Moving Picture World (Jun 1916)

204U THE .MOVING PICTURE WORLD June 17, 1916 Kalem Plans Busy Summer Hot Weather Will Mean Increase Instead of Lessening Activity at Coast and Florida Studios. THE coming of the summer months, which arc usually marked by a let-up in activity at picture studios, will on the contrary mean unusual activity at all the Kalem plants. Of importance in the announcement of the company's plans for the hot-\veather months is the news that the Scene from "The Music Swindlers" (Kalem). Jacksonville studios will continue operations throughout the summer. Five companies of players are now at work in the Kalem studios at Jacksonville and Glendale and Hollywood, California. The new Ivy Close Comedy company is scheduled to start work this week at the Jacksonville studio. Four companies will continue the regular output undiminished through the warm months at the Pacific Coast studios. The completion of extensive construction work enlarging the producing facilities at the Glendale studio shows the promising plans for this studio, as does the recent addition of True Boardman, famous as "Stingaree" to the playing forces. Director Home is nearing the closing episodes of "The Social Pirates," Kalem's big series success featuring Marin Sais and Ollie Kirkby, and July will find the company at work on a spectacular new series of which announcement will be made soon. The studio-station on the Salt Lake Railway where the "Hazards of Helen" are produced is another producing plant undergoing the enlarging process rather than the expected hot-weather let-up of most studios. Two comedy companies at the Hollywood studio, the Ham and Bud and the Ethel Teare forces, complete the Kalem roster on the coast. The recent appointment of Harry Millarde, the feature producer, to direct the Ethel Teare company is an indication of the strong backing being given these subjects. Kalem's releases through the General Film Company will continue to include six reels a week throughout the summer months. In addition June also finds "The Lotus Woman," a five reel feature, on the regular program service. PALLAS STAGES NEW FARNUM SUBJECT. After a short vacation upon the completion of "David Garrick," Dustin Farnum has returned to the Pallas Pictures studios in Los Angeles and has commenced work on his next vehicle, "The Parson of Panamint." This subject has been taken from the story by Peter B. Kyne which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and gives an exact account of conditions in the mushroom mining towns of Nevada forty years ago. It is understood that "The Parson of Panamint" will prove the biggest production yet undertaken by Pallas Pictures. Among the more elaborate sets now being built is a replica of a complete mining town on the spot in the desert where a boom-days mining town formerly stood. This will be the most pretentious set ever erected by the Pallas organization, whicht judging from those used in "The Gentleman from Indiana," will necessitate an enormous expenditure. William D. Taylor, who is directing the new film, is experiencing no little trouble in securing the exact types for the minor parts. _ . ! Paramount Program Regular Features for June 19 Will Be Reinforced by the Usual Pictographs and Travel Films. PARAMOUNT Pictures for the week of June 19 will be headed by the usual two five-reeler features the releases being the Lasky production, "The Clown" Starring Victor Moore, which will be shown on Monday and "Susie Snowflake," the initial screen vehicle of Ann Pennington, diminutive star of the Ziegfeld Follies. The latter will be a Thursday release. Single reels on the same program for this week will be the Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel-Picture "Imperial Berlin, the Paramount-Bray Animated Cartoon, "Bohhv BHmP? ?}y Swatter' and the weekly Pictographs With this release of the Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel1 ictures Mr. Holmes will make his first stop in a film tour through the most interesting part of Europe as they were before they had borne the brunt of the fierce fighting of the present war Europe's most celebrated tourist-goals will be shown to Paramount audiences in this series as they were before the present struggle began, the first point of interest visited being Berlin the Imperial. Through this journey Mr. Holmes preserves his attitude of strictest neutrality so that his "Easy-Chair" travellers may view the beauties of the country through which he passes with unbiased appreciation. Swatting the fly forms the theme of the latest of the Paramount-Bray Animated Cartoons by Earl Hurd. As demonstrated by Bobby on the screen, fighting the fly is the most interesting of summer sports. In the Paramount Pictographs for this week will be seen "Keeping Time" in the "Testing the Mind" series of Professor Hugo Munstcrberg; how to dress and undress the baby in "Better Babies"; "Training a Lion"; "Preparing Fruit, New Ways" and "How to Fall." Snared by the Halter "Bill" Barry Gives Up Single Blessedness in Apartment where "Gas Administered" Sign Hangs in the Window. **T)ILL" BARRY has "went and done it!" At the f-% fashionable hour of high noon Thursday, May 25, he left the ranks of the happy bachelors in which he has carried a flaming banner for years and became a benedict. All of this is by way of saying that William Leslie Barry and Miss Nan Jacobus were united in the bonds of holy matrimony Thursday at noon by the Rev. Maitland Bartlett, pastor of the Beck Memorial Church, New York City, at the pastor's apartments on East Fifteenth street. "Bill" had been threatening to do the trick for a long time. It probably is a matter of only truth but no significance that in one window of the apartment house in which the wedding ceremony was performed there hangs a sign "Gas Administered." Mr. Barry, until a few weeks ago, was advertising manager of the Nicholas Power Co. At the present time he is associated with the Monroe Press and is continuing his association with motion picture people by soliciting printing from them. Miss Jacobus left home and mother in Montclair, N. J. The wedding was a quiet one, being attended only by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powell, and A. MacArthur and W. P. Milligan, all of whom are close personal friends of the contracting parties. Mr. Powell provided the wedding automobile which was gaily bedecked with bridal flowers and white satin ribbon. MacArthur and Milligan whistled the "Bachelor's Dirge" in lieu of a w-edding march. Mr. Powell was host at an elaborate wedding luncheon served at the Prince George Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Barry have taken a house in Bayside, L. I., and already have a little flivver running around. SELZNICK CLOSING DEALS. Lewis J. Selznick's two representatives, Ben S. Cohen and Ned H. Spitzer, made such rapid progress in negotiating for the distribution of the future Clara Kimball Young features in Chicago and throughout the middle west that Mr. Selzmck has already followed them to the Windy City to close several big deals they had started. Messrs. Cohen and Spitzer had only been in Chicago a week when affairs took such definite form as to require Mr. Selznick's immediate presence to complete the negotiations. It is understood Mr. Selznick has formed a partnership with big western exchange men similar to those he formed in Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston.