Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 13 Miss Estelle Abeles, 2550 Seventh avenue, New York, was not impressive. Geo. Beak, 633 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, showed adaptable qualities, under direction, as did L. J. Solin, 37 West One Hundred and Fourteenth street; Wm. Goldberg, 33 West One Hundred and Fourteenth street; Benj. Meyer, 811 West One Hundred and Seventy-Eighth street; A. J. Allen, 377 Tremont street, Boston; B. Gilbert, 275 East Kinney street, Newark, N. J. All adaptable for juveniles, in minor parts, and ensembles. Stella Pincus, 964 Third avenue; Pauline Ettinger, 145 West Forty-fifth street, showed cleverness and adaptability for young girls. Miss Helen Stroock, Hotel Bon Ray, JNIadison avenue and Ninety-second street, would possibly have been among the winners, had she been present at the finals, as she showed early in the competition splendid qualifications, physical!}' and temperamentally. George H. Heydeman, 153 Second avenue. New York, was one of the most convincing of all of the male competitors; he failed also, to show at the finals, and lost an opportunity seldom offered, for admission to the ranks of motion picture actors. Robert Walters, care of Dick Brothers & Co., Waldorf Astoria, is an excellent type for juveniles; would photograph well, and shows great promise. He was among the best of the many competitors. 2\Iiss Evelyn York, jNIartha Washington Hotel, showed a most adaptable personality, splendid temperament; with some training under capable direction, could be made available for leading emotional work. Alfred R. De Jonghe, 17 West One Hundred and Eighth street. New York, who was awarded the first prize of twenty dollars to the male competitors, showed wonderful adaptability. He has an excellent presence, a convincing manner, and easily proved himself entitled to first honors among the men. :\Iiss Es'telle Smith, 622 West One Hundred and Thirtysixth street, was among those deemed worthy of stellar honors among the ladies competing, but unfortunately through a misunderstanding, she did not appear at the finals until too late. Miss Smith has a delightful personality, and is adaptable for motion picture work. Miss Anna R. Shoemaker, 4403 Eighteenth avenue, Brooklyn, showed unmistakable promise with a pleasing personality and, under direction, would doubtless become popular on the screen. 5lr. John McCann was the fortunate winner of the second prize among the male competitors. It was Mr. McCann's first showing, and by a lucky chance, he took the place of one of those absent from the final competition. jMr. McCann proved himself more than worthy and was unanimously awarded the second prize. Miss Turner, a petite and pretty young lady, from Newark, ran a close race with the winning contestants. Miss Turner possesses every qualification for screen purposes, being exceedingly pretty and resourceful. She made many friends among the numbers who saw her work. No. we have not forgotten Miss Doris Keyes, of 215 Manhattan avenue, for her beauty is of such rare and delicate type to forget would be impossible. Tall, dark and sinuous, with a figure of remarkable grace, the moment she stepped upon the platform her magnetic presence seemed to cast a spell over those present, and held their attention until the close of her effort, when she retired midst deafening applause. Miss Keyes only succeeded in capturing the second prize, but it was a close race between Miss Allen and herself for supremacy. Another exquisite subject for camera purposes, was beautiful Helen Adams, of 555 West One Hundred and Seventy-third street. Miss Adams showed marked ability and was most favorably considered by the judges at the semi-finals, but failed to appear at the finals, until too late. On the final night, as we emerged from the building, we gazed through the window of the cafe on the corner. There we recognized 'Top" Rock, the genial and popular head of the Vitagraph Companj-. 'Top" now; "Billy," in the old days of "Gus" Heckler, "Charley" Byrne, "Archie" Gordon, et al. "Billy" Rock of old "arenic" days. Of circus lemonade, candied pop-corn, of "flips," "heels in the mud," and "hey. Rube." Mr. Rock was keeping watch and ward over his two "best sellers," Maurice Costello and John Bunny, while the Thanhouser "Kidlet," perched on a table gracefully wafted kisses to the crowds around the various tables, among whom were seen: Frederick Thompson, Director Vitagraph, Lottie Briscoe, Eda Clayton (Mrs. Horace Vinton), a popular emotional dramatic star of a decade ago; Daisy Erminie Evans, Mr. Reese and Mr. Jennings, and so many others, it would require "oodles" of space to chronicle. We stood for a moment, gazed within, the revelers slowly dispersed, the lights were dimmed and the First International Exposition of the Moving Picture Art and Allied Industries, came to a close. EXPOSITION NOTES I left off my record of the "side events" of the Exposition in the last issue on Tuesday night; as there was so much of other matter to be crowded in, the business manager refused absolutely to allow me any more space, and so the special event of Patheday was crowded out of the last issue. Never mind, it is so good it keeps well, the Pathe excursion up the Hudson was certainly the banner day of the week. From the time of boarding the Steamer Adirondack until its return it was one full round of pleasure, and A. J. Berst, the host, seemed to be in his element in making the guests welcome, ably assisted by H. C. Hoagland and L. E. Franconi, who saw that the wants of the guests were fully met and no one went away dissatisfied. The trip will live long in the memories of everyone who partook of the hospitality of Pathe Freres on that Wednesday, July 9th. The start was made shortly after 9 o'clock and the return to the dock shortly after six, was voted the most enjoyable and happy function of the week. Among those present were the following. (In parenthesis I must say I am indebted to Joe Brandt for the names): Pathe stars and important members of the company: Miss Gwendolin Pates, Miss Bessie Emrick, Mr. Paul Panzer. Mr. Leo Wharton. Mr. William Williams, Mr. H. C. Hoagland, INIr. W. F. Hurst, Mr. J. Hutchinson, Air. Bert Hoagland and Mrs. and Mr. J. Berst, VicePresident, and Monsieur Franconie. A few of the friends on board: Miss H. Silverstein, ]\Iiss H. Kemp, i\Iiss Harriet Corn, of Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. E. C. Randall, Mrs. C. Staggers, Mr. and Mrs. George Corlies. all of Jersey City. The Ontario delegation: E. Harrison, Toronto; E. Moule, Brantford; Mr. K. Hill, of Toronto; D. E. Stuart, of Hamilton; Mr. Samuel Ackerman, of Detroit, Mich.; George P. Klein and H. Lern, of Baltimore. The Ohio delegation included: G. D. Spragg, Ben L. Morris, Will McCleary and his wife, Eva Lillie Davis, i\Irs. Crawford, Fred. George and wife, Leona Behres. Alfred H. Saunders, of the Moving Picture News, was the only representative of a film paper. Aaron A. Corn, of the Arrangements Committee, was a busy man trying to entertain his many friends. Mrs. Corn assisted him. A. J. Dix, of Mitchell, S. D.; Phil. J. Scheck and wife, of Baltimore. The Chicago delegation were: Sam Schiller, Jilr. Joe Trenz. ]\Iiss E. Sachs, Miss Rose Telzer, Joe Telzer, Dr. L. Block. I. Van Kunkel, of the General Film Company; H. B. Kester, Pittsburgh, and wife; C. J. Bauer and wife, of Sutton, Neb.; Mrs. Tom Finnigan, of Dallas; Miss Leona Behres, Baltimore; Miss Eva Davis and Miss Ruth Crawford, of the same place; Louis Rosenthal, New York; G. H. Langevin, Binghamton. N. Y.; the Jacobs twins and the big Baby Jacobs; Irving Lesser, New York; Wm. Jennings Brandt and wife; Anna G. Brown and D. J. Brown, representing the Clune Theater Company, of Los Angeles, Cal.; W. O. Stenger, of Sheffield, Pa.; H. S. Gernerp and wife, of Pittsburgh; Will Rosenthal, Alice Rosenthal, the big little lady of the Rosenthal family; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shortlev, of Siou.x City, Iowa; jNIr. J. E. Tearnej-, of Sioux City; Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hirsch. of New York; Leonard Elswick, Vandergrift, Pa.; Miss Sopia Friendman, W. C. Batty, of the Pittsburgh Cameraphone Co.; Mrs. M. Lowenthal, Mrs. R. Weiner, Miss H. Silverstein, Miss