Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1915)

76 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 12. Looking Ahead With The Producers "SUNSHINE AND TEMPEST" YOUNG ACTRESSES, TO APPEAR IN RIALTO FEATURE BEARING THEIR NAMES "CUXSHINE AXD TEMPEST" will be >J the title of the three reel Rialto star feature picture which will be the important Mutual release for October 6. And. in this play, full of the clouds and smiles of Tennessee skies written by Rev. Clarence J. Harris, will be featured "Sunshine and Tempest," the two dearly loved little actresses who since they were children together in the sunny Southland, have been associated together on the stage. Florence Tempest and Marion Sunshine TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE were born in Louisville, Ky., some twenty odd years ago. When they were six, Lincoln J. Carter starred them in "Two Little Waifs" and offered a reward of $5,000 for any two children who could match them. During this engagement Robert Mantell saw them and engaged them for the roles of the two little princes in his production of "Richard III." Since then, the success of the merry little "Sunshine and Tempest" combination have proved too numerous to mention. To New Yorkers their work in the "Follies" and the show at the Winter Garden was enough to make them unendingly popular. Last season "Sunshine" appeared with Raymond Hkchcock in "The Beauty Shop," while vivacious little "Tempest" went en tour in the successful vaudeville sketch "One of the Boys." "Sunshine and Tempest" are to be united again this season. They will both appear in the Dillingham production of "Stop! Look! and Listen!" at the Hippodrome. As motion picture players the charming young actresses are great successes. Their clear cut beauty, their alertness and their ready intelligence give them more than the average screen value. "Sunshine and Tempest" will be the third three-reel feature made by the Gaumont company under the title of Rialto brand. LION "RESCUES" KATHLYN WILLIAMS IN SELIG OCTOBER RELEASE "A Sultana of the Desert," a Selig special in two reels, written by and featuring Kathlyn Williams, will be released in Selig regular service on Monday, October 4. Miss Williams will be seen making a pet of a gigantic African lioness and associating with other wild animals of the jungle. "A Sultana of the Desert" deals with Oriental life, showing how the daughter of a wealthy Oriental escapes from captivity only to fall into the clutches of a bandit. How she is rescued by an African lion, and KATHLYN WILLIAMS AND THOMAS SANTSCHI IN "A SULTANA OF THE DESERT" (Selig) how later she is given into the arms of her faithful lover, furnish a succession of thrills. Thomas Santschi assumes the leading masculine role in the support of Miss Williams. FIFTEEN CASKETS ARE USED IN HOYT COMEDY, "A MILK WHITE FLAG" Fifteen caskets are used in a scene in the adaptation of the Hoyt comedy, "A Milk White Flag," which is being made into a Red Seal play at the Chicago studios of the Selig Polyscope Company. The frights which many of those about the studio are receiving are very humorous, for the caskets have given the practical jokers a longwaited opportunity. QUALITY COMPANY SEEKING SNOW SCENES FOR "PENNINGTON" The Quality Pictures Company headed by Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, and consisting of Lester Cuneo, Helen Dunbar, Frank Bacom and Director W. J. Bauman, are invading the snow-capped peaks and valleys of Mount Shasta, California, in search of North Canadian snow scenes for "Pennington's Choice." The company went to Sisson, California, and from there to the mountain by stage. It is expected that it will take them fully one week to make the exterior scenes necessary, during which time they will remain in the winter climate. New records for production were made at the Quality studio in the filming of "A Corner on Cotton" featuring Marguerite Snow, the five reels being completed in less than thirteen days. Previous production required from five to seven weeks,, and as a result of this added efficiency, Don Meany, manager of productions, has been receiving compliments from the principals of the organization. HANDWORTH DIRECTS TWO FEATURES AT LAKE PLACID FOR VITAGRAPH Vitagraph Director Harry Handworth has just returned from Lake Placid, NewYork, where he has been busy with two feature productions, "Anselo Lee" and "Gone to the Dogs." The company assisting Director Handworth in these productions included Antonio Moreno, Naomi Childers, Helen Relyea, Donald Hall, Frankie Mann and Billie Billings. "BOBBIE" THEW (in Fox Productions)