Al Reitz

After Howard M. Mitchell began work as a Thanhouser director, on July 6, 1915, Reitz became his assistant. The New Rochelle Pioneer, June 3, 1916, announced that Al Reitz was among nearly two dozen important players, directors, and cameramen whose employment was terminated by the studio on Saturday morning, May 27, 1916, as part of an economy move.

The New Rochelle Evening Standard, Mary 15, 1917, printed this news: “Al Reitz, a former Thanhouserite is to again venture on the sea of matrimony. He is now at Glendale, California working with the Kalem Film concern there and met his bride while she was picking lemons in her father’s grove, part of which Al and his Kalem constituents were using to stage a movie scene. Her name, Al tells Benjamin F. Ruskin, clerk to the health board, in a letter received yesterday, is Lora Eyrand, and she lives in that part of the sunny state known as Tropico, although she is a native of Canada and her father owns a large fruit plantation there. All this Al admits in his letter. The marriage ceremony will be performed by Howard M. Mitchell, a former Thanhouserite and member of the Relief Engine Company as best man and Mignon Anderson, a former Thanhouserite as bridesmaid. Morris Foster, Miss Anderson’s husband, has consented to attend the ceremony, and Benjamin F. Ruskin and Sidney Bracy, another ex-Thanhouser man who was playing at the Little Playhouse, Mount Vernon, have received invitations, although they hardly plan to grace the affair with their presence.”