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Show Fritzi Scheff and I "Our Mutual Girl" Why the Actress Didn't Keep ! An Appointment to Meet Her at the Studio brilliant Company of Distinguished Writsri, American and Buropan, Enli. ted to Supply Scenarios for Mutual i Films. C. J. Hite's Rapid Advance to ' Foremost Piece in the Picture World. The newspaper notices of Fritzi ScheETs fnarriage cleared up a deep mystery at the Mutual s T nion Square studio recent- If. All arrangements hud been complct- ijty cd for the great little devil of the opera WjP to come to the studio at a certain hour and pose for the "Our Mutual Girl" eeries. When the time arrived and Mi&s Scheff did not appear, many guesses were forthcoming to account for the broken engagement. It is now known that the little prima donna decided to make her third plunge into the sea of matrimony which, of course, made her appearance nt the studio quite impossible'. impos-sible'. Our Mutual Girl, however, was introduced intro-duced to several stage celebrities. She appeared before the camera with Lauretta Lau-retta Taylor, of "Peg o' My Heart," at the Cort Theatre, and Bruce MacKae of "Nearly Married," at the Gaiety Theatre. Thea-tre. She also had the pleasure of meet ing the great author of the Clansman, Thomas Dixon, who behaved before the camera as if being a moving picture star ras part of his many accomplishments. Arrangements have been completed to introduce Our Mutual Girl to Sodow-sky, Sodow-sky, the great pianist ami also to Ysaye, the famous violinist, who will appear with her before the camera in the near future. LV t l In its effort to raise the standard of moving pictures, the Mutual Film Corporation Cor-poration has contracted for the stories by many of the prominent authors of novels and magazine stories and tbey will be condensed into scenario form and produced pro-duced under the direction of D. W. Griffith. Among the authors whose work has been contracted for are- Thomas N'-lsnn Tape, ambassador to Italy: l'aul Armstrong, piaywright, whose drama, "The Escape," a romance of the underworld, under-world, la now being produced by Mr. Griffith personally; John Kondrick Bungs, George A. Birmingham, v ho wrote that very successful Irish comedy, com-edy, "Geueral John Regan." now playing play-ing in a long run at the Hudson Thea-ter, Thea-ter, New York; Daniel Carson Goodman, author of ' Hagar Kevelly,' the publication publi-cation of which Anthony Comstock attempted at-tempted to prevent; Zona Gale, Eleanor Ingram, author of "The Car Behind"; Robert H. Du vis, of the MTuusev Magazines; Maga-zines; Paul West, of the Now York World; H. R. Durant, playwright and associate editor of ' The Cavalier" : Gardner Gard-ner Hunting, editor of the People's Magazine. Homer Croy. the humorist of Judge. Leslie's and Collier's; Cenrgc Pat-tullo Pat-tullo and Roy Norton, both of whom are famous writers of Western stories; E. Phillips Oppenheim, the celebrated English Eng-lish novelist; Mary Roberts IUuehurt aud Roy McCardell, I That fame SBd fortune have been won Yrf practically "over nigh!" in the motion picture buMivss is well illustrated by the interesting career of c. J. Hite, Jromineutly identified with the Mutual 'tun Corporation, the Film Bupply 'om-pany 'om-pany of America, the American Film Manufacturing Company, the Carlton Motion Picture Laboratories, the Majestic Majes-tic Motion Picture Company, the Than-hottser Than-hottser Company, and the Tfiauhouser Film Companjl, Ltd., of London. His many inten sts make him ou? of the leading factors iu the moving picture world. George Siegman probably never did a more artistic pi f work (ban bis latent lat-ent characterisation of the name part in "The Loafer," usl released and this, in spite of iin fact thai it i one of the moat difficult roles that he has been called upon to interpret Mark S Reardon is the author of the story, which deals with an intensely interesting in-teresting epoch in the life of a typical email-tow u ne'er-do-well. |