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110 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
Robert McWade, Sr., who, next to Joe Jefferson, was estimated by many as the best Rip Van Winkle on the stage, has just played the same part for the Vitagraph Company.
Many thousands of Photoplay patrons who patronize the Licensed houses, shed many tears when they learnt recently that Florence Lawrence had joined the Independents. But the Licensed people got even. For, about the same time, Mary Pickford left the Independents and joined the Licensed forces. Which is the greater star? Bless your hearts, who knows? It is like comparing a reindeer with a race-horse — both are fine, but different.
If the Edison Company should claim that Robert Brower was the premier "wealthy merchant" and "banker" player, in the business, there would be few, if any, differences of opinion. If Mr. Brower is not important and wealthy and dignified, he certainly looks as if he were.
The Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis has finally come to the inevitable conclusion that Motion Picture theaters are the thing. The association has a trained lecturer, who goes from house to house delivering seven-minute talks.
Earle Williams has just returned from California, where he has been visiting his father, who was ill.
The Kalem Company asks on one of its advertising circulars: "Do you know of any one else doing so much for the uplift of the Motion Picture industry?" We dont know, but, if we did, we wouldn't tell.
Octavia Handworth sailed for Denmark, her home country, the middle of July. She will return the latter part of August. She will be missed in the Pathe Freres plays, particularly when they do another play like "A Nation's Peril."
Edith Storey seems to be showing great versatility with the Vitagraph Company, and, while she has done clever work as a queen, a princess, society lady, etc., many who remember her as the brave and vivacious cowgirl of the Melies Company, would like to
see her in a Western uniform again.
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Charles Kent, of the Vitagraph Company, is one of the oldest theatrical men in the Motion Picture industry. He has been on the professional stage since 1875, and has played nearly everything, from "Hamlet" and "Shylock" down to "Black-Eyed Susan's" father.
Robert Goodman, formerly of the Melies Company, is now a director for the Majestic Company.
Rose Coghlan is the latest stage celebrity to enter Photoplay, and the Vitagraph Company is her captor. She will be featured as Rosamond in "As You Like it."
Helen Gardner is still busy with her new company, preparing "Cleopatra."
Dolores Cassinelli is gaining popularity as well as she is gaining experience. With both beauty and talent to start with, she will, no doubt, become still more popular.
Billy Quirk is still the star laugh-producer of the Solax Company. His work with the Biograph and Pathe Freres companies first made him popular.
Francis X. Bushman plays in every conceivable kind of a part, except an old woman. In one play he is an old man, in another a young man, in another a tramp, in another a burglar, and in all he is good.
Judging from the number of letters and inquiries received by this magazine, concerning the player who took the part of Dick in "The Cowboy Kid," of the Melies Company, Ray Gallagher is rapidly becoming a favorite.
J. Stuart Blackton is not exactly a player, altho he has been seen in the films more than once. He is principally the leading spirit of the Vitagraph Company, and originator and president of this magazine. He is commodore of the famous Atlantic Yacht Club, and an officer and leading spirit in many other organizations. Were this paragraph written a month or two later, we might, perhaps, have added that Mr. Blackton won the International Motor Boat Cup.
As we go to press, the sad news comes from Niles, Cal., that Mr. Anderson's popular leading woman, Vedah Bertram, is hovering between life and death at the Samuel Merrit Hospital at Oakland.