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route; when the company reached Paris, Vitagraph cabled for the actors to come home.
Kalem had already made some beautiful pictures in Ireland, and in Egypt had made "From the Manger to the Cross/* under Sidney Olcott.
Vitagraph answered an inquiry as to when they made "Macbeth" by saying they "made it so long ago they wanted to forget it in these days (1913) of high art production/'
Keystone Comedies were coming along, directed by Mack Sennett, featuring the two famous detectives, Mack Sennett and Fred Mace. In these comedies Mabel Normand began to daredevil. Henry Lehrman joined Sennett.
Hal Reid, Wally Reid's father, was directing Reliance pictures.
"Traffic in Souls," written by Walter McNamara and directed by George Loane Tucker, opened at Weber's Theatre, Twenty-ninth Street and Broadway, at twenty-five cents the seat. People clamored for admission, with thousands turned away.
So Biograph, concluding to get into the march of things, ordered posters for twelve of their players whose names they would make public.
"David Belasco Griffith" became Mr. Griffith's nom-demoving-pictures. It was a time of tremendous ambitions to him. In California, during that winter, was filmed his "masterpiece" — "Mother Love" — seven hundred feet over one reel. Mr. Griffith refused to have it the conventional length, refused to finish it in a stated time, refused to consider expense, introducing a lavish cabaret scene, costing eighteen hundred dollars exclusive of salaries. Miss Bambrick arranged the dances and coached the dancers.