Evening capital news., March 26, 1916, Image 16

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EAR DAVE:
Well, Dave, I didn't lose
my job, like 1 told you I
might because of me and
Strongheart having
fight and him losing his
teeth.
of teeth and looks
bigger movie actor than
He's got a new set
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turned, that scenario of the
that It fits the
They lust
ever.
school-teacher play around so
way the fight turned out, and it's all right, and
Mr. Crossland and J. J. Murphy got the owners
of the Occidental Film Company, which is the
Paine of our company, to let them put
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For 5 extra I'll get you
up a more romantic name
than Boggs.
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other bunch of actors to make comic pictures
with lots of riding and rough stuff in them, and
1 am going to be the star actor in that com
pany.
Of course, I ain't a hero actor like I want to
parts and doctor parts
be yet, and play lovi
and things like that. b*ut I am head actor, all
tho same, and I'm going to get $50 «a week,
•very Monday night, which is pay day, only
they don't call it pay day, they call it the ghost
walking, when we get our money.
Lucy is going to be the leading girl actor In
our company, and Nellie Standish, her real
rame ain't that, it's Mary Soper, the little red
iy wives when I
beaded girl that was oqe of
played wild man —she is going to be what they
call the ongeenew, and play the parts that
• in't leading parts, but almost, and Miss Mar
ney, the old maid actress, will do the mother
•tuff and old woman parts.
Ain't that pretty good pay for being a movie
•ctor, Dave? I'fl have a lot of money left after
I get my board paid and pay for my washing,
Won't I?
You tell Lafe and Thorn how much I am
1 guess they won't make fun of me
tl>at beats working
around a soda fountain in Brice's drug store,
and Lafe will say; "I wish 1 was making it in
stead of hanging wall paper and painting signs
foi old man Jones."
Strongheart, he wasn't very mad at me about
that tight. He says: "Well, Rube, you are some
man when you get started, ain't you?" And we
•hook hands, because we can't be working to
gether in the same studio and be mad at one
another, can we?
making,
now. Thorn will say
And listen, Dave,
tie as big an actor as Charlie Chaplin or H. B.
Walthall, and all I'll have to -do Is to pay a
man here $25 a month and he'll get my name in
He's what
I've found out hew I can
the papers all over the country,
they call a press agent, and h«Yil write pieces
•bout me and send them to all the papers, and
pretty soon I'll be pm king $55 or maybe $60 a
week.
This here press agent, he put nearly all of
them big actora In the movies on tbe map Just
by writing about them In the papers, and I
said:
"Ubat will you write about me?'
A ml he says. "Well, I'U write a little piece
like this: Mr. Thomas Boggs, the newest star
to shout across the r^ovle flrmanenL, was
shocked the other day whilst In a restaurant to
rude people eating pie with thqjr
tee some
knives.'
1 said, "That wouldn't shock ms none, because
what do you eat pie with if you don't use your
knife? tv, alwsys et It that way."
He oaya: "Well, then, we will turn It around
and say that Mr. Thomaa Boggs, the newest
gtnr to shoot «cross the movls flrmanent Is not
g bit affected by the enorinoils salary he
Occidental Moving Picture
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ceives from the
Company, and la eo democratic that he eats pie
•ritt, bis knife."
I said, "W'ell, that's all right," 1 never voted
the Démocratie ticket but three times when
old man Jones was elected, but that don't
make no difference it he wants to put that in.
He says I had ought to get another name be
sides Boggs. That ain't romantic enough for
an actor, and I told him about the one 1 got
from that correspondence school that teaches
movie acting by mail, Clarence Clavering. Lucy
made me quit using it because she said it was
a sissy name, and he la going to pick me out
a good name, and that will be flve dollars
extra.
Another man came to see me that takes pic
tures of all the big movie actors.
no\ to tell the press agent about him, because
he is awful mad at him for putting some big
actors on the map by making pictures of them,
want you to buy a thousand souvenir spoon«*
with your name on them, so that everybody will
have your name in their mouths, or some comm
on game like that.*'
"But I'm not as big a fool aa I look." 1 told
him, "and I won't bite on any scheme like
that."
He said: "Well, be careful. As soon as they
find out you are making fifty a week they'll
be after, you."
But if one of them grafters tries to sell me
any fakes I'll tell them where they get off at
We made some scenes in one of them pictures
with me in it as the star yesterday, and as
soon as I get through this letter to you I'm
going to write to Mabel and* tell her how it
was I got her picture back from that man that
must have stole it from her, because 1 know
Mabel wouldn't give her picture to nobody as
long as. she's going with me, and writing me
letters the way she does.
It was sure funny the way r come to get that
picture, Dave. J. J. says if I keep on they will
have to change the name of this movie com
pany to the Accidental Moving Picture Com
pany instead of the Occidental, because I am
all the time having so many accidents. I said
I thought that's what the word meant all the
time, but it don't mean that. Bennie Steinbush
says the world is divided Into two halves, and
one is called the Oriental llkej Egypt, where
the Arabs and them Oriental dancers we used
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Pickford an awful close race
in work.
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to sea at the street fair at Terre Haute come
from.
Is Indiana and California and Omaha, and this
country where we Uve.
This here play is wild Western stuff, and 1
am the Lone Bandit of Dead Tree Gulch, and
I hold up a stage coach. There is a man out
here who has got some sure enough stage
coaches that used to be used before there was
any railroads, and they are all shot full of
holes where the robbers have held them up so
many tlmek, and they rent these coaches out
to movie companies who want to make hold-up
stuff.
J. J. rented one of them, and we all went out
to the location to make the pictures. When
we got out on the road a piece J. J. says:
"Here is a good place for the hold-up." and
he told me and Joe Dixon to get off with one of
the cameras and we'd rehearse the action.
"Tod put on your mask," ha says, "and whin
we come around the bend with the stage you
Jump out and pull your gun and holler 'hands
up!' Lucy shoots you from ths stag* coacK,
and when girls will get stuck on ms from eas
ing me set in the pictures, and want my photo,
we will tell them to send 16 cents to pay for
stamps, and It will cost only 2 cents, and I'U
make a lot of money.
So l am going to give him fifty dollars as soon
as I get my first two pay days, tbsn I'll havs
two of them working for me and neither one
win know ft. and they will both work their
head* oft to sea who can make ms a big actor
first. Pratty slick, eh. Days?
J. J. Murphy says: "Tom, have any of them
grafters got after you yet?"
1 said:
And he said:
you a scheme to make you famous,
and we take you on board and she discover*
that you are her childhood sweetheart and she
makes us all promis* not to tell If you'll agree
lo reform and not be a hoM-up man any longer,"
and stuff like that
Wen, Jo* Dixon ana me got off, and pretty
The part that is called the Occidental
"W hat kind of grafters?"
"Fakers that will try to «ell
They'll
Answers to
Movie Fans
Only very Important qneatlona will be g ,v -
en personal replies, and then only when «
stamped, self-addressed envelope Is Inclosed.
Do not send loose stamps. Address all qui
tlons to Moving Picture Editor, care of this
paper.
AOK— Harri* Gordon played
opposite Mignon Anderst
Milestones of Life, and In
The Mating, Lewis J. Cody
played opposite Bessie
rlscale. Wallace Reid Is with
the f Jesse L. Laeky Com
pany, Hollywood, Cal.
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ANXIOUS READER—The last we heard of
Irene V*arfeld she was with the B. A. Rolfe
Company, 3 West Sixty-first street, New York.
But this was about a year ago.
at that address
warded to her.
G. P.—When the Winning sequel to The
Diamond from the Sky Is decided upon,
the announcement will appear In the newspa
pers.
A letter to
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M.—Have never heard of any relationship
between Edna and Christine Mayo. Blanche
Sweet is about 20 years old. It was Sarah
Bernhardt who played In Jeanne Dore, not
Lillian Lorraine.
O. B.—As well as we understand it, the
Japanese does not. succeed in kissing
Fanny Ward In The Cheat.
B.—James Cruze is said to be wor
with a company called the Çalo Alto Film
Company, Palo Alto, Cal.
G. R.—The Dumb Bandit Is perhaps the
latest film in which Francis Ford may be
seen. Grace Cunard wrote the scenario.
M. R.—Theda Bara is not married. Mary
Pickford is Owen Moore's wife, but Flor
ence Lawrence is not married to King Ba
P. —Chester Barnett may be addressed in
care of the World Film Corporation, 13C
West Forty-sixth street, New York.
C HAS.— Signe A:
Seena Owen, pronounced phonetically. She
Is not married, is nearly 5 feet and a half tall.
Ic about 20 years old, has blue eyes and golden
hair, and likes all kinds of pets.
D.—The correct address of Mary Miles
• Minter is the Columbia Pictures Corpora
tion, 3 West Sixty-first street, New York. This
of the studios that make pictures for the
Metro program.
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soon here comes the stage coach licketty split,
and I jumped out in the road and said hands
up!'
I thought there
something wrong right
away, because that driver didn't look like
Bennie Steinbush dressed up like a stage coach
driver, and he jerked them horses back to
quick they almost set down In the road, and
all of the people come filing out of the coach,
and a man with specks
but they all held their hands up, and t didn't
know what to do. Then they saw Joe Dix
with the camera, and knowed it was
stuff, and they all laughed,, and
"You had me going, young man, you sure look
ihe part; you would have made a good haul ort
a regular bandit," and
he took out a pocketbook and it was full ot
cussed
• awful,
man
if y<
had b<
of
money.
A picture dropped out of it and I
Mabel's picture, and didn't say nothing, but I
picked it up when he wasn't looking. I bet
he's been back thereat home, Dave, and broke
Into Redden's photograph gallery and stole thaï
picture of Mabel they had stuck up on tlie wall,
because Mabel Is such a pretty girl 1
anybody would want to have her picture.
While we were talking, J. J. and the other
actors come along in the regular stage
and J. J. knowed the man with specks
he # and them other folks had just hired the
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too, Dave.
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stags coach to drive around In and have snap
shot pictures takeu of themselves so they could
send the pictures back east to their friend*.
Th# man with specks on was Mr. Patterson,
a rich man who owns lots of stock in two or
three movie companies, but he don't own none
In ours, but J. J. says my mistake gavé him a
chance to get acquainted with Mr. Patterson
and maybe they can get him to buy a lot of
stock tn our company and then we can build
up a great big studio like some of the companies
that have about a hundred actors working (or
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FLORENCE LAWRENCE
ISS FLORENCE LAWRENCE, the first motion
picture actress to become a star, has gone back
to the Universal Company, w ith whom she start
ed out as leading woman player when that
company was organized.
became famous when she was with the Bio
'•graph Company, when the players' names w r ere
not given in the cast of characters.
But when her name did become known she was
the most talked of screen actress of the day.
At one tim® a story got out that she had been
killed ln an automobile accident, and so many telegrams and inquiries
poured into the studio for verification of the story that the film
pany sent her out on a tour of the principal cities of the United
States, and she appeared in a St. Louis Theater and definitely proved
to a large number of eye-witnesses that the story of her death w
false. .
The reason for Miss Lawrence's retirement from the screen for a
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them all the time, and pay more wages than
they do now, so maybe I'll get more than fifty
dollars a week right away.
Lucy says I must not get my head all swelled
up over my big wages, and 1 told her 1 would
never do that, and think I was better than any
body else, and I asked her how much they
was paying her. and she said: ■
■ Oh. I am running Mary Pickford an awful
Close «ace in work, but my salary isn't unite
thirty-five a
as high yet, they only give
week, but that's better than fifty on the road
or with the tenta, for half the time we didn't
get it, and It takes an awful lot to live on
the vodvll stage or with a circus."
When we got back from the stage coach
scenes the other company that Strongheart Is
star of, was not there, but Mise Madeline Miles
was, and she wanted to tell me something.
They had been telling It around that she and
Strongheart was married, and I thought she
was going to jump onto me for telling, when l
didn't do It, and I said: »
"if you think 1 told about you being mar
ried, you are mistaken," end she satd:
"No, that's not it. 1 told that myself. I
just want to show you something."
She took me to her dressing room and opened
the door, and I peeped in, and there was the
prettiest little boy you ever saw, Dave. He
had just come from Ran Francisco on the train,
and was tired, and she had put him to sleep
on a trunk.
"Dofi't you tell, Tom," she told me. Tm go
ing to surpria« Frederick with him."
After-a while when they all came back, ahe
went into the dressing room and come walking
out with that little boy, and he saw Strong
heart, and run up to him, and tried to climb
up his leg. and Strongheart seemed kinda dazed
Rt first, but grabbed the kid up and hugged
him, and Misa Mifta run up and Strongheart
grabbed her Knd made a little speech.
'Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "this
is my wife, ami this is oiir little boy, and I
ha\ e been the biggest fool in tile cuuntrj. but
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I'm going to change *11 that, and he cited, am
MIbs .Madeline Miles cried, and then 1 busted
out and cried too, Dave and 1 ^uruby
body cried but «he kid and J. J. Murphy,
He sa ici.
"Hell fire, this Is the best emotional stuf?
that was ever pulled off around tljls studio,
and no camera going!"
Well, goodbye, Dave,
things again next week.
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TOM.
A NS WERS REG A RD1NG
PHOTOPLAY WRITING
A. B —It Is Impossible to give an Idea as
The studios
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to the value of your plays,
are the only plates that set values, and the
test thing to do is to keep on sending them
If they do not sell at the first two oi
three places, read them over; you may see
what is wrong and be aide to correct It.
ptay does not sell, try to rewitte it. Many line
subjects have been made out of weak ones by
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giving them different treatment,
probably not hear from your Diamond from the
Sky sequel until the winner has been decided
As we understand It. you are not at 11b
upon.
time was that she had been injured while working in a photoplay
A particular scene, one of a burning building, where she had to savt
Matt Moore's life by dragging him down a flight of stairs, was the
cause of all the trouble. She had to drag him down three times be
fore the scene could be photographed correctly, and after the play
was finished it was discovered that she had injured her back. ,
For many months she lay on her back, trying to regain lier strength.
By living a wholesome, carefree life on her farm not far from New
York City, she has become perfectly well, although she has been warned
that she must be careful. Then Miss Lawrence has been very busy at
being married.
"Oh, yes," she says. "I'm married still, but I'm not working at it
any longer. Staying home all day
my time, and being ready in the evening with a cheery
home some more, does not appeal to
going back where 1 can do some real
third-rate intelligence can be trained to do "
t tl\ 'household cares' to occupy
to stay
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until after you are
it will not be
by
The Diamond from the Sky
RS. L J. T. Mo.—The term
Play.
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as applied to moving pictures, Is very
It usually means, however, any play whero
tie.
the characters require elaborate
a play of the colonial period,
scenes In foreign courts.
Diamond fn
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of The
wide publicity in th
trouble in learning the lucky
when the contest Is decided,
little market Just now for
plàys. The makers all declare that they are
coming bock, however,
quote sound very familiar,
dreds of them, and they may
or nothing Studios have girls who attend to
returning rejected plays to writers,
simply Incloses a copy of whatevi
ïou will have no
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There is very
everything
The girl
Jection slip the company uses. A studio mày
return a play that they would not buy under
any consideration with a form slip expressing
deep regret, and, on the other hand, they may
think your work promising, but cannot take
the time to g*
reason. Mtudios often accept plays that they
have rejected months before. The studios con
sider that they are dealing with professional
writers, and no reaF writer pays much atten
tion to a rejection. He simply looks over the
ny other than a stereotype*!
Play «o see it it needs rewriting or copying.
starts It off again, then writes another play or
so while he Is waiting for a check or another
rejection. Certainly do not quit because ol a
few rejection slips.