the stage version of "The Clansman," and associated with BRYANT WASHBURN IS GOING THRU A DAILY "COURSE OF SPROUTS" IN WHICH THE MANLY ART OF SLUGGING IS THE • CHIEF ATTRACTION. "NO LOTUS-FLOWER DREAMS AND FLABBY ARMS FOR YOURS TRULY," SAYS BRYANT — "SHOW ME HOW TO LAND A REAL HAY-MAKER." the American Film Company until last year, when he went into the automobile business in Santa Barbara. Mr. Ritchie was driving with a friend, when an embankment gave way and the machine toppled down the incline, pitching his companion out and pinning Mr. Ritchie underneath. Mrs Ritchie, who was Esther Bamberg, of New York, was married to the ex-star between courses at a dinner in the Hotel Alexandria, and many famous {Continued on page 123) VIVIAN MARTIN HAS FORSAKEN THE DEADLY ARTILLERY OF HER EYES FOR THE REAL THING IN FIELD ARTILLERY. AT A RECENT BANQUET IN LOS ANGELES IN CELEBRATION OF THE PROMOTION OF SOME OF THE OFFICERS OF BATTERY A, THE WARLIKE VIVIAN WAS FORMALLY ADOPTED BY THE COMMAND. 63 PA6