Motion Picture News (Oct 1914-Jan 1915)

26 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 10. No. 25. Balboa Produces First of Series by Charles M. Peck Each Story Complete in Itself, and Deals with Problems of Life— First Entitled "When Justice Sleeps" Shows Effect of Bank Peculations AUGUST PICKS CAST FOR KINETOPHOTE PICTURES Edwin August has picked his cast for the first picture which he will make for the Kinetophote. As has been announced, his leading woman is Bliss Milford, who has been an Edison star for some time back. The others in the cast will be Clare EDWARD J. PEIL Hillier, a child actress ; Edward J. Peil, Hal August, Thomas J. O'Keefe, Virginia Russell and Emmet Whitney. The picture which Mr. August will produce has been advertised as a "mysterious thing." Some ideas are to be tried which have never before been tried in moving pictures and the effects which are promised will be different from anything yet shown on the screen. Mr. Peil, who will have the principal male role, next to that which Mr. August will take, is well known to the motion picture world. He made his stage debut at the age of eighteen years, playing then with Mme. Modjeska. He appeared in the first five-part picture which was ever made by the Lubin Company. Hal August has been associated with his brother in pictures for some time. siiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiinii^ I READS IT FROM COVER | I TO COVER 1 5 i Motion Picture News, = I New York, N. Y. | I Gentlemen: I read the "News" § i through from cover to cover and de | a rive considerable benefit therefrom. I | i am enclosing a check for $2 for a | i year's subscription. j I Very truly yours, i j CHAS. A. RIVA, I I The Pastime, Tilton, N. H. | ItwiuunMiDiuniinniiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiii^ Special to Motion Picture News Los Angeles, Dec. 14. THE first of the series of pictures, each complete in itself, dealing with problems of life, is being produced at the Balboa studio, Long Beach. The story is by Charles Mortimer Peck, well known Chicago and New York newspaper and advertising writer, now assistant general manager o fthe Balboa. "When Justice Sleeps" is the title, and the plot deals with the life of a bank cashier who uses the bank's money. First he loses, then is aided in winning at the races by tips given by his brother-in-law, a reformed ex-convict. With this he plays the stock market and loses. With more funds taken from the bank he is able to recoup his loss and make himself independently rich. Then comes a notice that the federal inspector is to examine the institution. He hires his brother-in-law to return the money, and he while in the bank is confronted by the president in the act of Special to Motion Picture News Los Angeles, Dec. 13. DOROTHY GISH, the Griffith-Mutual star, in full view of the studio crowd at Hollywood was struck by a racing automobile and dragged over forty feet before the big machine could be stopped. Her horrified friends rushed down the road to her, found her unconscious, and among those who helped lift her into the ambulance when it came was D. W. Griffith, who has done so much to make the younger Gish sister a popular star on the Mutual program. The director rode to Los Angeles with her, and her many other friends followed her there as best they could, by trolley, motor or carriage, as the case might be. At the hospital surgeons discovered that returning borrowed funds. A fight follows in which the banker is shot and later dies. The incident causes the exconvict to return to his former life and step by step he becomes involved, until, when the officers trail him, he goes to the home of his sister and there takes his life. The cashier is made president of the bank, and his life continues successful, even though he carries the load caused by his wife's extravagance. Other new members of the Balboa stock company who will appear in this are Hazel Henderson, formerly with the Selig companies, and Jessie Perry, late of the California Motion Picture Company, where she took ingenue parts in "Salomy Jane" and "Mignon." Another of Mr. Peck's stories, "The Altar of Friendship," is being filmed under the direction of Leon Kent, formerly director for the Lubin, later with the U. S. Film Company and until recently again with the Western Lubin company, who is now with the Balboa, the little Mutual star had had her left side very badly torn and one toe cut off. It looked like a very bad case, but after several hours she began to rest more easily, and when Mr. Griffith finally came out and announced that she would live, but Lhat it might be several weeks before she would be able to work again, Dorothy Gish's friends breathed a sigh of deep relief. ^IIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN I TOO GOOD TO MISS | I Motion Picture News, New York City. | I Gentlemen: I cannot afford to miss | I a number of the "News." | 1 Respectfully yours, i I C. B. CLARK, I j Rex Theatre, Ukiah, Gal. i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiii^ Omaha Exhibitors Block Sunday Closing Committee, Headed by William Roper and R. M. Marcus, Convince Ministers and Y. M. C. A. Officials of Proper Supervision Exercised Over Pictures by Managers Special to Motion Picture News Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15. THE anti-Sunday show crusade planned by the Young Men's Christian Association and the Ministerial Association of Council Bluffs, la., early in the season did not pan out. The exhibitors, aided by thorough organization and some diplomatic heads, gained their point, are now holding regular Sunday shows, and more than that, are working hand in hand with the Y. M. C. A. By showing the ministers and the Y. M. C. A. officials that the class of pictures shown in Council Bluffs' theatres were of the best, that many people were of the laboring class and could attend no other time except Saturday night or Sunday, and that the shows being open did not affect the meetings, the exhibitors were able to win their point. They went about it in a fair way, a committee headed by William Roper and R. M. Marcus representing every exhibitor of the city at a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. one afternoon. The two talked for all the exhibitors and did it in such a graceful and compelling way they won their points. In a number of shows there appeared on the screens advertisements for the Y. M. C. A., telling of the fifth anniversary of the Council Bluffs association and the advantages the institution has to offer. When churches in various parts of the city held "Y. M. C. A. Days" the exhibitors in the various neighborhoods helped advertise them. Guy P. Leavitt. Dorothy Gish Is Injured by Automobile Young Griffith-Mutual Star Dragged Forty Feet in Streets of Hollywood Before Rescued and Sustains Badly Torn Side