Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

20 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIX, No. 1. the desire has been put aside, because military instructors were not available. The West Point films, it is pointed out, overcome these difficulties as several hundred children may receive military instruction at the same time and without the assistance of an experienced drill master. As a result it is expected that many municipalities will obtain projection machines for use in several of the larger schools and will use the pictures to make the students proficient in military knowledge. Choose Original Story For Film Yorke-Metro Starts Making "Broadway Bill" with Harold Lockwood, a Departure From Usual Custom DEPARTING from the usual custom of choosing a printed work as the basis for a story, Yorke-Metro announces that as a starring vehicle for Harold Lockwood to follow his current Metro release, "The Avenging Trail," it has selected an original story by Fred J. Balshofer and is now engaged in producing it under Mr. Balshofer's direction. William Fox, spent Christmas at his home in Sag Harbor, N. Y. On December 26 Mr. Farnum planned to be up and doing, for he leaves on that day for California where he will make another de luxe picture for Mr. Fox. A scene from the Metro-Yorke play "The Avenging Trail," starring Harold Lockwood. Another Western Play for Edith Storey Motion picture rights to Charles A. Taylor's famous western melodrama "Yosemite" have been acquired by Metro as a starring vehicle for the athletic star Edith Storey. The author himself will adapt the play for the screen and all the characteristic western action and incidents which made this melodrama a success on the stage will be transported to the screen just as the author originally wrote them. This is the second stage play that Metro has secured recently for Edith Storey, the first being "The Claim" by Charles Kenyon and Frank Dare which was picturized by June Mathis, and which will immediately precede "Yosemite" in production. Farnum Is Resting William Farnum, who has been resting after making his William Farnum de luxe production "Les Miserables" for Triangle Cowboy Chases Real Bandits Director Cliff Smith and Bill Patton, Triangle cowboy, pursued three bandits in an automobile when they were escaping with $10,000 taken from the Culver City Bank last week. "With Patton on the running-board, armed with a '45, I opened my car to the limit and we got almost close enough to risk a shot at one time, but their car had the most speed," said Smith. "As we approached the car tracks I was so intent on watching the quarry that I failed to look for a street car. The title of the story is "Broadway Bill." It is a semi-society drama, with part of the action taking place in the fast society circles of New York and Palm Beach and the remainder laid in the timberlands of Maine. Harold Lockwood plays Broadway Bill, a young man of wild proclivities. For the sake of a girl, he decides to mend his ways and regain his dissipated strength. He leaves for a lumber camp in the Maine woods owned by a friend and while working out his rehabilitation he stumbles upon a thieving scheme to defraud the camp's owner. His adventure in thwarting it develop some big and unusual situations in photo-playwriting while the love angle in the story runs into surprising and interesting channels. It was there, however, as I learned to my sorrow, for it rammed against the tonneau, caving in the rear end of my machine. How Patton clung on, is beyond me, for we were traveling at top speed. "We kept right on, in spite of the accident, but were soon forced to abandon the chase, as my motor was injured in the crash." Smith and Patton were able to furnish the officers with the license number on the fugitive car. Fred Baumann, Joe Delfino and W. L. Bryant, all Triangle employes, were among those held up and robbed when the three automobile bandits entered the bank. Harold Lockzvood, Metro Star