Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

~"SBE^a-8 ■ ■ ^^^v^^t?* Little VHirPE-fciNcs"* Fro/a EveiiywMe-ae In Pl^ve^do/^x The film colony of Hollywood has gone in for "ouija spiritualism." Among those who claim to receive messages are Gloria Swanson, Betty Blythe, Edith Roberts, Seena Owen, Ann May and Jane Novak. Antonio Moreno says it's all bosh. "They're not messages," comments Tony, "they're warnings." "The Yacona Yillies," a Saturday Evening Post story, has been purchased by Thomas Ince as an ideal starring vehicle for his team of "double delights," Douglas MacLean and Doris May. Bruce Gordon, a young English actor, new to the American screen, appears opposite May McAvoy in J. Stuart Blackton's latest production, "The House of the Tolling Bell." Louise Lovely is again seen supporting William Faversham in "The Joyous ._ Troublemakers." Louise Huff has signed a five-year contract with Selznick pictures and . I will appear in screen plays prepared especially for her. Ruth Stonehouse and Eugene Pallette head the cast of a picturization of the stage farce, "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath," a Loew-Metro release. Albert Capellani, who is responsible for many Nazimova productions, will do five special pictures for Cosmopolitan productions. The first of the series will be "The Inside of the Cup," by Winston Churchill. Marie Walcamp and her company are back from the Orient, where they have been making a serial for more ^_ than six months. William Faversham makes his first screen appearance in "The Man Who Lost Himself," from the story of that name by Ernest Stackpole. A world-wide hunting expedition, whose weapons will be cameras, and whose objective is to secure unusual still and motion pictures, will leave New York early in May for a four-years' sojourn in the Pacific Islands, the Far-East and India. T. Kimmwood Peters, an expert on photographic matters, is to head the party. Eddie Ring Southerland, appearing with Thomas Meighan in "Conrad in Quest of his Youth," is the nephew of Tom Meighan, of Blanche Ring and of Charlotte Greenwood. Betty Blythe will appear in the leading role of James Oliver Curwood's story, "Nomads of the North," for First National. Upon the completion of this picture, Miss Blythe will head her own company. Maurice Costello, whose reputation is still the household word among the first screen fans, portrays the role of La Fleche in "The Wilderness Fear" with William Faversham. Percy Marmont is another Englishman who has decided to make his home permanently in the States, having recently purchased a house at Whitestone, Long Island, in the midst of the "actors' colony" of that suburb. Helen Ferguson plays a leading part in Jack London's story, "The Mutiny of the Elsinore," to be released under the title of "The Mutiny." Martha Mansfield, who appears in Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," will play the leading feminine role in a new production for American Cinema Corporation, under the lf\ direction of Wilfrid North. IaG£ t GLADYS VALERIE Elaine Hammerstein's next picture is "The Point of View," a screen adaptation of the play of that name. Little Harriet Thomas, age six, makes her first screen appearance in support of her big |C sister, Olive, in "The Flapper." % Margaret Loomis has signed a five-year contract with Famous Players-Lasky. Her first work under her new contract will be with Thomas Meighan in "Conrad in Quest of His Youth." Gaston Glass, who plays a prominent part in "Humoresque," a Cosmopolitan production of Fannie Hurst's story, was a pilot in the French air service during the war and first came to this country on a mission for the French government. Charles Ray has just completed the purchase of four of James Whitcomb Riley's bestknown poems of • American country life: "The Old Swimming Hole," "The Girl I Loved," "Home Again" and "Out to Old Aunt Mary." Mr. Ray declares that the acquisition of these American classics represents the culmination of a long-time ambition to screen the works of the Hoosier bard. A coming Roscoe Arbuckle production will be an Irvin Cobb story, "The Life of the Party." Alice Calhoun, a new Vitagraph player, plays the leading feminine role in "The Sea Rider," Harry Morey's forthcoming Vitagraph feature. * Harrison Ford Hawley's leading Hobbs," her first tion. . On Sunday, April 25, Clarine Seymour died after a serious operation. Altho a recent star, under the D. W. Griffith banner, she had won many friends and her death had a saddening effect on the entire film world. Miss Seymour's last picture was "The Idol Dancer," in which she played with Richard Barthelmess and scored a great success. Dagmar Godowsky will vamp opposite Owen Moore in his next production, which is being made in Cuba. Nell Craig is playing lead. Mary Pickford will make three pictures in Europe this summer, two in England and one in France. An American director will have charge of the productions. Marshall Neilan plans to star Wesley Barry during the coming year. Among the subjects in which Wesley will be seen on the screen, is an adaptation of Booth Tarkington's famous "Penrod." Mae Murray and David Powell will be seen in an original story by Ouida Bergere, entitled "Idols of Clay." Olive Thomas plays the role of an East Side settlement worker, a Broadway star and the wife of a society man in her next picture, "Jenny." Her next picture will be made in California, where she has journeyed to spend a short time with Husband Jack Pickford. will be Wanda man in "Miss Realart produc