El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-24
Edgena De Lespine
Now With BiOgraPh
Earl Metcalfe Playing Leads
With Lubin Under
Terwi1liger.

Between Chicago and New York
Joe Brandt Shows Europe What Live
American Idea Man Can DO.-EdGar
Jones an Ideal Western Hero.
Miss Edgena de Lespiue, formerly
with Reliance and now playing leads
with Biograph, possesses a personality
that makes her a dominant force Ii
every film in which she appears. Be
fore taking up the work of posing for the
camera, she had won an enTiable posi-
ton on the speaking stage, and in every
role she assumes she gives evidence Of
trained talent as an actress. Her beauty
Of itself would give her distinction, but
this distinction is enhanced by inheri-
lance of the grace characteristic of the
Southern woman of assured social posi-
ton, bequeathed to her by her fOrbears
and perfected by her own early life,
amid its gracious surroundings.
Earl Metcalfe, whose great histrionie
ability is rapidly becoming recognized,
has been assigned to play leads under
| the dictatorship of George Terwilliger,
of the Lubin Company. Mr.. Metcalfe
lis still a young man, several years on
/ the sunny side Of thirty, and his rapid
advancement has been due to conscien-
ltious work, handsome face and figure
and a natural aptitude for playing char
Iacter parts. His versatility In inter
lpreting widely different roles has been
IcOmpared to that o. Cyril Maude. He
has one trait which has endeared him to
IphOtOplay fans everywhere. He receives
land promptly answers a score of letters
"a day from WOuld-be aspirants who
would move upon a screen. When &C
tcOmpanied by their photographs it makes
advice more valuable, as he is then able
Ito tell If they are likely to photograph
/ well. He is unmarried and has a pre-
mOnitiOn that he viii meet his souI-mate
by correspondence. All letters addressed
Studio, Philadelphia, will reach their
destination.
WatteEson r. Rothaeker has recently
been Wrestling the title of ChicagO-New
York "cOmmuter" from Joe Hopp and
Claude Plough. He fits back and forth
/ from one metropolis to another, like the
ICOchranes and John Grey journey to and
from New Rochelle. Every time he
"
manager of the Industrial Moving Pic
lture Company has some new enterprise
| to unfold. Last week, he came to New
( York to film the famous terpsichorean
artists, Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Castle,
who are. teaching the tango to the -Four
Hundred.
The Castles danced before the camera
! lat the Victor Universal studio, George
I 3. Hall directing. One thousand feet
81 Il, Ill e l.
llntrlcacles of the Tango, Make, Castle
Walk, One-Step and Hesitation dances.
Martin Beck has booked the film over
i the entire Orpheum Circuit
Joe Brandt, prince Of good fellows and
1.-THE well-knOwn publicity expert in the
film game, is back again in New York,
latter an absence Of five months in Du-
rope in the interest Of the Universal
Program.
Joes first mission abroad was to es-
Itablisb the English publicity department
Of the Universal, and the "Trans-Atlan-
Transatlantic Film Company, which
represents the Universal Program in
England.
From London, Mr.. Brandt proceeded
Ito Paris and Berlin, where he per
formed a like service. In the latter city
he brought out the German edition of
1.-THE Universal Weekly" which has
blazed a new trail in German film pub
llieity.
Vienna in turn became the scene of
the Brandt activities, and here Joe es-
Itablished another branch to handle the
! Universal product in AuStro-Hungary
and the Balkan States. Just before re-
turning to America, Mr.. Brandt In
stalled a new branch Of the Trans-At-
llantic in Copenhagen, from whence
North Europe and Scandinavia will be
Supplied
Edgar Jones, actor-director Of the
lLubin Stock Company, Is a real man of
the West, but born IN Steubenville, o.
where he spent his young manhood. be
has always been devoted to sports, but
his skill at horsemanship easily shows
where his preference lies.
| His success as a leading man induced
the Lubin management to promote Mr..
j ones to the responsibility Of directing
1.-THE phOtOplays in which he plays the
leading part For the past few months
he has been utilizing the knowledge he
ihad gained while playing leads. His
methods are peculiarly adapted TO the
stories assigned him to produce at Betz-
wood, the mammoth Lubin estate on the
ISchuylkll- River, where ne mas hau re-
sources for the filming Of out-of-dooE
stories such as no other director In the
East has had at his command His
wholesome personality and his manner
careless, devil-may-care-sug suggest the
ideal hero Of the far West.
Ray c. SmaIwood, Photographic ex
lpert, with the Universal Film Mfg. Co.
viii take up his duties as director
with that company next week Miss
Ethel Grandin viii be his leading. WON
an. His company will specialize II
IcOmedy dramas.
/ Mr.. Smallwood has been connected
with the motion picture industry. fol
IabOut six years. His broad experience
lin all branches of motion picture worh
fits him for his new duties. In add
ton to directing, he will superintend his
IOwn camera work. he is brother Of
Arthur Smallwood, the popular anC
lcleYer commercial picture expert
Il Kathleen Kerrigan, actress of not'
and sister of the Universal star, J. War
Iren Kerrigan, who has been specially en-
Gagged by the Universal to play the roll
iof no1fIob IN, 0Torn0naId'c fOur