Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

54 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 17. A FEW GLIMPSES OF GRACE VALENTINE IN GAUMONTS “THE NEW ADAM AND EVE,” RELEASED THROUGH MUTUAL Gaumont Makes Extensive Plans for Fall and Winter Entire Florida Peninsula Will Be Used by Three Companies and Several Comedy Forces Will Produce at Flushing, L. I., N. Y., During Reconstruction of the Studio WILK LEAVES WORLD FILM TO MANAGE AUTHORS ASSOCIATED After one year and three months in the service of the World Film Corporation, as publicity director, Jacob Wilk has resigned that position to devote the whole of his time and energies to the interests of the Authors’ Associated Agency, Longacre building, Forty-second street. New York City, to which address all communications for him should, in future, be sent. Mr. Wilk is general manager of the agency, which has been established to act as a medium between dramatic and display authors, and theatrical and motion picture producers. The “A. A. A.” will also act as a medium for booking prominent artists for theatres and motion pictures, and will arrange for the production of feature films and stage plays. The company has obtained control of the business management of a well known motion picture producing company ; has a handsome suite of offices ; a competent staff ; and is equipped with financial and other resources to cope with every requirement of motion picture and theatrical business. Mr. Wilk carries with him the cordial good wishes of the directors and staff of the World Film Corporation at the home office and its branches. MARSTON MAKING SECOND SERIES OF “THE PATRIOT” Theodore Marston has begun work on the second series of episodes of the Vitagraph production of “The Patriot,” in which the action is brought up to the present day. The first two parts depict scenes in the Eighteenth Century. The final scene in Part Two, in which the characters appear in the costumes of the period, dissolves into the first scene of Part Three, which brings the action into the Twentieth Century. The cast selected by Mr. Marston, for the modern characters, includes Charles Richman, Arline Pretty, Leo Delaney, Frank Currier, Robert Gaillard, Donald Hall, Lillian Burns and Audrey Berry. AN all-American program for autumn and winter has just been announced by the Gaumont Company. At the first indication of continuous bad weather, three companies will be sent by boat to Jacksonville. Florida. Making their headquarters at the recently leased studios known as the Dixieland theatre property, the entire Florida peninsula will be used by the directors in producing Rialto Star and Casino Star features. During the winter, extensive reconstruction work will result in the practical rebuilding of the Flushing studios. Several comedy companies will remain here, however, throughout the winter. “We feel that we are exceedingly fortunate in securing such a favorable location for winter work,” said F. G. Bradford, general manager of the Gaumont Company, in discussing the season’s plans. “It is our settled policy to have a new dramatic star featured in each photoplay we release, and the trip from New York to Jacksonville can be made in so short a time that our booking department has had no difficulty whatever in securing the best Broadway talent. Together with our staff of cameramen and their assistants, and our technical director and his forces, will go several scene painters. Consequently, we have asked that reservations be made for sixty people. There will be a mountain of baggage, costumes and properties ; and a dozen automobiles will be taken, cars belonging to the company and to actors. “A well known writer of novels, short stories and scenarios, has provided a thrilling scenario with a steamship setting. This will be filmed on the voyage. This reminds me that the Gaumont Company has contracted with some of the most successful scenario authors of this country for photoplays. “It is by no means our intention to confine the activities of these three Gaumont companies to Jacksonville and its environs. The whole peninsula of Florida will be at the disposal of our directors. The Board of Trade of St. Augustine has been most cordial in its invitation to our companies.” “Palm Beach will also be used as a setting for several society photodramas and comedies. For military photodramas the Gaumont companies have been invited to use Fort Myers, on the West Coast, in filming military scenarios. Several photoplays will be made in this vicinity, as well as at Miami, just across the East Coast. “Even with three companies away, the Flushing studios will be busy all winter. Our local companies will film a great many one-reel comedies,, which will be released on the Mutual Program as Casino Star features. Even while they are working, contractors will be reconstructing the property. Our present buildings used for film purposes will be so materially changed as to amount almost to a complete rearrangement and rebuilding. “Our ‘See America First’ film is proving so popular that we are keeping an army of cameramen in the field. The series will be continued until the entire country has been covered. A happy thought was the introduction into each reel of the Mutual Traveler. She has indeed proved a fortunate acquisition. “On the same reel with ‘See America First’ is ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses,’ Harry Palmer’s animated cartoon. “No formal announcement of Gaumont plans would be complete without reference to the Mutual Weekly, the motion picture news reel edited and printed at our studios. The complimentary notices this service has been receiving in the trade papers are well deserved.” ELLIS PAUL, ESSANAY JUVENILE, INJURED AT PLAY Little Ellis Paul, who takes many of the juvenile parts in Essanay’s photoplays, fell when playing in the street outside Essanay’s Chicago studio recently, bruising his face and hands so severely that he was confined to his home for several days. u Table of contents will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover.