Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

THE MICTION PICTURE NEWS %ivc 1Rews of tbc IKIleek The Elysium Theatre, a motion picture house at the corner of Elj-sian Fields and Burgundy street, Xew Orleans, was the scene of a genuine stage marriage when Charles O. Morrill, the comedian of a musical comed} companj' now filling an engagement there, was married to [Miss Beatrice Huyler. a chorus girl in the same compan}^ The Detroit office of the World Film Corporation, under the management of Douglas Dickerson, is preparing to move to new quarters at 97 Woodward avenue, where it will have the entire fourth floor and be prepared for the expansion of business that this firm anticipates in the fall. Rhea Mitchell, who pla3S leads in the productions of the New York IMotion Picture Corporation, started in the theatrical business with the Baker Theatre Stock Company, of Portland, Ore., and has plaj-ed stock in everj city on the Pacific Coast excepting Los Angeles, Cal. She went to the Xew York Motion RHEA MITCHELL Picture Corporation studio direct from Alcazar Theatre, San Francisco, where she played ingenue leads. She is known in the studio as the "Stunt Girl." She has jumped off cliffs, been rescued from burning ships, lost in swamps and quicksands, and has also taken quite a few parts as a girl drownin.g. Bessie Wj-nn. the commedienne now in vaudeville, thinks the Hollywood studios of the Universal constitute the biggest and most up-to-date "toy-shop" in the world. She visited the studios recentlj and met many old friends of her "Babes in Tojdand" companj-. She posed for the motion camera for the first time in her career and was very much interested. Charlotte Burton is doing excellent work in the character of Mara, in Thomas Rickett's production of "Lodgings for a Night." The part is CHARLOTTE BURTON a most difticult one and ]\Iiss Burton handled it with great force. There is no doubt but that she will receive favorable notice from the critics. -\ doctor who swims through a raging sea with his medicine case strapped to his back to save the father of his sweetheart — J. Warren Kerrigan— will be seen in this role in a ^'ictor drama just completed. It is entitled, "There is a Destiny," and is laid in a fishing village along the coast of Southern California. The Strand Theatre, New York, has now a fully equipped emergency loom where patrons or emploj^ees of the theatre can receive medical attention in case of accident or sudden illness. Bessie Barriscale, now playing leading roles in the Belasco Stock Company, Los Angeles, who created the role of Juanita in David Belasco's BESSIE BARRISCALE road production of "The Rose of the Rancho," has been secured hy the Jesse L. Laskj' Feature Play Company, Inc., to appear in the m.otion picture production of that pIa^^ "The Rose of the Rancho," will be one of the first Belasco productions from the Lasky studio, and will be staged throughout the mission country in Southern California. Miss Barriscale has long been identified with Belasco productions. Aliss Barriscale was one of Mr. Belasco's most valuable assets in all of his road productions, which generall} played long engagements at various Chicago theatres. A print of "The Rose of the Rancho" will be presented to the Smithsonian Institute. '\\"ashington. Last Sunday when Pearl W'hite. who plays the lead in the "Perils of Pauline," was driving through. Central Park, New York, in a hansom czh, coming down one of the hills the horse stumbled and fell, throwing jNIiss White out on her head. She suffered from a sprained wrist and was badlj^ lacerated in the arms and face, and was rendered unconscious for some time. An ambulance driver wished to remove her to the hospital, but as soon as she revived, she continued her drive.