Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

30 EXHIBITORS HERALD GAIL KANE IN "THE UPPER CRUST," ADAPTED FROM A "BEST SELLER," LEADS MUTUAL PROGRAM JUNE 25 Star Appears as Molly O'Toole, Whose Love for Luxury and Wealth Leads Her to Serious Indiscretions Gail Kane occupies the place of honor on the Mutual schedule for June 25, in her third production for Mutual, "The Upper Crust." This photoplay is an adaptation of Charles Sherman's "best seller" of the same title. Miss Kane appears as Molly O'Toole, a girl whose love of wealth, luxury and position leads her into a series of indiscretions which go to make up a story replete with dramatic situations and clean, wholesome comedy. "The Upper Crust" affords an opportunity for the exhibitor to co-operate with any local book seller with a big window display of the novel and stills from the play, also advertising the novel in the theater program and on the screen. The name of Gail should be featured, for this star of the stage and screen has a big following. Twelfth Chapter of Rail Serial The twelfth chapter of the serial, "The Railroad Raiders," entitled "A Fight for a Franchise," is scheduled for June 25. In this chapter the suspense is not sustained through "thrillers" but by tense situations and strong .dramatic action. Helen Holmes invades the house of Desmond, steals the contract for a franchise and on his typewriter types in the name of the K. & W. Railroad instead of the Eastern while Wilson stands guard to see that nobody disturbs her. The action centers around the effort to get this changed contract signed without the deception being discovered. The fifteenth chapter of the "Jimmie Dale, Alias the Grey Seal" series, "The Tapped Wires," is scheduled for June 29. In this story the Grey Seal is defeated at his own game. The spy of the pretender manages to get the better of Jimmie Dale and secure papers which he is trying to obtain. The Comedies Scheduled "Discords in 'A' Flat" is the La Salle comedy for June 26. Jean Otto is featured in this film which deals with a composer competing for a prize of $10,000 offered for the best opera score. The Cub comedy, ready June 28, is "Jerry's Hopeless Tangle." George Ovey, as Jerry, resents father's interference with his love making and so puts him in the water barrel to the roof, where father is forced to stay while Jerry and daughter make love. "Mutual Weekly" No. 130 will come to the screen on June 27. "Mutual Tours Around the World," ready June 26, show Naples, the largest city of Italy, and Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentine. "Reel Life," scheduled for June 28, is made up of five subjects — Marketing Raw Tobacco, Launching a Life Boat, The Life of a Bee, As They Looked in the Beginning, and Butterfly Jewelry. SANTSCHI HAS BIGGEST FILM ROLE IN SELIG'S "CITY OF PURPLE DREAMS Tom Santschi has the best role of his career as star in the forthcoming Selig feature, "The City of Purple Dreams." The whole plot of the story centers about him in the role of Daniel Fitzhugh. In this characterization Santschi runs the gamut of human experiences, beginning as a down-and-out derelict recently released from prison, through the various stages of his career as dishwasher, street fakir, confidence man, and finally his rise to a millionaire speculator in wheat. Others who will have important roles in the producduction arc Bessie Eyton, Fritzi Brunette, Eugenie Besserer and Frank Clark. GEORGE BEBAN AND HOUSE PETERS STAR IN TWO PALLAS FEATURES ON PARAMOUNT PROGRAM JUNE 18 WEEK Two Pallas productions, "A Roadside Impresario," starring George Beban, and "The Heir of the Ages," with House Peters, will be issued by Paramount the week of June 18. That same week Paramount will publish the seventy-first edition of the Paramount-Bray Pictographs, the magazine-on-the-screen; the seventy-second of the series of weekly trips around the world, conducted by Burton Holmes, showing "Fruitful Florida," and a Klever Komedy, "Commuting," starring Victor Moore. Mr. Beban is seen in "A Roadside Impresario," as a roaming Italian with a trick bear performing for the benefit of the children in wayside towns. Mr. Beban, himself, doing the tricks the bear is supposed to do. How, while trying to earn money enough as a dishwasher in a restaurant to get Bruno, the bear, out of jail, where he has been incarcerated for wrecking an apiary, he discovers a blackmailing plot against the local candidate for mayor, and also finds his daughter, for whom he has been searching for sixteen years. This is brought about in a most unusual and appealing manner. Mr. Beban is surrounded by a cast including Harrison Ford, Fred Huntley, Adcle Farrington and Julia Faye. In a drama of brotherly love, "The Heir of the Ages," House Peters will be seen as a primitive man in the days of cave life and shows the human instincts of unselfishness and love. Later, the situations which confronted him ages ago come again when he is superintendent of a mine in a small western town. He falls in love with an ignorant little mountain girl, only to lose her to his worthless brother in the east, and then nearly loses his life in an effort to save theirs. How he finally wins the object of his heart is brought about in a novel manner. In the cast supporting House Peters are Eugene Pallette, Nina Byron, Henry Barrows and Adele Farrington. PEOPLES THEATER IN PORTLAND, ORE., GETS RECORD CROWDS WITH FAIRBANKS Many photographs showing crowded lobbies of people seeking admittance have been published, but here is one from a different angle, telling a different story. John Stills, Assistant Manager of People's Theater, Portland, Ore., Going to the Bank with a Day's Receipts from Fairbanks' "In Again — Out Again" (Artcraft) The smiling carrier of the heavy money-bag in the picture is Assistant Manager John Stills of the Peoples Theater, Portland, Ore., leaving the theater for the bank with one day's receipts on the Fairbanks-Artcraft picture "In Again — Out Again." The attendance broke all records at this house.