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Show In Jack 0' Diamonds Best On The Card Stellar Photoplay Company Releases Six Part Play Full of Life and Action 'Ralph Sruart Forced to Do Some Tall Climbing in Rehearting Scene for "Heart of Oak" The Stellar Photoplay Company has just released a striking six-part feature entitled "Forgiven, or the Jack o' Diamonds." Dia-monds." The scenario is by Bennett Musson and the production was directed by Wm. Robert Daly. Frank J. Carroll, president of the company, who is a veteran film man. gave close personal attention to the production of the play, and to him is due a great part of the credit for the success it ran justly claim. To doubly assure success, an exceptionally excep-tionally strong cast was secured, com- prising the following : Edwin Forsberg, J tn the leading role of Jack Diamond, is 3 the well known New York actor who a played opposite Dorothy Donnelly in k Henry W Savage' production of m "Madame X"; Frederick Burton had A jut closed before being cast with this . j picture with "General John Regan." j; playing the American Gentleman; Luke 4 J. Loring has been with Henry W Sav-T Sav-T age for a number of years ; Hector Dion J is a well known motion picture actor, A formerly leading man with the Reliance 4 Company: Caroline Trench, the leading lady, was formerly of the All Star Com-.(' Com-.(' ran- where she played opposite Tully jj Marshall in "Faid in Full" ; Ricca Allen, J who has played with the Biograph and 1 Reliance companies ; Fntzi Brunette had j been leading woman with the Victor H. Company before being cast for this pic-j pic-j ture ; Lois Alexander, the clever little I baby, who has played in many of the -T Universal productions in the past two J years, and Daniel Bertona. who has been i with the Imp Company for some time Ji until cast for this picture. -J The play tells the story of Jack Dia- ;3 mond. a successful gambler, who wins M, Annie Dcnni-on from I is rival, Willnrd 3 Graham, abjurrs gambling and settles n down to business. Later Graham re- n turns, leads Jack to helieve his wife is ,V unfaithful and causes a reparation hc-tween hc-tween the couple. Annie disappears ; with her child. Leonie, and Jack goes -' to Texas, where he makes a fortune H His wife is also in Texas teaching H school. Graham traces her and rcumes H his wooing Jack discovers the presence H of his wife and daughter and also that H i of Graham The two men rmne to a M clash and (jraham plans to murder Jack. jjj but is himself slain. Before dying he 3 clears the wife's name and Jack - i e- H united to his wife and child 3 fl George Cooper, the heavy "crook" 'I lead for Vitagraph, at :nita Monica, 9 has cut hi- tire uith the local company w and has been on a two weeks' vacation, m He lives in a bungalow on the beach and m swims daih in the surf Hehas closed a with the Universal and will be in Gold a Seal films, fli I m There exiu great difference ofjkoptn- m ion among motion picture experts as to m he possibility of producing a perfect m "talking" picture that iv nc in which there will be a machine giving utterance M to speech in exact synchrony with the movements, gestures, facial expressions i m of the actors on the screen. In fact. i there i also almost as great a differ-1 9 ence of opinion as to the desirability of I M accompanying the action of the motion) picture play with the reproduced voices of the actors even though the machine Mi capable of doing so with ideal exactitude B is perfected. I As to singing, however, the case is entirely different. Whatever difference I of opinion there may have existed a to the possibility or the desirability of pro I ducing and utilizing the perfectly syu-I syu-I chronous singing equipment has been I swept away by the fact that such an I equipment is po.-.c,rd by the Ken fax I Film Company and that its use in the I presentation of musical motion pictures I before delighted audiences is a matter of daily and nightly occurrences. 1-I 1-I though the introduction i tin Ren fax method of producing singing pictures is M but recent, it ha alread prove. that it m justifies all claims made for its methan- ical perfection, and that it wins instan- taneous favor from ever) audience that M has looked upon the pictures and lis- tened to the accompam ing voices of "In Bagdad." "FauM." "Apple Blossom Time in Normand" or any other of the two-B two-B score musical motion pictures the com- pany lias placed before the public. So M there has ceaed to he discussion or dis-H dis-H tension of opinion ajS to the possibility of presenting the lyric drama in any of H its forms on the screen, with pices accompanying in perfect melody and perfect synchrony. It has become sim- j ply one of accomplished fact. I, B Ralph Stuart had to do some tall Climbing in "i leans of Oak" whrn Terry I rescues little Chria1 in the precipice Ij scene of the first act In rehearsing the scene f r t lie camera on the Maine inast l Hear Portland, lie actual! climbed up I j a rocky incline of 75 feet. Whrn he was I up about 60 feet Mr. Stuart missed his I footing nnd slid bade a considerable dis-I dis-I tancc To the camera man and the mem- hers of the companv who were watching I this acrobatic performance it seemed all Ij tip or down with the last of the Mi Stuarts forever and Eni n Stuart him-H him-H self confesses that be didn't think his Hr stir was in the ascendant at that partic-H partic-H ular stage of the game. |