Lucius J. Henderson (1914) 🇺🇸

Announcement has been made by Herbert Payne, President of the California Motion Picture Corporation, that the services of Lucius J. Henderson have been engaged for the feature productions which that firm plans to place on the market at once.

Mr. Henderson has for years been prominent in theatrical and picture activities and he is recognized as a highly capable director. As in the cases of many other lights in the motion picture profession, he achieved fame as an actor and director on the legitimate stage long before motion pictures had won their place of prominence in the entertainment world. His popularity on the Pacific Coast is well established. He played the leading role in Edwin Milton Royle’s Wolf at San Francisco’s old California Theater in ninety-two, three and four. Mr. Henderson’s success in it was equally as pronounced when it was taken east.

Henderson has also won fame as a playwright, his highest achievement in this respect probably being his collaboration on The Strength of the Weak. His latter years on the legitimate stage were spent as leading man and director for Florence Roberts. His moving picture experience began with the Thanhouser Company shortly after that firm was organized. While there he directed many of the concern’s feature productions, his list including such well-known photoplays as the adaptations from the operas Tannhauser, Lucile and Carmen.

Mr. Henderson’s success with Thanhouser was responsible for his transfer to the Majestic Company at Los Angeles, when that firm was being reorganized. Among the plays that were produced under his immediate direction for Majestic are Sappho, The Oath of O’Tsura San, Ruy Blas and The Reform Candidate.

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Changes in Exchange Management.

O. P. Hall, formerly manager of the World Film Corporation, Atlanta, Ga., has recently accepted a position as manager of the Southern Feature Film Corporation, of Atlanta. Mr. Hall is an experienced picture man, and has managed theaters in Jacksonville, Fla., and Atlanta for F. T. Montgomery. The vacancy created by Mr. Hall in the World Film Corporation has been filled by Wm. F. Niel. Mr. Niel knows the business thoroughly, and at one time controlled eight moving picture theaters in the South.

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Norman MacDonald Making Change.

Norman MacDonald, for several years with Essanay, is at present at the Photoplayers’ Club, Los Angeles. He has many successes in photoplay productions to his credit. Previous to his efforts in the picture field he was a prominent actor with leading companies in America and England. He is considering several offers, one of which is from a capitalist in Los Angeles for a series of four and five-reel classic features.

Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1914