Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

January 5, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY Girls of the Triangle Culver City studios make U. S. soldiers in France happy with Christmas packages of tobacco. Triangle Finishes Two New Stories Features Are Begun, Embracing Ladies' Home Journal and Collier's Weekly Subjects, in Rapid Fire Schedule atmosphere. As yet the complete cast has not been announced. Following "Keith of the Border," the cowboy favorite will appear in the screen adaptation of Charles Alden Seltzer's novel. "Boss of the Lazy Y," declared by Alvin J. Neitz, continuity expert on western subjects, to 'be the greatest twogun man story he ever handled. Stewart plays the first four reels as an unshaven roughneck, bursting forth as a wellgroomed gentleman in the closing canto. Director Thomas Heffron has started work on the screen adaptation of Meredith Nicholson's crook comedv, "The Hopper," which appeared recently in Colliers Weekly. In this drama William V. Mong, cast in the title role, is shown as a reformed safe-blower who, through a strange trick of fate, is forced into a kidnaping and robbery. Mong's supporting cast includes Irene Hunt, Peaches Jackson, the four-year-old child star, Walt Whitman, George Hernandez, Eugene Corey, Lillian West and Louis Durham. Other directors who have practically completed their latest Triangle pictures are Jack Dillon, E. Mason Hopper, Raymond Wrells and Gilbert P. Hamilton. Directors Jack Conway, Walter Edwards and Frank Borzage are waiting for new stories. Director Dillon is working with Olive Thomas on the final scenes for the star's fifth Triangle picture, "Limousine Life," from Ida M. Evans' magazine story of the same name. \X/ ITH two pictures completed and *" two new subjects begun, the Triangle Culver City studio continues to keep pace with the exceptional production schedule set by General Manager H. O. Davis, and several dramas of exceptional merit are now in 'the preliminary stages of production. The scenario department is busy on the screen adaptations of some well known magazine stories and novels by popular authors, and the staff of authors is also working on several promising original photoplays. Director Frank Borzage has just put .the finishing touches on his latest Triangle offering, "The Gun Woman," featuring Texas Guinan. Supporting Miss Guinan are several well known Triangle players including Ed Brady and Francis McDonald. In the closing scenes Director Borzage worked with a bevy of Triangle beauties as dance hall girls and all of the cowboys from the Hartville ranch as western atmosphere when "The Gun Woman's" saloon and gambling hall was "shot." The picture is now in the hands of the film editors. Director Cliff Smith has finished the latest offering starring the Triangle cowboy star, Roy Stewart, who scored a decided hit. in his latest western release, "The Learnin' of Jim Benton." Stewart's new vehicle is "The Law's Outlaw." Fritzie Ridgeway again supports him in this drama of western life. A new subject on which Director Smith has started work and in which Stewart will be featured, is the screen adaptation of Randall Parish's well-known novel, "Keith of the Border." An exceptionally large cast will support Stewart in this picture. The opening shots are being made with the star in typical western 27 Marie Dressier Writes Her Own Scenario Word comes from the Los Angeles studios of the Dressier Producing Corporation that Marie Dressier has completed her second comedy for Goldwyn release, entitled "Fired." It is in two reels. Reports from cities and towns in which "The Scrub-Lady," her first Goldwyn comedy, has been shown indicate that Miss Dressier has lost none of the great public which used to flock to see her before she gave up the speaking stage for the motion picture screen. Miss Dressier believes that the satisfactory completion of her second comedy marks her entrance into the ranks of successful scenario writers. "I wrote the story of 'Fired' all by myself," she says proudly, "and, if I do say it as shouldn't, it strikes me as pretty blamed funny." Hunt Club Ball Is Film Feature An elaborate hunt club ball is one of the many features in the Metro production of Shannon Fife's story "Red, White and Blue Blood." This picture starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, was adapted by June Mathis and directed by Charles J. Brabin. The hunt club ball was held in a spacious setting, representing the ball room of a fashionable club house. Scores of players danced in the scenes. Mr. Bushman and the principal men members of the cast wore the stylish "pink" hunting jackets with sky blue facing, and silk knickerbockers. The rest of the players were also fashionably dressed. Exhibitor Is Pleased with Two Features The following letter from Thomas S. Daley, manager of the Casino Theater, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, dated November 10, was received by the Goldwyn Pictures home office in New York : "Enclosed please find a copy of a weekly program that I am publishing for your first run house in Eastern Canada, the Casino Theater, of this city. Believe me, if 'Polly' and 'Baby Mine' are a criterion of what to expect from your studios in future releases, it will not require much printer's ink to put them across. The name 'Goldwvn' will suffice." Dearholt Joins Bluebird Following an engagement of more than two years with the American Film Company, Ashton Dearholt lately joined the Bluebird forces and is playing a leading role opposite Carmel Myers in "The Green Seal," which is being produced as a program feature under the direction of Stuart Paton. George C. Bertholon, who, since the formation of Goldwyn Pictures, has been an assistant director at the Fort Lee studio, has been made assistant to Aubrey M. Kennedy, director of productions. Elephant Is Star "Too Much Elephant," the current Selburn comedv, released by General Film Company, offers clever holiday entertain-, ment. This is the second of the series of comedies featuring Neal Burns and Gertrude Selby. Their co-star is a highly trained elephant.