Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 425 "THE ROSE OF YESTERYEAR" (Warner's Features). Surpassingly beautiful, as powerfully dramatic as anything Miss Leonard has ever done, this unusual Warner's Feature will add new laurels to Miss Leonard's lame as a finished actress of the silent drama. So well portrayed, so con Scene from "The Rose of Yesteryear" (Warner's Features). I vincingly real are the characters that move through the story, that the observer will realize he is seeing one of those every I day tragedies of life, which after all make the best dramas. It is in three parts. BALBOA AMUSEMENT PRODUCING CO. At the time the Edison Company gave up their studio at Long Beach the Horkheimer Brothers. E. D and H. M., were in California looking over the field for an opportunity to start a motion picture company. The old Edison studio was leased, directors, camera men, leading men and women were at once engaged and the newly formed company started to produce pictures. A few weeks ago it was found necessary to add to the studio, so new stages were built and everything made ready for the feature films which the Balboa Company will produce during the year. "COPPER MINING AT THE CALUMET AND HECLA." "Copper Mining at the Calumet and Hccla," a two-reel feature, will be released shortly. This big feature consists of pictures taken 8,000 feet down in the earth, and was photographed by the Industrial Moving Picture Company of Chicago. It shows the actual performance of mining, milling and smelting copper, one of the greatest industries of the United States. The picture is being produced by the Laurium Amusepient Company, Laurium, Mich. "KISSING CUP" DRAWING WELL. Albert Blinkhorn's four-part feature, "Kissing Cup," is playing to crowded houses throughout the country. The Empress Feature Film Company, which has bought this production for Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, finds that, in order to satisfy the demand for it, it must have another copy and have ordered one from Blinkhorn's Film Agency, no West 40th Street, New York. Many buyers have found out the same thing and have ordered additional copies. "FLYING A" PENNANTS. The American Compariy has issued a very attractive felt pennant with the "Flying A" and the name "American." These pennants are made up in red, white and blue with the trade-mark and name sewed thereon, making a very attractive souvenir. These can be secured direct from the Chicago ofhce of the American or from the Mutual offices.; BUYING BIG FEATURES. Mr. T. A. Lucchese, of the Italian-American Film Corporation, whose offices are in the Columbia Building, 701 Seventh Avenue, New York, is now abroad purchasing large feature pictures for this market. T. F. Cabasino, vicepresident and secretary of the company, reports that the outlook for trade with big features is excellent and that his company's venture promises to be very profitable. HARRY LAUDER IN MOTION PICTURES. The first motion picture ever taken of Harry Lauder, the great Scotch comedian, who has just started his sixth tour of America, under the direction of William Morris, will soon arrive in America. It is a thousand-foot subject showing the famous Scotchman and Xeil Kenyon, his only rival in his line, now playing at the Colonial at a huge salary, in a comedy golf match taken less than a month ago at Wembley Park, near London. Harry Lauder and Neil Kenyon in Comedy Golf Match. The picture will soon be brought to .\merica by James McEnnery, the young Englishman who sold "A Message from Mars" in this country. He is now in London, but will soon start for New York with the pictures, which are being rapidly completed, and will sell state rights. The fact that this is the only picture ever taken of Lauder, and it shows with him Neil Kenyon, his present rival for comedy honors in America, should make it a ready seller in America, especially now when he is just starting his world tour. "HER LIFE FOR LIBERTY" (Inter-Continent Film Co.). The Inter-Continent Film Company will release, January 28, the first of a series of three and fo\?r part features founded on actual history surrounding the Garibaldian-Bourbon conflict in Italy durine the early 6o's. The first production is entitled "Her Life for Liberty." and has been produced in Rome by former associates of the Cines Company. Scene from "Her Life for Liberty" (Inter-Continent). The leading role, that of Carola, is taken by Signora Be Leonardis. the Italian actress, and her work in this production is fully worthy of her previous efforts on the regular stage. The director has expended considerable time in the massing of his big battle scenes.