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Show GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS FKOM Bessie Barriscale's home this week was mailed :a large, b a n d -somclv frame. 1 portrait of herself, with a .harming letter to ac-ompany the gift. It was Entrusted to I'm-le .Sam to carrv to a little country .girl near the Mississippi, and thereby hangs a tale. In common with manv other photoplay photo-play stars, Miss Earriscalc was forced to 'let it be known that she, asks 2,i cents apiece for her photographs, to cover the large expense entailed. Word of this reached the. country girl, and sho wrote: "If you charge for your photograpns. Miss Barriscale, let me know and I'll save up the 25 cents by selling wild flowers to the rich women whom I see in automobiles. 1 live iu a little town where there is no amusement for me except ex-cept the pictures, and I have made j littlo dreams of you that keep me i happy. " . I Xeedless to saw there was no charge for the photograph Miss Barriscale sent. Francis Ford and Grace Cuuard are, doing specdv and fine work on the j eighth episode of the I'niversal '-Pcgj o'"thc King" serial. They are at .the old Studio where they first started with the big "U" and have their faithful old time artists with them, including Mark Fcnton, .lean Hathaway, Marcia Avon-. Irving Lipuner, Jack l ord, Lionel Lio-nel iiradshaw and' Eddie Eoland, all of whom will "go to the mat" for their principals 'any time. George Fisher has. a strong part un- dcr Reginald Barker, in a five-reel lnce , feature, starring Frank Keenan and I with Margaret 'Thompson in the f emi-j nine lead. Fisher has the part of a young minister, several good . dramatic moments and some excellent light comedy com-edy touches. The role .just fits lyim. J ' Will M". Hitchey, the writer who put aside a sure career in other fields for j photopluv writing, did so because he . felt assured that his earning power j would be greater at this form of writing writ-ing than at any other, and his con-elu-ions were co'rrect for he earns an in-line which many , an actor envies. Mr. hStchov finds the work tremendously tremen-dously fascinating and is of vital assistance as-sistance to the directors who produce his stoiies. He not-only turns out a perfect script, but gives luvaluaole hints lor action and furnishings. Edward Sloman, the producer, was talkin" over old times. His deductions on the difference of toil between an actor and director were interesting. He states that he works twice as hard as a director than he did as nn actor and that, a producer can never say he is through; there is never a moment's letup let-up and the strain is far greater than when acting. At the same time the creative power allotted a producer is an incentive to work and to make that work a life interest a director generally gener-ally feels he is part of the "firm." J Mvrtle Stedman is at present reading, read-ing, looking for a new photoplay which will fit her own personality. Miss Stedman helps her company iu this way and enjovs the reading at. the same time. Those who saw "The American Beautv," in which she starred, hope she Will find a vehicle as good as it was. , Nona Thomas is acting another of those striking character studies which she always makes stand out so start-lingly. start-lingly. Nona is a student of her own worli and is gaining strength all the time. ' j OUie Kirkby is a 'Social Pirate" no more. The series is over and Ollie has deserted the (Slendale studios,, but not the Kalem company. She has' emigrated emigrat-ed to the company's studios at Hollywood, Holly-wood, where she 'is to play comedy-leads. comedy-leads. Ollie is one of those artists who can jump from tragedy to comedy and shine in the one as well as in the other. She was received with open arms at her new stage home. Webster Campbell, Vitagraph leading man, has a good part in the three-reel play, "The Gratitude of John Wes-tonj" Wes-tonj" being filmed by Director William Wolbert. In it Campbell makes strong use of his opportunity to display the conflict of emotions in which the title part struggles. It is a clean-cut performance per-formance which he is giving, with Jack Mower also featured. From Honolulu comes word of the activities ac-tivities of Helen Holmes, J. P. Mc-Gowau Mc-Gowau and the Signal Film compauy, which went to the islands to film exteriors ex-teriors for the coming feature, "The Diamond Runners." The players worked on scenes on their way over, while they were in Honolulu and during a hard trip into the interior of the island. It is said new and striking scenery will be shown to the public for the first time as a result of the expedition. Director Dave Smith of Vitagraph has begun another of his lively three-reel comedies. This one has " ' Sunshine "' Mary Anderson, who recently made a hit in "Miss Adven ture. ' ' as the leading lead-ing character. '-Sunshine," by the way, was given an ovation this week al the Memorial day auto meet at Ascot park, near Los Angeles. Among the celebrities of the local film worl. Teach ill her own car, Miss Anderson was greeted by hundreds in the grandstand j who recognized her curls and smile as she drove past. Henry King. Bnlboa star-director, did j-ome of his best work in the recent1-.- completed "Pav Dirt," which is released under the Knickerbocker brand. The phedoplay, a five-reeler, concerns western mining, and Kin not only gave a vigorous and natural presentation presenta-tion of the role, but also produced the picture. Henry Kin;,' accumulates new admirers every time he appears on tli? screen. "Pay Dirt" is from the speaking speak-ing stage plav, "The St maulers. ' ' " " "Smiling Johnny" Sheehan, the capital cap-ital comedian with the American company, com-pany, is original or of a plan to form Jtn alumni associa tion of the 1 rish drama, or "The When 1 Was With Oi cott club. ' ' Among those who are eligible to membership, having been with Chauncey Oleott at one time and now in pictures, are Mary, Lottie and Jack Pickl'ord, Blanche yweet, Victoria and Eugenia 1'orde, Gail Kane. Iilanchc King, Cieorge Ahem, .1 ohn ('. King, Charles Newton, John Gough and fcfliec-hau. fcfliec-hau. Everyone hereby is advised not to miss Junnita Hansen in the lif'th episode epi-sode of "The Secret of a Submarine,'' the big A mericau success, as siie does some wonderful work in this in si ailment. ail-ment. Juanita is heart and soul in her work, which is winning her cienernl recognition, and she is very much on the theatrical map now." She rode dow n from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles last week to tell everyone how happy she was. : J. Warren Kerrigan, still in the California Cali-fornia mining town of Couliersviile, near the Vosenute valley, semis back word of prodigious fishing experiences he and his i'niversal company are having. hav-ing. One raiuy day this week Kerrigan went trout fishing. As the clouds cleared at e veil ing, he snys,, he and his companions com-panions landed 2oU fine trout. Some fish story. Charles Ray has a wonderfully intelligent intel-ligent Boston bull pup, which he calls "Triangle Bill.'7 He is mischevions, and Charlie says lie chews up so much and breaks so imh he ought to be called "Unpaid Bill." They are great pals, however. Hay also has a canary which sings every time Triangle Bill barks. Charlie calls the canary ' ' Bar-kis'' Bar-kis'' because he is so willing. The following is the way in which Howard Hickman, who has made a profound pro-found success as Count Ferdinand in the lnce spectacle, " Civilization, M 'plans to aid the actors ' fund: "At a recent meeting of several prominent motion picture players it was decided that in future a charge of "25 cents would be made for each photograph photo-graph sent out on request and the proceeds pro-ceeds given to the actors' fund of America, Amer-ica, a charitable organization for the care of sick and disabled actors. "If you will forward the above amount I shall be very glad to send you the photograph vou requested." Hickman sends a slip with the above words to each person who asks him for his photograph, and already his idea has been adopted by several' film stars. Here is an opportunity to increase the fund by no small sum! Henry B. Walthall, premier Essanay star, has enjoyed another little run down to his liome in Alabama and ifl now hard at work on a novel five-reel feature, ' ' The Little Musketeer, ' ' in which the actor impersonates a dual role, that of two brothers. Each brother broth-er thinks the other guilty of a crime and tries to shield him. . As the drawing draw-ing of the two brothers by the author makes each entirely different from the other, Waltball again lias every oppor-tuuityyof oppor-tuuityyof proving his wonderful versatility. versa-tility. Everyone will welcome him back in features once more, as he is far too good an actor to appear in serials. George E. Periolat of the American, whose ability at characterization rapidly rapid-ly is making him famous, has the lead in a recent two-part comedy drama in whjch he plays a dual role. With Louise Lester. "S ivian Rich and Alfred Vos-burg Vos-burg a 1 so,, in the picture, Periolat represents rep-resents English earl, and also an imposter who icpresents himself as the earl. J t was hard work to shade the two characters so as to make them distinct and yet plausible, but Periolat 's success is the life of the film. Which company is going to claim popular William Garwood? Rumors are rife; and if thev arc to be believed, he is going to join the Metro-Paramount-1 Universal-Mutual-World Film-Triangle programme. Alan Forrest, who is now with (he American company, is one of the most hamUome juveniles on the screen ami is a good actor with it. He is tall, dark and has expressive eves, photographic qualities which, added to his versatile ability, make him a screen favorite with many. Before going to Santa Barbara Forrest played leads with the Lnbin company and before that was with Universal Uni-versal for a long time. With popular Harold Lock wood and May Allison as his stars, Henry Otto, who recently left the western Universal studio to join ttie Metro forces as director, di-rector, is getting into his stride on hi first feature production, a five-reeler. The trio formerly worked together in the west and ha e long been inseparable insep-arable friends, t-o, with natural -vm-pathie? to aid, they should do well 'under 'un-der Otto's direction. Otto e:-'tabjhrrl his reputation for hjgh-ea!- work with his production of "Undine." si: George Melford is back at Laskv's flirain looking better than he ha; for some time, and feeling, he Aohtps, ten f years younger. 1- or a week or so he ; had been taking it ret in Bear ailey, j Sun Bernariiiuo mountains. Melford is i st art illy a f i ve-reel feat ure with Cleo j Kidgeley and Wallace Keid as his t:irs. He i put Vi :;g on "The H oue of t he l Golden Win.imvs. " George took on some weight in Bear valley and lost seme nionev at the Tiaiuana rai.es, near San Diegu. J 1 al Cooiey , whoso work as the lead iu the Monrovia company's big feature is said to stand out very prominent iy, motored to S:uit:i Barbara tiiis week to visit st) me of his friends over Sunday, and jiit managed to esrupe the "speed cops.'" Cooiey and several others went to a ball game and Hal did more routing rout-ing than all ihe others combined. :: Bertram Grassbv. clever character n an of the I'niveal, still bears marks of bruises he received iu a recent stage encounter with Cleo Madison. As Miss Madison 's pi im-ipal support in a western west-ern drama, Crassby was called upon to ! tussle wit h her. ''How That woman can fight!'" Grassby exclaimed later. " There was no rehearsal, and we didn't 'frame' the I fight. 1 tried not to hurt her, but I'll I remember that fight scene for a long while.'' , j Richard Stanton, the talented director for one of the western Fox companies, recently returned from the Mojavc desert, des-ert, California, as brown as the proverbial pro-verbial berry. Stanton had taken his star, George Walsh, into the desert to film some big exterior scenes of his first Fox picture, a five reel feature story of an eastern girl wdio came west and whose subsequent, adventures revolve re-volve around George Walsh. William T). Taylor, Pallas producer whose production of ' ' Pasquale, ' ' with iGeorue Kobau, is hailed as a veritable I masterpiece, had a town erected recently Ion the desert for his present photoplay, ''The Parson of Panamint . ' ' The photoplay pho-toplay v;K written from the story by Peter B. Kyne. -Mr. Taylor, with his popular star, Dustin Farnum, are located with their company on the desert for a few days taking 'scenes. The picture promises to be an interesting one. This goes without saying, for it is being well acted and produced. Kolb and Pill, the famous west coast comedians, a re now at work at the American studiosN The play is not only funny, but is full of keen situation's and good story and dramatic appeal. ! The story is by Aaron Hoffman. The Kolb and Dill five-reel series (not a serial") is bound to be very popular, as it tells humorous stories by well-known authors. Herbert Standing has gone to take a course of baths on his well-merited holiday. holi-day. He needs a rest, but is hard to spare from the Pallas motion pictures, which he dignifies by his presence. He will be much missed at the studios, where his geniality and ability have made him in demand both professionally professional-ly and personally. Antrim Short, of the Universal company, com-pany, probably will never know the intermediate in-termediate stage in filmdom. This intermediate in-termediate state is where a boy is too old for "kid" parts and too young for juvenile roles. From babyhood Antrim has beeu a stage prodigy; he is a big boy now, and does not'know what it is to be idle. He keeps up in his schooling, school-ing, too, and is well read for his years. Before the. Universal put him in 'Vtock" the competition for his services serv-ices was very keen. The keynote cf Antrim's success is common sense and naturalness. He is without doubt one of the stars of the future. |
