Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

128 Photoplay Magazine THE Reliance Motion Picture Corporation, supposed to have retired from the active list last winter, has been resurrected in order to sponser Sir Herbert Tree's film version of Macbeth, released last month. LENORE ULRICH is back among the diffusers and the glistening tripods after a successful return to the stage in "The Heart of Wetona," one of the season's Broadway hits. Miss Ulrich will continue with the Morosco company. CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG will begin work for the company which bears her name this month, her connection with World expiring July 15. Her director will be Albert Capellani and they will endeavor to immortalize "The Common Law," the writing of which by Robert Chambers marked the beginning of the Franco-American literary era. It will probably be a sexreeler. AFTER thinking up a lot of things that might be said by way of comment, we determined to merely reprint the headline over a story from the Metro's califgraphic bureau which reads : "S i n g Sing Welcomes Metro Actors." "OOMEWHERE in O France," one of the last stories written by the late Richard Harding Davis, is to be filmed by Thomas H. Ince with Louise Glaum in the leading role. become an American director with authority over Helene Rosson, the talented young star of the Santa Barbara concern. Miss Rosson also has a new leading man in Alan Forrest, once of Lubin's Coronado studio but since the arrival of Mary Minter, she can no longer boast of her 17 years. IT was announced during the month that Mae Murray, once the darling of Ziegfeld's "Follies" and later a Lasky film celebrity, was to move her make-up outfit over to Ince's Culver City studio. Then it was announced that she wouldn't. Then Miss Murray went to Xew York and it was said she would reenter the "Follies" ; but she didn't and now Miss Murrav is back at Laskv's. NELL SHIPMAN, of Western Yitagraph is a rather indifferent fireman but a good swimmer. Therefore, Director Sturgeon has substituted a shipwreck for the fire scene in Cleveland Moffett's "Through the Wall." Fair enough. No complaints. BROUGHT from England a short time ago because of her success in photoplays made in that country, Peggy Hyland has become a Vitagraph star. Miss Hyland appeared in one picture for Famous, "Saints and Sinners" and then asked for a release on her contract, which was granted. MURDOCK MACQUARRIE, veteran director who was successively allied with Universal and Signal, has a new job. He has Here's a neiv one — Ivy Close, imported from England to play for Kalem films. CELIA TURNER, who won a $4,000 verdict from a New York film concern because she broke an ankle while indulging in a comedy situation, lost out in the higher court. Miss Turner injured herself dropping from the limb of a tree w h i 1 e being pursued by a makebelieve maniac. She said the director told her to jump but he said he didn't. PERHAPS the first positive demonstration of the political power of the movies was given in Chicago during the last month. In the campaign for superior court j u d g e s prior to the election on June 5, Judge William Fenimore Cooper, one of the Democratic c a n d idates, did not have the support of a single newspaper. but he won re-election standing fourth among the successful candidates. The screens of practically every movie theater of Chicago. about 1,000, were used to electioneer for Judge Cooper, because of his blow at political censorship more than a year ago when he prevented the city authorities from putting the ban on "The Birth of a Nation." D. W. Griffith and his associates took a long distance part in the campaign through newspaper advertisements. THE American Woman Film Company nearly came to grief within a short time after the project was launched by a number of Los Angeles and Pasadena women. A motor truck containing nearly all the members of the company overturned on a steep grade at Chatsworth, north of Los Angeles, and a score in