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Show I ABOUT PLAYERS, PICTURES AND EVERYTHING j Musings of the Film Editor. ALUS ANGELES PRESS AGENT sent us a s.piib des: i ibi Lie, his star as " un ai-tress and a lady. ' ' Whaddyuhniean happing the other oth-er actresses ? - SHUCKS, that's uot news. We've encountered the combination lieapts -of time?- ANNA II ELD has yone into the pi. -Uires. She, it will be recalled, used to sinr that she couldn't make her celebrated eyeM behave. T I f AN 1 1 Ol.'S F It announces that Theodore Jioosovelt appear-- in one of its new pictures. .11 is trouble always was in making his "IV behave. - & THEY SAY THAT the moving pictures have regenerated men's fashions in the rural communities. Since the films showing handsomely tailored actors have rear hod the cross-roads, the old-fashioned yokel who used to get his fashion hints from Seui Koebuek 's catalogue . fund looked it J has disappeared. . Now the rubes look a good deal liku Karlw Williams and Jack Hnr-rvniore. Hnr-rvniore. It is said to be nothing ' at all. in provinces where the films prevail extensively, to see an agriculturist agri-culturist plowing iu ;i smart lounge suit in the morning and goiug iu town in the af'eruoou attired iu a faultless cutaway. ; GOLOK PROCESSES for the movies are being rapidly develope.l. (;, roe n and pink shades s h o u i d b e avoided in aninial pictures intended for "wet" towns. The report, that James Thornton, I lie vamlovillian. is now engaged in eolorine animal pictures pic-tures is wit hout foundation. TIIE F1KST ISSUE of the Swan-son Swan-son Circuit News made ils appear-am-p laM wn-k. Iteaiiuu marked embl;uice to a livf iiewpaper and containing much of intei'e-t ii.uch U:S upon th" American. He;; and Liberty theater;-. The first, page is embell'Uhe.l with a life-like portrait of V. H. Swausou, pif,llllt "I"" the .circuit. The issue nbo rontains a pi. -line ol' H. A. Sims, general man ager of the three theaters. "Why i - if teen tents for Pictures V is the keynote of the leading article as Hntish .journalists say by Editor E. C. Sehmidt. The Swausou Circuit Cir-cuit News is given free to the funs. t -n WELL, ANITA KING has gone safely back and forth across the country in her auto, leaving a trail of press notices; both Lasky 's Ger-alduie Ger-alduie Farrar "Carmen'' and Fox's Theda Hara production of the same name have been released, aud directors, di-rectors, valets and publicity experts have transferred Francis X. Bnsh-ui Bnsh-ui air from Los Angeles to studios in New York, which, we are stirred to k now , he finds quite sat isfaetory. Ho, hum! Nothing to worry about now but President's Wilson's wedding. wed-ding. ETHEL BARH YMOKE has denounced de-nounced a New York dramatic critic on t it o ground that he used to be a baseball reporter. He must have given her an error. It isr unlikely that the critic is much perturbed by Miss Harry more s tirade. Wheu a writer has' run the gauntlet of irate - members of the home teams who resent such critical chronicles as "he played .shortston like an intoxicated intoxi-cated apple woman. ' or reports of stump in batting, outbursts of temperamental actors are apt to make him yawn. Miss Barrymore 's expof-n-, this baring of a critic s wriiing past, is a bad precedent, how e er. Very bad. A N Y Y A Y, a ha seba 1 1 writer should make a big league dramatic critic. Those fellows on the sporting sport-ing pages certainly have a beauti-1 beauti-1 ni command of language. MORTC IN sorrow than in anger George E. Carpenter, of the Notable Feature Film company, remonstrates with us about 1 1 .5 e 0 f the wor d "movie." He was much pained to observe the word on this page la-l week. We gather 1 10m Mr. Carpenter that "movies" are not spoken of in the best film circles. Tt isn't done, that's all. "Let us." writes Mr. Carpenter, "speak of fibres. photo dramas, screen productions, the silent drama, or even coin a new word rather than refer to kiu-etohcopic kiu-etohcopic masterpieces as ' movies. ' Let us be dignified, come what ma v. ' ' IN COMMON with other impresarios impre-sarios of the films, Mr. Carpenter regards "movie" as a tUppnuey which somehow belittles artistry which calls forth the best that is in geniuses of acting, producing and photography. He looks upon it as a derisive term inveuted several years ago to designate the blood -and-sentiment-drenched short -reelers which flourished before the advent of ' ' features. ' ' Wc confess an inability to share either Mr. Carpenter's strict definition defini-tion of the word or his distaste for it. We are a slangy people, we Atnerica-ns. We take to inventions like ' ' movies ' ' as a prohibitiouist takes to a flagon of grape .juice. To our notion the term ''movies'' has a pica -"in g tang and nothing of reproach re-proach to it . Ke minds us of the inspiration card they used to hang in newspaper ollices for the benefit of young reporters: "Terseness, speed, accuracy." Perhaps tihe training of our distant youth explains ex-plains the liking for "movies.'' OUR IDEA is that "movies ' ' contains no more of approbrium thou the words "theater" and "show. Before the advent of the "movies," "mov-ies," witb apologies to Mr. Carpenter, Carpen-ter, one said, "Let's go to the theater, ' ' or " let s go to the show." That is, most of us who ride in street cars, lunch in cafeterias cafe-terias and have no income tax worries wor-ries always said it that way. And now we bay "let's go to the movie?.' mov-ie?.' We agree with Mr. Carpenter that motion pictures, films, photo drama, the silent drama and screen productions produc-tions are all good. It may cheer him to know that we will employ them probably frequently on this page. But as for the complete banishment ban-ishment of "movies." its aptness and piquancy have us clutched. He-sides, He-sides, the head writer would never forgive u. It is a nice, short word. |