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Essanas Many
Excellent Releases
Irene Warfield and Richard
Travers In "The 'Pay-As
You-Enter' Man"
Director lace in Staging Domino Photo
plays Provides Realistic Action for
Richard Stanton Two Professional
Pugilists Tako Prominent Part in "The
Heart of Kathleen." y
Irene Warfield is faet making friends
among motion picture patrons. Her
beauty and charm and artistic perform'
ances go straight to the heart and mind
of all who -witness her work on the
screen.
Therefore the news that she has scored
a fresh triumph in a. new photodrama
will be received with interest. It is
Essanay's two-part feature, "The 'Pay-
As-Yon-Enter1 Man," which is undoubt
edly a photographic masterpiece. It con
tains a heart interest story with a rein
of light comedy, just sufficient to furnish
the contrasting lights and shadows.
Much credit is also due to Richard
Travers, who portrays the role of Henry
Rosser in this exceptional dramatic at
traction. Henry Rosser is a man who
has worked at the silk counter of a big
department store for twenty years, this
service being rewarded by the "large"
salary of $20 a week. On this sum heJ
has managed to buy a tiny house in the
suburbs and raise a healthy brood of
children on $20 a week.
The family, the children especially,
look forward to the Day of ThanksVvith
anticipation and pleasure. But he
father does not know where the turkey
is coming from, because there are in
numerable small things that take money
pressing him, and also a payment-upon
the house. The eve of their holiday,
while on his way to the ferry, going
home, he accidentally meets a friend com
ing from a saloon, the friend has under
his arm a large gobbler, which he ex
plains to Henry that he has just won.
This gives Henry an idea, and on the
spur of the moment be goes in and takes
a chance on the next raffle. He wins.
However, at this exact moment, the
police enter and arrest the proprietor
for running a lottery, Homing toe in
offensive commuter as a witness and tat
ing the big turkey along with them. Im
agine the heart-rending predicament of
the long patient and suffering father as
he is thrust into a cell to spend a night
of misery. Consider the little family
which not only will lose its holiday din
ner, but the misery and uncertainty the
mother suffers. What happens? A
happy ending? Sure! Rosser, on the
spur of the moment, and desperate, takes
a losing chance and calls nis employer.
Mr. Straussman (whom he has never
seen), asking him to come and bail mm
out. Much to his surprise. Mr. Strauss
man, his employer, does bail him out, and
not only that, gives him $50 and tells
him that lie will see that his salary is
substantially raised and sends him on his
way home rejoicing.
J. W. Anderson, brother of the one
and only "Broncho Billy" Anderson, has
made a hit as a comedian, and if all that
one hears at the Western Essanay Studio
is genuine, no one is more surprised
than J. W. himself. It is confidently
predicted that his quaint appearance and
droll actions are going to be a valuable
asset in future pictures, and already 'they
are saying that a successor to "Alkali"
Ike ias been found. The new discovery
is taking his new honors modestly and is,
as a matter of fact, half scared to death
in the pictures, though you'd never know
it if you awn t see mm in tront ot the
camera.
With waves dashing over the deck of
"The Alabama," Producer E. H. Calvert
took a company of Essanay players, in
cluding Francis X. Bushman, Ruth
Stoaehouse, Frank Dayton and Henry
Klaus, and went out on the treacherous
waters of Lake Michigan last week in
search of local color for a thrilling drama
entitled "Sparks of Fate" and they
got it
That Thomas H. Ince, Managing
Director of the New York Motion Pic
ture Corporation, believes in injecting as
much realism as possible in the picture
that be has under his direction, was
manifest when just before he started
working on the Domino photoplays,
"The Heart of Kathleen," and "Widow
Maloney's Faith," he took a trip up to
San Francisco and brought back to
Santa Monica two pugilists, known for
their ability in assimilating punches on
the jaw. They were used since in the
aforementioned plays in conjunction
with Richard Stanton.
Stanton is a boxer of no mean ability
and in scenes where he is to use his
bands or "put up his dukes," Mr. Ince
has had quite a little trouble, for the
actors refused to go on, as Stanton can
not seem to acquire the habit of "pull
ing" his punches.
In "The Heart of Kathleen" Stanton,
as the hero, is upon the scaffold about
to be hung, when suddenly he starts
swinging right and left, and each of the
two bruisers, acting as guards, take one
on the jaw and go down for the count.
In one of the scenes in "Widow Ma
loney's Faith" Stanton mixes it up with
a roomfull. and here the pugilists, taking
parts of Irish lads, take some pretty
wallops before they go down. It is just
little details like these that has made
Thomas Ince the peer of all motion pic
ture directors. d
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"My Movie Girl," a new and very
pretty song, the words by G. Warren
Landon and the music by S. S. Cassard,
has just been published by the Caslam
Music Co., of New York. The song has
a grace and a swing to it that have won
the favor of every pne who has heard
it. and this favor promises to become
widespread.
Miss Louise Huff is the latest ac
quisition to Edgar Jones' Company at
the Lubin Studio. Miss Huff before
enlisting under the Lubin Banner ap
peared in pictures for the Edison and
Famous Players Film Companies.
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TOPULAR AND DAINTY
MARY PICKFORD REMAINS
WITH
"Little Mary" Tells Why That Organization Commands
Her Steadfast Loyalty "The Port of Doom"
A New Type of Thrilling Detective Drama
Dismissing numerous rumors that she
had been contemplating other offers from
various film concerns and theatrical in
terests, joint announcement comes from
Mary Pickford and the Famous Play
ers Film Company, that the popular mo
tion picture star will remain indefinitely
with that coneern. The news of this
continued connection must be gratifying
to all exhibitors and others interested in
the advancement of the motion picture,
as Mary Pickford's work has never been
shown to better advantage than in the
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"THE BRAND OF
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Famous Players' productions. Her char
acterizations in "Caprice" and "In ths
Bishop's Carriage" have been qualified
by trade critics as the most brilliant ef
forts of her phenomenally successful
moving picture career, and her future
work in the pretentious subjects which
the Famous Players are selecting for
her will give her delicate art full scope
for expression and artistic value. Miss
Pickford is termed by many the most
popular motion picture star in the world,
and has attained this signal success at
a surprisingly young age, and solely'
upon her own merits and talents. She
is virtually idolized by the great mov
ing picture public, in whose hearts she
has maintained a warm place for many
years. Before she adopted moving pic
ture work she had been under the man
agement of David Belasco.
In a statement to the press, "Little
Mary" spoke as follows:
"My decision to remain with the Fa
mous Players Film Company should not
be surprising for two substantial reasons.
After my connection with David Belasco
in "A Good Little Devil," and my more
recent association with the Famous Play
ers, I could not consider any other affili
ation without going backward instead of
forward. From close observation and,
direct knowledge, I am certain that the
artistic policy df the Famous Players is
far in advance of any other film con
cern with whose purposes I am familiar.
"I am very proud and happy to know
that Mr. Zukor has enough confidence in
me to let me play some of the great
parts that have Tieen made famous on
the stage, and I dearly hope my work
will please the vast motion picture pub
lic, whose encouragement and kindness
are my greatest inspiration."
The Famous Players' Film Company
has opened a well-equipped and perfectly
arranged studio in Los Angeles, which
will be under the management and direc
tion of Edwiu S. Porter. Miss Pick
ford is now on her way to Los Angeles,
where she will resume her work for the
Famous Players in several famous sub
jects which Mr. Porter now has ready
for production. The interest of the film
world will unquestionably be focussed on
the work of Miss Pickford and Mr. Por
ter in the West.
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FAMOUS PLA YERS
Few announcements of coming film
productions have ever created so much
comment in the trade as that of the
Famous Players' production of the
international dramatic success, "Leah
Kleschnn," with the distinguished
American actress, Carlotta Killson, in
the stellar role. This intensely dramatic
story of a woman's regeneration, by the
noted dramatist, C. M. S. McClellan,
Stirred the civilized world with its ap
peal for the criminal who has never been
sliuiru the right way to live, and has
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been termed one of the greatest ser
mons ever contained in a play. Its in
troduction in motion pictures, thus
bringing its moral lesson-before the mil
lions of photo-play followers, cannot butJ
supplement the effective influence upon
criminal and judicial procedure which
the original production exerted. The
situation of the woman burglar, re
formed by the kindness of the man
whose house she attempts to rob, af
fords unlimited opportunity for camera
action. The girl, trained by her father
to be a thief and the associate of
thieves, is brought into the light by the
influence of a love of which she is
hardly aware, and by kind words of per
suasion, spoken at the psychological
moment when her spirit, hardened and
roughened by her past training, is just
about to merge with the refining and
regenerating influence with which sne is
suddenly brought into contact.
The play should make an irresistible
impression on the screen, and contrib
ute one of the greates morals possible
to incorporate in a film production.
"The Port of Doom" is a marine de
tective drama, a thrilling mystery of the
sea soon to be released by the Famous
Players Film Company.
The production is an extraordinary
motion picture, presenting a vivid pan
orama of fate, love and death battling
on the high seas. The suspense, inten
sity and overwhelming scenes on the
fatal ship when she struggles with the
merciless waves, the pathetic picture of
its passengers and crew penned in the
hold, waiting, waiting for the doomed
vessel to sink beneath the angry waters,
a sensational mutiny and a daring res
cue, make the production one of the
most thrilling film subjects ever con
ceived. Every great sea disaster mystifies
and impresses humanity with an over
powering awe. fto fatality that occurs
on land so fascinates as an ocean trag
edy. The picture is full of the glamor
of the sea and the lure of threatened
dangers.
So realistic, indeed, is every factor of
the story, that the production may be
symbolized as the tide of rife surging
through the waters of destiny.
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Ten Nights In
A Bar-Room
The Play That Has Moved
Countless Thousands Now
On The Screens
The New York Motion Picture Corpo
ration Expects to Secure William Faver
"sham in "Julius Caesar" for Produc
tion in Pictures On An Unprecedented
Scale.
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room,'' that, as
a drama on the speaking stage, enjoyed
the praise of pulpit and press for its
forceful moral and its dramatic por
trayal of a common home tragedy, has
been produced in motion pictures by the
Photo Drama Company, of New York.
As a picture production its strong
scenes have gained strength and bring
out in the fullest possible manner the
poverty and ruin caused by intemperance
in a way that does not distress, but in
terests, while its lesson goes straight to
the heart. (
It is an educational feature as well
as a dramatic production that, being
within the comprehension of all classes
and nationalities, will have a far-reaching
influence that can not be estimated,
for, as a picture, it will be possible to
reach the most out-of-the-way places.
It is in five reels, with Roberts
Yaughan ably playing the leading role of
Joe Morgan, who loses his business and
his home through drunkenness and, final
ly sees his little daughter killed dur
ing a bar-room brawL It is only through
a sacrifice of her life that he is saved
from complete ruin.
The work of Robert Lawrence is ex
cellent as Sime Slade, the tavern keeper
and former employe of Morgan in his
prosperous days. His wife, seeing tne
misery of her girlhood friend, Mrs. Mor
gan, caused by drink, urges her husband
to give up its sale. He refuses, and
shortly after acidentally kills little Mary
Morgan while attempting to eject her
drunken father from the tavern. He is
later killed by his own son during a
drunken frenzy.
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MARION LEONARD in "A Lesf in the Storm"
IWsrner Features)
The play shows the fall from comfort
to extreme poverty and sorrow of one
man, the rise and fall of another, and
through it all the love and devotion of
good women. It is a picture with a pur
pose of which, at the present time, there
are altogether too few.
William Favershamf now appearing on
the Pacific Coast in Julius Caesar, is the
latest of the world's great actors to be
approached by a moving picture copcern
with a rich offer for his services before
the moving picture camera. Thomas H.
Ince, managing director" and vice-president
of the New York Motion Picture
Corporation, which includes four of the
largest producing companies, Kay-Bee,
Broncho, Domino and Keystone, has
been negotiating for the last two weeks
with the actor to consent to appear in
six photoplays, one of which shall be a
presentation of Julius Caesar. Accord
ing to Mr. Faversham's manager, 50,000
was the offer made Mr. Faversham to
appear in these plays.
Mr. Ince is prepared to erect a mam
moth representation of a Roman Forum
and Capitol on the plateau near the
Santa Monica Studio for the big scenes
in the Shakespearian drama and to pro
vide mobs of upwards of one thousand
supernumeraries for the crowd scenes. It
is understood that the deal will hang
fire until Mr. Faversham's present en
gagement is closed.
Miss Edgina de Lespine, who has been
until recently playing leads with the
Reliance, has now joined the Biograph
forces. Miss de Lespine's beauty, her
distinguished appearance and her talent
as an actress have combined to give her
prominent place in the foremost ranks of
those who have won their way to favor
with the photoplay public.
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM
In Six Parts A Powerful Drama
Full of Heart Gripping Scenes that bit hard
All territorial and booking rights controlled by
PHOTO DRAMA COMPANY
220 West 42nrl Street. New York City
WORLD SPECIAL FILMS CORP.
1 10 W. 40th ST.. NEW YORK CITY
BRANCH OFFICES COAST TO COAST
KING BAGGOT, THE STAR
OF UNIVERSAL' S PROGRAM,
A Series of Plays in Which
Along The Most Up
' Scientific
King Baggot, directing his own pro
ductions besides playing leads, has com
menced on a new series of detective
dramas, a series that promise a big
treat for picture patrons. "King, the
Detective in the Jarvis Case," written"
by himself and just being completed at
the New York Imp Studio, is the first
one.
Before proceeding on these plays Mr.
Baggott, usual to his manner, made ex
tensive studies in crime and the latest
discoveries of science that might be of
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use in detecting the criminal. Evidence
of this is had in the present .play.
King, the detective, surrounds and fills
his house with appliances of science.
For instance, when a person calls at the
front door he simply presses a button
and immediately the figure waiting out
side is shown in relief on a screen be
fore him.
Ethel Grandon plays the opposite' role,
a girl whom circumstantial evidence
points to as the murderer of an old
recluse. As the story is finally un
raveled by the detective, it appears -that
this old man was jilted years before by
the girl's mother. In Inter years be con
ceives the fiendish plan of making his
will out to the girl and then having it
appear that she killed him. After many
exciting adventures he defeats his own
purpose?. It is a mystery story of keen
suspense.
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What threatened to be a fatal acci
dent to Miss Baird occurred during the
taking of one of the last scenes in a
big three reeler Director Herbert
Brenon is just completing at the New
York Imp Studio. As it was Miss
Baird lost about half her hair and was
severely blistered about the face before
Mr. Brenon. William Shay and the
Studio electrician came to her rescue
and smothered out the flames with their
bare hands.
The story is laid in Little Italy and
concerns a wild young Italian girl, who
induces her lover to steal the jewels
from the sacred Madonna. The acci
dent occurred when Miss Baird, as the
girl, prayed before the Madonna fearing
for liw life. Her -hair, hanging down
her back, brushed against one of the
lighted candles adorning the foot of the
statue. There was a cry of warning
from Mr. Brenon as the flames licked
up the loose strands, a scream from
Miss Baird, and several bauds snatclred
at her to prevent disaster. It was a
painful and fearful experience for the
young woman, but she believes she can
finish the picture with the aid of a
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IN DETECTIVE DRA3HAS
Sleuthing Is to be Pursued
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Lines.
Perhaps one of the most unusual in
cidents that ever occurred in the tak
ing of moving pictures happened the
other day when Director William Daly
was filming a scene in the great' forth
coming three reel Imp feature, "The
Militant." Including his leads. Miss
Fritzi Brunette and Glen White, he had
almost two hundred "supers" on the
street to take part in the suffrage meet
ing 'and mobbing to follow. Just prior
to the giving of the signal after the
meeting by Mr. Daly which, was to
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start the stampede, a man was run
down and killed by an auto across the
sireet. A huge crowd of men immedi
ately gathered. Before explanations
could be made by Dais, supers eharged
the curious onlookers, and the latter, be
lieving they were being seriously at
tacked, fought back. A general fight
ensued. Eyes were blackened, noses
smashed and several women that were
caught in the eddies bad their hair
pulled down and faces scratched.
In the producing of a picture called
"A Water-Soaked Hero." Arthur Ho
taling, of the Lubin Jacksonville Studio,
used 40,000 gallons of water to supply
a scene in which a broken pipe is sup
posed to flood a house. It did the work
all right and destroyed several hundred
dollars worth of property, besides soak
ing eight of the players. Arthur claims
that he was not soaked at the time.
The swimming season is now at a
close in Lubinville, leaving Isador
Schwartz, Assistant Studio Manager,
champion, and George TerwilKger of the
Scenario Department second. Terwil
liger is known as the "Shakespeare of
the Silent Drama."
Earl Metcalf, leading man for Harry
C. Myers' Company, at the Lubin
Studio, has turned down a flattering of
fer from a well-known theatrical firm
in New York. Earle says: "I am in
the movies to stay."
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Marion Leonard In
A Drama of Power
"A Leaf In The Storm," A
Warner's Features Play
Emotional in Effect.
The World Special Filmt Corporation
Presents "Protea", A Five Reel
"Thriller" That Thrills, Gripi, Fas
cinates. Amazes And Astounds The
Spellbound Spectators Who Behold It.
Warner's ; Features, Inc., presents
Miss Marion Leonard in "A Leaf in the
Storm," a photoplay feature in three
parts. This is a powerful, dramatic
story, strong and logical in its plot,
vivid in its contrasts of life, running the
whole gamut of the emotions.
It opens in a New York tenement,
where Miss Leonard is living in hopes
of finding the means to support herself
and little baby. A month before her
husband had been killed in a mine acci
dent and Miss Leonard sought the city,
leaving her child in the care of a neigh
bor family. Tired, wretched and weak,
she is aroused by a knock on the door.
A youth of the underworld, struck with
her beanty, has followed her home.
Suavely he tells her where she can se
cure work. When he offers her money
to pay for a new dress, she understands
and drives him from the room. Another
knock. It is her landlord. She must
pay her rent in the morning.
Her eye falls on the card left by the
"cadet." That night she answers it and
appears at the dance hall. Once within,
her soul revolts. The cadet endeavors
to restrain her, but the proprietor ejects
him. At this moment a woman in
evening dress arrives on a , slumming
tour. There is a pistol duel between
two"' gangsters and the woman is in
jured, but not seriously. She confides
in Miss Leonard. According to her
story, she is married to a young English
man, sole heir to his father's fortune,
and is on her way abroad. She en
gages Miss Leonard as nurse compan- .
ion. On board ship the woman proves
to be a drunkard and worse.
A storm arises. The life-boats are
wrecked. The two women are washed
ashore on a desert island and are shel
tered by a sailor, himself a victim of
a. previous "shipwreck. The sailor and
the Englishman s wife begin a drunken
carouse on rum that has; washed ashore.
Miss Leonard fails to arouse them from,
their stupor when a sailing vessel comes
to take them off. Swiftly she gathers
the woman's proofs together, exchanges
wedding rings and a month later lands
in England and is accepted as the son's
wife. After a time the true wife ap
pears but is turned away. In the mo
ment of her triumph she realizes the
futility of it all. and leaving a note of
confession, disappears. A nephew, who
has fallen in love with her, follows her
to America. Just as she is about to
leave with her baby for the city, he
finds her and there is a joyful reunion.
The World Special Films Corporation
announce the release of the Eclair five
reel thriller. "Protea." Two nations are
about to enter into a treaty and the
third nation is anxious to learn the
terms thereof. To secure the desired in
formation a charming adventuress is en
gaged. She undertakes the task pro
vided she can have the assistance of a
certain man who is at the time serving
a prison sentence. His release is or
dered and the pair start on their task.
From this point we are treated to a. suc
cession of changes of costume, rapid
and startling, until one begins to won
der what can possibly be the next By
means of disguises and impersonations
without number, the two spies manage
to enter the house of the ambassador
who has the copy of the treaty for
safe keeping, and secure possession of
the coveted document They are closely
nursued by secret service sleuths, who
succeed Jn cornering her. with the only
avenue of escape a rustic bridge over a
stream. The span is about thirty feet
in length and the banks are high, so
the sleuths burn the bridge and wait to
see what Protea will do next. Presently
she is seen to ride toward the bridge on
a bicycle and then "leap the gap" in
true dare devil style, describing a high
arc and landing safely on the other side,
much to the discomfiture of the waiting
sleuths.
Thrills follow one another in such
rapid succession as to hold the audience
spellbound.
John Hardin, for several years one
of the most efficient members of the Edi
son Motion Picture Company's forces,
has resigned from that organization and
has now joined the Ambrosio American
Company, where he will occupy a post
that carries with it much responsibility.
Among Mr. Hardin's many other accom
plishments is an expert knowledge of
photography in all its details. He is
widely known and very popular among
motion picture men and is a prominent
member of the New York Screen Club.
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