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Mr. Shaw, who has traveled the world over and had wide experience both on the lecitimate stage and screen, is a finished actor in every direction. He often plays romantic leads, but he considers himself best adapted for heavies or leads where psychology is a strong factor. Mr. Shaw was born in New York, and educated there.

His first ambition was to become a lawyer, and he was admitted to the New York bar before the yearning for the stage finally overcame him. He is a direct descendant of Richard r.rinsley Sheridan who wrote "The School for Scandal" and "The Rivals." Mr Shaw productions she was ccrtair! it would develop into one of the greatest features ever conceived for the screen. According to reports from the London studio, Gaby is making unprecedented efforts to fulfill her portion of this prediction. The subject in which Gaby Deslys is to be presented to the motion picture public is an original conception written around the star, entitled "Her Triumph." Gaby is depicted as a member of the chorus and the sole support of her invalid mother and her blind sister. She is an energetic worker and becomes the understudy of the part played by Mile.

Simonde, the leading lady. The latter, jealous through her belief that the leading man, Claude Devereaux, is in f- t-j es.k. 5-x v-" $, Goes to Hollywood C. Jay Williams Now Added To Its Studio Staff of Producers To Contribute His Talents as Laughter Provoking Comedy Producer George Lessey, Brilliant and Progressive, to Handle Strong Dramatio Stories for the Imp Company C. Jay Williams, for the past four years premier director of comedies for the Edison company, is the latest recruit to the staff of Universal directors.

Mary Fuller, alter Edwin, Charles Ogle. 1- olet Mersereau and Dorothy Phillips have all been lately signed up and now comes Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams will produce comedies for the Universal at the Hollywood studios.

Accompanying him to the Pacific Coast will be Mrs. Williams, who, as a member of his Edison comedy company, 4 i t- 1 -ti Sulfate ssri 1 "THE LURE OF has played many important roles. Mrs. Williams will be one of the leads in the new company to be formed. George Lessey.

one of the most progressive and brilliant dramatic photoplay directors of the day. has also signed with the Universal to direct Imp features with King Baggot in the leads. Mr. Lessey has been an Edison director for the past two years and during that time he has attracted widespread attention by his marked ability to handle strong dramatic stories; with the "Cleek" detective series, produced in collaboration with "Short Stories," he placed himself among the "top-notchers." Mr. Lessey though still in his early thirties, has achieved his success through long and practical experience.

Starting at the time when he was a bov, plaving leads in the amateur theatricals of Amherst, his home town, Mr. Lessey has faced the footlights under every condion common to the profession, has enacted every kind of part. Prior to becoming a d'irector. Mr. Lessey was a leading man for the Edison for a year.

It '4 1 The Famous- Tlayers Film Company has engaged Blanche Walsh to be presented in a forthcoming release in her foremost dramatic triumph. "The Straight Road." one of the most popular plays from the pen of the great dramatist, Clvde Fitch. "The Straight Itoad" and "The Woman in the Case" are considered the most prominent of this actress' many successes, and of the two. the former is more popular because of its deeper and more general appeal. "The Straight Itoad" portrays the gallant fight of a strong woman against evil, and her final valiant victory over the enemies that seek to destroy her soul.

The struggle is physical and emotional as well as BEN WILSON. Ledint psychological, and the suspense of interest holds till the very climax of the great conflict. The character of Mary O'Hara, the girl of the slums, so wonderfully impersonated I- Blanche Walsh in the original stage production, will also be played by her in the Famous Players film dramatization of the' subject and permits of ideal screen depiction. Gaby Deslys, the celebrated international star, whom President Adolph Zu-kor, of the Famous Players, engaged on the eve of her departure for Paris a few weeks ago for her first appearance in motion pictures, has begun work in an important feature for that concern in London. Gaby Deslys was very enthusiastic over her first film engagement, and before she sailed confided to ship news reporters that from what she had seen of the preliminary plans of her first picture i51- a rt' H.

,1 A Special Lufain Drama It Tells a Story Full of Action, Thrills and Appeal to Heart Interest An Adventuress Won From Wilful Wy-vrardness by the Compelling Force of A- Strong Love that Refuses to be Lured by her Wiles pr to Yield to Her Ctprices In "The Heart Rebellious," a two-part special Lubin drama, is told a story full of action, thrilling incidents and appeal to heart interest. Bart Wendel, a paymaster for the Western Ore Company, leaves his Western surroundings for a vacation. In the city he falls in love with Helen Burns, a young woman, who through the influence "of her unscrupulous father, is an adventuress. Per-suing her father's directions, she leads Wenucl to. believe she intends to marry, him, and at the same time accepts large sums of money from the unsuspecting lover.

Wendel finds out Helen's intentions, lie is a stern, uncompromising man and really being love with quickly puts an end to her trickery by carrying her away by force from her apartments and forcing her to live up to her agreement to wed him before 'he re-" turns-W-est. he-reaches -the West he has. with hhn a. sullen, reseptf ul wife. Helen chafes under the domineering methods of the man who has determined to make her conform with his way of thinking.

She writes Jier father telling him of her whereabouts and dropping p. a 'v 5 i HARRY MYERS (Universal) broad hints that a burglary of the safe in the office, containing a large amount of money, would be very easy to accom- plish. -Meanwhile Wendel continues to rule Helen with an iron hand, not treating her unkindly but determined to break her stubborn spirit. In the bare little office of the isolated ore company, Helen is virtually a prisoner: she grows more and more desperate and one day she escapes. In her flight through the woods she falls over a cliff and is dangerously -wounded.

Wendel nurses her hack to health. She is so changed by his kindness that gradually shame, remorse and the desire to love succeeds her former selfish, unprincipled traits. Fina'ly they are reconciled and start to live an entirely different ilfe. One day Helen's father appears at the plant. Instead of his former helpmate in dishoiusty he finds an entirely Changed woman." Helen refuses to give him any assistance in robbing the safe.

He angrily shows her the letter she has written him and, using this as a lever, defies her to prevent him carrying out his dishonest intentions. Helen is terrified. She can say nothing to Wendel. be- -cause she knows her father would betray her secret and she would lose the love of her husband for good. For two days she remains in a constant state of terror.

Then her father, with the assistance of a treacherous employe, enters the office in the dead of the night, covers -Wendel with a revolver and proceeds to rob the safe. A desperate struggle ensues and, in order to save her husband'3 life. Helen drives her father from the place at the point of a gun. Wendel, badly wounded, is tenderly cared for by his devoted wife. Her bravery has convinced him of her loyalty and love and the future opens bright for the happy couple.

William Robert Daly has been as director of the new fi-m com- pany organized by B. A. Rolfe, the wil-known vaudeville producer, under' the name of the B. A. Rolfe Photo Plays' -Inc.

Their output will be released -under two brands, the first of which is to be one-reel oonJfdies, featuring wll-known vaudeville and legitimate comedy, stars, and for their first release they have signed Harry J. Kelly and Louis Wesley Tht-ir second brand will be one. three and four-reel features -presenting well-known screen stare in popular plays and novels. Director Dalv will have ample means and every facility to produce films possessing high artistic and photographic merit. The reputation be has earned in the profession by his past productions places him in the first rank of directors and gives guarantee that the name of the new company will win cpeedy favor with exhibitors and public.

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POWER'S CA3ERAGRAPH No. 6A The perfect motion picture machine. 4 Send for catdogae 26 with fait detail. NICHOLAS POWER 80 Bold Si.M.Y.0 Vi i x- 1 4- Announcement is made by the Univer sal of the signing up of three of the leading Lubin players, Harry C. Myers, Rosemary Theby and Brinsley Sheridan Shaw, by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

They begin work in a newly organized company, and for the present will be attached to the Imp Stu dios in New York City, under the supers vision of Manager Julius Stern. Harry C. Myers, who has drrected himself the past ten months with the Lubin company, will act as director of the new company, wmcn wnl aevote itseit to society dramas and refined comedies. Mr. -Myers is unquestionably one of the most popular of screen idols.

Six feet tall, with the physique of a trained THE GEISHA" Two Reel 101 Bison Univerial. athlete, and a frank, jolly face illuminated by a pair of hypnotic blue eyes, he possesses a personality that appeals powerfully to all classes and ages of photoplaygoers. Harry Myers' thirty-two years of existence have been crowded with a wonderful range of experience on the speaking stage. For the past ten months he has been directing for the Lubin company. For the past five years he has been a Lubin leading man.

"A Deal in Oil," his first picture, straightway established his reputation as a finished director, but his chief laurels were won through his seven-reel picture, "The Drug Terror," which he produced in three weeks, and to which he brought a wealth of knowledge of the seamy side of life that evoked surprised interest and comment from sociologists the world over. Nature has bestowed upon Miss Rosemary Theby a perfect beauty and a disposition that champion it without resorting to the manner of a coquette or prude. On the screen she is the personification of vigorous beauty and natural grace. Off the screen she is even more bewitching, beautiful and engaging, if such a thing were possible. Miss Theby is one of the very few leading actresses upon the screen at present who has had no legitimate stage experience.

She, herself, holds that a thorough stage experience is necessary for a successful screen career, and she realizes that she has proved the exception to the rule. But to say that Miss Theby had no actual stage experience does not mean to imply that she made no preparation for stage work. With the determination of being an actress she left her home in St. Louis, where she was born and educated, and came to New York to enter dramatic school. With a zeal which Ediscn says is nine tenths of genius, she mastered and absorbed all the technique and rules of acting possible in a school.

was three years ago that Miss Theby secured her, first professional engagement. That was with the Yitagraph company, where she remained for two years. Then she accepted an offer from the Reliance company to play ieads. For the past ten months she has been playing leads opposite her director, Harry Myers. While her parts have not been wholly confined to heavy parts, she has made her big reputation in them.

During her association with the Lubin company she has been seen in feature plays such as "The Question of Right." "The Drug Terror," "His Wife," "The Price of a Ruby," and what is considered the fir.pst society drama ever produced by the Lubin company, "Madam Coquette." In all these she played the leading female role. She has just completed, with Harry Myers directing, and Brinsley Shaw plaving opposite her, "The Lure the Pit." Brinsley Shaw will play heavies in the new Universal company that is to be SEE THE MASTER It THE TREY IN FIFTEEN I Vv p- VSv)t 1 jtv 5 Audrey Berry, a Vitagraph. Juvenile, Receives Tribute From an Ardent Admirer Commodore Blackton Score Sucoess in the Publishing Field as in that of Motion Picture Producer Maurice Costello Nurture a Cruel Critic at Hi Own Firetide Audrey Berry, one of the youngest members of the Yitagraph Company, was born under a lucky star. Although but seven years old on her last birthday, Bhe has male admirers by the score, and has been offered a fortune, be delivered to her on her eighteenth birthday by one of them. The gentleman from whom the fortune is to come wrote her that he had made all the necessary legal arrangements with his lawyers and all that she had to do to receive it, was to grow up.

Another interesting development of the same gentleman's interest in' the little screen artist came to light in a recent letter, in which her princely admirer asked for her exact mennurernents, the color of her eyes and hair and the style and color of dress most pleasing to her. so that he could have a doll made, her exact duplicate, as a visual reminder of how she looked when a child. I. I I I III I I lj I I I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I I PT; A- v- 1 COMMODORE J. STUART BLACKTON The tremendous hold which motion pictures have secured on the minds of people of all classes and all nations is mirrored in the marvelous growth of the Motion Picture Magazine, the first issue of which appeared in February, 1911.

Mr. J. Stuart Blackton, vice-president and secretary of the Yitagraph Company of Amrica. and president of the Motion Picture Publishing Company, publishers of the Motion Picture Magazine, realized that there was a-great demand for more and more information about the players, and he foresaw what a demand there would be for a magazine furnishing this information, and. in addition, presenting picture plays in story form.

At his suggestion and with his financial aid and that of others, the Motion Picture Magazine, which is the veteran of all publications publishing photoplays in story form, was founded. During the three" and a half years of its existence its circulation has rapidly grown until now 200,000 copies per month are distributed to the four corners of the United States and some of the foreign countries, and the end is not yet reached. I If Maurice Costello, of the Yitagraph riayers, has any conceit iu his make-up. nd" such a fact is stoutly denied by all cf his fellow photoplaycrs. the ego was In danger of complete annihilation and bis little daughter Helen was the executioner.

A few days ago Helen and several of her little playmates gave a show in their garage. Helen was the stage manager. After the performance, her mother asked how things went. Her re-plv was explicit. She said "Oh! the show wns nil onlv the kid who sold all the tickets thought the money belonged to her and she spent tho whole eighteen ceris for ice cream cones." To soften the injury caused by the attitude of the treasurer, her mother said.

"Well, Helen, don't you care, if you are sure vou gave a good show." 'Helen quickly replied. "Of course, I snre it was a good show. It was better than papa's moving picture plays." uWally Van. of the Yitagraph comedians, is the most heartbroken man in the world, and with cause, too. For the past Jfive vears he has participated in every motor-boat race in which the different Baby Reliances have been contestants.

Wal'ly is a high-speed gasoline engine ex- pert and a fearless racing boat driver, and the holder of several world's rec- ii moa Reliances. This Tear, he was compelled to remain at the Yitagraph studios, while the new Baby Id's rcord one day and the Baby Speed Demon made another world's record the following day. Both of the racers were looked after a'nd groomed for the races by "Cu-, tev," as he is known in the pictures, and he considers himself justified in being heartbroken because of being compelled to absent himself from these record-breaking races. The newest Ford Sterling masterpiece has to do witn tne operations oi an Ant clnAa 1nh Fnril is crossed in i nil. i' ii iv im love and he decides that the only hope of surcease' ot nis sorrow is in suicioe.

a tioc-nV Vio norro TT 5 Ashamed of himself, but he is afraid to make his own quietus. This unpleasant duty, however, is taken off his hands. He Un. animAa STlA ffir fe of S5 he is to be assassinated at 3 clock. At 2:30 o'clock the girl nnds out sne reaiiy an A ha nnhflTinv man is forced 'to break his suicide pact.

The story rxte1 bv Dnvid JUrklanO. -It enouea, ciui-n. "My Official Wife An Artist Impressions Acted in Japan is, aside from his many other attainments, a proficient director of pictures. Ben Wilson, who during the past year ha.s risen in public favor as a leading man. perhaps more than any other player during the same period, has been signed up to appear iu Universal Victor plays.

For three years Mr. Wilson has been associated with the Edison Company, playing leads and frequently directing his own pictures. Mr. Wilson has written many of the scenarios in which he has been featured. With a commanding physique and a handsome face, with the perfect poise of a thoroughly trained artist, he typifies the best in leading men.

Probably the most successful and certainly the most recent appearance of Mr. Wilson was. in the "Cleek" series of detective dramas. He essayed the title role and directed the last two films himself. Other pictures, all of the two and three reel length, which Mr.

Wilson has not only written and directed himself, but plaved leads in are "The Shattered Tree," "Mother and Wife." "When Cartridges Failed" and "While the Tide Wa3 Rising." Such features as "An American King." "The Brass Bowl" and "His Ancestors" Lave all showed him in the leading role. In the last-named feature Mr. Wilson played seven distinctive part. Mr. Wilson was born in Corning.

and he is still a young man. However, fourteen years saw him on the legitimate stage, starring from the time when he scampered off, hardly more than a boy, to join a brass band road show, up to that stage where he was one of the most sought after leading men for stock and played his Broadway engagements. He created the role of Boss in "The Governor and the Boss," which played at the Lincoln Theatre. He held one of the leading roles in "Seven Days," and again was leading man with the New York Fifth Avenue Stock Company. He was manager of the stock company playing at the oid Park Theatre, Brooklyn, when that theatre burned some years ago.

Later he was manager and leading man of the Gotham Theatre Stock Company, Brooklyn. It would seem that Mr. Wilson, judging from the parts that he has assumed and his natural physical qualifications, was best fitted for straight dramatic roles the romantic, heroic or psychological. Yet he expresses a preference for high comedy work. Incidentally he has done some highly successful parts in this field.

He has been over the road of experience was in the Spanish-American War and he has Always been'a student of types and conditions. Mr. Wilson's loyalty to his friends 13 one of his many charming qualities. His recent action in standing by an influential writer who had done him service, in a controversy which arose over the use of his photograph, has been warmly commended by members of his profession. PROBLEM PLAY O'HEARTS 11 STORIES.

Man Victor Company love with Gaby, tries to have her discharged, and when the manager refuses to do this she resigns. This gives Gaby the opportunity she has so long waited for, and she soon is acclaimed the greatest actress on the stage. Mile. Simonde, watching her wonderful performance from a box. goes mad from envy and fury, and pulling a gun from her bosom fires upon the stage.

The bullet is deflected by her lover, Count Victor, and Claude escapes with but a small scratch. Over night Gaby becomes the rage of the city, while Mile. Simonde plans revenge and promises Victor to marry him if he succeeds in destroying Gaby's popularity. The story proceeds with many thrilling situations and stirring incidents, until after a terrific climax, the plav culminates in "her triumph." Harry Pilcer will also appear in the production, in support of Gaby. It is reported that Gaby is to receive 3,000 pounds for transferring her famed beauty and charm to the screen.

nox, but all men with whom she cany; in contact became plaster her capable hands. And so her errand was done, undreamed success was her own and escape assured when ambition overreached itself. There was to be a balL All the froth of St. Petersburg would attend and the Czar himself would be there. An invitation, an easily hidden pistol, one golden moment, and her people would be free.

In an unguarded moment Lennox touched the tiny revolver and his whirling brain slowlv pieced the awful facts together, and, with a flash of foresight, he saw the pending tragedy. A potent powder, administered through a cup of wine, dulled Helene's sharp mind for just a little while. The rest is soon told. When Helene Marie realized that her one opportunity for supreme revenge was gone forever, through Lennox, her fury for the moment carried her beyond the 4 of bounds of reason. Soon the sense of taution reasserted iiseif.

Helene made a magnificent dash for liberty and love. With her lover she reached the coast. A motor-boat and then a yacht means lue, but the wary police had found her trail and so. though mechanical and human, power were taxed to the breaking point, before the vacht cleared the harbor a srunboat dulled the horizon, a distant boom! the swift zip of a torpedo beneath the wave crests, then chaos. But Helene and her lover had found i their freedom.

The chains of Russia cannot hold the dead. FAMOrS PLATEES FTXM CO. i i PRODUCTIONS MAXI TOV "BKK STA.EM- JLDtJLP ZSK2S WTO. FHDHHM a It of "My Official Wife," which was presented at the Yitagraph Theatre, New York City, as a Broadway Star Feature picture, is one of the strongest plays that has ever been written. Its plot lies in the ingenious scheme employed by one Helen Marie, the idol of the Nihilists, to make her way back into Russia to help her people.

A network system of spies furnishes Helene Marie with certain knowledge which Ktarts her towards Russia, determined to win her way over the frontier as the wife of Arthur Lennox, American. When but one little hour within the border, Lennox discovered the hideous result of an illegally used passport, and sought instant retreat, but the mighty jaws of the rat-trap were closed. The paper which had meant such simple entrance, refused him exit. Helene was wonderonsly captivating. Not only Len (UNIVERSAL) MOVING JyPICTURES vv VY VXXy Vv vy vv vvvvvv vv -w i.