Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

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Screen Gossip 103 versatile character man, recalled by every film fan, and Antonio Gaudio, the camera man who has ''shot" most of the Lockwood productions. You will soon be seeing several of your old favorites in new surround ings. For instance, it is going to take more than a minute or two to grow accustomed to seeing Bryant Washburn in anything but Essanay releases. Yet Washburn i s now a Pathe star. Bessie Love is another Patheite that we have grown so used to seeing in Triangle releases that it will require a gentle jog to our memories to fix her as a twinkler in Pathe's newest galaxy of stars. Still another to join the Pathe forces is Frank Keenan, but in his case it will not be so hard to place him, as he has been flitting from one producing unit to another for several months. Now, however, it is understood, he will "stay put" for some little time, as Pathe is lining up an all-star aggregation of talent. As you probably noticed, they began along about the middle of October to introduce the best Pathe features as "Pathe Plays," instead of "Gold Rooster" features. Each of the stars is to appear in a whole series of big subjects specially selected for the player's exploitation. These subjects will all be five or six reels in length, and are in It will take her admirers some time to grow accustomed to the fact that Bessie Love is now a Pathe star. tended to be the equal of any feature attractions on the market. As the present stars of "Pathe Plays" may be mentioned Irene Castle, Bryant Washburn, Fannie Ward, Frank Keenan, and Pearl White, while rumor has it that two other stars of world-wide reputation — among the greatest of the great — are soon to begin work in the Pathe Studios. Dolores Cass i n e 1 1 i , who many of "the old guard" of picture fans will recall as a form e r Essanay star, back in the days when Francis X . Bushman and Broncho Billy were making the Essanay trade-mark famous the world over, has left the Cooper-Hewitts for the Mazdas of the speaking stage. Miss Cassinelli was induced to abandon motion pictures by an offer from Madison Corey to sing the prima-donna role in his new musical comedy, "The Grass Widow," which was written by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. The Thomas H. Ince Studios in California are the scene of more activity than a Ringling Brothers circus lot at eight-twenty-seven a. m., only Thomas is operating and supervising some five stages instead of an humble three-ring affair . The William S. Hart Company, which is now domiciled in what used to be the Mabel Normand Studio, in California, is busy with a Western