Motion picture studio directory and trade annual (1918)

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220— SCENARIO WRITERS MOTION PICTURE Fourth Edition phan," " Fires of Youth," " Romance and Rubbers," " It Happened to Adele "). Diversions, riding, swimming, music, magazine work. Home ad., Pepperday Inn, New Rochelle, N. Y. Studio ad., Thanhouser, New Rochelle, N. Y. JOHNSTON, Isabel M.; b. Pittsburg, Pa.; educ. Indiana State Normal Schl., Beaver Coll., Pa.; early career, 2 yrs. The Pittsburg Press; 4 yrs. The N. Y. Mail, editing woman's and children's dept., organized the Potted Plant Mission with Mrs. George Gould, au. of "The Jewel of Today"; screen career, Vitagraph (" The Turn of the Road," " My Little Spirit Girl," etc.), Fox (" Carmen "). Home ad., Pepperday Inn, New Rochelle, N. Y. JOHNSTONE, Calder; b. N. Y., 1880; educ. Dresden and Columbia Univ. (medical dept.); early career, on staff of "Dramatic Mirror," news ed., N. Y. Newspaper Union, screen reviewer. Morning Telegraph; screen career, Universal, Bison ("A Mountain Tragedy," "Little Partner"), Balboa (" Twin Kiddies "). JONES, Marc Edmund; b. St. Louis; educ. Chicago; comm. career; screen career, free lance, Biograph (" Diogenes Weekly"), Beauty ("Withering Roses"), Kalem ("The American Light " series, " Shannon of the Sixth," " In the Firelight "), Equitable (" The Cowardly Way," " Blue Grass "), dir. for Lubin, seen. ed. for Equitable, La Salida-Pathe ("Tear* and Smiles "), Astra (" A Crooked Romance "). Member Green Room Club, Playwright's Club, Authors' League, Photodramatists' Club. Ad., Pathe, 25 N. 45th St., N. Y. JORDAN, Kate; b. Dublin, Ireland; educ. N. Y.; early career, as novelist, dramatist, short story writer; screen career, hag written for Famous Players ("Poor Little Peppina "), Equitable ("Creeping Tides"), Universal ("Susan's Gentleman"), and many other screen successes. Ad., home, 165 West 82d St., New York. JOSEPHSON, Julian; b. Oregon; educ. Stanford Univ.; early career, newspaper and magazine writer; screen career, scenarios for Triangle and Thos. H. Ince, "Ezry"; ad., studio, Thos. H. Ince, Los Angeles, Cal. JUSTICE, Maibelle Heikes; b. Indiana; educ. N. Y. C, Phila.; early career, novelist and short story writer; screen career, Selig, Vitagraph, Mutual, Metro, Essanay, Lubin, etc. (" The End of the Trail," "Youth's Endearing Charm," "The Other Man," " The Pay-As-You-Enter Man," " Etienne of the Glad Heart," " The Lure o' the Windigo," " The Glory of Yolanda," "The Grand Duke," "Chronicles of Bloom Center," etc.), American ("Melissa of the Hills"), Fox (" Durand of the Bad Lands "). Recreations, all outdoor sports, music. Member Authors' League of America, Drama League of America, Photodramatists, Inc. Home ad., 41 W 47th st., N. Y. C. K KATTERJOHN, Monte M.; b. Boonville, Ind.; educ. there; early career, newspaper and magazine work, published " Mototopis," pub. first magazine for photoplaywrights; screen career, from 1908, first as free lance, then Universal as scenario ed., then NYMP; author of "Plot of India's Hillman " (Kalem), "Battle of the Weak" (Vitagraph), "Toll of War" (Universal), "Heart of Valeska " (Edison), "Prunella of the Pines" (Griffith), "Apostle of Vengeance," "Captive God" (Ince), "The Gun Fighter," "The Clodhopper" (Triangle), "Golden Rule Kate," "Mountain Dew" (Paralta), "Madam Who," " Within the Cup," " Carmen of the Klondike," and many adaptations. Studio ad., Paralta, Hollywood. KAUFMAN, Edward A.; b. Chicago; educ. N. Y. Univ.; early career, staff writer and special investigator for Frank Munsey Synd., has written three one-act plays for vaud. ; screen career, free lance author and photo-dramatist, " Soul Mates," " Barriers of Propriety," " The Pilgrim," " Breezy Bill-Outcast," " The Love Hermit." Ad., home. El Poplar Rancho, Santa Barbara. KAVANAUGH, Katherine; b. Baltimore, Md.; educ. Notre Dame, Md. ; stage career, 2 yrs. stk., 7 yrs. vaud., writer vaud. sketches, "Ambition," to be produced by Valerie Bergere; screen career, Metro (author of " The Wheel of the Law," " The Will o' the Wisp," " The Call of Youth," " The Winding Trail"), Triangle ("Betty Takes a Hand"). Home ad., 3434 Belair rd., Bait, Md. KEARNEY, Patrick; b. Delaware, O., 1893; educ. Ohio State Univ., Coll. of Journalism; early career, newspaper writer, special writer for Ohio State Journal; N. Y. dramatic corr. for Col. Dispatch, pub. mgr. for Mme. Lina Dillson, Belgian prima donna, pub. mgr. for Jewish Relief Bazaar; screen career, reviewer on M. P. Mail, later ed.; rev. on Exhibitors' Herald, mgr. Paget M. P. Agency, adapting novels, etc., author of " Scenario Writing, a Practical Handbook," author of " The Murder of Marat," produced by Wash. Square Players; reg. contrib. to Smart Set, Puck, etc., book reviews for N. Y. Times. Home ad., 117 Sherman ave., N. Y. C. KEELER, Harold P.; b. Danbury, Conn., 1887; early career, 2 years in press dept. N. Y. Hippodrome; 6 yrs. in publicity dept. U. B. O., N. Y. and Chicago; screen career, seen, writer, NYMP (present position); rides, motors, golfs. Ad., home, 1457 Milton ave., Los Angeles; studio, Metro, Hollywood. KELLEY, Joseph L.; b. Hudson Falls, N. Y.; 1890; educ. Glens Falls, N. Y., Georgetown Univ.; Wash., D. C, Degree of LL.B., newspaper reporter Washington Post; publicity film department. Ad., 250 W. 44th St., N. Y. KELLY, Anthony P.; b. Chicago, 1892; educ. Loyola and Purdue acads.; early career, newspaper reporter in Chicago; screen career, sold first script, a 1-reel, to Vitagraph, later with Balboa, Essanay, Famous Players, Lubin; scenarios of Channing Pollock's " Little Gray Lady " and C. Townsend Brady's " Ring and the Man," Bernstein's "The Thief," Sutro's "Walls of Jericho," recent successes, "The Light at Dusk," Frohman (" My United States," " God's Man," " The Witching Hour," "A Man Without a Country"), Art Dramas ("The Rainbow"), Edgar Lewis ("The Bar Sinister," "The Sign Invisible"), Technicolor ("The Gulf Between"), Moss ("The Sins of the Children"), Empire All Star (" Outcast "). Ad., Screen Club, N. Y. C. KENYON, Charles A.; b. 1880, San Francisco; early career, playwright, " Kindling," " Husband and Wife," " The Claim," and of the vaud. sketches " The Operator," " We Need the Money," "Annie Laurie," "The Placerville Stage"; screen career, with Lasky, wrote the story " The Sacrifice " for Margaret Illington and the story of " On the Level " for Fannie ■Ward, also for Ince the story of "Honest Money" and for Dorothy Dalton " The Acid Test," author of scenario " The Si . lent Man," produced by Artcraft. Ad., home, 6662 Odin St., Hollywood, Cal. Studio, Universal City, Cal. KIRTLEY, Virginia; b. Bowling Green, Mo.; educ. Cutler Acad, and Colorado Coll., Colorado Springs, Colo.; stage career, Burbank stk., Los Angeles, Cal.; screen career, Imp, Keystone, Usona, American (Beauty), Horsley ("A Law Unto Himself"), Superior ("The Faucet"), Selig ("The Right Hand Path," " In Payment of the Past," " Who Shall Take My Life?" "The Font of Courage"). LAMOTHE, Julian Louis; b. New Orleans, 1893;; educ. Tulane Univ., N. O. Coll. of Oratory; early career, wrote scenarios while at college, some newspaper work, author of vaudeville sketches and short stories; screen career, 18 mos. as editor Western Lubin Co., editor Pollard Co., staff writer American ("The Inner Struggle," "Southern Pride," "Dust"), Paralta ("His Robe of Honor," "Humdrum Brown," etc.); student of drama, Psychiatry and Ancient Religions. Hght., 5, 11; wght., 160; dark complexion, black hair, black eyes. Home ad., 427 S. Hope St.; studio, Paralta, Los Angeles, Cal. LANG, Phil; b. Ohio, 1885; educ. there; stage career, vaud., mus. com., concert; screen career, Kalem ("The Dupe," "Nerve," "What Was Wanted," "The Defaulter"). Ad., Glendale, Cal. LEEDS, Arthur; b. Port Arthur, Ont.; educ. Toronto, Can.; early career, magazine writer; stage career, scene painting; stage mgmt., dram., stock, and mus. com.; screen career, exhibited Edison's " Great Train Robbery," theatre mgr., actor with Essanay, Selig; screen writer 8 yrs. Member Photodramatists, Inc. Ad., 1431 Broadway, N. Y. LEWIS, Eugene B. ; newspaper ed. and owner in Idaho, newspaper writer on San Francisco Chronicle and Hearst papers, N. Y. ; screen career; wrote four scenarios accepted by Biograph, then became member of Biograph staff, doing adaptations ("The Ring and the Book," etc.), and originals; ed. Biograph; then with Universal (author "Saintly Sinner," "The Mountebank," etc.), Paralta ("Oh, Gee"). Home ad., 1911 N. Del Mar, Hollywood, Cal. Studio ad., Paralta, Los Angeles. LIPPERT, William Henry; b. Phila., Pa., 1876; educ. Univ. of Pennsylvania (A.M. and M.D.); early career, contributor to scientific pubs., author of Scientific Blood Tests under the