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Show Jgi Tpws film reviews L I d Fair Comments on Latest Produc-WPk Produc-WPk antions From Moving Picture j Studios the screen version ol IHl" ,t 4'BB i,ai Ichabod Crane ftB1 , r,- Will 1:0c m sR''t'ilnk bark over the K :.--r , 111! . - Bfuv How ' , - ocith. r in Imag- i I I K moment of the ' m' .. : H '; v - ; ,!Z h rone as you watch lBn'l.nL- Kv II Rogers a 10 flc a ; fal l.- Wl K ' I ' i in Ken ' itfn hLJ bouncing up and (3 wn on L, 1 . Ml R.' ftu' I 1 V- fc-rv Kati 111:1 r n , mi 1 1 in- n : K jJ.-aJ ,vs llnr: I.. I! by E'I.t I Yen! irini - n v- ICI itOT- 1 ' '"! Eorv 01 ' 1 J if he v. ' n won! la Kd1 from tin Hn fl Ktldsm -tali" Is thai I Hhe KTf n :i" - !"'n fto bti ,r. 1 ion Is to 5' i 1. I pi . until 1 In-- pur- " rf'l 1 ' spi - ft 1 r' r. E Ta irk.. Tourr.eur Is th I Bf pictori : I 1 Bhave b.-i n s I...-1 ii' f ul .. - 'i..- U" n II rer Hh ' bnd a dog tin-" B'n twillRl alar6' a m '" Kr terru;''1 -w; '' 1 ! W1'. . ;. t&W; n - . Miss Bellamy has an air of innn- I jjcent sweetness that makes liei at-1 tractive. If she has mimetic ability iTournefir failed to bring it out Frankj fjKeenan, on the otlier hand, knows r how to talk with his face. He was; very effective as Sir Ensor Doone. ! 1 An announcement from the Larry; ' Seinon studio says he is poing to do' ' a slap-stick comedy with a general store of a trading settlement as a I background. He was Impressed sey- oral years ago with thu possibilities j nf a comedy in a general stove, ite.l ' should have been Impressed long be-1 ' fore that. Some of the earliest films! jwcre cracker-barrel comedies. I The statement continues. "His aim 1 ' . is to exaggerate life happenings and magnify them to such an extent that iihev are funny without becoming overdrawn." over-drawn." Rather paradoxical The Ireason Semon has not become one of I the great comedians f the screen Is In cause he has not presented situations situa-tions that might find a counterpart in the 1 xperletocca of those who see ills, films. PAN PARE. "The Sheik" ran for IS weeks in a theatre at Sydney, Australia. All of the old prints of the screen version of "Oliver Twist." made eipht yea'rs ago with Marie Doro as lii-r 1 land Nat Goodwin as Fagin. have been destroyed by the producers of the new I vers! dp -t.irrlncr Jackie I'oogan. It: COBt K0.000 to do this to prevent their release when the new picture Is exhibited. ex-hibited. 'I Robert BtllB will be Dorothy Dal-1 ton's badlftg man In "Black Fury." 1 Barbara IiMar, who promises to 'become famous through her vamp 'role in "Trlflinj: Women." was once I la scenario wrltor. " Catherine Calvert is now appearing I in British films. The man who plays the part ofj Gollatn In J. Gordon Edwards' pro-' duction of "The Shepherd King" is1 seven feet eight Inches tall. ! ... ; Mabel Julienne Scott. June Bivldge and David Tor re nee hwve the leading' roles In the picturlzatlon of "The Bower of a Be." by Johann Bojer. u Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to lift Marion Da vies j to a place of prominence in the film ! world earned by other stars on the I 1 merit of their acting nd popular ap- j peal, 1 And she earns it all in "When 'Knighthood Was In Blower." Had she been restricted to mere pic-it pic-it ure posing as she was in previous I films, this photoplay would have been a wastage of the million dollars and jmoro it cost to produce But In this she is cntit as Mary Tu-dor. Tu-dor. Lyn Harding is Henry VIII. a part he has played 200 timrs. Every I member of the cast Is qualified for 'their respective parts. Flora Finch, ono of the most capable actresses that ver graced the screen, has a small ibit as a lady-ln-waiting. Thus the star of the picture met the 'crisis of her motion picture career. 'She had to measure up to her supporting support-ing cast or be forever doomed as a figure In the cinema world. The most thrilling feature Of the film to me wa-the wa-the way sue n.et that crisis. She wa.-i the most capable player In the cast. Bt-auty i-t a difficult obstacle for a woman t6 overcome. If sin- has beauty, beau-ty, little else Is expected of her. If -In- M-ov.s ability in :.omc parlicular endeavor her success is attributed to h( p beauty. Her energy is discounted. It may bo that the mimetic ability of Marion Da vies has been clouded In former for-mer films by the efforts ol heif best friends to Impress the world with her pulchritude. Berhaps Flora lnjh is a great aet-rr aet-rr -s because she is not beautiful. Not having the burden o; beauty lo carry she Uu.i nn . iter energy to act. It Is doubtful If Charlie Ohaplln is a bet- I I P pantomimlst than the jate John Bunny was. Chaplin was not at the Him- In which the com -dies of both were being exhibited. And Flora Finch's personality was never sub-no sub-no 1 1 by that of Bunny in their films. The personalities of young and pretty leading ladles of th - other prominent film comedians have been almost completely obscured because nothing but beauty has been expected of them. ... It has been pointed out here before be-fore ih it some producers follow the custom of showing their weaker products pro-ducts In other cities before exhibiting them in New York. That, because they believe New York reviews have an important bearing on the success of the films outside New York and they do nut want unfavorable reviews to precede the exhibition of the pic-ture. pic-ture. s Usually D. W. Griffith has pnoUgfe confidence In his pictures and in his reputation for producing succi ssful pictures to brave any reviews that t isrbt be Sen) ahead of the pictures. I He is exhibiting "One Exciting Night" in Boston and some smaller New England towns before bringing it to New York. A Boston correspondent writes me, "Griffith has put one big storm scene In -one Exciting Night' which Is more thrilling than tin- ice rush in 'Way Down East.' Except for that oni sequence, se-quence, the film is disappointing The comedy and the melodrama commonplace com-monplace no. not ju.it that. J should say. It Is burlesque It Is not up lo Griffith s standard or to the accepted standard of what movies should con-trln." con-trln." THE MO Hi' i:n M Exteriors for "Back Home .ind Broke." starring Thomas Melghan. will be taken at Sag Harbor, Bong island. is-land. ' i Harry More? will be a South Sa Island Is-land skipper in "The I'asslon Vine." ,to be filmed by RCS Ingram In Florida. Ralph Graves and Qeorg Nichols support Edith Roberts In the film version ver-sion of "The Ghost Patrol," by s:n-clair s:n-clair Bewls . Milton Sills copied his make-up for the crook rol.J he plays In "Skin Deep" from a roj.'Ui .' galb-ry in the penitentiary peni-tentiary at Qiientln. Grlm- lsagi.d as one of the 1-our Horsemen, his disposition curdled by ; some gnawing disappointment, a pa-I pa-I in tn il;ure for whom the joy QJ 111 had sputtered and gone out. I Or perhaps you've thought oi Buster Bus-ter Keatqn, off-screen, as having bi on I horribly frightened by some mon-' mon-' stroslty when a child, thoroughly land completely chilled that ho hus been unable to smile sim e. Well, Buster has .iunt been lure. Xtting on my desh. his foi t dangling S ifoot from the floor, his head thrown I back in ono of the heartiest laugh" 1 . i r heard. . '-Say. Buster. Ju.'t hold that smile until I get Bob Dorman. our photographer, photog-rapher, to take a snap of you," l j "Not on your tin-type." U ills LONGEST SPEECH. "Business," Buster answered. lb-arned not to sinlb- when I was on 'the stage with my father. He taught me that whenever a comedian sml es he bus his audience smiling with nun and not at him If they don't smlle it you, you're not funny. I "Many people who have seen me only In " pictures think only of me as a man who never smiles. A smiling photograph would destroy that iilu- sion " - , That's just about the longest peeeh BUSt r ever made in his life. He is Ultle given to words. Buster nas that same humility, that same diffidence of manner th a Is characteristic of Chaplin and Bloyd. We stepped into a crowded elevator ele-vator to go to the roof to look out over Manhattan. Keaton was just ai.out the most inconspicuous figure in that elevator. He Is shorter and slenderer than Chaplin. I once spent the greater part of a day with Chaplin and it seemed to m that he was unhappy out pi his tramp character that he felt unmasked, un-masked, unprotected without his ragged rag-ged pants and spindly cane. There seemed to be something of that atmosphere about Kenton., Hej hung behind, being generally the last, to pass through ft door. You feel that In some way you arc his protect pro-tect or .that having stepped out of the garments that are part of himself ho needs a buffer against the workaday v orld. Then we were on the roof. 24 Pto-rl- i ahovM the street. Buster was himself then-. He scrambled up 00 the coping and lgan to tell Eddie Cllno, his director, what a wonderful place that would be to film a few startling gags for s coined:.. WHAT HADE HIM I- U .ll He was bui k in Hie studio atmosphere. atmo-sphere. He was well ablo to tako care of hlmoelf. 1 gathered up . -notion courage to scramble up on ithe coping with him I didn't stay long. If Bust. i had enoiiKh courage to play up there he didn't need any protection from me 'Wouldn't this be great for a shot pr two." ho whs saying as m ii-ibwed ii-ibwed oik foot and then the other to slip o-r the edge. - Tho Bush Ter minal and the Times Building In the background. That'd make 'em dizzy." It wus making me dizzy to watch him. We went below. ! Oh. yes! You want to know what he was laughing so heartily about. ;Cllne had just told him that In one j cllv the censors had ordered ail scenes showing ridicule of policemen In a comedy to be cut out. And Ijus-ter Ijus-ter recalled that his "Cops" was to I be released th'?' next week, if you've I sen "Cops" you'll know why he lauphed. Barbara EaMar and Gaston Glass have the leading roles in the film version of "The 11. ro." "Jewel," the Christian Science story which was filmed five years ago, h to be produced ajrain with Lois Weber acting as director. She Is now working work-ing on the script. mi "Tho Lion's Mouse." now being filmed in Holland. Is the first of a j series in which Wyndham Standing j will appear. William DcMllle lias done It again. Fie has taken a s-tage plar kept it into to detail In enlarging it for the screen and told tho story better than it was told in Its original form. Tho piny this time Is Booth Tarklngton's "Clarence." "Clar-ence." "Clarence'! Is also just about the best part Wallace Held has ever had. He proves in this that there is something some-thing more to him than the ordinary j qualities that make an actor a matin.- idol. I'ntn Barthelmesa and Valentino loomed big upon the screen Wally's chief appe;rf was in his good looks, His handsomeness oiscured his ability as an actor. .Many worshippers of masculine beauty having transferred their allegiance alle-giance to the newer luminaries, Held had to fall back on sheer ability to I hold his place among the topnotch j stai J Reid proves In "Clarence" that there will he a plao for him on the! screen when the years .shall have de-vasjatecl de-vasjatecl his herofc imalitli-s. He gets under the skin of Tarklngton's character charac-ter and lives there In full assumption of the qualities the author attributed to the 'Tea ture of his p. n. Having seen "Clarence" on the slagc It is easy to draw comparisons and to me ii stoma toe ppotopiay is better entertainment than tin- fOOtllght version. ver-sion. That, chiefly byause the screen embraces actions'! hat were merely Implied Im-plied on the stage. The scr.-i n always holds the advantage of a greater scope of action. The eye perceives more quickly and surely than the ear and thus the screen can and must crowd more material ma-terial into tin- same length of narration narra-tion that Is required by the stage, It requires a master story teller to transfer a Tarklngton story to the screen, for Tarklngton is as much a bull. I. -r of epigram as h,. is of ,iti..'i-tion. ,iti..'i-tion. Interest in his. plays g ua much in what is said as In what is don.-. DeMllle shows hims. lf )t finished craftsman In celluloid through his ability to make up in action whdt is lost in words. However, the film version of "Clarence" s generously Interlarded with subtitles. 0n can qnjoj them because they are taken verbatim from the dialogue of tno play. INEGB M - Marjorle Prevoat, sister of .Marie has a purt in "The Dangerous Age." A comedy drama is being written for the first starring vehicle for Phylll.-i Haver. Lewis 0. Stone Is a veteran of two wars. Wanda Hawley will be Wally Beld's leading lady in "Nobody's Money." "Ocean Swells." Neal Burns' next comedy Dorothy Dcvore Is starred In "Hazel From Holly wood," a Christie comedy satire. Kate Lester, the grand dame of the. films, has sign. .1 a long-term contract with Qoldwyn Two men walking In the moonlight. moon-light. Sounds of piano music. They stop to listen and to look. A cobbler's daughter is at the piano. She stops playing and Sighs to he-r the masUr play his composition. The. men eater, one plays !! coth-positien coth-positien she tias just been pkiyJng. Then he Wishes to make her sco the beautiful moonlight niui the t i p it glorifies. He composes as he plays. You all know thit as tho srv or Beethoven's Inspir it'.or In wrdlng tho "Moonlight Sonata." It !s .mown in pictures by Wm, T. Cresplnel. It furnishes one answer to the question what do the movies need ? Hero is a picture dramatic within! Itself yet it affords an opportunity to demonstrate just how much music supplements a film. However, those vhoe imagina-' tions are attuned to their ears will hardly appreciate thLi film, it visualises visual-ises what Is supposed lo have been in Beethoven's mind and whal a in the mind of the girl as he played for her. If ono Is given to closing one's eyes and seeking Interpretation of' musical motives, ono probably pictures pic-tures something more delicate, more. ethereal than the motion picture, camera can create. The big valu of such a film Is that it makes a dramatic Impression on the casual spectator, giving a little h sson in a fine art in such a way that the spectator is not likely to n l.ei at a presumption of his lgnor-1 ante. . . Arthur Elnkln told mi several wei Its ago that he was ready to commence com-mence the filming of biographical histories of the great composers and that the first In the series would he Beethoven, He planned, however, to embrace more than one Incident In Beethoven's life. - Elinor Qlyh's film story of movie life In Hollywood is ready for the public. It Mars Dorothy Phillips who is support, d by Kenneth Harlan and Bruce McHae. If any picture ever had proper atmosphere this one should Hollywooders playing Hollywood. ' ' Once the star was the thing In the movies. Then the story was the thing. I Now the . as: sci n is to be the thine. Perfect pictures may be made when all three elements are found In proper balance. the various producers and tho Irani:'- jfaijj fer of stars and. featured players afljla do. 191 tie of HH Toarle and Eugene O'Brien, 'former 9!S x - Hn Lyteil, WiM Cold- HH wyn star. In Paramount pictures. HjlH A fair example of what sort of ca--s wuBj HM of several producing companii to.. H en M a r g r 1 1 I I.a Motte. Cullen I.andis, Myrtle 11 HHH Gordon and AVard Crane. fyjjH The cast for Cecil DeMllle's next Kafaj unnnm.d. includes LVjBJ Milton Sills. Elliot Dexter, T)odore Igfjm Kosloff, Anna Q. Nllsson. Paul Gor- BSmI i. : : ; i ' . ' Pasha. fifoM S , jh Movies arc nol allowed In Philade'c WM phla on Sunday, "tlrandmaf HMH l;'' opened one minute after mi-U BHK : . Ircv |