Motography (Jul-Dec 1917)

July 7, 1917. MOTOGRAPHY 49 Newslets for Your Program INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT THE PLAYERS— READY TO CLIP OUT AND PRINT INVENTORS of first aids to the harassed housewife doubtless beseige the patent office with new inventions when they get a glimple of "Fatty" Arbuckle peeling potatoes in his latest two-reeler, "The Rough House." The plump comedian scores an original hit with his methods of preparing the simple garden vegetables. Paramount will release the comedy. Charlie Chaplin has been entertaining a number of celebrities at the Lone Star Studios. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, noted Russian sculptor, painter and poet thinker, accompanied by the princess, spent a number of hours watching Charlie work. Bhai Suchet Singh, B. C. S., educator and philosopher of India, made a special trip to California to see the world famed comedian. "Pinto," the colt which Helen Holmes recently shipped to her ranch in Utah, last week was given first prize among "high schooled" animals at a local stock. fair in that vicinity. This is the horse which Miss Holmes spent the better part of six months training. Jackie Saunders (Mutual-Horkheimer) is a crack shot with a revolver and can put a hole through a dime at twenty-five feet. Sherlock Holmes has been out-Sherlocked. "Fatty" Arbuckle holds the new record in his third Paramount-Arbuckle comedy, "The Rough House." Herbert Warren does the trusty Watson role. The latter's screen impersonation is said to be flawless, even the conventional stove polish on his boots having photographed perfectly. Jackie Saunders, the Mutual-Horkheimer star, has bought memberships in the Red Star for all of her menagerie, even including h-er turtle. Miss Saunders is passionately fond of animals of all kinds and her greatest worry during the war is the great sacrifice of horses. In an effort to alleviate the sufferings of these dumb beasts she thought of this method of helping by taking out memberships for the animals under her care, in this society which was formed to take the same care of the horses on the battlefield that the Red Cross does of the soldiers. Yes, George Periolat, the American company's actor who can play "anything," is a dyed-in-the-wool bachelor. George swears he has never yet proposed, but admits having received several offers from eligible spinsters, in fact, he has two letters which he can show to prove his assertions. Some nice girl is going to get him yet. Roscoe Arbuckle, heavyweight screen champion, has a penchant for Chinese porcelains. His collection is said to be one of the largest in the east. Ann Murdock (Mutual-Empire) is threatening to have her roadster upholstered in red, white and blue. Leila Knapp Wyre, Metro's new casting director, is a woman of versatile talents. She is an artist of known ability, a student of interior furnishings and has been a costume designer for many years. Now that Pauline Frederick has been duly burned to death she has retired to her country place in Jersey while Director Robert G. Vignola completes the rest of her Famous Players-Paramount pictures which depicts the scenes immediately following her untimely demise. The production is called "The Love That Lives." Marjorie Daw, the clever little Lasky ingenue and protege of Geraldine Farrar, declares that she wishes the war would hurry up and be over. She explains that she has to purchase chewing gum in order to get the tinfoil to aid the Red Cross; and hating to see the gum go to waste, she is forced to chew it despite the fact that she does not like to chew gum and thinks it a most vulgar pastime. Add little Aida Horton, Greater Vitagraph's three-year-old leading lady to Bobby Connelly, to the list of Liberty Bond holders. The tiny actress instructed her mother to buy one for her. Aida's purchase of a bond makes it unanimous among the Vitagraph kids, for Bobby Connelly and his sister, Helen, already had bought theirs. They also helped along the sale of bonds. It was one of the meanest days of the rainy season and Kathlyn Williams was one of the last ones to leave the studio. While removing her make-up she heard a dog's plaintive cry. Taking an unbrella she began a search for the animal and unearthed Tweedles from the refuge of a waste-paper barrel. The cold, hungry and shivering dog was wrapped in Miss' Williams' coat and taken home by her. And so grateful did the little fellow appear that Miss Williams allowed him to remain. That was two years ago, and no more faithful and self-appointed little guard could anyone ask than the funnylooking little Tweedles, which you are sure to see at the Morosco Studio if you happen in the vicinity of Miss Williams' dressing room. Carol Halloway makes shirts, men's shirts. She makes them on her machine at home in the evening after her Vitagraph activities. She snips in buttonholes, tacks on buttons, measures the collar and cuffs, and you have a shirt! It is the quandary of the William Duncan "Hearts of Flame" serial company as to what happens to the shirts when Carol has made them. She has been under a variety of suspicions, but Carol's answer to all of them was but to laugh. The solution really is very simple — Carol is a Red Cross worker. Location man Van Zimmerman of the Lasky studio, recently visited a powder works in the vicinity of Hollywood for the purpose of securing permission to film certain scenes in the neighborhood of the powder plant. Forgetting his name was the same as that of a certain German so-called statesman, Van Zimmerman sent his card to the manager of the plant and was promptly seized by two of the guards. He had a very exciting time endeavoring to explain his peaceful mission. Marguerite Clark's garden in Rye, New York, will not bloom with roses this summer as it did in 1916. The festive potato blossom and the sw eel ■ ■ nt of the onion will replace the rose and the violet in the little Famous Players star's affections this year. Bryant Washburn, Essanay star, was one of the first to register for the selective draft in his precinct. A successful career on both stage and screen, in which he has always appeared with the most famous actresses and picture stars, has left Eugene O'Brien with but one regret. He is sorry he did not go into pictures five years ago. Little Mary McAllister, starring in Essanay's "Do Children Count?" series, is perhaps the busiest child on earth. This six-year-old girl spends anywhere from two to seven hours daily at the studio, gives three more hours to studies under a private tutor, then spends a lot of time besides at play. She is possessed of unlimited spirit and romps through what would seem to other children most tiresome work. More than half of Essanay's forces, including several stars, registered for President Wilson's selective draft. L. J. Schlaifer, of 216 Central building, Seattle, Washington, controlling a large and attractive list of money getting State Rights Features, has taken into co-partnership with him Melvin G. Winstock, widely and favorably known throughout the northwest, with A. Bloom as office director. Crowd of new actors in Santa Barbara. Paul Weigel and Antrim Short engaged to support William Russell in "Pride and the Man" (issue July 30). Charles Marriot, Joe King, Harold Wilson, Gordon Russell, William Kyle and Tote Du Crow to support Juiiette Day in debut subject, "Betty and the Buccaneers," now under production. King is Miss Day's leading man. Difficult role for Al Kauffman, formerly one of America's leading heavyweight pugilists. Has to be knocked out by "Billy" Russell in "Pride and the Man." Loses no caste thereby for "Billy" is American amateur heavyweight champion. YYon title with New York Athletic Club. Quicksand nearly swallowed MaryMiles Minter the other day. Americans out clam hunting. Mary stepped in the ooze. Began to sink from sight. "Help! Help!" Mintered from the rosebuds. "Coming, Coming," Russelled from the hero's lips. A wade, a swim. "My hero," she gasped, smiling. "It takes SAND and it takes it QUICK,"exclaimed American chorus. " 'Billy' Russell, you're a real hero." Party continued. Good time had by all. William Russell enlisted in the farmarmy the other day. Took a day off, went into the hills back of Santa Barbara, purchased a ranch. Steeds for boys at the front and meat for the women in the kitchen. "Town acreage outgrown," "Billy" explains. "Thought I'd expand a little and incidentally do my bit."