Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

996 M O T O G R A P H Y Vol. XIX, No. 21. I, Mary MacLane Is Lost — Then Found you. Eccentric Author Explains by Saying She Merely 1MARY MacLANE, who bares her , love affairs in the Essanay feature, "Men Who Have Made Love to Me," created considerable excitement both in the film world and among the general public, by mysteriously disappearing from the Planters Hotel, Chicago, leaving behind a couple of nighties and a large collection of perfervid love letters. Her friends declared she had been under great mental stress due to financial embarrassment and asked the police to search for her. They suggested that she might be found in a hospital or at the bottom of the lake. For more than a week not a trace of her could be found. Finally she turned up and calmly announced she had registered at the Auditorium Hotel under Disappearance in Chicago Wished for Privacy an assumed name so as to get a rest from her arduous work in filming the Essanay picture and that she was preparing to go into vaudeville. The love letters left in her room carry date lines of Washington, New York, and a score of other cities. One runs: Darlingest: Not to know where you are! I love you — don't you love me? Tell me. TELL me. You feel far away — that makes me desperate. I LOVE you. I'm going to have you — you won't be taken away from me. You're sweet — you tear at my throat and at my heart— you're sweet. Darlingest — and elusive and far away — not far away — not far away, CLOSE — in me — in my heart and SOUL, darlingest. Darlingest, I won't let you be taken from me. I won't let you. You own me. You do — . You WANT Theda Bara as she appears in the new Fox production, "Salome." the part of John the Baptist. The other player has to own me. I am owned bv LOVED by you. Darlingest your loved. M . Another reads: Darlingest: I cannot bear this. I must have you — love you — see you — feel you — if you love me — if you ever did love me — pause — think — as I have — our love is much too precious— too rare — to throw away lightly. I can't fight it — tried to. I belong to you wholly as a dog to his master. Come take me, do with me as you wish. I shall fight duty, obligations, everything save you — my sweet. Always just your, F. Miss MacLa.ne's financial embarrassment is said to have been the result of her uncontrollable desire for luxury. She had been living at the Blackstone Hotel, the finest hostelry west of New York, until she went to the Planters, a popular priced place. With vaudeville engagements, however, it is presumed she will soon have all she needs — for the present at least. Good Cast in "Honor's Cross" Screen players of unusual merit are in the cast of "Honor's Cross," a Selexart production distributed by Goldwyn. As Jane Cabot, Rhea Mitchell, the star, gives a performance destined to put her at the top of the ranks of motion picture favorites. In turn, she is a cabaret dancer, a seamstress and a waitress. To Herschel Mayall is entrusted the important role of Thomas Dolan, a corrupt politician. It is a part full of big opportunities, with Mayall equal to all of them. Edward Coxen is another prominent artist whose work is certain to win commendation. He has the role of Lee Stevens, a sturdy mountaineer lured to the city by Dolan. Roy Laidlaw is admirable as "Gentleman Jim" Cabot, a former lightweight pugilist, but later a fighting heavyweight loafer. Adele Farrington, as Marion Cabot, mother of Jane, does marked credit to a difficult role. Fox Hires Burton George William Fox announces the addition of Burton George to his directorial staff. Mr. George is a director of long standing, most of whose work has been done on the west coast, but he will make his pictures for Mr. Fox in the east. The first will star George Walsh and bears the tentative title of "The Sleepwalker." Carl Harbaugh, under whose direction the last two Walsh subjects have been filmed, is to direct Peggy Hyland in her third Fox production, "Other Men's Daughters."