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Show Essanay Has A Sheriff of Its Own Kapley Holmes Has Figured in the Role Both On the Stage and Off A Lubin Company Back from Shores of Saranac Lake with Abundanco of Winter Atmosphere "The Millionaire Mil-lionaire for a Day" Investigates Films at the Lubin Plant Rapley Holmes, a graduato from tho ranks of theatrical stare, will henceforth bo seen on the screen in the Essanay productions. Mr. Holmes was at one time a deputy sheriff of New York county, and It was through the members of the Lambs Club of that city that Sheriff Tom Foley picked him as a deputy, giving as his reason the naturalness shown by this actor In tho part of Slim Hoover In Edmund Day's massive production "The Round Up." Mr. Holmes is a jovial fellow, weighing 310 pounds and standing 6 feet 2 Inches In his stocking feet. Nobody loves a fat man? "Well, you should see tho hun-dreds-of letters that are reaching him daily from all over tho country girls who have written to him, who have seen him In Essanay photoplays. photo-plays. mm "Mongrel and Master" is the title of a political drama of Importance to be rehearsed by the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company on May 14. The story concerns two plain, everyday every-day hold-up men, who later become interested In politics, one turns straight, the other a modern politician. politi-cian. There is a lot concerning the election of a mayor with the necessary neces-sary romance, which is so essential in pictures. Francis X. Bushman and Rapley Holmes appear in the two leading roles. The Lubin Company (Barry O'Noil, director), which for the -past four Hj weeks has been stationed at Saranac Lake to get extreme winter atrnos-phere atrnos-phere for the photoplay adaptation of "The Wolf," by Eugene Walter, has removed to Asheville. N. C. On the way south the company stopped off Hj at the home plant and delivered sev- eral thousand feet of very beautiful mow scenes. John J. (Batch)--. McDevitt, the millionaire -Jot. a day.; visited. the Lubin plant at Philadelphia last week Hj and tock much interest in the stag- ing of photoplays and developing of Hj the films. The officers of the plant and directors took great pleasure in entertaining the much - talked - of "man in the public eye." On account of the call of the wild, the Essanay dramatic company al-most al-most lost one of its leading men, Richard C. Travers, last week. He Hl was cast for the role of Pierre, in a feature picture entitled "Pierre of the North," and the portrayal of the character took him back to the days Hl of his youth, when he lived la reality the 'Ufe of the people of the French 1 Canadian trading post. i When he got out into the woods Hj and was handling the gun. and fur pelts, he was homesick enough for the old life to be tempted to give -.ip his dramatic art and go back to the Hj tall and uncut timbers. But he |