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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1916
Page
8
Weatherbeaten mountaineers marvel at William S Hart after he emerges from icy lake waters during a stunt. Collier asserts control on set directing his own scenes while Ince approves the performances, praising Collier’s work on screen.
The Columbia Theatre Friday dancing contests drew larger crowds and more contestants. Prizes awarded to Annie Hannagan Magdaline Groeschner Genevieve Murray Loraine Murray Mary Hannagan Clarice Joullian Frank Bolling Estelle Pinto Emily Murray with Emily Murray winning first prize for fancy dancing. More contestants expected next Friday. children may enter by leaving their names at the theatre.
The Columbia Theatre announces the return of Aills and Myers Musical Comedy Company for this week after a successful run elsewhere. Ross Aills and Simon Myers headline with strong comedy, supported by a capable troupe as the show offers thrice weekly changes and entirely new productions.
Henry Walthall star of The Strange Case of Mary Page with Edna Mayo rides a horse in Birmingham after buying a horse instead of a new car. The piece notes his mystery, wealth, and daily riding on bridle paths while appearing in The Item and at a local theatre.
Editor Ed Manchester and Sol Myer note Nell and Flo Drisdall excel as singers and dancers with a large company. Other standout performers include Shirley Milette, Pauline Anderson, Mabel Benson, Edna Nelson, Lillie Richards, Billie Edwards, Marie Mack, Doris May, and Edna Smith, all delivering fine specialties and encores.
Sunday's program hours feature Charlie Chaplin in two comedies "Caught in the Cabaret" and "The Rounders" with Hank Mann Old Doc Yak and the Chicago Tribune Animated Weekly also on bill. Five reels five cents. Frank Borzage’s The Silken Spider stars Vivian Rich George Periolat and others in a realism filled fight scene. William Russell stars in The Craving a five part drama about addiction directed by Charles Bartlett.
The World Film Corporation organized a fire department for its four Fort Lee studios to protect a valuable investment. During a scene from As In a Looking Glass Kitty Gordon’s gown caught fire when a chafing dish overturned. Frank Crane smothered the flames, curtains ignited, and volunteers aided, triggering the new drill.
A columnist voice vents frustration at joy riders who threaten safety, asserting the community deserves accountability. The remark frames riders as a nuisance and a danger to residents.
Whartons faced the need for a true stone water powered mill to film Hazel Kirke at Ludlowville New York near Ithaca. Builders raised a genuine mill modeled on an old New England engraving on the riverbank to achieve realism. Pearl White leads a fine cast in a production praised for wholesome appeal and enduring qualities.
The film showcases Anna Held wearing extravagant Paris gowns to help launch Madame la Presidente on the Paramount program. Morosco secured Held in New York for a $25,000 contract as she debuts in photo plays. The couture collection includes thirty gowns, with Parisian costs around twenty thousand dollars.
Roy Wilson is the central figure in the Kleine photodrama Wild Oats to be shown this week in Mobile. The plot follows a young Southerner who indulges in wine women and cards, compressing years of experience into a few, with a sequel that ends in a country shocking tragedy.
A Mobile audience is invited to see the photodrama Wild Oats which blends a pretty romance with a strong moral message. The picture is described as memorable and likely to provoke thought among young men in Mobile.
Clara Kimball Young leaves for Cuba where the World Film Corporation will shoot the big scenes of The Feast of Life at the old San Tiago fortifications. The production, said to be her most ambitious, features a dual personality role as The Lady of the Lilies with a tortured, passionate arc.
Harry Lichtig, who handles most engagements at World Film's Peerless studio in Fort Lee, reports receiving many unusual and queer job applications seeking work in the film industry.
A mail-in note from a man seeking work as a leading man and comedian in film says he admires World Film Corporation pictures. He claims family opposition, cites jaundice, and jokes about saving money on face paint by not applying yellow makeup.
Holbrook Blinn, noted for Life's Whirlpool The Boss and The Ballet Girl, reports being severely bitten on the left wrist by a niblick during a golf round at Pinehurst North Carolina. The bite occurred as he freed the club from a strap in a bunker after a harsh caddy handling.
During the making of The Hand of Peril director Plice Tourneur instructed an old actor to “fight the camera” in in camera slang meaning to gaze into the lens. The actor, irritated by studio terms, struck a chair and damaged a camera before restraint.
Pathe shoots a new film at the Republic theatre New York after the curtain on Common Clay. A. H. Woods producer Fitzmaurice Fania Marinoff John Miltern and extras work through twenty scenes with theatre set crowding the floor to realism. The project titled New York adapts Woods theatrical success and uses a large theatre as a motion picture set.
Kitty Gordon completes Chinese villa project and makes screen debut in As In a Looking Glass for World Film Corporation. She hosted a chop-stick party with costumes imported from China embroidered in Mandarin lettering costing about $20,000.
Florence Reed heads the cast in New York Pathe Gold Rooster film where Fania Marinoff plunges headfirst down a long staircase performing several somersaults. The sequence, produced by George Fitzmaurice, leaves Marinoff badly bruised yet the scene aims at realism.
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