Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Plays and Players 101 TULLV M \RSI1 \1 I . on< "i Griffith's best known heavies, also became ■ I a recently, thereby uniting in a professional the Mar-hall family. Mrs. Marshall is known to the public as Marion Fairfax, dramatist, and author oi many of the beat v photoplays. C/ \K NICHOLAS is dead but his demise brought no joy to the central powers, because this particular Czar Nicholas \\a not the Russian ruler, as many perhaps will have guessed while reading this briei paragraph. Nicholas was the pet Russian wolfhound—or Siberian fishhound, or something — oi Theda Bara, the noted vamp, and his dissolution occurred suddenly, according to the Fox bureau of intelligence, which also states that the entire force of one of the largest corporations in the United States mourned for him. The name of the corporation is not given. MILLION Dollar Mystery" fans will lie interested in t h e announcement that Sidney Bracy is to appear in some picture plays for Pathe which are to be directed by Howell Hansell, who produced the famous serial for Thanhouser. HERBERT RAWLINSON, one of Universal City's leading citizens, sustained a six-weeks vacation recently in a bit of realistic fighting before the camera. The chief injury was a badly lacerated knee. Harry Carey, former Universal cowboy lead, also is recovering from a similarly incurred vacation, after which he will join the Fox forces. LACK of a releasing outlet is said to have caused the suspension of operations at the Horsley studio in Los Angeles late in August. All except a few stars were discharged pending the closing of new marketing arrangements. The concern had been releasing through Mutual. COSTLY experiments with more or less famous stage stars having resulted in more or less financial havoc. Fine Arts has gone to another extreme. Raymond Jerome Binder, whose face on the films may recall well advertised brands of men's wearing ap NOT because of its importance but A new portrait of Helen Ware who returns to the camera stage for "The Garden of Allah." parel, his been engaged to play the had in a photoplay or two, the first to he opposite Dorothj Gish. bine Arts probably argues that inasmuch as girl models have become famous film players without Stage experience, there is no reason whj a male model can't be modeled into a Francis X. T\l KING of Francis X., we note that Karl.Williams is being rather absurdly advertised by Vitagraph as "The Great" in his serial reappearance on the screen. The name >>i th< vehicle, both celluloid and wheeled, is "The Scarlet Runner." Edith Storey accompanies him. The serial is from one of the \\ illiam sons' auto stories. its but merely in the interest of news telling, we are chronicling the fan that Vitagraph has a b s 0 r b e d the V. L. S. E. exchange system, leaving Sclig and Essanay to join Kleine and Edison in inaugurating the K. E. S. E. Just another shift in the producing kaleidoscope. WEDDING bells rang in the celluloid circles of East and West coasts during August. Dorothy Kelly and Nance O'Neil were the brides of the East. Miss Kelly became the wife of Herbert Havenor, a New York business man, and Miss O'Neil was wedded to Alfred Hickman, who has played opposite her both on the stage and in the films. They are now with Metro. A T Santa Barbara occurried the nuptials of American and Alan Forrest, champion juvenile of the same company. This romance dates back to early Universal days when Miss Little and Mr. Forrest were playing opposite each other in Laemmle thrillers. Mr. Forrest is Mary Miles Minter's leading man at present. IF conflicting reports from the west are correctly untangled, Tyrone Power is now somewhere in Central America playing_ the lead in a sort of roving scenario which is in the directorial hands of John Ince, one of the famous Ince trio of brothers. ONE of the original film star partnerships has been dissolved in the departure of Robert Leonard from Universal to join the