Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY 25 tanet Van Nest, and sat up straight in Surprise. j "What are you doing here?" he asked lis former fiancee. "You know that I jannot see you, because of my promise —much as I'd like to and want to." "Your promise, John," she answered, with a smile, "was that you would not come to see me. You have not. I have come to see you." "No," he replied doubtfully, "that is .going on technicalities, and cannot be done in honor, considering the promise. There is no way out." Janet pondered and then echoed : "I guess you are right. There is no way out." The telephone bell rang and cut off their conversation abruptly. Stoddard answered, and recognized the voice of Courtland Van Nest at the other end of the wire. "What do you mean to do with my daughter?" asked the capitalist. "I have just received a note from her saying that she has gone to you — and gone for good." Stoddard did not reply. He did not know what to say. But the other continued, in a resigning tone : "If your marriage without my consent to her means that I must lose Janet, you can have my consent and marry her to-day — provided you bring her back to me — and come yourself. I have come to understand a real man." John Stoddard hung up the receiver and turned to Janet. "What was it?" she inquired anxiously. "It was the way out, dear," he answered. THE State of Washington has devel*■ oped over two thousand feet of film, showing the agricultural and horticultural possibilities of the State, which it intends to exploit in the moving-picture houses of the country. This is the highest form of educational advertising. Fania Marinoff was furnished with an exceptionally good role for her debut as a Mutual star, in the "West Indian Princess," a part to which she is singularly fitted. The Gaumont company will release their entire output in the future through the Mutual Film Corporation, No. 71 West Twenty-third Street, New York. This includes all their big features. Congratulations keep coming to Samuel Goldfish, vice president of the Lasky company, for the able manner in which he fought and won the censorship case in Pennsylvania by showing the entire picture play, "The Secret Orchard," before Judge John Patterson in a darkened courtroom. After the jurist wiped his eyes he said : "I can see no reason why the film should not be shown, but can see many reasons why it should, for it teaches a moral lesson." Pauline Frederick appears in the title role of "Bella Donna," which is the most pretentious production yet attempted by the Famous Players. Morris Gest says the days of the fake in picture plays has come to its rope's end. He even asserts that sham scenery must go, that everything that comes before the camera must be real. Wonder if Morris don't mean reel? The Triangle "opening" at the Knick Film Flams By Dean Bowman erbocker, New York, "The Lamb," reminds one very much of Douglas Fairbanks' portrayal of Bertie in "The New Henrietta." Billy B. Van's able aid in fun making, at the Lake Sunapee studio of the Equity people, is a goat, and of all funny scenes on the screen the one that gets the buttons off of a sleeping tramp's coat. Guess what the buttons are made of? Geraldine Farrar says that the two most surprising things that impressed her while in California motioning for the movies was the total absence of fogs and the interesting coworkers she met in the studios, people with ideas, brainy and big-hearted. New Hampshire is going into sheep raising on a gigantic scale. The State has just awakened to the fact that there are only 38,000 sheep within its confines, while Vermont has 105,000, and Maine 165,000, so the Granite State will call the movies to its aid, and will increase the flocks by showing in the grange halls films depicting how easy, sure, and safe it is to raise sheep. The DuPpnts, of powder fame, are said to be backing Thomas Dixon in the big military spectacle he is filming. Mr. Dixon, while in the North recently, confided to the dean that the picture play was to deal with the country's unpreparedness, which may explain the backing. While Billie Burke was filling her engagement at Los Angeles, posing in the picture plays, she occupied a bungalow on Catalina Island, some fifteen miles off the coast, and where they have the famed glass-bottom boats, as the water is so clear, and it is a bet that if Miss Billie did any boating the little fishes hovered near her dory. The Lasky ranch, near Hollywood, California, has ten thousand acres, and on it was "staged" the great feature play, "The Explorer." To get the tropical scent in the play nearly two thousand negroes, wearing little else but a smile, were used in a few of the scenes. Genevieve Hamper, who in private life is Mrs. Robert B. Mantell, bids good-by to the theatrical stage, and her friends say. she will now do the Fox trot in the movies. Nat C. Goodwin has at last found out there is more money in the pictures than there is in touring, so he has canceled all arrangements to go on the road this season. The Bosworth Paramount production, "Nearly a Lady," is said to be the very best film in which Elsie Janis has yet appeared. The famous comedienne is in a class by herself. It is unusual, indeed, for the director, or the camera man, to ever laugh at a comedy seen, but at the Lake Sunapee studio, Billy B. Van is so excruciatingly funny in "The Janitor's Birthday," where he rolls downstairs, aided by the butt end of a goat, that the situation had to be retaken three times, owing to the fits of laughter indulged in by the operators. The graceful Irene Hunt is an expert dancer, which explains in a measure the grace with which she poses in the Reliance features.