Motography (Oct-Dec 1916)

November 18, 1916. MOTOGRAPHY 1131 International Players Go West MRS. VERNON CASTLE NARROWLY ESCAPES DROWNING IN "PATRIA5 THE International Film Service, Inc., is sparing no pains or expense in the making of "Patria," the preparedness serial in which Mrs. Vernon Castle is starred. Mrs. Castle and forty other members of the company will leave next week for Los Angeles, where a number of scenes will be taken. Louis Joseph Vance, author of the serial, left Saturday for Los Angeles. He will select the locations and personally superintend the taking of the pictures. Milton Sills, the leading man, and Warner Oland, the "heavy," will be among the prominent members of the party. Many of the scenes in the later episodes of "Patria" are laid on the Pacific Coast and in Mexico. They depict the efforts of Japanese and Mexicans to secure control of American munitions plants and defenses. It is for these pictures that the trip to the Pacific Coast is being made. Several side trips into Mexico will be made to secure the proper settings there. The earlier episodes of the play are practically completed and the first episode will be released on December 4. Mrs. Castle Dives Mrs. Ca>tle had a narrow escape from drowning last week in Lake Cayuga, at Ithaca. Mrs. Castle, who is an expert swimmer and diver, was doing a water scene which is a part of one of the episodes of "Patria." She did not realize when she dived from the side of a steamship into the lake that the water was icy cold. The shock was so great that she became unconscious and sank. Milton Sills was on the deck of the ship fully clothed. He jumped overboard, rescued her and hurried her home. She suffered from the shock during the rest of the day, but escaped any serious after effects. Unusual Lobby Display Manager Miller of the Alhambra Theater, Los Angeles, had a most attractive lobby display to call attention to the International Golden Eagle Feature, "The Flower of Faith," which he showed for a week. At the entrance of the theater he erected a horse of white papier mache, mounted by a night rider. The device was beautifully illuminated by night. "The Flower of Faith" played to record business during the week's engagement. One of the most daring scenes ever depicted on the screen is contained in "The Jockey of Death," the first of the Adventure Series of the International, which will be released on November 15. So realistic is the scene that one of the participants, Mile. Evelyn, broke her ankle, but gamely continued until the action was completed. To escape from their pursuers Mile. Evelyn and "The Jockey of Death" place a bundle of wood on a high wire stretched across a deep gully, each of them clasp one end, and they shoot across the wire. When the opposite side was reached they crashed against the bank with such terrific force that Mile. Evelyn's ankle was broken. She struggled to her knees, however, and scrambled up the side of the hill, completing the scene. In the thirteenth episode of "Beatrice Fairfax," "The Ringer," Harry Fox is assisted by a fat lady, Miss Cherrie, who has been with Barnum & Bailey for a number of years, and Major Rice, a dwarf, also for merly with the "big show." Hart Gone to the Bad Again William S. Hart soon will be seen in another of his famous and beloved "bad-man" roles, when he is presented by Thomas H. Ince in an unusual drama of the West, entitled "The Devil's Double," a Triangle Kay Bee play from the pen of J. G. Hawks. "The Devil's Double" is the uncanny tale of a bestial bad-rrjan who fought a fierce fight against temptation — and won. It recites the adventures encountered by an eccentric artist and his wife in the wild west, whither they go in search of health. They meet "Bowie" Blake, a "bad-man," and situations of an intensely dramatic nature then follow in quick succession. Hart is seen as "Bowie" Blake and his interpre ttve of the powerful scenes from Arrow's eight-reel production, "The Bishop's Sou," starring Derwent Hall Caine, the author's son, and Marian Swayne, and based on the noted Hall Caine novel. "The Deemster. On the left Derwent Caine is tied to the post and at the right he is facing tne sea.