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i Future Fortunes
of the Films
! Where Past Performances
j Give Assurance of
I Coming Triumphs.
The Eye of the Comervative
I Opening to the Aid the Motion Pic-
1 turo Can Give in the Advancement
1 of Art and Science.
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t4 Everyone sees a wonderful future in
I Store for the motion picture, but not
I everyone estimates that future by the
H extraordinary record already achieved
H in the advancement and improvement
H pf motion picture methods.
H A. better calculation can be made of
W -what we may expect in this held with-
B in the next ten years by a brief review
W of some of the progress made during
J the past decade, or less than a decade,
Bl for it is only about five years ago
H when motion pictures were a noclty
to the majority of the public. There
Sj are many people to-da . the best peo-
4 pie too, because they belong to that
conservative portion of the public
'M whose approval is the hardest to get,
lv and for that reason is most valued
9 there are many such people whose no-
& tion of motion pictures is associated
PS almost wholly with the cheap shows in
the poorest neighborhoods, that seem
to these righteous ones only breeding
places and resorts of the criminal
class. There is a real duty before the
leading men and women in the motion
picture field to break through this
prejudice in the minds of these con
servative people and point out the
mar clous opportunity of the motion
M picture, not only as a mcan5 of amuse
ment, but as an actual missionary!
agent in almost every department of I
1 tffc I
H GIVtb RL ALI 2 . It 1 UL. LalKAllu.
I It has already been put to use not;
E only as a teacher in the schools along
1 strictly educational lines, but as an
I instructor abroad in many fields of j
j knowledge and information, such as
MB mechanics, burgcry, agriculture, bot-
BH any, in short, in every department of
HH science and nature whose exact and
1H realistic illustration is a necessity for
BR accurate knowledge on the subject
35 This is a fact that is being recognized I
rtSS better ecry day, and the most en-
lightened people arc becoming con--rSi
verts to it. Very recently the town
councillors in an exclushc and aristo
S&tl cratic suburb of Boston, which had
never allowed motion pictures of any
BgM kind w ithin its borders, listened to and
iff approved the plans of a leading social
worker in New England to use the
motion picture as a means of social
uplift among the lower classes.
Such people as these are sometime?
exasperating with their prejudices and
what we call their narrosv-mindcdness
about things that dont match up to
their own conservative standards, but.
after all. their approval, when it is
won. is worth ten times as much from
a practical as well as from a moral
viewpoint as the approbation of that
other part of the public which has no
standards at all and will accept any
thing it gets, vjood, bad or indifferent,
as long as it is amused for the mo
ment. A CHANGING VICWT01NT
This changing viewpoint has been
won by the motion picture purely on
the merits of its actual improvement
from day to day during the past five
I 1 years, both in its mechanical and phy
sical devices for illustrating art, sci
ence and the drama, as well as in the
raising by slow but persistent effort
of its moral tone. As to the latter
standard, the best proof of the sin
cerity and determination that the lead
ers in this field are showing in this
matter was expressed recently in an
interview with the vice-president and
secretary of the Vitagraph Company.
Mr J. Stuart Blackton who said: "I
have always instructed my directors
not to make a picture or permit any
thing in a picture that I would not
allow rny small daughter to sec.
"But had morals arc. as a matter of
fact, bad art, and bad art is a quicker
failure in the motion picture business
than in any other because it shows up
so glaringly. It does not hae the side
diversions of the vaudeville stage to
partly conceal it or distract attention
from it. but reveals its defects on the
screen with relentless realism.
MOTION riCTCRE TEACHES THE WORLD
"However, the motion picture is push
ine rapidly into other fields than that of
pure amusement. It will never supersede
the legitimate drama in spite of its
enormous successes in the field of
amusement. But it has the whole world
before it outside of this, or rather be
sides this As an educational agency it
promises to cover every phase of infor
mation and instruction from the kin
dergarten to the pulpit. Our own edu
cational department is rapidly assuming
the most important place in our busi
ness. fmm AH mankind will soon be going to
"Si school all over again, and the teacher
9 I wdl be the motion picture, eloquent as
08 Mfc itself, and as true to nature a? the
WW, perfection of modern invention can
Ik make it."
ffi) . Seattle is about to break all records
H in this country, if not in the world, by
wM building two palatial homes for pic-
pBb turcs, each of them to cost, when ready
K for opening. $500,000 One of these will
Wjt 9 erected in the Metropolitan district.
M me other at the corner of Fourth and
H University Streets.
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DARING PL UNGE OF AN
ACTOR FOR THE PICTURES
DOWN PENOBSCO TS FALLS
Productions Coming From Mutual Program Studios Strong
Protest Against Criticism That Is Unfair and Untruthful.
A plunge over the Stillwater Falls,
on the Penobscot River. Maine, in an
open boat, is Rodman Law's latest feat,
performed during the production of a
coming Reliance, Mutual Program, rc
lca.se. The fact that only one man had
ever gone over the Stillwater Falls
alive and was rescued in the rapids be
low, a raving maniac, did not cause
Law to even hesitate. Law pushed off
from shore in a small boat, paddling
with a single oar as calmly as a college
boy in a birch-barkcanoe. He managed
to stay in the boat until it hid almost
reached the bottom of the falls, when
he shot into the whirlpool like a cannon
, ball For several seconds he did not
appear, liis hand and arm then became
visible, and Director Lewis heaved a
igh of relief as he saw that his dare
devil actor was not ortly alive but swim
ming strongly with the swift current.
A boat put out from shore and ap
proached the rapids as closely as pos
sible, but Law quickly measured dis
tances with his eyes, and swam toward
his own beat, which, although almost
swamocd. was still capable of sustaining
his weight until the worn part of the
rapids had been nassed and he could be
taken in charge by the rescuing party.
Miss Louise Glaum, formcrl;. leading
woman with Nestor's Comedy Company,
I is now appearing in Ka-Bcc and
Broncho films (Mutual Program; under
the direction of Thomas H. Ince.
Adam kissel, Jr. president of the
New ork Motion Picture Corporation,
has purchased the Orson, a veritable
floating palace, and intends -ailing it to
his heme on Lake Champlain this sum
mer. r
Upon the completion of the three-reel
feature "Half a Chance," by the Reli
ance Company, Mutual Program, Man
ager J V Ritchcy invited its author.
Frederick Isham. to visit the studio.
After seeing the picture interpretation
of his novel. Mr Isham became grcatl
interested in motion pictures and has
promised to write a storj especially tor
screen production. Manager Ritchey
succeeded in interesting Forres! Halsej
in photoplay Writing by first buyinjrthe
rights of one of his magazine stones
and then showing him how well his ideas
could be carried out b the art of the
silent drama. Mr. Halsey has been a
regular contributor of Relunce picture
dramas ecr since.
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When Thomas II . Ince made the Bat
tle of Gettysburg for the New York
Motion Piriurc Corporation, he crowned
a long series of artistic triumphs with a
masterpiece. The genius of" this pro
ducer is indrcd shown in this awc-in-spiring
spectacle. One sits in silent won
derment as thousands of men struggle
to the death, and the crash .if the
cannon, the gimt of the bayonet and the
crack of the musket are" imparted as
vividly to the imagination as though the
actual conflict was raging before one's
very eyes.
Anna Little and Snowball, the beauti
ful white horse of the Broncho and
Kay-Bee outfit, are inseparable. Ilrr
command over the animal is remarkable
and they make a prettv picture, appear
ing in practically all the Kay-Bee and
Broncho pictures.
A new interpretation of "The Rosary"
tor Reliance, Mutual Program which
has been occupying Oscar Apfel's atten
tion, promises to be of more than pars
ing interest, especially as Forrest Hal
sey is responsible fr.r the scenario.
C. J. llitc, president of Thanhouser,
Mutual Program, has made a few caus
tic comments on a Chicago newspaper's
account of a recent Thanhouser release,
l'c -,ays .
"The moving picture was taken at the
stcd works, is a so-called industrial
him, and illustrates the operation of the
various safety devices. There is a very
slight story in it to keep the .spectator's
interest strong. In the first place, the
correct title was 'An American in the
Making.' Of course, the paper did not
j
Augustus Carney (Essanay)
care to get the title of the picture cor
rect. Neither Mr Glcason, superinten
dent of the Gary Mills, nor his daugh
ter insisted on changes in the announce
ments made in connection with this
film, and the film docs not tell the story
of the superintendent of the Gary Mills
(Mr. Glcason ) and it docs not show
that the .superintendent has a beautiful
daughter of marriageable age, nor por
tray the winning of this daughter ( Miss
Gleason) by a man who rises from the
ranks of factory life.
"As a matter of fact, the film merely
tells the story of an immigrant who gets
a job in the steel works and is enabled
in time to buy a little house and marry
a young school teacher. The whole ar
ticle is an injustice to Mr. Glcason and
his daughter, who did not figure even
remotely in the film."
A man entered the offices of the New
York Motion Picture Corporation last
week and demanded an immediate audi
ence with the scenario editor. This being
granted he produced a script from his
pocket which he declared would make a
great Broncho feature. The overworked
editor scanned it and found that among
the minor details n called for the use of
the Panama Canal, the N'cw York Pub
lic Library, the United States Mint. The!
man was considerably surprised when
the editor gently turned him down and
gave it as his opinion that scenario writ
ers were handicapped by lack of co-operation
on the part of the producers.
A couple of weeks ago the Than
houser Mutual Program, producers saw
a likely looking fat man in an electri
cian's overalls, took him over to the
New Rochellc studio and gave him the
star part in a picture! Artists often dis
cover types this way on the streets, but
the present Thanhouser instance was
likely the first in which such a "find"
was given a feature acting part. The
'find' was John Wallace, who weighs
350 pounds and causes no end of laugh
ter in ' Why Babe Lett 1 1.. me." as the
nnished film has been called The part
IS of a fat, boy who is disinherited by
his lean father and who tries to pick up
a living by carrying a restaurant sign
reading " ou can tell by looking at me
that 1 cat at Donnelly's "
The largest building in the world de
voted to the exhibition of motion pic
tures is the Gaumont Palace in Paris
Every night it is packed with five thou
sand spectators Seats range in price
from twelve cents to five d-!!ars lor a
box.
ISP Pub,ic and Exh'b,tor Ate
r Prefer Mutual Program
Off to the Far
North for Films
Journeying to Unknown
Tracts for Pictures
for Essanay.
George K. Spoor, president of the
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company,
has had in mind for some time past the
exploiting of the Mackenzie River and
other unknown far northern tracts by
the camera. He has waited until the
most favorable opportunity presented
itself This has been offered recently,
when a party, composed of Tames K
Cornwall. B K Miller. Emerson Hough
and G. B. Eraser, set out on an arctic
trip, which will cover a route of eight
thousand miles hy the time they return,
four thousand of which passes through
practically unknown territory. James
K. Cornwall, widely known as "The
Prophet of the Xorth," is the member
of Parliament at. Ottawa for Alberta
B. K. Miller, the millionaire sportsman
and big game hunter, of Milwaukee, is
also noted for his researches as a nat
uralist. Emerson Hough is the author
of several works of fiction. G. B.
Eraser is a halfbrccd Indian. His
f'AMOVS PUYKKS FlI.M X.
WvFfj PRODUCTIONS
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WORK OF PHOTOPLA YERS
AND FILM PRODUCERS
TO WIN PATRONS' FAVOR
Universal Film Company Secures a Spectacular Triumph in
M The Curse of Buddha By James Dayton,
Extensive building improvements are
now under way at Universal City. One
of the principal features of the work is
the erection of a stage, covering sixty
five feet, easily the largest in any motion
picture plant. It has the added and new
feature of being accessible for use as
two forty-foot stages, an eiRhty-foot
space being available from one angle
and 120 feet from another. Close to
this i-tagc and adjoining the new busi
ness office, eight dressing rooms arc in
course of construction, which arc to be
used by Director Turner and his com
pany. A new projecting room, complete
in every detail, also has just been com
pleted. Glen White, whose handsome figure
and classic features have made him one
of the foremost masculine figures on
the motion picture stage, has returned to
America, after a six months' sojourn
tS)"PoIcon thc Trappcr" Ne,tr) j r0, - w !
Clara Kimball Young m&
(Vitagraph) ;
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knowledge of thc far north and his
familiarity with thc -language of the
natives, will make him a valuable mem
ber of thc party Essanay is represented
in thc group by C A. Lupcrti, an ex
pert camera man, who will lake motion
pictures of every incident and scene of
importance during the entire route.
Thii is the first time that a camera man
for motion pictures has gone down the
Mackenzie River, or ever isitcd ( thcr
unknown tracts that will be traversed
by thc party.
With thc resignation two weeks ago
of Miss Leah Baird from her position
as leading woman with the Vitagraph
Company, to join King Paggot rf the
Imp Company, another well known and
highly popular tar has been added to
the lis-t of those now appearing regularly
in productions of the Universal Film
Manufacturing Company. Miss Baird
hv.s sailed for Europe, where he will
join Mr. Baggot and Mr. Brem.n. and
appear in a series of pictures which
will be produced in England. This
series, which marks a new 'pocb in for
eign pictures produced under the direc
tion of American manufacturers, will
take up in detail much of the important
hiMory of England and will be staged
in localities where salient events of the
English dynasty of the last two hundred
years actually occurred.
in Europe. He comes back to the
Universal Banner, under contract to
head the new Eastern Towers Stock
Company, which will have us headquar
ters at the Coytesville Studios.
With the release of "The Curse of
Buddha," lovers of motion pictures will
witness thc most costly and spectacular
picture ever produced by thc Universal
Eilm Company. The slory is from thc
;cn of James Dayton. The leading
parts will be taken by William Clifford
and Edna Maison. Thc picture will be
a four-reel production and will be made
under thc direction of Mr. Eahrney.
I
Clara Williams, native daughter of
golden California and former leading
woman for the Lubin Company, is now
a fixture of the Universal Company, in
pictures depicting Western life. Miss
Williams, ui addition to bc!ni; a 2e-cr
rider, is also an enthusiastic motorist,
swimmer and tennis player.
Harold Lockwood, who played the
leading role in "The Capture of
Agumaldo." lias been nicknamed "the
'-laudc Eclair of the Universal forces."
In the scene where he leads the Amer
ican scouts up the rocky canyon sjdei
he looks just like his hero rival, Des
perate Desmond. Mr. Lockwood affects
to advantage thc same hypcrion locks,
black flowing necktie and good looks
generally.
Edwin Carcur, of the Lubin Company,
made his first appearance on the stage
of life thirty years ago in Texas under
the auspices of a Texan father and a
Chickasaw Indian mother Before be
ginning to act for thc screens he was
for several years on thc regular stage in
stock and with Otis Skinner, Chaunccy
Olcott and Kitty Gordon He Is nearly,
six feet tall, lithe and brown, and the
ladies say he's handsome.
All the London sales agents of Amer
ican film managers report that they are
doing excellent business. Mr B. Nich
ols represents Biograph, Lubin and
Kalem; Mr. H A. Spoor the Essanay
Company; Mr. G. H. Smith the Vita
graph; Mr Montagu the Sclig, and Mr
Harrison, with headquarters out on
Clcrkcmvcll Road, the Edison Company
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Lionel Adams has become one of the
Lubin picture players. He has been at
various times a member of Julia Mar
lowe's, Annie Russell's Wm. Gillette's
and Mrs. Leslie Carter's companies As
John Storm in Hall Cainc's "The Chris
tian," Joe Brooks in "Paid in Full" and
Richard Ward in "The Spendthrift,"
he will be remembered by all theatregoers.
Marion Ferel (Majestic)
Mrs Clara Reynolds Smith has joined
thc forces of thc Essanay Eastern Slock
Company at Chicago. She has played in
theatrical stock companies in most of
the leading cities of thc United States
and is noted for her grandc dame and
character presentations.
A motion picture machine was set
up in thc ConsistonJ Hall at thc Vat
ican a few days ago, and Pope Pius X.,
surrounded by his sisters and niece, the
Papal Secretary of State and other Vat
ican dignitaries, enjoyed a view of many
interesting scenes. He watched the
passing show with animation, and at
thc end called attention to thc progres-:
of science, which permitted thc un
folding of thc wonders of thc world be
fore even a prisoner like himself.
President Block told a writer for
"Xcws of Photoplays and rhotoplayers"
that Kincmacolor is going into thc "fea
ture film" field with a vim that bids fair
to cut a wide swath before thc summer
time is over. The popular success of
such thrcc-reclcrs as "Steam," which
was introduced at Carnegie Lyceum,
Mew York, a3 a sort, of prologue to thc
Panama Canal pictures, "Nathan Hale" ;
"The Scarlet Letter." which is a sensa
tion in New England, and "Dr. Jekjll
and Mr. Hyde," which has broken rec
ord1;, inaugurate a new policy. Lx
hibitors hac found these big feature
lilms in natural colors get better results
and draw audiences from farther afield
than the usual ?hort film programs made
up for mere parochial patronage. Ac
cordingly they arc running reel "fea
tures" for several days at a time, and j
even for full week runs with good re- .
suits.
"A Brother's Loyalty" (Essanay) tells
a strong story of fraternal constancy,
ll Hon and sacrifice, presenting strik
ing scenes from the criminal haunts of
a great city. Among the mot stirring
of those scenes arc "the fight in the
pool room," "the brother's sacrifice,"
"the arrest," "the discovery of thc coun
terfeiters' den," and "thc pardon"
Francis X Bushman enacts the simul
taneous dual role of Paul and Hal. the
twin brother--. In this double character
ization of the twin brother-. Mr. Bush
man actually himself impersonates two
different characters at one and thc same
time, an achievement unprecedented in
the history of thc photoplay. This fea
ture alone will give "A Brother's Loy
alty" a strong claim to popular favor.
jaL DEMAND THAT
lxy UNIVERSAL PROGRAM
Stories Pictured by
the Newest Films
A Romance in Which Two
College Girls Play the
Principal Roles.
Outcome of Pareon Jim' Vitit to
a Hoot Owl Dance Hall Thc Daily
Life of a Poultry Farm Depicted oq
the Screenf.
"The Fraternity Pin" (Majestic)
Thc president of the fraternity in the
girls' college was cry pretty, and her
family was rich, but the reason why he
was thc mo.st popular girl in college was
not thc possession of wealth or good
looks, but because she was instinctively
thc protector of thc friendless.
There was one shy httle countrv girl
who regarded thc college idol with min
gled awe and admiration. She was
timid and retiring, and her lot in college
would hae been a very lonely one it
thc fraternity's president had not taken
pity on her. A tirm friendship sprang
up between the two. The college leader
helped her protege with her studies and
even was instrumental in securing thc
girl's election to thc fraternity.
The country girl left college and mar
ried a rich man, who died a few vears
later, leaving her independent! wraith-.
Thc widow had many handsome jewels,
but the one she prized most was a little
gold pin, the emblem of her membership
in the college fraternity Thc pm was
mifsing one day and thc widow, think
ing that she might have lost it in the
urect, telephoned to thc police. Soon'
word came that the pin had been found
and she hastened to thc police station to
claim it.
The lost pin was not hers, but it was
thc- emblem of the same college frater
nity Thc woman who had been arrest
ed when she attempted to pawn it stood
nearby in thc custody of a policeman,
her face averted Thc widow, anxious
to know who the owner of the pin could
be. stepped forward and gacd into the
prisoner's face. Their e- e met and thc
wealthy woman recognized in the unfor
tunate the college favorite of years gone
by, the fraternity president who had
been her friend. Misfortune had come
upon her. her parents and fortune had
been swept an ay, and she had failed in
the battle of life
The ragged woman and thc ladv of
fashion left the station together and thc
"most popular girl in college" found
a home and loving care with her former
protege She was proud and did not
want to accept any favors, but her pro
tests were silenced by a loving kiss
irom her benefactress and a reminder
that they were both sisters of the same
fraternm and sworn to aid one another.
And so the friendship which had begun
in college ripened in after years into
lasting love
"California Poultry" f American)
I icture opens with some views of model
housing, shows incubator eggs three
days from hatching, chickens one day
?Id, with some splendid views of Cali
fomias largest hatchery, having a
capacity of 165,000 chickens. The proc
ess of feeding and a group of 2.000 ex
pensive white leghorns make interring
diversions A number of leghorns, all
Of which have world prizes, are included.
All this occurs in the famous Petaluma
district.
' e l,"ene of action now switches to
the Pasadena district long noted for its
tremendous chicken facilities. This dis
trict caters to Los Angeles and vicinity
and makes enormous shipments east
ward The Anthony poultry plant is a
model of its kind. Here we find the
finest speC, mens extant, including barred
Plymouth rocks, buff orpingtons. par
tridge Wyandotte's, white wvandottes,
buff wvandottes, vvhite plvmouth rocks, d
Mack minorcas, Rhode ' Island reds,
light brahmas. black langshans and many
Others Other fowl come in for con
sideration, too. and some delightful pic
tures were obtained of white muscovy
chicks, Burt's white mammoth pekin
ducks, mammoth bronze turkeys a prize
winning golden pheasant. Chinese, gol
den and ring neck pheasants, some vari
eties of hrahma cockerels and a number
less variety of other fowl The picture
wind, up with "The Ultimate Con
sumer, ;wo vcrv nappv darklCi makmg
the most of a fried chicken.
,,.''Pjrsnon J'm's Baby" (Kincmacolor)
VV hen Parson Jim invaded Hoot Owl.
Ariz., he found the saloon and dance hall
the principal industries. Starting a rc
viya in the latter place, he rouses a
spark of religion lying dormant in the
J??' f Molly Brand. wife of the
bad man of the camp W hen he is
driven out and Molly follows him like a
dutiful wife, she leaves her little daugh
ter mtne care of one good Pardon Jim.
With the little girl, the Parson starts
proselyting until finally, after fifteen
years, he has driven out his bitterest
rival, the rum-seller, and converted the
dance hall into a church. There the
whole reclaimed community of Hoot
Owl gathers for worship-not noting
the worn and weary woman who slips
into a rear pew
But after benediction, while Parson
h?L 15 btdriln "good night" to his
happy parishioners, the organ in the
supposedk empty church begins playing
Lead. Kindly Light " Recalling that
K nu PurSon 111 camP knew that
K fCn hctlstar,cd revival fifteen
JHIVMSi! Purson J,m Efturris to find
that his loSt shcep has returned to ,he
J?iii$f thf reiidn when the long
est mother clasp, -Parson lim's Babv"
shoul 'T' V"? thc concluding Picture
SKJA V fating place in the
"Bad Min'ceL Ull'ch has rcpIaced
caa .Man s burying ground.", 1
