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Show iw "THROUGH BLINDNESS TO LIGHT" A COMING BIG UNIVERSAL MELODRAMA Director Lund, of Eclair, Simultaneously Produces Three Plays Hudson Maxim Getting Out Startling Dynamite Films for the Colonial "Through Blindness to Light" Is tho title of a two-reel melodrama now in the course of production by Director Direc-tor Frank Crane at the New York Imp studio. By Stuart Paton, it tells tho story of a blind hero, a girl who goes wrong, a brother who Is murdered mur-dered In attempting to revenge her wrongs, and a final reckoning. Mr. Crano plays the part of tho murdered brother. An odd situation comes whero tho blind artist plays chess unconscious of his Identity with the villain who ruined his sweetheart and also killed tho brother. For a director to have three plays In the course of production at tho same time, all over two rcelers, is rather out of the ordinary. Yet C. A. C. Lund, Eclnir's most brilliant director, is guilty of it at tho present time. "Snow Drift," a two-reel play of the Northwest; "Rcgina," a three-reel three-reel play dealing with contemporary political conditions, and "Pictures in the Fireplace," an American business busi-ness story, are all in the course of making under his direction. Again, Mr. Lund is the author of them all, and is enacting tho lead male roles. a a Eddie Redway, who Is now playing leading comedy roles with the Essanay Es-sanay eastern company, was for a year connected with Arthur Roberts at the Lyric Theatre, London, England, Eng-land, where he played In "The Modern Mod-ern Don Quixote" and later under the management of Mr. George Edward, ViO. .( in the famous comedy "The Messenger Messen-ger Boy." Mr. Redway Is well known in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Every director, according to his own Ideas and training, has his own methods of directing. But It is a noticeable fact that a great majority of them arc noisy in giving directions to players, particularly when in the midst of a big scene. Director Frank Crane, turning out Imp features, however, is an apostle of the 'Sort Pedal" school. "I was born In tho West, raised on a farm and owned a ranch of my own." says Frank, "and my experience ex-perience in handling farm animals has guided my handling of player3. Yelling at a horse when he hesitates at jumping a stream or climbing a ridge always makes him nervous, unsure un-sure of himself and often balky. Experience Ex-perience has taught me that the same thing applies to an actor. "Veil and rave at him when a difficult piece of work is to be done, and he Is apt to go to pieces and make a mess of.it. Just, reassure your player with a soft word of encouragement and results are most satisfactory when the work is shown on tho screen." Spring coming on, and, more important, im-portant, Easter, King Baggot decided de-cided that his wardrobe needed replenishing re-plenishing with fresh suits, hats, boots and shoes. But before this could be done It was necessary to clean out hundreds of pieces of clothing cloth-ing and what not that had served their usefulness. As a result fifty or more newsboys and street urchins added to their wardrobes considerably consider-ably with clothing that was "Immense," "Im-mense," though somewhat large. Howbeit, some of them probably had mothers who could use the needle to advantage. The articles given away had cost the actor in assembling not less than two thousand dollars. Some of the pieces had come with him from the iegitimate years before and bore trade-marks of stores situated all over the United States. By Easter, King will have restocked his ward- robe at considerable expense, but ho Is determined to make a good Job of it. Hudson Maxim, inventor of "Max-imite," "Max-imite," "Stabilite" and other ex,-plosivcs ex,-plosivcs adopted by the government, has entered the field, of motion pictures. pic-tures. At his estate in Maxim Park, Lake Hopatcong, he will superintend for the Colonial Motion Picture Corporation Cor-poration the production of films of an extraordinary nature, calling Tor the use of dynamite and other high powered explosives. The first of these films is being made for one of the departments of the government. It is Intended to illustrate safe methods meth-ods of handling dynamite, and will be exhibited widely throughout tho country. Mr. Maxim's familiarity with this powerful agent of destruction destruc-tion Is more than theoretical, as ho lost a hand some years ago In one of his experiments with it. The Inventor Inven-tor himself will appear in boiuc or his films. Although Mr. Maxim is widely known as a peace advocate, he Is consulting engineer and experimental experi-mental expert for the E. I, Dupont-DeNemours Dupont-DeNemours Powder Company, and the inventor of many brands or smokeless powder. He also acts, in a general capacity, as technical expert ex-pert for the Colonial, which controls all his improvements in motion pictures. For the first time since he becamo the leading Edison star, Ben Wilson took a very minor part in an important im-portant performance. It was nt the X,Ittle Church Around the Corner, and tho leading roles In this performance were played by Ben Wilson, Jr., and the minister, for the little fellow was bolng christened. He just simply monopolized the whole scene and showed lots of temperament. Ho bids fair to grow up as handsome and popular as his talented, father. |