Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

952 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 19. with Mrs. Lambart. He would neither affirm nor deny the story that he was going on to the Coast on the trail of other persons whom the Mirror wants in its business. The deal with Mr. Read was made over the luncheon table at the Press Club a day or two after Captain Lambart and Mr. Cunningham arrived in town and the papers were signed that day. Mr. Read has seen one of his stories on the screen, but he has never written for pictures. He will do human interest stories of every day American life for the Mirror and will begin work in a few weeks. Jewell Hunt Joins Vitagraph Miss Jewell Hunt is the latest member of the Vitagraph Company's stock players. Hitherto unknown to either the legitimate stage or the screen, she is considered a veritable "find" and is destined to rise to the highest ranks of her profession. As a dancer in New York society, however, she has already made an enviable reputation for herself, and with the terpsichorean art as her passion, the term "The Dancing Girl of Motion Pictures" is bound to be applied to her sooner or later and will likely stick " to her through the big career that is ahead of her. She was one of the first to properly interpret the modern dances and under the patronage of a number of society women, she conducted the Dolly Varden Studio, at Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth street, Manhattan, where she numbered among her clientele many of the "400." She became one of the leading ex Jewel Hunt. ponents of up-to-date dancing and originated the Dolly Varden waltz and other attractive figures that found their following among the best dancers. During her brief time at the Vitagraph plant, she has shown a remarkable aptitude and a thorough understanding of the roles she has played. She is soon to be featured in productions that require her dancing ability as well as the emotional powers she possesses. Paramount Secures Donald Thompson Leaving the port of New York on the liner St. Paul, with the statement that by the time he reaches Athens, Greece will be in the war, Donald C. Thompson, expert photographer and globe trotter, has set out for the Balkans in the interest of two organizations of importance in their particular fields, the Paramount Pictures Corporation and the Leslie-Judge Company. Since the advent of the motion picture, the "camera-reporter" has become more and more significant among the world's newsgatherers. This twenty-six year old Kansan was one of the first to realize the possibilities of the new branch of "the game." At the Baltimore Democratic convention three years ago he took his first flier into the films. The result was such that he added a motion picture camera to his photographic stock and freelanced to such good purpose that he became a charter member in the Unusual Angle Club and distinctly welcome in the offices of the editors. A confirmed wanderer, he was in Canada at the outbreak of the war and securing a permit from General Hughes was able to obtain exclusive photographs of the Canadian contigent. Later he went to France on a freight ship, narrowly escaping demolition when a careless German bomb just missed the tramp steamer on which he did odd jobs for his passage, since mere money meant nothing when it came to getting inside the lines. With the English on the continent, Mr. Thompson took some of the most remarkable pictures of the entire war. For seven days and nights he was under steady fire at the retreat from Mons. When asked whether or not filming the battle was as dangerous as fighting he shrugged his shoulders, and said : "Yes, I suppose it is, but if you're going to be killed you will be, so why worry?" His one idea is to get the pictures just as the born reporter thinks of nothing but his "story." He is quiet and matter of fact in speech and manner and yet he has done things few men have more than dreamed of. In London he acted as correspondent for the New York World, and later joined the Belgian army. Having been at one time or another with the English, French, Belgians, Germans, Turks, Russians, Serbians and Bulgarians he has had a unique opportunity to study the methods of them all. "While helping Weigle take the Chicago Tribune's German war pictures, he said, "I was wounded, but after a time in the hospital was soon up and at it again." Since exclusive rights to the films he takes have been secured by the Paramount Pictures Corporation, Mr. Thompson will be one of the many camera-correspondents of the Paramount Newspictures. scene from the Broad The application of the Selig Polyscope Company for the registration of the Red Seal trademark for the Selig feature plays released through V. L. S. E., has been granted by the United States Patent Office.