The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-14
PHOTOPLAY VS. AND
PHOTOPLAY ERS
Nv GARDNER MACY
All BroddWdyli9htS
Have Moo Become
"Bungdlodfers,"
Says Hopper.
By GARDNER MACK.
"The Broadwayllshts have become

1.-THE BrOadwaylights have become
bunRaloafers!''
The words were spoken bv De
Wolf Hopper when some one hap
Dened to bump into him In the lobby
Of the Alexandria Hotel. In Los Ana
geles. a day or two ago and asked
the reason for his being In Cali
fornia, 5000 miles from the center Of
Theatrical activity. while a season
was in fun swing. De Wolf h"S
signed three-vear contract with t..
motion picture magnates. and he
wished to impress on his uuestioner
that he IL but one Of hundreds
when he compressed the prevailed
condition of the theatrical profession
into single expressive phrase. He
continued.
We've exchanged the spotlight
for the sunlight; the backdrop for
the everlasting California hills; q
hotel for a regular house. We do
real hunting and fishing in the day
Time in placing of hiring a Swiss
waiter to flush our quail on toast or
en- broche or tracking the lobster
Ia Newburg to it's lair in the
dead of night and with the blare of
cabaret band. That's why!"
From time to time the announce
ment of the entrance OF this or that
theatrical star to the motion picture
profession, temporary or permanent.
has been made. But the public has
really had little opportunity to
realize exactly what this has meant.
The Los Angeles public is about the
only section Of the world which
has the dimmest sort of understand
Some mixing of the condition Of
things might be obtained from a
letter that Dorothy Bernard Van
Buren, wrote a friend here of q New
Year party given In Los Angeles.
Mrs. Van Buren, Is with the Fox
company's studio forces as co-stAr
with William Farnum. The party
to which she referred was given by
one of the film-stage celebrities and
the guests included Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Tree. Mr..
and Mrs. William Farnum, Dustin
Farnum, David Griffith, Mary Pick
ford. Cecil de Mile and a few
others.
A faint IDEA of the theatrical prev
alencc in the population of Los
Angeles might also be obtained from
the announcement of the persons
prominent in the audience at the
opening of Pavlowa's engagement
with the Boston Opera company in
Los Angeles. These included Gerai-
Maude, Charlotte Walker. Julia
Dean. Edna Goodrich. Lou Telle-
gen. Laura Hope Crews Fanny
Ward. Tully Marshall. Edith Wynne
Matheson, Ina Claire. Donald Brian
Blanche Ring. Henrietta Crossman.
II. b. Warner, Eddie Foy, Marie
Tempest. Raymond Hitchcock. Flora
Zabelle, Nat Goodwin. Edgar Sell
wvn. Orrin Johnson, DOUGLAS Fair,
banks. Helen Ware, Jane Grey, ana
scores of others.
from the motion picture colony TO
Boston TO rohearsc and start her
regular season-because the fair
dancer, too ts' anphotoplaEer now.
and appears in big spectacle
launched by the Universal COM
Most Of the people who have been
named are not just in Los Angeles
on a visit, but are there for the en-
tire season--some Of them Tor two
or three seasons, if they live out
fbeir contra turaI obligations. 1t has
meant lot to tho motion picture
cor1Danies to get them there ana
Quite q lot more to the actors and
actresses TO he there. In Los
Angeles they have real homes rs
Mr. Hooper expresses it--they are
bnugaloafers, each in his little
bungalow!
Mutt and Jeff have become motion
picture actorsl
Bud Fisher the creator of the two
famous pen and ink humorists. has
Sorn,ed a company for the promo
tion OF Mutt and jeff pictures, and
win shortly put out the inaugural
reel of what Is promised will be a
weekly feature. Fisher believes
that he will be able to amplify Mutt
and JEFF for the screen in such n
Ion MI
lures may become more popular
than the regular newspaper editions
Of his stories In caricature. 1t Will
be his endeaVor. he states. to make
the new pictures along the same
lines as those that appear in the
newspapers except, of course. that
Mutt and Jen on the screen will APP
pear to be alive and will go through
their adventures in all parts of the
worlds Each weekly film will be
long enough to contain a complete
adventure.
The Triangle Corporation appears
to have descended to solid earth
after its several months of soaring
for two-dollar customers for motion
pictures and is about to inaugurate
a new policy in it's Knickerbocker
TheRter ~ New York ny engaging
&. T.. Rothapfel as manager. and
retaining only enough seats at 81 to
keep within its contract. throwing
the rest of the house open at - and
70 cents. The Triangle people have
done some big things In the photo
play field They have maintained
higher standard of production and
of acting than has ever been done.
They have raised the tone of motion
pictures to a very high plane and
have proved everything they set out
IN nr,f hn IL IL
would pay regular theater prices TO
see them. ENOUGH of the public did
come in New York to about pay
eXnenses. hut 70 more.