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:#E COGHLAN (LUBIN)
BOBBY CONNELLY (VITAGRAPH)
GRACE DARMOND (SELIG)
WEBSTER CAMPBELL (KAY-BEE)
MAE MARSH (MUTUAL)
DONALD CRISP (MUTUAL)
1915
MARIE DRESSLER IN "TILLIE'S TOMATO SURPRISE" (LUBIN)
IWINA ROBBINS, FRANK DANIELS, ANNA LAUGHLIN IN "CROOKY SCRUGGS" (VITAGRAPH
The five-reel or more feature had a firm
grip on the industry as well as the public. Vitagraph, Essanay, Lubin, Kalem, Selig, Universal, Pathe, Mutual, were still releasing two-reelers, but the handwriting was on the wall. It was the beginning of the end of two-reel features. To buck competition, Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig and Essanay incorporated for releasing purposes and were known as "V. L. S. E." They released features with their own important stars and also joined the parade in signing stage stars. Vitagraph signed Frank Daniels, Edison contracted Mrs. Fiske, Lubin got Marie Dressier and Rose Coghlan, Selig snared Tyrone Power, and Essanay captured Viola Allen. Kalem was about ready to quit. Their biggest box office star was still Alice Joyce. True Boardman's "Stingaree" series and Helen Holmes' railroad series, "Hazards of Helen," were popular. Later, Helen Gibson replaced Miss Holmes who with J. H. McGowan formed the Signal Film Corporation. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne were Essanay's fair-haired team. Vitagraph's outstanding favorites were Norma Talmadge, Anita Stewart, Earle Williams, Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno. World War I had been in progress a year before the motion picture industry took much cognizance of it. Vitagraph started the parade of war pictures with their pretentiously produced "The Battle Cry of Peace," a filmization of Hudson Maxim's book "Defenseless America." Box office favorites were commanding larger salaries. Mary Pickford demanded and received $104,000 a year when she re-signed with Famous Players. Charles
Chaplin signed with Essanay for a $1,250 weekly FRANKIE MANN, ALLEN QUINN, ROSE coghlan, GEORGE salary just fourteen months' after making his first SOULE SPENCER, CHARLES Brandt, Ferdinand tidmarsh ci *V * ( <fci*n ,„, ,„eol IN "THE SPORTING DUCHESS" (LUBIN)
film at Keystone tor $150 per week.
C*RT BOSWORTH IN A ODESSEY OF THE Jl.TH" (BOSWORTH)
MRS. FISKE IN "VANITY FAIR" WITH
RICHARD TUCKER (extreme right)
(EDISON)
CAMILLE D'ARCY, RICHARD TRAVERS, THOMAS COMMERFORD,
SYDNEY AINSWORTH, VIOLA ALLEN IN "THE WHITE SISTER"
(ESSANAY)
L .IAN LEIGHTON (SELIG)
GLADDEN JAMES (VITAGRAPH)
FLORENCE LAWRENCE (UNIVERSAL)
S. RANKIN DREW HELEN BADGELY
(VITAGRAPH) (THANHOUSER)
PLAYERS OF THE PERIOD
TYRONE POWER, SR. (SELIG)
JUSTINA HUFF (LUBIN)
GEORGE FIELD (MUTUAL)
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