Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

58 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS In honor of Major Daniel Gilfether, who has been on the stage for forty years and who is now nearing his sixtieth birthday, the members of the Balboa Amusement Company, at Long Beach, California, the company with which he is now connected is planning an elaborate entertainment for the old stage veteran. Major Gilfether is a native of Boston and has played in stock, has been starred individually in a number of plays, and has played in support of such stars as Robert Mantell, Chauncey Olcott, Annie Pixley and Frank Mayo. Frank ^lontgomery and Princess Mona Darkfeather, well known leads of the Kalem Indian pictures, were visitors at the Centaur studios in Baj-onne, New Jersey, recently. Robert Conness comes from a family long known in the annals of the American stage. His stage connections have been with the Frohmans in the "Prisoner of Zenda," ""'Colonial Girl'' and "The Bachelor's Baby," and he has starred with ROBERT CONNESS Mary Mannering, Blanche Walsh and Hedwig Richer. Mr. Conness made his first appearance before the camera in the Edison studio about five years ago in "His Daughter," "Children Who Labor," "Church and Country" and "Van Bibber's Experiment." Since then he has been steadily engaged in theatrical productions, but now he has returned to the Edison Stock Company. The first picture of the Photo Drama Producing Company, of Turin, Italy, "The Lion of Venice," is now ready for release through the various exchanges of George Kleine in this country. Charles W. Denzinger, well known in theatrical circles throughout western New York state, has taken charge of the Olympic Theatre, Bufifalo. Mr. Denzinger is a Buffalonian who has been identified with things theatrical from early youth. He was for many years treasurer of Shea's Theatre in that city and later directed the Shea enterprises in Cleveland. He was recently in charge of the Kinemacolor plant in California. M. Slotkin, former manager, will devote his attention entirely to the management of the Olympic Amusement Company. Stanly H. Twist, president of the Inter-Ocean Sales Company, has moved his offices from the World's Tower Building, New York City, to the fifth floor of the Times Building, where he will occupy part of the Standard Film Corporation's new suite. The Commercial Club, of Marquette, Mich., has signed contracts with the Dietz Newman Picture Company, of Mayville, Wis., manufacturers of the Ishpeming films, to take a series of pictures 2,500 feet in length, ■ showing the city of Marquette. It is their intention to exhibit them at the Panama Exposition next year. V/ork has already commenced. Edward N. Milligan, chief director of the Liberty Motion Picture Company, Philadelphia, will shortly leave for Newport, R. I., with a company, to take a number of pictures. Bennie Zeldman, manager of the advertising and publicity departments of that concern, has made arrangements with the naval authorities of Newport to produce these pictures with their cooperation. Owing to the death of his sister, Harry C. Drum, general representative of the World Film Corporation, has been called to Chicago. Mae Marsh, one of the leading women of the Reliance and Majestic companies, attributes much of her success in the motion picture field to the fact that she is "pug ugly." Miss Marsh first played with the Biograph MAE MARSH Company and then a year later enacted a character lead in D. W. Griffith's picture, "The Escape." Later she appeared as Apple Pie Mary in "Home, Sweet Home." She is now acting the feminine lead in "The Great God Fear," which is being produced at Bear Lake Valley, Cal. Arthur S. Hyman, formerly manager of the New Orleans office of the World Film Corporation, now holds the same position in the Atlanta branch of the company.