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Show I; A Type Of The j Western Plainsman j Edgar Jones, The Lubin Star, j Embodies The Spirit of j the Argonauts of '49 j !nJuerite Clayton Remains Loyal to ; tbe Piotures Arming the Men Who Will Appear in Fenimore Cooper's ; , "Spy" Creating "Xtmosphere" for "The Gangsters of New York." It may be because lie was born in the Middle West nnd spent his young manhood there that Edgar Jones, of the Lubin Company, brings to tbe screen ! today that buoyant brceziness which is ! usually associated with Westerners only. Certain it is that his wholesome, virile, 1 " masculinity breathes the spirit of the great out-of-doors. This same quality, as well as his stalwart, musculnr frame, forceful countenance and intrepid horsemanship, horse-manship, have frequently brought forth t the inquiry if he was not at one time a model for Frederic Remington's ideal ! plainsmen. It has been said, too, that Edgar Jones might have been the proto-' proto-' ' type of one of Bret Harte's bold heroes of California in the early 50's, or one '.I of those picturesque gamblers of the . r Mississippi steamboats when the est ' was in the making. ' The quick recognition accorded Mr. i , Jones by the picture public is a happy ' indication of its appreciation o the ' ' ' genuine Western man, although it has ' )" been said that the counterfeit cowboy of the movies was good enough because most people did not know the difTer-. difTer-. . ence. Like most prominent picture players, Mr, Jones is a graduate of the stage, having first appeared in Lubin Gims less than two years ago, after a few seasons in the companies of Kyrle Bel-, Bel-, lew and Viola Allen, with some stock engagements and several special pro- -. ductions between. ' ' From the outset Mr. Jones attracted attention. He had not appeared three times on the stage before his earnestness and the perfection of his type he was a - cowboy In a revival of "Arizona" brought him an offer of something bet-ter. bet-ter. Thus it has been all along; he has h been recognized for his untiring efforts ' to improve himself, his zeal in working toward perfection in whatever part he had to play, and his commanding mag-made mag-made favorites by the public and have T uctism. 0 ft); Few players entering the field prac- w Liu tically unknown have been so speedily K . been so rapidly advanced by their man-r man-r agement as has Mr. Jones. It was just that consciousness, that ability to master Uie difficulties of directing as well as nctipg not forgetting his com-rAz com-rAz mercial value that induced the Lubin h1 Company to promote Mr. Jones to the responsibility of directing the photo-.', photo-.', plays in which he plays ths leading t" part. , , Most of the young nctor-dircctor s pic- , tures have been made at Betzwood, the V.. vast Lubin estate on the Schuylkill river, where he has had resources at , his command for filming of out-of-door , stories such as no other director in the East has had at his disposal. Like some other players in the mute drama, Mr. Jones has become imbued with an absolute disregard for his own safety and, at times, his very life it-' it-' self. .' Probably for the first time in the history his-tory of the photoplay a genuine army courlmartial, made up entirely of U. S. Army officers was enacted recently at Galveston, Texas, for Romaine Melding, Meld-ing, who is now wintering at the beau-1 beau-1 tiful resort, and will be seen in a forth- ' coming feature release. Thirteen of k . the principal commanding officers sta tioned at Fort Crockett, the military ( - base, enacted the full routine of mili- tnry trial. The only civilian player appearing ap-pearing in the scene is arrested by soldiers and taken to their superior officers, who played their parta iu the trial with all the dignity and severity ; of military discipline while all save the thirteen were ignorant of the camera's steady click-click. It was but another demonstration of the pains Itomaine 1 Fielding, "realist," who thinks nothing of blowing up a whole street or hiring i" a. fleet of aeroplanes to "put over" a 1 . ' point, will go for the attainment of j realism in ins plays., 1 There was recently published a story to the effect that the Western Essanav's clever little leading lady, Marguerite 1 Clayton, was anxious to forsake the pictures in order to play n part in musi cal comedy. The story evidently originated origi-nated in the fertile brain of somo press J agent. He made it appear that Miss Clayton, whose undoubted claim to popu- Ilanty. and fame is based upon her ap- pearnncc opposite G. M. Anderson in (he 'Broncho Billy" stories, as well as her wonderful ability as a screen actress, ac-tress, desired to change all that for a part in Mr. Anderson's other enterprise, the successful Gaiety Theatre-, in San I-rancisco. Miss Clayton savs Bhe is grateful for the publicity, but wants her many friends and ndmircrs in the picture pic-ture houses to know that she has neither I the intention nor the desire to forsake Sm i her present work. Frank Ormston, technical director- at !the Universal Pactific Coast Studios, has returned from the East, where he went to secure certain rare properties to bo used in the three-reel adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Spy." As a result of a prolonged search through museums and nntique shops of Chicago, Boston and New. York, Mr. ' J Ormston secured three hundred flint- lock rifles of the type used during the I Revolutionary War. He found it im- possible to secure a sufficient number i? of powder horns tp match the rifles and, i 5? f- Ttmt' ,R number of the cowboys at Universal City arc busy making powder x horns. 'l The costume department is busy man- I nfacturing a thousand Colonial cos- tumcs, military and civil, for this pro- 1 ! duction. , i , ij An orchestra and cabaret singers were ! . Bsea ay Director James Kirkwood re- j 1 cently for the sole purpose of inspiring f the cast of "The Gangsters of. New ! xork, a four-part drama soon to ap- s pear on the Mutual program, with the spirit necessary to the successful stag- ing of a pretentious dance-hall scene. i Director Kirkwood is a strict exponent ' J of realism in pictures and will go to almost any length to help the actors under him feel their partB and to furnish fur-nish atmosphere that Is true to the ' dramatic action presented. |