New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1918, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918. INTIMA TE NEWS OF MEN AND WO MEN IN MOTION PICTURE WO RLD | FOX’S TODAY AND PEGGY HYLAND Cool, Converient, Comfortable TOMORROW in PEG O’ THE PIRATES A Thrilling 5-Act Drama Buried BILLIE WEST in “THE Episode No. 5 THE WOMAN IN of Love—Adventure—Sca HANDY Battles and Gold. MAN" THE WEB. MUTT and J PATHE NEWS SUNDAY EVENING EDITH STOREY in REVENGE 5 Acts A powerful picture drama of “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” in Moffatt's famous book “HE. the Western Desert. RTS Picturized from Fdward g STEADFAST” Many other: : MONDAY and TUESDAY DOROTHY PHILLIPS A picture that will make you to THE PRICE FILMING ALLIED LANDS M ! Newman, fucer of now the Newman lecturer and the Travel Allied tries as a commissioner of the ed Stat government for the ly of industrial and social condi- behind the battle lines. He sailed an Atlantic port about twa s ago, with the members of his and a flock of motion-picture still-life cameras—the first such pment permitted to leave an rica port of embarkation for imilitary use in many monti has just been received of his safe al on the other side by Charles er, Mr. Newman's representative e offices of the Educational Films pration of America, 729 Seventh hue, which releases his picture: am going abroad said M man on April 24, “to get illustra- of social, commercial and civil under war conditions in Great in, France and Ttaly, wth a view ures, is touring the I’ LESS MEAT AND TAKE SALTS IF KIDNEYS HURT a tablespoonful of flushes Kidneys, stopping Backache. forms Uric Acid. which jroites Kidneys, and Weakens Bladder. ing meat regularly eventually ces kidney trouble in somie form | er, says a well-known authority se the uric acid in dneys, they become overworked luggish; clog up and cause all of distress, particularly back- hnd misery in the kidney region; atic twinge: re headaches. stomach, constipation, torpid sleeplessness, bladder and v irritation moment your sev back hurts or ys aren’t acting right, or if blad- ! thers you. get about four ounces Salts from anv good pharmacy; tablespoonful in a glass of before breakfast for a few days our kidneys will then act fine. amous salts is made from bf grapes and lemon juice, com- with Jithia. and has been used nerations flush clogged kid- bnd < them to normal y: also to neutraltze the acids urine so it no Nor irritates, nding bladder diromiers. 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I | of the exclusive and Salts | meat excites | the | { hearts in ‘‘The Risky Road” gasp with astonishment—successor OF A GOOD TIME. to America profiting by the Allies’ experience. 1 hope particularly to illustrate the conservation of human power that makes possible the re- lease of every able-hodied man to the ar with the least disturbance to commerce, “Mr. Creel of the public information work hecause he felt pre-war conditions committee chose me for this that T knew the in Europe on thoroughly and as a trained observer | could the changes that w~ompare those conditions with have been wrought The object is to bring back to the peo- the Unit>] States a graphic presentation of what can be done » should done to permit every ounce of our strength for the successful prosecution of the war. I am paying my own expenses, and the pictures and talks I bring back will be presented here under my own am deeply sensible most unusual privilege granted me as a commis- sioner of the Creel committee to gather and put before the American public pictorial information of patrio- tie value.” NEW FOX PRODUCTIONS Six of the most popular of William Fox's photoplays are now being | titled and re-edited by Hettie Gray Baker, editor of Fox productions. and |are to be seen in new form- 1918 versions. after an these: | Three Theda Bara subjects. “A Fool { There Was,” “The Clemenceau Case' and “The Two Orphans.” Three William IParnum The Bondman,” “The and “A Soldier's Oath.” The first of the group will he re- leased in the latter part of June. The films are heing called “The Big Six.” re- intensive canvass, subjects, Plunderer”’ THE LIMIT REACHED. Tast Downward Step JIs Taken by This Actor. Life has bheen just thing after another Glynn. who piays the German in “The Caillaux Case,” Tox photo-drama McGlynn has been on the stage for vears. He was in the California earthquake and the Dayton Flood, and his character parts have ranged from Lincoln to the devil. “Therc was only one downward step left to me,” he laughed one day hetween scenes, “The Caillaux C “and now I have taken that. I playing the Ka one blamed with Frank Mc- the William 29 'EM ALL. Normand's Plattsburg ro- mances go on like an endless chain. She met scores of student officers at the training camp while scenes for “Joan of Plattsburg” were being | taken, and in spite of her constant {work in Goldwyn pictures she con- ‘(lnnrs to keep up with them all, ! though the months have scattered “me men broadeast. The other day one of them called on her, cager to congratulate Miss Normand on her success as Joan. He is Colonel De- laney, the youngest man to enjoy that rank in the entire army Mabel | Normand's enthusiastic congratula- tions to him so took the voung offi- {cer off his feet that he forgot what me for. But a glimpse of the s surprising bathing suit in “The | Venus Model,”” now under way at the studios, made him glad he was there. Mabel NEW PEARSON PICTURE Will Be Released Under “Her Price.” Title of Although an actor is yet to be found for one of the important characters, work on the William Fox production “Her Price,” in which Virginia Pear- son will be the star, goes on uninter- ruptedly at the Fox studios. Mean- while the casting department is scour- ing the market for a type to do all the ‘“rujning.” BILLIE RETURNS TO STAGE Few people in the world have ever galned the distinctlon of winning the of a_ whale nation by their beauty, but this Is the case with Billie Burke, the star in Paramount plctures, who has finished her screen work for the season and has returned for a short while to the speaking stage. Her last picture for Paramount was “Let's Get a Divorce,” in which she has scored a wonderful hit. us 0 utilize | The pictures were selected | and are Kaiser | “Nobody loves a n Arbuckle used fiound Up,” with But “%miling Bill” fat man.” Mack- to say in “The comic dejection. Parsons, star of | the | be untrue. For evervbody loves rotund millionaire insurance man | who decided to forsake his office for the task of delighting audiences all over the world. His avoirdupois frankly is his greatest asset, for with- | out being ungainly he radiates the | good humor found only in a man| whose freedom from cares permits | the aceumulation of embonpoint. { Mae Marsh regularly takes a fancy to some child working at the Goldwyn Studio: This time it is Alvina Al- stadt, who plays a prominent part with the whim girl of the screen in “All Woman”, her newest production Miss Marsh, among other things, promised solemnly to give Alvina most wonderful treat she has ever had. It is fo take the form of party to as many of her friends as Al- vina can ral. They are all to see the play when appears at the | | Strand theater in New York, with an orgy of strawberry ice cream after- wards. has | the | it in sculptor of note who admired the sensitive, beautiful- formed hands of Madge Kennedy | as she employs them in Goldwyn Pic- | fures, wants to perpetuate them, not in marble, but in-—soap. Commis- sioned by a manufacturer to ap- | proach the engaging little star, and imbued with a sense of the import- ance of his mission. the soap modeler | was disappointed in Miss Kennedy's amused refusal. She said it would make her think herself in everybody's dishpan. PARAMOUNT PICKINGS The Chinese who have been a;;pear- i ing with Sessue Hayakawa in "The ! City of Dim Face: a Paramount i picture, gave the star and company a banquet in Los Angeles’ chinatown. A New York Raymond Hatton. who has hecome the idol of his screen friends because iof his wenderful work in “The | Whispering Chorus.”” has returned from his vacation and is working in | support of Wallace Reid in “The Fire- | fiy of France.” Bill Hart is having a wonderful time in the snow near Truckee film- |ing scenes for his next Artcraft pic- ture, “Shark Munroe.” All the Paramount-Mack Sennett | heauties are polishing up their bath- ing suits for the summer season. i Fatty Arbuckle and his company . were marconed in the San Gabriel Canyon while attempting to make ex- teriors for the mnew Paramount- | Arbuckle comedy, ‘‘Moonshine.’ When Roscoe Arbuckle the Para- mount comedian, reaches Los Angeles in the near future, the draft board will be looking for him. He tried to enlist some time past but was rejected hecause of overweight It is hardly ikely that he will be accepted for service for he has not lost an ounce of flesh for weeks and weeks. In the new comedy ‘‘Moonshine," which will be released by Paramount, “Fatty’ Arbuckle plays a ‘revenuer —or government officer in search of | stills—not picture stills, but whiskey stills. FARNUM’S LLOAN $91.000. Subsecription wise, Star's Personal Also Helped Othe Willlam Farnum, the Fox film star, subgcribed $91,000 to the Third Lib-! erty Loan. But this was only a small irt of what he did for the loan, as in a whirlwind speaking campaign, squeezed in between filming his pro- duction, “Riders of the Purple Sage. the famous screen star—sold on an average of $1,000 worth of bonds a minute. One day he sold $110,000 worth in twenty-two minutes. NEW STAR DEEP SECRET. “Who is she?” is the question on every tongue of the Los Angeles Film | colony, And everyone is busy trying ! to guess and penetrate the mystery that Jesse L. Lasky, V President of the Famous Players—Lasky cor- poration brought with him when he announced that Paramount would shortly include among its stars a mysterious new faminine luminary. He refused to divulge the name even among the heads of the depart- ment at the stud consequently cveryone s guessing, When ques- tloned as to the identity of the new star, he merely looks mysterious and refuse to say anything except that he and Mr Zukor are convinced that | they have made one of these “‘one in a million” finds. | To e made a Parmount no little distinction and one aspired to by all the screen lumin- aries, so naturally this young ‘“un- known” {s going to be carefully scrut- | inized and inspected; but Mr. Lasky | more than confident of his jndg- | ment. Fox star is that is is FILMING “UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.” No greater announcement has come | from the Famous Plavers-Lasky Cor- poration regarding any of their futuro ! spectacular productions than that| made last week, when it was an-| nounced that Marguerite Clark was at | present working in the two leading | of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” she| playing both Little Eva and Topsy, | supported by an all-star cast, with the | scenes being filmed in the South on | the precise spots which Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about in her im- mortal piece of American literature. roles | ner | that |to enter the picture look him up and The face of * screen. | showed that the wnd that B. treasury, | the GOLDWYN NEWS BRIEFS | MEETS AN OLD FRIEND Yes. Clarice, | made this a small world | you don’t believe it ask Horace Will- casting Capitol Comedies, has proved this to | western studios. Proof came to recently the rounds of picture threater: | Angeles to view | screen actors in general particular his job, and besides, he v He wanted a fams, night actors in of a type. a lawyer in forthcoming Metro ring Edith Storey. He entered a theater just as a close- up of a man wa the screen. ! bearing and evident | delivering an address | written all ped. “Why, ga he, weekly Thomas of the policies to Washington. to Mr. i | movies, just now flected, “but he'd surely be a hit ev has Tom balder he has any business beaten a clear “Guess though he him last. now he’s PLAYS PART OF CAILLAUX. When play the part of Joseph Caillaux, for- i mer premier of France, Caillaux Case,” he had two objects mind. by the screen. bit for the Allied cause by revealing | the despicable nature of | genius of France.’ Warwick is an actor, sculptor, a gentleman jockey, an ar- tist's model—and he never fisherman. nephews at the front, add, a Kalser, it's Tom, he said too, Henry One was to add to his fame portraying and he himself is a member of the British Recrulting committee in New York. | tivities, he finds time, once in a while, to pose for the moted artist, Dana Gibson. motion pictures indeed Probahly | coat that that worn by Fox's play High.” But | aaredeyil. | have It director He'll say Mr. Wil when he wa at Metro’s they have. ms one making in Los work of wd ¢ cter That's part of as in quest man to play “Treasure of the Sea.” a production star- Many playe For instance, the latest “The Firebrar isplaying itself. York city po walk up a hc the noise his The hard—especia ine L. One of of “We Fox film, | starlets malke is for way being projected onto It was a man of dignified learning. He w Attorney was Mr. Williams the 1 over him. kidnappers and burglars. crooks my old to himself funny should desert the business. ive him a job.” Tom" vanished from The succeeding title | film was a new the speaker was Love, assistant secretay presenting insurance Uncle Sam’s sailors in Then evervthing was| Williams can’t lure at any law part- s lis not all it's page the firin In one of t in work, a po woman not political 000 as an some punnist the bribe.” Jewel land, Orve. man, also from the Virginia 1. such success stalk,” in the he re- n changed since I saw was bald then., but|Lamp,” and But for technique | the supportin character man in the! When mile.” tat one of {plenty of ac | bors George I nis airector, ! painter, both Hettie Gra | William Fox him into rate,” Warwick agreed to in “The in a world character on The vihsr Fatty Kaiser den Ana, Cal., was to do his ‘the evil a painter. a |the Red Cro the banner of the night game of tails He has fighting to five | the Between his many ac- [ won the har Charles five were forced t FOX FILM FLICKERS eve of appears opposite T happen Should 3 is the mannev Carmen salmon “Aladdin other some the librarian of the Hartford Law Arbuckle 1d his chief devil, von Hin-mount fans happy boasts an honest- | The street carnival given for the | A ] benefit of the Third Liberty Lean and |ters was in construction Fatty start- attraction “Hit | with the Kaiser and von Hindenburg |because quite a few pigeons mingled aceupying the holes in the canvas. Be- | each day with the non--fiving fowls. ( tween hot dogs and lemonade, Fatty | fanciest v escaped the censor Tom Mix in William the northwest, Ace then, Mix always was a sweater- have Victor ors many hobbies Sutherland, who Virginia Pearson in nd,” is happiest when he silk shirt that speaks is said that the lice won't allow ospital street raiment makes, of the transgre; 1y if Jane and Kather- to run across him most enjovable features Wor their in which the able for some One might safe-robbing he. Boy, Vie because of i is life mise find cracked up & squad! he Fox photoplays to now litician tries to induce a ! to opponent. inducement lahout to do the trick marry her fiance—h As he was (at the studio,) whispered: “Here comes is a native of Port- Herbort Heye Fox production state, too. Corbin, who scored in “Jack and the Bean- and the Wonderful class is one of in “Ace High.” one yells teorge!” Fox studios, there’s on Said studio Walsh, Burton George, a property man and a of whom are Georges. N 3aker, editor of the productions, was once Library. bails g cast has laid iow the scene W the Santa Arbuckle was In the course the good old was revived Fatty 's events Big Jim' ors of the evening by swatting the pair with the ‘“three for and white picket fences, ' baseballs so accurately that rhevgwfilcomed a considerable addition to | o retire rmrrcmapem— ( Himself') IN VITAGRAPH’S MARVELOUS PHOTOPLAY OF EMPEY’S WORLD FAMOUS BOOK Here Is Your Chance to Get Into The Fight Yourself All of us can’t go to the firing line, but the marvel of motion -pictures makes it possible for a 1l of us to be with our boys in_spirit and to share their thrills and fights with them. Empey’s “Over the Top™ is being read by the millions because it is the most human document ever written by a fighting man. How much greater even is your opportunity to see the living, breathing pages of this greatest of all into action by the wonder of the motion picture camera. Come on, all loyal Americans —here your chance-—get into the fight with Empey him- self. is trench stories - brought Keeney's Theatré, Week May 27 PRICES—Matinee Evenings 15¢, 25¢. New | to | newest | He offers her $5.- | leading | har- | 'BARA COMPLETES NEW FILM ' ; Theda Bara's super-production, | “Under the Yoke,” which William Fox twill release in June, has just been -, T HHEATRE | completea m 1] In “Under the Yoke,” which tells a ' Today and Tomorrow story of an episode in the early days i of American occupation of the Philip- | I pines, Miss Bara appears in the sym- | | pathetic role of a Spanish girl who makes supreme sacrifice for the yman she loves. The picture is based on a story by George Scarborough, and was scenarioized by Adrian John- son and directed by J. Gordon Ed- wards. The story | of the a. ANN PENNINGTON —IN— SUNSHINE NAN VAUDEVILLE | “Under the Yoke" is that ughter of a wealthy Spanish | grandee, who. in love with an Ameri- | {can army officer, rejects the suit of | the overseer of her father’s plantation FRANK FRANC | The rejected suitor foments a revolt, HANVEY =" FRANCIS | captures the girl and her kwnr(hv:n‘t.} Gillette’s Animals | | IR i “BLUE-EYED MARY". | COMING MARY PICKFORD —INw—~ Many Thrilling Offer Chance For June Caprice. | Thrilling situations | Caprice has an opportunity for perb acting ave included in “Blue- | Eved Mary.” the current Special Fea- | ture release from William Fox's ern studios. Harry Millarde, who has | staged all of June Caprice’s recent THE LITTLE PRINCESS { pictures, is the director of the film, land Frances Crowley wrote the scen- lario. The cast. besides Miss Caprice, | - SR includes Helen Tracy, Blanche Hines, | smres———— Randall, Thomas TFallon, Mclean, Florence Ashbrooke Henry Hallam. in which June east- Pernard T Jack | SCOR ‘ and “Polly of | big production has IN the AUSTRALIA, Circu Goldwyn's starring Mae Marsh, scored as tremendous a success Hall, Melbourne, Aus- the classic of the big in America. Reports from the Antipodes are that fully 2,000 persons were turned away dur- ing the three-day run. It was the first Goldwyn preduo- tion shown in Melbourne, and Ms Te- markable success prompted F. W Thring, managing director of the J. C. Williamson Films, TLtd, Aus- tralian distributers fer Goldwyn, t write the home office of the splendid achievement. All of Melbourne's city officials and many representative citi zens attended the opening Goldwyn attraction. “It was opening. ahout it turned away,"” | tor Thring FATTY FOND OF CHICKENS, There is but that Fatty feathered, I at the Town one kind of chickens Arbuckle likes—real, | eatable fowls. In the rear of Fatty's studio resi- dence which is a combined office, dressing room and training quarters, the portly comedian who makes Fara- | tralia, as any tops achieved | to-goodness poultry farm. While this up-to-date studio quar- ed his poultry farm with a dozen ; | chickens. a half dozen ducks and one turkey. FEither the food or the fun- {ny man must have been very popular | Now that the studio {finished even to the quarters s | lawns, flowers | Fatty has | an auspicious Goldwyn All Melbourne is talking Fully 2,000 people were wrote Managing Direz- his feathered family __The Greatest Production in the History of Motion Pictures Vitagraph has spared nothing in making “Over the Top” the tremendous production the subject so richly deserves. Lois Meredith, James Morrison and a host of other screen favorites make up an all-star cast in support of the “Fighting Sergeant.” Every modern innovation in motion picture mak- ing, vast numbers of actors and actresses, many hundreds of trained American soldiers and aviators—all have been assembled by Vitagraph for the making of “Over the Top.” As a photo production alone, “Over the Top” is a supreme achievement, but in addition it is one of the most thrilling, in- 15¢ tensely dramatic, deeply human ’B‘OX Seatats0e) stories ever screened.