Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1917 - Jun 1918)

■"■> .LA X H B R H R D urial of First to Fall in France Depicted in Screen Telegram No. 5 Impressive burial services for the first American solrs who died in action in France are shown in Screen Teleam No. 5. published March 18 by Mutual. The pictures the first to come from France. They show the trenche> lere the first Yankee fell, as well as the services behind the ches. The reel includes scenes taken during Douglas Fairbanks' tiation of Screen Telegram at Grauman's new million doipicture palace at Los Angeles. Fairbanks turned out to Dip the Grauman's put over the first picture and as part of the iiening's festivities walked on his hands across the porch of ■e entrance. 1 Rev. "Billy" Sunday's sensational arrival in Chicago for "Spring Drive" against Satan and the Kaiser, and th ieat crowd which met him at the station, the throng at the nernacle and a closeup of the baseball evangelist, are also sown. I Scenes from France picture the new French heavy guns in s:ion against the Germans. At the University of California I; young men students are training for war and one of the list unusual of their training stunts is picking up marbles uh their toes to cure flat feet. I The fourth issue of Screen Telegram, published March :J carries scenes of the monster demonstration by Chicago llish patriots for a free Poland, in which 35,000 Poles turned ■t. Ignace Jan Paderewski, the master pianist, posed espedlv for the Screen Telegram. I Hundreds of beautiful and healthy youngsters, clad only in ■:ir "tout ensemble," and with all the innocent naivete of lied youth, are shown disporting themselves on the beach 4 Los Angeles. t Other pictures shown in the issue are: The visit of the .])st Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, primate of the Church of ■ gland and archbishop of York, attending services at the Ithedral of St. John the Divine. Xew York; the annual shoot C the Xew York Athletic club: the start of the bands from Imp Custer on a tour of Michigan to help the Red Cross: the like of Toronto shipbuilders against the decree reducing I "kick" in their beer. Select Gets "Good Night, Paul1' Constance Talmadge has commenced the filming of "Good jht, Paul." another Select picture in which she is presented Lewis J. Selznick. This is her sixth Select Star Series Induction and the third which she has made this season at Bllywood. Cal. As Matilda Landers, it is said Miss Talmadge Hs a role in which she can display to their fullest the vivacI. buoyant independence and loveableness so admired by f jtoplay-goers. ■ "Good Night. Paul!" was a distinct stage success of the H'rent season in which Ralph Herz was featured with Elizabh Murray, and which i~ now on tour. The play is by Hand Oliver, who wrote "The Three Twins," and Charles Kkson. The scenario is by Julia Crawford Ivers. the author ■numerous popular photoplays, who also adapted "Up the Bad With Sallie," which Constance Talmadge has just fin«ed for Select. I The screen version of "Good Night. Paul!" is being diluted by Walter Edwards, whose many productions have In him an enviably high reputation as a "boss of the lot." Francis X. Bushman as a Crook Francis X. Bushnjan has a most congenial role, it is said. "With Xeatness and Dispatch," his next Metro picture, ich is an adaptation of Kenneth L. Roberts' Saturday EvenPost story of the same name. Bushman is cast as Paul naldson, a virile young American, who is mistaken for "ook by a beautiful girl. He takes the identity of the crook I for the sake of adventure and finds his full quota of sur;es. Two Toto Comedies a Month for Pathe Beginning April 14 Pathe will issue two Toto comedies lonth instead of one, as heretofore. "The Phantom Feud," Alice Brady's Next On March 1st, Alice Brady commenced work on "The Phantom Feud." her fifth Select Picture. Miss Brady's productions for Select now comprise "Her Silent Sacrifice," "Woman and Wife," adapted from "Jane Eyre." "The Knife," that stage hit and screen sensation, and "At the Mercy of Men." which she has just completed and in which she returned to the Russian locale of so many of her earlier characterizations. In this latest picture Miss Brady's leading man will be Craufurd Kent, who appears as Aubrey Hapgood. the young novelist for whom Rosa Gelardi, the heroine, acts as secretary and whose love she later wins. Miss Brady's leading woman in this production is Ormi Hawley, who recently registered a hit in "The Antics of Ann." and who creates the role of Ruth. Aubrey's innocent young sister who falls into the clutches of a pair of foreign sharpers. The direction of "The Phantom Feud" is in the hands of Emile Chautard. Bert Lytell to Star in Western Play Bert Lytell will make his bow as a Metro star in the role of a manly hero in a picturization of Charles Alden Seltzer's novel "The Trail to Yesterday " The part of Ned Keegles. later known as "Dakota" gives the star ample opportunities, it is said, for making his initial Metro picture a "bull's eye hit." This rugged romance will be staged on western cattle ranches, the broad plains and the Grand Canvon of the Colorado. Stage Play for Billie Burke Billie Burke's latest appearance under the Paramount trade-mark is in "Eve's Daughter." adapted to the screen byMargaret Turnbull from the play by Alicia Ramsey, which will be issued in March. Florence Flynn. Harriet Ross. Lucile Carney, Mary Navaro and Henry Lee complete the cast of the principal characters. The production was directed by James Kirkwood. Five Fox Productions Completed Five new photoplays have been completed at the William Fox studios in the East. The finished pictures are: R. A. Walsh's drama "Woman and the Law," which began an engagement at the Lyric Theatre March 3: William Farnum's production "Rough and Ready," "The Debt of Honor," in which Peggy Hyland makes her debut as a William Fox star. "A Camouflage Kiss," a comedy by June Caprice, and "A Daughter of France." a stirring drama starring Virginia Pearson. "Mr. Fix It" Fairbanks' Next Film Douglas Fairbanks' next photoplay for Artcraft will be entitled "Mr. Fix It," from a story written by '.llan Dwan. the supervising director. It will follow "Headin' South" and will be" published in April. Irene Castle in "Hillcrest Mystery" Irene Castle is the star of the Pathe play "The Hillcrest Mystery." which will be published on March 24. Ralph Kellard. Pearl White's leading man in "Pearl of the Army" and also the hero of "The Shielding Shadow," another Pathe serial, is Mrs. Castle's leading man. Wyndham Standing, the well known actor, also has a prominent part in the cast. George Fitzmaurice of Astra directed it. Ouida Bergere wrote both the story and the scenario. "The Hillcrest Mystery" is described as a fast moving, thrilling play, a mystery story with the ending always in doubt. Like' "Convict 993," the preceding Castle picture, audiences will have every solution to the mystery but the right one. 43