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Show Mm. Kalich to i Pose as Marta lie Famous Players to Pre. 'i-ft sent Her In f 'Marta W, of the Lowlands" eel . Tt Striking and Clever Motion Picture A'n- Havi nouncements Born of the Fertile Cre- tivo Genius of J. W. Grey Charming Betty Brown Wins Out A An ffJth I Amateur Street Beggar. fltt ! The Famous Flayers Film Company Sllwj will shortly present the illustrious ar- tiste, Madame Kalich, in a pretentious P. and spectacular film version of the fa- b'0' uious play, "Marta of 'the 1-owlandF." of Mndaino Kalich attained separate dra- ij nlatic triumphs in the stellar roles of one "M'onna Vanna," "The Kreutzer Son- ret ata," "The Light of Saint Agiifis," nnd hm more recently, "Rachel." "Marta of JTi h the Lowlandf.," the subject selected for -jLi Mme. Kallch's first appearance in mo- ". tion pictures, possesses a big, gripphfg iw theme, and Madame Kalich is remark- out ably suited in type and temperament for deftl presentation of the leading role. mefl . it Motion picture circles and photoplay fans have been electrified recently by a jt. number of striking and clever announce i ments regarding important new advance .ut m tne motion picture art. They are A?r ' largely the work of .7. W. Grey, whose y creative genius has long been recog- REC nized in his chosen field and who, al- though on the sunnyside of thirty, has had a valuable experience as advertis- ' L. ing manager of tiie E. K. Thomas New- York-to-Paris- race; sales manager of the :tira Palmer-Singer Company, and in business enou for himself with recognition from the and A. N. P. A. and the Quoin Club. Hi3 ties versatility and stability have been large qJ factors in his success. His magnetic personality has made a legion of influ- t?B ential friends for him and still greater v??.1 achievements on his- part are confidently fwhll predicted. twd feggs The Universal Company, which has gt(r engaged Augustus Carney, the "Alkali y. Ike" of the Essanay productions, is of- fering twenty-five dollars for the best f . suggestion for a new name for Mr. Car- , i ney's- production with his new connec- fF'sn tion. -one jcploi Charles Eldridgc. for many years jing i with Richard Mansfield and the other jigep famous stars and of late yenrs with the Jbrea' Edison Company, where his work innde t , ' him a favorite with picture audiences $: the world over, is now in stock with tr the Universal Company, where he is 'J3e expected to repeat his former triumphs, .yolks Members of the moving picture com- jea panics located in Jacksonville, Fla., L-ifg were entertnincd the other night by h! C. .Tny Williams, of the Edison plant, iSts at the studio in Dixieland Park. .S?6E1 ipowd During the taking of a scene In tho ifold film production of "Samson" nt the . ibde Pacific Coast ranch of the Universal ' ibcre Film Manufacturing Company, a trained ig-,,a lion became enraged and sprang upon vv .7. Warren Kerrigan, who was plnying f the title role. Only the timely action B of .7. Fan-ell MacDonnld, the director, ft- iu shooting the beast through the heart f Ws saved the well-known actor's life. thPm Flo Lnbadie, the well-known Than- houser actress is the only moving pic- Ka lure actress on the screen today who Sr-t is an expert in operating a projection machine. She spent several weeks in Jfflts the projection room of the Thanhouser up B; studio perfecting herself in the opera tion of a PowcrV fA Vi-nlnMinr, r. ! chinji and is very jiroud of the skill she has acquired. She takes especial 4ri delight in projecting on the screen filmw I of pictures in which she herself ap- il Pcnrs. , 1 Edward M. Roskam invested his cap-' tii ital m a camera a little more than a 1" year ago nnd started into the business of producing films for commercial, indus-trial indus-trial .and educational pictures. The business busi-ness rapidly grew to such proportions that it attracted the attention of Bcr- . - A nard Locwentlial, one of New fork's I lnrgest embroidery manufacturers. The - ' result was that the Life Photo FiJm Corporation was organized with Mr. '4 Roskam as its president and Mr. TiOew-enthnl TiOew-enthnl as its treasurer. It was capital- jzcd.at $20,000. Today the company i has perfectly equipped laboratories- from "1 which it is turning out an average of ,sfl two hundred thousand feet of film per week and is building a studio with every x up-to-date requirement from which it ! will issue films of comedies, dramas and v tragedies, in addition to the industrial films on which the business was based. V -The company& present capitalisation is -$100,000. Charming little Betty Brown, of the Essanay Eastern dramatic company, in the garb of a poor street waif, collected col-lected ten dollars nnd eighty-three cents on a recent Sunday morning, on fnsh- ifl ionable Sheridan Road, Chicago. Miss ? I Brown iu speaking of the incident said: I "One of our directors had a scenario I which was ready to be produced, and I was assigned the part of a street JP urchin. Saturday afternoon, Ruth ft 1 Stonohouse and tho two-spot as thoy . call her (Ruth Iicnnessy) sajd they thought a little practice lagging on the : Ik. J street might help in getting me np in -'a the part. Bryant Washburn hnppejaod iM to be passing by and in nn off-hand way -I said he would bet me five dollars that I I wouldn't ha.ve the nerve to dress in M rags nnd beg on the street. S6, I juit toqk him up. I stood for an hour and I twenty minutes on the corner of Sheridan Sheri-dan Road and Bryn Mawr Avenue. There is a big church at this corner. , Well, after all the people had left tho church. I had collected five dollars aDd eighty-three cents. So you see my experience ex-perience was quite profitable, as I also ( won the bet of five dollars." ' , Miss Brown turned the ten dollars ;; and eighty-three cents over to a chari- j table organization for poor children. . .1 Ch. Jourjon. president of the Eclair o Company of Pnris and prime factor in its world-wide activities, is in New Yprk on a visit to the American branclii .' known as the Eclair Film Company. The pioneer European manufacturer is - loaded down with interesting news re-garding re-garding Eclair of all kinds. . "Eplair has now almost -ready for the tnarket." says Mr. Jourjon, "a nciv projection njaclliiu- to which they have jltet applied the name 'Kincclair.' This small I,- machine will carry any kind of films of I standard size and it can b readily seen 1, wherein it will prove of invaluable ser It HP vice to churches, schools, colleges and I, 9Br various institutions and-fbr-use by tra-?- I k2 cling salesmen, who wish to adopt up- I flH tb-date 'lucthbds of demonstrating Jbeir 1 goods on the screen. As" the machine if I compactly put together, it weighs very m, little, and can be car Hod from place to II place with ease. Another 1 means to I which this machine can be put is its us.a II HP in the home for entertainment and in I, struction. nnd a quality which will make I jH it doubly, attractive is the price which f will' be tet upon it, which will "be rei- I sonabje and within the reach of -i'tuoit g |