Moving Picture World (Oct 1915)

October 23, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE . WORLD 603 With their ears close to the megaphone attached to the receiver and with their eyes on the screen, Mr. Lasky and Mr. DeMille were able to catch the feeling of the vast audience in Boston. Those a little further removed from the receiver could faintly hear the strains of the orchestra. The applause sounded like the sharp beats of hundreds of typewriters which swelled into a steady roar as the picture ended. After the noise had subsided, Mr. DeMille and Mr. Lasky were personally congratulated on the success of the picture over the phone by Miss Farrar, Mr. Goldfish, Mr. Morris Gest, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston and Mr. H. H. Hodkinson, president of the Paramount. animal trainer, crawled under the lumber pile and put a rope around Princess' neck. Still as badly scared as any man in the crowd, she was hauled into her cage and the home guards were mustered out. J. PARKER READ, JR., IS NOW WITH INCE. J. Parker Read, Jr., the well known promoter and producer of features, has joined the staff of Thomas H. Ince in capacity of advisory director. Mr. Read will be remembered as recently associated with J. Searle Dawley and Frank L. Dyer in Dyreda Art Films, also as producer of "Victory," "The Garden of Allah," and a number of other big feature productions. Producer ThomasH. Ince engaged Mr. Read over the long distance telephone. It happened like this. Mr. Read was i n Chicago, and preparing to leave for New York. Ince had wired him the day before and received the reply that Read would leave for the Metropolis and engage in another project. When Ince received this telegram it was too late to make another proposition by wire so he called up Read at his hotel in Chicago over the long distance telephone ;.nd got hold of him just as he was going to jump in a taxi for the train. An agreement on terms was soon reached and T. Parker Read got a ticket on the Santa Fe instead of the Twentieth Century Limited. J. Parker Read, Jr. TIGER HUNT NEAR LOS ANGELES. Wildest India had nothing on the harbor district one day this week, for valiant persons were -abroad bulging with more kinds of artillery than Flanders had seen in a year. Timid individuals lingered indoors and felt a vague fear of what might lurk in the family garage. The bearers of firearms beat the swamps and bush clumps of the hillsides and stalked calves and other queer beasts in the farmyards. Alarms kept telephone wires a-quiver and motor cars scurrying hither and yon. And all the time a very badly scared lady tiger lay under a lumber pile and quaked. Very soon after Princess, the four-year-old Bengal tigress, escaped from her cage at the waterfront, a furore spread from Point Firmin to Long Beach. The home guards turned out, armed with everything from .22 Derringers to Springfields of Civil War vintage. Alarms sounded with great monotony throughout the afternoon, but still the tigress was at large — under the lumber pile, a few rods from where she had disappeared. Night brought the real thrills. Searchers on top of a remote hill saw two baleful eyes at the bottom of a deep hole. Men with nets hurried there and bagged two empty beer bottles on which the moon shown brightly. A switching crew, keeping a sharp lookout for the tigress, saw a giant cat leap through the glare of the locomotive's headlight, and promptly turned back the other way. Daylight did not abate the excitement until mid-afternoon when Director General Henry McRae, of the Universal Film Mfg. Company invaded the yard of the San Pedro Lumber Company, overbalanced a pile of scantlings on which he was standing and almost stepped on the fugitive's ear. A snarl caused a hasty retreat, then the home guards were called in, and reinforced by men with nets and a cage, they waited expectantly in the trenches for the cat's great offensive. It did not develop. Thereupon "Curley" Stecker, HAZARDOUS HELEN HALTS HOLDUPS— KALEM'S PLUCKY ACTRESS DARES DEATH. "The Race With Death" is the newest Kalem Hazard story and it is to be a "peach," full of thrills and punches. Helen Gibson playing the lead with a detective is chasing two crooks who have released a car of dynamite and sent it down hill towards a line of freight cars. The detective leaves the speeder in which they are giving chase to get the crooks and Miss Gibson continues in the speeder to stop the car of dynamite before it reaches the freight cars. The speeder struck the car of supposed dynamite, throwing Miss Gibson to the tracks before she could grasp the ladder of the car, and on the rebound the speeder crashed into her bruising her severely and inflicting several bad cuts on her arms and face. The following day Miss Gibson made the scene successfully, refusing to be doubled. TO BUILD A VILLAGE AND THEN BURN IT DOWN. To build an entire village and then burn it down is what Producer Thomas H. Ince is going to do this week to get atmosphere and realism in a current Triangle production. The buildings will be twenty-six in number and be erected on top of the big plateau ^t Inceville. There will be a dance hall, saloon, laundry, livery stable, boarding house, etc., all substantially built so that they will look real when they topple over in the flames. The fire which destroys the little village is the climax of the picture story in which William S. Hart is starred, supported by Clara Williams and Jack Standing. CARL LAEMMLE ON WAY WEST. The Pacific Coast is to be honored soon by the presence of Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. He is en route to Universal City and will arrive in a short time. He comes West to inspect the big city and note the great improvements which have been made by Henry McRae, the well known director general of the Universal's Western branch. Since McRae assumed control of the city there have been many improvements noted and Mr. Laemmle may well be surprised when he enters the portals of the picture metropolis. President Laemmle will remain on the coast for several weeks. Los Angeles Film Brevities. An even dozen famous stars will each have an acre of land in the new Ince lot at Culver City at the ground breaking ceremony to be held soon. On the tract will be built a $50,000 studio. The unique feature of the event will be that it will be attended by one of the greatest galaxies of stage stars ever assembled together at one function. At present there are exactly twelve eminent figures of the footlight realm at Inceville and each will be present at the ground breaking. They are Billie Burke, Bessie Barriscale, Mary Boland, Truly Shattuck, William S. Hart, Frank Keenan, Bruce McRae, Frank Mills, Willard Mack, William H. Thompson, William Desmond and H. B. Warner. * * * That moving pictures are to be the all interesting amusement of the twenty-first century, as well as the main event in the twentieth, was proved this week at Long Beach where baseball fans have no further interest in the national sport. As a consequence Business Manager Manning of the Balboa Company is wrecking the local grandstand and bleachers. The lumber will be used to make further enlargements at the studio. Thus it is seen that everything finds its way into the picture, sooner or later. * * * As soon as Wm. D. Taylor completes the last chip of "The Diamond from the Sky" for the Flying A he will start producing for the Morosco Company in Los Angeles. * * * Myrtle Gonzales is being featured in a powerful heart interest story at the Universal under the able direction of Dick Stanton, who plays the lead opposite Miss Gonzales. The story shows how a man, at one time prosperous, goes to the lowest level and rises again, a very powerful piece of character drawing. Stanton is using some splendid "sets," and has the assistance of F. M. Wells, Hayward Mack and