Motography (Jan-Jun 1915)

472 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIII, No. 13. The Selig Special will be palatially equipped. There will be one or more special trains, including a large baggage car to amply care for the baggage of the guests ; a coach, twelve section drawing room sleepers and a parlor observation car on each train. Coaches will be electrically lighted and lady and gentlemen attendants will be present to look after the convenience of the tourists. Unescorted ladies will be cared for by responsible matrons. There will be many and varied surprises for the party both going and coming from the Golden State. Artists have been engaged to furnish special concerts. There will be cabaret entertainments and other enjoyable details, which will prove pleasureable innovations. A motion picture scenario will be made of the entire journey. This scenario will later be produced by the Selig Polyscope Company and every one participating in the trip will be seen in this moving picture. There will be a daily newspaper issued on the train, furnishing every tourist with complete news of what is transpiring. At many of the principal cities en route, both going and coming, the train will be met by notables, the guests given the keys to several cities and nothing will be left undone to add to their entertainment and welcome. _ By addressing the publicity department of the Selig Polyscope Company further details concerning the forthcoming journey and special literature will be furnished. It is the object of the Selig Polyscope Company to plan an enjoyable trip for its friends, exhibitors and others. It is not a money making proposition in any way. The small amount asked will not begin to cover the cost of the journey. The plan is purely to gather exhibitors and friends of the Selig Company together for an enjoyable trip to California, which will not only be entertaining, but something to remember pleasantly for the rest of your life. who plays Marie, June's maid, won the ladies' singles and she and George Siddons, the chief camera man, carried off the prizes for mixed doubles. One of the most popular of the "Runaway June" diversions with the Frascatti's guests is the vocal club, The Gay "Runaway Juners" Firmly believing in the old adage that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," Director Oscar Eagle who has charge of the "Runaway June" company now in Bermuda, producing the last four episodes of the George Randolph Chester serial, for Reliance, encourages his photoplayers to have as good a time as possible outside of working hours. Evelyn Drew, who plays Mrs. Villard in the screen story, is an expert swimmer and with her assistance, Mr. Eagle has organized a "Runaway June" swimming class. Norma Phillips, who plays June and Marguerite Loveridge, who plays Tommy Thomas, are rapidly getting into the championship class, although neither could swim when they reached Bermuda. The company is quartered at the Frascatti Hotel on The Flattes outside of Hamilton and they were entertained in a body at dinner last week by the governor and his staff. A return invitation brought many of the British officers to a dinner party given by Director Eagle in the grill at the Hotel Hamilton. Tennis and cycling are among the principal pasttimes of the party and an interesting series of cycle races resulted in the established supremacy of J. W. Johnston, who plays Ned Warner, the deserted husband, and Grace Adey. The tennis honors went to Harry Weir, the assistant director in singles and to Arthur Donaldson, "the man with the Black Van Dyke" and Frank Holland, in doubles. Evelyn Dumo, Runaway Juners exercising in Bermuda. known as "The Mintys." It consists of a double quartet, made up of the Misses Drew, Phillips, Adey, and Loveridge and the Messrs. Arthur Forbes, Harry Weir, Marc Edmund Jones, and Dr. R. Ralston Reed of Morristown, N. J., who is stopping at the hotel. The balmy evenings on the piazza are made gay with the sweet singing of this melodic octette. Brooklyn Exhibitors' Mass Meeting At a mass meeting, held under the auspices of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of America, local No. 1, at the Hanover theater, 571 Fulton street, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, March 10, Lee A. Ochs, the president, acted as chairman. The Brooklyn exhibitors were re-organized into a local to be known as the Brooklyn branch of local No. 1 of the national organization. The following officers were elected: C. R. Martineau, president; I. N. Harstall, vice president; Charles Fischer, secretary, and William B. Fulmer, treasurer. The meeting was attended by a representative body of exhibitors. Matters of adverse legislation were brought to their attention, and the importance of uniting for their welfare was strongly impressed on their minds. Much enthusiasm was evinced by those present, and all promised to do their share in improving present conditions. The next step to be taken by the officers of local No. 1 will be to reorganize the Bronx exhibitors into a branch to be known as the Bronx branch of the above organization. Gene Gauntier Joins Universal Gene Gauntier, former star of the Kalem and Biograph companies, and of late the lead in her own company, has joined the Universal and has gone to Universal City, Cal., to take up her new work. Miss Gauntier is accompanied by Jack Clark, who will be her director and leading man. The engagement of Miss Gauntier was the last big piece of business which Carl Laemmle consummated before jumping on the train which was to take him to Universal City, where he opened this municipality as the first moving picture city in the world.