Terry Ramsaye (1916) 🇺🇸

Photographs of Editor Terry Ramsaye of Reel Life are scarce, but Hopp Hadley (also of the Mutual), having developed a sixth sense which enables him to locate photographs of the most camera-shy stage celebrities, managed to dig up this excellent likeness of the Mutual’s popular publicity manager.

Terry Ramsaye’s newspaper activities had made him famous in the Middle West long before William Randolph Hearst took advantage of his clever pen, which was not many moons before President John R. Freuler captured the active Ramsaye brains for the Mutual Film Corporation. Since that time magazines and newspapers have found news value in Mutual publicity stories to an extent which has made the Mutual bills for paste and scrapbooks increase like an advance agent’s expense account.

Terry Ramsaye’s stories of Charlie Chaplin have even found their way into the editorial columns of responsible metropolitan dailies which, among other things, has resulted in the publicist carrying $230,000 worth of canceled Chaplin checks in his inside pocket. It seems that a certain newspaper ridiculed the idea that Chaplin received $10,000 a week salary. The following morning an office boy of the daily appeared before the city editor with the news that a man wanted to show him $230,000. “Bring him in! Quick!” shouted the editor, who, after he had examined the checks in speechless wonder, offered Mr. Ramsaye the freedom of his columns for “anything you want to say about the matter.”

A born newspaper man, Terry Ramsaye loves a “beat.” That’s one reason why he slipped out of town for a few hours recently and came back with beautiful little Betty Shannon as his wife — and they kept the important news to themselves for some time, too!

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Metro Players Marooned by Storm.

Marooned all night on one of the smaller of the Thousand Islands, near the lonesome Canadian mainland, while a terrible storm raged, was the harrowing experience of nine members of the Metro-Yorke company of players, headed by Harold Lockwood and May Allison, according to word just received from them at the Metro offices. The captain of the boat that carried the players to the island refused to venture back in the violent storm, which continued throughout the night. A lean-to, fashioned of heavy branches and small pieces of canvas, was rigged up by Mr. Lockwood and Lester Cuneo, to protect the feminine contingent, while the men sought refuge under the trees.

It was shortly after daylight before a cruiser sighted the distress signal on the shores of the island, and went to the aid of the group. Several members of the party suffered from exposure. All were suffering from hunger and thirst.

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Sam Spedon to Represent Vitagraph.

Sam M. Spedon, besides taking care of the transportation of producers, exhibitors and others of the motion picture industry on a special train which will leave New York for Chicago on Saturday, July 8, for the Sixth National Exposition and Convention of the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of America, will also go in the capacity of “official representative” of the Vitagraph Company.

Mr. Spedon will look after affairs for the Vitagraph Company, which has contracted for an elaborate booth at Exposition Hall and will meet Vitagraph’s many friends who visit the show. He will see that they are given a handsome Vitagraph souvenir as a remembrance of the occasion.

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Two Vitagraph-G. F. Subjects for July 3.

A comedy and a drama, each a single reel in length, are Vitagraph’s offering on the General Film Program for the week of July 3. The former, When It Rains, It Pours, is from the Hollywood studio and features Mary Anderson, and the latter is entitled, Billie’s Mother, with Donald Hall and Helen Costello. On the same reel as the latter is “A Tour from Bergen to Bandak,” which shows some beautiful scenes in the highlands of Norway.

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Frolic for Ohio League Men.

Members of the Northeastern Ohio Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League are going to forget release dates, reformers and house receipts for one day at least in the near future and go on a real frolic. George W. Heinbuch of the Superior theater, is chairman of a committee which is arranging for an outing. Other members of the committee are S. F. Deutsch and S. H. Barck. The operators’ union is to be invited to participate in the affair the date of which has not yet been set.

Collection: Moving Picture World, July 1916