Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1915)

66 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 1. DWAN AND HELEN WARE JOIN BIG FEATURE COMBINE Alan Dwan, one of the leading directors of the industry, and Helen Ware, a leading emotional actress of the stage, are announced by the New York Motion Picture corporation as its most recent acquisitions. ALLAN DWAN The contracts with Miss Ware and Mr. Dwan were signed late on Saturday, June 26. They will leave soon for the Pacific coast and begin active work. Miss Ware will probably appear in several pictures. Alan Dwan comes to the New York Motion Picture corporation from the Famous Players, with which company he has been head director for some time. His latest release was "The Pretty Sister of Jose," with Marguerite Clark. Recently he has been directing Mary Pickford in coming productions. Before going to Famous Players he was a crack director with the Universal. He knows the producing end thoroughly, having started as a scenario writer. Miss Ware is one of the best known dramatic actresses of the speaking stage. Her best known recent roles were in "The Third Degree," "Within the Law" and in the recent all-star revival of "A Celebrated Case." She has been doing motion picture work recently but none of her pictures have yet been released. ESSANAY NOW ISSUES SCENICS Essanay has entered a new field for that company in putting out scenic pictures. These scenes are being taken largely in the west. There are many views taken in Colorado and in states bordering on the Rocky Mountains. It is its intention, however, to take scenes of all the beauty spots in America, especially those not too much frequented by tourists. The idea is to find all the beauty spots not already thoroughly known to travelers. These will be interspersed, however, with well known scenes which the public enjoys seeing more than once. The grandeur of these pictures is exceptional. They are being released in connection with Essannay's animated cartoons by Wallace A. Carlson. The cartoons are five hundred feet in length and the scenic the same. In this way Essannay is giving the public a diversity in pictures and not too much of one thing. The system hits an exact medium where both cartoons and scenic are thoroughly interesting and leaves the spectator with a desire for just a little more. LEAH BAIRD TO PLAY OPPOSITE COSTELLO In rearranging the personnel of their companies, so as to obtain the greatest maximum of efficiency, the Vitagraph company has assigned Leah Baird to play leads opposite Maurice Costello. When Miss Baird first joined the Vitagraph company about four years ago she appeared with Mr. Costello in a one-part dramatic story entitled "The Old Silver Watch," produced under the direction of Van Dyke Brooke. This trio of artists remained together and turned out exceptional pictures for about five months, Miss Baird playing straight leads in support of Mr. Costello. These three are again united in the production of a two-part feature entitled, ' The Dawn of Understanding." BARD RETURNS FROM CHICAGO TRIP Arthur Bard, general manager of the Associated Film Manufacturers, has just returned from a business trip which took him as far west as Chicago. Every moment of Mr. Bard's time was occupied interviewing exchange men, and feeling the pulse of public demand. "At every place," said Mr. Bard, "in which I stopped, there was one predominating fact which impressed itself upon me very forcibly, and that was the great demand for intelligently made film. The people are learning to discriminate between the real and the maudlin in pictures." Mr. Bard, during his trip, touched Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo. BESSIE LEARN (Edison) KAUFMAN WILL HAVE CHARGE OF THREE STUDIOS FOR FAMOUS Following the return of Mary Pickford and her company from the Los Angeles studios of the Famous Players Film company, Albert A. Kaufman, who has acted as western manager of the Famous Players since the resumption of activities in California by this concern, returned last Monday to New York, having had to remain in Los Angeles after the departure of Miss Pickford's company, in order to terminate temporarily the affairs of che Famous Players on the coast. Mr. Kaufman will take part in the studio management of the Famous Players in New York until the erection of the three new studios now being planned in California is completed, when he will return to the coast in charge of the three companies who will undoubtedly thereafter operate permanently in California. While in California Mr. Kaufman made several aeroplane flights with Glenn Martin, the world famous aviator, in anticipation of the aeroplane scenes taken for the production of "A Girl of Yesterday," starring Mary Pickford, which will shortly be released, at one time making an altitude of 3,000 feet. MARSHALL AND LORRAINE HULING ARE "THE DIMPLED DUO" Since the release of "Truly Rural Types," in which Edwin Thanhouser presented Lorraine Huling and Boyd Marshall, photoplay patrons from everywhere are LORRAINE HULING AND BOYD MARSHALL, THANHOUSER'S "DIMPLED DUO" writing to ask about their dimples. Some want to know whether a spot of black cosmetic produced the dimple effect, and other important matters pertaining to the subject. Therefore the photograph herewith is published so that the anxious ones may have a "close-up" of the Huling and Marshall faces. It will be seen that the dimples are real, sure-enough "dents," natural blessings that know no make-up box.