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August 5, 1916
MOTION PICTURE NEWS
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premiere in the pictures she played on the legitimate stage in a " Celebrated Case," " Top o' the 2^Iorning " and " Somewhere Else."
She had the leading role in " The Littlest Rebel." Signor Scotti paid her a great tribute of attending the performance and presenting her with a bouquet.
Caruso has promised little Violet that he will not retire from the operatic stage until he has sung " Rudolph " to her " Mimi " in " La Boheme," so the dainty eleven-yearold cannot wait until the years fly by. Miss de Biccari will be seen this fall in a new production by Arthur Hopkins.
Two treadmills, costing $500 each, were installed in the William Fox studios for close-ups on the racing scenes in the new William Fox photoplay. The horses were placed on these mills, with jockeys mounted, and the cameras began. Burn Landmark of a Fox
Hundreds of persons in Long Island City rubbed their eyes incredulously one night last week, as they passed an historic site near Jackson avenue. In the morning the old Thomas homestead, which has stood on the street for nearly a hundred years, had been there. In the evening nothing remained but blackened ruins and scorched ground.
Under the supervision of Director Kenean Buel of the William Fox forces, the wreck of the house has been accomplished in the interim for a scene in Virginia Pearson's latest picture.
A battalion cliief of the fire department, two police captains and officials of the Bureau of Combustibles and a crowd of more
Jeanette Rutland in "Temptation and the Man," Universal
than S.OCO other spectators were present when the electric battery connecting it with the dynamite charge of twenty-five pounds was touched.
John G. Adolfi, Fox director, who introduced June Caprice, the new William Fox star to the screen world in " Caprice of the Mountains," has completed his second June Caprice picture, "Little Miss Happiness," and is beginning to picturize another with the child star. This makes the fifth Adolfi picture with William Fox since last November.
Clarence J. Harris of the Wiliam Fox staff, is writing his third June Caprice story.
The Reserve Photo Plays Company, featuring Johnny and Emma Ray, are making a three-reel picture at the Randall Race Track this week called " Casey on the Grand circuit." The film includes pictures of the leading drivers, the winning horses and the enthusiastic audiences. This is the first three-reel picture of the Reserve Photo Plays Company. Borrows Device from Screen
The Reserve Company has just completed its first two-reel picture, " Casey in Mexico," and the company is now enjoying a two weeks' vacation until the new studio is completed. As soon as work is resumed in the new quarters, they will hold a reception to which the public will be invited.
and in this case, in addition to showing the action in Steve's room and in the Harrington living room, it embraces the activities of Taylor, the customs official, who is unwittingly setting the scene for an early fall on his own behalf. Taylor is out in the Harrinaton garden with his men, wait
Mae Fisher, Who Will Soon Desert Vaudeville for the Screen
When " Under Cover " was winning fame for Roi Cooper Megrue, its author, at the Cort theatre. New York, one of the interesting novelties about this international detective story was the fact that the action which was portrayed on the stage was not consecutive. That is, in the midst of the exciting action which took place in Stephen Denby's room in the Harrington home he smashed an automatic burglar alarm on the wall and the curtain fell. The ringing of the alarm in the house brought the people upstairs on the run and the action proceeded from there as a unit, so far as the time was concerned.
This is what is called the "flash-back" in motion picture parlance, and Mr. Megrue was declared to have scored a novelty by borrowing this device from the screen. Now " Under Cover " has been adapted for the screen by the Famous Players Film Company, with Hazel Dawn and Owen Moore in the roles of Ethel Cartwright and Stephen Denby, and the "flash-back" is found in its natural habitat, once more lending its aid to the suspense of the story.
But on the screen the " flash-back " has an even wider range than on the stage,
A Silhouette Portrait of Billie Burke, the George Kleine Star
ing for the signal from Ethel Cartwright that she has found the necklace in Steve's room. When Steve accidentally gives the signal himself, the action in all three places begins simultaneously and the camera is kept busy covering them all.
One of the first manifestations of the summer vacation for the schools was the little groups of youngsters who began appearing outside of the Famous Players studio in the mornings to watch their screen idols arrive for the day's work before the camera. The appearance of Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick and the other stars is the signal for a general disturbance on the part of the youngsters, and many breathless exclamtions of rapture.
Some Garb for Ford
Hugh Ford, who has always been noted for the comfort of his attire rather than for the Beau Brummelesquesness of his wardrobe, startled the Famous Players forces by arriving at the studio the other day arrayed in the most resplendent of silk suits. The celebrated director, when chided upon his sudden reformation, remarked that he was afraid that he might even fall as low as to wear white shoes unless the heat wave subsided.
Director Joseph Kaufman has returned to the Famous Players studio, looking brown as the proverbial berry after a complete rest of five weeks. Kaufman worked himself into a state of complete exhaustion during the production of " The World's Great Snare," in which Pauline Frederick starred on the Paramount Program, and retired to the celebrated Muldoon Farm, where the wrestler put him through the paces that are guaranteed to kill or cure. They cured.
One of the screen's great mysteries has been cleared up — the handsome man who played the assistant detective in the Fa