Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

116 Screen was seated on the running board, and the lurch threw him out on his back. Apparently his injuries were slight, and he soon recovered enough to return to his duties. A few weeks afterward he decided to devote his entire attention to magazine work, and later joined the editorial staff of Picture-Play. A sudden attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, believed to have had its origin in his previous injuries, was the cause of his death. Air. Rex had many friends in the film industry, including many of the most prominent figures, and messages of sympathy were received from all parts of the country by his parents, Mr. and Airs. Peter A. Johansen, and his sister, Miss Hessie Johansen. As Dixon's "The Fall of a Nation" is to succeed the other great spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation," so J. Stuart Blackton, of the Vitagraph Company, is to follow up his "Battle Cry of Peace" Gossip preachment with another tremendous offering to be known as "The Battle Cry of War." This latter production is already well under way, and is expected in every way to outdo the earlier offering as "Preparedness" propaganda. Somewhere about July 1st the public will have its first glimpse of the wonderful million-dollar Annette Kellermann picture which was made for William Fox at Jamaica, under the direction of Herbert Brenon. Director Brenon is back in New York wTith more than two hundred and twenty thousand feet of film negative and hard at work cutting this enormous production down to a presentable length, for, of course, nobody wants to sit through a picture show that lasts thirty-three hundred hours, which is the time it would take to project the entire two hundred and twenty thousand feet of film. Y\ nen completed, it is expected a show of ten to twelve reels will be offered, and the A scene from Thomas Dixon's "The Fall of a Nation.'1