The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY •35 Reaches Films Via Chautauqua Circuit ^EBRASKA, the state that supplies most of the talent for the Chautauqua, just as Ohio delivers presidential timber, has reason to be proud of Josephine Scott, the pretty Universal serial player who left the Lincoln, Nebraska, High School to take a swing over the Chautauqua circuit before entering the films. Miss Scott, who plays the interesting role of Aline Earle, in "The Diamond Queen," the Universal serial starring Eileen Sedgwick, was the most popular girl in the graduating class of the Lincoln High School two and a half years ago. Upon her gx'aduation she was signed by the Chautauqua for a singing and dancing turn and toui-ed the circuit in that capacity. Then she returned to do a season as a member of the Oliver stock company through the middle west. A year ago Miss Scott's father, a prominent attorney of Lincoln, went to Los Angeles for his health and it was through this move that his talented daughter became a Movie Actress. After a few months of preliminary work with other companies. Miss Scott was summoned to Universal City and cast for the role of "Aline Earle" in "Thfe Diamond Queen". This serial is based on the popular Saturday Evening Post story, "The Diamond Master", by Jacques Futrelle. It was adapted to the screen by Robert Roden and George Pyper, and produced for Universal by Edward Kull. Josephine Scott is a vivacious brunette, with large, lustrous, rich masses of dark hair and finely chiseled features. She is the exact opposite type to the star, Eileen Sedgwick, who is a most dazzling blonde. The two gii-ls have several scenes together in which their opposite types make a charming contract. They are especially pretty in the theatre episode where their beauty is enhanced by the pretty ballet costume which they both wear as dancers. "The Diamond Queen" is just about ready to be released and it is the safest serial bet for any exhibitor. Full of the strangest of incidents, the most fascinating of novelties and lots of thrilling action, Edward Kull, the director, has made a finished "job" out of it. Its star, Eileen Sedgwick, is one of the most arresting of the feminine screen personalities, a beautiful blonde girl, who can act and who seems to be absolutely fearless. Not the least of the wonderful story threads injected into the serial, is a big diamond machine, a marvel of mechanism, by means of which the scientific manufacture of diamonds, a problem which has been really puzzling chemists for years, is accomplished. A cast of experienced players is to be found in the serial SERIAL ACTOR'S LIFE gOME day, when he has retired from active work in the films, Frank M. Clark will write an autobiography, and it will include some of the most interesting reminiscenses of the stage and screen that have ever been given the public. At present Mr. Clark is playing the role of Zeidt, head of the diamond trust, in the Universal serial, "The Diamond Queen," in which Eileen Sedgwick is starring. Old timers in the middle west, who attended the Woodward High Schoool in Cincinnati, in the 70's, may recall Frank Clark, who gave early promise of a dramatic career. He was prominent as an elocutionist in all the school entertainments, and shortly after graduating he became a member of the famous Macauley Stock Com Josephine Scott, appearing with Eileen Sedgivick in "The Diamond Queen" and in addition to Eileen Sedgwick and Josephine Scott, inludes George Cheseboro, the leading man, Frank Clark, Al. Smith and Alfred Fisher. RICH IN ADVENTURE pany in his home city when Fanny Davenport was leading woman. He later was transferred to the Macauley Company in Louisville, and was a member of the cast the night the famous Mary Anderson made her debut. He first crossed the continent in 1882, playing what were then known as variety theatres, together with his wife, who was a well-known harpist. Clark took over the first minstrel company that ever toured Australia and became a fixture in the Antipodes. He remained there for twenty years, as producer, manager and actor. He returned to America in 1906, and made his film debut with the Selig Company in 1909. He has been in pictures eleven years and eannot recall a part he liked better than the one he is now playing in "The Diamond Queen".