Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

August 26, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 1221 llliil III ""I IliiliiBlillllll . ■"■ II ■liiiiii THE EASTERN STUDIOS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THE Famous Players adaptation of Edgar Sehvyn's celebrated stage success, "Rolling Stones," in which Owen !Moore and Marguerite Courtot are being co-starred, has been completed and will be released on the Paramount Program August 21. The adaptation was made under the direction of Del Henderson, and marks that well-known director's first Famous Players picture. When " Rolling Stones " was reaping a harvest in New York, the dramatic critics declared that its popularity was due to the peculiar combination of emotions which the author succeeded in playing upon. The plot runs the gamut of farce, near tragedy, drama and comedy, and it is always the unpected which is happening. With mixed identities, false claims and counter-claims, inheritances at stake, wives spying up on their husbands who are posing as bachelors, and everybody imposing upon everybody else — and with all this punctuated by hold-ups, burglaries and attempted suicides it begins to sound very reasonable for the author to claim a certain variety of plot. One of the chief points of appeal in the picture is the fact that the action transpires for the most part in a boarding house — than which there is nothing which strikes a more responsive chord in the majority of metropolitan breasts. In support of Mr. Moore and Miss Courtot there appear Alan Hale, last seen in support of Pauline Frederick in " The Woman in the Case," Denman Maley, Gretchen Hartman, Ida Fitzhugh and W. J. Butler. Mr. Moore is Dave Fulton, the less aggressive of the rolling stones, whose charming personality makes him very lovable, despite his occasional lapse from the strictest of ethical codes and his crass deception in posing as Jerry Braden. Miss Courtot is Norma Noggs, about whom the whirlpool of fraud centers because, bj'' marrying her under the name of Braden, Dave expects to inherit a fortune — and a candy factory. The candy factory furnishes some of the most exciting and amusing incidents of the play, almost sharing honors with Mrs. Branigan's boarding house. Begin on " Quest of Life " " The Quest of Life " is the title chosen for the debut of the internationally celebrated dancers, Maurice and Florence Walton by the Famous Players Film Company, work on which has already begun under the direction of Ashley Miller. " The Quest of Life," which was adapted by Mr. Miller from the play " Ellen Young," by Edmund Goulding and Gabriel Enthoven, marks not only the debut of Maurice and Walton on the screen, but also the first directorial effort of Mr. Miller in pictures which are to be released on the Paramount program. There is a man in New Jersey who will never know how near he came to being kissed — and by Louise Huff, too. This near-fortunate man is .one of the health officers in a small village just outside of Englewood who stopped a car in which Robert G. Vignola, Nat Deverich, and John Bowers were riding to Piermont with Miss Huff to take a few scenes for the Famous Players-Paramount production, " The Reward of Patience." The officer stopped the car and peered inside. "No minors aboard?" he queried. Then after careful scrutiny — " How about the little girl in the middle?" That is when he narrowly escaped being kissed, for the little girl in the middle was Louise Huff, arrayed in a Quaker costume. J. Searle Dawley is somewhat perturbed over the fate of one of the members of the cast of " Little Lady Eileen," in which the Famous Players are starring Marguerite Clark. This party upset a large jar of glue in the dark and ate it. But since the actor in question is, after all, only a pig, Dawley is somewhat hopeful that he may recover. One of the most remarkable feats which even Pauline Frederick has ever accomplished was performed in the Famous Players star's dressing room the other day ■when she entertained two callers, coached her maid in the pressing of a lacewaist, instructed Maurice and Florence Walton i.i the art of making up for the first time preparatory to taking the initial tests before the camera — and posed for an artist who insisted upon sketching her profile, all at the same time. Outside of that, the star had practically nothing to do. Making Haste Slowly When you see a taximeter revolving on the screen and do not seem to be bumping along the rough road as you watch it, how do you imagine the effect is obtained? If you had been in front of the Famous Players studio the other day you would have seen Robert G. Vignola urging a perspiring taxi chauffeur to spin his front wheel faster, while the man nearly threw himself out of joint struggling with the wheel. Inside the taxi sat a camera man with his machine pointed at the meter. That front wheel, which was connected with the taxi-meter, was jacked up off the pavement and was spinning free. It was all for Louise Huff's next Paramount picture, " The Reward of Patience." The choice by President William L. Sherill, of Booth Tarkington's novel, " The Conquest of Canaan," for the next feature release of the Frohman Amusement Corporation, has given unusual opportunities to Director George Irving because of the dramatic vividness with which the book is written. In the two leading parts, Edith Taliaferro and Jack Sherrill will portray characters that Mr. Tarkington has made as noble as they are original. Through the simple expedient of using two camera men and their paraphernalia in every scene, Albert Capellani, director general of the Clara Kimball Young Film The Mine Room Set Constructed by Albert Capellani, Director-General for the Clara Kimball Young Production of " The 'Common Law "