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Show "CRIMSON WING" LATEST PICTURE Two Hundred Million Dollar Moving Picture Last in Latest V-L-S-E Production. Pro-duction. ) J T7 ' The motion picture industry is an Industry of big figures, but all previous previ-ous high water-marks for the earning capacity of players have been broken by the latest V-L-S-E production of the Essanay companv, called "The Crimson Wing.'' $35,616 a dav or about $24 a minute, was the actual income at six per cent of a few of tho cast which took part in this mam. i moth production of love and war and these players were only subordinates. They were subordinates, however, only insofar as the realmj of motion pictures go. In the world of finance politics, society, art and letters, their nameB represent personageB of the utmost prominence. For instance, the chauffeur seen in several of the big moments of the play, who drives -a great-powered war automobile with Such nkMl anrl HovfnrJt,, ... than Edward F. Moore, vice president presi-dent of, the Rock Island railroad, not-wlthatanding not-wlthatanding tho fact that he Is dressed In the ordinary field uniform of tho German army. That car is his own $14,000 machine. The exquisite garden and villa scenes, were staged on the grounds and In the home of Mr. Moore's fellow members in Chicago's Chi-cago's most exclusive set. Among the "locations" used, were the estates of Harold and Cyrus McCormlck, Or-ville Or-ville Babcock, James Ward Thorne, Scott Durand and Howard Shaw. If you know these wide-famed figures, you will bo able to pick theih out in many of tho scenes. Not only they, but many members of their famillos as well as other society leaders, appear ap-pear in this production. Their presence pres-ence Is due to the fact that this feature fea-ture was dramatized from tho widely wide-ly known novel of the same title by Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Chicago and Washington society leader, and litterateur. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor assisted as-sisted E. H. Calvert, a West Point graduate and former army captain, who directs tho play, and takes the principal role. In its productfon, and made the most of his wide and notable not-able acquaintance, by drafting not onlyA Ws friends in the social set as "extras" but their homes, motor cars, J etc.. as "well. "The Crimson Wing," is "different'1 also by reason of tho fact that the war scenes depicted in It, -were taken first Ijand In Franco, on the borderline border-line of 'Germany, and show the French army In maneuvers and commanded by General Joffre, the head of the allied al-lied forces. Despite, however, the realistic depictions of rival forces, and the faot that the story depends for Ub element of dramatlo interest' upon the love of a German officer for a French girl, the producers have been able to circumfvent any possibility for offense or prejudice. In whatever direction di-rection their sympathies may lie, those who see tho drama will bo sure that they will not suffer a shock. One of the moat interesting of the scones, presents a huge Zeppelin, fully prepared pre-pared to go into action. Other scenes show troops advancing under heavy fire, squads of artillery men, maneuvering maneu-vering a machine gun into position, andv the actual action of this death-dealing death-dealing device. The picture is unique also in that it plays upon the harpstrings of sentiment, senti-ment, rather than upon the mainsprings main-springs of terror. There is little if any, of tho knock-down-drag-out horror hor-ror of war in which so many similar pictures seem to rovel. Rather, there are beautiful environments, exquisite episodes of true romance, and a wonderful won-derful lesson in self-abnegation. "The Crimson Wing" gives us an-other an-other side of Europe's holocaust, and again ovidonces the screen sensitiveness sensitive-ness to the human incidents of life. |
