Reel Life (1916-1917)

NOTES ON COMING MUTUALS A WHOLE tribe of Indians has been engaged to appear in Mar¬ garita Fischer’s fifth feature for Mutual “Little Miss Missionary.” These Indians will encamp in the Ex¬ position grounds at San Diego and will be used in various spectacular scenes, including a thrilling encounter with Mexican cowboys. Miss Fischer is also called upon to enact a number of exciting scenes in this Pollard production. Among them is a thrilling ride which she makes in a widely careening buckboard drawn by Indian ponies while she is sup¬ posedly unconscious. * * * * « GAIL KANE has started workon her third production for Mutual which is being filmed at the American studio. “The Upper Crust,” an adaptation of Charles Sherman’s novel entitled “The Indiscretions of Molly,” has been chosen as the vehicle for Miss Kane. In “The Upper Crust,” Miss Kane will be seen as Molly O’Toole, a sweet village girl who on account of reverses goes to the city to seek a broader field of opportunity. Her love of wealth, luxury and position lead her into a series of indiscretions which go to make up a story replete with tense, dramatic situations, and not lacking in a goodly amount of clean, wholesome comedy. * * * EK. LINCOLN, who plays the title role in the Mutual series, * “Jimmie Dale, alias The Grey Seal,” is traveling around the country this month exhibiting his pedigreed dogs at the various bench shows. At the show held in Washington, D. C., Mr. Lincoln entered twenty of his dogs and became the proud possessor of nineteen first winners’ ribbons. On May 10, Mr. Lincoln will try to even exceed this record in the dog show at Wilmington, Delaware. * * * Marjorie rambeau can qualify as the quickest “quick change artist” after her ex¬ perience in “The Dazzling Miss Davi¬ son,” the Mutual feature on which she is now working at the Frank Powell studio. In this production, which is a screen adaptation of Florence Warden’s novel of the same name, Miss Rambeau changes her costume in every few feet Fischer, Kane, Rambeau and others at work on choice subjects to come Miss Margarita Fischer in one of her niftiest new hats. “I always try to give Miss Fischer a chance to ‘dress up’ in every picture, because her audiences like to see her wear pretty clothes,” says Harry Pollard, her director. of the picture. She runs the range of costumes from grave to gay, for Miss Davison is a young woman who appears one moment in the habilaments of fashion and the next in the somber garb of the shop girl on duty. She goes into the police station in one costume to emerge a few mo¬ ments later in another as different from the first as is day from night, and so it goes through “The Dazzling Miss Davison.” * * * SIX motion picture houses in Los Angeles were showing six differ¬ ent Mutual features for the week of April 16. “The Gentle Intruder,” with Mary Miles Minter, at Tally’s; “The Cure,” with Charlie Chaplin, at the Garrick ; “Dulcie’s Adventure,” with Mary Miles Minter, at the Liberty; “Inno¬ cence of Lizette,” with Mary Miles Minter, vat the Iris; “A Dream or Two Ago,” with Mary Miles Minter, at the Laughlin; “Beloved Rogues,” with Kolb and Dill, at the Academy; and “Shorty Turns Wild Man,” with Shorty Hamilton, at the Liberty. THE Signal Film Corporation’s players will spend a greater part of the next few weeks traveling, making the remaining chapters of “The Railroad Raiders.” A week’s stay will be made in San Francisco taking scenes for Chap¬ ter X. A number of pictures will be taken on board the train. As soon as these are completed they will start off again, for the eleventh chap¬ ter calls for a number of scenes on board an ocean steamship. The entire company will, therefore, travel by water from San Pedro to San Diego and return. Whether they will remain any time in San Diego or will stay on board the boat has not yet been decided, although permission has been granted them to make any use they see fit of the dis¬ mantling and destruction of those buildings at the San Diego Exposition which are to be torn down about that time. THE battle of federal authorities to wipe out opium smuggling is the basis of Edna Goodrich’s second star production for Mutual “Queen X.” “Reputation,” her first picture, is scheduled for release May 28. “Queen X” was written by Ed¬ win M. Stanton, assistant United States attorney of New York, who participated in the crusade against opium smuggling and led many of the raids on the gangs which offered des¬ perate resistance to the federal gov¬ ernment’s attempt to stamp out the drug« Miss Goodrich appears as “Madame X,” queen of Chinatown, a brilliant woman, the victim of the opium habit and leader of the gang which smuggles tl^e drug into the United States. The story is laid in New York and the time is the present. * * * JOHN HAFNER, manager Prin¬ cess Theater, Donora, Pa., de¬ clares Mutual service helps his business. He says : “ ‘A Pearl of Paradise’ certainly is a good picture, and gave satisfac¬ tion all around. Everybody liked it — men, women and children. If all the pictures would give the people such genuine pleasure as this one, the busi¬ ness would soon come up to where it used to be.” REEL LIFE — Page Seven