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April 22, 1916.
MOTOGRAPHY
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Jack Collins, formerly with the Eagle Film Company, is now working as cameraman with the Serial company.
Walter Stull and Bobby Burns in Vim comedies, "Pokes and Jabs," attract much attention when working on the streets of Jacksonville, especially on account of their make-up.
Pauline Frederick's next picture will be "The Moment Before," based on Israel Zangwill's play of that name. In it she appears as a gypsy.
Zola Telmzart, leading lady with Nat Goodwin in his third feature for the Mirror Films, played a prominent part in "The Yellow Ticket" on the speaking stage.
The Lubin picture version of the Sudermann drama, "The Fires of St. John," starring Nance O'Neil, is released through V. L. S. E. under the title, "The Fires of Johannis." Edgar Lewis prepared the scenario from the original Sudermann drama.
The wrecking of a schooner is shown in the two-reel Lubin play, "The Return of James Jerome," which shows the dangers of pearl fishing.
Scenarios are being prepared from the Rex Beach novels, "The Barrier," "The Silver Hoard," and "The Iron Trail," which the Lubin Company is soon to produce.
A new child actress appears in the Fox production of "Blazing Love," starring Virginia Pearson. She is Miriam Batista, three and a half years old and Italian.
William Bailey, assistant director to John W. Noble, played a prominent role in "The Wall Between," the BushmanBayne Metro feature, when one of the players became ill. He has been an actor on the speaking stage and in film dramas.
Mary Miles Minter is studying the French language and a special course in English and French poets and dramatists, under a tutor. Her stage career has left her no time for regular schooling.
Sensational gowns are the pet hobby of Dorothy Green, the leading lady in "Souls Aflame," a Popular Plays and Players' five-reel drama.
T. Jerome Lawler, an actor from the legitimate stage, makes his first picture appearance in "Slander."
The spring weather is breaking up the very successful bowling club which Lucille Lee Stewart organized among the Vitagraph players at the Bay Shore studio.
"The Christian" with Earle Williams was voted the most popular film play and player in a recent magazine contest.
Walter McNamara is to write and direct a sociological play for the Mirror Films, Inc., which will rival his "Traffic in Souls" and "The Heart of New York."
Nat Goodwin is working in his third photoplay for the Mirror Films, Inc., a tragic story. The cast includes Zola Telmzart, Richard Neill, Henry Carvill, Eugenie Elba, Anita Booth, Mabel Wright and Charles Moore. In his second picture, just finished, he played a comedy role.
Marguerite Clark, whom the senior class at Princeton University voted its
favorite actress, returned the compliment by declaring Princeton her favorite college.
Hazel Dawn is now in the Georgia mountains, playing "The Feud-Girl," her next Famous Players picture.
"Playthings of the Gods" has been â– made into a three-act photoplay for the Lubin Company by Wilbert Melville. Cecil Van Auker, Allan Forrest, Walter Spencer, Adelaide Bronti, Sydney Deane, Ruth Saville and Evelyn Page make up the cast.
William Key, who plays old man character parts in Fox photoplays, is a retired army officer. He has made a success on the stage in musical comedy shows.
Eugene Ormonde, who plays "Richard Tremaine" in the William Fox picture, "Slander." also worked with Bertha Kalich in several stage productions.
pear for the Universal Film Company, which made "The Dumb Girl of Portici." The story will be laid in Russia, the heroine being a student in the Imperial School of Dancing. A young nihilist is the hero, converted by the present war to loyalty to his sovereign.
Lisle Leigh, who plays Helene's aunt in the Bertha Kalich play, "Slander," was for years a leading woman in stock companies.
Bertha Kalich's pet superstition is that the number eight brings her luck.
The filming of scenes for the William Fox-Annette Kellermann picture, under Herbert Brenon's direction, which was begun last August, will be completed within the next few weeks and the work of assembling begun. The work brought to the director's attention many new players who will be featured in other Fox dramas.
W. S. Davis, who directed Bertha Karvo Poloskova, the Russian dancer, Kalich in "Slander," directed the Fox was engaged for the big ballroom' scene ^^^__=___^______^^^^^_^___ in "Love's Toll," a Lubin V. L. S. E.
feature written by Daniel Carson Goodman. The scene was taken on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia and the members of three musical comedy companies served as extras.
The Lubin Company is for "preparedness." It has a battalion of 300 rough riders and a company of infantry, all thoroughly trained and seasoned, through their experience in producing war dramas.
Clay M. Greene is to produce a new comedy series for the Lubin Company.
William Steiner, head of the Serial Film Company, now producing "The Yellow Menace" in Jacksonville, recently took a special trainload of people to St. Augustine for scenes.
Louis Burstein, general manager of the "Vim" studios, has added Rosemary Theby and Harry Meyers to his staff of players. They will soon report in Jacksonville.
Director Henri Vernot, and his assistant, R. G. Phillips, formerly with the Gaumont Company, are working on a five-reel feature for William Steiner, head of the Serial Film Company.
Hattie Burks, the vaudeville star who lately joined the William Fox players, was born in Louisville, Ky., and was educated at Sayre Institute, Lexington, where she took prizes for elocution.
Annette Kellermann had two narrow escapes from drowning during scenes for the feature picture which she has been working in at Kingston, Jamaica.
"Have a heart, George," begged Pearl White, when George B. Seitz, the Pathe scenario writer, described to her the stunts he had planned for her in the coming episodes of "The Iron Claw."
Tltc brilliant photoplay author, Lois Weber, playing with the pigeons at the San Diego Fair. She is the author of "The Dumb Girl of Portici," the Universal feature starring Pavlowa.
films, "Dr. Rameau," and "The Family Stain," in both of which Frederick Perry was leading man.
Anna Nilsson's gowns in Pathe's "Who's Guilty?" series will give interesting style hints to the women members of the audience.
Blanche Clark, vaudeville actress and dancer, is working in a William Fox picture of which Stuart Holmes and Dorothy Bernard are the stars. This is her first picture appearance.
Mme. Kalich is reading manuscripts for her second Fox photoplay, "Slander" having been completed.
Kittens Reichart has recovered from her attack of measles and gone back to work in a new picture with Stuart Holmes and Dorothy Bernard.
Mme. Anna Pavlowa is writing a story for a feature play in which she will ap
CHICAGO GOSSIP
Marguerite Clayton will play the leading feminine role opposite Lewis S. Stone in "According to the Code," a civil war drama written by Charles Michelson.
Warda Howard will be featured in the Essanay production of "That Sort," a V. L. S. E. release, adapted from the play by Basel McDonald Hastings.
Richard C. Travers and John Junior