Flora Zabelle with Famous Players (1915) 🇺🇸

Flora Zabelle, star of many successful musical comedies and a stage favorite popular throughout the country, who made her greatest hit in The Red Widow, the celebrated fun-feast by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, has been engaged by the Famous Players Film Company to make her screen debut in the title role which she created on the stage in the feature adaptation of that comedy to be the Paramount picture of November 11.

Miss Zabelle will be supported on the screen by several other members of the original cast of this popular production. So singularly clever was the work of George D. Mack [George E. Mack] in the comic role of Popova and of John Hendricks in the part of Baron Scorpiof, the chief of the Russian police, that the Famous Players decided the photoplay would be incomplete unless these inimitable comedians could be secured for the purpose of repeating their clever performances on the screen.

Another important acquisition to the screen cast of this notable subject is Denman Malley [Denman Maley], who has appeared for the last five years in important comedy roles with Lew Fields, and who has been engaged for the role of Cicero Hannibal Butts, the characterization originated on the stage by Miss Zabelle’s husband, Raymond Hitchcock. This unusual galaxy of comedy artists should make the film version of The Red Widow as great a comedy achievement as it was in the legitimate theater.

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Mrs. Thomas Whiffen in New Metro Picture.

Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, who has entertained and delighted playgoers in this country for two generations, during the last of which by her masterly delineation of elderly women parts has been engaged by the Popular Plays and Players to appear in the big five-part feature production, Barbara Frietchie, which will be released on the Metro program. Mary Miles Minter will have the stellar role in the production, and Mrs. Whiffen will play the part of her grandmother in the Clyde Fitch version and dramatization of the famous poem, which has been picturized for Metro.

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Kleine Wants Comedy Scenarios.

George Kleine is in the market for comedy scenarios of one and two reel length. The Kleine organization has begun work on a series of short comedies and will pay attractive prices for available material. All manuscripts should be addressed to Scenario Department, George Kleine, 11 E. 14th street, New York City.

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Vitagraph Thanksgiving Picture.

Bobby Connelly is playing the lead in a Thanksgiving story entitled, Sonny Jim and the Family Party, a Sonny Jim story of exceptional appeal and timely interest. It is being produced for the Vitagraph Company by Director Tefft Johnson.

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Realism in “The End of the Road.”

The breaking of a dam, depicting thousands of gallons of water rushing madly through the. opening, flooding the surrounding territory and setting awash houses, barns and other structures, is but one of the may thrillingly realistic scenes presented in The End of the Road, a forthcoming Mutual Masterpicture, screened at the American studios.

Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915

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