The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1921, Page 3

'S PROGRA “Snowblind,” all-star cant, WINTER GARDE N—Griftith’s | week, Meighan tn | u RAND—Heary ema | in “Decept Thomas Ince’s | 1 “Wolves | Black Novak in Ann Sewell’s Moore in “The Sport of maicale © STRAND || “DECEPTION” (Paramount) 1—Matt Moore and Margot Kelly, Rez. Henny Porten Emil Jen Roleyn ling Henry Vill ILLED with “Deception,” the big Paramount production made in Europe, begins Its initial showing at the Strand to § e theme deals with the love of e Boleyn for King Henry VILL, land's “royal lover.” ee LIBERTY “SNOWBLIND” ldwyn) ses ++Russell Simpson Mary Alden “Cutlen Landis | Paulme Starke Mi’ ‘The love of two brothers for a little blind vaudeville actress whom They befriend is dramatically re- ed in “Snowblind,” the screen sion of Katharine Newlin Burt's famous story, which is now showing it the Liberty. ee WINTER GARDEN’) ee a wa “DREAM STREET” | (Cnited Artists) é, -Carol Dempster “Dream Street,” the Griffith | ture which is being held over at ‘Winter Garden, appears the only Ing person who was on the stage the Ford theatre in Washington / night Abraham Lincoln waa shot ‘Wilkes Booth. je is W. J. Ferguson, playing the of the father of the little girl, Gypsy Fair. PECOLISEUM | “WHITE AND UNMARRIED” A Thomas Meighan, hero of “The ‘Miracle Man.” “The Prince Chap” ‘and other popular successes, comes the Coliseum today in “White ‘and Unmarried.” Meighan has the role of a romantic and dashing young Yankee who started to “do Paris’—and did. B _——-- ~~ -® f BLUE, MOUSE || “MOTHER 0’ MINE” (Associated Producers) Claire McDowell Betty Rose Clar Lioyd Hughes Betty Blythe Dolly Wilson... Robert Sheldon Fan Baxter ‘The fight of a youth against heavy | ds is characteristically brought in “Mother 0’ Mine,” the new Thomas Ince production, which ned today at the Blue Mouse. nee has given some wonderful plays to the screen and his lat- fest effort is said to be the best yet ee 4 I “CLEMMER | 8 “WOLVES OF THE NORTH” (Universal) Horn Wiki Jack” Herbert Keyes Prof. Thresk Aurora Thresk. Juneau Jen.. . Barbara Is there a strain of the wolf in every man? That is what is implied in “Wolves of the North,” Norman Dawn's new Universal) production of the snow country, which opened to- day at the Clemmer. The picture stars Eva Novak and fg one of real scenic beauty. oe fT COLONIAL | f* - z Jessie Gordon jarry Blomefield Beckett rby Ghost “BLACK BEAUTY” (Vitagraph) Jean Paige James Morrison George Webb | Bob Steppling | A masterpiece of fiction made into @ unique film is “Black Be Attraction now at the C |is what might be termed an extraor @inary production in that {ft con \ tains two stories interwoven in such &@ manner that they are always sepa rated. This is the work of Mr. and| Mrs. George Rande Chester. “THE SPORT OF KI Bale Kearnan Matt Moo “Robbie” Leland Margot Kel rteret Da Wallace Ray | Thomas Donelly The romance of Sale Kearnan, a trainer, who knows everything about horses and nothing about women, is in “The Sport of Kings,” the picture which opened today at the Rex Matt Moore, of the brothers, nas the role famous Moore of Kearnan, “A Connecticut: Yankee in King rthur’s Court” will be shown at uckingham palace before public release in England. convincing appeal, | | poration, with Thomas Ince as or Colisenm. ?—Carolt Dempster, W clute Patter} A head-on collision of locomo- tives staged in Portland for the | benefit: of the’ American Legion is one of the features of the news service being shown at the Win- ter Garden on the progrim with the feature picture, “Dream Street.” | | . Now comes the season of the air- dromes. | eee | “Christine of the Young Heart.”| Gladys Walton's next eee Richard Travers was born at a| Hudson Bay trading post, | eee | Marjorie Daw plays mother and/ daughter in “The Living Truth.” eee Screen rights to Gene Stratton Porter's novels have been purchased. eee Mahlon Hamilton and John Bow- ers are to support Louise Glaum in “Daughters of Joy.” eee A studio accommodating 10 com- panies is to be erected at Tampa, Fla eee Lee Moran is making a celluloid version of H. C, Witwer’s “Robin son's Trousseau.” DICK BARTHELMESS HAS NEW DIRECTOR Henry King has been engaged by Inspiration Pictures, Inc. to direct| the first Richard Barthelmess pic ture for release by Associated First National. It will be a sereen version| of Joseph Hergesheimer’s § story, “Tol'ble David.” which deals with life in the West Virginia mountains. Mr. King, who is a native of the| Virginia mountains, has just com-| pleted directing pictures starring| Pauline Frederick. He also directed “23% Hourw’ Leave,” and co-starred in ag well as directed the Botz Marie/ Osborne pictures. ALLEN HOLUBAR Allen Holubar, producer of “Man, Woman, Marriage,” one of Asso- ciated First National's “Big Five,” believes that costume films are here | to stay, and that fandom has learne: to expect—and wants—a giganti spectacle every year or so. ‘OVIEDOM has organized to pre-| vent future “rainy days” in the| film production world | A motion picture financing cor-| to be private several established here, cap’ and af. banking inter ganizer backed filiated ests Not only will this organization prevent a recurrence of the recent financial stringency which gave a| severe wallop to dozens of produc ing companies, but, say its propo-| nents, it will settle the question of| initial finance and aid in meeting European competition Under the present plans the cor. poration will make loans to com panies having good scenarios, stars and plant facilities"and will span the financial gap between initial effort| and the period when banks will loan on productions, In the past, it Is de clared, the producer frequently has had to assign from 35 to 65 per cent of his production profits to persons making comparatively small loans. is by with | | Moore and V ater Garden. “Deception” Contestants Are Displaying Contestants are displaying keen in terest in the plight of Anne Boleyn. heroine of “Deception,” the big European production which opened today at the Strand, Anne was the beautiful young wife of+¢King Henry VIII, known the world over as Eng land's “royal lover.” Those who are | up in history will remember that th king became enraged when Anne gave birth to a daughter instead of a son, He neglected Anne and openly courted Jane Seymour, a flirtatious lady-in-waiting. Anne's trials, ax pictured on the screen at the Strand, open the way for an interesting controversy “What Should Anne Do?’ Fight for the love of th® king for the sake Tax on Foreign Films Assured The most important announce ment, insofar as motion pictures are concerned, made in many months, came out of Washington, D. C., in the form of an announce- ment from John D. Emerson, presi dent of the Actors’ Equity Associa- tion of America, that a tariff on foreign-made films has been prom: ised by the nations law makers. When it became known that a fiood of foreign-made pictures threatened the industry in the United States, the Actors’ Equity and other organizations launched a campaign for a tax on imported This, it was pointed out, was imperative if the industry was to continue solvent in America. Amert- can producers could not hope to compete with European picture makers enjoying vastly lower gosts of production, unless congress af forded some protection. Mr. Emerson, as chief of the Equity, directed the fight and ob tained assurance from a mittee that a protective import tax fs to be impose upon all films brought into the United States from other countries. RUMOR NAZIMOVA TO JOIN UNITED ARTISTS Mme, Alla Nazimova, it is reported, is to become an ally of the four-star combination known as the Artists, comprising Pickford-Fair- banks-Chaplin-Griffith. Nazimova’s first U. A. offering may be the production of “Salome.” She is eager to do the classic, but the gaunt shadow of the censor disturbs her confidence—and that of her con- frerea, Will Rogers is said to have had overtures from the same source. The Big Four think they have a prize in an Fenglish film, “Carnival,” which they bave purchased, It is in seven reels, and stars Matheson Lang, the Shakespearean actor. LON CHANEY WITH MARSHALL NEILA Chaney, of Man” fame, and whose zation in “Outside the Law” has at- tracted wide attention, has been en. gaged by Marshall Nellan to appear in the chief role of the Chine epi sode of “Bits of Life.” Anna May Wong, who appeared in “Dinty,” Teddy Sampson, Fred Burton, Rockliffe Fellows and James Brad bury, Jr., are other members of the cast, USE OLD HEIRLOOMS IN MAKING “JUNK” Los Angeles homes, stores, curio shops, and even junk heaps, have been raided in the quest for antiques and curious bits of almost forgotten things that will be seen in Bert Ly. tell’s newest Metro picture, “Junk,” a Maxwell Karger production now being filmed at Metro's Hollywood studios, The wealth of discarded human belongings that has found its way into this unique film will prove one of the surprises of the picture. Lon POPULAR PLAYERS IN “THE LOTUS EATER” Marshall Neilan'’s newest produc tion, “The Lotus Hater," boasts of rominent names, Albert Pay wrote the original Neilan directed the rrymore ‘played the a Q. Nilsson, Colleen ley Barry are in the cast and George Ade, famous bumor- ist, wrote ithe titles. picture, John star part, A MOVIES been signed as OKLAHOMA Virginia Lee has leading woman for a series of pic- tures to be le at Tulsa, Okla, by Franklyn Farnum, Virginia support- ed Marguerite Clark in “Scrambled Wiv Niles Welch, Minister's son. Educated at Columbia and Yale. Tennis wizard. Married. Lives in bungalow at Hollywos —Eva Novak, Clemmer. .| War Pictures sub-com: | United | .|tures of the opening of the bathing THE SEA Great Interest Jot her tiny daughter, or should she step aside and let Jane Seymour} take her place in the affections of | the ficklé king? For the best letters there will be four cash prizes, totaling $25, and| a number of the Uckets awarded. The following letter is contributed | Eva May Chiscaden of Arling-| Wash What should Anne do? “Tis a Dig question, is it not? But | think, it is clearty definable to any |woman. Of course, one always likes |to keep the home together, if at all possible, and especiqlly so where | | there are children, and still more so when the child is not what was anted. But, whatever the case, deception never answers the pur 0 good can come of it, and no man can be won by it “It is the cause today of our double | standard, and of three-fourths of the }immorality, to my mind. “Let such ja fickle man, as Anne's partner |turned out to be, go, and he will in time find someone just a little bit more fickle than he to turn the [tables on him. As for deceiving, never! Remember the old saying, |“ "Oh, what a tangled web we weav | when first we practice to deceive.’ ” tre | by ton, Coming to Met week, the American Legion will offer at the Metropolitan theatre the Unit- ed States government official war films taken by the U. 8S. signal corps on the battlefields of France during the war. The pictures have just been released by the government for show- ing for the first time and are shown under the auspices of the American Legion thruout the country. The Production will show vividly in 10,000 feet the boys of Seattle and | the Northwest, who composed the fa- | mous $ist division, in action on the battlefields of Chateau Thierry, Sois- son, Aisne, Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse and the Argonne. One will see the boys of the 91st, as well as the First, Second, Third, Fourth and 42nd di- visions in the fray’ | All seats have been reserved, and | there will be two shows daily, at 2:15 |and 8:15 p. m. Current Events in Liberty News Seattle has been favored with big jevents during the past week or two jand Liberty patrons will have the opportunity of viewing them all in | pictures when the new edition of the Jensen and Von Herberg News opens Saturday morning at that theatre. It shows the Seattle police drag- |ging Lake Union for Mahoney's trunk and gives graphic views of Booster day at the baseball park. The reception given Clara Kimball Young in Seattle's market center is most interestingly portrayed, as is also Seattle's latest baby show. In: | tetesting to everyone will be the pic ‘season at Alki beach |COMPLETE DRAMA WITHOUT SUBTITLE| Hugo Ballin has completed a se- rious drama, 7,000 feet long, without | a subtitle, Charles Ray made “The| O14 Swimmin’ Hole” without a title. That was a light comedy. Ballin’s production is a drama ten- tatively called “Ave Maria." Wynd ham Standing and Mabel Ballin head the cast. ] ‘This is Ballin’s third production. “Pagan Love” and “East Lynne” were his others, He gained fame as a mural painter before becoming a } movie director. i Leaete |TO USE MILLIONAIRE'’S Starting Sunday night, for the ago, TTLE STAR $—Henny Porten, in “Deception,” Strand. 4—Scene from “Mother o’ Mine,” Blue Mouse. 5—Pauline Starke, Liberty. 6—Thomas Meighan, ovie Quizzes (Conducted in co-operation with Associated First National pictures.) N. K.--Aliee Brady is the daughter- inlaw of Dr, Frank Crane, having married his son, James L. Crane, @ little over two years ago. e 2. Murtel—Mildred Harris has been granted @ divorce from Charlie Chap- lin. Katherine MacDonald is not married now. She was the wife of Malcolm Strauss, the artist. eee Talmadge Fan—It_is true that Harrison Ford has been engaged to appear opposite Constance and Norma Talmadge in their forthcom- ing First National releases. eee Jack—Bert Lytell ts married to Evelyn Vaughn. He is 5 feet 10 inches, weighs 155, has brown hair and hazel eyes. His new picture is “The Price of Redemption.” eee Pete—Montague Love is not mar ried. His address ix 19 West 54th st., New York city, He played opposite Geraldine Farrar in “The Riddle Woman.” CULLEN LANDIS ONCE STUDIO CHAUFFEUR Chauffeur of a motor truck which hauls studio properties was the oo cupation of Cullen Landis five years Now he has a leading role in “Snow Blind,” at the Liberty. ‘This youth, whe haily from Nashville, Tennessee, became consecutively Property man, assistant’ director and then sometimes “doubling” in “stunt” pictures before being given @ small part. Mary Philbin, who won a Chicago beauty contest, is to be featured by Universal in “The Harbor Road.” | YACHT IN PRODUCTION | J. D. Spreckels’ historic yacht, | “The Vonetia,” which succeeded in sinking two German submarines dur-| ing its active war service, will be seen in the movies. The luxurious | pleasure craft was borrowed for use| in Viola Dana's newest Metro star- ring picture, “The Match Breaker," the Dallag Fitzgerald production in} which the diminutive star will be seen next | PANISH AUTHOR | CONGRATULATES ACTOR Rudolph ‘Valentino's — masterly work in the role of Julio, in Metro's | “The Four Horsemen of the Apoca-) lypse,” brought forth a note of con-; gratulation from the author of the) famous novel, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, | from his temporary home in France. | The note is’ unique in the fact th Senor Ibenez never before has writ- ten, praising the work of an individ ual in the presentation of ‘one of his | works. { ‘Tom Meighan and his “Cappy Ricks" will make many scenes along the coast in the vicin- ity of Bowtor (Some Given] Mary MacLaren. Katherine MacDonald's _sis- ter, Also, she’s “Queen Anne of Austria” in “The Three Musketeers,” Doug Fair- banks’ latest feature. ‘WILEY WRITES FOR FILMS Hugh Wuey, known for his “Wild Cat” stories in the Satevepost, has been signed by Marshall Nellan to write movie plots. He will collabo rate with George Ade and Donn Byrne, recently signed by Nellan. Bill Hart plays a triple role In his next release, “Three Word Brand"—father and twin sons, | Herbert Howe, writing in Pic- | ture Play Magazine, undertak | to name the most beautiful ac- | tress of the silver screen. He | names eight. They are: | | Betty Blythe, | Betty Compson, | Corinne Griffith, | Harriet Hammond, | Kathenine MacDonald, | Mary Pickford, | Anita Stewart, | | | | Florence Vidor, Howe plays it safe, believing in | the safety of numbers. He also | arranged them alphabetically. | Well, bow would you have | named them, if you had to pick | two? Or even one? ii se “OVER THE HILL” COMING SOON) No poet ever revealed a keener} knowledge of the inner workings of; the hearts and minds of just plain | men and women than did Will Carle ton, two of whose poems have been made into a screen drama of sur- passing power and beauty, known as | “Over the Hill.” William Fox pro- duced the picture and it will be seen here at the Metropolitan theatre next month. EARLE WILLIAMS Listen to this: Karle Williams will Girect his next Vitagraph feature himself with Robert Ensminger as his co-director. This will be the first time Earle has personally directed in | his long term asa star. The picture is from an H. H. Van Loan story, temporarily titled “The Man From Calgary.” Production starts this week. LOIS WEBER ‘ While Lois Weber was engaged tn filming a scene on Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, all the windows of tne humble home which she was using were broken by the broadsides fired by the battleships New York, New Mexico, Mississippi and Idaho a short distance off the coast. Star Wears Twenty Gowns in New Film Katherine MacDonald will startle her admirers in her next Associated First National feature, “Peachie.” When the first scenes are shot this week, under the direction of Wallace || Worsley, Miss MacDonald will wear the first of 20 gowns in which she will appear while portraying a mm sical comedy star on vacation. ‘The story gives the star an oppor tunity for great contrast in the char acter transformation from a staid little bookkeeper to the best dressed actress on Broadway. From the ap — pearance of things around the” “American Beauty's” dressing room, © a veritable fashion show is to be held, the display including negligees, evening gowns, street costumes, rid- ing habits and sport clothes. Many ~ of these costumes were purchased for Miss MacDonald in Paris, COST TRULY SHATTUCK — $1,500 TO CAST VOTE Truly Shattuck, long a favorite a screenland and stage, who is now living in Los Angeles, reports thas while she was casting her vote the polls in her district, a thief “nipped” ner $1,500 and platinum brooch. The of circular shape and the size of dollar was set with 85 with a large pearl in the center, PAULINE FREDERICK s Pauline Frederick will begin work on her yet unnamed picture within ten days at the Robertson-Cole studios at Los Angeles. The staff is preparing the story, which said to be remarkably adapted to Miss Frederick. Always the Best for the Liberty Guest An epic of the snows that will give you the thrill of a lifetime! Strange and stirring is the drama enacted in this lonely cabin hidden away from the world ‘by towering snow-capped mountains of the Cana- dian Northwest! Jensen and Von Herberg News Seattle Mahoney's Booster Day at Baseball Park. Clara Kimball Young gets monster re ception in Seattle's market center. Seattle’s Baby Show, Bathing Clara Kimball Young presenting medals to telephone girts, ee Ce police dragging Lake Union for trunk. season opens at Alki Beach We eeetes cvoken “The Story of a Bad Egg” —a genuine novelty in comedies Peedi ey te ee eet eer eee MALOTTE on the Wurlitzer