Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

2674 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 17 Walthall, playing the part of a master surgeon, were Chicago specialists, obtained to play in the picture so that its realism would be above question. The most recent addition to the International's roster of screen stars is Miss Evelyn Fariss, a young Southern girl. Miss Fariss will appear in several of the episodes of " Beatrice Fairfax," in support of Harry Fox and Grace Darling. She is but 18 years old and was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was educated at private schools in Louisville, Ky., where she afterwards lived, finishing at the Sweetwater Academy, at Sweetwater, Tenn. Three years ago, Miss Fariss came to New York, and two weeks after her arrival made her stage debut as a member of the cast of " High Jinks." She was so successful that she was placed under contract by Oliver Morosco and appeared in " Pretty Mrs. Smith." Miss Fariss then went into motion pictures, playing prominent parts in "Jim, the Penman," " The Masqueraders," " The Morals of Marcus," and " The Little Beggar." Just prior to joining the International organization, she appeared as co-star with Thomas Wise in " The Magic Bottle." Hattie Delaro has been engaged to play the part of the housekeeper in " The Sunbeam," the Metro-Rolfe feature play chosen for Mabel Taliaferro as a successor to " The Dawn of Love." Miss Delaro, who is well known both to stage and screen, having played in every branch of the profession both here and abroad, has also been seen in " The Quitter," " The Upheaval," and other Metro productions. The Shaker play, " The Gates of Eden," in which Viola Dana will soon appear on the Metro program, is from the pen of a clergyman. Rev. William E. Danforth,^ now of Indianapolis, but formerly of Chicago. Mr. Danforth has made a life-long study of Shakerdom. John H. Collins is directing the feature production. Cabanne Has Personal Staff W. Christy Cabanne, who will direct the fourteen-episode serial in which Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne will be starred for the Metro program, brought his own personal staff of assistants with him from California to New York. Eugene Thurston will be his assistant director, R. J. Huntington his business manager, Millie Richter, film cutter, and William Fildew, cameraman. They have already assisted him in the production of " Love, Honor and Obey," a five-reel photodrama, in which. Frances Nelson is the star. Pierre Le May, leading man in Metro productions, has arranged to appear in a Broadway stage production which will not necessitate his leaving New York. He was cast for a prominent role in one of Willard Mack's new plays, but gave it up when he found that he would have to go to Chicago where the play will have its premiere. He will now be able to continue his work on the screen during his New York engagement Harold Entwistle, who plays Wilfred Templeton, the father, in the first Metro wonder play, entitled " Love, Honor and Obey," directed by W. Christy Cabanne, is himself a director, having acted in that capacity for the California Motion Picture Corporation. Frances Nelson is starred, and Niles Welch featured, in the new production. In " The Honor of the Waynes," starring Robert Warwick, the male character of second importance will be played by Henry Hull, the young actor who has attracted remarkably favorable comment by his interpretation of the leading part in " The Man Who Came Back," at the Playhouse. This will be Mr. Hull's first appearance as a motion picture player. Emile Chautard is directing "The Honor of the Waynes " for the World Film Corporation. " The Gilded Cage," new World-Brady picture, with Alice Brady in the star role, recounts the stirring adventures of a young princess reared in a convent and on a moment's notice called to the throne through the assassination of her father and mother, the king and queen. Completely innocent of every form of guile, she is plunged headlong into the intrigue and miscellaneous wickedness of the court, and, disguising herself as a peasant girl, she goes out among the people to learn the secret of their discontent. While thus engaged she encounters many perils, and for a time loses her liberty, but in the end gains a true lover and recovers her throne. Story of " The Hidden Scar " In " The Hidden Scar," starring Holbrook Blinn and Ethel Clayton, the heroine is a beautiful young cabaret dancer, who fancies she is without a heart and goes the pace. Through inheritance from an elderly rounder who has been fond of her, she becomes the owner of a residence in a rural community, puts the gay life behind her and falls in love with a minister's son, whom she marries. When the real facts become known to the husband and his parents, the application of the Saviour's teachings becomes a very big problem in the household, and many emotional moments follow. The crisis in the lives of husband and wife is turned toward their future happiness through the earnest efforts of a free-thinker, impersonated with much force by Mr. Blinn. A Brady-AIade World Film photoplay. The principal character of " The Man Who Forgot," to be played by Robert Warwick for the World-Brady pictures, is a hard drinker who goes on a desperate spree and loses his identity. He then becomes an ardent and effective prohibitionist, enters Congress and leads the movement to which he is attached. In one scene he harangues a great throng from the Capitol steps, and for photographing this episode the World people advertised in the Washington newspapers inviting the public to participate in a motion picture. It is not easy to secure permission from the War Department to use a camera in or near any United States fortification. Edward Jose, of the Astra, found that to be true when he wanted to stage some scenes with Pearl W'hite in an army setting for the new Pathe serial, " Pearl of the Army." After pulling manj wires, Mr. Jose at last secured permission to use Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, and furthermore he was able to get the garrison in his scenes. Among the most elaborate scenes in " An Enemy to the King," in which E. H. Sothern has been working as star for the Greater Vitagraph, was that filmed the other day in a representation of the court of King Henry III. of France. The accessories employed to add to the atmosphere of effete royalty included all sorts of animals — monkeys in gold-laced jack