Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

44 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Studio Notes Director J. Farrel MacDonald. for the Universal, is putting on a Western photoplay which is adapted by Richard Willis from the poem "Lasca." In one scene there is shown a stampede of cattle, which sweep over the bodies of a cowman and a woman, killing her. The photoplay is interesting from the fact that the two principal characters are taken by an oldtime cowboy, Harry Gant, a man who is known all over the Colorado ranges, and who has, moreover, posed as a typical cowboy for several well-known artists, and Jane Bernoudy, a champion rider who has just returned from Pendleton, Ore., and who is an artist and writer of note as well as an actress and rider. Harry Pollard, of the Universal, is putting on a story by Richard Willis entitled "The Lesson the Children Taught." In this. Buster Emmons, Fay Brierley and Kathie Fischer will take all the "fat." Ed. Alexander, Edna Maison and Adelaide Bronti take the grown-ups. In this photoplay the elders see themselves impersonated by the kiddies, and it brings about happiness. In "Freckles Wins the Day," Harry Pollard, of the Universal, has put on a comedy in which he pokes a little quiet fun at the motion picture makers. He has his girl join a picture concern, and she is N. G. and gets a hard time with the director. Eventually her father takes her away after smashing things up generally. Later Harry Pollard, as Freckles, licks all the boys in sight to win the girl, and at the end he makes the amorous curate marry them instead of licking him, too. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, of the Universal, are putting on a picture in which the relationship of Jew and Gentile is shown. The story is by Lois Weber. Augusta Phillips, of the Universal, Mrs, H. Fahrney in private life, and who writes the scripts put on by Mr. Fahrney, is always accompanied in her auto by Waggles. Waggles is curly-haired and boisterously young, also extremely joyful, and the Fahr ney auto is a sight, with its scratched cushions and wood-work, but then Waggles is Waggles, and there you are. "The Tomboy's Race," built around the recent Corona Road Race in California, has just been finished at the Majestic studios under the direction of Lucius Henderson. The race was an exciting one from the start, and Arthur Cadwell, head camera man, was doubly interested, as his racer was entered in the "medium car" event. Gradually the car fought its way to the front until, at the finish, amid the deafening applause of the crowd, Cad's car came in second, incidentally making its owner one thousand dollars richer. Frank Montgomery, of the Kalem Company, has finished a Western story by Richard Willis, which contained a part for Mona Darkfeather, a Western girl who is roused to courage by her husband's peril. Mr. Montgomery is starting upon another story by the same writer, this time an Indian subject taken from a new standpoint. The same cast will be used with Eagle Wing and other prominent Indians and Daisy Cullington. Mona will have one of her Indian parts. There is a coincidence connected with "The Haunted Bride," now being produced by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, of the Universal The day after Miss Weber had finished the script there was an article in a Los Angeles paper giving an account of a jilted lover who had committed suicide, and who sent her a letter threatening to haunt her, and the article went on to say that the girl was in a sate of collapse with fear and remorse. This idea is incorporated in the photoplay being put on. The Lubin Comedy Company, Arthur D. Hotaling, director, left Philadelphia last week for the Jacksonville, Fla, studio, where they will spend the winter. The principal players are Mae Hotely, Hazel Smith, Margaret and Frances N. Moyer, Julia Calhoun, Jessie Milton, Leola May, Peggy Ander.stoii, Dorothy Betz, Jerry Heverner, Raymond McKee, Garry Hotaling (chief operator), Frank Griffin. James Levering, William Betz, Walier Heires, William Bowers, Neil ?iIorton, Henry Bard, and a host of stage carpenters, camera men. electricians, scene painters aad propertj* men. ^Ir. Hotaling is having lights installed im the studio so that hereafter he cap laugh at the rain. Frank Montgomery has resigned from the Universal to join the Kalem forces. The deal was settled one night and Frank started in the next morning. He will put on a variety of plays. Western and otherwise, and will have a number of his old company with him. Prominent among these will be Mona Darkfeather, for a Montgomery production would not be complete without Alona. This clever lady is so closely associated with Indian plays that there are many who really think she cannot play anything else. As a matter of fact she is very versatile and at one time had never played an Indian part. Dustin Farnum has been secured by the All Star Feature Corporation to play the role of "Clay" in the photodrama version of "Soldiers of Fortune," soon to be produced. The part to be played by Mr. Farnum in the production by the All Star Feature Corporation is that in which Robert Edeson starred. The original dramatization of "Soldiers of Fortune" was made by Augustus Thomas from the novel by Richard Harding Davis, From the novel and from his own original dramatization Mr. Thomas has prepared a scenario upon the basis of which he will supervise the staging of this successful romantic melodrama as a "silent" drama. In this version for the photoplay there will be, of course, many times the number of scenes that were shown upon the stage. Richard Harding Davis will actively co-operate with Augustus Thomas in the staging of his novel for the camera. A love story which is also educational to a large degree is "Through the Sluice Gates," by Phillip Lonergan, a coming Majestic release featuring William Garwood and Belle Bennett in the leading roles. Produced by John Adolphi, this picture shows scenes along the new Los Angeles aqueduct, that great engineering feat of the Southwest now rapidly ncaring completion. One of the strongest scenes in the play is a iluilling man hunt in which the unjustly accused hero i.-^ aided by his sweetheart in escaping through the ^luioc gates tif tiu aqueduct. €° RUBY 0H-pAGr47 an;„be