Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

2026 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 1.3 By J. C. Jessen S/^ccia! to Motion Picture News. Los Angeles, Sept. 16. GERALDIXE FARRAR, after completing her work in the twelve-reel subject made by Cecil B. de Mille for Jesse L. Lasky, has departed for the East, to take up another engagement. The picture it is prophesied at the studio, v.ill be the grv'aest de Mille has yet produced from point of size, settings and talent. The cast contains more stage and screen stars than any previously made motion picture of this size. The title for the picture has not been selected, there being several under consideration. Miss Farrar appears in the role of Joan of Arc, supported by Wallace Reid, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, James Neil, Horace B. Carpenter, Charles Clary, Raymond Hatton, Larry Paton, C. H. Geldert, Mrs. Lewis McCord, Lillian Leighton, Ernest Joy, Marjorie Daw, William Koch, and more than fifty others known upon the stage and screen. In all more than four thousand people took part in the production which required more than thirty large sets for interiors and exteriors, and will need five more before other scenes are completed. De Mille will spend about a month making the scenes, and it will be fully a month more before the film is cut, tinted, colored sections made and ready for release. Research work for this film has required the services of several people under the direction of Elizabeth Brock McGaffey for almost a year past. Jeanie McPherson prepared the scenario, combining the various versions of the life and romance of Joan of Arc. The many elaborate sets were made under the personal direction of Wilfred Buckland, and the photography was in charge of Alvin Wyckof?. Members of the Lasky executive staff, and those who took part in the Cecil de Mille twelve-reel feature starring Geraldine Farrar, presented the prima donna with a beautiful silver hand mirror, the last day she worked at the studio. The making of the last scene for the picture, that which will serve to introduce the star in the film subject, was the appropriate time selected for the presentation by Director Cecil de Mille. All members of the Lasky staff gathered on the big stage to see Miss Farrar bow to the audience in real life, and after rehearsals when she called to her maid for her mirror and make-up box, she received the beautiful tribute from the friends she has made at the studio. On the back of the handle of the mirror is an engraving of Miss Farrar as she appears as Joan of Arc. Above this on the ■ mirror proper is an inlaid fleur-de-lis of gold extending the full width of the mirror. About this are the names of those who took part, engraved from their own handwriting. On the front of the handle are the names of the executives of the studio, at the top of which is Cecil B. de Mille. In all there are more than one hundred names on the mirror. "The Vagabond Prime" Prince Tonio and Fluffy are the roles taken by Harry B. Warner and Dorothy Dalton, respectively, in " The Vagabond Prince," Warner's fifth screen starring vehicle, which although filmed two or three months ago, has just been completed at the Ince studios, and shipped East to the factories. The prince is a young nobleman, who comes to America for adventure and falls for Fluff}', a dance hall girl, after numerous adventures, many of which take place in an atmosphere of San Francisco's celebrated Barbary coast. Warner has a reputation as a boxer, which he upholds in this film when he fights Charles K. French and another good-sized actor. Warner's rain of blows kept the two men active, and on their toes during the making of the fight scene. One of the very unusual scenes shown in this which was made when an accident happened shows most of the cast gathered about to celebrate the wedding of the principals with a liquorish feast. In the midst of the scene, an extra girl tapped the plug of a keg of beer, and the explosion that followed, gives a genuine rainstorm scene. J. Frank Burke, Charles K. French and Katherine Kirkwood all have good parts in this story by J. G. Hawks, which was photographed by Dal Clawson. Charles Giblyn is responsible for the direction. Victor Schertzinger, who went East with Thomas H. Ince early in the summer to have charge of the musical program of the New York primier of " Civilization," was given a hearty welcome by members of the producing staff when he returned to the Ince Culver City studios last week. He brought with him the information that the Peace March, portions of which form part of the incidental music for " Civilization " is one of the popular musical hits of the day, and being played in the high-class hotels and cafes. \Vhile in the East, Mr. Schertzinger and Ince collaborated in several compositions for new musical shows. Lina Abarbanell is using three selections in John Cort's production of " Florabella," two are being popularized in Ziegfield " Follies," two by Burt Williams, and Grace Le Rue is singing two in vaudeville. The salary rate for extra people was i The Beauties of the Rolin Comedy Company, | i at Los Angeles. Disporting Themselves as i I Mermaids, While the Camerman Grinds out | I " Luke and the Mermaids " for the Pathe I 1 Program — Left, Mae Cloy: Right, Bebe | I Daniels, Stars of the Company |