Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

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Screen Gossip 99 The greatest collection of stars ever assembled in one production, either on screen or stage, is that which forms the cast of the picture-play recently staged to stimulate interest in the Second Liberty Loan. In this film Mary Pickford turns bandit and at the point of Bill Harfs own six-shooter relieves Doug Fairbanks, Hart, Julian Eltinge, and Theodore Roberts of most of their worldly goods. Other cl,stars" of civic life who appear in the picture are President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo, and Thomas Edison. Dozens of prominent stage and screen favorites are represented. emotions in naming a play. The odds, too, are on the side of the short, pithy title, made up of one or two simple words, easy to remember, hence our decision to economize in words. Then, too, the producer has to think of billboards and electric signs, so there is a double reason for the short, snappy title." Out at the Empire All-Star Studios, in Glendale, Long Island, where Director Dell Henderson is converting former Charles Frohman stage successes into attractive film offerings, with such a sterling little star as Ann Murdock in the leading roles, "Please Help Emily," one of the most enjoyable of all the Charles Frohman attractions, is now in the making. Many of the former Frohman players have reassembled under the studio lights, and included in