Russell’s Monarch Feature Ready

Richard Golden’s Popular Play, ”Common Sense Brackett,” Is the First Six-Reel Offering

BOB RUSSELL, well-known for many years in the motion picture industry, has organized the Monarch Photoplay Company, Inc., and is its president. He has just finished the first of a series of feature films, which the new organization will offer on the state-rights basis. It is the ever popular”Common Sense Brackett,” and is the first screen production of a play in which the star was Richard Golden, whose name was a household word from one end of the country to the other. As a play it had a full season’s run in New York and also in Chicago, playing all over the United States. Mr. Russell is one of the most experienced men in the film business and has worked for all of the big companies from the time he was associated with the Miles Brothers, pioneers in photoplay production. His chief principle has been for the uplift of pictures and his producing of this strong drama of wholesome life is merely another evidence of this.

This picture is in six reels and was taken in the real country among the sort of people Common Sense Brackett knew, on the shores of picturesque Lake Sunapee, near George’s Mills, New Hampshire. As usual, Mr. Russell has chosen his company from among the better players for the screen. It is virtually an ”all-star” organization arid many of the players have been retained for the next feature on which Mr. Russell will start work immediately. It includes William Fredericks, formerly with Famous Players; Wm. Sorelle, who has played with Marguerite Clark and other well-known stars; Barbara Gilroy, who was featured with Thanhouser; Bradley Barker, a prominent leading man; Mildred Gregory, who has played important parts with Lubin and others; Dallas Fitzgerald, Walter Hiers, the famous”fatboy,” and many others. ”Common Sense Brackett” was produced for the stage by Henry W. Savage.


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