Roy Applegate (1915) 🇺🇸
Roy Applegate, the Equitable Motion Picture Company’s regular “heavy,” has had experience in almost every phase of the motion picture field. He has directed, some. He was the dramatic producer of the Mirrorgraph’s recent feature All for a Girl, in which Renée Kelly, the pretty actress who is en tour this season with Henry Miller (1859–1926) in Daddy Long Legs, played the lead. Then he appeared with Lionel Barrymore last spring in a number of pictures.
Mr. Applegate, however, has just signed a contract to appear as a “heavy” for some time. He is tall and very dark, and of the type of features which is especially adapted to that sort of work. His first work for the Equitable was in “Life’s Crucible,” in which he appears opposite Clara Whipple. He has since played in The Bludgeon, and is now engaged with the rest of the company in The Fisher Girl, in which he again plays opposite Miss Whipple.
Sometime in Mr. Applegate’s past is a short history of his connection with a newspaper. Whether as editor or reporter, he will not say, but at any rate, along with most men who have done journalistic work, Mr. Applegate cherishes a secret longing to some day possess a newspaper in a town, in which he can write and publish everything he wants to.
A curious incident happened one day when the Equitable company was at Block Island, R. I., last week, producing the picture of The Fisher Girl.
The popular heavy had been told that he would not be wanted one day, but at noon Mr. Seay [Charles M. Seay], the director, changed his mind, and sent his assistant in search of Mr. Applegate. The actor could not be found. At about four o’clock he was finally located. He was in the back room of the village’s newspaper, setting up type, and writing “scare heads” for all the village’s “juicy bits.”
The editor tried to sell the paper to him, but the actor determined to remain true to his profession and returned to Flushing still a “heavy.”
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Must Have Permits
Picture players on street in costumes liable to arrest says magistrate.
Magistrate Krotel, in the Jefferson Market Court last Thursday made an announcement of more than ordinary import to motion picture players and their employers. In effect it was that he would sustain charges and punish actors who in costume tried to do “film stunts” in public thoroughfares without an especial permit or license. This declaration he made to counsel for George Kleine. The lawyer was trying to explain why Traffic Officer Wm. D. Knealy should not have arrested George Bickel, Dan Crimmons and Max Moree when, on Monday morning he saw them, garbed as regulation pirates with big moustaches, clanging cutlasses, long-barreled revolvers and Sixteenth Century boots, alight from an auto and make their way toward a vacant lot in the vicinity of Fourth avenue and Thirteenth street, where it was afterward explained it was intended to make a bit of film history.
Knealy, evidently thinking he had caught red-handed the band of thieves who had been operating in Manhattan in the guise of motion picture actors, grew considerably excited and blew his whistle loud enough to attract a small army of policemen who, surrounding the luckless thespians, escorted them to the Mercer Street Station, where bail was quickly supplied.
In court, however, Knealy charged the alleged offenders with disorderly conduct in appearing on a public thoroughfare in masquerade. Magistrate Krotel sustained his charge, found the actors guilty, but suspended sentence.
Bickel is of the team of Bickel and Watson [Harry Watson], noted comedians; Crimmons is of the team of Crimmons and Gore [Rosa Gore], also comedians, and Moree is noted in legitimate drama and vaudeville.
Magistrate Krotel’s decision will likely prove vexsome to the many troupes of motion picture actors obliged to pass through the city’s streets in stage costume in order to save time, or who must get local color to scenes supposed to be enacted in Greater New York.
An arrangement may be made by which special, yearly permits will be issued to Mr. Kleine and other moving picture firms, enabling their employees to perform their necessary duties while in costume without molestation.
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Southern Girls in Kalem’s “Money Gulf.”
Although cynics have never been able to speak harshly enough of blasé, bored New York, five little southern girls who have just finished spending the happiest days of their lives here vow it a wonderful, enchanted city where everybody, from the Mayor down, wears a smile of welcome and does all he or she can to greet the strangers within their gates.
The girls are the Misses Marie Bain, Gladys Thornton, Jessie Ruth Snow, Mary Lee House and Irene Miller. Their presence in this city is due to the fact that they won a popularity contest, conducted by the “Metropolis,” a Jacksonville, Fla., daily. In addition to being given a trip to New York, the winners were to take part in a three-part drama, The Money Gulf, produced by the Kalem Company.
Although a trip to the big city was in itself sufficient to make every girl in Jacksonville determined to prove herself one of the five most popular misses residing in that city, the opportunity to take part in a photoplay was the stronger attraction. The contest was strenuously contested from the outset and thousands of votes were polled.
The young ladies who appear in the accompanying illustration proved the victors. Before leaving New York, they were cast for their respective roles in The Money Gulf, by Harry Millarde, who is producing this feature at the Kalem studios in Jacksonville. Then, after completing their work, the young ladies started on their tour.
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Kalem’s Dixie Girls
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Famous Baseball Player Joins Kleine Forces.
Charles Nichols, the famous ex-baseball pitcher of the Boston National baseball team, is now a member of the George Kleine selling forces, traveling out of the Kansas City office. Mr. Nichols was the hurling end of the Boston National’s celebrated battery of Nichols and Bennett from 1890 to 1900. His baseball career began with Omaha in 1888. He has managed the Kansas City team of the American Association and has been identified with sports of various kinds in the Missouri metropolis for a number of years. Nichols is remembered by Joe Vila, sporting editor of the New York Evening Sun, as “the best pitcher Boston ever had.”
Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915