Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

54 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS Here is part of a letter received by J. Warren Kerrigan, from Stephen R. Wood, chaplain in the U. S. army: "1 had the privilege of seeing 'Samson' on Saturday, in Buffalo. It is a great production and true to scripture. A thousand thanks to you for your magnificent work, and God bless you." Hiram Abrams, president of the Famous Players Film Company, of New England, in Boston, jNIass., is a director in the Paramount Pictures Corporation, and his experience mer HIEAM ABRAMS its. him a place as one of the distinguished men who are conducting the affairs of this new organization. He entered the motion picture business six years ago, and opened in Portland the first film exchange east of Boston. A year later he organized the Abrams Amusement Company, which controls numerous houses throughout New England. At the Prescott Pioneer Day celebration, held in Arizona on July 12 and 13, Norbert A. Myles, leading man of the Eclair Western Company, wanted to enter as mechanic in one of the automobile races, but the director of the Western Company refused Myles permission on the ground that the Eclair artist was playing leading parts in six different scenarios in course of production, and that if an accident should disable him the pictures would be ruined, entailing a loss of at least $7,000. Robert Grau's fourth volume of the theatre and its people is to be devoted entirely to the motion picture. industry and is entitled "The Theatre of Science." Thomas Nash, of the Nash Motion Picture Company, and his eastern representative, Stanley H. Twist, are in New York on business. Mr. Nash brings with him the first release under the " 'Big' Otto Brand," a four-reel animal picture entitled, "The Mysterious Man of the Jungle." During Mr. Nash's stay in New York his headquarters will be with the Inter-Ocean Sales Company, 110 West Fortieth street. New York City. Charles Handford, recent manager of the Montreal office of the International Feature Film Corporation, Ltd., was entertained at dinner recently in New York by Herbert Lubin, president and general manager of that company, which lately has been taken over by The Allied Features, Inc. Handford is playing center field for the Buffalo Federal League Baseball Club. At the end of the season he will resume his position in the Montreal exchange. A week on the high seas in an antique, rat-infested ship, is not pleasant. Howevej, Frank Crane and his Imp Company, including Alexander Gaden, Dorothy Phillips, Howard Grampton and Stuart Paton, have just returned from such a trip in the production of "Oil the High Seas," a two-reel play. An incident that forms one of the thrillers of the play is the fall Paton took from the bowsprit forty feet into the briny deep. Director Crane states that the picture will stand as one of the best melodramatic romances he has produced. Mr. Gaden and Miss Phillips, who enact the lead roles, are enthu s'astic over their parts and the sea venture. Earl ^Metcalfe, who plays the part of John Temple in Lubin's "Three EARL METCALFE Men and a Woman," written by George W. Terwilliger, is recognized as a clever screen actor of no common versatility and effectiveness before the camera. Joyce Fair, the little ten-year-old actress now playing in "The Dummy" on the legitimate stage, is being featured as i\Iary Jane in the "Buster Brown"' comedies of the Edison Company. "The Call of the North," the latest Laskj' release, will be shown to the public for the first time at a special hunters' and explorers' matinee, at the Strand Theatre, JNIonday, August 9, at 2:15. Samuel Goldfish, executive head of the company, will be official host of the occasion. FRANK CRANE AND HIS "IMP" COMPANY ON THE HIGH SEAS