Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

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Screen production will be sent out as a touring attraction, much after the fashion in which "The Birth of a Nation" was presented. Triangle film fans are delighted over the prospect of seeing their favorite stars in two-reel pictures as well as those of five reels or more. Douglas Fairbanks, who will never be forgotten for his work in 4 'His Picture in the Papers," is one of the first of the Fine Arts players to go into the two-reel productions. John Emerson is the director of the first of the shorter-length plays, and Fairbanks .will be supported by a cast which includes A. D. Sears, Alma Ruben, W. E. Lowery, Eagle Eye, George Hall, and Bessie Love. Another of the two-reel subjects will have as its star Fay Tincher, supported by Max Davidson, Jack Cosgrove, and Edward Dillon. Remember those bloodthirsty beasts of the jungle, known as the Bostock animals, which have been featured in any number of Horsley productions on the Mutual program? Those of you who live in or near New York will have a chance this summer to see the animals in real life, instead of on the screen, for David Horsley has installed them at Coney Island in one of the Luna Park concessions. More than one hundred and thirty animals are included in the collection, and during the summer-amusement-park season they will be used in motion pictures that will be taken before the public, and later released on the Mutual program. Charles Clary, who, on the speaking stage, has supported such stars as Mary Mannering and Airs. Leslie Carter, and who more recently was a Griffith player at the Fine Arts studios, is now enrolled under the Fox banner. He is at work in a picture being made in California, Gossip 117 Arizona, and other sections of the West under the direction of Raoul A. Walsh. Rumor has it that Marin Sais is to be starred in a big new fifteen-episode series immediately upon her comple te* star in a new Kalem serial. tion of "The Social Pirates," the Kalem serial in which she has gained such tremendous popularity. Yes, there's something new under the sun in the way of motion pictures almost every day. The latest is what is known as Paramount Plastiques, and are being produced for release on the Paramount program by Director Ashley Miller, formerly an Edison producer. Mr. Miller's latest novelty bears the same relation to cartoon films that sculpture does to the pen-and-ink drawing, for the action is carved out on a background in high relief, and his figures and effects are said to produce scenes that are both beautiful and fascinating. At last Selig's production of "The Crisis" is completed, and now it only remains to be seen whether or not Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton, W heeler Oak