Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

Screen Gossip \17ELL, the motion-picture business is certainly going better to-day than it ever has in its existence, and all indications point to success for all of the manufacturers that are capable of turning out good films. Why shouldn't there be? The field is certainly big enough to hold them all. May Allison and Harold Lockwood are married. So are Marshal Neilan and Gertrude Bambrick. The same goes for Ford Sterling and Teddy Sampson, while Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Dufree are hitched. Mary Alden and Wray Physioc are one and one. More next week. Grace Davison, the exceptionally pretty little leading lady, has bought herself a new roadster, and prizes it very highly. Her director — A. R. — donated toward the car. Every little bit helps, says Grace, who is one of the very few leading ladies who is in the motion-picture business more for the fun she has than anything else. The director's donation toward the purchase price of the car was learned from reliable sources to be one penny in American copper. Father and Grace were the only other contributors. Henry Fischbeck, one of the really wonderful camera men, has just finished some double and triple exposure stuff that is going to show a few of the other camera boys some mighty good photography. The sinking of New York City is one of the few feats accomplished by Fischbeck. The Biograph reissues continue to show up many of the present-day films, and the "Birth of a Nation" continues to show to packed houses, as do the Triangle productions. Merit will win every time. Anna Little is reported by Mutual's press agent to be having the time of her young life, playing in the Buck Parvin series, with Art Accord. Anna is one of the little ladies who can make herself welcome anywhere, and also be at home at the same time. Anna Luther hasn't missed a thing since she has been with the Keystone Company at Edendale. She says that she is ready at any time to make an affidavit that she has stopped every pie By Al Ray and egg that has come her way — with her face. Anna thinks that she is a crack shot, because she never misses being hit. Speaking of Keystone, Chester (Seven Languages) Conklin, one of our few eloquent speakers, is going on a diet. He swears that he. is getting so fat that he notices that his roadster can't go so fast now as it used to. He is going to train down, and try to help his car out. It is just the opposite with Charlie Ray, at Inceville. He has been playing tennis, and incidently winning several more of those trophies that Richard Stanton so rudely called "eyecups." Cbarlie has taken off weight at a great .rate, and when he was out driving the other day, some person thought that the horse was running away, seeing no driver in the carriage. If they had only looked behind the whip, they would have seen him holding onto the reins. Beastly silly of him, says Charles. We learn from reliable authority that the weight question is not worrying Roscoe Arbuckle in the least, and we also learn from the same source that he will not follow Conklin's footsteps, and go on a diet. Theda Bara is working again on some more of those gossip-arousing pictures that she is now famous the country over for, and she will no doubt receive many scathing letters from the Women's Moral and Social League. Theda is more popular at the present time than she has ever been, which accounts for the work that is being piled upon her. Wil Rex has been given a vacation, and has left the city with his better half for a short vacation. Mr. Smaltz and Mr. Piffle are proving just as unpopular with each other as did Smaltz and Fish, and that accounts for the many laughs they are getting in every one of their pictures. Smaltz is a firm believer that friends can't put over good rough stuff together in a slapstick comedy. The undertakers and florists have already made the abovementioned comedians reduced rates, and the insurance companies increased their rates. Selig's Paste Pot and Shears intimat< that Kathlyn Williams could reap handsome income as an interior decor; tor. Something tells me, however, th; as a decorator Kathlyn is a fine actres Mary Roberts Rineheart, the famoi authoress, who has been writing seeral of the Selig Red Seal photo pla? that are being released on the V. L. E., is very much pleased with the wz these pictures were directed, and was r< cently the guest of the V. L. S. E. mai ager at Pittsburgh. She expressed he self as being more than pleased wil the way her stories were presented c the screen. Fine notice for the dire' tor. clip this out, and paste it in yoi scrapbook. Harry la Pearl, the cyclonic comedia who has made a name for himself t his work alone, has just finished woi on "Still Waters," a Famous Playe release, with Marguerite Clark. Ey< since he has been under the directic of Mr. Smaltz, Harry has been in gre; demand, and was loaned to the Famoi Players by Smaltz. but is now back wil his director, working his head off fi him. "Neal of the Navy !" Good nigh On a whole, this series is proving 01 of the worst serials that has ever bee seen, and for Pathe to put out a seri< of such poor class, we can't unde stand. We would advise the Pathe i stick to Pauline and Elaine for a whil Evidently David Horsley does n< think much of Crane Wilbur as a bo: office attraction, from the way he is a( vertising him. His latest ad reads ; follows : "David Horsley presen George Ovey, the Bostock Animals, ar Crane Wilbur." Well, animals are e; pensive things, and should be rated a cordingly, I suppose. I would tell Da^ how he should word his ad, but I dor want to hurt his feelings, and, beside Ovey needs the money. The interest is increasing weekly the Triangle, as is the value of the stock, and it is a certainty that this coi cern is going to prove a huge success i every way. They have already close some deals that have put them on ea^ street, and with Mack, Dave, and To at the helm, the race is already won.