Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

1114 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 20. Sifted From the Studios ATLANTIC COAST NOTES Dorothy Rogers, the William Fox actress, has changed her name to "Dee" Rogers. Louise Bates, lately featured as the "Falstaff Girl," makes her dramatic debut in "The Water Devil," a Thanhouser Mutual Masterpicture. Miss Bates was prima donna with "The Passing Show" at the Winter Garden, New York, when Edwin Thanhouser offered her a starring position in pictures. Mary Pickford and Gaby Deslys met for the first time recently at the Famous Players' studios in Jacksonville. An Arctic scene in the Fox production, "Blazing Love," contains a replica of a northland ice hut. This part of the picture was filmed at Saranac Lake, New York. Mabel Taliaferro drives a team of Esquimaux dogs in the five-part Metro drama of the northland, "The Snowbird," which Edwin Carewe directed. Louise Huff, a newcomer to the William Fox studios, makes her first appearance in that company in "Blazing Love," with Virginia Pearson. Virginia Pearson was the original "Vampire" in "A Fool There Was," with Robert Hilliard on the speaking stage. Clara Kimball Young is making arrangements for a scenario contest in which $2,000 will be offered for the best five-reel scenario submitted by July IS, the date on which she will begin the production of her own photoplays. Lisle Leigh, who appeared in "Slander," with Mme. Kalich, has played more than 650 different roles on the speaking stage, in addition to having conducted a school of acting. Robert Vignola, who is directing Pauline Frederick in the adaptation of Zangwill's "The Moment Before," for the Paramount program, turned choir master the other day when the boys from a church nearby were used in a big church scene at the Famous Players' studio. Sydney Mason's pet dog, "Dee Dee," is no more. He went with his master to visit a Florida alligator farm and became a small-sized meal for one of the alligators. Kathleen Butler, who has been taking a vacation, is again at work at the Gaumont-Mutual studios in a feature production as yet unnamed. "The Isle of Love," the first GaumontMutual Masterpicture starring Gertrude McCoy, has been completed. Iva Shepard and Earl O. Schenck head the supporting cast. Florence La Badie is offering a one hundred dollar prize for the most artistic and practical suggestion for decorating her new ear. It is a Pullman coupe. Frederick Warde, the Shakesperian actor who played the title role in "Silas Mamcr," has been recently signed by Edwin Thanhouser to star in a series of feature productions released through Mutual as "Thanhouser Classics." He will begin work on the first production soon. Florence La Badie has completed one of another series of "Thanhauser Classics" in which she will be featured. The first is "The Fugitive"; the second, "Woman, Saint and Devil." Peggy Hyland, the British picture star, will make her first appearance on the Paramount program in the Famous Players' adaptation of Henry Arthur Jones' play, "Saints and Sinners." The fire crew at the Rolfe-Metro studio has been awarded first prize by the New York fire inspectors. Daniel Hogan, head property man at the studio, is chief of the department. Pauline Frederick in the Famous Players' production, "The Moment Before," appears on part of the play as a young gypsy, in another as a dowager countess. Will S. Davis, who directed Mme. Kalich in the William Fox production, "Slander," has begun another production. Fuller Mellish and Stephen Gratten are among the players. Virginia Pearson has begun work under Director Kenean Buel on her second Fox film. She plays a society woman who becomes enmeshed through her love of gambling. The supporting cast includes Albert Swanson, John Dillon, Ida Darling, Miss Dixon and Harry Leone. J. Victor Wilson, who resigned from the business of the Strand theater, New York, has been put in general charge of the picture, "Where Are My Children," at the Globe theater. Mme. Kalich has returned from a motor tour of the New Jersey resorts and will begin work soon on her second Fox feature, under direction of James Vincent. J. Gordon Edwards, who has been directing Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper for the Fox Film Corporation in pictures made in Jamaica, has returned with his company to the New Jersey studios and will begin work on a new feature soon. Henry Kolker's favorite hobby is collecting old and valuable prints. Flavia Arcaro of the Gaumont Mutual Company is a woman of literary and musical tastes. She continues her musical training and at present is also taking a course in French and Spanish literature. In taking a fire scene for "The Iron Claw," Charles Reveda fell from a ladder into the flames. His face and hands were burned, but after treatment he returned to work the next day. David Thompson, assistant director at the Columbia-Metro studio, is skilled in giving "first aid to the injured," and is in demand very frequently to care for players injured in scenes. Lucille Lee Stewart, Ralph Ince's new leading lady, has finished her first feature production and is working on another Yitagraph Blue Ribbon feature to be released early in the summer. Francis X. Bushman had his fingers badly cut in a scene in which he wrests a sword from a negro in "The Wall Between." Anita Stewart was the principal attraction at a benefit for the Actors' Fund in the Eighty-first Street Theater, New York, recently. Her pictures sold for five dollars each. Robert Clugston, who appeared in "The Haunted Manor," Gaumont feature, has the role of wealthy clubman in "The Isle of Love," featuring Gertrude McCoy. Helen Gibson has a new automobile. Gertrude McCoy, having finished her work as the featured player in "The Isle of Love," a Gaumont Mutual Masterpicture, is back in Xew York. Film Market Quotations ana Financial Gossip Supplied by R. D. Small of A. E. Butler & CoChicago. Bid Asked American Film Co., Inc.... 87 95 Biograph Company 52 Famous Players Film Co.. 75 115 General Film Corp., pref 45 Mutual Film Corp., pref... 44 48J/2 Mutual Film Corp., com... 45 50 No. Am. Film Corp., pref. . .100 110 No. Am. Film Corp, com... 45 57 New York M. P. Corp 33 43 Thanhouser Film Corp 3% 4%* Universal Film Mfg. Co. . . .200 *Par $5.00. Famous Players Reliance Majestic Keystone-Triangle Merger: If the last reports be true that $50,000,000 is the capitalization of this new company, the criticism that has already been pretty generally offered that it is overcapitalized, is entitled to respect. Wc have just had two instances of substantially incorporated companies that arc not exactly "blossoming in our early Spring." That this combination can produce beautiful pictures, no one can deny. The Famous Players' output, and many of the releases of the Triangle, have exhibited perfect photography, excellent acting, fine characterization and interesting stories, but the Triangle's finances did not obtain a "rosy" hue when it was operating on its own feet. If the merger eliminates much of the needless "reduplication of genius" and will pay the illustrious gentlemen who are directing its destinies, just what they are worth and no more, the company should make money, but a very modest capitalization would have impressed the public at large that the film industry was beginning to take itself seriously. Universal Film Manufacturing Company: It is reported earnings in the last quarter are more than satisfactory and the company is now doing the best business in its history. New York Motion Picture Corporation: Stock was offered under 40 last week and we have no available information at this time to account for its weakness.