The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-09

showing five-reel feature films on Sun day nights.
 Earle Williams met with a mishap recently while driving his car during the taking of the Vitagraph serial, The Scarlet Runner" by c. N. and A. NJ Williamson. Wally Van and Mir Williams were driving cars near Tarrytown in quest of good locations for exteriors.
 As Mir Williams crossed the rail road tracks near Tarrytown. he was thrown against the top of the car. He succeeded in slowing down before los ing consciousness. The actor was quickly revived, but a twohour rest was necessary before the next scenes could be filmed
 And now the motion picture dan sant. Recently the Heilig theatre of Portland, Ore. which runs the road theatrical attractions coming to that city, found itself idle as the result of dearth of plays So the stage of the Heilig was tranformed into a sum- mer garden and the floor altered for dancing Motion pictures are shown upon screen at the front of the stage, the screen hiding the dancers from the patrons seated in the audi torium.- Mirror.
 Mister A." picturization of no- vel by E. J. Rath, featuring Harold Lockwood and May Allison. was re- gently filmed by the Yorke Film Cor poration at Hollywood. Calif. Douglas Fairbanks. who escaped serious injury month or two ago. when a blank cartridge was discharg- ed in his face had another close call from death the other day. In con- pany with Clifton Crawford. Fairbanks started from his country home at Larchmont to cross Long Island Sound to Huntington, L. I. The trip across was made without incident, but on the return trip the launch was caught in terrific storm which broke sud denly late in the afternoon. The en zine went dead" the boat fell off into the trough of the heavy sea. and began to ship water in an alarming fashion. The two men were forced to bail for their lives, and chung to the sides of the boat They finally managed to reach shore, after eight hours work, in an exhausted condi- | tion.
 Frank Daniels was badly hurt at the Vitagraph studios during the filming of a picture not long ago. He was supposed to drop from a bridge into an automobile. but lost his grip and | fell to the ground. suffering a broken arm and nose.
 Mrs. Blanche Rice, widow of the late Billy Rice, the minstrel and CO., median. will appear in Gods Half Acre." the Metro Rolfe picture in which Mabel Taliaferro is the star. Mrs Rice has now adopted the screen as profession She left the stage at | the time of her marriage to the CO., | median. After twentysix years ab- sence she returned to the footlights in Rupert of Hentzau." playing Moth | CT Hoff. Since then she has appeared in many of the foremost productions. | Besides acting for the pictures, Mrs. Rice is writing scenarios.
 Miss Sara Alexander, one of the most celebrated actresses of the Am l erican stage, Is to make her debut In pictures at the age of eighty in the Fox production of Caprice of the Mountains" Miss Alexander made her debut on the stage under the pro- | lection of Brigham Young, president of the Mormons, way back in the sos. Her rise was rapid and she played in | companies with such celebrated stage people as Lawrence Barrett. John Mo Cullough. kyrle Bellew, Ada Gray. Mil ton Nobles, E. l.. Davenport, Mme. Schiller, John T. Raymond, Mile. Flu genie Le Grand, Mrs. James Brown Potter, Sol Smith. John E. Owens, Charlotte Crampton. Samuel Piercy. Edward Eddy and Genevieve Ward. In her first picture production she ap- pears in character role. Her niece. Lisle Leigh. has an important part in the same production.
 Two and half years old and the possessor of a contract for her ser vices as motion picture actress for the next twenty years. unless she should be married before the time e1- pires. is the unique position of Lillian Read, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. Parker Read, Jr.. of New York. MT. Read is the personal representative of Thomas H. Ince. producer of photo plays, and Lillian's contract is with him. In his motion picture spectacle Civilization" (shown recently at Thorne's) she did such clever work that he decided to make her star.
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