Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1916)

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120 Screen Gossip will be seen in action on the screen as a result of the latest Selig enterprise, one might mention Jess Willard. Frank Gotch, Joe Steelier, Pack} Me1 Farland, Mike Gibbons, Freddie Welsh, Zybszko, Hussana, Cutler, Doctor Roller, and others. The honest (?) press agent of the famous screen serial, ''The Mysteries the hero and brim was to appear Miss Sothern back to earth again. He went through the "business"' suggested by the director, but Myra refused to return to consciousness. Itwas then discovered that she had been actually hypnotized by the whirling apparatus in front of her, and medical assistance had to be called in before she was restored to her normal self. Jean Sothern of "Mystei Myra" f; of Myra/5 made by the Whartons at Ithaca, New* York, and released through the International Film Service, alleges that pretty Jean Sothern. the star of the "Myra" production, underwent a most unusual experience during one of the episodes of the story. As Myra, 'Miss Sothern seated herself before a large hypnotizing machine, which was set in motion. After a proper length of time, Howard Estabrook, as Speaking of J. Stuart Blackton calls to mind the fact that since the last issue of Picture-Play Magazine appeared on the news stands, the Yitagraph Company of America has figured prominently in the newspaper dispatches and financial chronicles on account of its reorganization as a twenty-hvemillion-dollar corporation. J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, two of the original founders of the Yitagraph Company, still remain as the heads of the business, though ''Pop" Rock, who also was a pioneer in the organization of the original Yitagraph concern, is dropping out. Nevertheless, Pop still retains a big slice of stock in the new organization. The increase 3. in capitalization is said to be due to a desire on the part of Messrs. Blackton and Smith to make bigger, better pictures than ever before. Among the featured stars will be Edna May, E. H. Sothern. Anita Stewart, Dorothy Kelly, Earle Williams, Edith Storey. Frank Daniels, Charles Richman. Lillian Walker, Joseph Kilgour, and Harry Morey. A series — "rightf rom-the-hearr' letters to Yiolet Mersereau from loving voung men — begins in the next issue.