Ernest Maupain (1916) 🇺🇸
Ernest Maupain, who has been one of Essanay’s leading character actors for the past year, is now taking part of heavy lead in the five-act feature, The Discard, written by Charles Michelson and released through the V-L-S-E. He plays opposite Virginia Hammond, the Frohman star [Charles Frohman | Daniel Frohman], who takes the leading feminine role.
Mr. Maupain is exceptionally well adapted to the part, that of a leader of international swindlers, inasmuch as many of the scenes take place in Paris where Mr. Maupain was born and reared. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase of Parisian life.
He is an actor of rare talent and had many years of stage experience both abroad and in America before he joined Essanay. For several years he was leading man with Sarah Bernhardt. He is a man of massive appearance, being six feet tall and having the chest and shoulders of a Fitzsimmons [Boxing Champion Robert James Fitzsimmons]. Volatile and emotional, he is a natural born actor. His physical strength lends grace to his work and his long experience has given him perfect poise and consummate skill in finished acting.
Mr. Maupain first appeared with Essanay in The White Sister, playing with Viola Allen. He later appeared in The Man Trail, In the Palace of the King, The Raven, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines and Vultures of Society, and many others. In all these he played important character roles and now makes his appearance as lead.
He is an expert painter and sculptor and has done some remarkable work in bas-relief.
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Charles E. Schneider Comes to New York.
Charles E. Schneider, of Springfield, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., who operates one of the largest supply houses in the east, will engage in the same business at 145 West Forty-fifth street, New York, trading under the name of the Schneider Moving Picture Machine and Supply House. Mr. Schneider is one of the oldest operators in the country and is an honorary life member of the Operators’ Local Unions, I. A. T. S. E., both in Springfield and New York.
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Montgomery Running Bridgeport Strand.
F. T. Montgomery, the moving picture man, has formed a partnership and taken a long lease on the Strand theater at Bridgeport, Conn. According to reports, the New Strand has taken on new life under Montgomery’s management and is rapidly becoming the popular house of that city. Mutual Masterpictures are being featured with good music and the highest class of patronage is being received.
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Raver Secures Official Austrian War Films
The first consignment of official Austrian War films, secured by Harry R. Raver through arrangement with the Austrian government, has just reached the Raver Film Corporation’s New York office and is now being edited and arranged for an early showing. A second consignment of twenty-five thousand feet of negative is due to arrive about April first. These films are delivered into Mr. Raver’s hands by a special messenger, whose permits and passports are inscribed with a list of scenes shown in the pictures, together with such official documents as will remove any doubt regarding the authenticity of the films.
The fact that these are really the first comprehensive collection of Austrian war pictures ever brought to this country should make them popular at this time. A special showing will be arranged shortly and exclusive territory sold on the first series, each buyer being given an option on subsequent issues.
Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1916
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see also Agnes Egan Cobb — New Era in State Right Features (1916)