The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1919, Page 8

ea. eB. ler as Broken Blossoms wi’, | ian tr a Me | THEFALCOF Bit BABYLON” ‘Peronally ty D. W. Griftitn, PLAZA ZA Bers ag ees mean to the fellow who takes his folks to the picture show every Tucs- day night in Clay Centre, Neb.? 80, let's get out of the screen Wall Street long enough to reflect on the ‘apparently permanent departure of one of the screen's best known pair of symbols. Theda Bara is quitting the vampire business and will probably never re- turn to it, Ard Theda as a vampire and Mary Pickford as the sweetly stanch little #irl in curls are assuredly the best known of all screen women, Bome weeks ago The Evening World predicted that Mr. Fox would ‘abandon the screen vampire idea. Now it is announced that Miss Bara will continue with Fox and will make of her customary writhings “La the play by David 0; Julia Burnham's novel, “The of Ambition,” and one of the ion ult plays. is nothing in the whole annals of celluloid which ex- the Stellar ascent of Miss Bara larity. Properly named dostn Goodman, a young woman from Cinginnati, she attained a moderately suctessful position on the stage fore the films eeized her. Her first photoplay—if I remember correctly it_ was taken in Florida, under the direction of Frank Powell;-just hap- pened to be the thing which shot the Fras “vampire” over the country as seatter-gun distributes lead pellets bombing formation of teal and piece was “A Fool There Was,” with which Katherine Kaclred, and then Virginia Pearson, had had considerable footlight succes; and, #0 marrow is the margin which some: times separates great beginnings, it was just a chance of casting which happened to aay “vampire” with Mise Bara instead Miss Pea: Had Migs Pearson continued her old ve- hicle to the movies she, instead of Miss Bara, might have become the hectic specialist of the world. After directing this piece, Mr. Powell's business carried him else- where, and to Herbert Brenon, thon a young director, whose success at Uni- Versal had made him Prominent, was rT the conduct of the new a'-en, have always maintained that Mr. Brenon did the best directing of ais life on the Bara pictures immediately following, and the genuine artistry in these—which were not properly “vampire” roles at all, but trans-rip- tions of masterpieces, in several in- stances—cinched her reputation and made people everywhere want to seo her. In “The Clemenceau Case” and itzer Sonata” eo wat & literal flame of a woman, a veritable bol of the way of the flevh. In days too Mins Bara was un ex- Seabee pliable subject for directing talent; she was eaten up with a ¢e- sire for knowledge, an Pe rapell nd jenguages, soak ‘& seeker aor t in religions. By an id by agent wrote strange t tales of her Birth in the Sahara desert, and made ter ® Princess of about everything that was mystic or -near-mystic, Ani strike me pirk if I'm not convinsed that she believed these things hor- self! Bhe had, at leaat, hypnotized herself into believing that she waa a woman set apart. The Fox publicists, of course, scrambled to pile fue! upon this Jambent flam nd she literally withdrew from the world, except as far as her work was concerned, gave out high-sounding interviews to the awed little girl writers who cal'ed upon her—and made ultra-vampire pictures for fair. ‘With none of Miss Bata’ ter work have I been for a mgment in sympathy. Her ‘“Cleopatr@#® con- sidered either as an art work or his- porn, was an enormous, costly, multi. led farce—but it split the ryes of the groundlings, and to the muititude to whom hokum is honest wi mountainously impressive. Alon was an even greater piece of expen- sive travesty. And about this time Miss Goodm: by court a “Bara” her legal name, and the name of her family. Now then, I am very much inter- | ested in these announcements of Mr. Bee ces tte aa California Baakittes Startle New York! Fox. Will Miss Bara shake off the hocus-pocus of the past two years, and get back to real acting as she knew it and expounded it in those “Clemenceau Case” days? She is a unique quantity, essentially, and she had it in her power to become a dazsling exponent of type-parts then, in a way that would have at once pleased the people and satisfied the artistic among her observers, But she, or her management, or both, threw these opportunities away in favor of wholesale sordid appeal, Marguerite Courtot, the slender Franco-American who used to be a pleture prominence for Kalem, id who has been off the scfeen ai leading woman for a very long time, will be David Powell's leading woman in “The Teeth of the Tiger,” for F' ous-Lasky. Just before this engage: ment, however, she one of Eugene O'Brien's lovees in “The Per- fect Lover.” Kathlyn Williams, greatest of the old Selig celebrities, will make one of her far-between appearances with Bessie Barriscale in a new picture now being taken at ‘the Branton Studios in Hollywood. The indemi- able Kathlyn of the “Adventures” was in De Mille’s “We Can't Have Every- thing,” and later was the subject of Own Company. Bthel Clayton-Kaufman, who went to Japan some time ago for @ short vacation between Lasky engagements, missed the boat she way to take back to the States and tied up production on her new picture, Nobody—not even her press agent—knows when she'll be back. And when the press agent isn't wise, who is? James Young, who will guide ral Janis in her first picture sinc war, needs no explanation, but he ies deen on the Coast; #o long he may need a reintroduction, his former wife, Clara Kimball bien through her Vitagraph films, some of the moat celebrated | ss carly tagray Tes, nanieros potable; for Lasky. The Janis picture has been titled, tem ay’ at least, “Everybody's S Eileen Percy, the little bdiond English pony whose film career be- gan in the support of Douglas Fair- banks, will be seen with Major Repere, Warwick in a forthcoming icturization of Augustus n Mizzoura." Miss Percy Jeading part in Pathe serial called “The Third Bye. The very heavy? Warner Oland, Wiseacres always said that Fannie fih to have a different idea, for that con- cern has bought a Hurst story, “A developed into gelatine with Mary MacLaren as the petal. It isn't only the oll and mining interests that are suffering because of our lack of the conventional cour- tesies of civilization where Mexico is concerned, Film men—American film men—say thelr works are being PHOTO PLAYS. ~ I. PHOTO PLAYS, mt TRA rte Sty it. “ar q AW Ano. Fanny € a WAST SON 2 openly pirated without the slightest camouflage. Slightly recut, and with titles in colloquial Spanish, Ameri- can filme by scores are being shown from Chihuahua to Yucatan—that is to say, wherever there's peace enough one of those M. O. C, rumors—My}to set up a picture show, and re- maining energy enough to attend one. This matter, like the oil wells, the weekly murder and the mine grabs, has been passed up to Washington. Poor Washington! everybody the name of the poor little ‘Chaplin YY wrong is past finding out—unless the first reporter hastily took it for granted’ that he would, like his father, be called “Charlie.” The little fellow—wao lived only a couple of days—was _ Norman Spencer Chaplin, meer being the family name of a ‘lie’s mother, His own name is Charlie: ncer Chaplin, ount| Community Singing Wins Public Favor; TheWeek’s Concerts In how many plages in the world can you hear 25,000 persons sing to- gether? Probably nowhere except New York, where you can hear it any night when the Columbia University concert includes community singing, After several weeks the public has grasped the idea and looks forward to these evenings with pleasure? To-night starts the seventh week of these concerts by the New York Mill- tary Band under Edwin Franco Gold- man and there is to be a special French programme for Bastile Day. Ernest 8, Williams, cornetist, will be the soloist, Wednesday evening's programme will include Beethoven, Gounod and Wagner number Friday night there is to be Techalkovaky programme, excerpts from Sullivan's “The Gondoliers” and Lisat’s “Second Hungarian Rhapsody.” A special programme will be given at the Stadium this evening in honor of Bastile Day, with Anna ee 4 MACK SENNETT’S BATHING GIRLS TAKE DIP AT CONEY ISLAND ALICE MAISON MICKEY MAVIS EDNA FRENCH MOLLY McGOWAN IRENE WYLIE BROWNIE BELMONT HEADED BY ALICE MAISON DOROTHY HAVER ELSIE WARE WHO ARE APPEARING IN PERSON In Penigpetion 6 MACK SENNETT’S ROWNE (Star of the Pictu: “YANKEE DOODLE IN BERLIN” re) in Person PIN IN His © ORIGINAL ORIENTAL DANCE FANT. BROADWAY CONTINUOUS FROM NOON TO 11 P. M. THEATRE B’WAY at 4st ST. (POPULAR PRICES) Fitsiu as the soloist. Operatic night will be Tuesday, with Marie Loulse Wagner, soprano, and Zance de . Maes SB SRISTO ek > oes * FRIENDLY, ENEMIES HOP SPR arre. Primo, tenor; Ilya Schkolnik, con- certmeister, will play the Meditation from “Thais.” Henry Hadley, the first American guest conductor, will direct his own works Wednesday night,. when his wife, Inez Barbour, soprano, will be the soloist. Beatrice Ragsdale will be-the soloist pianist Thursday and Friday will be opera night, with Earle Tuckerman and the Stadtum Quartette assisting. Saturday is to be popular night, with Florence Mac- beth as soloist. These concerts are bringing to the front young American composers and singers, and nightly increasing crowds show public appre- ciation, The Saint Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, to make its first American appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House in October under the patronage of the King and Queen of Italy, will be re- ceived by a committee including Otto H. Kahn, Frederick G. Bourne, Henry P. Davison, Andre de Coppet, James Byrne, Henry C. Frick, Robert Goelet, Myron . Herrick, Clarence H. Mackay, John D. Rockefeller jr. Willlam Kk Vanderbilt, Charles H. Sabin, Henry Walters and George W. Wickersham. ‘The city of Paris has commissioned Henri Casades, founder of the Society of Ancient Instruments, to bring the opera comique company from the Gaiete Theatre to New York and New Orleans next season for a brief en- gagement, Madame Marguerita Sylva, prima donna, is to sing in vaudeville from San Francisco to New York, beginning next month and ending in April, Leopold Godowsky, pianist, has been added.to the soloists for the New Sym- phony Orchestra concerts next season, THEATRES. THEATRES. BUMPER CROP OF BABIES FORECAST FOR NEW YORK Death Rate of Infants Kept Low in New York in Spite of War Conditions. New York City is doing exceedingly well in holding down its infant mor- tality rate, according to a statement issued yesterday by the New York Milk Committee, which has now completed its annual survey of the whole country for 199 and prophesies a baby crop. which will be “the largest in the history births in 1918, an increase of 27,000. York was kept low despite the high cost of foodstuffs, general war condi- tions and the influenza epidemic. The city’s baby death rate was 92 per thou- sand, which is only three points higher when a new low record was established, ‘Infant deaths in the metropolis last year totaled 12,667 compared with 12,- 668 in 1917, an increase of only 89. “Manhattan in 1918 actually had 70 less baby deaths than in 1917,” Pres ~ malted 15-Pound Lobster Meal for Five. ROCKLAND, Me, July 14.—A lobster caught here weighed firteen pounds and was three feet long. It made a dinner for a family of five and enough was left for another meal THEATRES. BROADHURST THE ot the country.” There were 2,700,000 “The baby death rate in Greater New | than that of the previous twelve months, | BUSINESS WOMEN Louis Conventions, to Pian Homes for City Wérkers. ST. LOUIS, July 14.—Consolidatiqn of the various business and professional women’s clubs of the country into one rally directed body is the principal to be brought before the conven- tions of the Women's Association of Commerce of the United States and the National Women’s Business Committet, which opened here to-day. Plane-for the establishment of apart- ment houses and hotels in every. tare city for the sxolusive use of ‘working women and obtaining wages for Women sommensurave with mers also will be constd THEATRES. 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