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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1914
Page
23
New York hosts the second annual Motion Picture Exposition at Grand Central Palace drawing major cine world figures. The event highlights rising star power in film over theatre and notes advances in production quality and actor contracts. The Actors Equity Association, with 1600 members, signals readiness to strike if not paid timely, though managers remain cooperative.
The season expands with six company productions for Too Many Cooks and Today. Ed Reese, Mathilde Cottrelly, Marie Wainwright, and Ethel Valentine lead one Today cast, while Arthur Byron, Alice Gale, Gastene, and Jean Newcomb head the other. Philip Bartholomae returns to producing in September with The Model Maid, music by Silvio Hein. An autumn musical comedy is planned with Bayard Veiller, while Richard Harding Davis and Jules Eckert Goodman announce The area. The Tramp will star Tully Marshall. Panthea rights are sought by Shubert and Hoffe interests after its Booth Theater run. George Evans resumes stage with the New Brighton show the week of August 3. Harold Howard joins Sari company. Belle Story shifts to vaudeville. Sparrow of the Circus offers a light backstage view with Vivian Rich and Reaves Eason. At Winter Garden, Harold Atteridge will write for the show with Al Jolson, and the new Passing Show project begins.
A Motion Picture Magazine salute notes royal patrons loving cinema abroad. Kings George V and Kaiser Wilhelm lead a trend of private royal theaters at Buckingham Palace and Potsdam, while Queen Ena of Spain and Romania's queen fund palace cameras. Other monarchs like Mulai Abdul Aziz of Morocco and Alfonso of Spain embrace kinematographs, with Alfonso’s Madrid cinema receiving daily royal films for the royal family.
Admirers from varied walks of life flood Norma Phillips with letters about Our Mutual Girl. A North Carolina miss pledges life changes to suit the star, praising her as not prim or dignified, and offering to become a saint on earth if needed. The piece notes four companies next season in The Things That Count and child labor law constraints in some states may halt the play.
Royal Theater announces a bold bill for the week. Sunday opens with The Hindu Nemesia, a four reel Oriental detective drama, plus The Fatal Mallet and The Metamorphosis. Tuesday presents The Fatal Wedding from Klaw & Erlanger. Wednesday repeats Our Mutual Girl serial. Thursday and Friday showcase Augustus Thomas play In Missouri with Burr McIntosh. Miss Taylor’s Peg o' My Heart farewell tour draws crowds. company plans Europe trip and a fall reopening in Cort’s new Broadway house.
Laurette Taylor completes 604 consecutive performances in Peg o My Heart at the Cort Theater. The play opened December 21, 1912, and she has missed no shows aside from two company changes. Saturday’s matinee drew a full house with strong audience response and a display of flowers from the Lotus Club.
Union Pacific runs a special car cinema showing cautionary collision scenes to educate employees along the line. The Annette Kellermann film Neptune's Daughter was shot in Bermuda over nine weeks on 8000 feet of film. Hampton Del Ruth becomes team manager of Keystone Players' Baseball for coast competition with Miss Mabel Norman as sponsor and Anita Loos, aged 18, writes The Wild Girl and The Deceiver for Reliance with Ed Dillon directing.
In a recent scene the stage manager fills a meadow with chewing gum and cigarette ads on rocks trees and fences. Star protests while manager defends realism as necessary. Annette Kellermann arrives in Paris to study voice under Nellie Melba with a view to opera.
Mary Rehan lauds motion pictures as preserving the era’s great actresses. Eddie Dillon begins producing The Deceiver by Anita Loos with Fay Tincher Tod Browning and Dillon starring. The Mutual release features a police station climax and innovative setup.
A romance drama set along the Mexican border during the war period is staged in Arms and the Gringo. Anna Tuppen Wilkes wrote it, produced by W. Cabanne at Reliance and Majestic Hollywood studios, with Dorothy Gish Wallace Kid and Fred A. Kelsey featured in the Majestic release via Mutual.
Today's program at the Grand includes seven reels of moving pictures led by Perils of Pauline starring Pearl White. Two new vaudeville acts appear today Nims the violinist and Roy Jones the blackface comedian. Tomorrow Valdez bookes Auriema the famed female impersonator with the dance of death and seven thousand dollar wardrobe. Country store night offers handsome prizes.
The Alamo Musical Comedy Company opens at the Queen Theater in San Antonio after a run at the Alamo Theater in Waco. Cast includes George M. Hall Irish comedian Lake Reynolds Dutch comedian Margaret Lillie Mary Garden of musical comedy Billy Maine and May Lewis with a beauty chorus and six musical numbers. The manager guarantees all twelve company members are new to San Antonio.
The Mexican Troubadours, nine Bell siblings led by Ricardo Bell, famed clown and circus proprietor, perform at B F Keith's theater in Boston this week. They left Mexico City after Diaz’s overthrow and have not returned. The troupe includes five brothers and four sisters, singing native songs and performing folk dances.
John Galsworthy’s The Mob was pulled from the London stage due to respectful but adverse views and its grim unpopularity. The move casts doubt on bringing the play to the United States next season, announced before the London production and while Manchester housed Miss Horniman’s company.
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