Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug 1912-Jan 1913)

GREENROOM JOTTINGS 109 Starlight, one of the Indians employed by the American Company, recently played the hero in real life. On the way home from the picture field, he saw a fire, climbed up the fire-escape, and rescued a young woman. The Kalem Company is now producing four plays every week. The vacancy caused by May Buckley leaving the Lubin Company has been filled by Ethel Clayton. Miss Clayton is very well known, indeed, in the theatrical world. The Lubin Company at Portland, Me., required two Pullman coaches, one day coach and three baggage cars to get them there. Besides three touring automobiles, a yacht and a yawl, this extravagant company required, and ordered, no less than ten complete sets of interior scenery. John Bunny has at last planted a solid foot on British soil, which makes another fleshy burden for that buoyant isle to carry. However, he was interviewed nearly into skinniness by the British press, which received him with open arms. Under the directorship of Lawrence Trimble, Bunny will portray a series of Photoplays from the life of Mr. Pickwick, using the actual localities of Dickens. Laura Sawyer has joined the Western forces of the Edison Company, under the direction of J. Searle Dawley. Jean Acker, known as "Little Billie," has returned to the Lubin Company, after spending her vacation on Long Island, N. Y. Gene Gauntier is having two theaters named after her : one in Kansas City, and one in England. They made a great fuss over her in Kansas City, recently, when she returned from abroad. She is very popular in her home town, and everywhere else. The Athletics, champion baseball team of the world, recently spent three or four hours at the Lubin studio, where they were entertained at a smoker, a Moving Picture show, and had a general good time. i The American Company has encamped a company at the famous Starved Rock, in Illinois, where they purpose making a series of historical, two-reel subjects. Clara Williams is a crack rough-rider of the Lubin Company. In "It Happened in the Hills," she does some terrific riding. Arthur Johnson is the latest to be killed, or nearly killed, by Dame Rumor. This time there was truth behind the rumor. He was acting in a canoe a few hundred feet above Wissahickon Falls, when the canoe broke loose, and nearly plunged over the falls. But Arthur jumped, knowing that Howard Mitchell, an expert swimmer, was near, to save him. Result, the canoe was smashed, and Arthur was wet, but saved. William Wadsworth's friends are proud of his character-work as Pickwick in "Pickwick's Predicament." Ruth Roland recently won a loving-cup in a beauty contest given at Venice, Cal. From now on, Florence Turner will be seen in a great many plays with Maurice Costello. Perhaps there never has been a more popular team on the screen. Some of the M. P. cowboys are still talking about the exhibition of horsemanship given by Benjamin Wilson, of the Edison Company, in "The Close of the American Revolution," and in other plays. It seems that there are others who can ride horses, besides cowboys. Harry Lonsdale, who, for thirty years, was prominent on the stage and played with Richard Mansfield and Nat^xoodwin, has joined the American Company. Anna Lehr, formerly with the Biograph and Pathe Freres companies, has joined the Majestic Company, and will be featured with Mabel Trunnelle. Alice Joyce recently acquired a new leading man. First it was Carlyle Blackwell, then it was Guy Coombs, and now it is Rube Marquard, the famous baseball twirler. Unfortunately, Mr. Marquard is not on the regular Kalem pay-roll. He prefers to play with the Giants Company.