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Photoplay Magazine
known lead, induced Corinne Griffith of the same company to become his wife, hut nothing was said about it for several weeks.
PAGE PETERS, one of the best known film actors on the Pacific Coast, was drowned while swimming in the Pacific Ocean at Hermosa Beach, June 21. It is believed that nothing less than heart disease caused his death, as he was a strong swimmer. Mr. Peters was with Lasky and later with Morosco and Pallas, playing heavy leads in many of the Dustin Farnum pictures. He was married. No, he was not a relative of House Peters.
FRANCES NELSON and Mollie King have quit World, the former for Mutual and the latter for Ivan Films. Aliss Nelson's first photoplay for Mutual was "The Decoy" in which the brunette emoter was directed by George W. Lederer.
GEORGE ELWELL, Thomas Ince's boy actor whose work in "The Raiders" won much commendation, is now carrying a rifle as a steady job. He enlisted during the war excitement in a California militia regiment that had been called to the border.
MAYBE it was only a make believe squabble. A n y h o w Fannie Ward and her husband, Jack Dean, are back in Hollywood earning their daily angel food at the Lasky studio. It
was reported in the New York papers during their stay in that city that they would not return to Lasky, owing to Miss Ward's displeasure with her future pieces.
have been providing photoplays for the same releasing organization have merged in a twelve and a half million dollar company which is to be known as the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. "The ever-increasing demand for more and better photoplays" is given as the chief reason for the merger. Cecil B. DeMille and Daniel Frohman will continue as the actual producing chiefs in the Hollywood and New York studios, respectively, although it is intimated that the California city will become the center of production of the new concern.
CHARLOTTE WALKER, whose sole appearances on the screen have been under Lasky auspices, is to appear next in an Edison piece, a dramatization of "Pardners," by Rex Beach. It is being made in the East.
W NUM is through with "scrapping" roles. At any rate the F o x star has declared that when he resumes work in the east it will be in plays "requiring more finesse and less physical effort." Well, we'll see what we'll see.
DALE FULLER, one of the most agile of the Keystone maidens, is laid up in the hospital for repairs. The extent of the damage is two cracked ribs, incurred in some typical Keystonery. Fritz Schade. who attempted a rescue of another Keystone mermaid in the studio plunge, sustained a broken arm. It's a gav life.
A recent photographic study of Page Peters, well known
film player who lost his life by drowning near
Los Angeles.
D
OUGLAS FAIRBANKS nearly lost an
excited mob leader fired a revolver point blank at the actor. The pistol was so close that Mr. Fairbanks' left eye was burned by the powder.
THE Wally Reid-Cleo Ridgley combination seems to have been broken up. Word from Lasky's Hollywood studio has it that Miss Ridgley is to play opnosite Lou-Tellegen in his first screen play of the season and that Air. Reid is to appear with Geraldine Farrar.
AFTER main' false alarms, dream interviews l and inspired merger stories, one honest-togoodness combination of motion picture producers has been effected. Famous Players and Jesse L. Lasky company, both of which
A SORT of club for the exfa sirls of the studio has been opened at Hollywood, Cal. "Mother" Lule Warrenton, of Universal, was prominent in the promotion of the project.
BESSIE LOYE. the Griffith star, is running Anita King of Lasky's a close race as an official opener of theaters. Miss Love recently placed a Long Beach. Cal., theater in commission.
THE interesting news comes from Paris that Max Linder, the famous French screen comedian, is to become a Keystoner. After shrapnel and "big Berthas," custard pies will be easy for Max.
EDISON lias made a single reel film play which is to be used in its crusade against impure milk. The name of the lacteal drama is "The Trump Card" and its purpose is to call attention to the danger of using milk in which the animal life has not been stilled.