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Show 1 j: Ml LWS jn -j - yv ERY Tow porsons who look l - at movIn5 Picture playa jjjl '- A "T' ever stop to analyze them, gl They watch the unfolding j 01 th0 story- fllow to I yJ Its conclusion with little II y knowledge of tho quality IJJ liat malccs t either a If' great picture or a failure. Mi If they arc pleased thoy leave the theater M with a slow, of satlflfactlon. If thoy aro distal dis-tal pleased, thoy go away with n menial Bad tasto whloh thoy cannot explain. Thoy aro seldom Mi ablo to put tho flngors of their mind on tho epot that pleased or displeased them. Thoro Is Just ono thing that makes any plc-W plc-W turo great. This Is tho powor of tho story to In play on tho sympathies of tho spectators. Hj Ask any director, any player, what lo tho B most Important thing to any film and thoy will B! answer, "The punch," which Is studio slang ror IJj heart Interest, heart throbs, the things that Hi Btlr the mind and souL BKI ' Ask tho samo director and the same playor jfl , what 1b tho mqst dlltlcult thing to put In a fljl' picture and tholr answer will bo tho game nil No matter how great' the star, or how olab- llfil orato tho production, 6r how much money Is Hi Bpont on a film, without thlB subtle quality the 1 1 111 wholo thing la flat and unprofitable. l It Is nne to see the villain reform, good to I ji know that tho vampire has made a great sticrl- jjii flco and will lead a sinless life hereafter, but ! jfc situations that nrlso from tho machinations ol lll'l no kat pcoplo of tho story do not grip the fllifc heart and make it throb with aH much sympa- I! II thy or stir tho feelings to as groat a depth at i ll devotion of sweothcarto, tho lovo of i HI I mother for her child, tho loyalty of a frlond ill or ne faithfulness of a tender wife, lll'l Whcrovcr or howovor tho heart throb Is pu niffl Into a picture It Is tho very core and essenci ii'H ' n0 thing, nnd without It no plctun Uvfl Is great or will ovor find favor with tho mil jfl lions of pcoplo who derive entertainment Iron Mm (he Alms, Sign your name, but give title to use In column. Address all queries to the Photoplay Photo-play Editor, care of this paper. MEXICO, MO., AND HOUSTON, TEX. Tho soqucl to The Diamond from the Sky Is being filmed now, and when' It is finished tho name of the prize winner will bo made known. OLLIE PARKER The episodes of the Grip of Evil released to date arc: (1) Fata. (2) The Underworld. (3) Tho Upper Ten. (4) Tho Looters. (5) The Way of a Woman. (0) Tho Hypocrites. (7) Tho Butterflies. (8) In Bohemia. Bo-hemia. (9) Tho Dollar Rings. (10) Down to tho Sea. (11) Mammon and Moloch. The Patho address Is 25 Wost Forty-fifth street, New York. Nell Craig Is 23: Joyce Fair, 11; John Junior, 26; Bryant Washburn, 27, and Henry Walthall, 38 years old. FRANCES AND MAHION Tully Marshall Is In hl8 late thirties, and hnu boon In pictures pic-tures about a year. Ho can bo addressed In care of tho Triangle Corp., Hollywood, Cal. EarlG Fox Is with the Famous Players, 128 West Fifty-sixth street, New York. They will probably send you tholr pictures, " ST. LOUIS Yale Benner Is with Edison; Marguorlto Nichols, Balboa; Edna Good-i Good-i rich, Moroscoi Crolghton Halo, Frank Powell i Productions. Inc. Liberty Is not finished yet, but those are the chapters that have been rc- leased: (1) Fangs of tho Wolf. (2) Riding with Death. (3) American Blood. (4) Dead or : Alive. (5) Lovo and, War. (6) Tho Desert of f Lost Souls. i pAPTAIN C Wrlto to Franklin Ritchie. In i caro of tho Triangle Corp,, Hollywood, Cal.. i Inclosing the usual quartor for his plcturo, uild ho will probably send It to you. 1 TWJ D. Tho Consolidated Film Corporation Is o . exploiting Tho Crimson Stain Mystery, o but wo do not know that thoy aro In the mar-- mar-- kot for moro sconarlos. Perhaps you had bct-a bct-a tcr write to them at 1482 Broadway, N. Y., to see If they can ubo your play. Director Picks Movie Star Out of Stage Play SOME three years or more ago a young man, blond of hair and ongaglng of manner, was playing a part In Indian Summer, n nearly forgotten for-gotten play, by Augustus Thomas. In tho audlcnco sat Frank Powell, then a director tor Patho. Immediately tho curtain rang down, Mr. Powell mado his way back stage and asked for tho young actor, whoso namo was Crolghton Halo. "Have you over been In ploturesY" Halo was asked. "Not enough to have- anybody find It out," ho replied. "Woll, hero Is where you start," said Mr. Powell. "I'm of the opinion that before long many peoplo will find It out." And tho pooplo have found It out. For Crolghton Halo of tho Frank Powell Productions, Produc-tions, Incorporated, la known to plcturo lovers In every country whero Mima aro shown. Dorothy Hirsh. a Belle. MISS DOROTHY HIRSH of the Universal studios, In Universal City, Cal., is shown hero wearing a dress that looks very much Hko a movie costume but iC Is not. Tho plcturo players work hard, but all of their time Is not taken up with posing before tho camera. Now and then thoy all got together to-gether and havo tho time of their Uvea, forgetting for-getting all about tho director's megaphone, and tho hidden papors. and Jumping off or bridges," and other movlo things of a llko character. Tho striking Egyptian coatumo which Miss HIrflh adorns, as much as It sots, her ofT, was worn at a bal masquo held In Lotf Angeles recently by the players' colony, and which was attended by many dozens of players, movlo magnates and others interested In tho making of movlnc nlctures. ' |
