The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10

FLASH LIGHTS

Life for Blanch Sweet is just one
photoplay after another. Instead of
the usual three to six weeks vacation
between pictures Miss Sweet for the
past three months mas not been al
lowed that many days OF inactivity.
Furthermore, she says this is decided
ly to her liking.
Director Roy Clements has COM
pleted the filming of Lincoln j. Car
ter's well known meiodranla, The
Fast Mall the principal roles of
which were played by comedy stars in
Guiding Victor Potel. the well known
Slim of pictures, Miss Eileen Sedg-
wick. Yona Landowska, Ernie Shields,
L. NJ. Wells and Duke Worne. The
placing of old time melodramas in the
hands of comedians, while it is an in
novation. may prove distinctly popu
lar.
Following a brief vacation, during
which she engineered the making of
q number OF costly gowns, Bessie Bar
riScale has resumed work and is now
engrossed in the stellar role of new
| Triangle feature from the pen of c.
| Gardner Sullivan. In this play, Miss
/ Barriscale has the part of young
girl. Her leading man in the produc
ton is none other than Charles Ray.
who has not been present in a Tri-
angle play N some time.
Marie Doro, the Lasky-Paramou
star, VIII commence rehearsals soon
for The Storm" n Drama written es-
pecially for her She is being dir ected
by Cecil B. DeMille.
Mabel Taliaferro,s accomplishments
extend beyond her ability to star in
Metro productions. Miss Taliaferro
writes we'll and has contributed a
number of short stories and other ar
ticleS to various popular magazines.
In cola boration with KitcheH Web
ster, she wrote Cinderella" the first
photoplay in which she ever appeared.
Mrs Alice Gale, we'll known screen
actress, who is now with the William
Fox films, is fond of three children
Kittens Reichert and Jane and Kath-
crime Lee-who frequently appear in
Fox films. She tries to teach them
various things about the Bible but
they insist, she says. on confusing
scriptural characters with stage &C
quaintances.
A few days ago, Mrs. Gale had the
three children lined up before her FOL
a lesson. She had been telling then
the story of Damon and Pythlas.
What famous friendship in the Bi
BILE does the friendship of Damon ant
Pythias remind you off" she asked
little Katherine Lee. Katherine die
not answer, but Kittens Reichert re
piled at once:
Il know" she said. ABE ant
MaWruss.''
Il get three kinds of letters" say
Blanch Sweet, Lasky star, who gets a
many of them daily IS a mail orde
! house. 1.-The first class is from stag
struck girls who want to know how t.
get in motion pictures; the secon,
class is composed of requests that
=, endorse articles for advertising. an,
the third class, the biggest of all,
composed of marriage proposals.
Somewhere in France" the las
story from the pen of Richard Hard
| ing Davis, will soon be seen in motiol
pictures, it is announced. The stor
has been purchased by Thomas Ince O
the Ince-Triangle company and is no,
p being made ready for production a
\ the Culver City studios.
!. A large of workmen went to worl
: this week on the construction of tw
: | more buildings at the new Triangle
Ince studios at Culver City. One O
:. the structures is to be the Iaborator
. | and the other the garage, and bot
j, to the buildings already erected at tn
" plant. The fact that Producer Inc
is to have his laboratory ON his owl
Tot is interesting. for the reason tina
. in the past it has been necessary TO
!. him to send all films to the Edendal
plant to be developed, printed an
tinted.
1t has been determined that the Rus
slams display. greater resistance to til