Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1919)

Our Animated Monthly of Movie News and Views (Continued from page 90) to do the "Rube" role in dead earnest. Madelaine Traverse, the Fox star, has just finished "The Danger Zone" and is now resting at Hotel Hollywood, spending her spare moments motoring about in search for a bungalow. Nearly everything is taken in Hollywood, for eastern tourists have engaged homes by mail and the wily real estate shark is making huge additions to his bank account. That old favorite, Frank Mclntyre, is scheduled to produce "Too Fat to Fight" for the Goldwyn Company, a surprise feature which they are sure will be a laugh-getter. Billie Rhodes is to appear in "Such a Little Genius," which Bill Parsons has just bought for her. There was an excited mob near the Brunton Studios one day, for Kitty Gordon's casting director had advertised for five hundred extras to act as Sikhs, Sepoys, English and French soldiers, and Dustin Farnum's manager had elected to call for western types the same day. By the time they sorted cowboys from doughboys and Englishmen from Rough Riders, everybody began to get cross and tired. Mr. Farnum used nearly two hundred in his production, and they all had to have horses, so there was "somethin' doin' " on the lot that brisk October day. Quite a big deal was put thru when Nell Shipman, former Vitagraph favorite, entered into a contract with James Oliver Curwood, the. novelist, for the production of his stories. The name of the new company is "Shipman-Curwood Producing Co." and Miss Shipman is scheduled to make about four pictures yearly, using stories and novels from the pen of Mr. Curwood. Formerly, the Curwood stories were put out at the rate of about ten a year, but it is desired to show quality pictures and to curtail quantity necessarily. Two of Miss Shipman's biggest hits were "God's Country and the Woman" and "Baree, Son of Kazan," both of which made much money for Vitagraph. Many of the new stories will be filmed in Canada, and. perhaps the first will be done in Alaska. Nell Shipman has always been a lover of and liver in the big outof-doors. She isn't a bit afraid of things that prowl and howl, and she can do any athletic stunt necessary. She says she is tired of doing girls who cower in a corner blessing a crucifix, she wants to be a woman with free use of her brains and brawn who can beat the crooks at their own game, not just a dance-hall artist who is either goody-goody or a vamp. What do you suppose? That handsome hero, Mahlon Hamilton, who used to shower kisses on the fair hand of Mme. Petrova, is doing a bit with Kitty Gordon, which calls for pajamas clear; thru. Imagine, not a decent tailor-made for handsome Hamilton, no more puff ties with gorgeous stickpins, just night-gear which isn't .shifted a .single once. 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