The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-08

hONlt tNCldIRt says lHdt Crane Wilbur owns checkered suit which serves nicely as a check CT board when the Horsley (MutuaD company is waiting for scenes.
 John Iainpolis. who supports Ed win August ir the new World Film feature The Social Highwayman," was severely injured during enact ment in a Peerless studio of a scene in which he falls through the balus- trade of high staircase. The net held by the stage crew to catch the falling actor broke, and he struck the floor on one shoulder, dislocating the joint
 While at work in Georgia on the latest Fox picture featuring Vivian Martin. Harry Hilliard and William H. Tooker, the entire company was he'd up at the point Of a shotgun by a long-legged moonshiner. It required an hour of conversation and something more than mere talk to convince the Southern mountain eer that the picture actors were not members of a revenue raiding party.
 What Thomas Ince thinks of the idea. suggested to him by Robert Grau. of reducing Diaghileffs Rus
 sian Ballet to celluloid celebrity Is perfectly definite Says Mir Ince in reply to MT. Grau: You under stand, of course, that 1t would nee essitatc bringing the entire organi- zation to Los Angeles, and any az gregation of dancers that can play to $10O,O0O In two weeks would most have, my right eye and left hand, , in addition to any hopes that may have for a future life, in re turn for their services"
 Nat C. Goodwin Is no longer a sprightly youth, and cold baths In the open are not to his liking He went to Jacksonville, Fla, re- gently to appear in a farce for the Mirror Films Inc. His role called for sensational ducking in the briny ocean, and he prepared for tho ordeal all the way down to tho state of fruit and soft shelled pc cans by reading ads which set forth the delights of bathing along the 1 southern coast
 i The result of his study of that sort of literature nearly finished him He had such confidence in i the knowledge that 1t would be like Turkish bath that the day he
 Derished. The shock of Jackson vile waters in February was almost too much and he felt very much hurt at the Florida ad writers. Nat says that his next dip in southern
 waters on any screen is to be as far south as Palm Beach, at least
 Recent releases of the Fox Film Co. were: Violet Horner in The Marble Heart" Theda Bara in Gold and the Woman" William Farnum
 in "A Man of Sorrow" Robert G
 Mantell with Genevieve Hamper in "A Wife's Sacrifice"
 The Mother and the Law" the big feature picture which D. w. Griffith has been many mnntho In
 producing and which promises to
 rival The Birth Of a Nation" in
 popularity, would appear from re- ports to be brief on behalf of the mothers of all countries and ages. Griffith is spending as much genius. money and research on the
 present production as he did on his masterpiece
 Bertha Kalisch, one of the greatest of actresses and the only dramatic artist In the world who can be seriously considered as the success or to Sarah Bernhardt. has signed contract with William Fox to act before the motion picture camera, and has already begun work on her first film production
 George w. Lederer has formed the Pollard Plays Corporation, star ring Margarita Fitscher under the direction of Harry Pollard The Pollard organization will start in immediately on the first picture. entitled '"The Pearl of Paradise" Vernon Castle and his wife are the stars in an eight-part motion picture called "The Whirl of Life" The Whirl of Life" is something Of novelty in the realm of the | cinematograph, for while 1t shows | the Castles in the steps that set the country dance mad and makes a feature of their dancing, it also tells thrilling dramatic story, touched with clever comedy incl dents. Fully 1000 feet of the film are devoted to the dances of the :"