New-York tribune., 1918-12-15
Shadows on the Screen

Harry Kolker, who enjoyed the
plaudits of Broadway for sixteen sea-
sons, decided that he wished to 20 in
the movies, and he started at SIS a
week. This is how it happened:
He went to Maxwell Karger, director
general of Nazimova productions, and
asked the best way to begin.
Start as an assistant camera man."
said Mr.. Karger.
"All right" assented Kolker. "What
does it pay?"
Fifteen dollars q week"
So, about four months ago, Kolker
took his job as assistant camera man
at SIS per. He worked at it at least
eight hours day every day. In q
month he was promoted to assistant
director. Now he Is chief of the per-
sonal staff Of NJ. Capellani, director for
Nine. Nazimova.
Louis Mercanton, who has finished
the special Pathe feature "Infatuation," ;"
starring G sby Deslys, also directed
Sarah Bernhardt's Mothers Of France"
and Gaby Deslys's first picture, "Her
Triumph"
"The Greatest Gift" the Red Cross
Roll Call picture, written by Hamish
McLaurin, former Rothapfel publicity
man, will occupy place on the Rivoli's
programme next week. A feature of
"The Greatest Gift" is that it intro
duces to the screen Miss Agnes TAFT,
tire beautiful model who posed for the
celebrated Red Cross poster "The
Greatest Mother in the World"
Mabel julien Scott madc a personal
appearance last Monday night at ST.
Vincent Hospital before 25o sailors who
had that day returned from service
abroad and were confined in the hos
pital. The appearance was in conjunc
ton with the showing of "The Barrier"
in which Miss Scott is starred,
At the direct request of the United
States Fuel Administration the Fuel
Conservation Committee of the Ma
tional Association of the Motion Pct-
ure Industry has inaugurated a coal
saving campaign. This campaign will
be conducted throughout the motion
picture theatres in the news weekles
put out by the Universal, Pathe and
Gaumont companies.
Hugo Riesenfeld, music director of
the Rivoli Theatre, has been commits
stoned by S. L. Rothaofe to compose
a Christmas pantomime as a part of
the special programme for the theatre
the week of December %. The choreo-
graphic part is being arranged by
Luigi Albertieri, former ballet master
of the Metropolitan. The pantomime
will be INSTALLATION of the legendary
Christmas.
The management Of B. B. Features,
starring Bessie Barriscale, contem-
plate issuing a musical scheme with
every Barriscale production.
Nowadays music has so much to do
with the successful exhibition Of a
great picture that almost as much
thought is expended upon what is
called the "cue scheme'' or the "cue
sheet" of picture as upon the editing
of the picture itself.
Exhibitors have not been slow to
profit by this, and producers are
cooperating by engaging the best mu-
sical talent obtainable to arrange cue
schemes that follow the action 90
closely that the story is told in music
as the picture unfolds upon the screen.
On March 81 Mary Miles Minter
christened the big hydroplane FL,
which was built in Santa Barbara by
Allen and Malcolm Loughead, and at
the time Miss Minter predicted that
the huge man-made bird would some
1t would seem that the little stars
prediction is in fair way to be real
lied, as the FL, remode4ed as a land
| plane, started on November % from
trip to Washington, D. c.
The FLA, as it is now called, will
carry two pilots and mechanic, and
Pilots Meyenhoffer and Frineau plan
to reach Washington in thirty hours
with two stops for fuel, at Deming
n NJ, and Cairo, Ill.,, breaking all ex~
listing records for distance and speed.