Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

May 13, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1099 Eight Stars in New Triangles SWEEP WHOLE DRAMATIC GAMUT THE Triangle entertainment for May features eight stars and eight Fine Arts and Ince pictures, as well as twice that number of comedies from the Sennett studios. Important among these featuresare the first appearance of William Collier as a light comedian of the screen and the second picture Mae Robert Harron and Mae Marsh in "A Child of the Paris Streets: Marsh has completed since the Triangle was organized. Collier and Fairbanks featured in two releases for the week of May 7. "The Good Bad Man," for which Fairbanks wrote his own scenario, was selected by S. L. Rothapfel to dedicate his new Rialto theater. This play shows the star as a sort of film Robin Hood in a western environment. Bessie Love plays opposite him, and Sam De Grasse, Mary Alden, Pomeroy Cannon and Bred Burns have important parts. "The No-Good Guy," in which Collier is starring, is a five-reel comedy. In this play the comedian portrays the part of a ne'er-do-well spendthrift, and Enid Markey plays the clever female detective. Charles K. French, Robert Kortman and J. Frank Burke head the supporting cast. Two women stars, Dorothy Gish and Bessie Barriscale, furnish the May 14 releases. Miss Barriscale has a powerful play entitled "Not My Sister." James Montgomery and C. Gardner Sullivan collaborated on the scenario for this play. The supporting cast are William Desmond, Franklin Ritchie and Alice Taafe. In "Susan Rocks the Boat" Dorothy Gish takes the part of a modern Joan of Arc. In this picture she again has the support of Owen Moore. Mae Marsh has completed the new Fine Arts picture, "A Child of the Paris Streets," which will be released May 21. This play is a highly spectacular and dramatic story of the Latin quarter and in it Miss Marsh plays the part of a little Apache. With her are playing Robert Harron, Tully Marshall, Jennie Lee, Carl Stockdale, Loyola O'Connor and Bert Hadley. Another release of this same week will be "The Primal Lure," in which William S. Hart will make his last appearance for some time in his familiar western characterization. Hopper in "Mr. Goode, the Samaritan," and Warner starring in "The Market of Vain Desire," will be released the end of the month. Al St. John, who started out as one of the original Keystone police, and established the traditions of this unique force, has jumped into the headlines and will be starred in the next Triangle comedy made at the eastern studios of the corporation. Roscoe Arbuckle will direct the new production and Alice Lake will play the leading feminine role. The publicity department of the Triangle Film Corporation has begun a campaign of education in which it is endeavoring to teach the exhibitor that the newspapers have many departments besides the photoplay in which he may break into print, and that the editors of each of these departments are glad to get news or features designed to interest their readers. A new form press sheet is the text book in this educational campaign. These bulletins contain stories with a couple of lines above each indicating the department of the paper for which it is designed. The Knickerbocker theater, New York, for several months the Triangle Film Corporation's model for its hundreds of exhibitors, has closed its doors on GrifhthInce-Sennett motion picture productions. Thus the new Rialto theater becomes the first-run home of Triangle pictures, and the successful opening of this theater appears to be the explanation for the sudden decision of the Triangle. The Knickerbocker has been leased for a term of years by Charles Frohman, Klaw & Erlanger, the former lessees. Congratulations on "Civilization" The appreciation with which "Civilization," Thomas H. Iince's million-dollar spectacle, is being received is denoted by the flood of congratulatory telegrams sent to Mr. Ince. From all parts of southern California these notes of praise are coming in. Noteworthy among these is one from Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California, another from Harry H. Culver, the noted California realty magnate, one from David A. Hamburger, the millionaire southern California merchant, and still another from W. E. Good, vice-president of the Kilts & Jackson Company. Within a few weeks Ince is expected to have decided whether he Crowd at first showing of Ince's "Civilization',' Los Angeles.