Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

1044 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 1< TRIANGLE STARTS LECTURES Exhibitors Furnished With Slides and Other Material Showing "How Triangle Films Are Made" — Features in the Making The Triangle Film Corporation has presented a new idea to the exhibitor in its fifteen-minute talks on "How Triangle Films Are Made," illustrated with sixteen slides showing the directors, stars and various stages of production. William H. Kemble, of Brooklyn, was the first exhibitor to. try this new plan and he followed closely the lines suggested by the main office, outlining the preparing of manuscript, laying out of scenes and casting; technical construction; selection of locations ; rehearsals ; actual photographing of scenes ; and the editing and assembling. The audience were very much interested and gave close attention to the lecture. Another Triangle innovation is an Information Bureau for the convenience of its patrons. So many people wanted to follow their favorite Triangle players and did not know how to find out at what theater and at what time their latest plays were being shown that the film company was forced to establish a bureau to give this information. S. Eckman, Jr., manager of the New. York branch, is in supervisory charge of the new service bureau. The first showing of Thomas H. Ince's spectacle "Civilization" was a huge success. The play was prer ceded by a prologue and followed by an epilogue. and accompanied by the special incidental musical score of Victor L. Schertzinger. This production is said to be one of the most daring and astounding offerings since the beginning of cinematography, and the most powerful and logical plea for universal peace that has yet been uttered. The feature is drawing large houses in the west and Producer Ince will soon leave for New York to prepare for its Metropolitan premiere. Mabel Normand, the former Keystone comedienne, is ready to start in her new work as an' aspiring dramatic star with the Triangle. Miss Normand is, to have her own studio, a four-acre tract midway between Los Angeles and Hollywood, and will have her own company of players who will be used as her permanent supporting cast in each of the plays in which she will appear. The director for Miss Normand has not yet been named. Each play will be under the personal supervision of Ince and be released as a Triangle-Kay Bee subject. Frank Keenan began work this week on a new Triangle-Kay Bee subject in which he will be presented as an Ince star. The story is .from the pen of J. G. Hawkins. Enid Markey is to play opposite Mr. Keenan. J. G. Hawks, of the Ince staff of photoplaywrights. has hurst into the ranks of the poets with a verse penned on the occasion of the death of Judge Juan J. Carillo, the pioneer Santa Monica jurist, who for years was a friend of the Ince players. Bessie Barriscale is enjoying a much needed vacation for a week before starting on the new play, "Not My Sister." William Desmond will be co-star with Miss I'.arriscalc in this play. In this intensely dramatic story by James Montgomery and C. Gardner Sullivan, there is a splendid chance for Miss Barriscale to display her Strong emotional acting and also for Mr. Desmond to share equal honors. The supporting cast includes Franklyn Ritchie, Alice Taa'ffe and Louise Brownell. The production is directed b Charles Giblyn. "The No-Good Guy," the second comedy in whic William Collier will be presented by Triangle, has bee completed under the direction of -Scott Sidney. -Thi play calls for some strenuous action on Collier's jpar In one scene he is required to drive an 'automobil loaded with women through a plate glass window, an in another he has to fight a big huskie. Jane Grey and William Desmond have found -thei beauty a hardship in-making-up for their parts i: "Waifs," the Triangle-Kay Bee feature in which ."the; are co-stars. It is-hard to hide the classic lines of thei faces to represent the slum types. April Triangle .releases include : "The Children it the" House," ■Triangle-Fine Arts, released April 30 "The Beggar of Cawnpore," Triangle Ince, featuring H. B. Warner, released April 30; "ADash, of Courage,' Triangle-Keystone, presenting Harry Gribbdn,.Wal lace Beery, Guy Woodward, Gloria Swanson and Wil Ham Mason, released April 23 ; "Bucking' •Society,' Triangle-Keystone, including. Chester Conklin "Shorty" Hamilton, Lou'ella Maxam.'Dora Rogers an< Jack Henderson, releases April 16; "His Last Laugh,1 Triangle-Keystone, released April 9; and "His Breac and Butter," Triangle-Keystone, released April 9. William -Collier and William Collier, "Jr.\ will b< running opposition, to each other in New York th( week of April 30, when the father will appear in "Th< No-Good Guy" on the first' run Triangle program ai the Knickerbocker Theater and the son will appear ir "The Bugle Call," on the Triangle program" at th< Rialto. MAY GAUMONTS "The Quality of Faith" and "The Isle of Love" to Appear— "Reel Life" Series to Be Released Each Week The first two Gaumont releases for May -will be two five-reelers, "The Quality of Faith" and "The Isle of Love." . "The Quality of Faith" enlists as co-stars Alexander Gaden and Gertrude Robinson. This, is their-first appearance on the same screen since they played together in "As a Woman Sows." In the new play Mr. Gaden appears as a minister and Miss Robinson as the Salvation Army girl. ." In the supporting company are Lucille Taft, John Reinhard, Harry W. ' Pemberton, Charles H. Travis, John Mackin and Alan Robinson. "The Isle of Love" stars Gertrude McCoy assisted by Robert Clugston. Supporting Miss McCoy are Earl O. Schenck, W. J. Butler, Charles W. Travis and Iva Shepard. In this play Miss McCoy lives up to her former reputation as a dare-devil and has" had some exciting moments while producing the picture. In one scene Miss McCoy jumps into the sea in her bathing suit and upon returning from her swim finds her clothes washed away. by the tide. Impetuously the heroine overplayed her part and dived into a pool lined with jagged rocks. She completed the scene "despite the fact that she had sustained painful bruises.. In other scenes Miss McCoy jumps into the ocean from the deck of a burning steamer; she is saved from the sea and taken to a desert island; kidnaped by a wealthy ydchtmah she is forced to fight for her freedom aboard the yacht and enacts a very realistic struggle which covers her with bruises.