Jack Devereaux featured by Triangle (1917) 🇺🇸
Jack Devereaux, who played the juvenile lead in Her Father’s Keeper, the first Triangle feature made at the new Yonkers studio, prior to the advent of Allan Dwan as supervising director of the plant, appears to have established himself firmly in the good graces of the famous creator of Manhattan Madness and Fifty-Fifty, for he is being featured in the current production, and will also have prominent parts in forthcoming releases under Dwan’s personal supervision.
Born in County Claire, Ireland, about twenty-eight years ago, Devereaux came to this country with his parents as a lad, and received his education at Phillips Exeter Academy and Georgetown University. He is five feet eleven inches tall, and by systematic athletics keeps himself trained down to 142 pounds, fighting trim.
After a brief and far from epoch-making career in business, Devereaux took the advice of William Courtenay, and joined the latter’s stock company in Albany. After playing a variety of juvenile leads with William Courtenay and Thomas A. Wise, Devereaux entered the films and is said to show every promise of developing into a strong favorite.
Besides being an outdoor enthusiast, capable of playing a good game of golf or doing the trudgeon crawl at a professional clip, Devereaux writes fiction and verse with a perseverance that should land him among the creators of bestsellers some day. He is now hard at work on a scenario that Dwan has put the stamp of approval upon.
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Myron Selznick Heads Adv. Service.
Lewis J. Selznick has organized a subsidiary company to be known as the Film Advertising Service, Inc., which he has placed in charge of his son, Myron Selznick, who holds the position of purchasing agent in the Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises. This new company is formed for the purpose of distributing through the exchanges and exhibitors advertising novelties of all sorts for the exploitation of Selznick Pictures.
Mr. Selznick, Jr., will leave New York this week on a complete tour of the Selznick exchanges to arrange the operations of the Service Company. He will be accompanied by E. J. Doolittle, of the National Printing & Engraving Co., which concern holds the contract for producing all posters used for Selznick Pictures. The trip will consume about six weeks and will include twenty-one branches.
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Dallas State Rights Men in New York.
S. M. Thompson and his son, True T., who conduct a State rights exchange at 1911–1/2 Commerce street, Dallas, Tex., are in New York looking over the State rights market with a view to purchasing several attractions for their State. The Thompsons are at present handling The Melting Pot and several other features.
During a visit to the offices of the Moving Picture World they reported that conditions in their city and State were quite favorable at the present time. Business is booming all through the South, they said, and prospects are indeed bright.
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House Peters Leaves Morosco.
House Peters has just completed his contract term at the Morosco Photoplay Company’s Los Angeles studio, and while resting is considering offers from several large Western producers. It is rumored, however, that Mr. Peters may finally decide to build his own studio, produce his own plays, and release them under the state rights plan.
Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917
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