Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY 21 a4 [ am coming back to you — if you still j»vant me." ; Lord Lumley grasped his wife by the Lyrist. He pointed toward the doorway through which she had just appeared, . and demanded in a stern, half angry (voice : "What were you doing there?" Lady Lumley could not look him in the face when she answered : 'Oh, please — please don't ask me. I : 1 u m did nothing but come here with him. I was a fool, and I'm going back with you if you'll only take me. Will you — dear — please?" Lord Lumley did not answer, but. his feelings were told in his actions, and, bending over her and drawing her close in his embrace, he kissed her. At that moment, the novelist entered, and when he saw that his aims had been defeated by the woman he had stolen herself, fell limply into a chair. "You scoundrel," thundered Lord :e si Lumley, losing control over himself suddenly, "you tried to steal my wife as you did that of the poor Italian. You spoiled his life, and you would do the same to me. But you failed for once. What has become of Maria, the sweet wife of Giuseppe? She was his only interest in life. He has another now. That is to settle with you, and you deserve all he can give you." ■D'Orelli laughed a scornful, half-mad laugh, as he sat back in the cushioned chair and ran his hands through his disheveled hair. "Maria? Oh, Maria, the poor, foolish girl. She is dead. She could not stand the climate here, and was not healthy when I took her away, and she died soon after she arrived here. Giuseppe — what do I care for him?" There was a crash in the rear of the room which D'Orelli was facing. The novelist's countenance grew ashen, and Lord Lumley and his wife turned to see the cause. There, just inside the room, with the broken glass of the balcony window behind him, Giuseppe stood. His outstretched hand held a revolver, and it was pointed at the man he had sought for when he left his native land. The old fire of revenge burned brighter than ever in his eyes, and they gleamed forth hatred that made D'Orelli cower in fear. "Giuseppe — what you care for him?" repeated the Italian sneeringly. "You care nothing for him. You kill his wife. You better kill him instead. And now The broken words of Giuseppe were broken off by a sudden report from the weapon he held in his hand, and when Lord Lumley and the woman who had so nearly fallen a victim of the treacherous man, D'Orelli lay stretched out upon the floor, with a bullet wound in his heart, and Giuseppe He had left — his mission complete — to Italy and a new life. DASTOR RUSSELL, of Brooklyn ' Tabernacle, and as president of the International Bible Students' Association, is the largest distributor of Scripture tracts in the world, and the pastor is now perfecting plans to illustrate his sermons with picture plays. He has already filmed a four-part photo drama of the creation. Jack Ros§, "'Bald Jack," who was the star witness in the gangster trials in Xew York, and then went to Medford, Boston, to conduct a picture-play studio, showing scenes in the underworld, has given up the position and returned to Gotham to fill engagements in a lecture lyceum. Donald Brian says when he went to Los Angeles, to appear for Lasky in picture plays, among the first to greet him was a millionaire movie magnate, who, a few years ago, was one of the men behind the line in a "Floradora" chorus. The movies have wrought great changes in stageland. Owen Moore, who made his debut in movieland six years ago with the Biograph company, will be the leading juvenile in "Jordan Is a Hard Road." Film Flams By Dean Bowman He is often played opposite to his filmstar wife, Mary Pickford. Nearly five thoussand people visit the Universal City studios, at Los Angeles, each week. A small admission fee is charged which goes into a fund for the movie workers who are sick or disabled. Ince is to have the thriller in a spectacular feature showing a wreck scene, and to banish all fakiness, he has bought outright two engines and six cars. Two trains will collide, head-on, to make the reel real. Glenn Martin, the aviator, has made several flights for "The Scarlet Band." Director O'Brien, of the Fine Art Films, was once a pal of Martin's, and easily succeeded in inducing the aeroplane aviator to fly before his camera. Eddie Foy, with the seven famous Foylets, is featured in recent releases of the Keystone studios for the Triangle. Frank Griffin was the general director for most of the Foy films. Henry King is putting on a play written for Balboa, by Bess Meredyth. In it, King plays the part of a boob who goes to the city and gets tangled up in its ways. It is fun through and through. James Kirkwood, besides being the leading man in "The Heart of Jennifer," directed the feature. It is said to be one of the best Paramount plays, and is a production of the Famous Players. Tully Marshall was featured in "The Sable Lorcha," and to give the right Oriental atmosphere one hundred Chinamen were brought to Los Angeles by the Griffith studio to appear in the street scenes. Colonel Selig, of the Polyscope company, claims that "The Spoilers" is the most popular picture play ever shown in the world, and is "revived" now nearly as often as is "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Some time before the demise of John Hay, who died when secretary of state, he wrote a story dealing with the occult of spiritualism called "The Blood Seedling," and it is now to be filmed, and the virile tale, which discloses a crime in a most novel way, will be shown in the movies. For one of the realistic scenes in "The Regeneration," Director Walsh secured