Motion Picture News (May-Jul 1916)

May 20, 1916. MOTION PICTURE NEWS I Illillilllllllilliiiilllllllllliiillll^ IMi!l!l!ll[|[|[[[[|[[[|lill!i!lllii[|[[[||[|li^^ 3049 'biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ■liHiiiiiii THE EASTERN STUDIOS THE advent of two weeks of trade shows, calling for the presence of some of the most important stars at booths, balls and parades, has not been allowed to affect the routine at the big studio? in the East. While production is still considerably lighter than it was three months ago, all the studios are working, and the visits of the stars to Grand Central Palace and Madison Square Garden have been so arranged as to prevent interference with any of the work in hand. The Fort Lee studios of Fox, Paragon and Peerless, the Universal Heights studios. Famous Players and Metro are all reported working at usual speed, and a number of attractive new releases are announced as ready. Most of the Gaumont and Thanhouser people who have been working through the winter and spring at Jacksonville, are now back, and will immediately commence work at the New Rochelle and Flushing studios. The last of the Gaumont contingent is due home on May 25. After a visit of almost three months, David Horsley has left New York for the studios at Los Angeles. Besides supervising a number of productions to be released in forthcoming months through Mutual, Mr. Horsley will assume complete charge of the transporting of the collection of Bostock animals to the East. These animals, with their trainers, headed by Captain Jack Bonavita, will be a featured attraction of Luna Park during the coming season. A specially equipped train, comprised ol twelve cars, will be used in the transportation of the collections, pne of the largest in this country. First appearance of Gertrude McCoy, the Gaumont-Mutual star, on Broadway, after an absence of six weeks in Jacksonville, Fla., was marked by a series of adventures, which unfortunately no cameraman was on hand to photograph. Adventures of Gertrude in Two Reels Adventure No. 1 happened at Fiftieth street and Broadway, when a driver of a heavily-laden truck drove his team into the rear of Miss McCoy's automobile, smashing the fender and otherwise mussing up the machine. Miss McCoy, thoroughly angered, gave chase and soon a corps of sympathetic motorists joined her. Miss McCoy caught up with the driver at Ninth avenue and Fiftieth street, and, jumping from her machine, held the driver until the arrival of a minion, of the law. Adventure No. 2 occurred a few minutes later, when Miss McCoy, still at the wheel, drove her machine into a jam of traffic, colliding with the rear of a trolley. Further damage, that will compel the car to remain in "dead storage" for a time, resuJted. "Come North at the first approach of the hot weather," was the text of a telegram sent Director Edwin Middleton, in charge of the Gaumont-Mutual players at Jacksonville, by General Manager F. G. Bradford, a few days ago. "It can't come too soon for me," replied Middleton. Sidney J. Vaughn, who has acted all winter as office manager for the Gaumont company at Jacksonville, Fla., will come North with the Gaumont stock companies at the end of May. To Mr. Vaughn will probably be assigned many of the technical details of production. Dorothy Bernard, the William Fox star, is the honor guest at the Cleveland Leader's motion picture ball. The Cleveland newspaper is making much of the popular player, and during her stay in Cleveland has arranged many receptions in her honor. Director Will S. Davis, Fuller Mellish and an entire company of William Fox stars and players have departed for Savannah, Ga., where they will spend the next two weeks completing Virginia Pearson's third picture since she joined the Fox organization. Two beautiful and clever children, William and Ethel Stewart, are appearing with Theda Bara in a new William Fox photoplay. This is their first appearance in a Fox film. "The Light of Dusk" is the title of the feature photoplay undertaking announced by the Lubin company on which work was started this week in the Philadelphia studios. This will represent another departure by the Lubin company from the field of novels and stage dramas as subjects for screen plays. "The Light of Dusk" is from an original scenario by Anthony P. Kelly. The direction has been entrusted to Edgar Lewis, who has just completed Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman's photoplay, "The Toilers," for the Lubin company. A real alligator fight, one of the rarest things seen by human eyes, was caught by the cameraman of the Mirror Films, Inc., during the recent trip of an organization from that company to Jacksonville, Fla., and will be seen on the screen in a coming Nat Goodwin comedy put out by the Mirror. Charles Roe Keilty, a former newspaper advertising man, who has been acting as purchasing agent for Mirror, is going to be an actor. That is, he is if he cares to, He was dragged into a Nat Goodwin scene in an emergency at the Mirror studio, and played the "bit" so v/ell that he has been offered a small part in the next picture which is begun at the studio. Cunningham Made Studio Manager Jack Cunningham, formerly telegraph editor of the New York Sun, who has been handing out the publicity matter printed about Mirror, has been made studio manager of the Mirror studio at Glendale, Long Island. He will continue to handle the publicity. Hector J. Streyckmans, the recent studio manager, has been made as WILLIAM GILUETTE IN A SCENE FROM THE ESSANAY PRODUCTION OF "SHEHLOOK HOLMES'