Motion Picture News (Apr-Jul 1915)

50 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol 11. No. 19. HOOPS DESERTS STAGE FOR FOX PHOTOPLAYS Arthur Hoops, the well-known actor, who plays Lieut. Ivan Shombach in "A Woman's Resurrection," in the William Fox production of the Count Leo Tolstoi photoplay, in which Betty Nansen is starred, is ARTHUR HOOPS only another noted thespian to desert the stage for the screen. Mr. Hoops is a graduate of the Carlton Dramatic Club of Chicago, of which the alumni number such famous names as Charles Richman, Olive May, Joseph Kilgour and many others. Mr. Hoops will be recalled as playing leading parts in support of James K. Hackett, Virginia Harned, and also being starred at the head of his own company by Charles Frohman and Daniel Frohman. He has also appeared in support of Nat Goodwin, and before joining the William Fox forces was seen in a vaudeville sketch, called "Detective Keen." Mr. Hoops gives a very fine performance of a very difficult character in "A Woman's Resurrection." "GREAT RUBY" WILL BE SEEN ON SCREEN The Lubin Company began the filming this week of the famous Drury Lane melodrama, "The Great Ruby," originally produced in this country by Augustin Daly with a cast which included Ada Rehan, Blanche Bates, Charles Richmond and other well-known players. "The Great Ruby" was written by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. The film version was made by Clay M. Greene and the production is being directed by Barry O'Neil. It will be a V-L-S-E Lubin special. The cast includes Beatrice Morgan, for many years one of Charles Frohman's stars, who will play Lady Garnett; Josephine Parks, George Soule Spencer, Eleanor Barry, Frankie Mann, Walter Hitchcock, Mildred Gregory, Ruth Bryan, Peter Lang, Ferdinand Tidmarsh, Charles Brandt, Douglas Sibole, William Turner, George Trimble. SELIG TO PRODUCE "THE CRISIS" One of the Selig Red Seal plays which will be produced in the near future is "The Crisis," a film adaptation from the story by Winston Churchill. Hundreds of actors will be engaged for this big story. "The House of a Thousand Candles" is another Selig Red Seal play in course of production. The motion picture play was adapted from the popular novel of the same name. MABEL VAN BUREN ON UNITED PROGRAM An important addition to the playing forces of the Ideal Studio is Mabel Van Buren, who portrays the leading role in a forthcoming United production entitled "Stepping Westward," a two-reel story by Reverend Clarence J. Harris, the wellknown photoplaywright. Miss Van Buren is well known for her work in the Lasky production of "The Girl of the Golden West." Oscar Eagle Joins Famous Players Producing Staff Director, Who Headed Selig Studios for with Belasco, Will Begin "The D FOLLOWING the engagement of Director Sidney Olcott, the Famous Players Film Company has added Oscar Eagle to its producing staff. Mr. Eagle is one of the most prominent producers in the world, and has in the past been responsible for the direction of a notable series of feature film successes. He was for two years at the head of the Chicago studios of the Selig company, and prior to that was associated for many years with David Belasco, with whom he secured a national reputation as a stage director. He was also connected for a long period of time with the Liebler Company, for whom he produced many of the greatest dramatic successes sponsored by that theatrical firm. During his association with David Belasco, Mr. Eagle attended to the chief productions under Mr. Belasco's direct supervision. The first production to be directed by Mr. Eagle for the Famous Players will be John Barrymore in the celebrated adventurous romance, "The Dictator," by Richard Harding Davis. For this purpose, Mr. Eagle, John Barrymore, and an entire supporting company, will sail for Cuba this week in order to obtain realistic atmosphere. "The Dictator" is admirably suited to Two Years and Was Formerly Associated ictator," Starring John Barrymore John Barrymore. The central figure of "The Dictator" is Broke Travers, a young American, who is forced by existing and exciting circumstances, to become temporarily the dictator of a small republic in South America, and who in doing so, THE WEDDING OF PRINCESS YETIVE AND GRENFALL LORRY, THE CLOSING SCENE OF "GRATJSTARK," SIX REEL ESSANAY SPECIAL, RELEASED THROUGH V-L-S-E, INC. OSCAR EAGLE becomes a hero of many momentous and romantic situations, some comic and some very serious indeed, from all of which he emerges the victor, through the aid of his clever wit and never-failing audacity, and is finally rescued by a kindly fate in the substantial guise of an American battleship. This subject will be released some time in August on the Paramount program. MAC BARNES ASSUMES LEADING ROLE IN "VINDICATION" Mac Barnes, playing the part of the boss, in Knickerbocker Star Features, directed by Robert T. Thornby, finds himself in his element. For two years he played with Frank Keenan in his act entitled "Vindication," in which he played the part of the governor. Mr. Barnes puts great power and personality in his role of the boss, proving that he is a man of experience.