Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1923, Page 60

"TAMUSEMENTS. '74 e PHOIOPLAY ULITE an ingenious system for determining what the public wants in the line of photoplays has been proposed by Arthur S. Kane, who heads the Associated Exhibitors, and who already has set the method in operation in conuection with the National Board of Review. It is in the nature of a community referendum. He proposes that the representative men aund women in the community select a com- mittee, to which, from his office at 35 West 43d strect, New York, he will cause to be sent a booklet issued by the National Board of Review con- taining fair and unbiased criticisms of forthcoming or current pictures. These reviews deal with the pictures put cut by all producers and dis- tributors, “provided the, worth whil After the committee has selected its list of best pictures it submits it to the vote of tire entire community. Those pictur h are given the highest number of votes will be suggested to the exhibitor, who thus will know in advance what his patrons want. Naturally, it is suggested, the exhibitor will co-operate with the committee and be open to its suggestions, for by so doing he will assure himself of goodiy audiences in advance, and the suggestions offered will find their way to the play producers, thus bringing them in closer touch with those to whom they cater. In this way the exhibitor will benefit, the public will get what it wants and the producer will be furnished a guide to his course. This course, it is suggested. will give to the producers a readily tabulated guide as to the variations in public taste. The idea has a constructive ring to it, and at first thought seems well worthy of a trial, at least. Heretofore. the producer made his own guess as to “what the public wants.” The exhibitor had no choice but to take what he could get from the producer, and the public had to accept that or nothing. Under the proposed plan, the public has a way of clearly making known to exhibitor and to producer precisely what it does want in the way of picture entertainment, and it is almost certain that the demand will bring forth the supply. ¥ ok kK ESPITE the caterwauling of carping critics, many of whom. no doubt, vent their views without a fuil knowledge of the facts of which they write, and many more incompetent to write as they should even with the facts in their possession, the photoplay industry is unmistakably endeay- oring to pull itse!f up by the boots It has done more to try to win public approval than the stage, with all its centuries of experience. Now. at least, it is not disposed to arrogate t ¢ right to fix the public taste and to make it conform to w i nts. It is showing an earnest desire to get into intimate touch v lic and to do what reason- ably may be necessary to win the cpproval of that public. It is only just and reasonable that it be met with a friendly response. Scandal and gossip touching individuals should give way to the more important sub- ject of what can be done to improve the art of the photoplay and to better the methods of its handling for the public good. ¥k K K horrors good may result. It is quite natural for the wife of the late Wallace Reid and his good mother to wish to do this. It is truly human to want to strike back at that which has robbed you of a loved one, but it is this_very spirit of resentment which calls for careful consideration of the wisdom of its exercise. Propaganda pictures have not been over- successful in accomplishing the results for which they were intended, and there are many who believe that real harm has come irom exposing to innocent eyes cvils of which they had not theretofore dreamed. Ex- perience may be an invaluable teacher, but if there is one thing more than another which young folks usually resent it is the prescription of the experience of their elders. All that has thus far been pictured of vice and immorality, of social wickedness and pitfal's, has scarcely made the world perceptibly better. lLegislation may help in such matters. But those who think must know that the real cure for the dope evil for any other evil that threatens the body politic. is the cducation of the heart along | h the mind This education must begin in the home and at an early age. % It ought never to end. s * ASHINGTON saw during the week what is claimed to be the product of a perfected process whereby things may be photographed in the colors of nature, without tinting and handling in the old-fashioned way. The reviews of “The Toll of the Sea” were favorable, and on some points enthusiastic. It is the custom of the management of Loew’s Columbia to hold for more than a week those attractions whose popularity is suffi- ciently attested in the box office. “The Toll of the Sea” does not linger with us. This may be due to its theme rather than to a verdict upon its color photography. It is perhaps too early to express an opinion. Much of the work was very beautiful, and it may be, when the same process is employed upon a drama or comedy which pleases in itself, that color photography will receive a more generous verdict through the box office Incidentally, the decorative art titles came in for a large share of the praise. They were made by John S. Eland, brother of Henry E. Eland well known in \\'zihglgton.lwhg competed with many other artists for work, after a study at the Boston 3 1 e y ston plant as to the needs of t.he‘new Photoplays This Week AT THE PHOTOPLAY HOUS METROPOLITAN—Harold Lloyd, afternoon RIALTO—Agnes Ayres, in “Racing Heart.” COLUMBIA—DeMille's production, afternoon. PALACE—Marion Davies, in “Adam and Eve.” noon. CENTRAL—"Dollar Devils.” Shown this afternoon. CRANDALL'S—Norma Talmadge, in “A Daughti » Shown this afternoon. i sotTRWarlle LINCOLN—“One Week of Love.” Shown this afternoon. :S THIS WEEK. “Dr. Jack.” in Shown this Shown this “Adam's Rib.” ternoon. Shown this Shown this after- COLUMBIA—Cecil B.. DeMille's|throush & ssoond week, beginning ear e this afternoon. sementg TALMADGE- Crandalls Beginning this afternoon, Loew’s Columbia Theater will present for the first time in Washington the long- herald®d “Adam’s Rib.” a modern love tale that flashes in Its action from gorgeous soclety ballrooms to the Jjungleg of primitive mankind and back again. It was personally dirccted De Mille from the story by Jeanie MacPherson, and the cast ludes Milton Siils. Elliot Dexter. Theodore Xosloff. Anna Q. Nilgson, Pauline Ga- ron, Julia Faye, Clarence Geldart, Clarence Burton. Wedgewood Nowell and many othe In this story Mr. De Mille has re- vealed the primitive conflict for a woman's heart that still goes on in Jungle fashion, though the jungle era of man's existence is long past. He has laid his story in the circles of the socially prominent and the finan- «ially well-to-do, and against this for a background he works out a tale of eplc proportions that is dominated throughout by tremendous love theme. In none of his previous pictures, it is claimed, has Mr. De Mille attained the gorgeous beauty of settings and backgrounds that distinguish this, his Jatest cinema offering. The story concerns the effort of a Chicago grain king to win back the Jove of a wife who has been neglected for years by Mr. a RIALTO—Eileen Percy in “The k Flirt.” Booth Tarkington's story, “The Flirt,” one of the most widely read of the day, i said to have been greatly enhanced ©y its presentation in screen form, the remier showing of which. as produced v Universal Pictures, will be made at Moore’s Rialto Theater this week, be- flnm today. The title role of Cora adison is taken by beautiful Eileen Percy. with Helen Jerome Eddy as the iner sister, the direct antithesis of “'the flirt.” The story deals with life in an Amer- ican home, where a beautiful daughter, who knows that she is beautiful, tries <o rule the family and nearly wrecks it, even to the extent of sending her father to prison, due to her longing for fln?ry and her lavish expenditure without the knowledge of her father. The_subsidiary features will include the short comedy “Dog Sense,” the latest Fox News and “Fun From the Press,” with musical offerings by the orchestra and the Rialto Melody Boys. METROPOLITAN—Harold Lloyd 5 in “Dr. Jack.” Crandall's Metropolitan Theater will fcature Harold Lloyd and his_ wif formerly Mildred Davis. in “Dr. Jac! snd Will Rogers in “Fruits of Faith,” w.Dr. Jack” is & comedy which, like ‘Grandma’s Boy,” introduces its laughable devices merely as embroid- ery of a tale based on sound common sense With a progressive narrative that leads to a hurricane of mirth. The central character is a young physician whose chief stock in trade is boundless good nature and a con- tagious optimlsm that is readily im- parted to his patients. Called in con- sultation on the case of a young |heiress who is being treated before she iy sick by a doctor of question- able ability. e circumvents the older lln'aclllu)rlel' in his efforts to keep the poor-sick-little-well-girl” on \his books and finally wins the support of her father. The story develops a series of very funny situations. In “Fruits of Faith” Will Roger has one of those serio-comic drama in which he is enabled to display his command of both pathos and whole- some humor. His role is that of & tramp who becomes mightily impre! ed with a street-corner revivali exposition of the value of faith in God as a_means to attaining desired ends. He puts the theory to the test and is astonished by the results, When he comes into accidental pos- session of an orphaned baby he gains a new viewpoint of life and wins his baby a mother. Two of the stars children appear in the picture. An overture comprising selections trom_Victor Herbert's the Metropolitan World the Pathe News will be gdded attrac- { tions. PALACE—Marion Davies “Adam and LZve.” Marion Davies, whose work in “When Knighthood Was in Flower” is still fresh in the public mind, will be th picture start this week at Loew's Palac ‘Theater in her latest production, “Adam and Eve,” a picturization by Cosmopoli- tan Productions for Paramount of the Broadway stage play which was given 1t5 ‘promiers performance in this city at the Garrick, with Otto Kruger and a Broadway cast. ““Adam and Eva” was adapted from the play by Guy Bolton and George Middieton and was scenarized by Luther Reed. The direction is that of Robert G. Vignola, who was also the director of “Knighthood” and who has been Miss Davies' director in a long string of re- cent screen successes. Joseph Urban, the world-famous designer of settings, designed many of the beautiful interior and exterior scenes of ‘‘Adam and Eva.” The cast includes T. Roy Barnes, Tom Lewis and William Norris. The story concerns the wilful. way- ward daughter of & comparatively rich man whose foolish extra ces al- most drive her father to traction. Unable to cope with the situation and determined to find relief at any price, the father melects a young man from his awn office, puts him In charge of the 1amlly check beok-and the fi in HaroLp Itvop Metropdliton itself and leaves on a trip to South America. What happened in his ab- sence makes a great story. CENTRAL—"Dollar Devils.” “Doilar Devils” Hodkinson's inte esting film combination of inman na- ture, humor and thrills will be shown | ldm. i / JANE Novar.~ Ceutral Elite. Zeena Keefe. in “The Broken tomorrow, James B. Warner Flaming ~Hearts”: Tuesday Waiker, in “Captain Fly B Wednesday, Viola Dana, in e Dark™; Thursday. David Butler, in “Girls, Don't Gaml Fri Alice Brady, in “Anna Ascends, and Saturday, Robert Gordon, in “The Today. Silenc in “The Johnny ght ove in ‘Suymr Sex."” ELAINES ¥ HAMMERSTEIN Lincoln and Nine.” in the climax of which a locomotive is driven at top speed through a_raging forest fire. Neal Burns in “A Chased Bride” and the Fox News will complete the bill. Eve unday night the Lincoln books ~a special added attraction Mondays are “surprise nights.” and every Kriday lent contests” are held. with $30 in gold awarded by the for the first time in Washington at audience to the prize winners the week. €randall’'s Central Theater first four days of the current ginning this after notable, including I a Landis, Joseph J. Dowling, 'Hallam Cooley, Miles McCarthy and Lydia Knott. The story concerns the revolution- ary events that followed the develop- ment of a ocounterfeit ofl boom in & small town where previously life had been placidity itself. The Starland Review and a new issue of Kinograms will be shown, together with the first installment of the “Fighting Blood series of short-reel dramas and pipe organ recitals by W. E. Thompson. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish, supported by Tyrone Power, will be seen in Henry King's production for First National, “Fury,” Edmund Goulding's powerful drama of the sea. “Jumping Beans’ will be the added attraction. CRANDALL'S—Norma Talmadge in “A Daughter of Two Worlds.” Norma Talmadge in the screen adaptation of LeRoy Scott's mnoted story of “A Daughter of Two World: will be the attraction at Crandall's Theater the first three days of the S present week, beginning this after- noon. It is the story of the daughter of a tough east side gangster. who by a happy combination of circumstances 1s permitted to occupy a high place in fashionable society. This rise In the soclal scale, however, she sacrifices in order to save a pal in trouble, and it i _this sacrifice that brings to Jen- nie Malone the true love, happiness and contentment she has always craved. Dan Mason will supply the comedy relief in_ “Pop Tuttle. Fire Chief” Wednesday and Thursday Agnes Ayres will be pictured in her latest Paramount picture, “A Daugh- ter of Luxury,” and Mr. and Mrs. Car- ter De Haven in the humorous con- weethearts,” |t He sl tribution to the bill. “A Ringer for urvey and!poah The Pathe Review also will be Friday and Saturday Gold- reen version of Peter B. Kyne's vivid yarn of “Brothers Under the Skin” will be shown. Adams wili supply the comedy ne “A Good Scout”” Pipe organ accom- paningent and minor films are daily features. shown. wyn's in LINCOLN—"“One Week of Love.” Elaine Hammerstein and Conway Tearle will be pictured at the Lincoln Theater the first three days of this week, beginning this afternoon, in the Selsnick speolal production, “One Week of Love,” & gorgeous romance, in which are combined magnificent settings, bazarre costumes, comedy, dramatic power and thrills. The story is of a rich young flapper who wagers her hand as prize in an air- plane race to San Diego and back. Getting into a fog bank and her en- gine getting out of control, she crashes into the shack of a renegade American in the Mexican foothilis and is virtually held his prisoner for & week. The climax and denouement are alive with suspense. Mack Sennett’ two-reel comedy, *“When Summer Comes,” starring_Billy Bevan, Mildred June, a trained bear and a troupe of African lions, will be the laughmaker. The Kinograms also will be shown. Colleen Moore will be plotured ¥ri- and Saturdgy in Vitagraph's ex- screen version of Ramsay Mor- | phans who ha immie | Russian Orphan Benefit. “Russia_Through the Shadows.” a seven-reel moving picture of Russia through the war and revolution, will be shown tomorrow evening at the new Masonic Auditorium, 13th street and New York avenue. The ploture comes to Washington highly recommended as an amazing ectacle. The national board of re- ew, 18 is said, considers this picture “a wonderful example of the vivid- ness with which the motlon plcture can bring home to us the vital epi- sodes of world progress,” and that the pictures combine to a high de- gree entertainment and education. Tt states the dramatic interest of the story as “unusual” and the historical value as “splendid.” The proceeds from the film will go to buy food and clothes for the or- urvived the scourge of war and famine. Many prominent Washingtonians are said to be work- ing to make its showing in Washing- ton a success. Apollo. Today and tomorrow. Katherine MacDonald and Bryant Washburn in 'he Woman Conquers” and Buster Keaton in “Day Dreams”; Tuesday and Wednesday, - Wallace Reid in “Thirty Days” and Lige Conley in “Casey Jomes, Jr.”; Thursday, Agnes Ayres in “A Daughter of Luxui and “The Hawallan American Four, ing- ers and instrumentallsts; Friday, Co leen Moore in “The Ninety and Nine and Paul Parrott in “Do Your Stuff,” and Saturday. Dorothy -Dalton in ark Secrets” and Charlie Chaplin in ‘Shoulder Arms.” Avenue Grand. Today and tomorrow. Wallace “Thirty Days" and Lige Conle: ase: Jones, Jr.”; Wednesday, Katherine “The Woman Conquers Keaton in “Day Dreams”: Thursda Colleen Moore in “The Ninety and Nine and Paul Parrott in “Do Your Stuff”; Friday, Dorothy Dalton in “Dark Becrets” and Charlie Chaplin in “Shoulder Arms,” and Saturda; Agnes Ayres in “A Daughter Luxury” and Johnny Jones in “The Big Scoop.” Tuesday acDonald in and Buster Cirole. Today and tomorrow, Elaine Ham-¢ merstein, in “One Week of Love’ Tuesday, Charles Ray, in “A Tailor- ; Wedn May Mc- Avoy, Thursday and Friday, madge, in “The Voice From the Mina- ret,” and Saturday, Mary Miles M ter, In “The Cow Boy and the Lady. Dumbarton. Today, Dorothy Dalton, in. “On the High Seas”; tomorrow, Cullen Lan- dis, in_“Man_ With Two Mothers Tuesday and Wednesday, Norma Tal madge, in “The Voice From the Min: ret”; Thursday, “The Pride‘of Palo- mas Fri Betty Compson, in “Always_the Woman,” and Saturday, Dustin Farnum, in “The Yosemite amous melodrams, “The Ninety Trail' i | Tuesday, I Empire. . Today and tomorrow. George Beban. in “The Sign of the Rose,” also Ha jold Lloyd, in *“Young Mr. Jazz Tuesday. Marguerite 8 “The Velled Womar also asure Be- fore Business”; Wednesday, Franklyn Farnum, in _ “Texas,” also puds’ Thursda Richard Talmadge, “Taking Chane: also Fox New Friday, Ralph Graves and Bessic in “The Ghost Patrol liber Mystery™; Saturday Lincoln, in “The Man of Cou: also Fox News and comedy. Favorite. | Today. Thomas Meighan. in | Home and Broke™; tomorrow. | Talmadge, in “The Forbidden Thing": Ferguson, in Lon Chaney, in &7 Thursday, William Without Compromise”: Pickford, in “Daddy and Saturday. Helen Nine Points of the Law.” Hippodrome. Today and tomorrow. Jackie Coo- gan, in _"Ollver Twist”; Tuesday, “Hearts Haven"; Wedne , Frank Mayo, in “Caught Bluffin"; rsday, Viola Dana, in “June Madness”: Fri- day, Helen Taylor, in “Cave Girl,’ Saturday, “No Trespassing.” Outcast”; Wed i “Broken Cha | Russell, in | Briday, Mary iong lLegs | Gibson, in | and Home. Today and tomorrow. Marr, in “Trifling Women"; Tuesday, Herbert Rawlinson, in “Other Men's Shoes™; Wednesday and Thursday. Wanda Hawley, in_“Burning Sandse Friday, Alice Brady, S Johnny Walker, ‘aptain Fly By Night.” rbara La ay and tomorrow, Vera Gordon, in “Your Best Friend"; Tuesday, Wil- liam Desmond, in “The Veiled Wom- al Wednesday, May McAvoy, in “The Top of New York"”; Thursday, Gloria Swanson, in “The Impossible Mrs. Bellew”; Friday, Viola Dana, in “There Are No Villains,” and Satur- day, features and comed; Olympic. Today and tomorrow, “Quincy Ad- ams Sawyer”; Tuesday and Wednes- day, “To Have and to Hold”; Thurs- day. Alice Brady, in “Anna Ascends”; Friday, Frank Mayo and S8ylvia Breamer, in “Wolf Law,” and Reginald Denny, in “New Leather Pushers’ Saturday, Gladys Walton, In hi Lavender Bath Lady,” added at mas inee, Willlam Desmond, in “Around the World in 18 Days.” Princess. Today and tomorrow, Helene Chad- in “The Sin Flood”; Tuesday. Bellamy. in *“Love Never Wednesd: When ~Love {Comes": ‘Thursday, “Nine Points of {the Law”; Friday, Marlon Davies, in | “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” and Saturday, Lon Chaney, in “Quincy Adams Saw. B Raphael. Today and tomorrow. Milton Sills, in “Skin Deep’; Tuesday and_Wed nesday, “The Light of New York"; Thursday, Mary Pickford, in “Daddy Long Legs”; Triday, James Kirk- wood, in “Sin Flood,” and STturday, Tom Mix, in “Do and Dare. ! i wick, { Madge ! Dies”: Savoy. Today and tomorrow. Wallace Reid in “Thirty Days" and Lige Conley in “Casey Jomes, Jr.”; Tuesday —and Wednesday, Katherine MacDonald and Bryant Washburn in_*“The Woman Conquers” and Buster Keaton in “Day Dreams”; Thursday, Colleen Moore in “The Ninety and Nine” and Paul Par- rott in “Do Your Stuff”; Frid Dor- othy Dalton in “Dark Secrets” and Charlie Chaplin {n “Shoulder Arms,” and Satu Agnes Ayres in “A Harry Pollard Prisma’s “Bird- AMUSEM ESLEY RUGGLES, who was re- cently signed to & long term con- tract to direct Paramount pictures, has arrived at the Long Island studio to begin his next plcture. The name of it has not been decided upon. Bebe Daniels will be in a featured role. She is at present in Atlantic City recuperating from an operation for appendicitie. ‘While in RPanama with Thomas Meighan and his company making Bcenes for “The Ne'er-Do-Well,” Rex Beach's story, Lila Lee, leading wom- an. won the distinction of being the champion tamberita dancer of the republic. She wore one of the Span- ish costumes designed for her use in the film and appeared at a San Cocho, a native festival given for the com pany by Senor Porraz, president Fireét honors were awarded to her by iacclamation. Production of Martin Brown's stage Iplay. “The Esciters” which was jadapted to the screen by John Colton. jauthor of “Rain.” has been begun at the Long lsland studio under the di- (rection of Richard Ordynski. Agnes | Ayres and Antonio Moreno will be | featured. Others in the cast will be | Burr Mcintosh. Ida Darling, George | Backus, Jane Thomas and Alan Simp- | son. ' o One of the elaborate settings for Gloria Swanson's new picture, “Prod- igal Daughiters” was designed by Theodore Kosloff from memory. It a_ ballet copied from a Russian “Svadba.’ or wedding feast, which he put on eleven vears ago in Mos- cow. Announcement was made last week by Paramount officals that at a pre- release showing in_ Los Angeles, “Adam’s Rib,” Cecil B. DeMille's lat- est production, exceeded the opening ;reerl’(‘;n receipts of “Manslaughter” by 1,100. The home of John Barrymore at 15 Beekman place, New York, is to be seen in “You Can't Fool Your Wife," a George Melford production. Maurice Tourneur, who has completed “The Isle of Lost Ships” has selected “The Brass Bottle.” by F. Anetey, as his next story to be produced for First National release. who has finished Barthelmess in is planning a -xteriors in “The Barthel- John FRobertson. directing Richard “The Bright Shaw trip to England for Fightinz Blade,” the next mess picture. Strongheart, the dog star. who is up in Canada working in a picturiza tion of Jack London's “White Fan “spoke” over the radio at Calgary r centl}. Marjorie Daw is the second dering daughter’ selected by Young for hie production of * dering Daughter: Marguerite de la Motte was the first. Agnes_ Christine Johnston and Frank Daszey have completed the cenarfo for the Frank Borzage pro- duction, “Sands of Time.” This is an adaptation of Tristram Tupper’s story, “Terwilliger. MarioN DAVIRS Palace Filming a_terrific_rainstorm was one of the difficult accomplishments of Victor Schertzinger. who has just York finished directing Katherine McDon- ork. ald in “Chestity.” v and tomorrow. Norma Tal- i and Eugene O'Brien in “The Voice From the Minaret” and Paul farrott in “Do Your Stuff”; Tuesday, iatrive Joy and Matt Moore in Mar shall Neilan “Minnie” and Prizma's “The "Unselfish Shell”; Wednesday. Milton Sills and Wanda Hawley in “Burning Sands” and Jimmie Adams in “The Once Over”; Thursday, Bebe Daniels in “Singed Wings” and Aesop Fable, “The Gliders”; Friday, Florence Vidor and David Butler in “Conquer- ing the Woman,” and comedy, “Hazel From Hollywood,” and _Saturday, Shirley Mason in’ “Pawn Ticket No. 210" and Charlle Chaplin in “Shoulder rm Scores of artists, directors. stage hands and others deserted their posts recently at the United studios in Hollywood on completion of a mam- moth ice plant and skatting rink con- structed for Allen Holubar's produc- tion of “Slander the Woman,” star- ring Dorothy Phillips. The thermom- eter outdoors was hovering between 80 and 90 degrees, and this despite the fact that winter was not yet gone. But, of course, it happened in Call- fornia. A cloak literally “worth its weight in gold” is worn by Katherine Mac- Donald in “Refuge,” a First National picture soon to be released. It s of peach velvet, lined throughout with gold cloth, brocaded. From the wilds of Utah to the com- parative urbanity of Hollywood is some flight, but James Cruze has ac- complished it in “Hollywood,” a new production which he is making for Paramount. It is described as an ultra-modern picture telling the story of a girl who tries to break into the movies. So that his famous Kit Carson, ol “The Covered Wagon.' would he his- torically correct. Guy Oliver spent weeks reading about the exploits and the life of the old-timer. The picture has been produced for Paramount b; James Cruze. from the story by Emer- #on Hough. Venice in Connecticut. LITTLE bit of Venice, with its winding canals and its picturesque gondolas, was transported to the hills of Connecticut when Robert G. Vig- nola started photographing exterior scenes for “Adam and Eve” Marion Davies’ newest starring picture. Vignola obtained the loan of a beautiful Connecticut estate from William L. Marks, its owncr. and a veritable army of carpenters, elec- | tricians and mechanics was put to work constructing a reproduction of a Venetian carnival. Inasmuch as this purticular part of the picture was all supposed to take place at night, Miss Davies and her company worked for four days from sunset to sunrise. The scene cost in the neigh- borhood of $40,000 to reproduce. Joseph Urban, the world-famous de- signer of “Follies” uttlnrl. who now designs all the beautiful effects for Cosmopolitan productions, designed a picturesque pavilion, band stand, a festival barge and a’fieet of & dosen gondolas. The construction of the scene required about two weeks and New York was combed for real Vene. impersonation of the time scout. in There's one camera man in Los An- eles who had a good time recentl ecil B. DeMiile sent him out on a trip in his vacht to photograph a thirty-foot wave. It was simply a case of setting up the camera and cruising around for more than a week until the wave appeared. And after he had returned Mr. DeMille had changed his mind about using it. In flming scenes of the Panama canal three different waye for Thomas Mo latest plcture, “The Ne'er ell, the interesting facts were developed that it takes seven hours just | ENTS. Filmograms Broke,” has been added to the cast of “The Excite: March 16 has been decided upon for the formal opening of “The Covered Wagon” at the Criterion Theater, New York. This is the plcture pro- duced for ‘Paramount from Emerson liough's story by James Cruze. Nearly 3,600° persons and 600 wagons and other equipment were used during the making of most of the outdoor scenes in southern Utah. Theodore Kosloff had his_vacation rudely interrupted in New York last week. Becguse of the earnest in- sistence of the management of the Rivoli Theater he was induced to ap- pear there in the cave-man costume he wears in “Adam’s Rib." Motion pictures are becoming equal to a course in geography. They cover | the world.” Some of the new pictures X.'. 'm:h_ examples of this. There is 1“The Covered Wagon.” which trav- ¢rses the western plains from Mis souri to Oregon and Californfa; Tiger's Claw.” jaid in TIndl. American Wife” Gloria Swanso Ir cent picture. laid in South America e hl“ Trail of the lonesome Pine." starring Mary Miles Minter, & south- ern mountain stor Pola in “Bella Donna’ with an Egyptian background; “The White Flower." starring Betty Compson, filmed in Hawaii, and 0 on Under the direction of Craig Huteh- inson. formerly of the Mack Sennet! forces. the Paul Gerson Pictures Cor poration of San Francisco has just completed the third of a series of comedy drama short subjects from the pen of Peter B. Kyne. This series. twelve in number, of two reels each is to be released one a month. They were adapted to the screen by Mr. Kyne from his “Tiberius Tinker" stories. The fiiming of thess stories brings to the screen a new idea in s1btle comed. and Mr. Kyne waxed enthusiastic r them while viewing the prints of the first three plctures Orral Humphrey, eccentric come- dian, featured a_season or so ago by the 'American Film Company, was chosen by Mr. Kvne to star in the role of “Tiberius Tinker.” This series will bear the trade name of Peter B Kyne Short Subject Features. | 2 Constance Talmadge has again monstrated her right to the term emperamental” From her recent {visit to Paris she returned with but one new gown. Constance describex it a5 “just trving to be sensible” and “indulging my preference for things American” Miss Talmadge's next picture is to be “Dulcy.” “French stories.” says Richard Wal ton Tuliv. who is producing “Trilby." “are not o be regarded as salacious or iniquitous. They are merely ‘dif- forent” and to become popular here often must undergo many changes The average French producer of films seems to make pictures from the Parisian viewpoint, which is not a! ways the picture ideas of the French provinces. That is the fundamental reason of the success of American films in France. Pat O’Malley and Marjorie Daw who played “screen sweethearts” in “The Lying Truth,” will again be seen to- gether in “Wandering Daughters,” the James Young production. ‘Penrod and Sam,” Booth Tarking- famous story of American boy is to be produced at the Holly- wood studios by Assoclated First Na- tional Pictures. By arrangement with Warner Brothers, William Beaudine will direct. ‘While in New York and other states, including_ Ohio. the censor boards passed Charles Chaplin's “The Pil- grim.” Pennsylvania saw fit to ban it in its entirety basing, it is said, its verdict on its objection to the use of clerical garb. It is sald that every story consid- ered for a Norma Talmadge screen production is read by Miss Talmadge personally. The continuity and lection of cast also receive her - sonal attention, do the hundred and one other detalls connected with the production of a modern photo- play. Grammercy Park and its surround- ings will be reproduced in Hollywood for filming “Sands of Tim A regi- ment of laborers has already demol- ished three big eettings to make space for the two acres of park with its tall buildings, brown stone fronts and six streets for this setting of the Frank Borzage picture. Asked why - he did not send the company east to film Grammercy Park, producer Jac- obs explained that it necessitated California lighting and laboratory equipment on account of the consid- | erable number of difficult double ex- i posures called for. A poster of herself on a biliboard in Paris is sald_to have led to the engagement of Mme. Andre LaFay- otte by Richard Walton Tully for the name title in “Trilby.” The young French actress is the granddaughter of Mme. Valtesso do ) Bigne, reigning beauty in the 's when de Maurier wrote “Trilby.” Mme. La- Fayette's name in private life is de la Bigne. A team of racing dogs which Allen Holubar recently used in his screen production, “Slander the Woman." has been #0ld to an Idaho sportsman for $8,760, which s claimed to be the tian gondoliera. In preparing the ocanal scems, it was found that the low water of the lake would not float the gondolas up to the landing stage. This made necessary the dredging of the lake to a depth of four feet additional over a stretch of 200 feet. This step was accomplished with a huge steam shovel, which had 1o be dragged twenty-five miles to the lake. Trilby's Here. FTER an exhaustive search through- out America, England and France for an actress to take the part of Trilby in the feature picture of that name, Sir Gerald du Maurier and Richard Walton Tully discovered her in Paris—not in the Latin quarter of Paris, but in the Faubourg St. Ger- maine! Andrea Lafayette is the name by which she will be known in this coun- try, as she does not wish to use the title Countess de la Bigne, which 1s rightfully hers. Neither is Lafayette merely a “stage name,” for the famous Gen. Lafayette was one of her an- cestors. Miss Lafayette arrived in America on the Rochambeau February 6, and ix now on her way to Los Angeles and work in the Tully_studio under the direction of James Young. Has Two Leading Womenl OROTHY GISH is not out of the cast of “The Bright Shawl!” The published report that the popu- lar sctress had withdrawn from the principal feminine role opposite Rich- ard Barthelmess in his latest starring wvehicle has been emphatically and of- ficlally denied by Associated First N tional Plotures, incorporated. The rumor, it was pointed out, probably grew out of the fact that Mr. Barthelmess has actually two leading women in this screen version of Joseph Hergesheimer's story. Mary Astor 1s one of the two. Tech- nically, she is the leading woman, be- cause in the picture she triumphs in love; but actually Dorothy Gish hi the greater feminine role, for she is the little Spanish dancer around whom the highly romantic plot move: Death—on the screen—cheats Dor- othy Gish, however, from the happy culmination of a fiim romance with Richard Barthelmess which she might otherwise have enjoyed. Bo that honor goes, with handsome ! Dick’s caresses, to the juvenile lead. to through the canal by boat, two and a half hours to cover the distance by raflroad and twenty minutes to fily over the canal. Scenes from the air, the raflroad and the boat will be shown in the picture. Led Cody has arrived in New York from the west coast to play one of the principal roles in “Lawful Lar- ceny,” which Alan Dwan is now pre- paring for production. Hope Hampton has been engaged for several days past making tests of make-up and lights before the camera preparatory to beginning Work in “Lawful Larceny,” with Nita Naldi, Conrad Nagel and Lew Cody. highest price ever paid for an eight- dog team in the United States. Dinky Dean, famous for his impos- ing on Charie Chaplin the role of “the man who gets slapped,” has just recovered from an attack of whooping cough. John M. Stahl's next production for First National release is to be “Daughters of the Rich,” a screen adaptation of an original story. The production is to be a lavish one. Dorothy Phillips has recovered from a temporary attack of “snowblind- * nees” suffered on location in the mountains near Truckee, Calif.. dur- ing the filming of “Slander the Wom- Agn s, Paramount star, who 8Y e an,” in which she is starred. recently reached New York from the i coast to play in “The Exciters, with Antonio Moreno, has been laid up for several days with influenza d production work on the picture has been suspended. Cyril Ring, portant part Maj. Briggs,; attache of the British embassy at Washington, D. C.. ac- companied by his charming bride. were visitors recently at the “Wan- dering Daughters” set in the United who played an im- |Studios, Hollywood, as the guests of in “Back Home and |Director James Young. The “Close-up” in Pictures IF the public demand for the “close- up” in motion pictures were -elim- inated for so short a period as twelve days, Cecil B. De Mille, the Para- mount director, claims he could pic- turize any story in the world in that time. De Mille epitomises the change that has teken place in photoplay direct- ing during_the past deca: that has led the movi presentation of mere crud: to the pon;lyll o|ll rdul drama and spectacles of magnitude. It's the close-up, according to De Mille, which has stretched the pro- duction time of pictures from & week or two out to months, and sometimes to as long as a year. Mr. De Mille declares that nine years ago his biggest production re- Qquired but meven days to complete and consisted of some 79 manuscript scenes. Today he offers “Adam's Ri 2 plcture of no less than 500 manu- script scenes, a length to which near- Iy all his recent pictures has run. “The answer to all this is simple,” says % De Mille. “It lles in the fact at modern _pictures grip through the power of their psychol- ogY, the close and intimate interplay of human emotions Somehow, it seems that only the human face can et over these subtletl: In the old days, in all probability, we would have photographed a strug: gle from a comparatively long dis tance. In the long-distance photo- play, of course, we only got a suk- gestion of the emotional play of the scene. The physical action might have been depicted with fair forc but the soul action, the reaction of{ the mentalities concerned, the surg- ing up of love, hate or fear into the expressive muscles of the face and into the eyes—that, indeed, is some- thing you can only get Wwith the close-up, “With your camera twenty feat away it is simply impossible to those fine shadings of lighting ti make a modern picture like “Ada RID’ differ_from the old-style photo play as a Rembrandt gl ting differs from a billboard lithog The picture I made in seventy. ‘was deemed entertaining; its action was_rapld, and there was rather a good plot fo it, but it gave nothing to the world of any permanent val There was nothing to grip the heart. to intrigue the mind, to make peopls know more of the complex civiliza- tion in which we are living today. “Pictures taken twenty feet away from the camera can be taken quick- ly. They are largely action. They are the ieast of a director's worrles. But the striving for the glint of an eye that may register joy, sorrow or hate, the rehearsing and the re-: hearsing to get just the proper ris or fall of an eyebrow, the exact re- lation of the muscular movement to; desired.