Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

Screen Gossip 293 Tom Ince's big, new spectacle, first christened "He Who Returned," and now showing in some of the larger cities of the country as a whole evening's attraction a la "The Birth of a Nation," under the title "Civilization," is even bigger than was promised, and easily entitles Producer Ince to an extra niche in the Hall of Fame. They'll have to get up early in the morning when they beat "Civilization." Though Mary Pickford is estimated to have something like 4,684,567,420,743,981 >4 devoted admirers, that number is going to be further increased, for the Famous Players organization has sent a representative to Africa to close an arrangement whereby all the productions released by Famous Players will be shown on the Dark Continent. At the showing of the Mary Pickford productions, the popular Alary received even more applause than she does in the States. @ Another band of wanderers to return to the metropolis was the Gaumont and Thanh ouser players who have wintered in Jacksonville, Florida, and are now once again quartered in the Mutual studios at Flushing and New Rochelle. J. P. McGowan, husband and director of pretty Helen Holmes, has assembled a company of regular giants for the "Whispering Smith" picture, in which both Miss Holmes and himself are appearing. Los Angeles is marveling at the aggregation whenever it appears en masse, for, of the seventeen men in the cast, eleven are more than six feet in height and weigh from one hundred and ninety to two hundred and thirty pounds. The giants are J. P. McGowan, F. M. van Norman, Paul Hurst, Tom Lingham, N. Z. Woods, Leo Maloney, C. H. Wischusen, Sam Appel, J. C. Perkins, Ed Roe, and C. V. Wells. Helen Holmes as she will appear in "Whispering Smith."