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I 1 f r$ KtKKUKummmKmmm i wmi i j - I, I I. tar ees The Picture's Future Gene Gauntier Surveys the Photoplay Field and Tells Us What Is Needed There George Siegniann Moulded by Nature to Assume Heroic Roles. Kvcln Selbie Sings in Mournful Numbers of the Trajjio Fate Tbat Befell Her Kat. Recently Miss Gene Gauntier, the fa aious motion picture actress appearing in Warner's Tbrcrt Part Features, was approached and asked to give her opin ion of the future of the motion picture industry. She replied In her characteris tic style as follows: "I believe thoroughly in the future of the moliou picture, but to what heights it may reach I would not dare to pre dictit depends on the manufacturers. At present wc arc compelled to give the audience what it wants not what is good for it We may not carry out our ideals or we would bankrupt our em ployers or so they think The great crying nee I is for good original scenarios not adaptations of books or pluys. There is a new field of literature awalt ing those who have the unique talent necessary for their production. We need f jlf I i fl 5 I'MXg 111 J Jj " I ! It , . i tug writers not necessarily those who bave risen to heights in other tie-Ids of literature, but thoe who possess orifri nality enough to create this new litera ture. "But how few pessess the talent to be come great in it! For it requires not only a solid technique to stend on, but a vivid itoagir.r-.t'.f z. that can express in ac ticn without wrds all human emotions it requires a tne sense of dramath pro portion, end, above all, that indf Suable quality we call, for want of a 1 etter name, 'The Picture Eye ' When we have masterpieces in the new literature, when we have producers who are artist?, with ideas, when we have actors who do not act, but are living and breathing tho characters they portray, then, and not till thn. will the photoplay become the dangerous rival of the theatre." George' A. Siegmann holds a prominent place in the Reliance Stock Company, and this prominence is due both to bis ability .is an actor and to his innate personality. Fie is cast in heroic mold, and naturally finds himself cast for roles that demand dominance, virility and forcefulness. Mr. Siegmann is popular with all with whom he comes into so cial association, and especially with his brother members of the New York Screen Club. Evelyn Selbie, of the Western Essa nay Company, is in mourning for her eat This was no ordinary cat, and its demist has left an aching void on the back porch of Miss BelbTe's bungalow, to say n- trine of her heart The V.c reaved refuses to speak to V. A. Totel for an indefinite period. Potel recently kicked the cat In the dark, but it must have hurt the feline elsewhere as well for death ensued within a few days. The funeral was quite an elaborate affair, Harry Todd being chief pall-bearer. An ill-timed grin decorated his features dur ing the performance of his sad duties, but everybody knows that Todd is a cat hater and that he was therefore deriv ing pleasure and profit from these post mortem proceedings. The Essanay Koo Koo Kluh was present in force, and the following epitaph was engraved by Mins Selbie over the grave under the lone some California pine; Here lies my kat; Potel'n the rum Who boasted he would stun it: He kicked my kat to kingdom kum, ( ! I seen him when he done it. Here lies mv kat And if Potel I r-nies the de d, He lies as well H Kay Bee, Broncho, Keystone & Domino J Most Popular Films on the Market. H W. Y. Motion Picture Co. s'.'y.10" Famous Play brs Ftlm Co. rPJ cKtKt? productions rrH mari; YOU "hv.k htaiix" L'tft. VoJpW'V MOIPH 2UKIR DANIEL F80HMAH A " . - , . . " , in CECILIA LOFT US TO BE SEEN ON THE SCREENS AS CLORINDA THE HOYDEN The Famous Players to Present Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's Drama, "A Lady of Quality", as Its Important January Release. For its release of January the Famous Players will present the prominent star and international stage favorite, Cecilia Loftus. in the famous novel and play, "A Lady of Quality," by France Hodg son Burnett. The play is an idyllic blending of the romance, beauty and daring of the days of knighthood, and tho film version has developed into a brilliant reproduction of the warmth and color of i pi turcsqui- period. In the role of Clorinda, the head strong, tempestuous hoyden whose fath er's contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, but who later wins his respect and grows up among his dissolute companions, learn ing to drink, smoke and swear as freely as any of them, until the derision of the man she loves at her masculine manners and dress prompts her to renounce thra and become a Lady of Quality, Miss Loftus has a part that lends many op portunities to display her unusual tal ents as a character actress 'I he thrill ing and sometimes pathetic incidents that enter into the character's later ca reer, the successful wiles of Sir John Oxen, the beau ideal of London Town, to win her untutored heart, after which he coldly spurns her. her piqued but faithful marriage to the old Earl of Dunstanwolde, and the terrific and tragic scene, subsequently, when she! comes face to face again with Sir John Oxon, art faithfully portrayed. Cecilia Loftus began her dramatic ca reer under the direction of Daniel Froh rnan. abandoning a vaudeville income of $2,500 a week to accept a much smaller alary in order to acquire dramatic ex I erience under Mr. Frohman's guidance I Within two years she had succeeded sol capably that Mr. Frohman mad- her loading lady with E II Sothcrit, then under his management Py a strange coincidence, as in the euso of James K. Haekett, Miss Loftus now returns to Mr. Frohman's direction, under vitally new conditions, through the medium of the motion picture. Trapped in the Castle of Mystery (Warner's Features 3 parts). Colonel Harton's automobile breaks down n.:ir the quaint old village of Doromy. While talking with the inn keeper he lr-arns that Doromy castle is peopled with ghosta and that travelers who venture within are nevpr seen alive nain. Id a spirit M adventure the Colonel sets out for tho eastle. resolved to spend a nifrlit ill-rand disprove the villagers' superstitions Marcaret, the attractive d:i njrht r r r,f Gontran, leader of a can? of counterfeit ers who have their headquarters in old Doromy castle, is quick to carry word of the colonel's visit and to warn "the coun terfeiters of their dancer. That nirl,t 1'olonel Barton is intimidated and tor tured by Oontran's men dressed as ghosts. He soes mad and the next day is found wandering in the fields Then fate takes a hand in the game. The colonel's sn, Charles, Hills in love with the counterfeiters daughter, who saves him from a horrible death at the hands of the counterfeiters. Escaping, he assists the police to break up the ganc, and takes Margaret to bis home when her father is killed. In an intense ly dramatic scene Colonel Hnrton is con fronted with a whit- vele,l figure that the shock may restore his reason. Tho experiment is successful and Margaret although the daughter of a counterfeiter' marries Charles - The Cod of Girzah (P.ison 2 parts). Au English colonel steals an idol of Buddab from the temple of Girzah, thinking it will never be missed. How ever, the result of this act overshadows bis entire life. Priests of Oirzah de maud its return, but the colonel denies that he has it His servants league themselves with the priests against him. IIi life is attempted through the agency of the deadly cobra, one of the many un usual and thrilling scenes, and bis liquors :ir- poisoucd. Fifteen years later, he comes to rho Fnited States with his nephew. One night, bis eyes failing him. he semis his valet for a private secretary. A moment i jiif ifr - : i ' I Wls.'- . J IN THE POWER OE A HYPNOTIST ljfe. 1 it (Wtmer 8 Eeutarc ProgmmJ " v v I before the secretary a girl is ushered into the room, two Hindu priests enter and stab the colonel to death. The girl is accused by the valet, who finds her by the body. She makes her escape by jumping fifteen feet frutu a window, and three mouths afterward meetb the neph ew and marries him When the nephew brings his wife home, the valet recog mzes her, threatens hoi with exposure ar.d succeeds in blackmailing her Her life is made unbearable until she finds the colonel's diary, which tells of the former attempts upon his life She con ' ' pvirj-thinr to her husband nnd is cleared of suspicion, while th- valet is exposed Devotion (Domino 'J pf-rts). Colonel I. rush, a staunch Southerner, whose daughter, Edith, is in love with Walter Boyd, a Northern physician, during an argument ctr:ks the doctor across the fe.ee wh hia whip, le:iMnR a Vcrv bad scar ihe colonel prepares to join his :regis:ent at the from Before leaving he hides his wealth in an old well, giving tiimon Holdt bonds to cover the mort K.ive whi li Hol.it hold-, on th- c.lonel's home. l)uring a retreat, the colonel is rut eff frcm his men and changes clothes y-tth a Northern private, hoping to make Lis escape The Northern private Ls found and buried ns the colonel, while the colonel ir. wo-nded bv an exploding shed, becoming almost an imbecile. He 18 discovered in a Southern prison bv his faithful servant, Pete, and taken home to his daughter who, now that Boldt haH foreclosed the mortcngc. is forced to live with the negroes f ir F.oyd )s the chief surgeon of the Northerners that take the town in which the colonel lies He op erates upon the colonel and restores his reason. Her Legacy (Kay-Bee). Jed Conners, a Teallhy but miserly farmer, starves Ins daughter, Mary, in his greed f..r gold. A snarling, grouchy lawyer named f:aleb Mmi.lv, wishes to marry her. but she docs not love him, and refuses Mm falls in love with her father's hired mari, Jun Grace. Jed Conners m ikes bis will, with Caleb Mundy as witness lie then bi les the will, also some monev in a DOUOW tree Connors, being very' ileaf fails to hear a runawav horse one day, and rn. a result loses his life Marv can not End the will. Tliis fa. t gives Mundy the ideu that he can forgi one success fully. In the CorgeS will Marv is only given the wood lot. She marries Jim ir.ice nnd they B0 to live in a shanty ..n the wood lot. Mundv is conscience stricken one nicHt. and thinking he sees a ghost, runs, nnd fallmc ..ver a cliff, is Later found .bad. Mary dreams thnt b-r father bid the will and some money in th- hollow tree and she Htid Jim "find them the next day. The original viill bequeaths everything to the daughter Mary. DEMAND THAT I UNIVERSAL PROGRAM Sioux Indians Take to the Tango Isadore Bernstein Introduces the Motion Picture Within a Convent's Walls The I coturc Film Protective Association Organized to Protect Feature Film Men From Pirates. Tho Killing of Madero Filmed for Warner' Features as "The Fugitive Law". The thirty-two Siou Indians of the Broncho Motion Ficluro camp at Santa Monica canyon have become so versed in real American ways and manners that they have taken up the tango craze. Isadora r.ernteiu. general manager of the racilic Coast Studios of the Univer sal, at Hollywood, Cali., has invaded a virgin territory with motion pictures. M: Bernstein's little daughter is receiv ing her education at the Ramona con vent, near Alhambra, Cali. Beiuie i& I U DANIEL FROHMAN ) jp (Famoat Plaer. f mm ; -v pfi' tiff MARGUERITE LOVE R I DC H Q m 3 nil wrapped up in his child ;md princi pally to afford her amu8emenl he has m sncnrate.i the practice of taking to the convent every week a few thousand feet of film and a projecting machine. The pictures are run off in the gmnas!ujn of the school. The firs! picture be took was "Thf Battle ,f Bull '--n." It vas the first motion picture the k'""d sisters at the institution had ever seen That they were delighted with it goes without saying The tilms were furnished by the courtesy of the California Film Ex change. Lillian Christie, formerly with the ' it a graph and Kalem companies, has joined the Western Essanay ranks at Niles, CaL, where she was warmly wel comed by her new fellow players. Miss Christie has a remarkably pbuant per sonality nnd is full of life both of which desirable attributes she fuel.' little difficulty in reproducing in her screen work. Mr Moe Strimer, of th" Theatre Film Company, has been elected president of the newly organized Feature Film Pro le. tive Association. The object of the association as announced is the getting of be ter features, the improvement of the condition of exhibitors in general and the devising of ways and means to protect all feature film men from the so-called pirates l ; Irvinp Cummings, well known as a leading man on the legitimate stage for enrs, and a screen star of great popu larity, has accepted n flattering offer from the Universal Company to join them as a leading man. Three play thai have made Mr. Cummings fan oi -throughout America and Europe are: "Success," "Ashes" and I'The Man from Outside." The Creat West Mot ion Picture Co., I maniifa. turinc three-reel picture.- for the program of Warner's Features, Tn. .. has planned a unique campaign in the Culf Of Lower California. Their first three reel picture entitled, "The Fugitive Law,' which is a faithful expose of the killing of Mad'To, and more recent i verts of Mexico, win followed by three reel features manufactured off the west coast of Mexico Arrangements have been entered into for the tenipornrv charter of a schooner which will skirt" the western coasl of Lower California and exolnre the waters of the Gulf. During tins nip pictures will be made of the Japanese Ashing concessions, objected to by the United States Government. Exciting plots will be written around the situation, teeming with international intrigue, and American Japanese interests. The waters of ih' Gulf of Lower California will be cruined from San Bias up to the Cannibal Islands Which oxmt in the northern parr of the Gulf. Although cannibalism is extinct, the remnants of tl i rib.- can I still be found there nnd will be utilized in a three-re. i picture entitled, "The Last of the Cannibals." I WORLD SPECIAL FILMS CORP ;i 10 W. 40th ST. NEW YORK CITY ; BRANCH OFFICES COAST TO COAST ' STANDARD SET B Y WORLD SPECIAL FILMS STAMPS ALL ITS RELEASES "A Son of His Father", A Lubin Release, Illustrates the Strength of Heredity. A Supposedly Bogus Count Proves to Be the Real Article When the World Special Films Cor poration announced their advent into the feature end of. the motion picture business, they said they would handle nothing but what the considered the best of the world's output of both the ESuropenn and American manufacturer which it was possible to secure Up to the present time they have fully lived up to their promise. Hundreds of lil ins. have ben offered them for .ex ploitation, the vast majority of which they refused as not being up to the standard. Phil Gleichmnn and Emanuel Mandelbnnm are both pioneers in the film game, and their sole aim is the up lift of the motion picture business. In order to carry out this policy they real Ised that they would have to be in a position to market (heir films all over the United Ctatcs. In order to accom plish this purpose they have already opened seventeen branch ollices, extend ing from X. w York to Minneapolis in the North, New Orleans in the South and Kansas City in the West, and they anticipate baring a half-dozen more of fices open, extending oul t the Coast, by the first of January. Every man con nected with the organization is ranked among the topnot dies in the business. There is Jules It n rust ein . nl the head of the rental department, a man of excep tional ability and wide popularity; J. K. Burger, the auditor, and alilton B. Hoff man, the brilliant Ides man Mr Bur- U'r has established an auditing depart ment that is without parallel in the busi ness M. E. Hoffman is another pio I'cer in the motion pi. tore game and is well prepared to p1Ve the exhibitor the ben :fit of a l"t of new ideas that will tend to elevate the tone of the motion picture theatre. The motion picture ex hibitor has travelled iloiig the same lines in business for several years, reap ing the harvest of a few dollars, but i.c-.T piving thought to the morrow but the patrons of the motion pit tares are demanding more and more of th. exhib itor and the motion picture manufac turer. It stands to reason that no firm can make pictures all of which are ilwa.is g. .Oil. I Tow much bett r is the plan of the World Special They are absoluti Ij unlimited in scope both of I'luniifeeturer and subjects Nothing is too big or too small for them to ex ploit, provided it meets with the ap proval of Messrs Gleichman and Man rlelbaum. As witness, PasqualTs "The Last Days of Pompeii." Tins photo- tlrama IS undoubtedly the greatest crea tion ever offered the American picture B icr Produced at a cost of a quart r of a million dollars, amid the rerv scenes where Bulwer Lytton's wonderful novel is laid depicting all the characters of tne storj amid the very surroundings in which they lived; showing the customs and manners of the time and Snalh the eruption of Vesuvius in nil its awful ma jesty, one cannot fail to realize the greatness of the picture. Another ex cellent example of their endeavors to give the exhibitor "the best' is their five-reel thriller "Protea," which has crested n greater stir than anv film ever marketed "What the Gods Decree." which will soon he readv for the ex hibitor is another It is. if anything, more beautiful than "Protea ." Bron.ho Billy'a Christmas Deed (Es sanay) -rhnsnnas-tho onr. r!(lv m year when hearts should be free and gay 7w5n lit'- on earth should be heaVi A 1 i- 'nnn, the father of h young child' wants his offspring to have Christmas such as every child is deservjdg of. He --'fr- "r tU(lloV0 Of his child he commits burglary. A happy Christmas morn hi the result The father is ar rested. Broncho Rillv, the sheriff with fhatn-i? KV1" Chmas iPWt; sSS f th Tk7IKr,a rl"',k f,,r tne amount f ,, ' ,r"",K' !lt0leP b 1,10 I'rif,r '''" nnd ces the father o enjoy the remainder of the holiday with his wife and baby WARNERS FEATURE SEE IT- I A Son of His Father (Lubin Special 2 parts). Will Temple, a gambler, leaves his wife, Mary, alone most of the time with their baby boy. Harry. The night Mary can stand it no longer is the night Will is the heaviest winner. Will decides to leave bis home and wife nnd go bis way undisturbed. lie leaves a note to her to that effect and that sh will be well cared for, and also an en closure to bo given to the boy when he becomes of age Then he goes away and eventually becomes proprietor of a gam bling joint out West. Harry grows to manhood and on the day of Ins majority barns from the note his fath.-r had left that there is $1,000 sud interest awaiting him In the bank. Inadvertently his lather has told him in L jZZ" 1 Ti" y mm . the letter that if is his poker winnings, and the thing that his mother most fear; comes to pass a desin t.. gamble. Har r g.-ts ins money and very soon hnds In way, despite bis mothers pleadings i" the gambling table. At first he wins! and b( lies to his mother about what he is doing, but eventually he loses till, and rather than face her he runs away West He winds up in his father's gimblin house and not knowing it is his son. the father engages him. The son enters his father's employ unconscious of the fact that it is his father who has given him a helping hand. He be, ,-,mea dealer through his wonderful and instinctive ability. Liater he rescues a Western "irl lennie, fr0ni the insults of a strange gambler and they become swe.-th arts lhe stranger shows up again and in a game sitting opposite Harry, he falsely accuses the boy of cheating. Harrv draws first, and the gambler falls wounded, I he father, thinking the bov wrong 'tarts with the others to get him. but he holds them all back. Escape is cut off' ne Bees Jennie coming and retires to th" adjoining room. There the fight is kept Up With the barricaded door between I he girl learns of the trouble and goes f..r the Bheriff In front of the saloon the sheriff finds that the gambler is a notorious crook, wanted bv" the authori ties of many states and Immediately goes to the rescue of Harrv. When they burst into the room they find Ilnrrv has fainted from a wound and a scrawled note beside him tells only to advise his short. On the reverse ajde, however, the father finds his own letter, and revises thnt he has sent his bov wrong I a -e, on. ilinion follows and tl,,. father puts up his joint for sale and both Har ry and the girl go back with him. Rack in th.- hast the rami, ;8 reunited and 5 daughter added. Incognito (YiCtor).-.Refualng to marrv the woman of his father's chbice Z wn of the Marquis de V,ii..r. B dfsiS herhed and goes to the I Hited State to beg,,, life anew us a plan, America," to ma-'e t lT' ,,avin8 attempted in a n u n toon ""nes stranded 1 e,TPayr ho ri'uds " -'Ivertise-u-nt calling t..r n competent valet He fnqws the dutfea of valet and appl e, to a banker for the position The KnE er has just had a poVtraii pain ted Si a woman artist During his ,i - 'h ceJviM 'fives a jii.in uf revenue nf!n . He offers Rene S500fJ nSS V pli case of love at first sieht 1 1 , ' 3 to the banker and ac. e, f. L't returns Rene wins be t " s PQPotIon. After the wedd?n?fhehvYn3"! !BVr,V announces to the JE? V-1"",'"" f"nk"r rid my ralet!" IIot,ver",;,'1",V" eves are opened whe,7nVe ? " Knnkr 3 steps forward with 5 '-onsnl that Rene has been . , SPd,,nci? heir of the Marouis de V ?! g M t,1C FIVE-A-WEEK SEP THEM AT YOUR THEATRE Eva Unscll Now on Universal Staff Has Made an Eruiable i 1 Reputation as a Writer of Successful Scenarios Irvin Willat in Foremost Rank of Photoplay Photographers. Thomas Ince, of the New York Motion Picture Compdoy, Secures Miss Tsuru Aoki as a Recruit. Mi--s Eva Unsell, who has until now been a reader with the De Mille Plar Agency, and who is also known as ono of the best scenario writers in the conn try, has joined the Scenario Department of the Famous Players' Film Co. Mlss Unsell has written many scenarios for the Kalem Company, the most notable among which is "The Pawnbroker's Daughter.'' She has made a careful study of the work, and has some ong. inal ideas on the technique and construc tion of film stories. She has had a valu able training as a magazine writer and journalist, having been associated with the "Kansas City Tost." Irvin Willat has won much well-dp-M?rved praise from an appreciative pub lic and from his confreres in the picture world for the strikingly excellent photo n m : . ... J I graphic work he turned out In the films of the "Soldiers of tortuno." When I Augustus Thomas selected a company I to go with him to Cuba to-produce this famous military drama for the All-Star i Feature Corporation he chose -Mr. Wdlat as photographer, and the choice proved a wise and fortunate one. Mr. Willat had I previously given ample proof of his abil ity as photographer for Imp, the New ork Motion Picture Company and Iteh- a nee. F red B. Murphy, well and favorably known in motion picture circles, is re ceiving the congratulations of friends on his rpturn to his post as manager of the watervillc, Main.-, Exchange of the j Mutual Program. While he was away businesH fell off, but immediately as sumed its former volume on his return. . Peter Lang, the justly popnlar phoro p.ayer, celebrate his silver wedding an niversary last week at his handsome home in Vow York City. Richard Mor ris, of the Lubin Company, acted as Master of Ceremonies and the occasion was made memorable by many pleasing tokens of esteem which were' showered on Mr. and Mrs Lang bv their hosts of friends and admirers in and out of tho profession. Thomas Ince, director for the New iork Motion Picture Corp.. at Eden dale, seems to be in the held for every big attraction, regardless of cost. Re cently he signed a contract with clever Miss Tsuru Aoki, whose work with the t Majestic Company in the film, "The Oath of Tsura San," has been meeting with such Success Mr. Ince has live new tilm dramas in which he wil feature Miss Aoki. Miss Aoki was contemplating a season in vaudeville when the pictures "got" her. Oh ver Morosco is now considering an offer from Thomas II. Ince, vice-prcsi dent and general manager of the SpTl' York Motion Picture Cbrooration for the motion picture rights of Mr. Moroseo'" successful Hawaiian drama, "Th Bird of Paradise." Mr Trie js :.,, negoiiat- mc with Dnvid Belasco for the motion picture rights for several of the termer Belasco successes. This would include "Darling of the Gods" and "Madam I Buttertlv." Director Albert W. Hale, of lhe Ma- jestic Motion Picture Co s Btndioa at Los Angeles, has given unusual cur- to fl" Btaging of the import., nt two-reel produc tion of Elmer Harris' "Uommce sad Duty." u requires scrtjnea in h,u America and Europe, miri in it appear German urince ami a company of eaii? uniformed fhlans POWER'S CAMERAGRAPH No. 6 i The perfect motion picture machine. Send lorcattloruc 26 with full dc.ml. NICHOLAS POWER CO., 90 Geld SL u T0i I