Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

50 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 17. SOME OF THE WELL-KNOWN STARS TO BE SEEN IN EQUITABLE PRODUCTIONS, CURRENT AND COMING (LEFT TO RIGHT) CYRIL SCOTT IN “NOT GUILTY"; LILLIAN LORRAINE IN "SHOULD A WIFE FORGIVE"; MARGUERITE FISCHER; MURIEL OSTRICHE, CLIFFORD GREY, OCTAVA LUZON, KATHRINE CALHOUN AND CLARA WHIPPLE IN “THE FISHER GIRL"; ALEXANDRA CARLISLE IN CREEPING TIDES” ATLAS WILL HANDLE AMERICAN FILMS FOR EUROPE After several months spent in a careful investigation of the European market, the Atlas Company has announced that it is ready to handle the output of large American studios, not only on the continent, but in Siberia, India, China and Japan. So encouraging are the reports of its agents, and so great and real the demand for films, that the Atlas Company offers to buy the film output of American manufacturers for spot cash, and attend to all the details of redistribution itself. The Atlas Company began its investigation early in the year. Reliable agents have scoured the foreign film fields thoroughly, and now report that everywhere they find a genuine demand for films, which can only be supplied by American manufacturers. The company has excellent facilities for handling the exportation and redistribution of films. Seven Equitable Directors Go Afar for Local Color Cullison Is Perched on Edge of a Volcano, Mont Pelee of Evil Memory, in Martinique, for Background to “Idols,” and Farnum Is Filming “Creeping Tides” in Cuba OF the Equitable Motion Picture Corporation seven directors are at present scattered far and wide in the search for local color to fit their respective productions. Webster Cullison is at Martinique, where, on the edges of Mont Pelee, he is seeking the proper background for the production of “Idols,” in which Katharine Kaelred is the star. Miss Kaelred and her supporting players leave New York this week on the Booth liner Madeirense, for Barbadoes, where they will catch a channel steamer for Mont Pelee. Joseph Golden, of Triumph Films, an Equitable producing company, is at Washington, D. C., where, with Charles J. Ross and his supporting players, many scenes in “The Senator” are being made, with the Capitol, Congressional Library, “Carmen” and Mantell in Theda Bara Will Be Seen at Her Best When Screen Debut of Tragedian THE Fox film “Carmen,” featuring Theda Bara, and the first of the Robert Mantell photoplays, are occupying the attention of the Fox forces for the next two or three weeks. The William Fox production of “Carmen” will be seen at the Academy of Music, New York, on Sunday, October 31. Edward Velasquez, noted Spanish artist, was brought from Seville to supervise the technical and architectural details of the Spanish cities which Mr. Fox created at his studios. Colonel Antonio Bravo of the Spanish army drilled the battalions of picturesque dragoons. The bull-ring is an exact replica of the famous El Toro of Seville. The streets, houses, cathedrals, plazas and castles of the studio Seville and Cordova covered a score of acres. Five thousand persons participate in the fiesta scene. Theda Bara as Carmen, the gypsy flirt, rises to histrionic heights never attained in any of her previous triumphs. Her immediate supporting company is Eye of Fox Next 3 Weeks Picture Is Put on in New York, October 31 — Will Take Place November 8 composed of New York’s favorites. Spain’s mountains and woods are said to have been ransacked for the gypsies, who add to “Carmen’s” charm. Robert B. Mantell, one of the foremost exponents of dramatic art, will make his screen debut in the service of William Fox at the Academy of Music on November 8. He will be supported by Genevieve Hamper, his wife. “The Blindness of Devotion” has been selected as the vehicle. “Ten years ago I would have despised even the thought of going into motion pictures,” Mr. Mantell explained recently at his home in Atlantic Highlands, “but today they have become so artistic that I could no longer resist. “Would you care to go so far as to say that you think Shakespeare is dead?” asked his interviewer. “I would dislike very much at this time to make such a bold statement as that, replied Mr. Mantell, “but you may say for me that Shakespeare is sleeping, and so far as I can see, very deeply.” Treasury and Senate Hall as settings for the various scenes. John Ince, for his production of “Greater Love,” in which William Courtenay, Arthur Ashley and Mary Charleson will play the principal roles, has engaged a train of nine cars from the Erie Railroad and will, while traveling from New York to Jamestown, N. Y., make the necessary scenes. Marshall Farnum, now busily engaged on “Creeping Tides,” in which Alexandra Carlisle is playing the star role, left Saturday of last week for Cienfuegos, Cuba, where, it is claimed by those who know, the tides rise and fall fifty-two feet. Mr. Farnum and his cast will work on the sandy stretches of Cienfuegos for two weeks. E. Mason Hopper, who is staging “The Labyrinth” for Equitable, which will be seen on the World Film program early in December, is completing arrangements for the wrecking of two giant mogul engines, which, by arrangements with the New York Central Railroad, will be staged near enough to New York for the local trade press to witness the event. Gail Kane and a strong cast will handle the principal roles in “The Labyrinth.” Harry Pollard, who is directing Margarita Fischer in “The Dragon,” leaves this week with Miss Fischer and her company for Jacksonville, Fla. Charles Seay returned last Friday from Block Island, where many of the most powerful situations and scenes in “The Fisher Girl,” in which Muriel Ostriche is starring, were made. Upon completion of the pictures outlined above, Equitable will, when directors are foot loose, start work with Molly McIntyre in “A Modern Girl,” Valli Valli in one of her former successes, Robert Edeson in a big outdoor picture, Muriel Ostriche in another picture specially suited to her personality, and Katharine Osterman in another Paul Armstrong play, presumably “The Romance of the Underworld.” Table of contents will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover.