Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

240 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14, No. 2 KELLY, Anthony P., chief scenario editor, Lubin; b. in Chicago 23 years ago; educ. Loyola, De Paul academies and Perdue Univ. ; reporter, Chicago American, and Examiner; went to Los Angeles, where he sold his first script, a one-reeler, to Vitagraph; after free-lancing until 2 yrs. ago joined Balboa scenario staff; then joined Essanay; a yr. later went to N. Y. for Famous Players ; filmized Channing Pollack's "Little Gray Lady," and " The Ring and the Man," by Cyrus Townsend Brady, for Famous Players ; scenariozed "The Man of the Hour," Bernstein's "The Thief," "Walls of Jericho" for Fox, "Soul of a Woman" for Metro, and numerous others. Studio ad., Lubin, Philadelphia. The Biography of every photo player in the Country will be published absolutely without cost to them in the second Motion Picture Studio Directory (Published by MOTION PICTURE NEWS, Inc.) ISSUED AUGUST 29th, 1916 (Under date of September 9, 1916) We want the biography of every Actor, Actress, Director, Assistant Director, Camera Man, Scenario Writer, Publicity Man and in fact every one at the studios. All you have to do is tear off the Coupon below, fill out and mail NOW — and at the proper time we will send you a biography blank to fill in. If you enclose $2 we will insert your picture (i inch in size) in your biography in the next two Studio Directories and also enter you for a year's subscription to the MOTION PICTURE STUDIO DIRECTORY (published Semi-Annually). COUPON The following ia the address to which you can send me a blank for my biography in the "Stotio Directory." It is understood that this biography costs me nothing. (Cross out the following if no money is enclosed). Also enclosed please find $2 to pay for my cut to be inserted in my biography in the next two Studio Directories and one year's subscription to the Motion Picture Studio Directory (issued twice a year by Motion Picture News, Inc). I will have a photograph in your hands by August 22, 1916, , JAne of Work , (^Continued from page 237) Eleanor Woodruff will shortly be seen on the screen again. Although Miss Woodruff's recent vacation has taken her away from active work she has not been absent from the picture houses, for many pictures in which she played leading parts have been shown, notalDly " Big Jim Garrity," on the Pathe program, and " The Island of Surprise " and " Britton of the Seventh " on the Vitagraph program. The vehicle chosen for her by the Frohman Amusement Company is " Jaffrey," dramatized from the novel by William J. Locke, in which she plays opposite C. Aubrey Smith. Bennett Southard, leading man on the dramatic stage and in motion pictures,, has been engaged to play opposite Mabel Taliaffero, in the Metro production now being made under the direction of Edward Carewe. Mr. Southard's latest engagement _Permanent Address^ Motion Picture Studio Directory, 729— 7th Avenue, New York City Eleanor Woodruff as she Appears in " Jaffery," Frohman was arranged through the Amalgamated Photo Play Service. Mme. Petrova, the Metro star, who began her professional career as a dramatic critic in London, has written her own scenario for a forthcoming production which the Popular Plays and Players will make for the Metro program. Aside from announcing that it is a vital story of to-day, laid in America, and dealing with the new value of sex standards, Mme. Petrova would not discuss the story. Mme. Petrova would not consent to have the production made until she was assured everything she had written in the story will be presented upon the screen. The star recently sold a three-act play, " Salvation," in which she deals with the question of marriage and divorce. It is a breezy document, after the order of the Bernard Shaw plays, in which Mme. Petrova sets forth that a wife should be paid for the work she does in the home, and be considered a business partner in her husband's general affairs. " The Heart of Things," a volume of poems from the pen of Mme. Petrova, will soon be published.