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October 21, 1916
STUDIO DIRECTORY
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HOBART BOSWORTH
Starred in
The Sea Wolf Odyssey of the North
Monte Cristo The White Scar
The Iron Hand
ADELE FARRINGTON
(Mrs. Hobart Bosworth) Leading Woman and Comedienne UNIVERSAL FILMS
(For Additional Information See Biography Section)
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I HENRY McRAE, DADDY OF STUNT PICTURES
WITH but one or two exceptions, Henry Alexander (Napoleon) McRae is one of the best known motion picture directors in the country.
Whenever you see "stunt" pictures, you immediately think of McRae, for it was he who made them popular. It was McRae who devised so many features and thereby introduced the "feature film" to the world.
Mr. McRae is an actor of the old school. Immediately upon his graduation in Ontario, Canada, he joined a stock company, but remained with it only two years. He advanced too fast to remain in stock very long. He formed his own company and married his leading woman, Margaret Oswald. Later he went to Seattle, where he operated a stock house. From there he went to Portland in the same capacity; then to Sacramento, and finally to San Francisco.
Mr. McRae was one of the brave men who was not afraid to take a stock company across the ocean. He played with his companies in Japan and Hawaii and the Orient. He has always been successful.
His moving picture career began when he joined Selig in Chicago in the early stages of the industry. He saw that there was a future in the business even at that time, and for a year he directed some of Selig's most successful dramas. Then he joined Universal and began putting on animal pictures. In this he proved himself the greatest of all animal directors. His "stunt" pictures attracted the attention of the heads of Universal City, as well as other motion picture producers, and after three years McRae was made director-general of all the Western Universal companies.
He remained in charge of Universal here until the work became too strenuous, when he retired to direct his own company, at which he has been eminently successful.
Mr. McRae is in love with his work. His head is chock full of ideas and he never rests. He is one of the hardest working men at Universal City. During his regime at Universal City, he has written 241 stories, which he produced, and cut all but ten of them. He has directed more than 310 photoplays since he went to the Universal, and during his three years' work with this company, has not had a day off.
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