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Publication Date: 11/5/1915
Media Type: House Organs
Source: Theatre Collection
Notes:

Earl Metcalfe has completed his first picture as a Lubin director, "His Three Brides” with inimitable Billie Reeves as his star. Judging from the peek he has given us, Metcalfe is out to make Saturday, the Reeves release day, the king pin of the other six days of the week. Metcalfe has Reeves working in a way which is going to

make you all double up with laughter and wrinkle your shirt front, sure.

"Streets of Silence" is the title of a new and original story by Anthony P. Kelly of the Lubin scenario force, which will have an early V. L. S. E. release. Director George Terwilliger will produce the picture.

June Daye is the name which has been adopted by that talented little lady of the Lubin Stock Company, Vinnie Burns. Hereafter it will be June Daye — and remember that the name is significant of the best there is in picture acting. June Daye is going to be a big favorite with you and your audiences and is also going to be the biggest name in motion pictures. Don't forget June Daye, and June is all that her name implies, the daintiest and dandiest of them all. You'll welcome June Dave as you do the month of roses.

Clay M. Greene, directing a two-reeler recently, found it necessary to secure a live fish for a closeup, and live fish when needed for a picture or for an alibi to the wife are decidedly hard birds to gather. Just one of those little chance things happened when the

camera man in either desperation or a “comical vein,” dug a worm, bent a pin and a foolish fish fell for it. Then the scene proceeded and Director Greene now insists that this self-same camera man accompany him every Friday.

Joseph Kaufman with his company, headed by June Daye and Francis Joyner have been laid up for three days with a peculiar kind of carbon poisoning contracted from too constant exposure to the rays of carbon bank lights. During the taking of scenes in a Philadelphia department store, ten carbon lights were used and the players were in their rays for more than eight hours steadily with the result that on Monday, the day following, all were confined to their homes under the Doctor's care. Director Kaufman demands that the picture "When We Meet Again" be a knockout after this experience.

Director Edgar Lewis with Ethel Clayton, House Peters and his company of sixteen have been camping at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, for the past three weeks in order to be on the job for the beautiful sunrise and sunset effects which he intends to record in his picture "The Great Divide.” Within a few days the company will leave for Gallup, New Mexico, and then back to Philadelphia.

Carrie Reynolds has registered one of the hits of the season among photo-players. Miss Reynolds despite the fact that she has appeared in but very few Lubin releases to date has taken the fans by storm as is attested to by the volume of mail she receives each morning at the studio. She is playing now alternately with Billie Reeves and D. L. Don in their leading feminine roles and "putting it over" for keeps, good and plenty.

Nance O'Neil, the best of America's emotional actresses, has contracted with the Lubin Company to appear in a series of feature pictures to be released through the V. L. S. E. Inc. offices.

Octavia Handworth will have the lead in a three-reel play by Anthony Kelly, to be produced by Director George Terwilliger.

Kempton Greene is some base-ball fan and is lionized by his fellow rooters almost as much as he is by photo-play fans. During the last world's series he was cartooned in no less than seventeen newspapers throughout the country.

Earl Metcalfe is in receipt of a letter from Sergeant Kerrigan of the English Army telling of his enjoyment at having witnessed a screen performance by Metcalfe at Vitry-L'Francois, France, for the wounded soldiers. 'Tis a strange world this — for I too saw Metcalfe in a picture at Vitry L'Francois last March — all of which leads me to believe that perhaps there is some fame in photo-playing after all. Metcalfe holds the record for European engagements presumably.

D. L. Don comedies are going like wildfire on each Tuesday. The recent showing of "Love and Swords” at the spacious Metropolitan in Philadelphia, brought a verdict of "the find of the year" for D. L. Don. A different style comedian from all the rest with a face which outrivals all others for distinctiveness. Don is an originator who has been readily accepted as a welcome relief from the sameness of picture comedians.

Call Number: Lubin - Bulletin III:15