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Show LITTLE YARNS ABOUT FILMS, STARS, PLAYS AND LIFE IN MOVIES i . . By JAMFS YV DE.AV NEW YORK. July 29 The photo-dramatization photo-dramatization of Washington Irving' ' I-egend of Sleepy Hollow." will assume as-sume any analytic attitude toward tho movies. Th director of the picture never befora lias directed it picture. He Is ISdward Venlurlni, architect deslgn-1 deslgn-1 i" nnl interior ,. ( miilo! Mis hm-Lstant hm-Lstant Is Wnrrcn Fromme, who also hU wielded a megaphone Will Kogers, the central rhararter wlll be the only ono In the cast with extensive experience before the enm-Loi enm-Loi Meredith, Hen Hendricks, Jr., Nancy Cfre.se and others in the . aet are experienced tngo players, but lllUll 1 IW' ,;"' "r n" Iralnlni In sere, n work Carl Stearns, producer, selected a dlre( tor and casi because he believed a more artistic result would be achieved, achiev-ed, that nn experienced director would inject much of the hokum that Is r -!. nt In many films because so many j lj directors manufacture all their photoplays photo-plays from tho same Ingredients in tho Same proportions. This experiment mav result In nn - tiyilc film if Vcnturlnl in seeking to bun original ideas to tho screen recognises rec-ognises the limitations of the camera: cam-era: There Is less doubt about the effl- a y of employing green piayera They Btand bettor chai showing some inspiration In their work. Betty Compaon, Thomas Melghon, l.on Chancy. Joseph Dowling and oth-.:,,. oth-.:,,. r.-, w h" iippiaied In The 'Miracle I i, J' tj Alan" have never since equalled the work they did In that film. They were n-w. comparatively speaking to the ! '.')' . v rk They were enthusiastic, inspired by I the opportunity to act. Since they) have beeii rocognl;.od as great play- i its, mcy merely OCI. Will Rogers, although a screen veteran, vet-eran, will probably nut appear out of place In a cast of new players. The secret of his success on stage and s roe 1 1 Is an assumed gulh--m-s;. an attitude at-titude of being new in his work and not acquainted with what Is expected c' hi m. Rogers has decided he would rather play tor the dead ones. I ba e Qei I t ) el l en clven a word of praise irom a living author whoso characters I have brought to life on the screen," he said recently. "Ono gf 'em I knew well 1 haven t seen hide nor hair of since I did one of his pictures. pic-tures. "Hereafter 1 II appear In works of lead anther., all hough I've heard Will Hl Shakespeare turned over in his grave when he heard 1 appeared in 'Doubling if, lor Romeo.' "Now I understand since I'm playing play-ing lchahod Crane for Washington Ir- , Ning that descendants of the original , lchahod aro living and I suppose I II j bo trailed by some Crane person and nj'j men i 11 become crow bait." W The impression of Ichabod Crano gained by school children is generally Of an elongated, angular, emarlated dolt. Thus it may be. u.rd to conceive Will Rogers In that role. Rogers is not elongated However, nonr ran say ho Is not angular and he can readily affect emaciation. He ought to do. An Interesting note on the produc-i produc-i r, y ' "f "The Vol'-e !"n,i:i the .Minaret." I i j 'arring Norma Tn I run-e l.ivingstri-, l.ivingstri-, l ies representing a tableau in a Uom-I bay garden will present MacMonlcs "Bacchante, n Thorwaicsens "The II II Hi I Three Graces" tUr. i.n,. - J" ''"' Proup Of dane. r- CLOSE-UPS Ijirr Slx riders on horses leap 30 fuet f.Uh lrom a oridge into a river In 'When H H Knighthood Was in Flower" Lionel Barrymore Is to be starred In "The Face in the Fog." Alan Crosland I J direct, Seena i wen will be lead ing lady . ih?60!-3 CarPontlp'. Prlr.eflghtlng Idol of Europe, has surprised the pro-fll pro-fll ''ucers of his new starring movie with us film sense." a London corres-HWj corres-HWj pondent informs me. rvii,K'lm sIonfr" ls a new attribute of Payers. It is rather vague in mean- Ing hut in the rase of Cnrpentler It prol ably implies he has forgotten ho Is a prizefighter when he is before the camera us a nobleman The term might have u more specific meaning applied to miroe of iur American players. And to dlr.i-tors. dlr.i-tors. too. It Is probably a lack of film sense that results In some of our actresses rigging themselves up like specters of a rarebit night mai n, others overplaying their parts and directors and producer! adding bunk-to bunk-to gain footage Lack of film sense may cover a multitude of sin ot omission Carpentlor's picture is based on an adaptation b Andrew Soutar of "My Lady April, a novel by John Overton. He plays a dual role, a nobleman s grandson and a boxing gypsy. The picture Is DOW nearlng completion com-pletion More than 600 appear in the least. Flora Ij Hreton ls the heroine. Bh( had the rule role in "La I'oupse" and appeared as the companion to the heroine of Th Glorious Adv-n-ture" In which Lady Diana Manners irai starred Mar) lnre also hns an Important role. She recently appeared on the London stage as the Dark Lady of the Sonnets In Oemence Dane's Will Shakeopeere'1 nnd also In Galsworthy's Gals-worthy's 'Tho Skin Qabe." J Stuart Ulackton. tho producer has Included In the cast many ofi those who appeared In The glorious adventure." Among them WiHiami Luff who was King 'harms II anl Rosalie Heath who was Queen Cath-j erlno. Lloyd Brown l credited with having hav-ing Invented n n.w color process fori motion pictures He hna been working work-ing on it tour years I Hollywood laboratories lab-oratories I'ntll.'r nlhd, rutnnmmmmm n,,.l I one Is not based on chemical develop-! ment Brown's process Uee in an arrange-rnenl arrange-rnenl of photography and projection.1! A double -lensed camera Is used 10 photogrnrdi through red nnd green color fillers. wo exposures Deing se-1 cured simultaneously These are1 printed in black and white on the! film, hut thai In turn Is projected upon the screen through rolor filters. The film uses ft Images to the foot, arranged side by side. Instead of the usual lfi images- The running lime of tho tllta Is half that of th-j ordinary film. The movies continue fo make appreciable ap-preciable and visible Inroads upon i the popularity of the Mage William i Fox has leased for the coming winter win-ter two of the most Important Shu- I lert theaters In New York, tho Lvrlc i nnd the -141 h gtreel Such feature t films as -'Nero.' A I ltte Child Shall Lend Them " Monte Cristo." "if Winter Win-ter I'orns." "The Town That Forgot God' ond "The Shepherd King" will f have extended runs. 1 THE BCOl iKTonir.M Harold Lloyds Grandma's Boy" has been running nine weeks at a Los Angeles theatre. Ijeah Balrd and her company have gone to South America for scenes of her next film. t'h huh another title ehange. "Captain "Cap-tain Blackbird" will now bo known as "Passions of the Sea." m a Fifteen lions ar.d tigers will support sup-port Billy Bevan In When Summer, Comes." the next Sennett comedy. Burton King has started production produc-tion of -The Streets of ew York" i which was made about ten years ag, in three reels. The cast of' the new version Includes Tyrone Rower. Ko-munci Ko-munci Breeae Sheldon rwis. Virginia Vir-ginia Poarson. Kober' Frazer, Virginia Vir-ginia Lee and Kate Blancke I An hour with Tony Sarg la likw an jhour of Alice's wonderland, like ono precious hour snatched from a chl!d-'hood chl!d-'hood long since pest. ; Whn I called on him the other day fin his Greenwich village workshop ho Was hard at work, sleeves rolled up. .drawing a donke's head on a sheet Of paper. I Before him were several figures cut out of black pasteboard. They wero I finished puppets that supply tho action ac-tion for his movie Almanac. In a rear room there deemed to be mueh merriment Marionettes wer moving about on a miniature ntAgt and hidden volees were speaking their line. A rehearsal was being held for a puppet nhow. The rompnny had been nt work all day just as asslduouslv a- If they were to appear before thfl footlights. On one board a pointing. n another, an-other, nn unfinished magazine llluMi.i-tlon llluMi.i-tlon On top of a dek a toy COtUMfA, ono of thoso affairs that tell ch.ingeM in weatner by changes in color of the figure's drea.i. Noarbv. two little figures fig-ures on a box Wind tho key and muNle plays and tho figures danc itlme to It. At hr1 a small bov with a smnll boys' interexi in mechanical Os, In mind a mature philosopher that' Tony Sarg. i Illustrator, puppet maker, toymakcr. enrtoonlst. film producer and writer Sarg la HI of those nnd it would bo difficult to say In which of the.-e pursuits pur-suits he ha6 gained his greatest success. suc-cess. Ah, you Bay, a born genius' M.iy Dl but like geniuses In nil fields of endeavor Sarx h .m become rocornlzed as one through hard work. Me ha-never ha-never hSd loaeher Hnd started to eurn his living, such as It was, throng. his Illustrations when IS Kven today hr works IS hours diy Sug's UCOeea Is largely (hie to his ability to sense little situations nnd experiences common to thousands T try to Illustrate In my movies something th.it win maks people say, 'h that's just what happened ' me" Hurg told me. T use prehistoric figures, thus implying that nil of our pet little annoyances have gone on for centuries "Thus the first of my new series of movie are The First FJlWej 1 'The First Degree and The First Earbci Shop "The first flivver had stono wheel-and wheel-and snakes for tlree. When the snakes ate they had uneven place In them l"en bumps on the prehistoric road were I mod on tire trouble 'The First Degree' will appeal to everyone who hos ever Joined secret order." A common misapprehension among movie f,nS Is that tho figures In Sarg's almanac move my means of strings In the same m.-inner no lit . o iSarg ihOWed me bow they arc m.t,il;.-I m.t,il;.-I ulated Tho Jointed figures are placed on a Hat board beneath a camera BSach more is a separate chototrrapfa th larm, hand or leg being rhdved one. lelxteenth of that particular move-Imenl move-Imenl for .arh photograph Thai is. II od soe a hand move from hip to h?;id you see the result of 16 separate photographs l's,ng pusteboard puppets Sarg U enabled to havo tw or more figures moving simultaneously nnd each or them moving sevor.il p.-irts of Its bod Sarg says to gain the same effe. two of his men gain In one da would require five years work on the part of the two men making an animated cartoon. In an animated cartoon only one figure move at a time a.s a general ml. and then move onlv one part of t be i.ody. Tho biggest fi9h story over told In the niovlow will be Down to tho Sea in Ships." scenes for Which have Just heen completed by Klmer Clifton The story confers about the romance of tho whaling Industry That WH onco the backbone of American Industry, In-dustry, but now is little followed. Th first railroads, the first cotton mills, ihe flrnt systems of flnanc , tr-f-flrat commercial projects that made New England a thriving mercantile center were made possible by tho old sailing schooners that wont to set and brought back the oil and bone nnd crdlgr1s of whales Clifton has Just completed the Innd scenes at New Bedford, Mass.. a place still rirh In the joro of the sea. The whaling scenes wero taken In th-- Caribbean Car-ibbean sea. i no wnaie caught for the purposes of the picture was To feet long the flukes of Its tall being 20 feet across. 'Its weigh; wa.s estimated at 100,000 Ipounls It yielded lOO barrels of oil I These figure sound big. but I believe be-lieve them. I have seen take? Df the .film In which Raymond kfcKee hero of the picture, is standing olongsid-the olongsid-the flukes of th wba'e lie i8 nearly six feot tall and the flukes nre three times as wide as he Is tall. ; I Whales have peculiar habits. They call their mate by striking the wutor With thel-- tails the.s- are horizontal to tho body and not perpendicular like that Of a fih nfti t V . r 't the rabbit drummlnK the around or the s .partrldgw booming Its wings. , When whale ls harpooned It In-- In-- arlably breaches, that Is, takes a nose dive Then it Is likely to plow through the water at a great rato of speed Those In the hrrpooner's boat are then treated to what the old salts call the "Mtentuckel tieigh ride." A whale's mouth Is cavernous, but his esophagus Is email. A New Bedford Bed-ford minister ls sponsor for the truth ,ol a story that a whaling captain was sucked Into tho mouth of a whale .nftn-n .nftn-n bout had boon bitten In two and then ,powed forth unsiratched since the imonster could not swallow all of the crew t one time. Recently there was printed in theai columns an Item telling of the invention inven-tion of a device employing the hydrostatic hydro-static principle to nilow cameramen at jsoa to take pictures Unaffected by the roll of the waves, Clifton employed a novel makeshift ito gain the snme end In taking scones of "Down to tho Sea In Ships" He ironlnved u stabilizing tripod by uBlnK jtho universal Joint of an automobile and severnj hundred pounds of cement ce-ment to balance the pitch of the boat Although this sea story will bo told In 12 reels It will eonfaln only natural na-tural settings, not one of them being Inken in a studio Civic organizations of New Bedford and of the state of Maesachueetts have cooperated with Clifton In his research for data and costuming. Marguerite Courtot plays opposite McKce. AT PHTTDIO KKYHOIyEfl. Forrest Stanley will bo leading man jln "The Pride of Pulomar" to be directed di-rected by Frank Bonage One hundred Pocifl. roast society women nre appearing as extras at j $ 1 0 a day in 1 Olmine " Owen Moore will be supported by Kathryn Perry (Mrs. Moore ) In "Love Is An Awful Thing " Marjorle Daw is loading woman. Iols Wilson has been borrowed from Paramount to play a principal rolo In "Broad Daylight" Jack Mulhall is leading man. O temporal mores' How you do . hange In movies' unce upon a time Thoda Bara caused long yueues to otrlng out from ihcuiro box offices and mothers to lecture daughters about attending at-tending those horrid vamp films and the w. k. T B Ms. to got a thrill or two from tho Jumping flickers. And now" Betelle Taylor essays to fill the role that was Theda'e In ' Fool There Was ' The result is ennui Although the new version of tho old vampire thcrre demonstrates the great technical Improvements made in motion pictures. It In no other way shows any advance over the old film , Indeed, Theda Bara possessed personality. per-sonality. And Ksteile Taylor Is entirely en-tirely lacking In that quality. A film story would require a stronger magnet mag-net than she to draw such s strong character as Lewis Stone from th-bosom th-bosom of his family to the satisfaction satisfac-tion of a palpitating public. Miss Taylor U ablo to move her eyes from left to right and from riRht to left and there her ability to ucl stops. That ls rhe chlel reason f,Jr tho new version of "A Fool Thor.? Wa-S" being unnbic to rise above tho ruck of mediocrity. The ralson d'etre of such a story Is a woman's power over man When this power Is not ehown, the story Is u neon vlnolng. To name one actress as the best on the screen probably would occasion considerable controversy, but after seeing see-ing the work of Irene Rich in "One Clear Call" 'and "A Fool There was," I believe no other nctres.s of the screen Is her equal. Irene Rich has a face that refleris truly and sincerely the emotions of tho heart. She has a heart that responds to the situation of Ihe character she portrays. Tho remit Is a perfect sympathy sym-pathy of player with vhe character enacted en-acted a realism attained in a great, r degree than that attained by any other feminine player of the screen. Iren" Rich meets the crises of film ncinm m me sarae manner ono would expect a sincere, n6ble woman to meet SUCh crises in real life When mlmcry match OS life, perfection of acting Is attained. at-tained. Violet Merserau. reeentlv returned from Europe, was teliinc the ..th. r da-how da-how Hon scenes were taken for "Nero" In which she had a leadlnc part. J. Gordon Edwards had rented the !JfJP beasts that h.d appeared In 'Theodora " .r.'.T na ncfrl Hke whipped dogs " Miss Mi ;rau mW. ' Their . v perlonci n The. lora' hnd completely tame, them lr Edwards had to stop pro- luetion md wend for some fiercer an- a. C - Ixnall from the H.-fgonbeek collection."' The lions are not unlike some hu- l man players. Th. do their best work - In their first pictures. Their later plc-t plc-t ture show lack of enthusiasm. CUTS AND FLASHES Rupert Hughes has devised a dlrec- tor's finder that enables him to see & scene exactly as It will appear through the camera lens. The camera fiLndi r used heretofore showed the Imoa j ' Inverted. Tom Forman will plav a leading rolo In oa well aa direct "White Shoulders " Starring Kathcrlne MacDonald, "Grandma's Boy." Harold Lloyd's last comedy, was booked In all foreign countries before Its general release jM America to foil film pirates who steal' prints and exhibit thoin in foreign countries before they are released through regular channels. David Imboden, new- Gobhvyn actor once Was a captain of the swlmmln ceams of Cornell .and Wisconsin um'-verslties um'-verslties and held many intercolleglai-swimmlng intercolleglai-swimmlng records. Ous Savllle who supports Mary Pick-ford Pick-ford In "Tes9 of tho storm Country " rJri ,ftnw boen act,n 48 reare l-orrest Robinson, also in tho cast has been an actor 4 7 years. |