Motography (Jan-Mar 1916)

104 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, Xo. studio, is already at work as co-director with Fred Balshofer on a new production, which will be made by the Quality Pictures Corporation. Mr. Truesdell has had a lung" and varied career on the speaking stage, and since he went into motion pictures has made an exhaustive study of their making. He is fortunate in being associated with Mr. Balshofer in his first picture as a full-Hedged director. Mr. Balshofer is one of the few who can. in every branch of the business, qualify as an expert. Mr. True-dell and Mr. Balshofer will go to northern Maine to make the exterior scenes, where scores of thrilling and exciting situations, including a chase by a pack of ferocious timber wolves and a hand-to-hand fight with a bull moose, will be photographed. The production is still unnamed, but will be made by the Quality Pictures Corporation for the Metro program. Mary Miles Minter, who is in St. Augustine, where she has just completed the final scenes in "Dimples," a five-part Metro feature released February 14, will begin work immediately upon another feature production, "Love Triumphant." The exteriors of this feature will be made in Florida, and a majority of the strong supporting cast that appeared with Miss Minter in "Dimples" will remain to work in the new picture. Thomas J. Carrigan, her new leading man. will be featured in "Love Triumphant" with Miss Minter. WILLIS HEADS NEW EXCHANGE Will, on January 1, Open Chicago Office of New Film Corporation, Which Will Re-issue Famous Productions of the Past John Ellsworth Willis celebrates the new year by opening the Chicago office of the New Film Corporation at 207 South Wabash avenue, as manager of the Chicago branch and manager of the western division. Mr. Willis has been w i t h the General Film Company, as manager of its offices and as special representative and division manager ever since the General Film Company was started, with the exception of six months when he was division manager for the Mutual Film Corporation with offices in Chicago. There is probably not a single individual in the United States today who has been in closer touch with exchange matters from all angles than Mr. Willi-, due t . the fact that he has been in practically territorj and has mel exhibitors of all classes ..f theaters at first hand. The New Film Company, whose destinies in this pari of the country Mr. Willis will guide, is in reality a new film company with a new and splendid idea John /'. Willis. which, briefly outlined, is the re-issuing of the tremendous feature successes of the big film manufacturers in such a way and at such prices that the smaller exhibitor, unable to pay high prices for features, will be enabled to get them for the prices he can afford to pay. It is a well-known fact that the feature exchanges, getting two or three releases a week, do not operate very long before they have so much film and are so busy with the first run or first week customer, that they have not the time nor the facilities for taking care of the twenty-week customer who, in most cases, has no opportunity to run the splendid film successes in the feature line. The New Film Corporation will take the big film successes when the original distributing company has exhausted their possibilities and will, without changing the title, make new leaders and new titles bearing the New Film Corporation's trade mark and will then rent these features to exhibitors at prices never before approached in this business, so President Warner says. The Chicago office will open on January 1 with fifty multiple reel features and fifty single reel comedies, in which will appear such well known actors as Jefferson DeAngelis, Weber and Fields. Richard Carle, ^Catherine Osterman, Paula Edwards. Tom Wise and others. These films will all be in splendid condition, well-cleaned and carefully examined to see that they are perfect before going out, and a success should be attained in Chicago similar to that which has been scored in Xew York by this same company within a very few weeks. President Abraham Warner has been in Chicago for several days arranging the details incidental to the opening of the Chicago office, and states that with all of the competition in a big city like New York, the business of the Xew Film Corporation was over a thousand dollars the first week the office opened. President Warner secured the services of F. L. Smith, of Cleveland, formerly special representative of the General Film Company, who will be in charge of the Cleveland offices. The officers of the Xew Corporation are Abraham Warner, president; A. S. Aronson, vice presidenttreasurer, and 11. M. Warner, secretary. The home office is at 145 West Forty-fifth street. Xew York City, and about fifteen branches will he opened. Louise Horner New Horsley Player \ recent addition' to the Cub Comedy stock company headed by George Ovey, producing Cub Comedies for release on the Mutual program, is Miss Louise Horner, a comedienne of long experience and known to theatergoers the country over for her interpretation of "slavey" types. Miss Homer was especially engaged by Milton Fahrney, director of the tub Comedies, to play the "slavey" in "Jerry in the Movies." because of her peculiar fitness for the character. Her work in this release was so excellent, however, that Mr. Fahrney made her a proposition, on behalf of Mr. Horsley, to remain with the company indefinitely. Miss Horner's engagements on the Speaking stage were many, but the one in which she scored her biggest success was " \ Knight for a Day." in which she played the "slavey," a part originated by Miss May Vokes. She played the role for several seasons, Showing in most of the high-priced theaters from coast to coast.