Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

944 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 17. Sifted From the Studios ATLANTIC COAST NOTES Robert B. Mantell, Genevieve Hamper and their company, who have been working on feature pictures at the William Fox studios in Kingston, Jamaica, for the past four months, have returned to New York. Among them are Stuart Holmes, Louise Rial, Genevieve Blinn, Henry Leone, Claire Whitney and Walter Miller. A big two-masted schooner was burned off the coast of Maine during a windstorm at four degrees below zero for a scene in "A Modern Thelma," which John Adolfi directed for William Fox. The schooner was loaded with 160 gallons of kerosene oil, twenty barrels of tar and hundreds of bundles of dry laths. Tom Burroughs, of the William Fox players, has a farm on Staten Island where he cultivates violets. Violet Mersereau and William Garwood, after appearing in one or two plays together, will again be featured separately in Universal photoplays. The Universal Company plans to release a new brand of plays, "Butterfly Photoplays." Director Jay Hunt of the Universal Company has completed another animal photoplay, a two-reeler, "The Jungle Hero." Mary Fuller objects to being an Indian. In a contest now being held for a prize scenario for Miss Fuller, there is a specification that she is not to be cast in an Indian role. had a narrow esd to death during ip in "A Modern Fox play featurHarry Hilliard. ected and played e Crippled Hand," comedy featuring William H. Tooker cape from being burne the burning of the sh Thelma," the William ing Vivian Martin and Robert Leonard dir the leading man in "Th a five-reel Universal Ella Hall. Director Henry Vernot entertained the principals who worked in his screen story, "The Dead Alive," at dinner recently. In the party were Marguerite Courtot, Sydney Mason, Henry Pemberton, James Levering and W. J. Butler. Mayor William H. Meyers of South Jacksonville, Fla., and two members of the Jacksonville Board of Trade, played "extras" for a scene in "The Quality of Faith," which Richard Garrick directed for the Gaumont Company. Rose Tapley is to appear in another comedy with Frank Daniels, one of the "Mr. Jack" series which C. Jay Williams is directing. "A Caliph of the New Bagdad" will be Vitagraph's release as a Broadway Star feature of April 22, with Leah Baird in the leading role. Van Dyke Brooke, who directed, plays an important part. Others in the cast are Templer Saxe, Edward Elkas, Harry Fisher, Adele DeGarde and Edwinna Robbins. Ralph W. Ince is preparing to film an eight-reel feature at the Vitagraph Bay Shore studios. Dorothy Kslly is to be seen in a onereel drama with little Bobby Connelly. Einar Linder, who appears in "The Eternal Sapho," with Theda Bara, was born in Copenhagen. He has appeared in the support of Sarah Bernhardt, Duse, Monet and Sully. Viclet Mersereau is working on a fivereel picture, "The Experiment," announced as "intensely dramatic." Dorothy Phillips plays the lead in "Midnight Madness," a two-reel Universal piay. Stanley Walpole plays opposite. Mary Fuller, having completed "Thrown to the Lions," is now playing in "The Huntress," from the novel by Vera Hunter. Hobart Henley, recovered from injuries received in the "Graft" serial, is at the eastern Universal studios, playing lead in "The Other Man," a two-reeler. Irene Hunt is leading lady. Sidney Bracy, who was the mysterious butler in "The Million Dollar Mystery," and who is now with Universal, appears as Luigi in "Elusive Isabel," the first of the new Florence Lawrence features. "The Pursuit of Patricia," the first Universal serial to be made in the east, will star Edith Roberts. Robert Hill will direct. There will be ten episodes. Reginald Wright Kauffman and Hugh Weir wrote the story. King Baggot and his director, Henry Otto, are both natives of St. Louis and appeared together in amateur theatricals in their home town. Percy Richards, who plays opposite Violet Mersereau in the Universal Red Feather play, "Autumn," was formerly aide-de-camp to the King of Sweden. "The Yaqui," the Bluebird photoplay, is a story of Mexico. There are scenes of life in the household of a Mexican planter, and scenes of Indian life and customs. Bertram Bracken, a photoplay director on the Pacific Coast for the past six years, is now directing Theda Bara's p!ays in the eastern Fox studios. The first play will be released shortly. Ilean Hume, now with the Fox players, is a native of Toronto, Canada. Ormi Hawley, who is now being starred with Rockcliffe Fellowes in Fox plays, has a new cerise racing car. Edward Montagne's latest effort in comedy is being filmed as another of the "Freddy" series. William Dangman plays the lead, directed by Frank Currier. George O'Donnell has a good part. Ralph W. Ince has begun work on a Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature, with Lucille Lee Stuart and Huntly Gordon in the leads. Mayme Kelso, who plays a character role in "Slander," is a former musical comedy star. W. S. Davis, who directed Bertha Kalich in "Slander," also took a small part, that of a pickpocket, in the play. J. Alber Hall, in Jacksonville with the Serial Film Company, is not the Albert Hall of vaudeville fame. Film Market Quotations ana Financial Gossip Supplied by R. D. Small of A. E. Butler & Co., Chicago. Bid Asked American Film Co., Inc.... 87 94 Biograph Company 40 55 Famous Players Film Co... 70 110 General Film Corp., pref . . . 40 50 Mutual Film Corp., pref. .. . 43 48 Mutual Film Corp, com.... 43 48 No. Am. Film Corp, pref... 93 108 N. Y. Motion Picture Corp. 45 55 Thanhouser Film Corp 4 5 * Triangle Film Corp 2 3 * Universal Film Mfg. Co 200 World Film Corp 1 1%* *Par $5.00. World Film Corp.: It is stated, with more or less authority, that the World Film Corp., Equitable Film Corp. and the Paragon Films, Inc., will be taken over by Wm. A. Brady, and, in addition, he will exercise supervision over the output of the Premo Film Co., the Frohman Amusement Corp., the Triumph Film Corp. and other affiliated concerns. Brady's arrangements are also in progress on Broadway, New York, for a motion picture theater with a seating capacity of over 5,000 persons. This is the only one of the many consolidation and combination rumors that we attach any credence to, as Ben B. Hampton denies emphatically the many things that have been credited to him, stating he had only been conducting informal discussions. Better things can now be expected from both the Equitable Film and the World Film corporations. New York Motion Picture Corp.: From the Pacific coast it is reported the New York Motion, Thos. Ince, Griffith studio and Aitken's interest will be merged into a manufacturing combination. Triangle Film Corp.: Reports from New York are not very favorable leading one to believe the bankers back of this proposition have more to do with the actuating policies than ever before. Stock continues weak. Mutual Film Corp.: Was in good demand last week and the expectations of an advance in the common seem to be shared by all of the stockholders. With the proportion of undivided profits applicable to common, as shown by the audited Undivided Profit Account as of January 18 — amounting to over 7% — plus the estimated earnings applicable to common, to be derived from the Chaplin series (which one of the managements puts at 24%)— or a total of 31%— the common, we are advised will be put on a satisfactory dividend basis in July or August.