Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

June 24, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1461 PACIFIC COAST NOTES George Elwell, the boy actor of the Ince forces, who played the office boy in "The Raiders," appears as a negro jockey in the current Triangle play in which Frank Keenan is being starred under the direction of Reginald Barker. Wilfred Lucas' next Fine Arts-Triangle play, written especially for him by Mary O'Connor, deals with the lumbering region of the west. Mae Marsh is said to have given an unusually good performance as the little Irish peasant girl in a forthcoming Triangle release. "Purity," the six-reel American allegorical picture, featuring Audrey Munson, is to be released July 17. Miss Munson is now working in her second picture, "The Gem of the Western Seas," written by William Pigott. Lillian Gish is completing her star part in the symbolic Fine Arts drama, which Director William Christy Cabanne is staging. W. E. Lawrence and Olga Grey play prominent parts in her supporting cast. Jessie Arnold, with the Western Universal company, is devoting her spare time to writing short stories for an eastern publishing company. Thomas Chatterton, hero of "The Secret of a Submarine," is being "done in oils" by Montefiore Mordecai, an artist in Washington, D. C. Rollin S. Sturgeon, director-general of the western Vitagraph, has gathered together 20 expert divers and swimmers to take part in the realistic ship-wreck scenes he is incorporating into his sixreel feature, "Through the Wall," the detective play by Cleveland Moffett. The "Social Pirates" series having been completed, Ollie Kirky has left the Glendale studios and is playing comedy leads in pictures at the Kalem Hollywood studios. "A Million for Mary," written by Aaron Hoffman, will be the comedy in which Kolb and Dill, the famous stage comedians, make their debut in Mutual pictures. May Cloy plays the leading feminine role. Eugenie Forde plays the role of a siren in the six-reel American picture featuring Audrey Munson. Tom Chatterton, hero of "The Secret of the Submarine," for a recent episode of the serial crossed hand over hand along a cable stretched over a chasm two hundred feet wide. After that, he was buried to his neck in quicksands and then pulled out. Crane Wilbur, the David Horsley star, is appearing at present only in two-reel pictures, released on the Mutual program. H. O. David, vice-president and general manager of the Universal Film Company, has returned to Universal City after spending the past ten weeks in New York on business. Dorothy Phillips is writing a five-reel Bluebird feature entitled "Conscience," in which she will star. Jack Kerrigan has returned to Universal City after spending two weeks in Colterville, Cal., where he worked in "The Beckoning Trail," a five-reel Bluebird feature written by F. McGrew Willis. Carol Halloway of the Beauty-Mutual studios, was formerly in musical comedy with Mitzi Hajos. Corinne Griffith has as yet never seen herself on the screen outside of projection room "runs." She declares she is afraid to venture into a theater where her pictures are shown lest someone in the audience recognize her. George Melford, the Lasky director, is back at the studio after his vacation. rendered a dramatic reading, and his sister, Miss Mary Hart, an authoress of note, contributed a number of delightful humorous recitations. A mammoth church "set" — occupying virtually the entire floor space on one of the stages at Ince's Culver -City studios, is being used this week for scenes in the current Triangle play, by C. Gardner Sullivan, in which Frank Keenan is appearing under the direction of Reginald Barker. Vivian Martin, now in Pallas-Morosco pictures, made her debut on the speaking stage when a child in the title role of "Peter Pan," under Charles Froh Alan Forrest, who has been playing leads with the Lubin Company, is now P13^'3 management. Later she appeared with American at Santa Barbara. m "Officer 666," "The Marriage Game," . and "The Winrh r^^t ^r t^„:„~>> Somewhere in France, Richard Harding Davis' last story, is to be made A. vivid into a picture play by Thomas H. Ince. Jungle," The story was first published in The Metro drama starring: scene, in "The Siren of the a two-act Centaur-Mutual rring Margaret Gibson and William Clifford, shows a lion attacking a. child. The scene was taken by a special double-exposure camera. Twelve lions, six leopards and a number of elephants appear in the scenes of the play. Helen Holmes and her company of Signal-Mutual players, now touring Hawaii in search for locations for scenes Eugene B. Lewis, who recently came in "The Diamond Runners," a forthcom to the Pacific Coast from New York to ing five-act Mutual Star production, in write feature scenarios, has been made which she is the featured player, when head of the Universal City scenario de last heard from were within a few miles [•olitan Magazine. Lois Weber has returned to Universal City after a month's vacation, part of which she spent in New York. While on her trip, she began work upon, the scenario of a multiple reel production soon to be filmed at Universal City. of Mauna Lea, Honolulu's famous \ cano. Director Heffron staged a real and exciting fox hunt for one of the scenes in The Valiants of Virginia," the coming «r-i? V L S" E> release In ^ Kathlyn Williams has an opportunity to show her skill in horsemanship. Al W. Filson has renewed his contract with the Selig Polyscope Company for another year. George Foster Piatt, the Lasky scenario editor, has recovered from the injuries received in the automobile accident in which Clifford H. Stagg and MalThe title of the Fine Arts play first colm Strong were killed, and will soon called "The Dope Fiend" has been * changed to "Drugged Hopes." Tully Marshall and Norma Talmadge are featured, Marshall as an artist who becomes a dope fiend, Miss Talmadge as his model, who eventually saves him. partment. Miss Elsie M. Callaghan, daughter of the late Port Warden of New York City, and sister of the well-known Secret Service Agent Thomas J. Callaghan, has been added to the executive staff at the Hprsley-Mutual studios as private secretary. For use in scenes of the Fine Arts picturization of Bret Harte's "In the Carquinez Woods," Director Allan Dwan s cured from a valuable collection . ,a copy of The California Chronicle, published in 1856. This paper is valued at $50.00 by the owner. resume his duties at the studio. In his latest picture, "The King O' Make Believe," a two-reel Centaur" feature, Crane Wilbur, star and author, WS the role of motion picture star. When the story was completed, Mr. WilIn the Mae Marsh-Robert Harron bur stated that it was the most difficult Triangle play, which is laid in Ireland, Director Paul Powell introduces a beautiful and fantastic fairy scene when the story is told of a troublesome fairy who comes out on fine evenings at sunset and bathes in the afterglow. George Stone, the five-year-old Fine Arts player, has been borrowed by the Ince Santa Monica studio to appear prominently in a Kay Bee-Triangle play with W. S. Hart. A forest fire that is pictorially beautiful and very realistic, was staged last week by Allan Dwan for scenes in Bret Harte's "In the Carquinez Woods." Clara Turner, formerly on -the speaking stage, is in motion pictures in Universal City. William S. Hart recently acted as host to a party of plaj'ers from the Fine Arts studio, at his home in Hollywood. The affair, an informal dinner, gave rise to several exhibitions of talent. Hart part he had ever shouldered. CHICAGO GOSSIP R. R. Nehls, general manager of the American Film Company, spent the past two weeks in New York, in consultation with the_ officials of the Mutual FilmCorporation. He was accompanied bv Mrs. Nehls. In "The Little Musketeer," Henry B. Walthall .has a dual role, that of two brothers. Each brother thinks the other guilty of a crime and tries to shield him. Harris Dickson, author of the "Ole Reliable" stories and others, entertained Director Colin Campbell and his Selig players in Vicksburg for scenes in "The Crisis," at a real Southern dinner. Members of the Selig players in the cast of "The Crisis" who returned to the Chicago studio are Eugenie Besserer, Cecil Holland, Matthew Snyder, Leo Pierson and George Fawcett.