Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Plays and Players 99 by a little eight-year-told girl in an orphans' home. She had herseH appointed the child's guardian and soon had the kiddie in a nice home. R OMAINE FIE1 DING, former Lubinite ,uh1 an early film idol, who lias been out oi the camera's eye i>»r many months, has bobbed up on "small time," opening a vaudeville engagement at Winnipeg, Canada. It is his tir-t appearance on the stage in ten years. ANITA STEW MM' is convalescing from an attack of typhoid and is able to look over the new contracts which have been offered her. Miss Stewart's time with Vitagraph expires in a few months and the market is active. Metro is said to have bid $1,500 weekly for the slender brunette. HOT weather note : Fourteen members of the Metro company, headed by Harold Lockwood and May Allison, had a narrow escape from death in an avalanche while filming scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.* * The press agent probably got his August and December tiles mixed. THOMAS MEIGHAN, a La sky pioneer, has temporarily forsaken the screen to appear in stock with his wife. Frances Ring, in Pittsburgh. Mr. Meighan's former home. Upon his departure from Los Angeles the "Only Their Husbands Club" — of which he was an honored member — drew up suitable resolutions. The desertion of Owen Moore was also a heavy blow to the club. The organization meets at regular intervals and reads over letters which their respective wives receive from their admirers. The board of governors comprises Elliott Dexter (Mr. Marie Doro), LouTellegen (Mr. Geraldine Farrar) and Jack Dean (Mr. Fannie Ward). UNIVERSAL has a new woman director in Ruth Ann Baldwin, who has been connected with the editorial department of Universal City for several years. Miss Baldwin was a recruit from the newspaper field, joining Universal as a collaborator in "The Black Box" serial with E, Phillips Oppenheim, tinEnglish novelist. She has long been regarded .is one of the most capable ol Universale stafl FRANK MILLS, who did such excellenl work in several [nee-Triangle productions, has become a Mutu;ilile and made his firsl ap pearance under that llag in "The House of Mirrors." ilis last [nceville production was "The Moral Fabri< P ATI IE has acquired a pair of male celebrities in Man Hale and Niles Welch, the former having been engaged to play opposite Pearl White in a five-reeler and the latter to play the juvenile had in the same piece. Hale came from Famous Players, where he played opposite Pauline Frederick in " \ Woman in the Case." H OBART BOS ling forty-niner of the shadow play, is staging a come-back as a producer. San Francisco capital is said to be backing him in his studio venture, and he signed as his first star Fritzi Scheff, who is to do a trio of pieces for him. During the last year Mr. Bosworth has been playing leads for Universal. At the moment he is completing a special engagement with Lasky. A Not many screen idols would pose like this for fear of being accused of matrimony but Jack Kerrigan is fond of his niece, Virginia. G A L E which swept over New York late in July completely destroyed an Italian village which had been constructed at the Brighton Beach race track for the filming of "Romeo and Juliet." The Bushman-Bayne combination were about to take the exteriors when the zephyrs played havoc with the Veronese fronts. CLEO MADISON has quit the tortoise specs and puttees for good and will act and not direct henceforth, according to a bulletin from Universal City. Her first starring vehicle under the new arrangement was "The Chalice of Sorrow," a Mexicanized version of "La Tosca." SOON they will be calling him "Prof." Walthall. The Essanay star has accepted an invitation to lecture on the art of the photoplay at the Indiana State Normal School.