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Show relinD 'round TRIANGLE IS DISRUPTED WERE! Tom Inc and Mark Hennett anglea of tha - Triangle Film company? Which waa the apex, and which waa the hypothenuseT Can a Triangle be a triangle when two sldea or anga sre removed? re-moved? These are some of the questions that present themselves aa word cornea of more Triangle changes. Authoritative Information received re-ceived privately yesterday conv flrma the rumor that Mack 8en nett haa withdrawn from tha Key-atone Key-atone and the Trlangl com panic. Th new I rsaamiring. however, aa It declares that "Mackaennetf comedies wHI reel right along, and that they 'will begin then- "filmy career" out at the Keyatone plant, whence much of the wholooom laughter of the world haa started. It la generally understood that Mr. -Bennett haa rellnqulahed the title "Keyatone" and will In future make hla picture under his own name, but at tho Keystone atudloe out near Edendale do positive in- . formation could be procured. It 1 expected, however, that' tha Triangle Tri-angle will make Its own comedies under "Keystone" title, probably at Culver City. Now the probabilities are that . the three men - of the original Triangle will b together again. There have been o many changes In the oreaniaation that the general gen-eral public may have forgotten that the first three men In this were David M. Griffith. Thomas H. Ince and Mack Bennett. Oriffltb. haa been out for some time and will re leas hi picture through Art Craft REALISM FIRST THEN ROMANCE Comparing, than, th motloa pictures of today with th fiction of long ago, we get silmslr results. re-sults. To-day'eTphotoplay characterisation charac-terisation and differentiation ar matters of simplicity. Tomorrow's will be as th fiction ot todsy. To study msn snd womsn in sll their moods In sil unusual situations. situa-tions. In reel life thst Is tha great work of th futur motion picture. Life, life, Ufa repeated sd Infinitum. Realism first, th romantic ele-ment ele-ment afterward. MOVIES IN - THE MAKING "Technical Atpectt" By E. D. HORKHEIMER, Secretary and Treasurer Balboa Company. Under this head come "the tricks of the trade." Because It la largely mechanical, motion picture expression has been called "the theatre of . science.' . That being the case. It haa pronounced pro-nounced technical aepecta and to tha development of the some of the cleverest technician of th age have been devoting their unique talent. In the organization of most atudio atu-dio will be found a technical director. di-rector. HI buaineaa 1 to supervise super-vise all parts ot tha mechanical phaaea of production. Their number num-ber la legion, even after the aets hav been provided. Under thia head come the many different so-called so-called "effecta." Whenever you see anything out of the ordinary In a motion picture and wonder how it was done, some technical man probably wrestled with the problem a long while, or the solution came to him aa a happy hap-py thought. Home effecta suggest themselvea in the most unusual way, while others have - to bo aweated out. There ia the use of water, for Instance, in fountains and bathtubs. bath-tubs. 'It ia also utilized for simulating simu-lating rainstorms. Gas ia employed for various nih-poaea and fireworks must be set off at Umea. Bridges are destroyed and trains wrecked, houeea burned down and ships blown up, automobile turned over and aeroplane ehot down. All these things moat be planned and carried out. by the technical department. de-partment. In the field of electricity, the motion mo-tion picture worker baa almost unlimited un-limited technical opportunities. The electrical effects that can be obtained ob-tained are little abort of marvelous. marvel-ous. They cover everything in lighting, from the rising of the moon to the setting- of the aun. ' Lightning can be simulated and the flashing of a message visualised. visual-ised. Electricity la also used in tha discharging of exploaiveo. It I th technical man who is he wonder worker In the film world. He ia a tireless student. His Ideal ia to achieve more and more truetiesa to the natural. Ha la avoiding- the flambuoyant for simplicity. Tou may never have heard of the technical worker, but ' he la none the lee on of the most important element In picture making. GIRL, 2, AIDS BARRISCALE Beaai B arrises 1 began work this week at the Trlangle-Inc studio stu-dio in a new production directed by Raymond B. West. Th opening open-ing scenes were made In aeta typical typi-cal of th tenement districts of New Tork, and street scenes to eorreapond war photographed in and about Lea Angelea. Mary Jane Irving, the two-year-old emotional actress, will play a prominent part in efisa Barriecale'a piece. |