Ethel Louise Lloyd (1915) 🇺🇸
Ethel Louise Lloyd, one of the members of the Vitagraph Stock Company, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on March 23d, 1886. She combines, in direct line, Irish, Scotch and Welsh blood, her male ancestors originally emigrating from Wales to Ireland, where they established a permanent residence and became landed Gentry, acquiring a vast estate near Cork; one of the Lloyds, Edward, being presented with a family crest because of his bravery.
Miss Lloyd’s father, Gilbert, and her mother, whose maiden name was Katherine Higgins, were both born in Brooklyn, her mother’s ancestors coming from Ireland, although they originally were natives of Scotland.
Miss Lloyd received her education in Brooklyn, attending the Sacred Heart Institute and the Girl’s High School. Her first position, after finishing her schooling, embraced clerical work for a big business concern, which she left to satisfy her ambition to become a singer on the professional stage. A pleasing personality and an exceptional voice being responsible for her desire to shine as a footlight favorite. Securing an engagement with Virginia Earle in Sergeant Kitty, she quickly demonstrated her ability to cope with the requirements of an exciting role. Her success paved the way for succeeding engagements with Richard Carle in The Mayor of Tokio, Maude Adams in Chanticleer, Henry Miller in The Rainbow, and the lead in the Ade musical comedy, Just Out of College. Miss Lloyd has also been in vaudeville, besides spending a season in stock.
A bad theatrical year and a desire to be home with her mother was the cause of Miss Lloyd’s forsaking the legitimate stage to become a picture actress. She applied to the Vitagraph management for a position and was given a tryout. her first trial meeting with the approval of her director. She applied herself persistently to the work in hand and a close study of the needs required of a photoplayer soon resulted in her becoming a stock member. Her two principal life portrayals, since she began posing for the camera are Jane, a colored maid in A Florida Enchantment, and Mabel Emanuel in The Locked Door although her work stands out noticeably in such pictures as Beauty Unadorned, Fanny’s Conspiracy, Jerry’s Uncle’s Namesake, A Model Young Man, Love’s Old Dream and The Old Flute Player.
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Eclair Theatre opens.
A new commodious photoplay house recently erected in Cleveland, Ohio, has been named the “Eclair Theatre,” in honor of the film company of that title. On opening night an all-Eclair program was given, handsome pillow tops of Eclair stars were presented to the ladies, and the Publicity Representative of the film organization, Bert Ennis, made a speech of appreciation of the honor conferred upon his company by the theatre management.
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Scott Sidney at San Diego exposition.
Scott Sidney, the New York Motion Picture Corporation director, has left Inceville and has gone to San Diego to assist at opening the Exposition. Thomas H. Ince, the famous chief director at Inceville and Sidney’s boss, has a big concession at the Exposition.
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Sargent Directs for the Draco.
George L. Sargent has been engaged by the Draco Film Company. Inc., as their chief director. The output of the Draco Company will be released through the Mutual program. Mr. Sargent has organized a company and has started work. After an extensive experience as a stage director in the “legitimate” with Charles B. Dillingham, Cohan & Harris and other managements, Mr. Sargent began his career as a moving picture director with the Gem Brand of the Universal. Afterward he spent two years as director for the Eclair, for which company he produced the Diamond Master, by Jacques Futrelle: The Case of Cherry Purcelle, and a nine-reel adaptation of Futrelle’s Elusive Isabel, which is now being released by the Universal under three separate titles, Adventures in Diplomacy, For the Mastery of the World and the third as yet unnamed.
When the studio was removed to Tucson, Ariz., Mr. Sargent declined to leave New York. As a compliment from the company, on leaving he was presented with a letter giving him the credit for making the pictures for them that have the record sale. His next engagement was with the Peerless Feature Film Company, for whom he produced their first and most successful feature, The Gentleman from Mississippi, with Thomas A. Wise in the title role.
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There is a growing public demand here for photoplays featuring Francis X. Bushman of the Essanay Co. If the type and quality of The Masked Wrestler be maintained, Bushman stands a reasonable chance of attaining a popular admiration as phenomenal as that enjoyed by Maurice Costello a couple of years ago. There is an increasing curiosity in many photoplay fans to know the full significance of the mystic X. “Is it an emulation of the illustrious Xantippe?” say some; “No, it can be nothing less than Xnomenes,” reply others. But what is it really? Perhaps Francis X. will oblige.
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Since the inception of those few crowded streets in our Metropolis as Britain’s film market, there has only been one American company of import who have not occupied premises in that area. Now they have decided to toe the line and instead of being a mile or two away the address of the Edison Company will be, in the near future, 162 Wavelour street, London, W. The new offices are both fine and spacious and the private theater as comfortable as any in the vicinity.
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Sir Arthur W. Pinero’s case against the Evans Film Company of New York for infringement of the copyright of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray has been given at length in English literary journals. It is stated that no license has been given to produce any of his plays on the screen, either in this country or in America.
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The Russian Government through its military department has authorized a representative of Messrs. Pathé Frères to accompany the Russian troops on their westward progress with permission to take moving pictures of the battles from the firing line. It is only after considerable difficulty that this permit has been secured, and already a Pathé camera man is on his way. The French Embassy at Petrograd has supported the experiment and by it, it is hoped to disprove the statements that the Russian Army has been at work in neutral countries.
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Keystone burglars were discovered the other night raiding the hostelry known as the Holborn Restaurant. Lest wrong impressions be made I should state that the occasion was the annual staff dinner of the Western Import Company. All the guests were decorated with the Keystone iron cross — an imitation of the famous Teutonic prototype except that in the center was a portrait of “Fatty” Arbuckle [Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle] — and the burglars were energetic members of the London staff disguised as such.
J. B. Sutcliffe.
Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1915