The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 7

New Combination Said to Ninety New York Theatre by Billposters’ Association way House. tion, at least, whose results mi patrons of Greater New York. of the five boroughs. Sydney Cohen, William Fox and the Sunday photoplay exhibitions. theatres, William Fox's houses are the city. ville, None of these interests alone ca: for their house aggregate 1s ninety. Dedham, a peaceful, old-fashioned Uttle town in Massachusetts, is all ‘tt up, and it isn’t because the Post Offlce is afire, either, Previously Dedham's greatest excitements have been the destruction of Mrs. Wilkins's cat by 4 touring automobile, or the picking of Ephriam Perkins's pocket on his semi- centennial visit to Boston, Now, how- ever, Mary Miles Minter is a tempo- rary resident, and on every cor: and in front of most of the old houses —apparently—they are shooting the locations and exteriors of her first Eastern picture, “Anne of Green Gables.” It is Dedham’s first exper'- ence with a crank camera, All the little girls have taken to wearing curls, and signs of soap ana water are sald to have becn seen on the paws of the adolesvent males, In its fight against unclean pic- tures the National Association of tne Motion Picture Industry is laying a sharp axe to one of the roots of the tree which so far has been unnoticed —suggestive and questionable adyi tising. Some small town exhibits and very many of the cheaper class ot picture exploiters in the cit uuerepresent good films and flag ly boost and exploit anything ¥ §s at all off color, And here's w in the future, they will be Under agreement with vertising Corporation, a new member of the National Association, all bill- hi posting space throughout the coun- try will be refused to any pictures not wholly approved by the associa- tion’s censoring committee, of which Gabriel L. Hess of the Goldwyn Cor- poration, is Chairman, Players-Lasky, Aircraft, Paramount and numerous allied corporations, has just purchased the Putnam Building, on the west side of Broadway, be- tween 43d and 44th Streets, and will presently build a great office build- ing and a huge theatre there, In cluded in the deal is W rer Co) . on the 44th jointure-to this frontage. Two wires ha come out of the West which seem to portend that the Grifith trek East may be delayed another month. One Gish to a young leading man now vacationing in tl hears this facetious messa old house for another ten yea ther from Bob news on t e: “Have leased our “Scarlet Days," duct of the su.shine p ing to release, , 1s coms The “popular” or topical song has come into great favor as an exploita- tion stunt, Most of the film compa- nies have used it to advantage some time or other in advertising an otter. ing, while film stars innumerable Dave posed for the cover portrait, web mn / s. Adolf Zukor, President of Famous | © from Dorothy | Screen Favorite Causing Stir In Sleepy Town; Prima Donna Who Is Leaving Films for Stage “Close-Up” News and Views of Film- land and Its People. Be Forming Would Control s and Be the Most Powerful Fi . ; . A lite . » the in Existence—Campaign for Clean Pictures to Be Aided | jicive countty sis coming to America, —Zukor to Build Huge Broad- By Julian Johnson, lager is a new photoplay combination in the talkative stage of forma- ay be highly interesting to ali picture On the face of it, the item would ap- pear to be a simon-pure bit of trade gossip concerning only the makers and venders of celluloids; in reality, the thing will be of most interest to the! you public because of its possible effect on the hundreds of “neighborhood” theatres which supply optic entertainment to the millions in various parts 98% There are, allegedly, three elements in the projected amalgamation: Cohen {s the man to whom most credit has been given for Albany’s recent permission of He is an exhibitor and owns a number of United Booking Office. familiar institutions in many parts of The United Bookimg Office is the central fount of standard vaude- n numerically approach Marcus Loew and his seventy-odd Now York theatres, Together they would pass him,| Now Mildred Manning, graph's O, Henry leading woman of Westerners,” hr 3 published a song called “The Girl of the Golden West" and dedicated it to Stewart Edward White, | once Vita- nd lately the A child actress of popularity two years ago was little Mary McAllister, starred her and her dog "in a series of short-reelers, ie supported some of the best of the day when they used to |work at the Chicago Argyle Street | studios, She dropped out of sight for a while, undergoing something like & preliminary siege of the awkward age period. Now we hear that she has, histrionically speaking, recovgred. 8 title role of “The Little Princess" ay |the Majestic in Los Angeles, Oliver Morosco's son Walter will ‘play opposite’ Lew Cody in the second Gasnier-Cody production, “Mr Don Juan.” That is to say, young | Morosco will woo the same leading lady as Lew—to win her, very likely, Cody makes it a rule in his pl tures never to be a Benedict at the final fade-out. Young Mr. Morosco |bas never done any dramatle or pic- |ture work before. The pictorial Darby and Joan, who in real life look younger than some of the stars whose parents they play, James Neill and Edythe Chapman have severed their long connection with Famous Players-Lasky. will work at Culver City, Cal, here- after at the Goldwyn studios, Another Morosco juvenile—but this time not related to Oliver—is Tucker, who will support Marie camp in the future. occasion new Oriental serial, directed by Henry McRae. If you're going to name a new com- puny, make it a good one. Is the Allgood Pictures Corporation, engaged in serial production, with Charles Hutchinson of Pathe's “T Great Gamble” as the principal per- former of hair-raising stunts, Kitty Gordon and the cinema are ing company. The statuesque lady ix quitting the lenslight for the footlight entertainment, to appear | with Jack Wilson in a new musical comedy. The Gordon vehicle has a book by Will Johnstone and the afore- mentioned Mr. Wilson, Whether or not Vera Beresford, the little blond FE ish daughter of the optic prima - | donna, i# included in the plans Is not stu P| given out, Recall Agnes Ayres? She has just siened with Fox to appear opposite Bill Russell, She will ha ing fominine role in “Sacred Silene | Agnes was a Chicago schoolgirl when the dramatic bug chased her to a studio, and she was with Vitagraph |last, for three ye ’ “Bome Baby,” the farce comedy, is to appear in stock, playing the| They | The latest | This is Metro's thirty- se of a stage play for screen translation “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” which Mrs. Charlotte Pickford purchased for her son Jack, went with \ tack when he signed his Goldwyn \contract. It will in all probability be ve youngest Pickford’s initial pleture fer Goldwyn, Francesca Bertina, the beautiful young Italian who has been a favor- Not in the flesh, but in her celluloid incarnation, she will appear under the Metro trademark in pictures directed by an American, with an American cast. Right now, however, Richard) Rowland will present her in produc- tions made in Italy, Victor Moore is coming back. He will make a series of comedies, none of them over two reels in tength. Moore, | remember, created “Chiznraio | Fadden" in the films over two years Francis X. Bushman’s stage play is in rehearsal. It is called “Tho Master Thief.” Francis X. wants his} wife, Beverly Bayne, to be his legiti- mate leading woman, as she was on the screen, but Beverly, it ts sald, does not look favorably upon a speaking, debut. Besides, she is pretty busy playing mother to Richard Stansbury, the youngest Bushman, Ous Skinner will be “Kismet” on | the screen despite reports to the con- | trary. The Waldorf Company, pur- chasers of the play, have at last lured Skinner with a golden bait too impell- ing to resist, It is sald, too, as Skinner did relish the thought of | j any other ac playing his beggar! role in the movies, He has always | cherished a sort of grudge against the motion drama—~ever since Herbert | | Brenon was to have made “Kismet” and didn't—although Skinner was paid for the services he ne - | formed, sales) j _— |_“The Fortune Hunter” will be an Earle Williams vehicle, The play was| @ money maker for years; long after | its metropolitan performances it was played for thousands in stock com- panies over the country, Sydney Chaplin has hadsenough of England and France. He wil terace | very shortly, we hear, to take up his; film work in Hollywood, where con- ditions are not so difficult nor expen- | sive, The combined efforts of the Waish jbrothers—Raoul and George —have gone into the making of “From Now On," a new Fox. Regina Quinn is George's leading femme, Marry Morey has a new director, Edward L, Hollywood, who made sev- eral war pictures for the Government, FLAGLER ESTATE LEASED FOR GREAT MOVIE STUDIO |D. W. Griffith Will Build a Million- Dollar Plant on Orienta Point, {Special to The renting World.) | WHITE PLAIN: Y., Sept. 13.—| The reason why exemplified coples of the wills of the late Henry M, Flagler, |the Standard Oi! magnate, and President of the Bast Coast Railway Company, jand of the late Mrs, Mart Lily Bingham, | w.fe of Judge Bingham, covering estates | worth $59,000,000, were filed in the West- | chester County Surrogate's office, it 1s! asserted here y, was becayse the big Flagler es Orienta Point at Mamaroneck on the Sound, will be leased jfor moving picture purposes, | | The property contains 28 acres and a large mansion overlooking Long Island ind, Where Mr, Flagler lived for many #, It is ahnounced that the prop- sed for a jon er od dW. Griffith, who willverect a ‘ the grounds to cost. ubout |$1,000,000, IU ia said that the property will then become a large mation pic- ture producing centre. property Was leased from Elmer t who h contract for whieh will Westchester action of the ie erty, by pu be consummated When th Courts approve of the executors ham was the widow of Mr. f Judge Bng- horuly after centrola the » died 2 Her o Orienta Point property, fae ye pe THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919. OHN WANAMAKER Broadway at Ninth, New York Store Hours: 9 to 5.30 The season is in full swing with Thousands of beautiful hats all at little prices And every hat fully up to the Wanamaker Standard of excellence. The prices are low—unusually low— and that's the charm and the ad- vantage of the Down-Stairs Store. tor Monday we make a special display of a very big variety of lovely hats that have just arrived. The inspiration of Paris is reflected in a fascinating hat of Lyons velvet with top of brim of real leather, leather band and bow. It’s a large hat with side roll. The price is $14.50, A turban is also of leather. Clever use of the new trimmings such as burnt goose quill, burnt peacock, and glycerine ostrich, is seen on many of the hats at the Pe from $10 to $20. A lovely little hat has a ban- deau of Blondine, one of the most at- tractive of trimmings. It is priced at $15. There are hats of panne velvet with monkey tur, beaver cloth tur- bans with velvet, hats for wear with suits, hats for dress wear and the prices are only from $5.75 to $20. In the section devoted to Millinery for Matrons Are new hats at prices from $5 to $15 _ Special attention has been given to this particular sec- tion and the selection afforded in the display 1s most exten- sive. Here are smart styles specially designed for matrons that show trimmings of wings, ostrich or the very becoming tailored effects. One turban has underbrim of pastel quills with pin ornament, the top being of silk velvet. The prices range from $5, $6.75, $8.50 up to $15 Down-Stairs Store, Old Bldg. Come to the Pin Money Dress Shop Monday Where the highest price is $14.95 We found that many women and misses want simple dresses that are stylish and good-looking, but not ex- pensive. We searched the markets and the result is surprisingly happy! A delightful range of dresses all under $15 in price Imagine dresses of all wool serge or Panama for $13.95! Their appear- ance certainly suggests much higher prices. Some have touches of embroid- ery, others have button trimming or fine tucks. They have the popular string sash, some have no collars, others have collars. In sizes for Misses 14 to 18 years; for Women 34 to 44. Price $13.95. Another lot at $14.95 One of jersey cloth with deep girdle or with peplum. Another has the pronounced waist line and steel button trimming. One pretty design has collar of tricolette. It is of fine serge. Some have graded pockets in skirt with row of buttons down sides. A very attractive model is cut on simple straight lines with satin collar and embroidered motif. The colors are the Fall shades, brown, rookie, burgundy, navy and black. Price, $14.95. The Pin Money Shop, Down-Stairs Store, Old Bldg. 1,500 yds. of Japanese crepe is priced for Monday at 38c¢ It’s marked 50c now and we consider that a yery low rice. Bvt because it has sold so well the assortment became roken, so away it goes at 38e. Splendid for children’s wear, for waists, for home dresses—even for shirts. “Wears like iron,” is what’s said of it. Colors are pink, blue, n stripes or plain shades of pink, green, blue, rose and whi Monday, 38e per yard. Down-Stairs Store, New Bidg. Beautiful dress poplin, $1.50 yd. The soft, clinging, shimmering poplin holds a charm that makes it so very desirable for dre and skirts. In the big display of silks in the Down-Sta ore this line is fea- tured for Monday. It’s 40 inches wide, the colors are rose, gray, brown and black. Price $1.50 yard. Down-Stairs Store, Old Bldg, Blankets reduced to $8.50 © So many people need new blankets and we're so well prepared to supply every need, that for Monday we make these price reductions to make your trip here more profitable than ever. They're a mixture of wool and cotton approximately 40-60, | Another lot— Single bed size, beautifully soft | | | regularly $13 for $9.50 Size 60 x 50 inches, silk bound, pink and blue borders, wool and and comfortable, and many prefer the cotton mixture as it prevents shrinking | when washer eas | cotton mixture, approximately blue borders. Monday, reduced 60-40, Regularly $13, Monday to $8.50, $9.50, Double bed size blankets, regularly $13.50, for $10 Wool and cotton mixed, silk bound, blue end pink borders; regularly $13.50 for $10, Down-Stairs Store, New Bldg. -_ Fashion has decreed-- Not one, but several silhouettes —straight lines for day wear and bouffant, as well as straight lines for evening wear The new season is one of many materials and numerous colors. It is to be a brilliant season as far as fashions are concerned. Paris has made this decision. New York was of the same mind, too! Frocks are much favored The Wanamaker Salon of Women’s Dresses is ready. The collection is interesting as well as large. Trotteur frocks of serge, tricotine, Poiret twill and tricolette. Some are severely tailored, others are em- broidered to a degree of gorgeousness, others are braided, and last, but not least, fringe is an important factor in the adornment of others. Serge combined with duvetyn ves smart distinction to the tailored dress illustrated. Afternoon dresses of crepe meteor, satin, duvetyn and velvet. Wee beads of jet, embroidery and fur are the most important of the trimmings. a ‘The black crepe meteor dress, illustrated, is simply but effectivel Sisitpel appliqued with jet beads; the girdie is made of the beads, too. Squirre gray A cirees appropriate for many day occasion is the satin dress illustrated | u niform flannel deve retain oe frock are accentuated by a narrow binding of is going fhst Evening gowns ¢ A of lace, net, taffeta and satin introd 6,000 yards left, 86 in. | silhouettes. Bouffant lies are much avert er oN one sttractive wide, at 22¢ yd., about to- The velvet gowns and those of sequins and tulle in most every instance day's wholesale price; so you give the straight-line silhouctte, The prices——$45 to $196—are conservative. may imagine what renewals will cost. ay) ames en Taek, Old Building or jaan, neva, | FOr Little Men’s dressed-up days men’s shirts and children’s wear. Institutions and sewing ‘The Baby Store has just circles, please note. received an interesting col- 7 lection of unusually attrac- tive suits for “master 2 to Telephone and mail or- ders will receive prompt at- | § years.” They are mostly velvet trougers combined tention as long as the stock lasts. with silk shirts and are just Main floor, Old Building the thing to wear when eeepeseemenecee Little Men go to ies, or | Hand- made bd polite prome on Sun- } filet sweaters tech AVY of brown pair of velvet ' Trousers and a | In those very gay colors decided! practical, 11.80." a that are now so smart—and A little more elaborate one is in midnight blue and black, posse ry Py ale toueh of embroid- too—are these hand-made Charming one of white cordu- sleeveless, slip-over sweaters | roy with white pongee shirt; in filet designs of unusual ractical and easily washed, charm and variety. 13.50. A white smocked washable } In turquoise blue, white, | coral and American Beauty, satin blouse and blue or brown corduroy trousers makes a quaint they are particularly effective. Price-—$8.75. little suit, $14.95, For Weaidiaes or very festive er will hte Sweater wraps Long enveloping scarfs of mo- occasions Brot! y wear- hair these are, made with knitted a white satin suit—an ador- able one, the little rounded collar belts attached; of mohair and ever so soft and lovely In gray, turquoise blue and Mason fruit jars—Sale | navy blue and coral. At $16.75 3,700 doz., regular and wide mouths. | Second floor, Old Building Bought them well ahead of the sale, and at a concession — in price. In view of the limited quantity, we cannot take | ANATOMIK.§ shoes | mail orders. 3 fs te Regular jar, pint size.....70¢ doz. | Wide ith, bee's Plain, well-made, sensibly | Regular jer, quart size. . ‘tbe pron Wide a bec ae planned, attractive shoes for Regular jar, half gal. size..95c doz. | Wide mouth, half gal. size, $1.05 doz. reon who want to avoid Second Gallery <New Building oot trouble—men, women and children. BATHROOM FIXTURES ANATOMIK | shoes rs | the only shoes which have | With good brass foundations in the Housewares Sale All the features so necessary to foot comfort Every single i i , ° very single item among the many bathroom fi | 1. Proper base, with wide | the sale are pine nickel-plated or rare a pe eat | enough soles, to support the | brase—not iron. | weight of the body. Brass holds the nickel plate or enameled finish; iron resists | 2 Enlarged heels, prop- t—-onls Bway. P : : 4 Brass does not rust—iron rusts quickly and spoils towels. erly placed, to receive the ‘ | the weight of the body and | ara Bram resieta soap, water, ammonia or other chemical preps | prevent the over-rolling of the foot. Enamel on brass fixture” finished with scalloping and em- broidery, $13.95. A regular Kittle Lord Fontleroy suit comes in velveteen (brown or navy) trousers and shirt of pongee, $16.95. ‘00 sweet for words is a little suit with pink satin trousers and white satin shirt, $13.95. Third floor, Old Building Soap racks to hang on bath- : ae H White enamel medicine tub, 50c, regularly 85¢, 8. Straight lasts—a cabinets, 15x19 in. with bevel Towel rods, straight line from center of te mirror and Seen, 54-in. diameter heel to center of toe—pre- | 58 regular price $10. 18-inch, 90¢, regularly $1.40. venti " ‘isti | e enamel medicine H : ae] venting the twisting of the | cabinet. diaak te wits have 24-inch, $1.05, regularly $1.70. foot. 30-inch, $1.20, regularly $1.95. 36-inch, $1.45, regularly $2.30, 42-inch, $1.70, regularly Hi 48-inch, $2.15, regularly $2.! Porceloid-covered on brass bathroom fixtures Glass rods, 1-in. diameter 18 in., 75e, regularly $1, 24 in., $1, regularly $1.25, 80 in., $1.10, regularly $1.55, in., $1.35, regularly $1.85. 1.85, regularly $2.15. 48 in., $2.10, regularly $2.45. Posts to fit in 18-in. glass rods, $2.25 pair, regularly $3. Towel rods, \4-in. diameter 18-in., $1.30, regularly Be plate mirror and three g! shelves, $11, regular price $14, White enamel rr) with rubber tips, price $2.45, regular rq #288; $4.50, regular price 5.50, Porceloid covered stool with rubber tips, $6, regular price $8, Oval and oblong mirrors bevel Giese glass frames of baked enamel finish glass measure. 14x20 in., $6.50, regular price $9.25. 4, Dr. Cole’s special adap- | tation of the inside bottom of the shoes to conform to the arches of the foot. All of these features have been carried out to detailed perfection insisted upon by r. Cole, who supervises the manufactureof ANATOMIK shoes. ANATOMIK shoes come in a variety of styles, 16x24 in., $8, regular price $12. Enamel bath tub seats, with adjustable rubber-covered hand- les, $1.10 regular price $1.25, Nickel on brass bathroom fixtures Soap and glass holder, $1.90, regularly $3. Soap dishes to stand on basin, 80c., regularly $1.15. Soap dishes to fasten on well, $1.15, regularly $1.65. For sale exclusively in New York in the Wanamaker Store. 24-in., $1.45, regularly $1.80, 80-in., $1.70, regularly $2.10. 36-in., $1.85, regularly $2.35, Robe hooks, 25c, 40¢, uy sete Th ee Bath sprays, 5-ft. long, 75. Seventh Gallery, New Bldg, Women’s and Children’s— First floor, Old Building Men’s and Boys’ Burlington Arcade floor, | New Building