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AN ALL-WOMAN FILM COMPANY
MOTION picture history has recorded women serving in practically every important position, from that of producer, owner and promoter of film companies down as far as "important" carries. A new record has been inscribed upon the celluloid scroll, however, by the advent of an all-woman film company in San Diego, producing at the Sawyer-Lubin studios.
The owner of the company, the chief producer, the director, the codirector, the assistant director, the 'script clerk, the screen editor, the title writer, the continuity writer, and the publicity director are women. In other words, all important creative positions in the organization are filled by women.
Mrs. Lule Warrenton, who has been upon the stage and in motion pictures since childhood, is at the head of the company. Mrs. Warrenton "graduated" from character actress to writer and director of a number of productions with one of the largest Hollywood studios ; then directed and produced for various independent companies, and finally left Hollywood to join the San Diego Conservatory of Music. Resuming her film activities, she made San Diego her headquarters.
With Mrs. Warrenton in creative and executive positions are Mrs. A. B. Shute, Mrs. Katherine Chesnaye and Miss Edith Kendall. The fact that none of these three aides to the producer has had actual film experience, but each qualified for her position by taking training in a
nationally-known photoplaywriting institution of Hollywood, constitutes a news item almost as startling as the first. This innovation creates a precedent never before established in motion pictures, of persons who have adequate training but no pratical experience taking high positions without serving any sort of apprenticeship.
Mrs. Shute is a writer, whose first novel was published about twelve years ago. Mrs. Chesnaye is a short-story writer, and has a remarkable background of practical experience. She is the wife of a British army officer, with whom she has travelled all over the world, on one occasion spending six years in Central Africa. The third of the trio, Miss. Kendall, has been a news feature writer, but until her training in screen technique had no experience in any branch of motion pictures.
The company has completed one production, and an extensive series of five-reel dramas, as well as some educational features, is planned.
The special significance of this move may be interpreted in a number of ways. It is certainly a triumph for women in general, and the first that has been scored in our newest art. Moreover, it seems to mean that any talented "outsider" can enter films after receiving adequate training, without "working up from the bottom," a thing that has kept much new and virile talent off the silver-sheet.