Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

48 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS RALPH DELMORE Few actors connected with the American stage in the past decade have achieved more distinction in character roles in the modern drama than Ralph Delmore. He is a quiet, studious gentleman, who has made a lifelong study of stage types, and frequently illustrated them through his own histrionism most palpably", but, like many character actors, he has portrayed roles the exact opposite of himself — the blustering malcontent, the ward heeler, the grafter, and all the potential sinners that figure in the drama of modern business life — and has done them so ably and so well that the public had begun to think that he was a true terror. Few men have made a keener, closer study of the drift of modern drama than Mr. Delmore, who recently became associated with the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago as a producer; nor is he inexperienced in this line of work, for he was associated eight months with the Lubin establishment in Philadelphia, working in a particular line of modern plays, that had a large call for types. He has the greatest faith STERLING Motion Picture CAMERA Price No. 2 $350 Price No. 1 250 Including Instruction. This is a Practical Professional Camera fitted with Zeiss Tessar Lens, patent adjustable dissolving shutter and aperture plat opened from outside, with 4-500 ft. magazine. STERLING CAMERA CO. 145 W. 45th Street New York City, N. Y. in motography as a means of dramatic expression, and declares that the art is now upon the threshold rather than attained anything like full flower in its achievements, wonderful as they are. CLIFFORD BRUCE ILL Owing to the severe illness of Clifford Bruce, of the Selig Company, Director Oscar Eagle has been' forced to discontinue work on a number of important scenes on "The Royal Box." On account of the same reason work has been delayed on the great detective play, "The Circular Staircase." A VIVID STORY (Continued from page 17) to five reels. There is a tendency toward monotony during the stay on Endeavor Island, the interest being revived on the death of Larsen. The settings are splendid, and the cast strong. Violet Barry, the only woman, is blessed with a clear field and makes the most of it. The production was shown at the Winter Garden on October 22nd before a representative audience, composed mainly of persons interested in dramatics in various capacities, to the number of about four hundred. The dramatic scenes were very well received. A. D. M. EXHIBITORS!!! What are you going to do in the way of Souvenirs for the HOLIDAYS? THE FAMOUS "Alkali Ike " Dolls On Horses Will Increase Your Business. Order To-Day — $13.50 a Dozen or $1.50 Apiece. ESSANAY FILM MFG. CO. 521 First National Bank Building 1333 Argyle St. Chicago Power's Cameragraph No. 6A The Perfect Moving Picture Machine Efficiency is not of a mushroom growth; it is born of hard labor and study — and wisdom which profits by experience. POWER'S CAMERAGRAPH represents an evolution extending over a period of sixteen years. It is the result of ceaseless thought and research of a Master Mechanical Mind. It stands for the elimination of all the crude and inefficient appliances of the past, and possesses every known feature of worth which present-day knowledge affords. It is manufactured throughout in the largest and best equipped factory of its kind in the world. It receives, as a recognition of its worth, OVER 65% OF THE TRADE BUSINESS OF AMERICA Catalogue D Gives Full Details NICHOLAS POWER CO., 88-90 Gold Street, New York City The Leading Makers of Motion Picture Machines In writing to advertisers please mention "THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS' I