Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-09
me FOR THE MULE"
SAYS MOVIE STAR
Mutual Player Says No Auto
mobile for Him-Other
Photoplay Notes
BY the photOplav Editor

by the PhotOplay Editor
Every movng-pcture star in the film
world drives a 90-horsepower racing car
| OF low, rakish design. II you are to be-
| neVe the numerous stories sent broad
! cast telling Of their narrow escapes while
| urlVlng their latest model through con-
! gested traffic 1t Is always car of high
| cost and great speed that the film favor
ite owns, not n small, comfortable car
! ouilt for pleasant motor trips.
1t would seem that the motion picture
| industry existed merely for the purpose
| OF Keeping the automobile manufacturers
| busy. Agents for autos are supposed to
hock around studios thicker than small
boys around big league pitcher during
worlds SERIES
However there Is one moving-picture
| star who will have nothing to do with
! automobiles. This iconoclast Is no other
| than Sydney Mason, star in the Mutual
| MasterpiCtures, De Luxe Edition, which
are produced by the Gaumont Company
He has purchased jauntng car and
| docile white mule. which he nonchaanty
drives through the motor-lined streets of
! Jacksonville, Fla, undlsturbed by the
| taunts of his friends
mo automobiles for me-" says the
Gaumont tMutuaD star, as this is solid
| comfort, and | am not worried about the
high cost of gasoline. "Old Ironsides'
| runs on one speed, but | have no tire
troubles and the carburetor never gets
| clogged"
William Collier has nearly completed
] his Mack Sennett comedy. Getting Mar
| ried," and is preparing to devote all his
| time to new ive-reel Kay-Bee feature
| which Walter Edwards is directing for
| 1nce.
Three distinct parts of the United
States in as many different directions,
| H. t,,
tion of "A Corner in Cotton" a forth
coming Metro feature produced by the
| Quality Picture Corporation. The first
scenes were photographed in California,
/ the interior made in New York, and the
final scenes made in and near Savannah,
| Georgia. Marguerite Snow has the stellar
role in this production.
Alma Hanlon, who is working in the
William Fox production, Gold and the
| Woman" threatens to create n shortage
| in pennies If her present plans develop.
| About a month ago Miss Hanlon made
| up her mind to save every penny that
| came to her in change and provided her
self with a neat little box thinking it
would hold all the pennies she had thought
| she would collect in n years time Her sur
| prise was great when, after she had been
| saving for a week. the box was overflow
! ing and having 247 pennies to her credit
| SN''N
became fascinating pursuit. Miss Han
! lon found that she averaged between 2OV
| and $50 pennies every week. Becoming
| possessed of a number of money wrap
! pers, she now puts them away in small
J safe reouisltioned from her father She
has determined to let them accumulate
until she can have them sent to the bank
| and receive n nice, crisp bill with the
numerals in the corner reading 100.
During the making of n scene in the
new World Film corporations produc-
tion, "The Hand of Peril" starring House
Peters, under the direction of Maurice
| Tourneur, the director had chosen for a
character part an old actor, who, While
| fine artist was unused to the terinlhoi-
ogy of the studio. He was also OF Ill
| bernian descent and pugnacious. After
n hard mornings work in the unaccus-
toned surroundings, the Thespian's tenn
| per had risen to boiling point. flhahS'
! Mr. Tourneur shouted: "FiGht the Cam
era" The actor needed no second invita-
| tion: he was sore at the camera anyhow;
| Picking UP a chair he had waded in ana
seriously damaged the instrument, and
! the camera man, who tried to protect H.
! before he could be restrained ana eN-
plained to him that the term Tourneur
had employed simply meant, in camera
slang, to gaze straight into the lens .
A. tbo EranIkford on wednesday Sam"
| Bernard in because He Loved her'
does some terrible things in saving the
"beautiful cashier" of a high class
restaurant. You can imagine the IRE
pressible Sam" in a position of this KIND:
Some of the things that happen VIII
| recur to you week after and make you
laugh anew.
wallace Reid, the ladies' newest fighting
hero, appears at the Tioga The2tre -, on
| Thursday in 1.-THE Chorus Lady. rms
Young man dust % and married TO
| Dorothy Davenport is one OF the most
remarkable actors in the silent drama
! Those who saw him in THE Birth OF a
Nation" will recall him as Verltaple
! Hercules, while in Carmen in support
of Geraldine Farrar, he was very hand
some dragon and delighted the ladies'
with his lovemaking.
Patrons of the Cedar Theatre on
Thursday, February 10, will have an OPP
nortunity of viewing the far famed Grand
| CANYON of Arizona in THE Great DIVIDE
with House Peters and Ethel Clayton
The Jefferson Theatre has arranged to
show ''The Battle Cry of Peace next
week.
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