Mirror Engages Ione Bright (1916) 🇺🇸

Ione Bright, quite recently leading woman with Julian Eltinge, will be leading ingénue for Nat Goodwin in the first picture in which he will star for the Mirror Films, Inc., under the direction of Lawrence Marston.

The company will begin work in a few days at the Glendale studio of the Mirror Company. Captain Harry Lambart, who engaged Miss Bright, is said to have her in mind for a number of ingénue roles in future pictures made by the Mirror. Miss Bright was originally the product of a mining camp way up in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, where she was born some few years ago. Her schooling was had in a convent in San Francisco, to which she went shortly after the earthquake and fire. From the convent she went almost immediately to the Liberty Playhouse in Oakland, where she had small parts, filled admirably because of the training which she got in dramatic work in the convent.

The east beckoned in the shape of an engagement to play a role in Wallingford under the direction of Cohan and Harris and she came to New York. She has three years of experience in this and then went to the part of Miss Patsy in Officer 666, which was followed by an engagement with Elsie Janis in The Lady of the Slipper. Her most recent work on the stage was as leading woman with Julian Eltinge in Cousin Lucy. She has done picture work for the Pathé Company.

[Transcriber’s Note: Mirror Films Inc experienced financial difficulties in 1916/1917, resulting in legal actions and departures of actors and production crew. She may have been a cast member in the films “The Marriage Bond” and/or “Turned Up” for Mirror. Ione Bright starred in the 1917 comedy short Mixed Nuts (1917), produced by Jaxon Film Productions as part of the Sparkle Comedies, and may have had small parts in or tested for Pathé productions. Source: Wikipedia]

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Three New Players Join Horsley

The cast which David Horsley has selected for A Law Unto Himself, featuring Crane Wilbur, includes three newcomers to Horsley productions, Louis Durham, the former big league ball player, who comes from the New York Motion Picture Company; Steve Martin [Steve Murphy?], who was last with the Universal in the Graft serial, and Francis Raymond, who, although only eighteen, has had considerable screen experience.

In addition to these, the cast includes George Clare Jr. The release date is February 28.

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Blue Bird Photo Plays, Inc., announces the opening of a Buffalo branch office. J. M. Ryan is manager.

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$10,000 Rug Used as “Prop”

Before the throne of the mythical kingdom of Veseria, in a scene from One Day, a sequel to Elinor Glyn’s Three Weeks, released January 29 by the Moss [B. S. Moss] forces, there is a rug which the director, Hal Clarendon, declares to be one of the most expensive “props” ever used in a motion picture. It is a Joolnaise rug of the sixteenth century and was sold recently to H. G. Kelekian from the collection of Thomas B. Clarke, noted art collector, for $10,000. It is six feet eleven inches long and four feet seven inches wide.

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John W. Grey Quits Vitagraph

John W. Grey announces that he has resigned from the Vitagraph Company of America. For the last nine months Mr. Grey has been assistant to Albert E. Smith, president of the V. L. S. E., formerly treasurer of the General Film Co., and treasurer and general manager of the Vitagraph Company. While with Vitagraph Mr. Grey was in charge of sales plans, sales manuals, posters, press sheet, the monthly bulletin, the trade paper and general advertising. It is intimated that his new connection will be announced soon.

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Curwood Comedy Being Made

A rollicking single-reel comedy by James Oliver Curwood, entitled The Beauty Hunters, is now in course of production at the Selig Zoo studios. James Bradbury, Martha Mattox and Cecil Holland all have exceptional opportunities. William Robert Daly is the producer. T. N. Heffron is making extensive preparations for the forthcoming production of Hallie Erminie Rives’ remarkable story of Southern life, The Valiants of Virginia.

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Mrs. Miller Holds Ohio Job

Mrs. Maud Murray Miller, the only woman member of the Ohio State board of motion picture censors, has been reappointed to that position by unanimous vote of the industrial commission. Mrs. Miller was appointed to the board first by Governor Cox. There were two other candidates for the place: Carlotta Price-Shea, of Bellefontaine, and Mrs. Poe, of Zanesville, Ohio.

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To meet an increasing demand for help in selecting proper music for features, V. L. S. E. is sending to exhibitors music cue sheets prepared by S. M. Berg, who for more than ten years has been a music director in New York City. Much of that time he has conducted for motion pictures.

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June implores the Tollivers to save Hale's life.

Collection: Motography Magazine, February 1916