Motography (Jan-Mar 1916)

112 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 3. Harvey, William Conklin, Harry Stanley, Henry King, John Wyse, J. A. Loy, Bertram Bracken, H. O. Stechhan, Robert Brotherton, Charles Dudley, Roy Frechette, Ed J. Moore, Percy Dewey, Jacob Wiezerock, H. M. Van de Polle, Roland Groom, Gordon Sackville, W. T. Kearns, Eugene Kearns, Frank Kearn-. Ed. Saunders. Georgia Van Vleet, May Brotherton, Grace Scott, Nettie Clark, Mrs. B. Ahrens, Ruth Roland, Jackie Saunders, Corenne Grant, Ruth Lackaye, Marguerite Nichols. Mollie McConnell. Myrtle Reeves and '.Mrs. G. B. Wells. New Feature Exchange for Boston The All Feature Booking Agency, which controls the state rights for a number of Griffith productions and has been booking them direct to Greater New York and New England theaters from its New York office in the Masonic building, has just opened an office in Boston at 53 Church street, to take care of the New England territory. In addition to the Griffith features, which include "The Escape," "The Avenging Conscience," "The Battle of the Sexes" and six other subjects with casts which include the same players appearing in "The Birth of a Nation," the All Feature Booking Agency will book four five-reel Pawnee Bill features, produced on Major Gordon W. Lillie's buffalo ranch in Oklahoma, and also the new Sarah Bernhardt feature, entitled "Sarah Bernhardt at Home," showing the famous actress in private life at her summer palace on Belle Isle, Brittany. Harry K. Brin, formerly manager of the Continental exchange of Seattle and recently manager of the All Feature's New York office, will have charge of the new Boston exchange, assisted by the well known Harry Jewel. TRIANGLE'S PATRIOTIC PLAY "The Flying Torpedo," a War Story of the Year 1921, Shipped East and Said to Be a Sensation in Preparedness Propaganda "The Flying Torpedo," a war story of the year 1921, has been shipped east and will soon be disclosed at the Knickerbocker theater in New York, with general release a few weeks later. The Triangle-Fine Arts, in making this war play, preferred to pack the material in five reels instead of extending it a la the familiar type of military serial or of a long-reeler taking up an entire evening. The motif of an impending foreign invasion of the United States controls the action of the piece. In response to an appeal of the National Defense Board, an old inventor, (Spottiswoode Aitken) perfects an aerial torpedo controllable by wireless mechanism. A band of international outlaws who sell their booty to foreign governments steal the plans and the torpedo itself and murder the inventor. Prior to his death he has made one duplicate of the mechanism. Winthrop Clavering, chemist, detective, and Conan Doyle type of novelist (John Emerson), enters the action vigorously at this point. Aided by a clever servant girl (Bessie Love), his tracing of clues brings him finally to the crooks' den, whither the police are summoned and the robbers and their spoil are taken. Clavering and Haverman (W. E. Lawrence) start the manufacture of the torpedo. An army of yellow men from the Far East invade the west coast. The deadly swarm of novel missiles annihilates most of the enemy, and those that are not killed are driven back ignominiously to their ships, thus removing forever the threat of foreign invasion of these shores. The exciting war scenes of "The Flying Torpedo" were directed under D. W. Griffith's supervision by AY. Christy Cabanne, whilst the earlier scenes were staged by Jack O'Brien. Besides Mr. Emerson, the star, and those already mentioned, the cast includes Ralph Lewis, Fred J. Butler, Raymond Wells, Viola Barry and Lucille Younge. The working title of the story was "The Scarlet Band," changed to "The Flying Torpedo" recently. A notable characteristic, lifting it out of the class of ordinary war-plot dramas, is the strong vein of comedy that runs through it. Operator's Ball on January 24 On Monday evening, January 24, the Moving Picture Operators' Protective Union, Local 181, will hold its sixth grand annual ball at Hazazer's Hall. Ill West Franklin street, Chicago. Music for the occasion will be furnished by Lythroe's orchestra. The operators and their friends are anticipating a most joyful time. In the past their balls have been very successful, but the 1916 affair, it is anticipated, will be even more so. Join, BmtfSO* nn.l Mi fvllow players of the Triangle Company in scenes from "The Flying Torpedo," a coming Fine Art I