Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

1816 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD September 16, 1916 provisions of the underwriters' code to prove his contentions. The moving picture men contended that these rules were only carried out in New York City. They asserted that the amendments proposed here would put them to great expense, and said that their places already are entirely safe under the present ordinance. L. A. EXCHANGE MANAGERS MEET. At a meeting held here this week by local film exchange and sales managers, infinite tact, the ability to judge human nature, a complete knowledge of the business and a thorough acquaintance with the city in which one operates, are among the attributes required by the man who would place motion picture films, according to R. E. Taylor, local manager of the International Film Service, who addressed the Salesmanagers' Association meeting at a local cafe. "The field, a comparatively new one, offers unlimited opportunities to the man of initiative and ability," said Mr. Taylor, who discussed in detail the problems faced by the film people today. C. M. Simmons, manager of the Mutual Exchange, talked on the same subject, and Stuart Morrow, organizing secretary, who presided, outlined the objects and ideals of the organization, recently started. This is one of the first meetings of this organization and we ought to hear more from them in a short time. LOS ANGELES FILM BREVITIES. J. Warren Kerrigan and a number of the players of his company while returning to Universal City from Eureka, Cal., where they filmed a number of scenes for his current production, "The Measure of a Man," were near to death in a collision at sea about fifty miles north of San Francisco. They were aboard the coastwise passenger steamer "City of Topeka," when at 1:30 o'clock in the morning they were thrown from their berths and a dash to the deck followed. It was found that a lumber schooner had attempted to run across the bow of the passenger vessel and it was struck amidships. However, both vessels kept afloat and the "City of Topeka" limped safely into San Francisco Harbor. * * * Harry Carey, who plays one of the featured leads in "The Underling," a Universal production under the direction of Henry McRae, was thrown against a railroad track this week and his shoulder severely injured while performing a perilous stunt in one of the scenes. An x-ray photograph of the injured shoulder, made by Dr. Lloyd Mace, surgeon in charge of the Universal hospital, developed the fact that a bone had been fractured. * * * Another man on the sick list at Universal City is Herbert Rawlinson, who was rather severely injured while pulling off a fight scene before the cameras. No man in films enjoys a battle more than our friend Herbert, and it was while engaged in a thrilling fight that he sustained a fall, tearing the ligaments of his knee and seriously bruising the muscles of his leg. By a strange trick of fate the company directed by William Worthington, was working at the Los Angeles County Hospital at the time, so the injured actor was conveyed quickly to one of the surgical rooms by the attendant. There an x-ray examination was made and it was found that while no bones were broken, the ligaments and muscles were badly injured. Although suffering great pain, Rawlinson was taken to his home, where he will remain until his injuries are, healed. * * * Sir Herbert Berbohm Tree has completed his performance in the Triangle version of Rupert Hughes' "Old Folks at Home," and the eminent English actor-manager, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Tris Tree, has departed for New York, where he will arrange for his passage to England. Before leaving for the East, Sir Herbert was the guest of honor at a farewell dinner given in his honor by Director Chester Withcy, who directed Tree in "Old Folks at Home." Present at this dinner were a number of Fine Arts celebrities. "Old Folks at Home" is in an almost completed state. There arc several good acting parts in the story and a cast that will do these roles justice were selected by Director Withey. * * * _ Director Raymond B. West is making extensive preparations for the forthcoming filming of a sensational railroad collision. The collision will he staged for scenes in the current Trianplc play in which Dorothy Dalton, Howard Hickman and Enid Markev will he presented in a tri-star combination. Already, Director West has conferred with railroad heads in Los Angeles with the result that the collision is expected to prove the most spectacular piece of work ever staged for the screen. The scenes will be obtained by sending two passenger trains crashing together in a head-on collision on one of the spur tracks adjacent to Los Angeles. * * * With a company of nearly two dozen players, Director Walter Edwards left for the Sacramento River in Northern California, where he will stage many of the interesting scenes for a new Triangle play by John Lynch, in which Frank Keenan is being starred. The scenes will be filmed aboard an old ferry boat which has been chartered by the Ince organization. It is an old stern-wheeler of the Mississippi River type, being, it is said, nearly sixty years old. * * * In the production of the fifteen episode serial, "The Lass of the Cumberlands," featuring Helen Holmes, Director General J. P. McGowan is this week making use of the famous Hopi Indian reservation and a large portion of its people. The Hopi reservation is one of the least known of all the lands now occupied by Indians in this country because of its difficulty of access. Within its confines are encamped the last remaining members of the once powerful Hopi tribe, now approximately 1,400. The company is camped there temporarily and with the completion of the scenes to be» made there, the first episode of the big serial will be completed. * * * These are busy days at the Kalem. The railway company is hard at work on the erection of a two-story frame building that is to be a feature in "Election's Peril." This building will be burned down in the course of the production of this film. The regular company is still working on "The Girl from 'Frisco." The eighth episode of the series is now under production. It is entitled "The Battle in the Dark" and deals with the fake Hindoo mystics. Miss Kirkby, who1 has been playing leading parts in "The Girl from 'Frisco," left for New York the other day, whence she will go to Jacksonville, Fla., to take leading parts with the Jacksonville Kalem Company. * * * J. Edward Hungerford, who has a number of big films of the American to his credit as adaptor, has left that film and is living in Los Angeles doing free lance and continuity work. * * * Charles Clary is now a miner, having jitneyed to certain gold mines in California on which he has an option. For several days he was a regular miner — high boots, corduroy trousers, wide-brimmed hat and all. On his return he proudly exhibited what he declared was a nugget, and one could almost see flashes of the gold it contained. Mr. Clary's work in the Lasky Farrar picture for the remainder of that week was indeed a happy performance. * * * H. M. Horkheimer, president and general manager of Balboa, writes that "That courtesies extended to Balboa by you and your admirable paper during the past year have not fallen upon ungrateful hearts, and it is the purpose of this letter to express to you our appreciation of your consistent kindness." Well, H. M., we appreciate your appreciation. * * * If you do not think "publicity pays," write and ask little Bennie Zeidman, the Fine Arts publicity man, who has accepted a flattering offer from F. J. Balshofer, of the YorkeMetro Hollywood studio, to take charge of the latter's press department. Zeidman, who is nationally known as "Bennie of Lubinville," has been associated with David Wark Griffith for the past two years, first with the Reliance and Majestic, and remained with the famous producer after he joined the Triangle, and started to make Fine. Arts pictures. The young publicity purveyor leaves the Fine Arts Company with the best wishes of the entire studio, and Chet Withey. * * * Bessie Eyton has returned from Chicago and is back at her favorite stamping ground, the Selig Zoo studios. * * * The Vogue Film Company is making plans to construct a large glass-enclosed studio near their present location, and Manager J. R. Crone plans to make it the finest of its kind on the Coast. * * * G. P. Hamilton, of the Century Film Company, and his company of players of Roundup. Mont., who have been completing a seven-reel picture in Los Angeles, have returned to Montana, where a second feature film will be started, to be completed in Los Angeles later in the year.