Arthur Hoops (1916) 🇺🇸
Arthur Hoops, one of the best-known leading men in the country, both on the speaking stage and in motion pictures, has signed an engagement to appear in Metro wonderplays, and has begun work on the first feature, The Soul Market, in which Mme. Petrova [Olga Petrova] is starred.
Mr. Hoops began his stage career as a juvenile and leading man with Nat Goodwin, with whom he appeared in this country and on Mr. Goodwin’s world tour.
Mr. Hoops was with the Famous Players for nearly two years, and appeared as leading man with Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark and other well-known screen stars. He appeared with Miss Pickford in Such a Little Queen, Mistress Nell and other productions, and with Miss Clark in Gretna Green.
Later he was starred by George Kleine in The Danger Signal and The Final Curtain. He was also starred with Betty Nansen in The Song of Hate, and played the lead in Should a Mother Tell? in Fox pictures.
Before going into motion pictures, Mr. Hoops played the lead with Virginia Harned in Alice of Old Vincennes, also the lead with James K. Hackett in The Prisoner of Zenda, and afterward appeared in several Frohman stage productions on Broadway and on tour.
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Flickers
Postal cards from Joe Smiley and George De Carlton show that Jacksonville, Florida, is still some place and affords more than good surroundings for picture making.
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Our friend, J. C. Graham, general manager for the Mutual Film Corporation, must have walked into something in the dark from all appearances.
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The friends of A. L. Haase [Allen L. Haase], advertising manager for Motography, will be surprised to learn that he has tendered his resignation to that publication to take effect Feb. 15.
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Edgar Lewis with his company of Lubinites, headed by Nance O’Neil, are meeting with great success in Thomasville, Ga. The forthcoming release, The Fires of St. John, necessitated their going South in order to get the proper atmosphere for the production.
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Sol Lesser is a regular New Yorker now, having thrown his trans-continental commutation book out of the window. Sol promises to stay with us for an indefinite period and can be seen at his office, 218 West 42d street.
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Eef Asher, representative of Mr. Lesser, came on from the coast with the rest of the Lesser outfit, but spends a lot of his time abusing the weather. Asher saw his first snow in many years, last week, and needless to say don’t like it. A suit of fur lined would probably make him change his mind.
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Under the present system of management, the Knickerbocker theater is certainly packing the people in. Triangle pictures only are shown.
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With a large bank roll and good bank references to back him up, J. W. Anderson of London, Eng., will stay at the Waldorf-Astoria long enough to get in touch with whatever film manufacturers not represented in the United Kingdom, but desirous of doing so, communicate with him.
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Say, fellows! our projection editor, F. H. Richardson, leaves New York this week for about a four weeks tour of the Middle West. He’s a regular fellow, so look him up.
Mac.
Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1916
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