Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

368 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 20, 1918 \ News of Los Angeles and Vicinity By A. H. GIEBLER W^ SJrJ* ' ' " i'' " "^TTfcWl^BM Women's War Work Committee Meets Largely Attended Session of the Subsidiary Body of War Service Association — Prepares for Practical Activities. THE first meeting of the Committee on Women's War Work of the Motion Picture War Service Association was held Saturday, June 23. at the Lois Weber Studio at 4634 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood. The meeting was for the purpose of outlining plans and preparing for practical activities along the lines intended by the organization. Representatives of many studios wire present. and the meeting was characterized by great enthusiasm and willingness and anxiety to get the work under way. Each member present pledged herself to form a committee on woman's work in the studio represented by her for the purpose of enlisting the services of all studio women and girls •in work thai will help to win the war. Arrangement^ were perfected whereby all studios may become auxiliaries of the Red Cross, with full authority to carry on the work of the parent body. Miss Ethel Weber, of the Lois Weber Studio-, was appointed secretary; Mrs. Theodore Roberts, of La sky, treasurer: Miss Lillian Greenberger, of the Lois Weber studio, purchat nt; Miss Margaret Whistler, Vitagraph, chairman of visiting committee; Miss Ida Lewis, Paralta, chairman of entertainment committee; Mrs Al Smith. Fox. chairman of salvage committee; Miss Mabel Waugh, Chaplin studio, chairman information committee: Miss Elmore, of the Photoplayera Equity Association, chairman employment committee. The meeting was addressed 1>> Miss Sohlier, an organizer for the Red Cross, who made a spirited talk in the course of which she outlined the work that may be accomplished by the Studio Women Workers, namely, the knitting of sweaters, ami the making 6f slippers and all manner oi refugee garm Miss Sohlier also impressed upon her hearers the n< sin of making all work conform to the patterns and dimensions furnished by the Red Cross, and explained that many well-meant efforts were wasted I of a disregard of these rules. Addresses were also made by Mr. Hill, the residenl 1 and Mr. Whitmore, the foreign head of the \ M I A. War Workers, who told of the work of that org ill and of the need of books, magazines, games and other means of entertainment for the boys fighting the battle of Demoi "over there" Monthly meetings were arranged for by the committee, and at this writing several members have reported that their studio committees are already in working order. Miss Mabel Waugh has a number of unique and effective means. of raising money For the Auxiliary under her charge at the Chaplin Studio. All of the employees using the telephone for personal calls are charged live cents a call. Every member of the studio force coming to work late is fined, and every one heard using profanity around the studio is lined at the rate of five cents a cuss word, and the money is deposited in the fund. In addition to this, of course, the knitting needles are clicking away at sock and sweater during all the spare minutes Off to War. Vesta Pegg, familiar figure in the Harry Carey pictures, is now in a Pacific Coa>t Army Camp. David Kirkland, former director of Sunshine comedies, is now a captain at Camp Fremont, California. Billy Shea, head of the cutting department of the Douglas Fairbanks studio, left for Camp Kearney on June 24. Claude Elliott, cowboy of the Roy Stewart company, has been assigned to the remount station near Jacksonville, Fla. Bobby Harron is getting ready to don the khaki, as he has finished all the productions for which he was granted time by the War Hoard. Bobby is anxious to get into the fight. Hank Mann of the Mack Scnnett forces and Charles Stevenson of the Rolin-Pathe, have enlisted in the army and left June 25 for Camp Kearney. A jazz band from each of the studios was at the station to brighten their departure. Edward L. White, assistant cameraman at Metro, has gone into training. Harry Stone, employee at the Superba Theater, has joined the camouflage section of the National Army. Kenneth Harlan has gone to war by way of Camp Kearney. Triangle's Employment Bureau for Actors. J. Scott Sayre, casting director of the Triangle Studios at Culver City, who is in charge of the registration bureau which has been established by Triangle on the 9th floor of the Knickerbocker Building in Los Angeles, is one of the busiest men on the coast. Over nine hundred persons were registered during the first two weeks the offices were open. This list includes all of the professional people who are not regularly employed, and a large number of non-professionals who are anxious for a try-out in the pictures. Mr. Sayre sa>s that the idea of the registration is to obtain fresh material for the Triangle directors to work with, and most of all. to get fresh faces in the casts. The stock company plan has not been abandoned by Triangle, but the number of people in stock has been reduced, ami fresh material will be used whenever possible. Non fessionals are allowed to register in the hope that a "find" may result. Mi that the outlook for unexpected pearls is nol ureal, but if any outsider shows promise, he or she will be given the fullest chance to develop. Picture Previews. Cecil B. De Mille's latest Artcraft Special, "You Can't Have Everything," was given a prerelease showing at the Iris Theater at Hollywood, at Ki p.m. on June 24. \i the Lois Weber studio "The Forbidden Box" was shown number of invited guests, who were afterwards served w ith punch and ice cream. Los Angeles Billboard Decision. Th. uncil of Los Angeles, at a meeting on Jun< made a few beneficial changes in the billboard ordinance, which was signed bj Mayor Woodman within an hour alter it was adopted, and which will bco ■ effective thnl\ days 1 publication. George W. Kleiser, president of the Kleiser & Poster Co., assurance to the Council lliat c\n\ objectionable billboard will be removed from the ri al districts within sixty days, ami those that an objectionable in the semibtisiness districts will be eliminated within four months. Santa Barbara's Potter Under New Management. II Collis, lessee of the Potter Theater at Santa Barbara. lias made arrangements to turn over the management of his house to the I'ortola Theater Company, of which W. Markus is the manager. Mr. Collil is now m the army, but exp to return and resume his managerial duties at the Po when the war is over. Roy, N. M., to Have New Picture Show. A new picture show will soon be opened for business al Roy, X. M., in the Judge Foster Building, which is now being used for office purposes. Manager Sargent contemplates putting up a permanent theater building as soon as the business is firmly established. Fox Players Entertain Naval Students. Players from the William Fox and other studios assisted in a big dramatic performance given for the benefit of 3,000 boys at the Naval Base at San Pedro on June 25. Frank Lloyd, who was stage manager and general all around master of ceremonies, superintended the building of a stage at one end of a long 'pier, where the show was given. The program was one of the richest ever presented. William and Dustin Farnum and Little Nancy Casswell as A irgie." gave part of "The Littlest Rebel." Gladys Brockwell, Herbert Hayes, Dorothy Davenport and A. W. Fremont