Arthur Cozine (1915) 🇺🇸
Arthur Cozine, one of the players of juvenile roles with the Vitagraph Company, traces the landing of his ancestors on American soil from the early part of the Seventeenth Century.
In 1623, John Cozine, and three brothers, were sent out by the Dutch West India Company, with a direct view of colonizing, under command of Cornelius Jacobea Mey, and settled in New York. Forty-four years later, after the English had taken possession of New York, Colonel Francis Lovelace appointed John Cozine commissioner of eight cartmen and this commissionership was a stepping stone to the fortune that descended to his heirs. Later, considerable of his fortune, that represented real estate, was turned into cash through purchase by the Chandlers and Astors.
Arthur Cozine, one of the younger members of the family, was born in Brooklyn, New York, April 6, 1894, and is a descendant in direct line from the John Cozine who landed in New York in 1623. He attended the public schools of Brooklyn and finished his education in a private high school.
He first went to work for his father, but moving pictures were an irresistible attraction and the business suffered, as every moment he could get away from work, he spent at the Vitagraph studios, watching the modus operandi of motion pictures.
When the late William V. Ranous picked him out of an army of extras to play a “bit” opposite Lillian Walker, in The Lady of the Lake, he determined then and there to devote all his time to posing before the camera. Recognition came slowly, but his advancement was none the less sure and when he was selected by Director George D. Baker to play juvenile leads opposite the late John Bunny, his status as a full-fledged motion picture actor was established.
A few of the pictures in which Mr. Cozine is seen in prominent parts include In the Land of Arcadia, The Buddy Series, Fixing Their Dads, Heavy Villains, Boys of the I. O. U., The Jarr Series, and A Night Out, with May Robson as the star.
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Real Stories from Reel Studios
by Thornton Fisher.
Well-known phrases: That’s enuf! Cut!
Eugene Nowland, the Edison director, is one of the most versatile directors in the game. Gene for many years was one of America’s leading virtuosos and also spent about a dozen years in Europe. Incidentally he is a prolific writer on serious subjects and speaks eight foreign languages fluently. We know two directors who can think in four languages when a scene goes wrong but they are gentlemen, etc.
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An acquaintance of ours went up to Paramount to see the publicity manager; said he wanted to see him; he had never met him. He went up. He came back. He had met “him”! We didn’t tell our friend that the “gentleman” in charge of the publicity was none other than that capable lady, Jane Stannard Johnson. Another score for the suffs.
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Joe Brandt, the Universal human dynamo, has a queer hobby. Joe is a collector — not of stamps or curios. He collects degrees. Joe has grabbed 465,193 degrees in his lodge, until the only thing the lodge has left are the degrees in the thermometer. Every time he gets a new one he gets a new smile.
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The secret is out. Now we know why some people are successful. Pete Schmidt of the Morosco forces is fond of celery. Celery’s a nerve tonic. A lot of our present day picture men must live on a celery diet when you consider the great things they have accomplished during the past few years, which demanded nerve-capacity and energy. We never knew before that celery was one of the factors in picture successes.
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Horace G. Plimpton, the big chief of Edison, sails a cat boat, plays golf and motors. Oh, no, not at the same time.
Mr. Plimpton has held golf championships and is a member of the Montclair Golf Club. During week-ends he “shivers his timbers” out at Bellport, L. I.
Collection: Moving Picture World, August 1915