Motion picture studio directory and trade annual (1918)

18-1— DIRECTORS MOTION PICTURE Fourth Edition Mutual (actor), Balboa (actor and dir. prod. " Sunny June," " The Wild Cat," " The Checkmate," " Betty Be Good," " Little Miss Grown Up," " Bit of Kindling," " Bab the Fixer," " Sallie O," " Little Miss Grown-Up "). Studio ad., Balboa, Long Beach, Cal. MACKENZIE, Donald; b. Edinburgh, Scotland; educ. Stewart's Coll., Edinburgh; with Augustin Daly Co., Whitney Opera Co., played with Lew Fields in "The June Bride"; screen career, Pathe (" The Perils of Pauline," " The Galloper," " The Spender," " The Pardon," " The Shielding Shadow," " The Challenge," "The Seven Pearls"). Hght., 5, 9^; wght*., 167; brown hair, blue eyes. Home ad., 355 W. 51st st., N. Y. Ad., Astra-Pathe, 1 Congress St., Jersey City Heights, N. J. MACQUARRIE, Murdock, also leads; b. and educ. San Francisco; stage career, played the waif in "Lights o' London" at age of 7, in rep., etc., with Henry Miller, W. A. Brady, Joseph Jefferson, E. S. Willard, in leading parts, several seasons in stock; screen career, with Biograph, was first lead with Kinemacolor, to Universal in 1913, Signal (" Stain in the Blood," " Nancy's Birthright "), American (" The Gambler's Last Love"), Selznick ("Panthea"), Bernstein ("Humility," "Loyalty," "Justice"), Universal ("Twisted Souls," "The Keeper of Hell Gate"). Hght., 5, 8; wght., 150; brown hair, gray eyes. Ad., Bernstein, L. A. MADDERN, Joseph; b. Newcastle, N. Y.; educ. N. Y. C; stage career with Wm. Gillette in " Too Much Johnson," with Arnold Daly in " You Never Can Tell," starred in " Too Many Darlings," 10 yrs. in vaud., producing own sketches, etc.; screen career, director first with Essanay (dir.), later with Keystone (dir.), directed local photoplays for F. F. Proctor circuit. Hght., 5, 6l/2; wght., 150 lbs.; iron gray hair, blue eyes. Permanent ad., 227 W. 46th st., N. Y. MAINHALL, Harry Richards, also actor; b. Oakland, Cal.; educ. Newton Mil. Acad., N. Y.; stage career, "The Pit," " Strongheart," " The Wolf," " Madame X," with Tully Marshall in " Eustace Ede," and " The Seventh Daughter," also stock; screen career, Edison, Pathe, Essanay, acting in " Shanghaied," acting and dir. " Fear," " When the Lightning Struck," " Bill's Boy," and dir. " The World Above," " The Barter of Louisa," Unity Sales ("The Yellow Menace"). Hght., 5, 9^4; wght., 157; dark hair and blue eyes. Ad., Screen Club, N. Y. MARSTON, Theodore M.; stage career covering a period of 20 yrs., creating and playing many leading character parts in B'way prods.; with Mary Mannering, H. B. Warner, Wm. H. Crane, etc., appearing in " The Man of the Hour," " The Girl from Rector's," " The Suburban," " Janice Meredith," " Quo Vadis," " Alias Jimmy Valentine," " The Squaw Man," " The Virginian," etc.; screen career, Pathe, Kinemacolor, Vitagraph, dir. " Mortmain," " The Thirteenth Girl," " The Quagmire," "The Secret Kingdom," McClure (" Greed," " Sloth," "Wrath," of " Seven Deadly Sins " series), Universal (" The Girl by the Roadside," "The Raggedy Queen"). Ad., 250 West End ave., Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Studio ad., Universal City. MARSHALL, George E.; b. Chicago, 1891; educ. St. John's Mil. Acad., Wisconsin and Univ. of Chicago; screen career, 3 yrs. with Universal (" Love's Lariat," " Liberty " serial, dir. " Opportunity and Optimo," " The Heart of a Man," " The Innocent Plotter," " Swede Hearts," " The Ninth Day," " Embarrassment of Riches," " The Bumble Bee," " The Run of the Yellow Mail"); swims, rides. Hght., 5, 11; wght., 150; brown hair, gray eyes. Ad., home, Garden Court Apt., Hollywood; studio, Pathe, Glendale, Cal. MATTHEWS, H. C; screen career, 2 yrs. with Edison, Henry W. Savage (dir. "Uncle Sam at Work"), Universal in East and West (wrote and produced with his own co. " The Mascot," " The Sea Shell," adapted and staged " Snow White," " Beauty and the Beast," " Aladdin," " For the Heart of a Princess," " When First We Met," " The Four Senses," " Those Were the Happy Days," ' The Lesson," " Rivals," " The Plan That Failed," " Early's Awakening," " The Skeleton "). Ad., H. C. Matthews' Studio, Hollywood, Cal. MAYO, Archie; b. N. Y. C, 1892; educ. Columbia Univ., N. Y.; stage career, juvenile in " Honeymoon Express," " Midnight Frisco," wrote and played in ' Australian Follies"; screen career, wrote seen, for L-Ko (" The Limburger Cyclone," " A Mexican Mixup," " His Cut-Up Life," " The Nurse of an Aching Heart "). Home ad., 1064 Lexington ave., N. Y. C. Studio ad., L. Ko, Los Angeles, Cal. MELFORD, George H.; b. Rochester, N. Y.; educ. McGill Univ.; stage career, 7 yrs., in various legit, prods.; screen career, 10 yrs., first with Kalem (as actor and director, produced "The Boer War," "The Invisible Power"), Lasky (dir. "The Marriage of Kitty," "Out of Darkness," "The Explorer," " The Unknown," " Armstrong's Wife," " The Immigrant," " The Cheat," " To Have and to Hold," " Each Pearl a Tear," " Years of the Locust," " The Evil Eye," " Her Strange Wedding," " The Crystal Gazer," " Kindling," " The Hostage," " The Call of the East," " Nan of Music Mountain "). Ad., studio, Lasky, Hollywood. METCALFE, Earl Keeney, also leads; b. Newport, Ky., 1889; educ. Cincinnati, O.; stage career, 7 yrs. in stock and N. Y. prods.; vaud.; screen career, Lubin, 4 yrs. ("The Phantom Happiness," dir. Billie Reeves comedies), Lubin (" Race Suicide "), Private ("Ignorance"), Mutual ("Perils of Our Girl Reporters"), Vandyke-Art Dramas ("Her Good Name"); rides, swims, rifle practice. Hght., 5, 11; wght., 175; brown hair, blue eyes. In U. S. Service. MEYERS, Edwin, also scenario writer, leading man; b. Alexandria, Egypt, 1888; educ. Minnesota; stage career, exp., Woodward Stock in Omaha and Kansas City and Ferris Stock, vaud., etc.; screen career, Pyramid M. P. Co., Minneapolis (author and producer of "A Girl of the West"). Hght., 5, 9; wght., 150; medium hair, blue eyes. Ad., home, Linden Hills, Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, or 304 Film Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. MILLARDE, Harry; stage career, with Walker Whiteside, Robt. Mantell, J. K. Hackett, stock in Cincinnati, O., Wilmington, Del.; screen career, Kalem, Universal, Fox, playing % everything, mostly leads, and directing; ("The Lotus Woman," " The Woman He Feared," " The Forbidden Game," " Little Miss Nobody," " Every Girl's Dream," " Miss U. S. A.," " Sunshine Maid "). Ad., Screen Club, N. Y. C. MILLER, Ashley; b. Cincinnati, O.; educ. Detroit, Mich.; stage career, with Walker Whiteside, Otis Skinner, Ezra Kendall, Henrietta Crosman, Anna Held; screen career, Biograph, Edison (7 yrs.), Pathe, Famous-Players-Lasky, Vitagraph, originator and producer of "Ashley Miller Plastiques " on Paramount program, Art Dramas, author of " The Seventh Chord," three-act musical play, several one-act sketches and a contributor to New Thought publications. Recreations, motor boating and water sports. Home ad., Houseboat " Arcady," Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, N. Y. Studio ad., Vitagraph, Brooklyn, N. Y. MILLER, Charles; b. Saginaw, Mich.; educ. Univ. of Mich.; stage career, for 15 yrs. under mgmt. of Chas. Frohman, Henry B. Harris, Klaw & Erlanger, Daniel Frohman, stage dir., stock throughout country, leading man with Clara Bloodgood, Louis Mann, Clara Lipman, etc.; screen career, 1 yr. with Ince (dir. " A Corner in Colleens," " Hater of Men," " Princes of the Dark"), Triangle-Ince ("Wild Winship's Widow," "The Flame of the Yukon," " Wee Lady Betty," " The Sawdust Ring," "Polly Ann"), Select ("The Ghosts of Yesterday"). Author of several vaud. acts, has reconstructed many stage plays. Hght., 5, 11; wght., 185; brown hair, blue eyes. Studio ad., Norma Talmadge Film Corp., N. Y. MILLS, Thomas R. ; b. England; educ. Horsham College, Eng. ; stage career, with Modjeska, Richard Mansfield, Chas. Frohman, Henry Miller, Louis Mann, covering 16 yrs.; screen career, Reliance 1 yr., Vitagraph 4 yrs. (" The Duplicity of Hargraves," " Cop and the Author," " The Guilty Party," O. Henry series, " A Night in New Arabia," leads and heavies. Hght., 5, 9yi; wght., 175; dark hair, gray eyes. Home ad., 999 E. 5th st., Bklyn.; studio ad., Vitagraph, Bklyn. MIX, Tom, also scenario writer and actor; early career, rode the plains as a cowboy, was a member of the Rough Riders during Spanish-American War; screen career, with Selig (" Roping a Sweetheart," " Tom's Strategy," dir. " Mistake in Rustlers," "Twisted Trails"), Fox ("The Saddle Girth," "A Six-Cylinder Courtship," " The Tenderfoot's Tale," "A Roman Cowboy," " Durand of the Bad Lands "). Ad., Fox studio, Los Angeles. MONG, William V., also scenario writer and actor; b. Chambersburg, Pa., 1875; stage career, with Newton Beers in "Lost in London," vaud., in own play, " The Clay Baker," in " The House Next Door," "The Light in the Window," etc.; screen career, Essanay, Selig, scenario editor, at present writing, acting and directing for Universal (" The Silent Governor,"