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=: “Close-Up” News and Views Of Filmiand and Its People Julian Johnson N the spring a young man's thoughts turn fancy, May 1 the housewife ponders moving, June trybody thinks of a vacation, and quly—some time every July—the jucers, both quiet and vocit- j.tell you what you're going to see during the coming autumn and winter, _ Usually these auroral statements are subject to more discount than a Caph transaction in a second-hand Glothing store. Nothing is more im- Dosing in the eyes of the theatrical producer than a list of prospective play-titles, while the picture magnate seems more readily intrigued by a list of the celebrated authors he avers that he has signed up. Where the theatrical man contents himself with the biggest announcements his evangelists can get in the metro- poMtan dailies — and mimeograph copy to the out-of-town papers— the picture man additionally buys space in the magazines and much billboard acreage for roadside read- ing on every motor-way, However— ‘This year's motion picture pros- pects are really impressive after all discounts have been made and all ‘unlikely promises discarded.” This is really the. suthors’ year, and while not all-the results may be satisfying either to authors or audiences, the play and story end of the picture game has experienced the greatest advance in screen history. The Famous Players-Lasky or- . URS tH 1 of the Stage an EVENING WORLD, MONT ‘MONDAY, . MovieScreen Who Will Be Seen in New York This Week mw Fe mS ganization heads the list in important OVER-EATING || «:::" is the root of nearly all ' digestive evils. Hf your digestion is weak or out of kilter, better eat less and use Ki-moiDS ‘the new aid to better digestion. Pleasant to e—effective. Let Ki- ‘moids help straighten out , your digestive troubles, { . MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE | MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION know, Robert Hills.” Washburn. Mrs. forecasts, as any one familiar with the huge and varied enterprises of this celluloid behemoth might expect. El- sie Ferguson will be seen in A. BE. W. “The Witness for the De- Wallace Reid has completed Peter B. Kyne’s novel “The Valley of George Loane Tucker has made one of the great pictures of this year, or any other year, out of “The Miracle Man”—I the Giants.” Cohan's play because I've seen it. Burke has the play “ new title, “The Misleading Widow.” Warwick will Marsh Ellis Ryan's A play so far starless is Cyn- thia Stockley'’s Suerite Clark is making Avery Hop- wood's farce “A Widow by Proxy.” “It Pays to Advertise” will come to the screen via the talents of Bryant; Dougias McLean Doris May will play the May Tully |farce “Mary's Ankle.” will do “Phe- Lottery Man.” Ei Clayton has been chosen to {iluminate Bronson Howard's celebrated “Young Winthrop.” SEPT ES ose Billle illeted” under a — ae “April Folly.” Mar- other Manners sult. “E> and Augustus Thomas’s “In Wallace Reid dle Love,” Burke |i Zukor announces| berry will be dono he Rambeau role, inn” is to be mad Are screen charac- ters immoral ? @, That depends. Anyway, read what Rob Wagner has to say on the subject in the Sep- tember Picture-Play Magazine. This widely known writer contributes, as the first ofa new series, a delightfully humorous comment on the characters portrayed by our favorite movie celebrities. N more serious vein is a by a successful screen star with a vital message for the girl wha has longed to act in the movies. It is the outpour- sto! familiar regular contributors andall thepopulardepartments —The de The Observer; Fade-Outs, Screen Gossi » The Screen in Review, and William ‘be seen in “Told in the Yolce IN "THE DarKe REPOBLIC THEATRE. the completed “Peg o' My Heart"— and finds himself in the middle of an- the redoubtable old morality play, | already started on the Pacific Coast, | Missoura” will be another for Robert Warwick. Murjorie Rambeat’s old vehicle, “Sa- with Billie “Huckle- on the ing of a woman’s heart, and shows howsuccess has brought with it corresponding and pro- sedlopany exactions, igger in size and even more interesting than ever, our Sep- tember issue marks a turning point in our history, Its 108 esare full of brilliant sur- prises to say nothing of the Lord Wright's timely, helpful hints for scenario writers. An entirely new feature, to be continued in subsequentissues, is the set of eightgallery por- traits of your fayorite stars. Printed on tinted paper, with a beautifully decorative border. Ideal for framing or for past- ing in your scrap book. . Picture-Play_ MAGAZINE @,You can get the September Picture-Play Magazine in the new size at the newsstands today. Price 20 cents. town: ee Wer ty a OLiveE WYNDRA Lester, KER BOCKER THEATRE issipp! River near Hannibal, Mo. Cech De Mille will complete the tril- and included ur Husband” by a third, Change Your Wife.” “Don't old success, “Hawthorne, U. Will ‘What Hope's “Ca mond's * pert Hughes's mandment, I Comes to. Stay," “The Thirteenth Com- , hleen Norris's Loul Joseph Vance's “The * Broadhurst's “Why Smith Left * Ethel Mumford’s Carton's “The Ac! London's * Maurice Le Blanc's h of the Tiger,” Rob: . Cham- bers's “The Grimson Tide,” and penheim's “The Mills of the Gods. Universal is banking much on an allegedly huge and important new Dorothy Phillips production, dealing with the down-to-date problems of woman and entitled “The Right to Happiness.” They are also about to Little Brother of the Rich.” The remainder of their sched- ule includes much original material. Metro has the best forecast in its history. This list includes plays ac- tually made, under way, or for which contracts are signed and producing arrangements made. In it we may ob- serve “Fai Hopwood, Ltd will feature Bert Lytell and Alice Lake ip the roles created by Leo Carrillo and Grace Valentine; “Please Get Married,” “The Willow “Shore Acres," “Larry 's “Someone in the House,” ker’s “The Right of Way, George Gibbs's “The Yel low Dove,” Maude Tulton’s “The Brat,” Thomas Hardy's “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” the F ms’ “The Walk-Offs” and “Along Came Ruth.” Also te be pro- duceé by Metro is “Yosemite,” chiefly interesting as the Indian melodrama which brought Laurette Taylor to the East, Vitagraph 18 doing Charles Klein's Gamblers,” Eugone Waltey's Wolf,” Clyde Fitch's “The Climbers,” Rex Beach's “The Ven- geance of Durand,” an entire, new series of O. Henry stories and the Wolfville tales of Alfred Henry Lewis, William Fox has completed an | elaborate production of Loi “Evangeline,” which we as an earnest that Fox lurid and super-sexy 1 als which have distinguished his screen prod- ucts for so long, in favor of an en- tirely different line of endeavor. In addition, he announces William Far- num in EB. Lioyd Sheldon’ of the Night,” Zane Grey's “The Last of the Duanes” and Loui Tracy's “Wings of the Morning. Some of the celebrated novels and plays be hae purchased for Theda Bara and Pearl White I have an- nounced here before. He is also doing the famous old racing play, “Checkers.” I have only outlined here the prob- able important picture productions for fall and winter. There are great numbers of ofiginal photoplays an- nounced, but not produced—and any originial is an interesting unknown quantity, for it may contain the germ of @ great drama. Here is the cast of the Zukor-Lasky production of “Everywoman,” Violet Heming will play the title role. The test of the line-up—Iin parts that you probably remember very well in the speakies—includes Youth, Mary Mo~ Ivor; Beauty, Wanda Hawley; Mod- esty, Margaret Loomis; Conscience, Mildred nm; Truth, Wallace Reid {sy about to enact Doug Kairbanks's 8. And—to ubbreviate—the list includes “Too Much John- Fear Moi mings; ho Preros! Nein inte Blue; Passion, Nobody, James tery, Raymond Hatton; Witless, Lu cien Littlefield; Stuff, Jay Ma! Time, Charles Ogie; Gibson rehall; Age, Gowland; the Bluff,’ Noah Beewy; -Dwiggins; Pr bert Dissipation, C. Auctioneer, uff, Tully Brower; Clarence Geldart. George Melford, who will direct, the production. has already started And Hobart Bosworth, who has al- ready done “The Sea Wo'!f” once, has started. work on the new production of the same picture at Ince’s studio in Culver City. Gergt. Alvin C. York, the heroic mountaineer who refused to fall for Conomans + Tear. \ Amater ~ as FROLER WADING THE POO ANEDISCOPAL PLA Campaign, Starting in ‘New York, Is Intended to Be Nation Wide, White the attention of the country is being centred upon a campaign to secure employment for the returned soldiers as well as the poor, a nation= wide campaign hag been started, by the Hplscopal Church to find jobs for the idle rich. In this city the work, ax planned by the Church of the Incarnation, Madi- son Aventie and 36th Street, will take the form of. ah Institute for the Rich, to be opened up in Novembér, to in- terest than in settlement, social and religious work among the poor. The institute 1s to be conducted in ¢one nection with the Chapel of the Indar nation, at No. 240 Kast Sit at, Experts in Americaniaation, reore. ation, public hi » Boclal cobalt tone, housing and religious education wi'i give instructions dally from 9.80 A. M. to 6.16 daily except Saturdays ani Sundays, It is hoped to interest the elder parishioners as well as the young, and as a bid to be made for the business men of the parish. The Rev, Horace Percy Silver is the réctor of the Church of the Incarnu- tion and the chapel is in charge of the FM. K. Knapp, as vicar. The George F. Taylor is assistant ‘or and is ably pushing the, new work, in which he foresees nothing but the greatest success, GOMPERS WINS LABOR POINT AMSTERDAM, Saturday, July 26.-~ Liquidation of the old Trades Union Internationale was discussed to-day at the, first public preliminary meeting of the International Trade Union Congress, the formal sessions of which will open July 30. Samuel Gompers, President of the merican Federation of Labor, vigor- ou Hy. apposed the proposal by Preaident Ouadegseat of the Dutch Federation, the siding officer, that the reports of the Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam. Bureaus be discussed, and the meeting rejected the proposal. |lure. He has signed a motion picture contract with a Chicago firm, Pathe declared a 20 per cent. divi- dend last week—and increasd its other seductions of world, flesh or capital stock from $3,000,000 to §5,« devil, has tumbled for the picture 000,000, that began with “Old Wives for “Don't Change Anthony " Henry Es- Ru- Jerome K. Jeromels “Miss “Mother,” Black | “Sick | Tree of} “The | “The | leaving the | rr LLLILISS PLP THEATRES, BROADHURST THEATRE “THE THRILLER OF THRILLERS” a Ween : merican. exeliinig detective ening Si to be Hike wend your way 263,96 MR. & MRS. COBURN Present DE WOLF m The thettted have seen it and likad .¢ Srauky BY 4. ¢ “SEE IT. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG.” ‘AMERICA’S FOREMOST THEATRES A AND BWAY & sort chet finn Just West With £0 WYNN 120 Orhors Buaged by J, C. —Kve. to the HOPPER BROADHURST THEATRES; Wd UNDER THE Di HUFFMAN. of Broadway. Phone Bryant 1292 $1.50 MATINEE WEDNESDAY HUFFMAN, West 440 Atrvat Even, Staats, Thurs, & Bots. $6: World, “vara © welt acted.” Tn ‘Telegraph. To-Night's the Night! LewFields As “THE GAY OLD BOY” tn A Lonely Romeo MOVES TO THE CASINO Biway and 39h Grenier “asi Pres, 0.15, Maun Wed, Bat, 2:18 ough Loughe | for Musical Comedies. MosT NEAUTIFUL CHORUS IN NEW YORK. need not Find Difficulty in Getting Candi- date Against Him for Assembly. Apparently no member of the Demo- cratic organization cares to run against Lieut. Col, Theodore Roosevelt for As- Sate nee Dis- pho tf meetin x” the dsveraten big pea that Sethice't nerved asa ieutenant Colonel, dura ne iy war, might run, but fhe BoAined: “4 ?a horas H, OK: Tiamocratic leader Of the district, has come out in favor of Col. ‘Tie dete POSLAM REAL — TREAT FOR SKIN THAT ITCHES Only those who have itched and scratched and still itched eontinually can appreciate what it means when the aggravation is ended by the sooth- ing, penetrating, antiseptic influence of Pcslam, And what relief to be rid of any eruptional blemish which has entailed prolonged embarrassment! Turn to Bostam first for the quick healing help whic ‘ailing’ skin must * have, You do not have to wait in un~ certainty for indieations of improve- ment, It soon SHOWS. Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th St. New York City, Urge in to become clearer, Soap, medicated with P m.—Advt. You. Pop. Mat. 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