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102 Screen
cho Billy" Essanay films that she gained her first honors as a screen star. West has risen from the very bottom, having begun his motion-picture career as an humble property man at the Ince Studios. This led to his acting as an assistant camera man, from which post he advanced to be head camera man, and then assistant director. Direction gave him his big opportunity, and much of the success of "Civilization" is rumored to be due to some of the bigger scenes which he supervised for Mr. Ince.
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One Paralta item leads to another, and perhaps this is the one which should have come first. Paralta pictures are not, after all, to be released via Triangle exchanges. A recent decision to separate was reached by both the Paralta and Triangle executives, and with the retirement of Mr. S. A. Lynch from the presidency of Triangle the Paralta contract became "a scrap of paper." However, to the film fans it makes very little difference by what route the Paralta pictures reach them, just so long as they eventually get on the screen.
The impression has spread among film fans that Vitagraph's serial "The Fighting Trail," the fiction version of which is appearing in Picture-Play Magazine, is to be in thirty episodes instead of fifteen, as originally announced. This impression was probably due to the fact that certain trade journals carried a story to that effect, which was generally copied by photoplay editors of newspapers all over the country. Instead of continuing "The Fighting Trail" for an extra fifteen episodes, Vitagraph will follow it immediately with a new serial of just as stirring and entertaining a nature, which will bear the title, "Vengeance and the Woman."
Gossip
Harry Beaumont, well known as an Essanay player, and more recently as the director of an Essanay company, has joined the Selig Polyscope Company as a director, and is now busily directing a film version of "Brown of Harvard," many scenes for which were actually taken at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beaumont began his motion-picture career with the Edison Company, and upon coming to Chicago with Essanay directed Henry Walthall in "The Truant Soul," and Bryant Washburn in the "Skinner Series," two of which Air. Beaumont wrote himself.
When the nights begin to get cold and raw, when you shiver as you hurry along toward your favorite motion.picture theater, it may comfort you to know that your old friend, "Fatty" Arbuckle, who has been making his Paramount comedies in Xew York, ducked the cold by journeying out once more to his old stamping ground in Los Angeles, and the Arbuckle laugh makers are proceeding merrily on amid the sunshine of California. He admits it was hard to tear himself away from the bright lights of Broadway, but also was possessed of a decided distaste for fur-lined B. V. D.'s, so fooled the weather man by accepting Horace Greeley's advice and "going West."
Harold Lockwood and the MetroYorke Company, on the other hand, abandoned the warmth of California for a new home at 645 West Fortythird Street, Xew York, where future Lockwood-Metro productions will be staged. Accompanying Lockwood on his eastward trip were Fred J. Balshofer, president of the Yorke Company ; Wiley Gibson, the business manager; Richard A'. Spencer, scenario writer; Lester Cuneo, the "heavy" of the company; William Clifford, the