Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

July 22, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 421. Los Angeles shortly to work in Fine Art pictures for Triangle release. The first will be made under the direction of Chester W'ithey, who has just completed " The Hj-pochondriac." " Macbeth," Sir Herbert Tree's first film subject, is announced to be ha\-ing very successful runs in the larger cities. Tully Alarshall is to play his first comedy part since making his screen debut. He has been cast to co-star with Fay Tincher in a Triangle comedy which will be directed by Eddie Dillon, who will also take part. The storj" is from the pen of Anita Loos. A series of five or six one-reel comedies is to be made by the E. & R. people under the general title of " Xap and Sally in the !Movies." The first one, made last week, will ser\"e as an introduction to the balance, but each will be separate and complete within itself. In the current production, the owner of the chimps, a stranded actor, decides to try the pictures, and arrives at the studio just when the ten thousand dollar a week leading woman has received a dismissal because of temperamental qualities, and the leading man has been kicked off the lot for failure to follow instructions. Sally and Xap get into the game, and the director finds that he has really found a couple of regular players. Besides the chimps, Director J. J. Franz, Constance Johnson, \'irginia Ames, Chas. J. LeMoyne, Harr\ ^IcLernon, and a bevy of classic dancers appear in the production. Roscoe Arbuckle and his company, who were expected in Los Angeles during the coming week from the East, where they have been making pictures for the past five months, will remain at the Fort Lee studio to make another picture. In trj-ing to save one of the Keystone diving girls from injur}-, Fritz Schade sustained a broken arm while playing in a scene at the edge of the large tank at the studio. This is the first real injury which has befallen this Keystone comedian — except the 942,670 bruises. A Hard Hitter Makes Song Hit Chuck Reisner, former prize fighter and vaudeville actor, comedian at the Keystone plant, has written a song entitled " Let's Get Together." It has to do with the calling of the " boys " to the colors. Harry McCoy has composed the music to the song, which is said to have made a decided hit at the Pals Club last Saturday night, where it was sung for the first time. Frank Grifiin, Keystone director, who has been in Xew York City for a few weeks, has returned to Los Angeles and taken charge of his compam of comedians. John B. Glavey, who has been connected with the Keystone scenario department, has been selected as secretary and general assistant to Managing Editor and Assistant manager of Production Hampton Del Ruth. Universal Director Clifford Elfelt is producing the one-reel subject titled "The Weapons of Bill Murrell," or " The Weapons of Love." It is a story of a long existing feud between two clans. The story is by Haseburg Liebe, scenario by Olga Printzlau, and was originally published in the Popular Magazine under the title of " The Weapons of Bill Murrell." Directress Lule \\'arrenton of the Universal Company is producing a one-reel comedy with her juvenile players, entitled " Too }kluch Pie." George Hupp appears as Billy; Irma Sorter, his sister, and Elizabeth Janes, John Starling and Dorothy Clark complete the cast. Universal Director Joseph LeBrandt is producing the one-reel picture entitled " As the Candle Burned," written by himself. Jean Hersholt, Irene Hunt and Billy ^lason play the three principal parts. The story concerns an old man who, upon opening an old cash box, after he has been given notice hy his landlady that he is to be taken to the pcorhouse, takes out the keepsakes one by one and in memory relives his past life. In the end he dies just as the officers come to take him away. The eternal triangle again serves for a plot in the one-reel L'niversal subject. "Pedro Passes," written and and being produced by Francis Powers. The stor\ is laid in a small Portuguese village. The " other man " is finally driven from the village b}" the husband, and once more the little familj is happy. "William Lowery plays the part of the husband, a thrift} gardener; Agnes A'ernon, the pretty young wife ; !May Dirace, their child Caroline, and Harry Morris, the " other man." Eccentric Zoologist Dreams in a " U " The dream of an eccentric zoologist, which portra}-s his encounters with wild men and beasts of the jungle, is pictured in the one-reel L'niversal comed}-, " The ^Missing Link," written by Frank Wiltermood and being produced by Beverly Griffith. Mctor Potel as the zoologist, and Joe !Martin, a wise orang-outang, are the principals of the cast. " ^Maybelle of the Pictures " is a L'niversal one-reel, written and being produced by William V. ]\Iong, who also plays a principal part. Maybelle is a hard-working extra girl, who saves all the money she can to pay for the home in which she and her young husband reside. She arrives home one day and finds her husband robbing her bank. After failing in her attempts to reform him, she goes to a small village to rest. Here she is recognized by a farm hand as a picture actress and later insulted. After being shown the wrong he has done, the farm hand becomes the will ing slave of the girl, and later saves her from being insulted by her former husband, who comes to the village with a small theatrical troupe. Peggy Coudray, William C. Carlock and Joe Ryan, with the director, make up the cast. U Director Frank Ormston is producing a story written by himself, scenario for which was prepared hy Calder Johnstone, entitled " Felix Plays Detective." Family fortunes, mistaken identitj", lovers, a detective and a thief create the action for this picture. After manj distressing incidents, the lovers are united, the thief taken charge of by the detective, and all ends well. The cast is composed of George Felix, Frank Stapples, Alargaret Whistler, George Odell, Viola Lind and Edith Roberts. " The Breaking of Cactus Moore," threereel Universal subject, tells the story of a hard, revengeful westerner, who, after years of undying hatred for the man who married the girl he loved, is brought face to face with his real self, when he appears as an unbidden guest at the marriage of his son and the daughter of his enemy.' William V. Mong wrote and produced the subject, and also plays the name part. His supporting cast includes Lydia Titus, Joe Ryan, E. F. Power and Peggy Coudray. Rivalr> for the position of foreman of the Hard Rock mines and the hand of the mine boss' daughter, and a mine explosion, serve for the plot of " Hard Rock Is Hard Rock." Ultimately the winner of the posi-tion of foreman, who is also the hero of the mine explosion and loser of the fight, is the successful suitor for the girl's hand. The story was written hy Calder Johnstone, and is being produced by L'niversal Director George Rice. The cast is composed of George Pierce, James Farley and Jane Bernoudx . The company is at Bear Lake for scenes for this picture. Universal Child Players in a " U " The Universal child players are appearing in the one-reel stor\-, " The Little Musician and His Wife," a featured part of which is Phillip, taken by John Sterling, which is of the nature of a character part, he being a son of Italy who but recently arrived in New York. Directress Lule