Moving Picture World (Dec 1915)

2156 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 18, 1915 The Selig-Tribune News Film Will Be Ready for Initial Release on January 3 — Twice-aWeek Service. OX MONDAY, January 3, the first release of the SeligTribune, the bright and breezy twice-a-week news film, will be made. The Selig-Tribune will be released every Monday and Thursday, beginning with Monday, January 3. The affiliation between the Selig Polyscope Company, pioneer manufacturers of motion pictures, and the Chicago Daily Tribune, one of the world's greatest newspapers, is a combination that will be hard to compete with. Together the Selig Company and the Tribune propose to release "the world's greatest news film." In another section of this publication will be found an interesting presentation of the forthcoming merits of the Selig-Tribune. We believe, however, that the exhibitors should have just a little additional information that cannot be fully covered in an advertisement. The Selig-Tribune will be released every Monday and Thursday through the General Film Company. Every feature in this animated newspaper will be an innovation. An energetic corps of camera men have been stationed in every important section of the civilized world where news is in the making. These camera men, under the direction of "Jack" Wheeler, editor-in-chief of the Selig-Tribune, will risk even life itself in order to obtain the latest world events in picture form for the Selig-Tribune. This corps of camera men are not mere camera men. On the other hand, they are "live wires" who not only possess the necessary technical knowledge, but also possess the essential "nose for news." The Selig-Tribune will have' the advantage in supplanting the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial in the aid of the Chicago Tribune's great news-gathering facilities. For example, the Associated and the United Press are news services without equals in this country. Then the private news wires and the European news gathering agencies will be at the disposal of the Selig-Tribune. The world's most energetic and able correspondents, including John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist, author and war correspondent; James O'Donnell Bennett, Caroline Wilson and others will work in the interests of the Selig-Tribune, bringing their wide experience and versatility to bear in promoting the interest and entertainment of the Selig-Tribune. Special correspondents and camera men are stationed with every army in Europe, in Mexico, in every city of importance in this and foreign countries, and no time or money will be spared to justify the Selig-Tribune slogan, "First in News and Service." A special corps of artists has been engaged to prepare unusual posters so necessary to this unusual, news film. Motion picture exhibitors will await with interest the initial releases of the Selig-Tribune. VINCENT SERRANO ENGAGED BY FAMOUS PLAYERS. For the difficult role of Dr. Gilmore, in its adaptation of Henry Arthur Jones' great dramatic success, "Lydia Gilmore," in which Pauline Frederick is to be starred, the Famous Players Film Company has secured the distinguished actor, Vincent Serrano. Mr. Serrano is one of the few remaining stage notables who has never before appeared on the screen, though for the last two years one of the largest producing companies has been making frequent efforts to induce him to appear in its photoplays. Though new to filmdom, the name of Vincent Serrano is well known in the theatrical world. Among his achievements is the unique record of having played Lieut. Burton in the celebrated war drama "Arizona" over 1,000 times. He was co-star in "A Little Brother of the Rich," and "On Parole," and was featured in "The Lure" and "The Revolt." He has been associated with many big Broadway sucesses, among them the famous "Mrs. Lemngwell's Boots." REDFIELD JOINS THE BELL CORPORATION. Frank W. Redfield, late manager of the Fox Film Corporation, Chicago office, is now connected with the W. H. Bell Feature Film Corporation in a similar capacity. Mr. Redfield has been exclusively engaged in the motion picture distribution end of the business continuously for the past fifteen years and over, starting with George K. Spoor, later with the General Film Company and recently with the Fox Film Corporation. The acquisition of Mr. Redfield's services by the Bell Corporation gives the exhibitors in that territory personal attention distributing service and more than ordinary efficiency. Joseph R. Darling Sails for England Former "Trust Buster" Will Investigate Film Conditions as European Representative of Fox. JOSEPH R. DARLING sailed from New York for Eng land on Wednesday, December 8. Mr. Darling is the European representative of the Fox Film Corporation with which concern he has been connected for some time Mr. Darling will be remembered as the representative of the office of the United States Attorney General who conducted the investigation into the affairs of the Motion Picture Patents Company. For the Fox company he has been engage in the development of its foreign business, as well as its domestic. While in the west last summer he traveled tei thousand miles over Nevada, New Mexico and California i his own car. In October he drove the same little machin from San Francisco to New York in nineteen days, establish ing a record for an automobile driven by its owner. Mr. Darling was educated in the United States, France and England. He speaks Spanish and French. He is aboul forty years old. His career has been a varied and an interesting one. Beginning his business life as a civil engineer from 1890 to 1900 he was with orange and lemon corporations in California and on railroad work in the west. He opened up the West Indian orange industry for the United Fruit Company. In 1902-4 he was concessionist for the same company in Latin America. From that time to 1909 he did railroad surveying in Nicaragua, was employed by Honduras to settle its foreign debt and to construct a railroad across the country, and for a refining company secured options on the principal oil fields of Ecuador, Peru and Chile. With the Department of Justice Mr. Darling was engaged in the preparation of many of the larger suits brought under the anti-trust law, all of which were decided in favor of the Government. He went to San Domingo to break up a revolution and succeeded in landing an ex-president and two generals in jail. Mr. Darling also has done considerable writing. Besides general articles on Central and South America, he is the author of "Darling on Trusts and Combinations" and "Commercial Latin America." While abroad Mr. Darling will make a close study of film conditions in Great Britain. Elaine Sterne Still Winning Remarkably Successful Young Writer Signs New Contracts for the Coming Year. ELAINE STERNE has been busy these past few months. In November three of her "Sonny Jim" pictures were released by the Vitagraph Company, which has made them a regular feature of its program, and the Universal released "Lil Norwester," a three-reel subject featuring Mary Fuller. Miss Sterne has signed a new contract with the Universal to continue writing for Miss Fuller. With the World Film Corporation she has signed a contract to write a feature a month for a year. The popular young playwright will continue writing her "Sonny Jim" series. Word comes that Tom Ince will soon begin work on a five-reel Sterne script which he has announced he will make a "wonderful production" for the Triangle. Miss Sterne has made a remarkable record in the two years she has been writing photoplays. Her continuing success is the best of evidence that the winning of thousanddollar and five-hundred-dollar prizes a year ago were no "flashes in the pan," but that there was real merit underlying the work that brought them. McCARDELL TO WRITE FOR HORSLEY. Announcement is made that Roy L. McCardell has been engaged to write scenarios for animal stories to bjs produced by David Horsley at his Los Angeles studios. Mr. McCardell, it will be remembered, was the winner of the ten-thousand-dollar prize offered by the North American Film Corporation for the successful scenario in the "Diamond From the Sky" contest. His first effort for the Horsley studio will be a story of the circus. It will feature Margaret Gibson, supported by a large cast, and will also prominent!} bring into action many of the Bostock animals. "DIAMOND FROM THE SKY" MUTUAL RELEASE. The release of "The Diamond from the Sky," the North American Film Corporation's picturized romantic novel, as a part of the regular Mutual program, effective Monday, Nov. 29, is directly in line with the Mutual Film Corporation's policy to give the exhibitor "service beyond the films."