Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

130 Photoplay Magazine or more ago in "The Voice in the Fog," or words to that effect. MARIE DORO had a birthday party last month but the Lasky caligraphist diplomatically declined to state the number thereof. The feature of the party was the filming of an impromptu scenario with a motion picture camera which was a birthday gift from Charlie Cha'plin. Those in the cast included the famous comedian, Miss Doro, her husband, Elliott Dexter and Douglas Fairbanks. NORMA TALMADGEis back in New York after a year or so in Los Angeles studios. Miss Talmadge is still with Fine Ai.s and is playing leads under the direction of John Emerson at the Fort Lee studios of Triangle. Douglas Fairbanks is also at Fort Lee and others are expected from Los Angeles. RUTH STONEHOUSE, who was injured while taking part in a photoplay at Universal City, is out of the hospital and back before the camera. E FORREST TAYLOR, for a long time . with American at Santa Barbara, has quit the millionaire colony for Los Angeles to appear in Kalem's "Social Pirates" with Marin Sais and Ollie Kirkby. NAT GOODWIN and Mirror Films have come to the parting of the ways. Nat has brought suit for $13,750, alleged to be due him as unpaid salary. PENNSYLVANIA censors sustained another severe reverse recently when a Philadelphia court removed the ban placed on "Dollars and the Woman." The court held that the censors "abused their discretion and authority." AFTER appearing in a Selig play opposite Kathlyn Williams, Courtenay Foote is back at the Morosco camp. Morosco has also engaged Elliott Dexter, husband of Marie Doro. OTIS SKINNER has begun his first camera acting at the studio of the California Motion Picture Corporation at San Rafael, Cal. The vehicle will be an elaborate film version of "Kismet," Mr. Skinner's great stage success. The scenario was arranged by Capt. Leslie Peacocke. George E. Middleton is the director. MARY PICKFORD is reported to have signed a contract with Jesse Lasky. The emolument for Mary is placed at $10,000 every Saturday night. This would be $520,000 a year. But at this writing, it's onlv rumor No. 852. IMPERSONATING film notables is not entirely a Pacific Coast sport. A man was arrested recently in Charlotte, N. C. for representing himself as Ford Sterling. He made it pay until pinched. IT is with considerable pride that Ivan Films announces the annexation of pretty Marguerite Snow. Miss Snow, or Mrs. James Cruze as she is known in private life, has been with Metro for about a year and appeared during that time opposite Francis X. Bushman in several film stories. COUSIN JIM," is the intimate title of a five-reeler recently exhibited in Chicago. which bears several notable distinctions. First, it was produced without a professional in the cast, all of the players being prominent Chicago society folk. Second, it was filmed without the aid of a manufactured set. all scenes and locations having been the real thing. It was done for the benefit o" the American Red Cross and the feature of the advertising was the emphasis placed on the "billion dollar cast." HCOOPER-CLIFFE. who heavied through • innumerable Fox thrillers to the great despair of numerous ingenues, is back on the three-dimension stage. He is playing Long John Silver in the production of Stevenson's "Treasure Island," and is one of the hits of that dramatic success. WHY all the mystery about the authorship of Lasky's photoplay "The Clown." a narration of which is the first thing in this issue of Photoplay Magazine? The producers aver that the play is a product of Marion Fairfax' typewriter, but others — who feel that they know — say that it was written by Luther Reed, former music editor of the New York Herald, who went to the Los Angeles studios a number of months ago. HOBART BOSWORTH who has been with Universal ever since leaving the company which bore his name, has been signed by Lasky to play an important role with Geraldine Farrar, in the diva's next screen play. MARGUERITE COURTOT'S alleged double in the far west appears to be quite a busy little thing. Recently a report came out of Los Angeles that the little film star had been married at Phoenix. Ariz. Miss Courtot. who recently resigned from Gaumont, denies that she has been nearer the Arizona metropolis than Fort Lee. N. J., and believes that the young woman who committed matrimony under her name, is the same who masqueraded as the actress in Los Angeles. SURROUNDED by a bunch of Vitagraph stars. Marc McDermott, one of the early stars of the photoplay, is doing his initial film for that company. Naomi Childers and William Shea are among those in his support. EDISON has gathered in Ann Murdock and she will be starred in a picturization oi William J. Locke's novel. 'Where Love Is." Miss Murdock made her screen debut with Essanay in "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines."