Show Old Time Play Comes Back In Films n lip sue The first shall be last probably was as not written with the stage stape In view but like liko many other things made for fOI ono one purpose it serves another an- an other equally well Tho The first shall bo ho last now has to toJo todo todo do Jo with stage successes For tho the old- old time timo farce tho the time old-time melodrama and the tho time old stage e romance aro are being born anew The smiles and tears of ot a n. century n ago o. o that wrought havoc with father s heart an and digestion now pla play tho the same earno tricks on the tho fellow out in front And n it Is the thc moving mo picture ers rB who are bringing bringing- this about For the movie trend at present seems to be in the nat nature re of oC revivals One of the tho most popular that has been promised screen fans In tho Charles Ra Ray revival of ot Fo Folt Forty f ty fhe he Minutes from rom Broadway Tho The picture Is la In tho the making malting but will be read ready for release within a n few weeks Forty Forto five I Minutes from Crom Broadway is Is' one of the old Geor George o Cohan that set a a. pace for bo box c office receipts What Ray nay and the screen will do with It remains to be seen I After Af Att r he is through with that picture Ua Ray flay will start on a s series of or the tho Hoyt farces I Colonel Colonel Colono Colo- Colo Shore Acres The Kentucky no nel and Tho Old Homestead aro are only a few of the stage stage- successes trans trans- d to tho the films The Tho stage and movie mo combination if It It does nothing nothing- el else G. G probably will blow up the old theory theor y that the stage Is a reflection of ot the times and that that tho the producer chooses his play for tor his audience Of Ot course courso if It tho the new movement In Inthe Inthe inthe the movies falls It will add to tho the daB dally fiction column a a. good play pIa always alwa's a n. good pia play Huckleberry Finn and Dr Jekyll and md Mr Hyde Hydo are two of ot tho the time old-time successes reaping rich harvests for tor their present nt producers |