Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Plays and Players l !9 juretl, some seriously. One of the injured was J. Farrel Macdonald, former directoi r.il of Biograph, who is Uu executive head of the new company. None of the lead ing people was in the wreck, Lucretia Del Valle, star of the Mission Play; Arthur .Maude. Mabel Van Buren and Juan de la Crui are east in the company's firsl effort, "Saul oi Tarsus." N() longer will the wide-eyed tourist Inallowed to deposit lus two-hits at the ticket willow and then he escorted hy a megaphone-voiced guide through the highways and byways of Universal raw It has been sufficiently lucrative, this daily collection of quarters and it has been sufficiently diverting to the visitors who were allowed to see motion picture in the making. It also gave the star a chance to do some extra twinkling and gave otherwise subdued "extras" an opportunity of grabhing the center of the stage, as it were. But the management decided that the practice of allowing spectators to witness the doin's before the camera was ruinous to screen efficiency. 1 fence, no longer will a trip to Universal City be included in the itinerary of the California tourist. WALLACE BEERY, once Essanay's "Sweedie," is now a Universal director. He left Chicago to play with Keystone and Universal grabbed him. He is directing Carter De Haven. Reading left to right: Bryant Washburn III and Bryant Washburn IV. The latter has just made his film debut. IVY CLOSE, the English actress who was brought to this side to star in Kalem photoplays, has begun her new duties at the Jacksonville, Fla., studio of Kalem. She is declared to be "The most beautiful woman in the world." HELEN GIBSON, starring in Kalem's "Hazards of Helen," recently jumped to a freight car from an aeroplane going 45 miles an hour. This news comes under the old heading: Important if true. K WILLIAMS. ATHLYN star and one of the best known of Selig's leading all cinema actresses, became a bride last month. She is now Mrs. Charles F. Eyton, and her husband 1 the executive head ..1 a rival studio — the Morosco Photoplay Company in Los les. The wedding "din nil al Riverside, Cal., the bridal part} making the trip from I. os Angeles in automobiles. A Methodist minister performed the ceremony. The bridal party included Edward J. LeSainl and lus wife, Stella Razeto; Juan de la Cru/. a brother-inlaw of Mr. Eyton and Mr and Mis. ,\| b'ilson, of the Selig conipan\ AL CHRISTIE, whose Nestor company was the nucleus unit of the Universal, is now directing comedies for David llorslcy and his former comedians, Lee Moran and Eddie Lyons, and collaborating on comedies for , Universal. Mr Horslev was one of the original owners of the Nestor which was the first film comedy company on the Pacific Coast. MISS IDA DAMON, o f St. Louis, winner of the $10,001) prize in "The Million Dollar Mystery" contest, was married early in June to Arthur Painter, a railway mail clerk of Chicago. Just 1,742 eligible bachelors proposed to Miss Damon through the mails and Painter won the elimination contest. Miss Damon supplied the best scenario for the closing episode of the mystery serial. HAROLD LOCKWOOD and May Allison, who recently threw in their lot with Metro, have a new director, Henry Otto, whose chief claim to fame is his artistic production of "Undine" for Universal. They are to make permanent camp in Southern California. ANOTHER directoral change of importance is that of James Kirkwood, who switches to American. Mr. Kirkwood was a Biograph pioneer actor and director and since quitting that company lie has directed a majority of Mary Pickford's photoplays. He was employed by American for the purpose of directing the films in which Mary Miles Minter will be starred. DONALD BRIAN'S motion picture "debut" is being heralded. That idol of the musical comedy stage made his initial white curtain bow under the auspices of Lasky a year WM.A