E. H. Calvert, Essanay Director (1915) 🇺🇸
E. H. Calvert, one of Essanay’s leading directors, has gone on a hunting and fishing trip to the Ozarks, in Southern Missouri, after several months of strenuous work. Mr. Calvert is an expert with the gun, having been one of the best marksmen in the army. A West Point man, he retired as a captain after fourteen years’ service, to go on the stage.
Mr. Calvert spent the summer at Chattanooga, Tenn., where he directed the series of Tish photoplays by Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as several other photoplays, in some of which he himself took the leads.
He then went to “The Pines” near Waukegan, Ill., where he directed “The Man Trail,” Essanay’s six-act photoplay taken from the recently published novel by Henry Oyen. Since then he directed “The Circular Path” and “The Outer Edge,” two three-reel dramas featuring Henry B. Walthall and Warda Howard, as well as several other plays.
Mr. Calvert had a wide stage experience before joining Essanay as an actor and later as a director. He played the part of Captain Hogman in Arizona and Messala in Ben Hur. He also played in The House of a Thousand Candles, with E. H. Holland [Edmund Milton Holland?], in A Knight for a Day, Coming Through the Rye, and many other well known plays, besides acting for some time in stock.
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Harris Producing “For Sale, a Baby.”
Perry N. Vekroff, who recently produced the film version of “School Bells” for the Charles K. Harris Feature Film Company, has commenced the production of For Sale, a Baby, from the famous Harris song by that title at the Kinemacolor studios at Whitestone. Arthur Donaldson is playing the leading role of Jacob Cohen. He is supported by Florence Hackett, Jack Johnston and Sonia Marcelle.
For Sale, a Baby, will be five reels in length. The story deals with a baby who is found and brought up in humble surroundings by poor foster parents. The entrance of a young millionaire in disguise, when the baby is grown, who falls in love with the girl, and the subsequent disclosure of her true identity make a most charming and heart touching drama.
This is the third of the pictures produced from scenarios written by Charles K. Harris, after famous songs of his own composition.
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V-L-S-E Managers as Editors.
Taking their cue from the helpfulness to them of the home office’s much talked-of house organ, The Big Four Family, two of the branch managers of the V-L-S-E have donned the editorial mantle with a considerable degree of success. These are Tom North, manager of the Seattle branch, who is issuing every week a breezy, bracing newspaperlet, called V-L-S-E Pals, and E. R. Pearson, in charge of the Kansas City office, who made his bow as a journalist this month with a publication called The Big Four Clansman. Mr. Pearson issues the Clansman monthly, while Pals comes out every Saturday. As a matter of fact, Mr. North found that the interest among exhibitors in the paper was so marked that after the first four issues he was forced to enlarge its size from 6 by 9 inches to 10-1/2 by 14.
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Gunning-Tickardt.
Announcement is made of the marriage of Helen Renick Tickardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Tickardt of Circleville, Ohio, to Fred C. Gunning of New York. The ceremony was performed at Circleville on Thursday, September 13.
Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915
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