ON THE SCREEN

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5003, 18 October 1918, Page 3

ON THE SCREEN

NOTES AND NEWS OF THE PICTURES. ■ : (By the Movie Fan-) 1 i Mary Pickford’s producer, William \ D. Taylor, has enlisted in the British f Army. * ~. . As an antidote •to the war the daily newspapers in New York are devoting more space than at any previous time to moving picture news. * * * It is stated that the popular and winsome Marguerite Clark is to marry Lieut, H. Palmerson Williams, formerly a cinema actor. The date has not yet been fixed. * * * Theda Bara, the well known Fox “vampire,” whose real name is Theodosia Goodman, has lately finished a picture entitled “The Soul of Buddha” the story of which was written by herself. •Jf *■ X Annette Kellerman’s next picture, “Queen of the Sea,” is said to he a cinema marvel. The beauties of the j ocean depths are revealed in all their j splendor'and wonder. “It is one of tlie most spectacular productions of ; the year,” says William Fox, “and j excels even the million-dollar production, “A Daughter of the Gods.” j ** * . Contrary to rumor and general ire- j pression, Enrico Caruso, the world- ! famous vocalist, will not make hi» first film appearance in a visualisation ! of one of the operas in which lie made i his way to fame, but will be presented by Adolph Ivukor in an Artcraft production especially written for tho ' events. Caruso will appear hi at least two pictures. * * Julian Eltinge, the most remarkable female impersonator in the j world, who went back to the stago 1 recently, is again working for tho . lilm s under the management of Fred J. Balshofer, who was a big. figure in Metro. “Tlie Fascinating Widow,” one of Eltinge’s big stage successes, ! is being done, and it will be followed •by “Charley’s Aunt,” “Camouflage” ; and “My Crinoline Girl.” j ** * ! An American exchange reports that . the two well known stars of the- j screen, Beverly Bayne and Francis ! X Bushman were married in July. Bushman was divorced from his first wife and married Miss Bayne three day s later. According to an agreement, however, he is to pay his first wif e 40,000 dollars with 5 per cent interest as alimony. * * * Alice Brady is going hack to the ' speaking stage, but will do films at the same time. Olga Petrova is also , ; hooked for the footlights, partly as i her own manager, with a play she ■ partly wrote herself. Strenuous of- j forts have been made to secure Edith i Storey, not to mention Anita Stew- { art and Constance Talmadge-. -Miss j Talmadge, by the bvc, is engaged to / marry Norman Kerry, whom she has been playing opposite in several films ; lately. 1 ** * : They do things on a big scale A j America. William Fox lias- j list in- I stalled in his new Liberty Theatre at St. Louis, a pipe organ which cost , £2400 and is said to be one of the ; finest instruments in tlie country. : In addition to tho organ there is an ; orchestra of thirty-five instruments, j The building, which seats 2000, war* j to lie opened this month with t “Salome,” Theda, Bara's drama of the siren who cost John the Baptist. , liis head. ; Sylvia Bremer, who takes the part ; of Nellie in Mrs Humphrey Ward’s , novel, “Missing,” has taken a violent 1 dislike to her name, which, she says, j has a German sound about it. Born ; in Australia, and her lineage, as far j back as she can trace it, without j German taint, the fair Sylvia has do- ; eided to be “Breamer” in future, and i has obtained permission .from the j powers that be to that effect. An- , other player of note who has changed j her name lately i's Alma Reubens, j who in future is- to be known as | Alma Rubens. i ,* * * When Charlie Chaplin was last '■« New York, he ■ innocently was- *b«* j cause of providing Francis X. Busli- : ban. Metro star, with a, twenty-four period in gaol and two days in hospital. It happened thus: —Charlie was touring the great metropolis hr the cause of the Liberty War Loan, and as he was motoring through the streets lie was recognised by Bushman, who was standing on the footpath. Now Francis; X. hadn’t seen Charles since Chaplin was working [ for Essanay two years ago, and lie was so excited over seeing him again that lie made a rush at the fleeing motor. One dive and I' ranois "as almost at his goal, the next he was lying mud-strewn in the gutter, witn i Chaplin «- hundred yards away, auu going further. Bushman . found a friends nearby, who took him to the police station, where lie was charged’ with obstructing the traffic. Next two days ho spent getting mended a*, hospital. Atfer several months of adventures 3 in France, arranging films of battle and refugee scenes for the American Y.M.0.A., Miss Josephine Her non, a New York girl of Irish extraction, who left her post with a “movie” firm to undertake her present work, lias returned to London to superintend the development of her picture, records. She is second in command to Mr Fred H. Lawton, director of the Motion Picture Bureau of tho American Y.M.0.A.. which hopes to provide s-orae 10,000,000 feet of films for the entertainment of troops in Allied camps in Great Britain this year. On one occasion, while out with Mr Lawton and an operator, the party got between the troops in action and ’ a stream of refugees from the invaded area. They were cooling nrranging what looked like a promising battle’ scene in the near distance when ■ the Gormans burst into the village, - and the three got mixed up in a local 1 action between an enemy advanced guard and an Allied rearguard. 1. he three escaped by bolting down a side turning of the main street, and then across open country to another vill- . age in the rear, where they were able to get away in a motor car. On another occasion Miss Hernou had her trench helmet blown from her head. * * # “My Four Years in. Germany,” which is to be shown at tlie • Opera House for a brief season commences at a matinee on Tuesday afternoon next is one ) of the big educational pictures or , the world, and more than any other film has done much to enlighten the public as to whom the responsi > 3 rests for starting the present great 3 conflict. The film is a pictorial adap--5 tatiqn of Mr J. W. Gerard s famous book. Mr Gerard was the Mmeiitan Ambassador at the Imperial Court m 1 Berlin when the war commenced apd in his hook he makes clear th cm £ T dents preceding the actual d . ecU VC 3 tion of war. He then carries his 1 readers, through the opening stages, > and on through two years of wa. - In the picture, which cost muen 3 money to- produce, tlie cas n? < V, • low: —Ambassador James- 'Vr ard (Halbert Brown) ; Ivaiser Wilhelm 1 11, (Louis Dean); Crown Prnice ot - Germany (Earl fechencO, ; SsfiS. 'KJnS'kf sjf* • (I’ra»k StoM); l £X?r '«? £V* If"!: |! StsaoreUvv r j Ti?pto S‘ t " e (Vr«raf ! a Ambassador (William Daslnell.)