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Show jjAHESW. DEAN'S FILM REVIEWS I E "rank and Fair Comments on Latest Produc-i Produc-i tions From Moving Picture I Studios BY .TA.MFS W DKAV NEW ViUK, i'i.! -Would that Etcns were nllve thai he might set' MVhiM" ;' .v i - i rain pass before K. in i u --r i-.n -f "' l Knrarniit" tlvy h.iv. in this film Hre is a photoplay that will go pln(j v .,Ja i,, the ioonn- Wh , til-..-.. ;" ' 11 M medium 01 :,,iisr'., fxpl"" By., U - II'-J ; Kvft 1 1 l-i ihnse who see It. Jackie jBgan becomes ''1 i' Twist for this Kratlon Tlioy are urn- :md the fifP w r of the projection was the frnt accompaniment f.ir :l.- I 'la; Kt ;n .-, i : r t i - -lark room for the .teevlcw given of the film, but weded no oiher emotional stima- Jfcon. The kick is in the film :rlcken -v.. i - 1 Known told Here, it Sqo w :. re;l with fli i l.r.. "'1 ! -'"!. 1 '" Mdlrf '. ! '' . ' Tvv 1M " rrjli::. .1 i-X He stuck to the book an.l th M Hjction of tlm photoplay is )-" 1 -ifcathe: than cwnnilati - e. iM.kcn.s Kased ' ii' l'1'' bo.. I. I faff-.r. ' ehara ters Kjj bf kf' in suspenpe whib- th--unes oT others were dealt with Eoyd followed that procedure Wk ph., , unique bit IHrectlng. HLlJevo that Jackie MW ha-. .it.-r roie th;. n he J in ' itten M'the intent of Riving full play to peculi.r tab.nl-. fkt course ill og part in "Hler t" Is Jackie's and h.. shows again IT ur.. i- ' of perception, cotni : .ithy with the part lplays. Hut bis ! u t is not dw to the diminution of other rob -Kn, Bill Sikes. Nancy. The Artful iger, Sowerberry. Mr. Bumble. Lhl Clay pole. Mrs. Forney. Toby kitt, Vr : : :.ow, Monks. t'hni-I t'hni-I Ktes, Mr. Griniwig and even Bill ' dog ; i. . i . i 1 1 " t regis! . p.-. r mi:-. V h. V! . so true ..a r. .. pp ir to tun t k led Into life from the pages of the V to parade before the camera. ie one hie .nin:i' or 'be film Ikes when 'I - ': ul" the floor of S j pah Clavpob- him who Kjr was.' The boys' e 's fill with Kas he looks up and con:.- .-Hhe .-Hhe does not know. Th-n wk "I guess she was a bad ur. Hyon Keel that b- ias in fa been stab-, Ho the heart Hpen anger t Ui i s and hi- Hch as h.. i ,.ib s to :rta, k the bul- 8o gen :, he acting that you that Ja,-'KK lived that nio-Ht, nio-Ht, that he took the s. nation a? jjEsonsl one. mm big laus-h , jkm behin.i sowerberry, the under-fr, under-fr, a miniature of the mournful! W to whom ho ha- hc--n appren-OgL appren-OgL Tn -ui -away I F'and Pto-. -), '..it witn . rept j Bning from it be walks solemnly fcwith hand-, piously fobPd l"-, I fUi, as IJLpver 9a v s to J6 the reaction to tl; pathos I I CIKEMAGRAMS. illiam s- , n r,, ),,- starred In fcture of .! w - do -i 'The of Soioio -n " fcnehc;. 1 the dog actor, was; k to New York to play In the pic-j tlon o' Aiberl Payson Terl ine'i LKDog." I I sh'.J i Bw cllmat. and so has been ship-! pBgck to th? :.or'hw.-i t-. e there. cast of the film version of "II iBr Cornea" Includes Ann Fo EKdy Tyh.i- Arthur Mrtcalf .. -Ed. Sy d l . I Hfiace Koli. as 1 1 , : I Plan) i'.;b y Hat- h Fortune f fi ' k the lity T;s. I i I i n 1 1 i n i - I become.; rctln.r pi. SI features w. m teen v. She knows bow t mot;,, ii with ii ve Morr.p-.- i of h. r lips, tdt, ttlKf! bead ami of be;-' Jw Two Flags"' fives her lb.- wl.fcoloi o HL bstnr fh or p i t p r I i , jflpf8 ur ' 1 1 " - K U&a's bater,.:..i HBp8 hav.. n. The su-ip.'n ip Is ,bu i Pe film will n.i . I Hbean Is lf;arr.tte. the daueb-, Hk' French 8!.,' Pnon and blank, te.l in 1 9? Frauc, her mot',, r p ,i, Uher a Ffcn -b soldi, r. o- T ment. Snubbed by him. Cigarette falls, in love with him 'twus over thus j and becomes his guardian angi I ! Through the Intrigue of n desert j j chief Yhtor is aentencjri to be shot . I Cigarette proves bis Innoconce, tides' across the desert with an Arab army in pursuit and wives In time to savo I I her loved one. ) The noe!ty of the story depends entirely on the Je blopment of Prti-cilla Prti-cilla Ioan's cbaraciet iatlon. Jnterost In the filjn is personal. jut as It is with many public speakers. Thou- sands wfto attend mass meelincs addressed ad-dressed by candidates for president. ' governor, senator or mayor go not, I to hear what they have to say so j ra'ucfl as to see what tho-y look like. "t'nder Two Flags" is worth while for the opportunity it gl es to look upon Priscllla Dean In her varying emotions Unlike a politician. Miss Dean doesn't look the same upon each a,,,.,. ....... . . . . I Here is news of Interest chiefly to I men. Wm, Fox has started a series j of educational films. Educational Fietures has started a Screen Graphic , I illustrating oddities in the news of I the dav. B. M Newman is back from the jungles of Africa with 80,000 feet of film of scones taken on a 7000 -milo! trip. He says he photographed every type of African wild life and made) j camera studies of 200 native trlbe-J. j This news Is of chief Interest to men because It deals with the ro-j nance of realities. Such fllnis as these, tho various news reel a lho Bruce scenlcs and the Path.- Kevl'ew are what take the men to the moUs. . Many women would ko unaccotatpa-nied unaccotatpa-nied to the movie theatre if only so- called feature films were shown . . THE mo E CH i n r.r.ov, A street more than a mile long bos: I been built at Hollywood for cenes of "Chicago Sul " Milton Sills. A)ee Lake. Ralph Lewis, Claire McDowell and Richard Headrick will be directed In the film by Irving Cummlnga. Frances Marion has completed a scenario of the lire of Lincoln. a Maurice Flynn will play opposite Mary Miles Minter In "Sacrifice." O C Getslnger, archaeological student, stu-dent, has mado a series of animated diagrams illustrating Biblical history.' According to him Noah built a pyramid pyra-mid instead of an ark to escape, the flood. The motion picture camera can catch a thought passing through 'the mind. j Lhet YVlthey said that as I chatted, with him between scenes of "Out- I cast," which he Is filming at the Paramount Para-mount studios at Long Island City. "Mental movement screens as well as physical movement," Withey said. Watch the players as tney nit across 4he screen. Frequently their actions seem irrelevant to the roles they are playing. That is because they are not thinking of the job they are doing. The camera betrays them. The picture pic-ture lacks realism." Withey said thul an actress in one picture he directed revealed to him j that she was very much in love with I her f ading man. The finished pic- I ture showed it At the time neither the leading man nur anyone else was ( aware that the young lady was In love With him. They were married several weeks later and are still living happily hap-pily together. on another occasion, Withey relates, an actress seimed very artificial in love scenes she enacted with her husband hus-band They were later divorced. "You can tell 'who love- whom' in the movies If you watch the screen close enough,"' said Withey. Elsie Ferguson was ready for one of the scenes of "uutcast." "Watch , her." eaid Withey, "then watch this scene closely when you seo the film. You will see that the camera sees everything and tells everything. It - lows though: and it shows character. With Miss Ferguson It shows more. It shows self-hypnosis, for as you watch her act you will see that she actually lives the lift- of the character the is portraying." 1 watched Miss Ferguson in that seen She seemed to be really living liv-ing her part. I shall wutch the film to aee if the camera shows it all. . V Withey has Introduced a novel scheme to achieve illusion in outcast." out-cast." He built a set to show a street scene. An enormous drop shows thfya street in perspective. A nummy taxi-cab taxi-cab smaller than the real thing stands at the point where the constructed street joins with the painted continuation continu-ation of the street. To give the illusion of distance Withey has hired midget-1 to appear at the taxi, ah They will appear as persons of normal height a block away when in truth they will be about 100 feet from the camera. This it the first time midgets have beeP used for this purpose In the movies. George Fltzmaurlce once dressed children as adults to gain the illusion of distance. The most interesting thing about the first gain.- of tho world series to me, aside from the marvelous catch made bv Bancroft, was the acting of Nick Altrook Here is a oantomiinlst who belongs in the movies. The only screen actor that comes to mind al present as a better pantomlmlst is Charlie Chaplin. Altrock's comedy Is sponlanooui.. Anyone who passes before him may become the instant object of his burlesque. bur-lesque. The best stunt done by Altrock was a burlesque of thc slow-motion movie. He went through the movements of a batter while Al Bchacht, his partn. r, ultched to liirn in slow motion. Cameramen Cam-eramen taking pictures of them at normal speed probably will pet . result re-sult much similar to that of slow-motion photography. V Monty Hanks is filming a satire on "Blood and Sand " He calls it "Flood and Sand." ' Broncho Billy" Anderson Ander-son Is producing another one called "Mud and Sand." Edward Knoblock is on the way to America to write new screen vehicles for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Piekford. . "The Four Horsemen" has become a mill stone around the neck ol Rex Ingram. Having created one of the greatest photoplays of all time he always al-ways must bear the burden of comparison com-parison with it in producing other pictures. pic-tures. By .this comparison "Trlfllnp Women." Wo-men." his latest, receives a low ratlns. Such comparison seems fair because Ingram patently has cut the cloth for his new film on the pattern of his blir success. Ingram wrote the story of "Trifling Women." It Is fraught with much of; thc atmosphere of the lban-z story. dealing with the romance of a pollu, and a fickle woman. Zaroda Is a crystal rrazer. Many prominent Parisians pay her court., chief among them l. Ing Haron dej Maupln, aged but foolish. When he: learns that Ivan, bis son, is also pay-. Ing court to Zareda and that she con-1 siders the advantages thc cradle holds; over the grave, he contrives to have tils son enlist Then he connives with a marquis to arrange for the son's de-I parture without a farewell with Zar-edi Zar-edi Zareda enmeshes Die marquis. I Maupln puts poison in the wine .up of the marquis when he finds that ho has unwittingly put a new obstacle In his pursuit of Zareds Zareda sends her pet ape and bin trainer to change the wine cups when she learns of de Maupln's plan. I j Maupln drinks the poison and dlos. Zareda marries the marquis. Ivan returns and learns of the j marriage. Zareda brings about a duel! between the marquis and Ivan, know-j lug that the latter Is the best swords-j mat) In Paris and wishing to ha tho wealth of the marquis and the affection affec-tion of Ivan. As the marquis Is cut down on the field of honor he sees Zareda take Ivan In her arms. The marquis arranges his own funeral, fu-neral, having a bag of stones plao d In his shroud. Zareda and P. an go to the tomb to place, a wreath of black orchids. The marquis removes It. , A codicil to the will provided that on the nigh of the funeral Zareda should go to a deserted tower. She arranges a tryst with Ivan there. As she primps before a mirror in, the tower she sees thc specter of her husband. Backing from the mirror she faints when he claps bis hand upon her shoulder. He drags her downstairs to a dungeon. Ivan arrives and hears her cries. He rushes to her aid and is met by the marquis who shoots him dead an l casts his body Into thy dungeon with Zareda. The avenger's strength fails He puts the Wreath of black ore bids up-I OB the door of the dungeon and falls' dead. That's a great story, just about the best vampire tale that the screen has' yet . aught Bui Ingram evidently was afraid of the silly censors. Do mado! that story the plot of a novel read by the author to bis daughter to teach' her a lesson in constancy. I That device also enabled Ingram tol Ideal with improbabilities that would hardly have been digestible bad they been presented as situations in real life. Yet why shouldn't the narrator of a film story be given the same license as that granted the author of written fiction? Barbara I .a Mar is effective as tho vampire in "Trifling Women," because she acts with restraint. It is my idea that selfcomposure is the most important im-portant factor In the business of adduction. ad-duction. None of the scrcon vamps of the old school ever lured me oe-cause oe-cause Diey were too frenzied, too nn-governed. nn-governed. But Barbara LaMar and Nlta Naldl w. ll. they're dltferent. Kamon Navarro, handsome hero of the film, will make considerable Inroads In-roads on the following of Buddy Valentino Val-entino after this film has been shown. He is a Mtt.-r actor than he was in Th" Prisoner of Z.-nda." Bi l l. REAL Ml A 60.000 candle-pow. r incandescent lamp has been invented for use in movie studios. The bulb Is 1 2 inches In diameter and I! inches high. The largest lamp now In use in studios Is an arc light of 100.000 candle-power. candle-power. Buster Kuaton's n t Will be in five reels. A stoker has a menial task on an ocean liner. He belongs down In the hold of the ship and lrvln Wlllat has had the good Judgment to keep him there oven if he la Jack Holt and the hero of "On tho High Seas." When the vessel catches fire Willat has tho captain tako charge of tho crew and direct the work of rescue. The stoker stays down where he bo-longs. bo-longs. It Is bis task to help keep the pumps going, not to becme the out-j standing figure In such a crisis. When all the passengers have been ' accounted for, the fireman and the stoker leave the hold. They stumble over a society girl who had been j missed in the check-up of passengers. They carry her to a leaky lifeboat und escape Thc rest of the story Is much llke many other sea stories that have been filmed. Tho fireman is a villain and Is disposed of and after varying f or- j tunes the girl and the hero nrc saved j and brought back to c iv ilization where j social conventions bar the progress Ol their romance, but it ends happily after af-ter all. as one is quite SUTO It will. Willat has done an unusual bit of work with this story. He leaves the hero out of the picture when he, doesn't belong In It. He allowed the varlOttB Characters to establish themselves them-selves as he unfolded the narrative. Thus the story Is not prefaced with a lot of i outage dovote.i t. explanatory subtitles and atmospheric scenes. The director had confidence in the ability of a camera to tell what It saw. Although the motion picture has advanced far beyond its Infancy lew uiri't iuis ii.nr icaiuaau u. i uev Insist on ottering it needless support In the way of poetic titles and scenes. If any proof were needed that th-camera th-camera Is fully able to stand on Us own legs and tell Us own story It Is furnished by the newsreel plot urea The best Instance of that Is furnished by the Patho News shots of the burning burn-ing of Smyrna Those pictures were exhibited in New York 15 days after the fire But more Interesting than the story of the enterprise of getting the pictures is the story told by the pictures. 'irat flames lick the skies, Billows of smoke form gigantic clouds. HQ lid -Ings crumble, idttie specks move along the distant shore. They are humans escaping the Inferno. Then close-ups showing them boarding the vessels of France and Italy, all of their belongings that they could salvQ., in l-ttle bundb s. and mother;! crying o r their babes. The camera saw all of that and is able to tall the world about it better than it can be told Ty words. Title writers could not make the story more dramatic. There's a big lesson in thc news-1 reels for the directors of dramatic photoplays. Florence Vldor is to be starred In I the film version of "Alice Adams" tc be made when she completes "Judith the Cooquerojr." ''A)ice Adajna" wor ! I be Pulitzer prize as the best Amort can novel of 1921. Booth Tarklngtor , wrote it. THE M II TORIl M "Song in the Dark" a story l Frahces Marion, will serve as a ve-, ve-, hlcle for Pola Negri. - Blllle Dove and Malcolm McOregor have the leading roles In "All thc i Brothers Were V aliant." filmed -from ,the Ben Ames Williams story. ... Jerome Storm Is directing John Gil-I Gil-I bert in "Truxton King." ' m The cast for "The Covered Wagon" Includes Ixds Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Ker-rigan, Charles ogle. Kthel Wales, Alan Hale, r.rnest Torronce, Tully Marshall, Guy Oliv er and John Fox. I ' ' Dropped In to say "hello" to Lea-trlco Lea-trlco Jov the other day and to tell her I liked her work In "Manslaughter.' "Man-slaughter.' There, on a stand In a battered silver frame, on qaper yellowed with 'age. was this little prayer: I "O God. help me to win. but. if in Thy Inscrutable wisdom Thou wiliest ; mc not to wm. then. O Cod, make Die B good loser!" I She has read that little placard '.very day for the past five years, she told me. It helps her over the rough places. j "Onco I had just finished my part I In a small comedy w hen I received word that a certain director wanted ! to see me," she said. "1 hurried out to his studio only to find that ten , minutes before I arrived lie had glv.n a big role In a feature plcturo : to another girl. I "That wan Just about the biggest I disappointment I had had. 1 was : crying when T got back to my room but when 1 read- Diat little prayer I I quit . rvlng. I knew another chance would come some day." The cmance evidently came, for I Beatrice recently refused the feature i role In a big production because she I felt that It wasn't appropriate for her. Now she has started in th picturlsatlon of "Ja' a Head." Leatrlce Joy. following h r present course, Is he;., lei .--tralght and surety for the starry heights of fllmdoin She has beauty, ambition, sincerity and. more important, a sense of humor. Her work she takes seriously, her Success lightly. If mention Is made of good work she hns done In a film. She is very likely to dismiss It with some frivolous remark, such as "Ctce, ain't It great to be famous." After saying good-by to Leatrlce ami her mother, l slopped at the ; studio f Arthur zmuin ami Seymour Stone, the portrait painter. Zlnkln has bean Working for more than a year on details for the production of a series of two-reel films which will furnish blogruphlcal romances of the great musicians. Tho films are to i.o accompanied with musical scores arranged from the works of the respective re-spective 'compose rs, He is :ady to start Immediately; with the production of the film deal-; ling with Beethoven. Thu9 when ho pictures th" memorable story of tho origin or the "Moonlight Sonata." I musicians of the theatre win play I ths i composition, I Stone, who has painted the por-, por-, traits of rOuropean royalty and many , prominent Americans, will work out :tho scenic effects of the films. The ! musical scores will be arranged by Claience Adh-r, pianist i "i believe this series of films will ! do much for the musical education , of the masses." Zlnkln told me. I "Many who go to the picture shows Would not go to hear a program of ' classical music There Is enough drama In the irves of the great musi-'l I clans to make the film stories in- 1 foresting without musical accompaniment accompani-ment "When more people come to know the romance in back of some compositions com-positions their Interest In good music will be stimulated. Hearing these compositions at the same time that the story of the composer Is told on thc screen will familiarize -.ni audience with tho music of the .re-1 spectlve composers " Following tiie pereeqin? -f r j of Beethoven, Zlnkin will film stories dealing with Huydn. sfozart, Scnu-i mann, Chopin and others. Just saw T.m Melghan. He may back In Hollywood by the time this BVJ Is printed. He's the champion trar.-'- HJ continental commuter of America: HBV That's because the producers keep him HVH nla studios. Railroads could bsvo much paper mm IJ m-.yu bed him commutation punch HHH . . MVJ Pom could save money If he'd get H a Job as brakeman and make pictures H on the lay-overs. BHJ |