Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1916 - Feb 1917)

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290 . Screen Gossip out to tramp to California. Some of the scenes are being taken in one of the richest gold mines in the world, and Miss Martin, Mr. Chase, and the director are there now, hard at work. guard it. In the picture he is seen standing directly behind Billie Burke. Gee, we'd never have imagined that so pretty a girl as Billie needed watching that way, would you? Frederick Warde, who scored heavily as Silas Marner in. the Thanhouser production of that name released as a Mutual Masterpicture, has just completed another wonderful characterization in "The Vicar of Wakefield," which is also being done at the Thanhouser studios in New Rochelle, but will be released on the Path program, as was his spl did version of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Other Thanhouser-Pathe forthcomingofferings are Florence La Badie in "The Pillory" and Gladys Hulette in "Prudence, the Pirate." so With Griffith's newest spectacle, "Intolerance," proclaimed an unoubted success and well on e road to breaking the biggest records created by "The Birth of a Nation," the country now awaits the Univ er sal spectacle, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," which is said to have been in the making for two | whole years. A big I Broadway premier J will be given the I spectacle, and then I it will go on tour, playing only at the largest theaters as in the case of "Intolerance," "The Birth of a Nation," "Civil i z a t ion," Frederick W arde, of Thanhouser. The press agent of Billie Burke and "Gloria's Romance" not long ago wrote a story for a lot of newspapers in which the luncheon scene on the lawn, shown in chapter eighteen of the George Kleine film novel, was described. The P. A. raved at length over the wonderful silver tea service that was used in the scene, the said tea service being in reality the property of a New York millionaire, on whose grounds the company was at work at the time. He added, however, that the director of the Billie Burke film didn't want to be responsible for the valuable tea service, and would only consent to its being used on condition that one of the millionaire's own butlers stay on the job to "The Dumb Girl of Portici," and others among tremendously big ones. The Universal offering was made, of course, from the famous Jules Verne story, and much of it was actually filmed beneath the sea by means of an ingenious apparatus that kept the camera and the camera men perfectly dry while permitting them to record what was going on amid the coral grottoes, sea gardens, and ocean bed that lay before them. Marguerite Clark, who, it was feared, would leave the screen for the stage, has signed another contract with Famous Players. George B. O'Brien has. on the other hand, left Famous Players to direct for Metro.