The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1922, Page 3

TODAY'S PROGRAMS Laverty Valentine Derothy De Moran of Lady Letty vm bbe, Kid Winter Garden-—Anita Stewart Playthings of Destiny Strand—Risie Ferguson and Wal- lace Reid in Coliseum hantment Colonial “Moral Fi Oak-—"Dangeroes Curves Anead,” oiph ana on a the w Giadys Walton tn “The Foreve Marion Davies tn “Rn. Cormes Griffith in ing River _ LIBERTY ORAN OF THE LADY LETTY (Paramount) Dorothy Dalton Dudoiph Valentino Captain Sternesen Charles Hrindley Captain Kitenel Walter Long Of great interest is the character “Moran,” played by Dorothy Dalton | in “Moran: of the Lady Letty,’ 7 showing at the Liberty. “Moran” is a girl born and reared on the seas, bold and daring, and absolutely fear less before Kitchell, the murderous captain of the hell ship “Heart of China,” crosses her path. ‘) COLUMBIA| | _— Moran Ramon “THE WISE KID" (Ualversal) Gladys Watton David Rosie Cooper Freddie smith ry Southwtek Hallam Cooley Jerson South: Menry Rarrows In the Universal special attraction, “The Wise Kid," at the Columbia, Gladys Walton contributes girlish characterization to the scree: ‘As Rosie Cooper, “The Wise Kid,” Miss Walton has plenty of oppor: tunity for subtle humor in the man. nerisms and natural action of a girl of tender years and hard experiences T WINTER GARDEN | — a “PLAYTHI OF DESTINY (Firat Nationasy Julia Leneau Anita 8 Geottrey Arnold Herbert Hubert Randolph Waite ees Gre Moree How a woman is deceived into com mitting bigamy, despite the fact hat | her entire love belonged to the first milan she married, ty dramatically pic: | laythings of Destiny,” the | First attraction starring | Anita Stewart at the Winter Garden. | STRAND || | «Wallace Reid | Riste pane | Montagte Love | juewncis ......Ceorge Faweett | the most remarkable pic seen here this season is “For. i ." starring Elsie Ferguson and Wallace Reid a: the Strand. The picture, a George Fitzmaurice pro-| @uction, ts an adaptation of the fa | yas play, “Peter ibbetson.” COLISEUM || 8 “ENCHANTMENT” | (Paramount) Meyt . ceeeces Matton Davies | Forrest Stanjey | Edith Shayne 7 eae Eddison a Hoyt . rt . Tom Le | T¥ro plays within a play form one @ the many interesting features of “Enchantment,” the picture starring Marion Davies at the Coliseum. An Amusing scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew.” and a gorgeous society pageant are part of the action in this story. —__—-8 COLONIAL |, “MORAL FIBRE (Vitagreph) ‘The Girt .....-... Cortnne Gritnth | “Moral Fibre” in the title of the| sereen play on view at the Colonial. Tt presents Corinne Griffith in a role entirely different from anything in Which she has previously appeared p the early part of the story she onates a child and in the latter | ! balf she is grown up. | ANGEROUS CURVE (Goldwyn) Pheeha ; Mariey Jones. Anson Newton ‘Mr, Mabee "Dangerous Curve Ahead,” Wyn's picturization of Hughes: clever story, at Sunday, presents a glimpse of Which tho it is unbelievably light fundamentally real. ‘The characters in the are those we meet in every day ~ UNION. “SINGING RIVER” (Fox) M. B. Rupert the Oak life story life. William Runsetl Viola Vale Tang Rosh Allee Her Fa Lew 3 Aglivety ext, when crookagplayed havoc with men who were trying to make s told in “Singing piéture at the Union and Mond: * aL VICTORY “THE PRIMAL LAW” ransom Jack Roseleigh ely tale of the old days in the honest the Sunda * Dustin Fi Mary Thurm rry I » Mec Primal I at the Vic ais with 4 from Firian Wayne ‘Tra The starrin { “The Farnum, Dustin ynday end Mond: to wrert valuable na Farnum has a a plot Westetn ranchers the again consp! As heroic fan Wayne, Legion to Stage Show at Neptune Post, American ection of 1 entertainment 45t tune theater ep feature to film Get onal their | and cram a war Marshal! lan's and Wi be shown, « ter | another | | told on stage and screen. The virtue | part of her life. | working on a picture adapted from a } ater. 1—Helen Chadwick, Oak. Marion Davies, Coliseum, More honorary degrees should be | conferred on Rex Ingram for his! handling of the film version of “Turn to the Right,” the great stage suc cess by Winchell Smith and Jack Haazard | Ingram evidences in this film that jhe has versatility, That quality ts }lacking in most directors | He takes all the bitterness out of tragedy without eliminating the tear | His transitions from tragedy to com jedy seem to be quick, impulsive move [ments One feels the surge of grief jand—presto! comes the amile | Ingram made his mark with such pretentious things ax “The Four |Horsemen” and “The Conquering | Power * It was hardly to be expect ed that he would be so talented with |the bounty of humor he exhibits in| |“Turn to the Right.” | It seems from close observation of lIngram’s films that his success lew Jin allowing his players wide latitude Jin giving expression to their concep He recog intelligence they do There tien of their characters. Nines that they have and, using that intelligence, not appear to be automatons. is spontaneity in their actions. This is best demonstrated by Harry Myers and George Cooper playing the parts of the ex-convicts in “Turn to the Right.” No director could have prearranged such subtle twists of humor as they gave the film by simple gestures and glances The story is too familiar for-re telling. It ig one of those old-fash ioned affairs that shows the periix of | a big city and the power of the sim j ple country life to reform bad men Hundreds of such stories have been | Terry. She's the in “Turn to Alice heroine Right. | Mrs. Rex Ingram. \Film League of Nations Latest Plan An international organtzation to |contro! interchange of filma in now ‘Anna—Gloria Swanson wag bern! being planned in Europe. So writes in Chicago, where she spent the early | Milton Bronner, who keeps informed Hor first venture inj on movie affairs over there. The agitation for a “film league of natio started when Gen Booth of the Salvation Army was interviewed in London after return ing from a tour of the Scandinavian countries He found a profound change go ing on in the moral outlook of the people of thone countries,” Bronner writes. “He attributed a great deal of this to the movies. They were spreading « moral pestilence, he id, and suggested an international nding on the film.” producers and crities in Booth’s idea. They films that might be all right in United States might be all wrong in India and that German films might cause dam- * Quizzes (Conducted in co-operation with) Associated First National Pictures.) ine.) | Bill.—Fddie Lyons can be reached | at Universal studio, Universal City, | Cal. He is now directing, as wel! as| acting. He is married, but to whom I do not know. pictures was with the Eesanay com pany, One of her first successes was “The Nick of Time Baby.” She re cently signed a five-year contract with Paramount. At present she is story by Elinor Glyn, “Beyond the Rocks.” Otin.—Florence Vidor and Madge Bellamy were two leading feminine characters in “Hail the Woman.” You; Florence Vidor is married to the wellknown director, King Vidor, and, by the way. he is to direct his pretty wife in her next picture, “The | Real Adventure,” by Henry K. Web- | unders British dorned pointed out t } Mande.—Constance Talmadge has! returned from the Coast and can be reached at the Talmadge studio, 1540 | " Broadway. Her latest picture, which | “*¢ other parts of Europe. bore the working title of “The Divor-/ “Americans have no idea of the has been retitied “The Primt-| Persistent and cons campaign tive Lover.” In this picture Con-| that ts kept up over here the stance wears some stunning frocks. | film business,” Bronner writes. Little Girl—“Step Lively” is the ne Briton seen that the greatest name of the next Ben Turpin com-|"umber and the films are edy. Margaret Landis is Cullen made in the United Sts Ger dis’ young sister, She has an tmpor.|™4ny probably comes necond. It's tant role in Anita Stewart's “Rose o'| easy to bar German films. The war the in still The public won't , stand for German filma. “It's different with American films. They are in the majority and the public likes them, but the press in the main, makes a paign against them.” “Few are praised. Crities ridieule the American language employed in subtitles and the and cow when the laid im ‘They especially scorn the of the American the in ” stent in createst too clone. “Boy Crazy” is the name | picture in which Dorts| and “Headin’ West” ts) for Hoot Gib married id in at present Charles of the next appears, vehicle r ring Hoot Ww appearing in one of his biggest hits, “The World's Champion." You entirely wrong Anita Loow She is not a motion picture star, but scenario writer. Howe I have that she could before in a very creditable man wt regular cam about cs tumes ene © England mo ot mov g a er. ‘ some no doubt f the camera ner. | hibition WILLIAM TAYLOR’S | Beet LAST PRODUCTIONS! Witt | He his| shown in and | picture Clayton;| ‘That | from th orm were F thruout onner points out that an inter to control ex doubtless organization of films would major sropean build up industry Italy, France and Sweden hundreds of our films are Europe to each European shown | | national ty of anx a t the in 1 + directed by nays Sham” America draw the dangs American produc end any films movie theaters und other Euro bankrupt enough good Ethel and Profane Uc Morals,” 1 tarring in ring seems to starrin G Ferguson fuse 10 McA Temptation,” to re The n ¢ to irope mone and would obtain Comp films to keep Proof of that lies in the fact that country bas yet produced Fairhs Keaton, in Bunny, a Charles Reid short has produced tands out And Those who like combinations with with thone Taylor's next picture was to have n Ww Maugham’s orig’ nal Paramount picture, “The Or-| deal.” It assigned to Paul Powell to direct. Agne 1 with Nae Clarence rol countri¢ make bright might titles con going jure | no other a Chaplin a Lioyd Ray be omernet | “a nks, a Je Wal been a in no AS an artist pmody the entertainment Lubitseh, no a Grif will star Conrad “layer who rton leading c is in comed And the f!me the rone to Griffith have G will ephant whatever that b Ince pictare, “So which John will direct, hi DeMille I masters of ide produced adge Bellamy more | fith Ie Neilan In American: tech new am or a Fitzmaurice Love,” Wray nique. | | | | | | a film| of this one in beth mediums is the! nicety with which comedy and trag edy are balanced. MAKING THE WORLD SAFE A sub-title announces that the ac tien of “Turn the Right" took place in the days “before the world was made for adventuresome youth Has this humdrum old world come to that? Adventuresome youth does not want safety, first or last safe may lead to better moral mandards, but they will never rob youth of adventu Adventure i the inalienable right of youth. Even-an old bald-head wouldn't deny youth adventure The subtitle was just one of those flights of fancy in which title writ ers no often sacrifice > for high sounding hyperbole. IN GREEN PASTURES Jack Mulhall doer the beet work of his career in “Turn to the Might.” He is the country boy who goes to the city, Is falsely convicted of rob- bery and sent to jail That's bit different usual debonair hero with fingernails and pomaded hair. really looks quite fetching with cowlick | Jack Hott is usually = regular he- man in the filme, the apothesis of chivalry and square-dealing, In “The Grim Comedian” be iq a selfinh rake a man who would have his way de spite the unhappiness he might bring to others. And in that film Holt did his best work for the sereen. A new pasture yields a from his He his greener the | grane. In real life she is\- Picture Pater Lester Cunreo carries a bladeless knife given him by May Allison in 1917 before he went to war. He broke the blades opening canned food. ee Irving Cummings still prizen a make-up mirror given him by Amelia Bingham when he first went on the stage at the age of 14. ee David Butler's favorite sport is handball. He holds a prize cup for winning doubles at the Los Angeles Athletic club. Marcia Manon ts to play the role/ of Lady Astrupp, the “vamp” in “The Masquerader.” John Gilbert is to star in “The Splendid Outcast” by George Gibbs, and Tom Mix in “Alcatraz,” by Max Brand, . Chartes Ray's first pleture under! his contract with United Artists will probably be “The Tatlor-Made Man,” wan originally bought by Pickford from Goldwyn as a} for Jack Pickford eee Many college students appear as extras in “Sonny,” mess’ next which Mary vehicle Hatton has his latest offering. eee Gladys Walton is filming “Top o° the Mornin’.” OAK |10c met. ea | Children 5e “The Family Playhouse” Dick Hearts,” ADUL Int Last Showings Saturday “KAZAN” ‘The Greatest of James Oliver Curwood Stories Featuring JANE NOVAK and KAZAN—the Wonder Dog. Coming—Sun. Mon.-Tues. The Biggest Laughing Hit of the Season— GOLDWYN presents RUPERT HUGHES’ comedy drama of American married lifo— “Dangerous Curve Ahead’ Pro: | hibition and anti-gambling legislation | polished | Richard Barthel: | finished “Four | 2—Gladys Walton, Columbia. 8—Anita Stewart, Winter Garden. 4—Dorothy Dalton, Liberty. 5—Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson, Strand. | Priscilla Dean | in “Wild Honey” in Cynthia Stockiey’s novel, “Wild | | Honey," was considered to be such | re} IN LOVE | Roteworthy material for a pic when it was purchased by Universal | |that Lucien Hubbard, scenario editor lof the Universal studio, was person- ally melected to prepare the screen adaptation, Wesley Rugsies directed the filming, with Priscilla Dean as |the star, As a UniversalJewel traction, “Wild Honey” will soon be hown in Seattle. at MAY BUILD FILM HOTEL If the suggestion of Herb Rawiin. Univers! star, meets with the | from executives of that company that it lx accorded by the members, there will be a hotel and club building erected on a beautiful the studios, for Herb's the players a home the grounds, within easy time bave live. non, approv hillside near idea is to give and right where they can reach, amd at the a fine place in which club on be name t From fareff Mlorida George Ade is “supervising” by tele- graph the production of his story, “Our Leading Citize the Lasky studio in Hollywood. Thomas Meighan by the leadii citizen, Conrad Nagel. “Fool's Paradis the ne Cecil DeMille’s latest offe ing, which is to be shown in Seattle soon, WHAT’S IN A TITLE? Constance Talmadge’s pe ts mal representative announced that divorce between Constance and her busband war imminent About that time Constance start ed to film a picture entitled “The Divorore." Then it was reported that Constance would not be in divorce court. Now the title in changed to “The Primitive Lov. er.” The value of the title change and attendant publicity is of du TOM MEIGHAN As noon as Tom pletes “Our Leading a Citizen,” ' | the direction of Alfred E. “Bull” Montana's first star- ring vehicle will be a tworeel comedy entitled “A Ladies’ Man"—altho “Bul!’ doesn't look it, He falls in love with Mildred Harris in pinn in “The Bad Man.” Meighan com-| suspected the film he is now working on under/two girl friends shivered with fear) the entire studio and its five com- Green, he | in is planning on a quiet little vacation with Mrs, Meighan to Modesto, Cal. 'Costume Plays } Are in Vogue | | O14 clothes are still the vogue in the movies ise to scent the screen with the at mosphere of lavender and old lace |for several months to come. | Doug Fairbanks, after his success |with “The Three Musketeers,” is leoming right back with another cos |tume play. It is temporarily called |*'Phe Spirit of Chivalry,” and is set |in the Ivanhoe period, when the Cru saders were rampant | Doug will play the part of a leg lendary character and bis makeup | will be much like that in “The Three | Musketeers | Maurice Tourneur {s filming na Doone” at the Ince studio, Norma Talmadge is starring in “The Duchess of Lan, Both of those are costume plays. Mabel Normand has half completed Sumnna,” a romantic comedy-drama days of California. “Lor- and set in the earl BANDIT MAKE Clarence Burtin, who plays the xican bandit in Gloria Swanson’s t Paramount picture, “Her Hus. band’s Trademark,” bas a make-up similar to that used by Holbrook w | -| WANDA HAWLEY — ROUTS BURGLAR When Wanda Hawley returned to her home in Hollywood one evening |recently she heard noises upstairs, the cause, grabbed her pearl-handied revolver, and, while their tracks, Wanda dashed up the stairs. The burglar had good hearing, too, and escaped just in time to avoid a trip to the hospital Thomas Mrighan's latest picture, filmed under the title of “The Proxy Daddy,” will be released as “The Bachelor Daddy.” The costume play prom. | | | 6—Corinne Griffith, Colonial. 7— |Tells How to Sell Scenarios | John Emerson recently told in @ adio talk how to market scenarion. He the questions most asked in the past year. In brief, his advine was Unpublished stories are more in demand in Hollywood than in New York. It is most convenient ‘to sell your story to a magazine first and then market the movie rights. Send stories to scenario editors In | short story synopsis form. Original stories sell from $500 to $50,000, depending on who you are and whom you sell to. Romantic meledramas and com edies are most in demand. ‘Try to get studio experience in any capacity, from charwoman to extra. You can't copyright scenarios, as such, but you can copyright short stories and retain the movie rights. ‘A synopsis should be 500 to 1,000 words long. i answered i FLU HOLDS UP _ MANY PICTURES About 40 per cent of the picture people are now In bed with the “f_u’* | or else are convalescing from the epi- |demic. Harold Licyd is recovering |from a bad attack. Earl Williame and Truman Van Dyke are laid up, and most of Larry Semon's Vita- graph comedians are holding up his | picture on the same account, in fact | panies are at a standstill. | PIRATES—and a girl among as tough a crew as ever scuttled a ship! | A smashing big sea- battling story! See the sensational fire aboard ship! See the grueling fist- fight a-top of the masts! i] Malotte Concert Sunday at 12:30 “Norwegian Bridal Proces Grier Sibelius Selections Mobile” Verdi (Caprice) Logan 1 “Val Triste “Rigoletto” ) “La Donna ‘Quartet “Water Sprites” “Lets Go to the Libe: SNUB POLLARD in from Dearie” “"Ka-Lu-A,” G Morning ALENTINO AIN DD OROTHY riy" in always good advice THE BOW-WOW"—Comedy! Liberty News Nile Temple, headed by Mayor Hugh Caldwell, re turns from two months cruise to the Orient; Prof, Trevor Kincaid, of the Unt- versity of Washington, the world’s greatest, known en- tomologist; Men's styles, as portrayed by Seattle tailors in their style show?