Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

July 15. 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 257 StXlking Poses of Valeska Sviratt, Who Will Be Seen in a New Photoplay for William Fox PRESENTATION MADE ABRAMS AT BOSTON LUNCHEON Sl^ccial to Motion Picture News. Boston. July 1. Hiram Abrams. newl}' elected president of the Paramount, who is a Boston man. was tendered a luncheon by his friends at the Georgean Saturday night, June 24. when he was presented with a silver chest of three hundred pieces. Fox Will Pay Salaries in Full to Employees in Militia He Notifies President Wilson of His Intention to Make Provision for Any of His 10,000 Men of Military Age Who Also May Go Out on Volunteer Call military or naval service of the United States during the Mexican crisis. Mr. Fox has notified his employees WILLIAM FOX, president of the Fox Film Corporation, has notified President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of War Baker, that he and his corporation have granted full pay to every employee who has or will vountarilv enlist in the A Few Sad Ones and a Lot of Funny Ones from General Service Serious Drama and Rollicking Comedy Touch Elbows on the Program for July 10-15 — ■ Policy of Featuring Stars in Short Length Pictures Is Evident This will be followed THE policy of featuring stars in short length subjects as well as in its all its pictures was in e\idence in the General Film Program Jul\ 10-15 inclusive. Selig, Vitagraph, Biograph, Essanay, Lubin, Kalem. Vim and Knickerbocker stars are featured in the forty reels that go to make up the week's entertainment. Selig's "The Milk White Flag" is a three part comedy in which Otis Harlan is supported by Charlotte Minneaux. " Wronp Beds," a Vitagraph comedy in one reel will follow, preceding Selig-Tribune's pictorial story of the big events of the world. This will be followed by a reissue of a Biograph one part film, " The Squaw's Love."" featuring Alabel Xormand, supported by Alfred Paget. Claire McDowell and Dark Cloud. " Otto the Sleuth," a Lubin one part comedy, will close the program with Davy Don and Patsy de Forest as leads. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne will be seen in the first picture screened Tuesday, " The Private OflScer," an Essanay reissue in two parts. This will be followed bv Kalem's " The Baggage Smashers." Then will be shown " The Half Wit," from the Lubin Studio, in two parts, presenting L. C. Shumwav and Helen Eddy. " The Quack Quakers " in one reel, a Kalem production, will be the first picture shown Wednesday. A George .\de fable of " .\ Small Town F"avorite Who was Ruined by too Much Competition " will follow. Blanche Sweet, Lionel Barrymore, Marshal Neilan and Gertrude Robinson will be seen in " Men and Women," a Biograph reissue in three parts, after which a Vim comedy, " Spring Cleaning," in one reel, will be shown. Harry Myers and Rosemary Thelby are featured. " Expiation." a Lubin drama in three reels with Octavia Handworth and E. K. Lincoln dividing chief honors in the cast, will be the first i)icture flashed on the screen Thursday, by Chapter No. 56 of the Selig-Tribune Pictorial News. Then will follow another Vim comedy in one reel, " Spaghetti " of the Plump and Runt Series. " The Dupe," a Knickerbocker Star Feature drama in three reels presenting Virginia Xorden, Frank Mayo and Lillian West, will inaugurate Friday's entertainment. Kalem's " The Wishing Ring," a one part comedy of the Sis Hopkins Series is linked with " The Man From Egypt," a Vitagraph comedy in one part, and " The Great Safe Tangle," a Vim of the same length will be screened. Essanay's "The Secret of the Night" in three reels will lead General Film Service program for Saturday with Lillian Drew and Sidney .\insworth. Lubin will furnish a one reel comedy entitled " Hang on Cowbo)'," after which will be shown a \'itagraph *hree part drama, "The Waters of Lethe." .\n episode of the Hazards of Helen Series, " The Broken Brake," by Kalem will follow. " Legal Advice," a Selig one part comedy in which Tom Mix and Victoria Forde have the leading parts will close the program for the week. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII HE FINDS MORE IN THE " NEWS " THAN ALL OTHER PICTURE TRADE PAPERS COMBINED Motion Picture News, New York City. Dear Sirs: — After accepting your trial subscription, I found that the " News " contained more of the kind of information that I wanted than all the other picture trade papers combined. Yours, Charles Watts, Turck's Movies, Turck, Kansas. II throughout the United States that their salaries will be paid to their families each week, from the day they are mustered into service until they are honorably discharged. Their positions in the corporation will be held open for them until they return, no matter how long they may be required in the service of their country. Many of Mr. Fox's employees have already been mustered into service in the various militia regiments throughout the nation. Many more, who were contemplating joining the regimental colors of the state militia, but were prevented by the fear that their families would suffer financially during their absence, have now signified their intention of joining. Mr. Fox has always been an earnest advocate of Preparedness. His letter to the President follows : New York, June 27. His Excellency, the President of the United States, Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C. Sir: To encourage enlistment in the National Guard or Naval Reserve throughout the United States, in which 10.000 employees of military age of the Fox Film Corporation are distributed, I have provided that the salary of every man in my organization, who has enlisted or will voluntarily enlist for emergency duty, be paid in full for the entire time such employe is in the service of the state or nation. This will guarantee to the families of these men the financial support that is necessary during the time my men are serving their country. In taking this action I feel that I am doing only that which every large employer of men in the United States should do in a crisis such as now confronts us. Financial considerations should be cast aside, and every means of aiding the nation in its hour of need should be taken by the captains of industry in this, the greatest of all nations. That you, as director of this country's destinies, will succeed in piloting us victoriously and with honor through the war clouds that hang so heavily over the Mexican border, I have not the least doubt. And, if the men of my organization may be of some aid in accomplishing this result, it will more than compensate me for any financial cost such aid entails. Respectfully, (Signed) WILLIAM FOX, President Fox Film Corporation. The President replied as follows : The White House, Washington, June 29th My dear Mr. Fox : The President asks me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of recent date, and to thank you for your courtesy in writing him. He deeply appreciates the generous spirit with which the employers of the country are co-operating with the government in the present emergency. Sincerely yours, (Signed) J. TUMULTY, Secretary to the President. The letter of Mr. Fox to the Secretary of War apprised him of his communication to the President.