Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1918)

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One time they got me up on a rope over a canyon and somebody let go the rope, dropping me about the distance you fall out of a balloon. I've been hit by a peevish lion and chased by temperamental dog actors. "In one of the Mack Sennett comedies the villain was to hit me with a trick statuette. He grabbed up one made out of solid marble by mistake. I just remember everything turning black; then I got mad and soaked the guy. He let out a yell and I found it was my wife. I had been in bed a week. "Another time, I was acting in Mack Sennett's comedy, 'The Battle Royal.' There was a scene where a fellow was to swat me with a club padded on the end with a boxing glove. The glove slipped off and hit me on the top of the head so hard that I went down through the floor." Despite his mishaps, Ben is still in the ring. To see Ben at his best you should see him in the intervals between making the pictures. He never turns off the jazz. If he isn't imitating D. W. Griffith or Cecil De Mille, he is pretending to be a little innocent heroine lost in a shivering snow storm on the sidewalks of New York. One of Ben's favorite diversions is to get down on his hands and knees and imitate Teddy, the Mack Sennett dog. The only one who never laughs is Teddy. Teddy gives him one look of terrible disdain and walks solemnly away. Between pictures, Ben is to be found at Katy's. Katy runs a little cafe on the corner near the studio. Ben takes a seat at one of Katy's best tables and spends the day there. He quarrels with Katy over the best way to mix batter. He plays horse with Mrs. Terrence O'Grady's children while the mother is in passing the time of day with Katy and maybe borrowing the shade of a slice of butter. When the ice man comes around, Ben gives his imitation of a pig stuck under a fence and the ice man goes out cackling. Ben has a little jest with the postman when he comes around and a merry quip for the edification of the egg man. Somewhere around eleven o'clock the barber from up the street drops in and he and Ben talk War. Ben has a hoarse croaking voice and his terrible sarcasms about the Kaiser would carry to Berlin on a clear day. PI id PI ays an (Concluded from page 84) ayers DO you remember "The Cheat"? This Japanese-American story by Hector Turnbull, in which Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa starred, marks the first invasion of the field of motion pictures by the stage. Done over by Willard Mack, and given the title, "I Owe You," it has just been produced at the Thirty-Ninth Street theatre in New York City, with Mary Nash and Jose Ruben in the parts that Miss Ward and Mr. Hayakawa played. An interesting note is that after the first performance out of town, the Government requested the producers to change the nationality of the leading man — so he quit being a Jap and became an East Indian. M After that, every film company in the world is welcome to know just where the town is located. The entire community take part in "Wilson or the Kaiser?" SYDNEY Cohen, manager for Kitty Gordon, received a commission in the cinematograph department* of the army. He was to report for duty Saturday morning, October fifth, at the School of Photography, Columbia University. Cohen — accompanied by Fred Ward, former vaudeville star and now a motion picture manager — left Los Angeles in good time. When the train stopped at Kansas City, Cohen and Ward interrupted a poker game with themselves to remark that they were hungry, so Cohen, clad only in trousers, short-sleeved outing shirt and He will play opposite Virginia Pear slippers, volunteered to get off and com ARC McDERMOTT has joined Fox. son in her new picture, "Buchanan's Wife." McDermott, an old Edison favorite, was with Vitagraph for years. METRO will build and present a church to a small town in Pennsylvania in appreciation of the patriotic co-operation of the mayor and citizens in the filming of the new Metro production, "Wilson or the Kaiser?" The name of the town, which is said to be ideally located, is being kept secret until the last of the seven reels of the picture is completed. mandeer some sandwiches. He miscalculated his distance, however — for when he came running back to board the train, he found that it had left without him. He hired a machine and tried in vain to catch up with it at the next station. In his scanty attire, he was denied admittance to the Chicago train next morning, until finally, convincing a porter of his sanity, he borrowed a coat from him for the rest of the trip. Cohen reached New York all right, but he was one day late in reporting for duty. Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAOAZINE js guaranteed.