New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918, e [ IN MOTION PICTURE WORLD | A Competent Nurse Is Attendance Every Af 2 From 1:15 to 5 o'Ciock. You May Leave Your Children in Our Nursevy and Enjoy the Performance Withou Worry. Our Aim Is to Please YOU and Every Efort is Kxpended That ’HAS THE BIG ONES vou aay 1o Satisficd. Some You’ll See at TOMORROW v~ | ! THE THEATRICAL GLAD NEWS OF THE SEASON ! s F @X : A REAL SHOW OF HIGH GRADE ¥ - Cleopatra it 2 g & b . / | 3 Queen of the Sea : 2\ ; : e b e Cheating the Public i o @ L { & d OY—THE MAN WHO MAKES Les Miserables m y e | DELIGHT ey | The Planter ; G ROUND-UP” Jack Spurlock- | f MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY RILLS, LOVE AND LAUGHTER | Comfrgfli%z:: h! e i l 3 : S | gn. ) S rRartie Pl Pay Me! DIRECT FROM THE IMPERIAL THEATER, JAPAN MUTT and JEFF Du Barry i ' —IN. { GREAT S “LAUGHING GAS” | and Scores of Others { JUGGLERS »Eez:irsdci::erfl They Don't Need Tt! i Including the New | ACROBATS x| 5 y But They Get It Chaplin and Fox E eats —AUncle Sam’s Activities in the || Sunshine Comedies ! e ” E A SKET(‘H WITH PLENTY OF SINGING AND DANCING - POADED DICE!” M L e it AT 0X7 Would You Miss a Show Like This? jz F Q X’ BURI.H\E@“N COMEDY FOUR “IN HOKAMVILLE” Continuous Tomorrow — Special 5 0’Cleck Show = e R N — i ; ~ AR ) The House o’ Hits i _IWO PRETTY GIRLS WHO CAN ENTERTAIN HERE IT IS, SUNDAY AND MONDAY : Singing BARLOW & DEERIE Dancing LOUISE LOVELY, CARMEL MYERS, AND A HOST OF OTHER . Y BEAUTIES IN CINEMATOGRAPHY’S TRIUMPHANT WATER SPECTACLE * vrpane roao THE SAME PROGRAM g o eoen vwen WILLIAM RUSSELL in"SANDS of SACRIFICE” Fal | WLLL £ EXCER VAND mviproge: B s T SO e i | ALICE HOWELL COMEDY — CURRENT EVENTS — MANY OTHERS - O e ) i New Show of Vaudeville and Pictures on Thursday i & SEND THE CHILDREN TO SEE THIS WHOLE- \ L NI N R CHARGED FOR PICTURES WITHOUT VAUDE- AN INTOXICATING REVEL IN UNPRECEDENTED GORGEOUSNESS .; e o e TWO SHOWS SUNDAY NIGHT—7 and 9 o’Clock i SEE THE OPENING SHOW AND JUDGE THE QUALITY THREE SHOWS MONDAY—2:15—5:00 and 7:30 o’Clock ' TEVENING PRICES ON MONDAY — THEATER CLOSED TUESDAY _-T—lfii—_l'_l—ifi'i?_iiii’_un : Matinee Prices ilc l Evening Prices e = s e : War Tax Paid Balcony 15¢; Orchestra 25¢ PAIR OF NEW BOOTS ALMOST COST 1 WAR CUT PRODUCTION OF REELS = || —— - cATTSWARTY DIRECTOR GRIFFITH HIS BREATH AND GAVE AUTHORS NEW FIELD | § —vs5p5 viss T LYCEUN FIRST VAUDEVILLE SHOW [T — . . L s . . BY DAVID WARK GRIFFITH thud, followed by a shower of mud. “The war affected the production of war, and the following fwo mon (s, | SRSEESERECR AT SRS AR tor of Artcraft Pictures, who has | “It wasa dud,” explained the young |of motion plctures in 1917 in two | Ividently at that time, the producers | S recently returned from the officer coolly rubbing the mud off his | ways,” said Cranston Brenton, chair- | were uncertain as to what the effect of | jinquoncy e Furopean battle front. rew boots. A “dud” is a shell that {man of the National Board of Review |the war would be upon the demand | oorron S ‘f‘”‘li:?' :,l‘(‘)u";,; i very spiffy pair of new boots upon | £2115 tc do its duty and does not ex- | of Motion Pictures of New York city, | for motion picture entertainments. | (ure {henters were a much better pl 2 3 L pedal extremities of a very dapper plode. Had this one exploded I never jyesterday, while discussing the rein | Since July, the production has fol- o < 1 stroet. Th el 3 would have been here writing this ac- | tion of the war and motion pictures. | lowed the general trend of that of the ,“ 3 1 fhanthcls > Sl mg English officer nearly cost me aye boon icre ol o the United lite on the British west front in | COUnt. The “dud” hit within ten feet | “First there was a marked reduction. | brevious year, the numbers rcleased, : ders. of where we stood. We would have | The number of reels passcd upon by | howeve being somewhat smaller, {vilians had never been permitted | P¢eR blown to flinders. the National Board of Review, which | with an apward tendency in Decem- | S aomont it the D %o to the fromt. but through the | Unconsciously I dodged away from |review. more than ninety-nine per |ber. The demand for single-reel pic- | G- Tt land. (11 ] knence of a gentieman high in the | the “dud.” Bu: cven as I moved that | cent. of all photoplays exhibited in.|tures has ereatly fallen o S ekt Ll R T e Fovernment o permit was 1a. | terible whining howl came again. This | this country, was 8,436, This number | course of the yeai. The fo ic SO R e e R time the shell was strictly on the job. | is fewer by 744 reels than the number | ture, usually five recls in length, towant onsillaed locnaof b O gL oL TER9 pom my arrival at the war front a | It exploded with a terrific roar and a | passed upon in 1916. The number of | taking the place of the one-reeler. | e E AS I RAED ng officer was detafled to accom. | Shower of mud. T don't kmow Jjust | different pictures or subjects was 3,114 | The general tendency in this 2 e e e y mo to the trenches. His enthus- | 1OW close it came; it secmed very |as compared with 4,113 in the year |is indicated by the fact that St hu rofons of them A Powerful Combination of Tense Drama and Big Sensational Scenes, b for the job could not be described | °lose: 1616. These figures reflect the effect | erize _“‘”,“1“. of picturos in 19 did o bill T . statute books. Ow- Presenting the Famous Ince Stars, Enid Markey & Howard Hickman # of boots just breught!over from | . e . s a and of the public |re dccember — the avera = i e eih: made ALL NEX w EK FafiTne 4 e jumped into the trench- | chicr falling off in production was in | With 2.28 for the sponding month | ShiSyedr these 812t S o ; but ruining them the first day, anY- | o5 new boots and all. g 3 n w c !.n sponding month > ¢ regulatior »{ this form of the month just before the declaration | of 1916. |slon of the £om 98 B8 L e Need T say that T followed? T do | people’s amusement hy special s R il ek o “In the second place, the Year wWas | poards. athlete who hoids the reccrd for thd {sound seems to peretrate your brain. | marked by the large number of et running broad jump, hut I am sure |It is as though every explosion struck | ¢¢ts produced 10 the v TOTO'S STO AUTO. that T shaved several feet off his rr ark |a physical blow under ycur brain. These were photoplays with a war Totc he comedian, whose in my haste to get into the trench. Directly behind the sap where I was | tWist, BEuropean war pictures e is Novello, recently had an It was a dreadful plice—all mud | crouching was a small what-had-been | Propaganda for various war meas A . experienc iy s Ar 2 and muck and outrageous smells. But | machine sun aperture that led into an | Such as the stimulation of enlistments passing Lo he young Englishman at Iast re- [ ' tea 0" Our movement was ac- | abandoned German dugout. At the |the sale of war bonds, the Red Cross | antomobile that had been tantly consented to take me Inte | . erated just as we struck the top | height of the firing a British officer | CAmpaiens for funds and memberships | stolen some days I standin Pentiine renchice edge of the trench. A shell exploded |appeared at this entrance. 204 the conseriationhor Dot lioll Lo T iy e cies o0 ng ko P W S e Threatencd Arrest ot Tn motlon pletures, mot only In | property three men ot into tho ma- Fou must understan o - - s ¢ made arations to ride ront: line "0“2_":5 s ‘h“tflg‘mf’ "3“32;,., know what bécame of the | pleasant one for him! tertainment for soldiers and sailors . Toto addr he occupants of 00 Gectin {Fh\,‘“. 1o | licutenant. T dian't wait for any for- | He looked me over coldly and shout- | in the traini on board ship, | the car with a question to what P b R O Gormun trenoh. | malities. I made my way as fast as I |ed, betweer esplosions, with fome 'and at the front in France. The Am .y were doing With his machine, i m;n ]";)r‘lln<hfii£n L}(:r- sector in which | could into a sap, where T found some | trace of irritation, “I say, what are | crican Cinema C E was ap- | Whereupon ‘”*“‘ "“1'”1‘”’::"]' -a;r\::hl»rl: Poi wag Jieing in an old | slight protection against a nig cement | you doing her N pointed to c » propaganda of oeaimly “"ml’“r 0 e noh a | vory badly | pillar that had been a part of the old | “I'm dodging cannon halls” T | democr, - means of mo- | WAy Without b of R s i Hindenbu:g trench. You must un shouted back with what T thought was | tion picture a means of pres | . “T expecte ient s Tl g tfxe:?i}nou;: S hat scemed to | stand that the trench had been much |a light touch of levity. | ing the civil snd military morale. The [libut it was all so calm’ that T dldino "n:‘“*( £t approach trenches. It |torn up and very jagged and unoven. { “I shall have to arrest you,” he said, | great value of the motion picture as a } even think af calling the | SOME SHOW. is now entering a war and may “for social conditions in large | THE STUPENDOUS THOS. H. INCE SPEOTACULAR PRODUCTION e showed me around behind the and in the reserve trenches. I bt insisting upon going on ahead. long as I had come all the way im America and through several es of red tape in England I was ermined to see the whole show. The sensation was apparently not a | these respects, but a means of en- 1 and pe e ac r whereve: v o iispleas C. lium of expression of opinion has e r ddier. The muck | You had to find she Iter wherever you [frownirg with displ 2 med S = guaciern 3’."2,,'“";,), basona desstips | coulal “Please 4+ 1 said warmly, arrest | therefore been cloarly demonstrated. | .~ AND e ! fl‘fl‘“‘w"”;{"_tu‘ ieinat bt St Crouching down there in the mud, I | meaning shelter somewhere from | Many successful books and plays have -‘r\n\i\u‘kl e S et Siat patiently up to the knees in goo— | Was honored by the ardent attentions | those awful shells . [ipcentlised fadth cRbaSis SOt SoEcenar LN e in her first Pathe pl o ‘M almost up to their waisfs, of two or three German batterics. The Yvidentiy this changed his mind. He | for photoplays. The action of the | S retimes alr g o “Innoc g At the Fort Lee Pho anxiety of my newly-booted | Kaiser wasted sevoial thousand dol- } disappeared from the opening. I was fonal Toard of Review in climin- | dnnocont:? PR : tlattor s d of his i we | ating the nude from motion pictures, & he Tnglish licutenant grew with |lars on me that afternoon not much afraid of his arresting me | at 1 Fora s 3 1 2 e = ks { pecause to get to me he would have |and refusing to pass white slave pe- j /07 3 5 , | e’ A e Very Eiveaty Wors |vad to come out on the other from | tures of the commercialized type, has | In% ih Baihe b s AL A ERT RELEASING THE BOMB—“THE ZEPPELIN'S LAST RAID." t last he stepped up The British oflicers said afterward | an underground entrance lead into | affected the character of the pictures | ¢ for - k i o olis At the zeromz Rsiaan | \We shall fight for the things nearest our nearts—ior thc univer- ch. “I'm going to walk along he;“ that 1t was one of the liveliest hom- | the emplacerent. 1Ie would have to | made. This action followed an cx- | [CMDS el hoe ey A TV B sai dominion of our rights, by such a concert of free peaples as shall top” he said coolly. And 5 1|, gments they had seen in that sec- | come through quite a distance of open | pression of opinion securad by means | 7 i in Lot Angeles |d bring peace and safety to all nations—and make the world, itself, at ted the promenade in full sight of | ° """ ooineq to be as though the |gpace to got to me—and the concert | of a questionnaire sent to exhibitors | 1€ she Was FOTEME o o the last free.—WOODROW WILSON. German army. world were coming to an end. was going too strong. It was not like- ' and others in all parts of the country ‘]":’”\ S0l Gf Pibs — fovr o iied sAlevies Revealing to the world for the first time the secréts of the Zep- “Over the Top” The novise W indeseribably awtful. {1y taat as» ne would be foolish |and evidently represented public opin- | not so oasily made after all. pelin by which Germany has waged ruthless warfare upon the Allies 'hey were some distance away, to | The air seemed alive with a barbaric | ¢ h to take a chance and veniiure | ion in every rt of the country. RS AL NI e since the beginning of the great war, “The Zeppelin's Last Raid,” fure, but we were a poor life insur- | hellisk symphony ot howling shells. | e ope A study lof molion pictures: from RECIIVES THEDA'S PHOTO. Thomas H. Ince's first great spectacle since he gave *Civilization” to @ risk as we stalked along on the | You could hear the distant tizht s 't T come in there?” T |the moral point of view was carricd | Uifice Tvy Deibel, of Cleveland, § the world, will take rank as one of the most remarkable screen pro- of the carth work. sounding “fonk” of the guns; then | ackea anxious on in Great Britain by a Cinema Com- | i% 0% 1o hanor of receiving the @ ductions of recent years. o vouns officer was carryinz a | the whine and vell of the shelis; lastly | “rortainly rot,” he said. mission Headed by the Bishop of Win- | 0% e\ 1 bhotograph from Miss il T aotioa piotlie il which th e central Agure 15 onelof b case, whieh must have caught the | the crash of the explodiug shell and With that he disappeared, and the | chester. The results of ths inquiry |40 the William Fo r, for 4 the vultures of the sky by which the Germans spread death and de- im of tho sunshine. the shower of scattered mvd ctorm hewan again. indicated that the photoplaysasa rule | o ooy or 1918, Miss Bara sends ot # struction through England, Belgium and France before the Allies’ air % any rate we presently hoard the | Far a time they were cxploding ail | o cut a long story short, I stayed | proved to those who patronized them [Hhe G000 /oot o ook Phote M foctc wore made sufficiently formidable to put them to rbut. Critics uliar snarling whine of a German [around us. It seemed @5 housW | thepre until the light of day faded and | to be educative, morally healthful and | upne the vear, and when 1 Bl of standing agree that it is one of the greatest productions ever made i carth and sky had gone mad. Th2 | the art lle:y fire consed. Then I found | pleasure-giving and instrumental in |y ho was the winner of the Ca oo that un b spectacle 1t is subarh. The witask of Shaiapoltin teo: Look out!" yelled the British lieu- | iz was beyond all himarn deseription. | my [3- ~i h lientenns t. and we made | redicing intemperance. The commis- ‘*N-d face conte t ¥ on the defenscless British hamlets is one of the most strikingly real- ni. The effect was something beyond com- | our way in the darkness back to a 1 sion also found ths n Ingland little | Cleveland News Leader, met Miss Bara § istic scenes ever converted to the screen. Some of the night effects are bt course it was too late to look o mon fear. The impact of the expled- | pipas of safet iju\‘omln delinauency was traceable 10 | oy New Year's Day she was prosented B of stunning beauty. 1 duciked anyhow. The next |ing shells stunned 1wy sense: It is | But hie new hoots were ruined. Ie | motion nfctures despite the fact hal | \ith a photograph of the world-famous hd I heard was 2 sickish squashy |casy to undemstand shell shock. The ! toox it rather hard. since the war began this class of de- | portrayer of vampire roles.