Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1912)

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152 TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE L. P. C, Youngstown. — You are right. Miss Lillian Walker was the coquette and Miss Helen Gardner the nurse in Vitagraph's "The Inherited Taint." E. R., Chicago. — Selig did not make "The Trapper's Daughter." Vitagraph and Reliance have used that title recently. Which do you mean? Mr. Anderson is not a cowboy turned actor, but the reverse. P. L., Sanford. — Miss Nelson was still with the Lubin Company the last we heard, but there have been many changes lately. M. G., Chicago. — Miss Mary Pickford was the Majestic's Little Red Riding Hood. F. P., Hoboken. — We never heard of a picture being made in Paterson. (2) Each company follows its own ideas as to the pictures most likely to prove popular with audiences, and it happens that the two you mention make this special style, that's all. It's not part of any formulated plan, but merely a matter of business discretion. Miss Curious, Brockton. — Warren J. Kerrigan and Miss Pauline Bush had the leads in American's "The Love of the West." We cannot make out the other question. Write it more plainly, please. Interested, Brooklyn. — You hold the record with eighteen questions. We cannot spare the required space, even if we could afford to spend a week or two with old casts naming "some of the plays" in -which a dozen favorites have appeared. Requests of this nature and requests for entire casts are barred. Mr. McGovern's picture was in the April issue. Inquisitive. — Mr. Coombs went back to the dramatic stage and then to the Kalem Company, so we both are right. Sunny South, Greenville. — Mr. Blackwell should be addressed in care of the home office. See elsewhere for address. H. S. — Send stamped envelope addressed to yourself for list of Photoplay companies. H. W., Cornwall. — Jean is still with the Vitagraph. The Edison motorboat and island pictures were made last summer in the St. Lawrence. The actor marked in the picture is Edward O'Connor. E. V. P., Paterson. — We have no line on the Belmar Company or its players. They have been working near South Beach. Try that for an address. (2) We do not know why all concerns do not use casts. Vitagraph, Edison, Selig and Thanhouser do and some others occasionally. We wish all did. (3) It's a pressure on space to get the answers in without printing the questions. E. L. K., Zanesville. — Miss Florence Lawrence was Ethel in Lubin's "Art vs. Music." Edwin Clarke was Jack in Edison's "The Bo'sun's Watch." G. M. D. — Sydney Olcott was Shaun the Post in Kalem's "Arrah-na-Pogue." K. D., New York. — Most Photoplayers use some modification of the stage make-up or none at all. The black and blue make-ups were passing fads. H. J. G., Stamford. — We do not know where the pictures you mention were taken. Mr. Frank Marion is a member of the Kalem Company : the company itself, not the stock company. Mrs. A. F. T., Denver. — We are able to locate Harry Coleman, of the Lubin Company, for you, but the Biograph is a different matter. G. M., Oakland. — The Edison Company is naturally the oldest Motion Picture company in America, since it is an Edison invention. Other queries answered before. P. D. G., Brockport. — Miss Jane Wolf and Carlyle Blackwell were the leads in "Norma of Norway." You're not asking matrimonial questions, but you are on forbidden ground. E. V. D. — Miss Edna Fisher was the girl in "Broncho Bill's Christmas Dinner." The Anderson question is answered under his cut in the February number. W. B. M., Bay Ridge. — Miss Montanye Perry is not the author of the Vitagraph's "Vanity Fair" scenario. She adapted the story for the use of this magazine, but the scenario was made by Eugene Mullin, a talented Brooklyn young man. E. K., Newark. — Several companies occasionally make Photoplays in the Orange Mountains. See answer to L. M.'T. B. L., Brooklyn. — Mr. Blackwell is with the Kalem Company, but formerly posed with the Vitagraph players. You saw an old picture. (2) G. M. Anderson. Heartbroken, New York. — Arthur Johnson is not dead. Miss Mary Fuller was Edison's Modern Cinderella. M. P. Fan, Antigonish. — J. Stuart Blackton, vice-president and secretary of the Vitagraph Company, owns the Vita and the Viva, the crack motorboats. Your other questions are too personal to be answered. N. M. M., Eastport. — We hear that Jack Standing is with Eclair. See answer to E. J. That's the best we can do. Inquisitive, St. Louis. — See answer to Muriel V. de W. Helen M., New York. — Mona Darkfeather was the Bison Owanee. The Bison studio is in Glendale, Cal. The address of the Thanhouser Company is New Rochelle, N. Y., but their editor, Bertram Adler, advises us that they buy no scripts, if that is what you want it for.