Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

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September 30, 1916 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 2021 THE EASTERN STUDIOS T" mimiIi'|PIiiIIIi''Tl»''»'"''i'™!'i'i'i™™'"l""""" i'i!ip[iii||iiin[l'llin[lil'if[lll[[i|lil"liiiiiniil[ll|niyi'[| FINISHING touches are being put on " Less Than the Dust " this week and present indications are that Mary Pickford's first play for Artcraft Pictures Corporation will be ready weil in advance of the October date set for release. The work of cutting and assembling will begin at once, and then rapid progress will be made on the preliminary set of prints which the sixteen exchanges in the United States and Canada will require at once. This first shipment will total eighty prints of the Hector Turnbull story, which has been produced under the direction of John Emerson. For the filming of the big spectacular scenes of the play a complete replica of a modern city of India was erected on Long Island. The manuscripts called for a cast of nearly principals. Temporary barracks and commissary were constructed for the comfort of the hundreds of extras whose services were required in the large ensembles and for the convenience of Mr. Emerson and his staff. In spite of the convenience afforded by their being on the ground at all times the demands of the story kept them in service several weeks and helped to swell the total cost of " Less Than the Dust," and make it one of the most expensive short features ever produced. When cut and assembled " Less Than the Dust " will provide an evening's entertainment. Henry B. Walthall is now on his third trip to the Manitouwish waters of Upper Wisconsin in pursuit of the knowing muskie. On. his first trip he caught several. On the second he took his brother along to show him how it was done, and didn't catch anything. Now, in order to stop the latter from laughing at his fail ure as a fislierman, he has made another trip. When he returns to the Essanay studios preliminary work on his new play will be complete and work of construction will commence. Richard C. Travers and Marguerite Clayton are starting work at the Essanay studios in a new two-reel production, " Borrowed Sunshine." Harry Dunkinson will soon be seen in a two-act Essanay comedy, for which he furnished the idea. The corpulent comedian has been an ardent swimmer all summer, and he conceived a comic plot on a none too efficient nor intrepid life-saver who saves no lives but gets a lot of credit. The picture is entitled, " The Lifesaver." On account of the infantile paralysis in New York, W. Christy Cabanne, the director who has just joined Metro, did not bring his wife and children with him when he came East from California. Mr. Cabanne has taken a home in Englewood, N. J., where he will live as soon as his family arrives. His two children are Vivien Christy Cabanne and Florence Turner Cabanne. Harbaugh Takes Company to Steel Mills Carl Harbaugh, the director who recently joined the Metro staff of producers, and who is directing Nance O'Neil in " The Iron Woman," a picturization of the novel of the same name written by Margaret Deland, took his company of players to Bethlehem, Pa., where many of the important scenes were photographed in a big steel plant there. World Film Director Emile Chautard is spending several days in Washington, D. C, with Doris Kenyon, Gerda Holmes, Frederick Truesdell and Ralph Delmore, principal members of the cast supporting Robert Warwick in " The Man Who Forgot." Gail Kane, Arthur Ashley and twenty other players in " The Man She Married," a new World-Brady photoplay in the making, were the guests of Peter Winchester Rouss one day last week on board his yacht Winchester, said to be the fastest privately owned vessel afloat. Scenes were taken in the vicinity of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club. Mr. Rouss is a son of the late Charles Broadway Rouss, who amassed a large fortune by conducting his business along lines directly against accepted commercial principles. He was rated as eccentric, but "got there just the same." Niles Welch, who achieved wide popularity as a leading man with Metro and who was featured with Mary Miles Minter, Ann Murdock and Ethel Barrymorc, has returned to that organization, and is now being filmed in a feature production with Frances Nelson, under the direction of W. Christie Cabanne. Welch was with Metro for about a yea"-, and he will long be remembered for his work in " The Royal Family," " Emmy of Stork's Nest" and "The Kiss of Hate." When the World Film produced " The Crucial Test," with Kitty Gordon, Welch was especially selected by William A. Brady to play opposite her. Following his World engagement, Welch went with Universal, and played opposite Mary Fuller and Violet Mersereau. McGill Again in Harness Lawrence B. McGill, the Arrow-Pathe director, who has been spending the past several weeks at his ranch at Waldo, Flor., has returned to New York to resume di Two of the Pretentious Scenes in the Metro Production of " Romeo and J uliet," with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. Procession Bearing Juliet to the Tomb; (Right) the Capulet's Ball at Which Romeo First Meets Jjliet (Left) the Funeral