The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 21 EILEEN SEDGWICK BECOMES A BRIDE 1UPID is working overtime at Universal City. Almost every week comes the news, expected or unexpected, of a wedding among the player-folk of the picture capital. Molly Malone ran off' with a minister's son right in the middle of a picture the other day. Peggy Custer, the little ingenue who boasts of being the grandniece of the great Indian fighter, married a cameraman. Betty Schade, who will be seen in the coming Butterfly, "The Edge of the Law," married a former member of Universal casts, Ernie Shields, who is now in training for service in France. Eddie Lyons' capture by Virginia Kirtley and the subsequent ultimatum of his old side-kick, Lee Moran, came over the wires about two weeks ago. The latest recruit to the ranks of matrimony is Eileen Sedgwick, the leading lady of Bisons, who plays in "The Last of the Night Riders," this week, and is the heroine of a thrilling two-reeler, which is soon to be released , and is called provisionally "The Lion's Lair!" Eileen, who is known to her associates as "Babe," varied the monotony by marrying an assistant director, Justin McCloskey, who is helping George Marshall produce Western pictures with Neal Hart starring in them at the present time. McCloskey came to Universal City about a year and a half ago, and acted in the capacity of assistant to Burton George for a time. A romance between the director and the actress soon sprang up, which culminated the other day in a surprise wedding. All the plans were kept a secret. But one afternoon, the bride and groom, accompanied by Marshall and Betty Schade, motored to San Gabriel, where Judge May performed the ceremony. Then they drove back again, and went to Los Angeles for a wedding supper. They said nothing about the ceremony to any one, but turned up for work with their respective companies the next day, as if nothing had happened. It was not until several days later that the secret leaked out. Miss Sedgwick is unusually courageous, and her work with wild animals in Bisons is very remarkable. She was the heroine of that unusual Butterfly Picture, "Man and Beast," in which all the animal actors of the Universal zoo took part, and in which she made a hit, riding the big elephant Charlie. "The Lion's Lair" is a real thriller, and Miss Sedgwick has a fight with the villain on the very edge of a precipice which is something new in screen excitement. Two Stars Injured in Serial Making. — (Continued from p. 12.) on the fourth day after her accident. Director Jacques Jaccard had already Miss Walcamp, also, was expected made changes in his continuity to to be gone for four weeks at least, cover her absence. However, fully ten f\ttP JpiETIMES THE HaTBOXES APE Pl?ETTIEie THAN The Hatv' ■ Why not wIai? the. box Fanciful conceit of Hy. Mayer, world famous caricaturist, who draws for the Universal Animated Weekly. His ideas, here, ran in the lighter vein of gentle satire on the modes. Eileen Sedgwick the latest bride. days before they had looked for her, back she came. "I simply couldn't stay at home any longer," she told Jaccard, showing him the neat arrangement of splints which held her right wrist. "I must have action and exercise. Where is my horse?" It took a lot of persuasion to convince her that riding was out of the question until the bones had knitted more firmly, for Miss Walcamp is authority for the statement that she is never really happy unless she is on horseback. Her work in "The Red Ace" is so strenuous, so full of hazardous stunts, falls, swimming and diving feats, and marvelous riding, that it would have been folly to attempt such things until her wrist was stronger. However, she very soon got back into the game again; and though she wore bandages for several episodes, it is to be feared that the "fans" will think the injury was "just faked" again, for no one would think, to see her fighting for her life, hanging by one hand to a rope over a canyon, dragged along, half out of the saddle, by her horse, diving sensationally from high rocks, that she was "favoring" a broken wrist. But that's the sort of stuff that Universal serial stars are made of.