Moving Picture World (May 1919)

1026 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 17, 1919 bride, Mary Maclvor; Bert Bracken and Mrs. Margaret Landis Bracken; James Young and Mrs. Clara Whipple Young; and Mr. and Mrs. Earle Williams. Among the guests were many film notables of the West Coast colony. The decorations were of white roses, lilies of the valley and carnations, with miniature brides and grooms of sugar as a novelty. Henry Lehrman Building a Studio. Work was begun last week on the new studio in which Henry Lehrman will produce his comedies in the near future. The site of the new film plant comprises ten acres on Washington Boulevard in Culver City, and is located in the neighborhood of the Ince and Goldwyn plants. The administration building will be of Spanish architecture with stucco exterior finish, and the plant will include both glass-enclosed and open-air stages, with property rooms, dressing rooms, and all of the latest improvements in studio equipment. The Milwaukee Building Company has charge of the construction work. Pickford Buys Beach Site for Home. Mary Pickford has purchased a lot 10O.x2O0 feet on Adelaide Drive, in the Palisade district of Santa Monica, on which she will build a home, which will be shared with her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Pickford, and her sister, Lottie Pickford, and Lottie's little daughter, Mary Pickford Rupp. The property was bought from H. M. Gorham, president of the bank of Santa Monica, who has a home near the property purchased by Miss Pickford. Peacocke Writes Another Sea Play. Captain Leslie T. Peacocke, author of "Neptune's Daughter," has just sold a scenario based on his story, "The Birth of Venus," to Julius Stern. The story requires many elaborate settings depicting beautiful myths and legends of the sea, and the heroine must be portrayed by a young woman whose perfections in physical beauty must be equalled only by her aquatic and histrionic ability. Captain Peacocke is the author of "Platonic Love." a recent Kitty Gordon release. Fatty Arbuckle a Baseball Magnate. Fatty Arbuckle has bought controlling interest in the Vernon Tigers, a baseball club, from Thomas J. Darmody, and will succeed that former head of the clul) as president. "Puss" Halbriter will serve as vice-president and business manager. Lou Anger, manager of Arbuckle's film aflfairs, also bought a block of stock in the club and will be one of its directors. Bill Essick will be retained by Arbuckle as manager of the team. Ince Making "Off Stage" Films. Thomas H. Ince is making short films depicting off stage events in the daily life of his stars, which will be furnished free to the exhibitors of Ince pictures to be used as advertising novelties and announcements of coming attractions. The films will show Dorothy Dalton, Enid Bennet and Charles Ray in various employments and diversions at their homes as well as during oflE stage moments at the studio. Father of Comedian Dead. Earl Montgomery, of the Montgomery and Rock comedy team at Vitagraph, learned last week that his father, living at Juneau, Alaska, had died, after but one day's illness. Clock Made of Coal. Earle Williams has just received a belated wedding present in the shape of a clock carved out of a solid piece of anthracite, and polished so highly that it will not mark the whitest of linen, from D. T. Williams, inspector of the sixth anthracite district of Pennsylvania. Kinema Theatre Changes Policy. Manager Dumond, of the Kinema Theatre, has changed the policy of his house by giving only two shows a day during the week and three on Sunday, instead of continuous performances, as formerly. This policy was adopted during the run of "The Unpardonable Sin," featuring Blanche Sweet. Los Angeles Theatre Notes. Manager Little, of Clune's Broadway Theatre, is giving all soldiers and sailors in uniform from overseas, free admission to his show. Billy Elmer, general manager of the Burbank Theatre, has also announced his intention of permitting the boys who have seen service overseas to see a free show upon their showing the little gold service chevron and paying the war tax. :>: * % Robert H. Poole, house manager of the California Theatre, and his partner, "Sunshine" Mary Anderson, won the prize, a beautiful silver cup, in the dancing contest held at the Exhibitors High Jinks at the Dome in Ocean Park last Saturday night. Studio Shots DOROTHY GISH came back from location one day last week with a case of mountain fever, and work had to be stopped on her picture until she was able to return to work. Prank Borzage, who celebrated his twenty-seventh birthday a few days ago, was on that day given a contract to direct Fred Stone, who is coming west soon to make pictures. "The Red Glove," Marie Walcamp's new serial, ■was finished last week at Universal City. Sam Polo, brother of Eddie Polo, has taken the role of chief villain in Jim Corbett's serial, "The Midnight Man," upon the retirement of Orral Humphrey from the production. "The Spitfire of Seville," is the title of Priscilla Dean's new^ picture, which will be directed by George Siegman, recently returned from France. Thomas Holding has been engaged to take the part that Albert Roscoe w^as to have played in Bessie Barriscale's new feature, "Broken Threads." Roscoe became ill and had to give up the part. Katherine MacDonald Strauss has been granted a decree of divorce by Judge Crail, of Los Angeles, from Malcolm A. Strauss, New York artist. Earle Williams is w^orking on "The Hornet's Nest," his newest feature for Vitagraph. John J. Conley, who has been employed in the reading department at Metro, has been promoted to the position of assistant director to Charles Swickard. Clark Irvine is rallying together all the members of the old Scream Club for a party at the Dome Cafe at Ocean Park on the evening of May 10. The last Scream Club party was held "befo' the wah." Blanche Sweet leaves this week for New York City. * The Hale Hamilton company from Metro made scenes for "Full of Pep" on the Government freighter, The West Sequana, when that vessel made its trial trip out of the Los Angeles harbor last week. E. Richard Schayer is collaborating with King Vidor on a new play for Brentwood which will feature Florence Vidor as the star. Priscilla Dean, who has been dangerously ill with double pneumonia, is reported as being on the road to complete recovery. Director Henry King has taken the William Russell company to Yoca Lake for scenes in the new Russell picture. James W. Home, director of the Jim Corbett serial, "The Midnight Man," The Cinema Camera Club Held Its Annual Ball in the Estee Studio On April 26, and Louis A. J. Geleng, of the Newspaper Pictorial Syndicate, manipulated the camera. George Coudert, who had