Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Plays and Players 103 SPORTING note: A large numbei oi clubs have been organized in England and the United States in honor of a Universal star. Oh, yes; his name is Eddie Polo. MARIE DRESS! E R is fixing up "Tillic," oi the stage play, "Tillie's Nightmare," for a return to the screen under World auspices. "Tillie" became famous under Keystone with Chaplin and Normand in "Tillie's Punctured Romance,"but fizzled when Lubined as "Tillie's tomato Surprise." THERE are limits even to the credulity of one who believes press agent stories. For instance, the Keystone Oliver-mauler brazenly announces that Boss Senuell recently ordered the recostuming of the Keystone bathing girls to conform to an edict of a beach jurist who objected to abbreviated sand gowns. Why they wouldn't bo Keystone bathing girls w ithou t the sts (meaning abbreviated suits). HELEX HOLMES and her Signal company are filming nes tor an entire set of serial episodes at Areata. Cal., in the big tree section of that state. In order that the public would not surfer for lack of incidental "news," Publicity Chef Beebe was ordered by Director McGowan to accompany the northbound caravan. POXCE DE LEON note : In "Witchcraft," the Columbia University prize photoplay, Fannie Ward portrays a child twelve years old. And strangely enough it has not inspired the announcement that Miss Ward would not return to Xew York until after the infantile paralysis epidemic is suppressed. EUGEXE PALLETTE, long with Fine Arts, is to serialize with Ruth Roland for Balboa. He has heavied in many RelianceMajestic and Fine Arts reels. DIRECTORIAL salary records were smashed recently when W. Christy Cabanne signed a contract with Metro which calls for $900 each and every Saturday night for 52 weeks. Cabanne began as an extra for Biograph about eight years ago, became Griffith's assistant director and then graduated as a full fledged director under the Griffith supervision. He is to direct a serial for Metro in which the Rushman-Bayne duo will predominate. M\U\ I II I ER is no longer with Universal and at this wilting she is trying to determine which of several contracts she will sign. King Baggot retired from the Laemmle organization at about tin same time. SCENES from Metro's latest Name O'Neil photoplay, "l In lion Woman," were taken at a steel plant at South Bethlehem, Pa . which is as u should be. We were almost induced to add that "The Iron Woman" must he well cast PROMINENT players at Santa Barbara, Cal., recently took part in a more or less impromptu presentation oi Barrie's "Pantaloon," at an exclusive society function. Among them were Richard Bennett, his wile .Adrian Morrison, lames Kirkwood and Jack Barrymore, who was vacationing among the Santa Barbara millionaires. * Who's boss of this family snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. tee can't find MARGARET SHELBY is playing in an American production with her little sister Mary Miles M inter. And, by the way, we can state with the greatest degree of authenticity that the correct age of Miss Minter is fourteen years and six months. We have it in her own spencerian that she was born at Shreveport, La., at 10:10 P. M. o'clock on April 1, 1902. Margaret is two years older. CAMILLE ASTOR, one of the Lasky pioneers, has changed bosses and is to appear next in "The Garden of Allah" which is being done by Selig on a lavish scale. RECURRIXG to the subject of ages, we considerately refrain from commenting on the unreliable memory of the well known film player whose self -composed biography contains the rather conflicting facts that he was born in 1888 and that he made an excellent record in the army during the SpanishAmerican war. OLLIE KIRKBY, one of Kalem's best known leads, is now leading in the Jacksonville studio of that company, having been transferred from Los Angeles. C AUBREY SMITH returned from London • where he visited William J. Locke, the author of "Jaffery" in the picturization of which Mr. Smith played the name part. They have been friends for years. Mr. Smith is now being filmed in "The Witching Hour." anyhow?" is the title of this Alan Forrest, nee Little, but out uho said it.