Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-13
YALE d. BRENNER
With the Edison company.


The New York Motion Picture Com
pany is to be on the outside as far aB
the Mutual Service is concerned after
September Is. The president Of the Mu-
tual Film Corporation asked the New
York Motion Picture Corporation to
withdraw It's productions from the Mu-
tnal program after that date. This was
done moro or less because the president
of the Mutual believed the New York
corporation was to withdraw anyway,
and in the parlance was simply beating
them to it, The New York Motion Pic
ture Corporation la to ally itself with the
Triangle
For the Mutual the following plans
have been completed Two three-reei fea-
tures with Broadway stars in the leading
roles will be released each week: the
knickerbocker stars, now releasing
through the General will be added TO
the Mutual program. There will be five
new comedy releases each week The
hrst will be the new Cub comedies, with
George Ovey featured and David Horsley
as producer. Others are Beauty Come
dies and new Falstaff comedy. The
Falstan will have a specially engaged
company of English players imported
for this particular brand of subjects
Tho two-reel pictures will hereafter be
known as the Mutual Banner features
among which there will be released each
week hereafter brand known as the
Mustang dramas Contracts were signed
last week with the Gaumont company
for a new split reel each week to be
half scenic and half cartoon
Chattanooga has been an Essanay town |
for the last four months Since the ar
rival of Captain II. II. Calvert. with 20 |
players from the Chicago studio OF the |
'Essanay Company, to produce pictures in |
Chattanooga and particularly in the |
mountains near here, the people of Chat |
tanooga have treated the visitors royalty |
The company is spending the summer
on Signal Mountain. Ia minutes from
by trolley and 1000 feet
above the sea level In addition TO tho
beautiful scenic effects that can be Sc
cured in this section, almost every inch
OF ground has some historical interest to
oner Many pictures have already been
mined in the exact locations that history
has designated
Interior lighting, Director Calvert has not
found II necessary to construct any in
terror sets
Beautiful homes, with real Chattanooga
society people as the extras. have been
sraciously thrown open to him, as has
he Country Club and the Superior
Courtroom, with the real Judge. Jurors,
peetators carrying out those parts in
he picture.
Perhaps the most interesting work Di-
ector Calvert will turn out this summer
-he Is working on them now-is the IA
nous 'Tish' stories as they appeared
the Saturday Evening Post, by Mary
soberts Rineheart.
They are being picturlzed in two acts =
2 the completed story. and their titles .
re as follows 'Tlsh's Spy" THE Rei-
loaded Detective" Mind over Motor
completed), THE Cave on Thundercloud =
fountain tcompleted). "A Wolf In the I
old. Simple Lifers" and probably q
Tiers later ON. Miss Darcy is PLAYING
le part Of "Tish." supported by an able 4
AZ the first woman to direct an Edl- n
M production. Miriam Nesbitt, the tai L
lted ana popular star OF that company. d
arts Sunday on a six weeks vacation b
ia tour OF the West and the Panama y
Sposition, during which she will Aim the
terior and some of the interior scenes 70
four-reel feature, "a Close Csii :
which she will star direct, and Of !,
hieh she is also the author. The Mo-
re concerns the pursuit OF n missing n
an whom she must find and marry UgItb9 e
a limited time to win a fortune NJiss y
.sbitt has placed the story IN the T"
'rld's fair location, and she expects to n
IKE the feature doubly attractive he.
use OF its embracing some of the me-, nj
autirul scenes at the expositlon Srbs b
i will take her also 10 San Diego. wbiis p