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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1915
Page
18
Emmett Campbell Hall transports viewers with Road O Strife a Lubin serial featuring Mary Charleson Crane Wilbur and Jack Standing. The innovation uses captions that appear and vanish during action to simulate audible speech creating a seamless uninterrupted narrative and new sound effect realism.
Veteran Seliz director Colin Campbell plans to add one or two short film stories to the Regular Selig releases while awaiting final sets for the feature The Ne'er Do Well. Campbell, known for quick improvements, will use spare time to present imitable Campbell singles.
The Selig Polyscope Company has obtained the motion picture rights to The Garden of Allah from Mary Anderson and Robert Hichens. Royalties are reported as the highest ever paid for a motion picture play. Selig plans a spectacular production to rival any film drama.
Als Scheff, famed stage star with a Morosco contract, begins filming at Bosworth Morosco studios for Broadway comedy Pretty Mrs Smith. Production starts with enthusiasm as Scheff makes her motion picture debut in this elaborate, spectacle-filled project.
Edison adds Dallas Welford to its motion picture slate as a versatile English star and comedian. Welford, Scottish born with theater ties, has appeared in Britain and the United States in dramas and later shifted to principal comedy roles with Charles Hawtrey, highlighting a stroke of good fortune for Edison.
Pete Morrison, famed as Chief of the Cowboys, leaves four years with Flying A to join Bert Bracken at Alhambra Motion Picture Company as assistant director. He previously worked with M Kennedy on the American brand of films and has also been with Self and Essanay.
A three reel showing at Edison Studio moved even hardened players with its simple, lifelike drama. Viola Dana’s portrayal of a daughter lured to forgetfulness and suicide drew suppressed crying. Bessie Learn’s hysteria forced removal from the section room as Helen Strickland played the sick mother.
The Robinson Grand will present high class releases headlined by Mary Pickford in Behind the Scenes and Chaplin in A Night Out starting Monday April 19. The program opens with Mary Pickford earning 2000 weekly and features David Belasco’s The Girl of the Golden West on Tuesday April 20 with Theodore Roberts as Jack Rance and Blanch Bates as The Girl, a noted sensation in theater.
The program on Wednesday April 21 features Winsor McKay, famed Little Nemo creator, in a two part cartoon comedy. Also starring Jack Barry in William Collier's The Man from Mexico, a Paramount feature, promising continuous mirth. The event highlights one of America’s leading cartoonists and top light comedians of the era.
Oscar Hamperstein ill Herbert Kelcey Effie Shen star in At Sunrise Violet Hemming leads Under cover Paul Kester revives Sweet Nell of Old Drury in London James K Hackett plans Craig Kennedy drama Florence Rockwell heads to vaudeville Andrew Mack hunts for Irish play Tully Marshall appears in The Unexpected Sweethearts tours with Christie Macdonald Amelia Summerville in The War Wife Kolb & Dill prep This Way Out in San Francisco
Oscar Apfel, now aligned with Morosco-Bosworth, oversees Wild Olive, Basil King romance for Oliver Morosco Photoplay. Myrtle Stedman, star, leads. supported by Thomas MacLure, Forrest Stanley, Fritzi Scheff, and Herbert Standing. Other films planned: The Jade Idol, Judge and Jury, This is the Life, Society Pilot, The Half Breed, In South Carolina.
Harry Woodruff, formerly of A Man and His Mate, begins work in Star of India directed by Thomas H Ince at Mutual studio Los Angeles. He may become a regular in motion pictures joining Selwyns Twin Beds. Hammerstein show April 24 matinee and night. Twin Beds at Robinson Grand April 26. Jelly Signs plans. James Jelly to play eight thousand dollar Moller organ. Installations progress. Jelly signs long contract to perform exclusively. Performances start April 9 with multiple daily showings. 5 cent admission for children.
Leading actress Marguerite Courtot and lion tamer Captain Bonavita Ghed captivate crowds with lions that forecast weather. Baltimore the fierce lion wounded Bonavita but remains star pupil of the act. Foretelling rain hinges on lions drinking patterns, restlessness, and water saucers. A weather report is posted daily outside the arena based on their behavior. Min, a three year old cub, is the troupe’s brightest student and the only captive bred lion in the group.
Viola Allen, famed stage star of classical and Shakespearian roles, will make her film debut with Essanay at Chicago studios. She is signed for a large salary to star in the dramatization of F Marion Crawford’s The White Sister, a move hailed by experts as a landmark in photoplay history.
Fred H. James, noted author of plays and vaudeville sketches, joins Vitagraph Company scenario staff. He has been a partner at Wetzel and James for ten years, writing and producing thirty five works, and is famed for athletic feats such as swimming from the Battery to Sandy Hook in seven hours and twenty minutes.
The Vitagraph acting staff at Flatbush studios floods manuscripts from youngest to oldest. Irma Robbins, formerly a vaudeville auto girl, now plays opposite Frank Daniels in a new Comedy Story "Cutey Fortune Hunting" accepted by Vitagraph and slated for early production under director Wally Van.
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