Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

OCT 29 1915 ^ ©CI.B342212 vrrccai3j:o...n, m j , i.r^ WEEKLY 'Devoted to Picture Plays, their Actors <J> Authors'! Vol. II. No. 4 October 30, 1915 Price, 5 Cents John Emerson in Pictures By Bennie Zeidman repeat the much-abused phrase "that motion pictures are still in leir infancy'' would apply well to the jbject we are about to discuss. (It seems that each day marks somefing new in film circles, and it appears though it was only yesterday when lople laughed at the idea of motion btures ever amounting to anything jrth while. These people were eviintly all wrong, for the film business nday ranks among the highest of pres!t-day profit-paying industries. The most recent announcement of »te was the acquisition of prominent caking stage stars to 'most every filmoducing company for the express pur•se of starring them in featured joto dramas. Of all the selected legitaate stage stars, perhaps the most ominent for the results accomplished our subject for to-day. John Emerson, by means of the telenone, invited the writer, after his entity had been revealed, to come up his hotel and have a "little chat," as r. Emerson termed it. That night at seven found said writer a choice Los Angeles hotel lobby, an!:ipating with anxiety the prearranged eeting. As John Emerson descended »e hotel marble staircase, I presented yself, and profuse greetings followed. My first impression of the well-known :>hn Emerson, who, at the age of jiirty-three, was general stage director >r the Charles Frohman theatrical 5rces, was a wiry, keen-eyed, smoothlaven, slim-built young man of darkh complexion, with the spring of ealth in his strides. We soon drifted to the subject of John Emerson is seen at his best in emotional parts, and the effects he obtains in close scenes are especially good. 4