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Show Rapley Holmes j Joins Essanay 1 Mary Pickford featured in. H "Tess of the Storm Country" I By Famous Players J J r -jS Lubin Company, one of the tto beit' r I Companieson the Gccertl Film Program, xt ends Barry O'Neil and fine Suppto i " SaranBo Lake to film "The WoU" J It I Mr. Rapley Holmet. has joined the E. ! sanay Eastern Stock Company nt Chi- cago. Everybody who has seen any of too I large dramatic plays of the past fe-y seasons, remembers RaDley Holmes. t' With Nat Goodwin, Mr. Holmes played leading parts In "Nathan Hale," "Th0 V Cowboy and the Lady," and "When Wo I Were Twenty-one." Later, Mr. Holme3 toured Australia, playing the leading t roles in "The Virginian" and "The Squaw Man." For three seasons this dramatic star was featured In the well-known well-known production '"Arizona," and in the all-star cast in New York City. The past season has been a very successful suc-cessful one for this talented dramatic artist, and the closing of the original j production of "A Trip to Washington," brought about Mr. Holmes' desire to remain re-main in Chicago permanently and, so it was that he entered the rank3 of mo- ? tion picture players. Thanks to the return of the real, un- .'. adulterated California sunshine, which i has this year taken one of the longest vacations since weather bureau records ; were kept; G. M. Anderson has chalked ! up another Pacific Coast record in the f making of pictures. In the studio at ! ' Niles, and up in the canyon adjacent, ; he produced and made six complete stories stor-ies in seven days'. This takes no account ac-count of the work of other directors and producers at the same studio. The rcc- ' ord belongs to "Broncho Billy" alone. Emory Johnson, the official "handsom- j est actor" of the Western Essanay Com- l pany, is not only long on looks, but from north to south as well. In fact, his stature stat-ure is so generous as to be the cause of some little difliculty and embarrass- ; mcnt upon occasions, the camera being unable to invariably get all of him in -the picture. G. M. Anderson, working , in company with Johnson the other day, J was impelled to exclaim somewhat im- jt patiently, "You arc certainly the tallest-faced tallest-faced comedian I have .seen!" Johnson has had recourse to removing the heels , ' from his footwear, but this hasn't help-ed help-ed much and he admits that, in more senses than one he is as much up in tho ' air as ever. ; ;: The next Mary tPickford release of tho '. Famous Players Film. Company, is scheduled for March: 20th. "Little Mary" will be presented in the famous i story of a woman's heroism, "Tess of . i; the Storm Country," by Grace Miller r. White. The story of Tess, with her i quaint philosphy of life, humorous and ' ; pathetic, is one of the most powerful ' character sketches ever written. Tess is an elemental type of womanhood, a ' primitive heart struggling with modern. . : conditions and the delicate tortures of i '. civilization. The theme is full of uplift, and the dramatic situations often force ' , a tear of which we need not be ashamed. Mary Pickford as Tess, the ragged little "squatter" girl, dirty, but beautiful, 1 rude, wilful, saucy, but noble and self- sacrificing, renders a portrayal of inex- t: haustiblc fascinatiou. As a photodrama, , "Tess of the Storm Country" will give its audiences a subject out of tho beaten 1 path, and numerous thrills mingled with the sweetest of human traits, compae- f slon. "Tess of the Storm Country" is J the second production to be made at the m Los Angeles Studio of the Famous Play- j crs. under the direction of Edwin S. ) Porter. i'i y Director Barry O'Neil and a well- ; selected company, including Lilie Leslie, i Ruth Bryan, Clara Lambert, George S. I Spencer, Fred Tidmarsh, Gaston Bell, T Robert Graham, Bernard Scigel, Richard x- Wangemann, Fred Chaston and others, 3. with property men, have been sent by J tho Lubin Company to Saranac Lake to f; make some very important feature pic- J tures, the first being Eugene Walter's ' I "The Wolf," which requires northern atmosphere. The company will probably stay at Saranac for three months. A full staff of photographers and scenic ar- ; ists- accompany the troop. f ? |