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Show rYARNSABOUT I FILMS, STARS, PLAYS AND LIFE IN MOVIES I Ik'1 " x Ik I W f.!-' ; ."' ha moth. J! I V rroator Injury by 1 i I' I r ii palpably constructed I Frt. ""fter motions of I M,1, io0son the tear duct.H , A mother mistreated ' ' - lb woman hi brs the holy name ; tho duties life I orb her oW"n laCK of I 1 . dieting is the redeem -1 I? -llver Wings. It Is a j v PJ . ii I i I R0y rung true. M iry I ', I ' I li- ... . f l" ir- l-i.i lii . . I ,i ,, . -i ' ! r.u-.i othei i tir - i coward n - hy- Pf Kath( 1 thai tlii- tra I ol pint jn - r ( I h Is proved mi: ... calling him a - sounder ph-ch i - I Lru in thai a : io ti ' low and far be-j , p fr ' lluii fa k mone -' I Nr !h Hill-' and The Old j I !tos lilnn projci ' ed the Mpf?r ri i fctToiri-- itt - i MR t I ISk-' raaudl the I Mr handled with i h bse ' i un bei ' Lc r e ir of dollar?. I pti core. ivej of heroic wo-H men. Brave mcn afld bravo have little patience with n Bmne- I mother of the ,, , n p,ao THE UOVIETOUU M Maybe you're Interes'ed In IcnnmHn. that Claire Windsor has 7C ho "tie, of Hunting a home? A London woman has just written Ulllan Q13h asffink her to help find . tenant for a mam apartment In Wait London rl ' t CheVel", rankMn ta lo direct "The end of Troubled Waters." a chi- i oy ! ran. -Is Marlon I new color process will be used Walter Hicrs will appear in blackface black-face for the tint time in "The Ghost I Breaker. starring Wally Held. i3 "i.he fl,m made n Rome by I OS Brfd directed by .1 Jordan Ed- ' tus. is tho penultimate in (avian- ness. It Is a gorgeous spectacle, like a three-ring circua or a Fourth of I Juy "rework display, but ft nol 1 a master photoplay. . "Nero" is younger brother to "T1k-oaora, "T1k-oaora, the story of u woman's cU-, cU-, pldtty ami the toppling of an em-plre em-plre "Theodora" was set In Byzantine Byzan-tine atmosphere. "Nero'; on the Ho- man hills Except for that, tbev j follow the bb( .ours, the romance of Nero being clouded by attempts' to astonish (he spectator j Tiu- most beautiful thing in New" is the ma.s actiota of clouds The t majesty overkhadows the roc-blc a- tempt, of human puppets to catch I tho eye. , i i . "iuo Tinii spontaneity, I hat ,s more ihan can be said tot the mobs of extras The camera oe caaionally disclosed a member of tho mob with Lack to the camera svsing-iisr svsing-iisr his arms to obtain concerted action ac-tion Mko the cheer leader at a football foot-ball paint-. violet pfergereau was the oniv m-oncan m-oncan in the cast and lnTall Cainieaa it musi be recorded that 'her woiit surfers in comparison with Lhal of B0 "' '" the Italian principals Alexander Alex-ander Balvini, b scion of Qie great family of tragedians, plays fcrj part of HoraUufl. aacquee GretlUat Is Nero and Paulette Duval Is Poppas, the woman who h-!d the tyrant undfer h p thumb GretlUat Ls much lik- William Fa -nUm and Balvini like John Barry-Sjio.e. Barry-Sjio.e. but even this similarity to Am-erioap Am-erioap types .Joes not eroae the Ku-ropaan Ku-ropaan atmosphere from the r,ic. t::re. Will Rogers will be starred in "The eg nd of Sleepy Hollow." H tt I 1 'fi" i .ii Iciiabod Crane, of coura-. The film will be In seven reels and will be produced by the K.,re Entertainment Enter-tainment company at Tarrytown; x. Y. the pla. c Washington Irving 'is supjosed to have bad in mind in urltinc the legend. Thl picture Will be directed by Ed Venturlnl. This writer knows 'little ;ibout th umpany or the director, but Will Rogers in the role of leha-' bod Crane seems sufficient ground to' predict this film will he one of tne greatest that ever graced the silver screen. ' ' Woman's Inalienable right to (hi age her mind. Witness .Madge Kennedy. She deserted the stage for' :he screen. She deserted tho screen' for the iiuge. Now she deserts the tag for th .-roen. A new eompany. composed of mn not heretofore Interested In the film indutry. has been formed to bn Miss Kennedy in a series of six pictures, pic-tures, the first of which, will be "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. There', a little story' In the selection of that vehicle. Pcreen rlgh's were bought for $15,0fin Then Mary Plckford bid for it. J. Stuart P.lackton entered the auction, eeklns the story h the second starring star-ring chariot for Lady Liana Manners. Man-ners. W ha !hn price reached $S5.f0i Miss intttiedy's backers announced the srrcen rights. if that valuable, would bo retained for her. g0 there It is expected the picture will be completed by September, it Immediately Imme-diately will be followed by a screen stage success of Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton. A message I have Just receive, from London says Blarkion is pro-. pro-. ceding with plans to star Lady Diana in a photoplay based on the sixteenth century legends of Haddon Hall. Sir John Manners with whom Dorothv Vernon eloped from Haddon Hall wsj an ancestor of Lady Diana. I.litK Inn. I. . . I 1.1. wj . 13 rxwu . ICSCIIIUI UVl famous ancestress In beauty and personality per-sonality She has lived much of her life within the historic walls of Haddon Had-don Hall. Lady Diana's mother, tho Duchess of Rutland. Is cooperating with Blackton in the historical and legendary legend-ary details of the family history, uany scenes will be nimed af Had-I Had-I don. This film, like the regal actress' fir-t. "The Glorious Adventure." will I be In prisma colors. i Jackie Coogan In "Trouble," appears ap-pears in court to tell rho Judge about the fight between his foster father and a policeman This episode runs for several hundred feet and was undoubtedly un-doubtedly introduced to show off Jackie's pantomimic ability Jackie certainly arose to the occasion. By the gestures of his hands and the movement of his features the entire " ene is faithfully reenacted and Jaokie thereby proved his right to bo . ailed a mimetic artist. m i t. t.p, umis "Here is one author who will not . -l ire to complain they have changed his stuff on him " write- tJeorge Ad. concerning 'Our Long Citizen." tne Photoplay he wrote for Thomas Melghan. l "The Dangerous Age," a domestic i drama concerning middle-aged peo-r peo-r . is heralded as an original photo-pi photo-pi ty now in preparation by J. G. 11 ks and John Stahl. One wonders ; if the idea is not from the recent I "oel by Rose Macauley. I . . One wonders what Is In a title after all when "The Man Who ' "I' d" is changed to "The Woman II- I.'.wl " Wa.s !,):(n or v.i. mm th-star th-star of this picture? ; Another silly title change. ElimtTr Glyn's 'Si- Days' will be only 'Five Days" on the screen Probably a sop to the silly censors. - Joseph M Schenck, producer of the Talmadgc and Keaton pictures, says production of photoplavs will be greater in August than at any tlmo in the history of the industry. ... Rupert Hughes recallod the prints of 'The Wall Flower" after It had been released and remade two reels. U W. Griffith also changed 'Orphans 'Orph-ans of the Storm" after it had been released . . . Evelyn Greeley and Carlyle Black-well Black-well hae gone to Holland to appear in four pictures to be made therce. ... A widely spread notion ls that Jack foogan s n great comedian. Some have said that he Is second only to harlle Chaplin who first gave him promlnenco In "Th Jtld." After sitting throujrh two showings of "Trouble," Jackie's latest, I am convinced that ho Is a tragedian equal ! I to o:- better than the great Chaplin. I Perhaps Chaplin is considered a comjedian rather than a tragedian because be-cause he seeks to fashion his antics after a pattern that appeals to the heart of a child. But Jackie Coogan Is a child, a serious little one who probes Into the dim pa-t of grown-ups and presents the retrospect of childhood's serious-ness. serious-ness. Therein lies the tragic quality! of his acting. A little b.. trvlng to be funny ls not comedy, bm there is an ineffable1 poignancy in the sight of a tattered little acalawag trying to shoulder the troubles of tho universe. it Is thus' that you find Jackie in "Trouble." A dog and an "adopted" mother-aro mother-aro the two things that are dear to, the little tatterdemalion In "Trouble."! The entire play pivots upon his affection affec-tion for these two Only a man who as a boy thought of his mother as having a little too much of this I I world's troubles and of his dog a.a a jcrcaturo of understanding and hunvan Impulse can appreciate the pathos of I this picture, mistakenly called a comedy. The story In brief of "Trouble" run-, as follow- A cop finds Jackie and his dog "Queenle," asleep In an alloy and' takes them back to the orphanage whero Jackie belonged and the dog didn't. On "bargain day" onlv Jackie and little negro arc left. Jackie paints the negro white only to find that a colored man and woman have come to adopt one of their race Jackie hurriedly washes off the white paint ' and then he alone Is left unclaimed. A plumber's wife adopts Jackie. Her husband beats and mistreats her and I will not work. When he refines to answer h , .ill J.i.kle go. . in blj stead. By many Ingenious and lu-1 Mcrous devices the boy gets the tools to the house, but only succeeds In' flooding the place. The mistress pities him and gives him $5. When he gives the money to his mother, his father takes It away. A policeman comes and ufter a Strenu-J ous fight the plumber is uhdued only after Jackie crocks him with a flower pot The Judge sends the father to Jail I ind the mothers parents take herl home, but not until Jackie finds "Queenle " If ever a dog acted with human intelligence before the camera cam-era it is this mongrel. No film has caught the tender pathos of childhood as has Trouble ' It ls an epic of human Interest and in that respect takes Its ptao- alongside along-side The Jack Knife Man " "The Kll." The Miracle Man" and 'Orphans 'Or-phans of the Storm." Charlie Chaplin would like to borrow bor-row the castle and drawbridge set r B Is using for Robin Hood ' Doug asked him what he'd do with it Chaplin Chap-lin answered. I'd get into nu derby and shoes, have the drawbridge let down, walk out, throw tho cat into the front yard pick up the milk bottle bot-tle and morning paper, warn back Into In-to tho -castle and have them pull ufi the drawbridge." ... ! "Affinities." by Mary Roberts Rlhe-hart, Rlhe-hart, is being photodramatized by-Ward by-Ward Lascelle with Coleen Moore playing the lead. ... Doris Pawn plays opposite Rich-1 ard Talmadgc in "Lucky Thirteen." . A sandstorm allowed Tod Brown-' Ing to shoot In half a day scenes nec 1 essary for "Under Two Flags" which he- thought would require month, with the aid of wind machines The sandstorm burled the wind machines' ... Sir Walter Scott's "Ivar.hoe" will bo filmed by Universal as a feature picture with an all star ?ast The original plan was to make a sorial of it with Harry Myers as tho star Rex Ingram had planned to film tho story in England. With Mad-..: Kennedy and Lady Diana Manners starting versions of Haddon Hall ro- I nances and Doug Fairbanks filming Robin Hood." it appears that the movies have not yet sw ung out of the medieval cycle. . In tho list of spectacular photo-Plays. photo-Plays. Nero" tak-. high rank However, How-ever, spectacles, staged or screened ! are with but few exceptions artificial. artifi-cial. A,nd artificiality Is not art . IN THE MOVIE GRAB B G Aphrodite will bo filmed by Alan Crosland. It will be based on "an old legend and not on the play by Pierre Louya. . . Baby Peggy has gone In for films based on fairy tales. She has completed com-pleted "Llttlo Red Riding Hood" and is now making Jack and the Beanstalk." Bean-stalk." ... A. palace, a seven-story building and oificers' barracks have been constructed con-structed for Von Strohelm's next film which win deal with Viennese life I during war time Dr Burrls Jenkens of Kansas CUy Mo., heads the Ctttaens' Motion Pie! ture league, a society formed after , an exhibitors' organisation sought to I curtail mm nervlce to schools and ; nontheatrlcal exhibitors. ... I What a player's personality means 0 a screen production is aptly illustrated illus-trated In the new releas.-s i f "Si cr-lock cr-lock Holmes" films. lathe feature photoplay called Sherlock Holmes" tho attention ls constantly with John Barryniure and bis character of tho title character 1 he ev olution nf tl,.. r.if i- ondary i onslderatlon. The reverse situation exists In the seriec of English-made two-reelcrs based on the Conun Doyle stories. Bills Norwood plays the role of Sherlock Interest In him centers on tho part he I kes in the solution of the mysttfry I rather than on his acting. Judged only on the score of action the two-reel stories have greater merit than the feature length film A mystery play or story holds the interest more than any other because It concentrates on every little detail. If the solution seems obvious, the interest is still held, for one likes to havo his own theory of solution enacted enact-ed for him. If one is right, there Is then the satisfaction sat-isfaction of saying, "I told you so." In a preview of "The Devil's Foot," and The Dying Detective," the first ,oi the two-reel ors to bo released by .Educational, the solution of the mysteries mys-teries seemed obvious to this writer even though those stories had not been 'previously read Even so Interest did not lag. In one case the supposed solution so-lution was correst, in th other wrong. The Interest in such mystery films is greater because the spectator take It personal. ... Rupert Hughes Is trvlng to edit j 'The Bitterness of Bweets, featuring 1 "l.-en Moore and Antonio Moreno. without any Hubtltb-s, Hughes gained the reputation of being tho screen's ! most capable title writer. Now that I he ls a director he Is trying to prove by his titleless photoplay that the sue-. sue-. of his pictures do not depend on hlH success an a writer. ' Speaking of subtitles, the mot effective ef-fective ones I havo seen for some time are tho reproductions from a note book employed In the two-reel ''Sherlock ''Sher-lock Holmes." These SUV-titles explain in a very cryptic way any action that might be lacking in thp picture and at the same time lend atmosphere to the story. ... Tho Talmadges appears to have taken tak-en up the business of training novices in the art of screen acting First it was Mrs Lydlg Hoyt. New York society soci-ety leader who appeared with Norma Nor-ma In "The Wonderful Thing." Then it was Mrs. Archibald McNeil. Jr. of Bridgeport, Conn., of the Newport New-port and Palm Bench set, who was given the second lead with Constanco in 'East ls West." And now Beatrice Bentley. Detroit heiress, has been given a part with Norma in "The Eetrnal Flame " ... THE MOVIE CHATTERBOX Construction of a movie studio at Orlando. Fla., has started. r w m Paramounfq Long Island studio Closed for the last y ar, opens with tho production of Alice Brady's next. "Missing Millions." . . Work on "Tho Tailor-Made Man" wasdelayod a week because Charles Ray injured his foot In the machinery of a motorboat. . . Tullv Marshall plays a omedy-heavy omedy-heavy role in "The Ladder JlnA." ... Jimmy Aubrey Is a booze sleuth in his next comedy. "The Frozen Trail." Ben Turpln's next. ... Lambs W ti substituted for peacocks pea-cocks a-s. part of the scenery ol ' When Knighthood Was in Flower," because, superstitious members of the cast believed be-lieved peafowls brought bad luck. Ain't that surathin'? Twenty exhibitors of Saskatchewan associate to oppose one-man censor i boards. Scenes for tho film version of ' If Winter Comes," will be taken at Canterbury'. Can-terbury'. Devonshire and Kent. ... June Mathls lias completed the con. tinulty for "The Young Rajah," Rudolph Ru-dolph Valentino's next starring ve hide. This ls an adaption of John j Ames Mitchel's story "Amos Judd " The new title Is probablv meant to I fit the star rather than the story. i ... Pride goeth before a fall in the1 movies if It's done welt For In the I studio fulling la considered a fine i art. . I Only tho trained tumbler can fall I even a few feet without great risk of: breaking a bone. Glenn Hunter falls ?0 feet from a mast-head in "The Cradle Buster." He told mo tho other day how he did it. Hunter ls not a professional acrobat, acro-bat, unless you consider his hurdling of Tarkington lines In "The Intimate Strangers' and "Clarence' a form of. acrobatics. "In taking a fall, rein ry part, of the body except the limb you aro using to break the Impact, be sa.t. "If you aro taking th- fall on tho right side stiffen ths right arm but1 lot tho left leg limp. Fractures of bonos occur most frequently when the, entlro body Is stiffened In i slstanco! to a fall "It's impossible, of course, in a! fall of any great dlstar.ee to use an arm or even both Icrs as a buffer. The trick ls In distributing tho foro of the Impact to successive parts of the body. You might use a hand to break a head-fall, so throwing your-1 self that the next Impact is on a shoulder, then the hips an 1 finally a great and harmless slain of tho heels, upon tho floor. "This takes plain so swiftly that' often the tumbler looks to bo bourn?-! Ing up from the impact of the fall. I "The safest place of all to land lu I on the shoulders. You've seen It done many times In the circus In 100-foot 100-foot plunges Into a net." In "The Cradle Buster" Hunter cannot trick the effect or havo a double for his fall because tho distance dis-tance ls so slight, he says. Ho practiced prac-ticed the trick six weeks under the tutelage of two circus acrobats. However, he admits that the man who fell with him was a dummy and was used to break the Impact of tne fall. That may take the zost out of his story, but If you think It takes no daring to fall 20 feet. Just try It with or without a dummy. . rum BALL I ILLS. Glenn Hunter has reduced tho art of falling to a matter of science. He has reasoned out Just what part of his body ought to take tho brunt of certain falls. However, falling grace- I fully and without risk Is largely a matter of Intuition. Witness the football player. He throws himself With all his energy at an opponent j and the two of them meet tho ground with rocket force. They roll over i and come up smiling without a I scratch and couldn't tell you for tho lives of them just what part of thir anatomy kissed the ground first. I ' M I: , ... i - ILLOWERS. Harrj Carey told me several months ago that ho thought the principal prin-cipal fault of the movie Industry la that it Is filled with "sheep." men who try to fashion pictures after bo.:- offlco successes. There Is little dls- j put Ing that. At present six companies com-panies are engaged In making ' sheik" pictures. By the tlmo they are i leased most movie fans will he rea.i to shriek at the mention of "sheik ' The only one that I can seo in a serious se-rious light ls "Tho Son of a Sheik " That will bo a Christie travesty In tho sheik movies and will feature N-Burns N-Burns and Vlora Daniels. When th movlo develops such a sense of humor hu-mor that It can lampoon Itself it '. promises to get somewhere. D. W. Griffith has begun rehearsals rehears-als for "At tho Grange," by Irene Sinclair, a Kentucky authoress ... This sounds as If the war is ovo "Deception" and "The Loves of Pharaoh." Pha-raoh." German-made films, have been bought for exhibition in Fran. o. |