Motography (Oct-Dec 1916)

November 18, 1916. M O TO G R A P H Y 1123 Flickers From Foxland JUNE CAPRICE, STUART HOLMES AND WILLIAM FARNUM AT WORK ON FEATURES SLEEPING on a circular bed may not sound very appealing to everyone, but Stuart Holmes, the William Fox Star, who made villainy a fine art, claims that it is most luxurious. Mr. Holmes possesses such a bed, as round and soft as a pancake, and says he had it made in this form because he is superstitious and never felt really happy as long as he had to take a chance on getting out on the left hand side of bed. Mr. Stuart's hobby, beside his acting, is sculpture. He is really a serious student of the plastic art. Virginia Pearson Jokes Copper Virginia Pearson is still laughing at a fat policeman who was playing an extra part in one of her plays and mistaking her, in rags and tatters, for another extra asked all kinds of personal questions about Miss Pearson, who appeared to be his ideal, and showed his utter contempt for the "extra" because she did not say more flattering things about the star. After the scene was completed and Miss Pearson's maid enveloped her rags in a gorgeous crimson coat and led her to a road monster perhaps the copper understood some things that had seemed queer to him before. William Farnum Walks on All Fours If the ardent admirers of William Farnum's physique would have one like it he claims that it can be accomplished if they will follow his example of walking on all fours, for this is a part of his system of keeping in trim. Mr. Farnum recommends including in your physical training such stunts as crawling about on all fours ; holding the body rigid, resting it in this state on the toes and hands ; lowering the head and shoulders to the floor by bending the arms and raising them to the original position by straightening the arms. University Student Writes for Theda Bar a To James W. Adams, a young University of Pennsylvania student, belongs the honor of having the first play he has ever written accepted by William Fox for his star, Theda Bara. Mr. Adams is onlv 23 vears old. Comparatively few writers have had such good fortune as Mr. Adams in having a first story accepted. At Work in Fox Studios June Caprice has completed her fourth photoplay for William Fox and begun on the fifth. With a single exception Miss Caprice's supporting cast will be entirely new to the Fox pictures. Stuart Holmes has also started work on another photoplay. Jane and Katherine Lee were in Pittsburgh last week appearing personally at the showing of "A Daughter of the Gods" at the Pitt Theater. This picture is proving as great a success in Pittsburgh as in New York and Philadelphia. William Fox's film version of "Romeo and Juliet" is also drawing huge crowds. So great were the numbers clamoring for admission at the Empire Theater in New Orleans the management established "midnight matinees." These "matinees" began a half hour before midnight and lasted until one in the morning. The state capitol at Sacramento, California, was turned into a studio by Director Frank Lloyd's company. William Farnumt, the star of the production, acts the part of a United States Senator, and many of the scenes are supposed to be laid in the senate chamber. Permission was obtained from the state authorities to film these scenes in the capitol. Among those who will appear in the photoplay, as a result, are J. S. Chambers, controller; George Radcliff, state gardener; L. B. Mallory, secretary of the state board of health ; State Purchasing Agent McMillan, and a score of state senators. Last week the second annual convention of the William Fox district and branch managers and department representatives Avas held at the Hotel Biltmore for three days. Mr. Fox was present at every session and announced, personally, the policies which will be established on the first of the year. W. R. Sheehan, gen Abvv ! is one of the many impressive scenes from Fox's "A Daughter of the Gods," starring Annette Amphibia Kellerman, now slipping over the screen of the Lyric. New York. At your right is one of the very few circular beds in captivity with its master, Stuart Fox Holmes, luxuriously lounging upon its mohair back.