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Show NEWS GLEANED IN THE STUDIOS I OF THE PHOTOPLAY PRODUCERS I One of the Pilot Films' latest productions, produc-tions, is "The Doll and the Devil." Thi is a beautifully costumed spectacular comedy from the old French opera which has been adapted to motion picture pic-ture needs by Roy L. McCardcll, the creator of Mrs. Jarr. Down in the wilds of the Florida jungleland a company of motion picture actors is producing a series of wild animal subjects in which a score erf lions a couple of tigers, a half dozen leopards and several smaller wild beasts work day by day with the several actors employed Harold M Shaw, who for some seasons was a director of the Edison Rims, is in charge of the company, being assi-ted by the famous wild animal trainer. Captain Jack Bonavita The fr't film to be made, and entitled "The King of the Jungle." was written by the leading man of the Imp's Film Company, Mr King Baggot The Lubm Film Company has sent two more troupes south for the winter. Director Wiltfert Melville will locate in Log Angeles, Cal, where he has a big company selected from the best Lubin players and two carloads of equipment F. J. Grandon and his company go to San Bernardino. Cal , where arrange menis for a new studio have been perfected, per-fected, including quarters for the player rough riders and horses which always figure in Mr Grandon's pictures This arrangement will leave five companies still at the Philadelphia plant and four in the South and Southwest. Herr Albert Basserman, a member of the Royal Berlin Schauspjelhaus Company, Com-pany, is one of the first German actori of note to enter the photo-play field Herr Hassrrman !w chosen an intensely dramatic play for his premiere. The play is an adaptation by Dr Paul Lin-dau Lin-dau of "Der Andre," The plot contains more than the usual nwuber of thrills . Tn Berlin, Germany, there has been formed an organization of prominent representatives of irt, science, officialdom official-dom and commerce to raise the itandai d of ordinary films and to promote the production of films of a scientific and instructive character. It is also purposed pur-posed to estblish a cinematograph museum for the preservation of espe cially valuable films. "The Knights of Rhodes," a spectacu- J lar historical .subject ln'roducing the 1 capture of the Island of Rhodes by the 1 Turks under the Sultan Soliman, produced pro-duced by the Ambrosio American Company, Com-pany, is now on exhibition. Following j it are Gahriel D Annunzio'l "Marcu. the r Venetian Tribune," and "ManUa," a drama of the present Balkan war. from -the same studio. Another company to seek foreign jj dimes ,'s one which sailed from New York the other day, going to Cuba to make a series of naval pictures and using for that purpose the United States fleet of battleships and torpedo boats ! lying at Guantanamo Bay T. Parker Reade, who made the weil-kown "Garden "Gar-den of Allah" film, is one of the chief promoters of this enterprise. A strong story will be toid in rive reels and ij is stated that the United States Govern- J ment will make use of it in connection ! with its recruiting service. ' ' I Manufacturers of motion picture photographing pho-tographing outfits are striving to induce exhibitors to equip themselves for the work of obtaining and presenting pictures pic-tures of local events. I l |