Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

102 Photoplay Magazine trenches in his drive on the Western front. On the Santa Barbara sector he grabbed Juanita Hansen, the Spanish-Scandinavian prize blonde, who has been secreting in the submarine for a score or so of episodes. She is to be co-starred with George Walsh, the distinguished cigarette-rolling hero. WHOOPS, my dear! And then some more whoops. Nothing has been said about it by Keystone's mimeograph department because it's such a childish thing that the victim probably had the item "killed" before it got out. But even if it does come under the general classification of juvenile indoor sports, it is very, very annoying. What's it all about? Oh, nothing more exciting than Mabel Normand having an attack of whooping cough. But she's almost well now. EVEN Charlie Chaplin had to bow to the epidemic in New York. Exhibitors in the metropolis asked Mutual to cut the price of Chaplin releases from $50 a day during the prevalence of the inhibition on children under 16 attending picture theaters. Mutual declined and then the exhibitors, representing 250 theaters which had signed for the latest Chaplin, cancelled, and the releasing concern decided it would be content with a half loaf. ANNA Q. NILSSON of 'Who's Guilty" fame will • appear next in "Her Surrender," an Ivan picture, with Wilmuth Merkyl, Rose Coghlan, Harry Spingler and Wm. H. Tooker. Capellani, and Edna Hunter is to be Rita. Lillian Cook will be Stephanie, and the artist'-^ parents will be played by Edward Kimball and Julia Stuart. It will be a six-reeler. VALKYRIEN, otherwise the Baroness DeWitz, is swinging around the circle at a nifty clip. First it was Mutual, then Fox and now the Danish beauty has signed up with Metro for a series of pictures. NECROLOGICAL note : Edwin August, it is announced, has returned to the Kinemacolor Company, for which he will direct and act. Mr. August, whose announcement as a candidate for president of these here — or should it be this here? — United States has been given more or less publicity, has apparently retired from politics. DOROTHY BERNARD has quit Fox for a little spell of home life, during which she will be just — not plain — Mrs. A. H. Van Buren. Meantime Husband Van, who has been playing opposite Theda Bara, will continue to draw down Fox-made checks. Miss Bernard played opposite William Farnum in many photoplays. A; Alan Forrest tvho is now ex officio love maker to Mary Miles M inter. MARGERY DAW, the little Hollywood girl who has been appearing occasionally in Lasky photoplays, is to become a star, according to advices from the coast. She is to be taken East to join the ingenue colony of Famous Players-Lasky in New York, where she will head her own company. This will leave Fannie Ward in sole possession of all honors as Lasky's premier child. THE McClure syndicate has gone into photoplay production on an elaborate, although more or less secret, scale. The magazine people have obtained the services of Holbrook Blinn and it is understood that he is to be starred in the syndicate's first celluloid venture. The Edison studios in New York are being utilized. PERHAPS more persons read "The Common Law" when it appeared serially than any novel ever written. For this reason the cast of the film version will undoubtedly be a matter of interest to many thousands. Clara Kimball Young, whose company is producing the Chambers story, will of course be Valerie West and Conway Tearle is to play the role of the artist lover, Kelly Neville. Querida, the Spanish artist, will be portrayed by Paid NOTHER Dorothy— Dalton. last name — starred in a recent divorce court action recently at Los Angeles. Until then few outside of film circles knew that in private life she was the wife of Lewis J. Cody, former Seligite and now heavy in Mabel Normand's company. She charged her husband with Keystonism. alleging that many nights she was compelled to dodge shoes and vases hurled with Arbucklian precision by her playful spouse. Decree granted. JUST about the time L'niversal started a series of "kid" pictures, in which all of the roles were played by children, along came another company and grabbed the director, Mrs. Lule Warrenton. She will make the same sort of pictures for the Monrovia Film Company. HELEN WARE is back on the daylight stage, playing the lead in Selig's multiplereeler, "The Garden of Allah." Miss Ware made her celluloid debut with Universal and played in several Fine Arts features before returning to the vocal stage. Colin Campbell. Selig's premier director, is in charge of the production. T HE mystery which has surrounded the ring cral months has been solved. He is a young Xew York real estate man. and after the wedding bells have notified a waiting world of the great event, some time this fall, Miss Kelly will have become Mrs. Harvey Hevenor. But she has promised to remain with Yitagraph.