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Show 1 i r.i UNIVERSAL FILcMS SHOW YOU HOW TO DANCE THE " TANGO cAND 8MAXIXE How.Pbillips Smalley and Lois Weber Went Into the Pictures and Why They Have Remained There-Riotous . Staeinc of a Bi Suffragette Photonlav The Universal has induced the famous dancers Sebastian and Allen' to. pose in a scries of six modern dances, condensed con-densed into one full reel. In this featuro fea-turo are shown the one-step, the American Amer-ican tango, the Argentine tango, the turkey trot, the Maxixc and the hesitation, hesi-tation, and shown so plainly that anyone any-one who can dance at all can learn them from the screen. Sebastian is said to receive fifty dollars an hour -from New York society people for instruction in theso dances, and at the Jardin de Danse, on Broadway, his dancing is the strongest attraction. This, .dance reel will be released uudcr the Victor-Universal brand. It was a few days ago that Phillips Smalley, director and leading man of the Universal's Rex brand, quietly found his way into little old New -York and entered -the- local offices a,t 1GQ0 Broadway Broad-way to smile wifh old friends apd talk oven some few business matters with the "powers that be." . . . i Mr,. Sniallcy's history is' pretty fa-' miliar to all. It is well known that he and his wife. professionally known as Miss Lois Weber, are pioneers in the motion picture game; . it is practically universnJly knp.wn that a.bo.ut, his first serious advent into pictures was with the old Rex company. Five years ago that was. However, his first engagement engage-ment was' "with- the .Gaumout Talking Pictures. There is a curious and interesting fact connected witji his entering the picture field. His last engagement on the stage was under the management of the Shu-berts Shu-berts in "The Return of Eve" as a lead, opposite Bertha Galland. It was a road show. They had hardly got started on towards the West whpn the show closed. Back to New York came Mr. Smalley. He dropped down on one of the Shuberts to inquire what the trouble trou-ble was. "To be honest," answered Mr. Shu-bert, Shu-bert, "the motion pictures have taken over not only many of the theatres we relied oh, but a good part of our crowds." "Very well," said Mr. Smalley, "I think the best place for me and mine is iu the motion pictures." , , And Mr. Smajley and hin wife went into motion pictures and there they rc-jnained. rc-jnained. "Wliat they have. done for the uplift" of the artistip .oh1' of 'motion pictures is, too jvell knqwu ,tO bear repeating. re-peating. At the present moment Mr. Smalley and his wife stand at the head of their class. The point is; that Mr. -Smalley entered en-tered pictures seriously. - "Even from second-hand information," said Mr. JSmalley, "I could see that motion pictures , bad "a big "future, and when I had be.e,n in them a short while I became convinced that the artistic possibilities pos-sibilities were tremendous. Both my wife and I have constantly worked to ' improve our output, to . develop new ideas in scennrio construction, scenic arrangement and photographic values, and even after five years we. find that there remain still vast unexplored fields undreamed of." . , . V At the last monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Universal Film Manufacturing' Company, it was decided decid-ed to declare a special dividend of two per cent in nddition to the usual oup-half oup-half per cent monthly dividepd on 'the preferred slock nnd the one per cent monthly dividend on t lie common stock. This extra dividend was made possible possi-ble through the excellent management of Mr. Carl Laeinmle, who has for some time past- been guiding the affairs of the' Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Com-pany, personally. Galder Johnstone, scenario editor of the Eastern branch oi the Universal, is the author of "TJic Militant," a three-reel three-reel drama from the Imp Studio, which finds its motives fn one of the most important im-portant political problems of-(he civilized civi-lized world "woman's suffrage." The 'question, is being solved 'iu America without resort to militancy. But England Eng-land is in the throes of social and political po-litical upheaval nnd railitaijcy because the women have been refused the vote. Mr. Johnstone, in writing this play, has not attacked the right of .wo.nian to the vote. He has confined himself to the effort of showing that -the destruction destruc-tion of property, of homes and of lives, is the wrong way of going about getting it. It is a big subject that he has taken and he 'has handled It in a big way. He has hrought the question down ,to tho concrete. Naturally there is much -fcpectacularism. in the picture with 'the crowds, the destruction de-struction of railroad tracks, thp "dynamiting "dyna-miting of buildings and the raids on tho meetings by the police. It whs during dur-ing the making of this picture tlat perhaps per-haps one of the most unusual incidents that ever occurred in the-producing of a picture happened. On last election the director had taken his enlarged company com-pany over to one of the principal New Yprk polling places for. a suffragette meeting and subsequent stampede. Just prior to the giving of the signal by tho director to start, tho scene, a man was run dowi and killed by an auto across the .street. A .huge.-crowd of men, immediately im-mediately gathered. Before explanations explana-tions could he. made, Vsupers" charged the curious onlookers, mistaking them for some of" ,theirown. and. the -latter, believing they were being seriously attacked, at-tacked, fought back. .A general tight, amounting Jo a riot, ensued. But tho camera man; alirt.- to hit, duty; turned the crank and. .caught the scene." Several prominent suffragettes were secured to enact certain roles in the play. |