Motion Picture News (Apr-Jul 1915)

May 15, 1915. MOTION PICTURE NEWS o9 out into the street and deliberately accosts a man, trusting that he will prove of the right sort. The man is Dick Hardy. He takes her to a restaurant and when he demands his pay, she lays the truth of the matter before him. She is a good girl, she is hungry, she took a long chance. Dick escorts her safely home and when he leaves her he tells her that he is a pickpocket. Later Dick is caught stealing a pocket-book of a woman shopper in the store where Irma works. Irma goes to the manager and tells him the whole story of the evening spent with Dick. The manager is won over by her eloquent appeal and decides to give Dick a chance to make good. He does so, and six months later marries Irma. "WORMWOOD" LEOPARD CREATES EXCITEMENT AT FOX STUDIOS THE forthcoming William Fox production of "Wormwood," Marie Corelli's book and drama, visualized for the screen by Marshall Farnum, the director, and Garfield Thompson, affords Mr. Farnum an opportunity to make his debut as an animal trainer. The instrument of his plunge into the ranks of the arena is a spotted leopard, which is used with startling effect in this Fox Film Corporation production. There were several exciting adventures with the leopard over at the William Fox stu TAKING THE LEOPARD SCENES FOR FOX'S "WORMWOOD'' dios when the scenes in which the big cat takes part were being made. The animal was peacefully gnawing at a bone, when its trainer gave it a prod with a goad in order to make it walk in front of the black velvet curtain, which was dropped behind it for "vision stuff," the idea being that Gaston Beauvais, the absinthe-soaked, is haunted day and night by this spotted creature of his wormwood-induced delirium. The leopard took offense at the interruption at his meal time in this arbitrary fashion, and made a leap, not for his trainer, but for Mr. Farnum. The latter had never qualified as an acrobat, but he did a back jump, and then a leap for life for the stairway that would have done credit to any tumbler. Cameraman Thompson was just as nimble in getting out of the way. CAPT. MELVILLE MAY ESTABLISH STUDIO IN EXPOSITION GROUNDS Special to Motion Picture News Los Angeles, May 3. CAPT. WILBERT MELVILLE, head of the Western Lubin Company, is now on his way to New York City, where he will embark in the yacht he purchased last September, and return to Los Angeles by the Panama Canal. With his arrival here plans for an additional studio, to be located at San Diego, will be completed. It is reported that Mr. Melville has been granted the right to establish a studio on the California-Panama exposition grounds, where two and three-reel subjects will be filmed. Whether this is a fact or not, it is defi nitely stated that his new yacht, "Vergana," which is one hundred and eighty feet in length and has a twenty-foot beam, will be anchored in San Diego bay and that Capt. Melville intends to keep it there for a long period, and during the time produce pictures. The "Vergana" will be the largest private yacht permanently located in Pacific waters. The Lubin players are this week producing a two-reel subject, "The Web of Hate," from an original scenario by Julian Lamothe. PATHE BALL TEAM IN MANUFACTURERS' LEAGUE THE Pathe baseball team, better known as "The Roosters," has been paid the compliment of being selected from sixteen semi-pro teams of Jersey City, to represent that place in the new "Manufacturers' League of New Jersey." This league is under National Commission rules, and represents the cream of semi-pro talent of the state. The teams now starting the pennant race are Pathe Freres Jersey City ; the Babcock & Wilcox Company, of Newark ; the Oxweld-Star Electric Company, of Newark; the Michelin Tire Company, of New Brunswick, and the Singer Sewing Machine Company, of Elizabethport. The league season starts May first and closes September first. Pearl White, the Pathe star, is to pitch the first ball at the opening game, and General Manager Gasnier. of Pathe, will be there to give his pets a good send-off. "MILLIONAIRE BABY" COMPLETED Special to Motion Picture News Chicago, May 5. THE production of the "Millionaire Baby," the second Selig Red Seal play, to be released through the V-L-S-E on May 31, was completed last Monday. An elaborate theatre scene was staged, which has an important bearing upon the plot. One of the Selig Chicago studios was transformed into a perfect theatre. The audience of some hundred people all in evening clothes, were seated between the camera and the stage. 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