Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1917)

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4038 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 16. No. 23 Members of the Triangle producing organization, and friends of the film colony, are this week offering consolation to George Chesebro of the Triangle organization, who is mourning the death of his mother which occurred at a Los Angeles hospital early last week. Universal Moves Forward There is no change in the production program at Universal City this week, all of the producing units continuing on subjects started previously. This is the first time in the history of the film municipality that this condition has existed. The last scenes for the Mae Murray subject being made by Robert Leonard, " The Eternal Columbine " will be finished within the next few days, as will also the western photoplay " Back to the Right Trail," which features Harry Carey with Molly Malone. Allen Holubar has started on filming the James Oliver Curwood Canadian gold mine story, " The Girl Who Dared," which has Dorothy Phillips in the featured role, and Wm. Stowell playing the opposite lead. Director Joseph DeGrasse is still working on " The Catamount," with Franklyn Farnum and Edith Johnson, and the Monroe Salisbury and Ruth Clifford western, " The High Card " by Elliot Clawson, will shortly be finished. The serial companies continue, " The Bull's Eye " organization now being busy with the fourth episode, and Director Harry Harvey and " The Mystery Ship " cast working on the tenth. Director Elmer Clifton has completed filming " The Love Claim " starring Herbert Rawlinson and is now engaged in editing the same. Chester Bennett, location director for Universal City, and Gladys Tennyson, .former leading woman of comedy companies, now a member of the dramatic stock were married Thursday, November IS, and have been showered with congratulations by all of the Big U staff. Metro Plans Ahead Inasmuch as the Edith Storey Metro Company under the direction of Tod Browning has completed the last scenes for the first western made subject, "The Legion of Death," plans are now under way for the filming of " Revenge." Western Representative B. A. Rolfe has engaged Wheeler Oakman to play the leading role opposite Miss Storey in this subject and other members of the cast will be selected shortly. This story is from a scenario by H. P. Keeler. The Viola Dana Metro Company in charge of Director John Collins, is spending ten days on the Mojava Desert for exterior scenes of " The Tiger Cat." A big setting has been erected there including an adobe house of large dimensions with a genuine Spanish patio and garden and adjoining buildings. Clifford Bruce is leading man of this organization, and one of the principal roles is taken by Mabel Van Buren. The scenario or screen version was prepared by H. P. Keeler. The Dana Company was accompanied by William Parker, scenario writer, who is preparing the next Dana scenario. It will be titled " The House of Hearts " and is an adaptation from a Myrtle Reed novel, " A Weaver of Dreams." Russell Company Moves After a week of fighting for the imaginary Aztec treasure supposed to be hidden in the manufactured Aztec city near Oxnard, California, the William Russell Company of the American Studio, now producing " In Bad " under the direction of Edward Sloman, have moved on to Brent's Mountain Crag Hotel, where the remainder of the exteriors for this photoplay are to be made. " Big " Bill Russell had the fight of his life in the scenes at the Aztec village, for it was there that his supposed friends turn against him and he fought the entire organization. " Mile. Tiptoe " A new story was taken up by the Mary Miles Minter American Company, which is " Mile. Tiptoe," from the story of the same name by Arthur Berthelet, adapted for the screen by Elizabeth Mahoney. Henry King is continuing as director of this producing unit. A feature of the photoplay is that Miss Minter will wear fashionable gowns in a greater portion of the scenes, but later changes to a backwoods costume. The star will also give a fantastic dance in this photoplay which will be an entirely new feature of her screen work. Tfoollywooft TDooFmm Dec. 8, 1917 NEWS MORE NEWS HEAR YE! HEAR YE! The wildest imagination possible will be required for the reader of HOOKUM if he would guess what a veritable Thesaurus of cleverness is to be given him in an early issue. Every member ot this great photoplay colony centered about our beautiful flower clad village has been enlisted by HOOKUM to make this new feature the greatest conceivable. By it the publishers plan to increase the circulation by such gigantic strides that within the space of a few weeks we can truthfully print across the cover of this magazine " More than a billion readers (more or less) each week." To divulge our plans at this early day would only whet the appetites of our readers to a too great an extent โ€” we fear they could not wait until arrangements could be perfected. This is but an announcement that we have something of a superlative nature to be created by the brain of the brainiest men and women of the fifth estate. Order your copies early ! Welsh : For your information I'm getting up a contest between scenario writers, publicity men, players, directors and executives whereby each will conduct a column in HOOKUM weekly, and contest for a Christmas present as to who presents the breeziest and wittiest column. Will probably start this next week or week after. JESSEN. Fair, for November. Irene Hunt is now taking dancing lessons. Yes, Fanette, Margery Wilson is a titian blonde. Lee Ochs was seen on the front row in one of our streets this week. Walter McNamara is said to be growing a beard. George Beban was fined ten dollars by his director for not wearing a hat needed in a scene out on location. Our own dear G. du Bois Proctor we learn will stay on the gay white way. Pathe couldn't get a better man. R. William Neill has been taking a correspondence course in Western drama through the W. S. Hart film school. " Slim " St. Clair is very uppish here of late and this week went to Pasadena to spend a vacation with highbrow friends. R. Arbuckle has inaugurated a ruling that no more pie throwing shall happen at his studio โ€” Hooverizing one would say. Pete Schmidt flitted in and out of our village of gasoline stations and by postcard authority we have it, he is again before his faithful Underwood. Jack Mower has been presented with a gun by Duke T. Kahanamouku of Honolulu. It was sent for a Christmas present but arrived too early, and Jack just couldn't wait. The Balboa press agent sends us a classified ad., or nearly that bad, concerning Anita King losing her pants. Yes, she has been wearing trousers in her last picture. Bennie Ziedman has been increased in size by a coat of tan accumulated in the Grand Canyon. Some say he has been camouflaging to play the role of an American Indian brave. When Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., was introduced to a new acquaintance as the next vice president of the Famous Players Lasky Corporation, he replied to dad : " Huh, I'd rather be a second lieutenant." C. B. de Mille is press-agented to have killed two moose in New Brunswick, and being satisfied with that amount of the big game, is now on his way to our beautiful land of sunshine, fruit and flowers. ยป Haydon Talbot wants to know where his wife is. She left Los Angeles on three days' notice to sail with Muriel Starr for Australia to play in " The Bird ot Paradise," and since that he hasn't had her address. Bull Montana has been fighting again. The last time he went for three hours and fifty minutes and then Bill Russell stepped in and stopped him, fearing Bill and the opponent would overdue themselves. A sign in a Hollywood boulevard cafe, near the Triangle Keystone studios : " Eat your lunch here and get Dale(y) Fuller." All of which we claim is a poor kind of a joke, especially if its intended to get business. Henry Sunshine Comedy Pathe Lehrman is going to make a two reel subject featuring Ham Lloyd Hamilton and a fierce leopard. Nobody can tell where he got the leopard. Certainly not a member of the film colony zoo. George Periolat, who is now running around half ashamed of himself because his present part in " Mile. Tiptoe " at the American studio provides that he shall not put on make-up. He insists that it's as bad as doing a savage act. Amy Jerome, according to the week's mistaken identity story, drew two pays in one day. It all happened because Mena Studio Manager Driscoll did not recognize her as she passed the pay window and slipped out the usual five to the extra woman. Nell Shipman had the unique experience of trying to shove a Standard Oil truck up the street with her automobile. Now the universal joint is said to be up in front ot the hood and a portion of the radiator is hanging on the rear of the top. Jack Cunningham is chesty these days. With pride he will point out to his intimate friends that he has three subjects in production, " Betty Takes a Hand," " Limousine Life " and " Real Folks." Seems to be a habit of becoming prolific at the Culver City lot Disregarding all rules of the superstitious, Harry Edwards had the property man swing an 8 x 10 plate mirror about on his set in order to get the proper reflection, and it was cracked from one end to the other. The date of this was November 13, but everything still goes well. Tom Walsh, employment and casting director at the Ince studio, is treasuring the diploma a hairlip man received from a Los Angeles or Hollywood photodramatic college. The journeyman actor insisted upon leaving the valuable piece of paper that Walsh could show it to Mr. Thomas H. Ince. Baby Marie Osborn found it convenient to take some water out of a Diando studio radiator so that she could make mud pies while the company was on location. The chauffeur had to walk two miles to get a bucket and water to fill the tank because she forgot to turn off the stop cock. When a story was sent out that the Christie plant had been leased to another comedy concern film exchange managers and exhibitors began wiring the Christie boys to know if it was true, and now Al. E. claims that it's a darn fine thing to know that you'd be missed and that somebody really cares for you. Harry McCoy, who has been Keystoning for the past three years, has stepped into vaudeville. Friends from the studio numbering about sixty honored him on the first night and did several reel comedy stunts, including the presentation of a beautiful vase (of the break-away type), which was handed to him on the head. Eddie Gribbon has invented a noiseless way of eating soup. His prescription provides that it should be filled up with broken crackers until it becomes of a pulp consistency and the diner shall then use a knife for conveying it to his mouth. Gribbon contends that the oval shape of the spoon is what makes the noise. If the keeper of properties of the Ince studio needs any of the handsome draperies purchased especially for interiors of Fifth avenue palaces he can find them in the private office ot Bert Lennen, who writes publicity at the Ince studios. Lennen has a wonderful office, finished in real classy style, and has gone even one step farther than that โ€” he has tea every afternoon at four.