Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

July 15, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 243 Marie Walcamp in the star part, Jack Holt, Neal Hart, Bertram Grassby, Raymond Nye, L. ^M. ^^'ells, Maude Emory, Roy Stewart, and a score or more of Universal champion cowboys. The story throughout the serial will deal with the abduction of an American heiress from a vast estate in Mexico left her by her father. Director George Rice has taken up the making of a one reel stone quarry subject, with George Pearce, James L. Farley and Jane Bernoudy as principals. It has heen entitled " Hard Rock." William Garwood, who upon coming to the west coast was made director of a company, is in charge of filming " The Worm." It is a story of a " grind " at college, the butt of many jokes by his schoolmates, who finally turns and wins the day. Besides Garwood, who plays the leading part, Lois Wilson has been cast to appear as leading woman, and Edward Brady as heavy. W^hile waiting the arrival of his wardrobe, Ben Wilson has taken up the filming of a five reel picture for the Universal entitiled, "What Doth It Profit A Man?" It deals with a present day business man who overlooks giving his family the attention they should receive, in order to complete his conquest in the financial world. Neva Gerber, Malcolm Blevins, Carl Von Schiller, and A. B. Ault will be the principals in the picture. Tom Walsh has been named assistant to Wilson. Frank D. Ormston, art director at the Universal, has become a director, and will film a series of one reel comedies with Edith Roberts and Gorge Felix as principals. Miss Roberts has played in a number of Imp and Red Feather subjects, and is spoken of as the youngest leading woman of the screen, she being but fourteen years of age. Felix, with this series makes his debut to the screen, his previous experience having been on the vaudeville stage. He is a brother of Joseph deGrasse, Universal director, and Sam deGrasse of the Fine Arts stock company. The first picture to he made by Joseph LeBrandt, who recently arrived at U City from New York, is to be entitled "As The Candle Burns."' It is to consist of one reel, and the principals will be Irene Hunt and Gene Hersholt. It's "Easy Money" for the Nestorites The Nestorites are filming " Easy Money," in which Eddie Lyons appears as the young man sent from home by his father because of his escapades. He falls in with ^loran as Potts, the detective, who is working on an investigation of the rise in the price of beer for the association of stevedores. This brings to light that the young man's father is the cause of the beverage going up, and he pays his son and the detective well to forget what they have discovered. Incidentally this makes it possible for the son to continue his love affair with his father's ward, Marcia Moore. With the completion of this, Lee Moran will dig out his favorite corset, for he is next to appear in " He Maid Me." It's all about an election bet in which one agrees to do any stunt the other suggests if he lose, and so Lee becomes the maid in the home of the winner. The " Timothy Dobbs " series, number seven, takes the would-be photoplayer. Carter DeHaven, to the role of a ribbon counter clerk. As such he sells a quantity to a movie star, and gets into the studio to deliver it, thus securing another opportunity to show the directors what he can do as an actor. Two of the series of one reel stories featuring Vola Smith, made by Director Clifford Elfelt, have been completed. One is " The Song of the Woods," and the other " The Poet's Story." The supporting cast for both of these include RajTuond Nye, Mark Robbins, Edwin Brown and Charles Gunn. A burlesque, " Her Dramatic Career," is being filmed by Joker Director Allen Curtis from a scenario by Ben Cohn, which gives Gale Henry the part of an amateur playwright with great ambitions. An actor without funds learns her secret, and she becomes angel, leading woman, and dramatist as the result of his persuasion. He leaves with the box-office receipts, and she is then forced to find her former lover, the small town undertaker, constable and squire. Another one reel picture being filmed is titled " The Devil's Own." It is a western melodrama with Harry Carey, Olive Fuller Golden and Joe Rickson. George E. Marshall is in charge of filming the subject. Director George Cochran is making a one reel subject "By Conscience' Eye," a drama in which an ambitious wife starts to elope, but finding a plaything of her child, is brought to realize the importance of her act and returns home and there is a happy reunion. Rex D. Roselli, Marjorie Ellison, Maxfield Stanley, and Little Virginia Corban are the principals. Cleo Madison Gives Up Her Company Cleo Madison, who has been directing for more than a year has given up her company and is to appear in five reel Universal photoplays. The first is titled " The Chalice of Sorrow," or " A Reincarnation of Tosca," which was written, and is being produced by Rex Ingram. Miss Madison appears in the part of an American prima donna 'singing at the City of Mexico, where she becomes the central figure in an international difficulty, because of a Mexican governor becoming infatuated with her. A particularly strong cast has been selected as supporting members in this, the list including Charles Cummings, John McDermott, Blanche White, Wedgewood Howell, Howard Crampton, Albert MacQuarrie and Rhea Haines. May Gaston, who has always appeared in parts depicting a sweet disposition, is portraying another characterization for the camera as the woman who married the first man she met to spite her lover. This photoplay is titled " The Spite Husband." The woman has wealth and lets the man know he is to be husband in name only, but Crane Wilbur is an artist, appears as too good a lover, and so, they fall in love. Robert Broadwell is being held responsible for the direction, and Jessie Barnett and Claude Mortenson make up the cast. Elsie M. Kallahan, who recently came out from New York, has contributed her first scenario to the David Horsley staff. It is " Fate's Decision,' and teaches a lesson to Mr. Business Man who forgets he has a family until he discovers another man is taking his place. William Clifford is the husband, Margaret Gitson, the butterfly wife, and Fred Montague appears in the character role. Bessie Barriscale is next to be seen in the role of an ambitious daughter of a small town mill worker, in the Ince Triangle drama " The Payment," which is referred to as among the strongest works of C. Gardiner Sullivan. The moral of the drama is " No matter how small the price demanded for wrong-doing, it is too high." The drama deals a blow to married men who bargain with struggling