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August 28. 1915.
MOTION PICTURE NEWS
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SOME STRIKING AND BEAUTIFUL SCENES FROM AMERICAN'S "INFATUATION," FOUR-REEL MUTUAL MASTERPICTURE, WITH MARGARITA FISCHER AND HARRY POLLARD
of Mary Ellen." Messrs. Franklin are in charge of this.
Director Jack Conway is in charge of filming a two-reel Majestic, "His Guiding Angel," which portrays the change brought about in the life of a notorious bad man by the influence of a woman he idolizes. The cast includes Charles Clarey, Gladys Brockwell, Jack Dillon and Bert Hadley.
"The Family Doctor" shows the advantage the family physician has over patients in the event he is not honest. In this subject the physician hypnotizes the dying man, and induces him to alter the will in the doctor's favor. The cast for this includes Irene Hunt, A. D. Sears, Adoni Fevieri, G. M. Blue, Richard Cummings and William Moody. The subject is being produced by Joseph Belmont.
A pretty love story, with a touch of melodrama, is included in "Her Oath of Vengeance," being made for Majestic release in two reels. It pertains to life in the Russian colony in Los Angeles, where many of the people are employed in canneries. The cast includes Teddy Sampson, Charles West, Wilbert Higby, Frank Bennett, Joseph Heneberry and Eleanor Stone. F. J. Grandin is director.
A company of Reliance players, including Mildred Harris, Paul Willis, Alice Pettus, Bert Hadley and Charles Gorman, are home from Bear Valley, where the exterior scenes for "The Indian Trapper's Vindication" were made, with Dark Cloud playing in the name part. The story portrays life in early Indian days and the unpleasant conditions arising between the Indian and the white people. Ray Myers is directing this subject.
"Yellow Streak" by Vita graph
Rollin Sturgeon, manager of production of the Vitagraph studio, is this week filming a two-reel subject entitled "The Yellow Streak," from scenario by Rev. Clarence J. Harris. In this the principal parts are played by Ann Schaefer, George Holt and George Conkel.
It is a heart interest story, dealing with everyday conditions of life in the farm section of the Middle West, and will include scenes in the desert country. Here George Holt, as Silas Rummell, a miserly farmer, finds cure for the yellow streak in the heart of the desert while lost in Death Valley.
"A Cripple Creek Cinderella" is a onereel subject of early day mining life being filmed by Ulysses Davis, with a cast which includes Estella Allen in the name part, supported by Daisy Eloise Smith, Albert Vosburg, William Duncan, George Stanley and Jack Wetherby. A location where excellent scenes showing placer mining was found for this subject, and the company spent several days there.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon, of the Ashland theatre, Kansas City, were this week guests of Myrtle Gonzalez, leading woman of the Vitagraph Company, by spending a few days in Los Angeles. Manager Sheldon has been featuring Miss Gonzalez at his theatre, where she is a favorite, and on their trip West, they brought the popular player some very pretty presents.
Mary Anderson, until recently ingenue at the Eastern Vitagraph studio, is now a member of the Santa Monica staff, having arrived a few days ago.
William T. McCully has been added to the National producing staff and is making comedies with Rena Rogers, Russ Powell and Harry Fisher as principals. Louis Sheer is his assistant. Mr. McCully was formerly with the Keystone Company, and believes in plenty of action, but not slapstick.
Greased Skids for a Ladykiller
"Stepping Stones" is a one-reel National comedy featuring Bill Parsons and Constance Talmadge, being produced by Director Louis Chaudet. In this, Mr. Parsons appears as a stock broker who comes to grief because of his stenographer and is decidedly too popular with the ladies. Many of the scenes are made at a nearby beach. The story is by Anthony W. Caldeway.
Nelson Nichols, of the National mechanical staff, was one of the principals in a public wedding at the annual picnic of Los Angeles grocers here last week, the bride being Miss Mary Holmes.
The scenario for the second National multiple reel feature in which Norma Talmadge and Bruce Mitchell will be featured is entitled "The Leper." In this, scenes around the "Little Church Around the Corner," the famous New York landmark, will be shown, Director Mitchell having secured these pictures whilo in New York recently,
and having taken the views from a private residence across the street, from which point he was immuned from city laws prohibiting taking pictures of this church.
Billie Burke is to be most royally entertained when she comes to the NYMP studios to appear in Thomas H. Ince features. Plans are now being made for the popular actress to reside in one of the attractive bungalows at Catalina Island, from which point she will be transported in a one hundred and twenty-three-foot schooner-rigged yacht to and from the studio each morning.
At the studio a suite of dressing rooms is being specially built. These will be decorated in the actress's favorite colors, and will have every convenience and comfort of a home. In addition to this, Mr. Ince is having built a special private bath house on the sandy beach along Inceville, where Miss Burke may pass her leisure moments.
It has been announced that a number of athletic actors of the NYMP stock have volunteered their services as life guard. Miss Burke is expected to arrive the latter part of August, by. which time everything will be in readiness to make her stay a most pleasant one.
Beauty in a Pool Attracts Thief
The entire police force of Los Angeles was pressed into duty in an effort to locate the party who stole a twenty-eight by forty hand-colored photograph of Edith Story showing the actress sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, a scene from the Vitagraph subject "The Island of Regeneration." The picture disappeared from the lobby of the Palace of Pictures during the showing of this picture there.
About twenty Vitagraphers played the part of host Wednesday evening at a dance and luncheon at Sunset Inn, Santa Monica, the guest of honor being Publicity Manager Sam Spedon, who is here from the Eastern office.
Among those present were George Holt, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Vosburgh, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lederer, Doris Schroeder of the scenario department, Mr. Phile, Assistant director, Myrtle Gonzalez, Mrs. Gonzalez, Director Ulysses Davis, Anne Schaefer, J. C. Jessen of Motion Picture News, Mabel Condon of the Dramatic Mirror, and Clark Irvine of the Moving Picture World.