Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1917 - Jun 1918)

H I B I O R H R D m Louise Glaum's First Paralta Play "An Alien Enemy" Published April 1 Louise Glaum's introduction to the world of screen amusement as a Paralta star will be made on April 1st in a sevenreel feature production, "An Alien Enemy." The strong points of the story are provided by a plot that is said to be marvelous in its strength. Miss Glaun appears in the role of "Neysa von Igel, an American-born, but German-bred, girl, who has been isolated from all outside influence since early childhood and educated by the Wilhelmstrasse to the belief that Germany is almighty. When she reaches the proper age she is sent to America as a member of the German Intelligence Department under command to devote her life, if necessary, to aiding the downfall of America. But, in the United States, another power begins to play its part in the governing of her career. From this point forward until the final scene, the picture presents many strong situations. The demand upon Mi.^s Glaum for the utmost in dramatic acting is demonstrated in the picture, and the remarkable manner in which she conforms with it, it is said, places her on a par with the greatest players of both screen and stage. In "An Alien Enemy" Miss Glaum is supported by an excellent cast. Thurston Hall, who also makes his debut as a Paralta leading man in the picture, appears in the principal male role, the part of "David Hale." The remainder of the cast includes Arthur Allardt, Jay Morley, Roy Laidlow, Joseph J. Dowling, Charles C. Hammond and Baby Mary Jane Irving. "An Alien Enemv" was produced under the direction of Wallace Worsley, from the story by Monte M. Katterjohn of the Paralta staff. It will be published on April 1st through the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. Mary Miles Minter in "Bit of Jade" To Be Published By Mutual April 1 Mary Miles Minter, in "A Bit of Jade," heads the Mutual schedule for the week of April 1. The production was made under the direction of Edward Sloman and is based on a story by Mildred Carl Graham. There is a striking scene of the interior of a Hindu temple, some beautiful views of mountain scenery and night scenes of a midnight lark of college girls in boys' clothes. Miss Minter makes a charming picture in the leading role, it is said. The tenth and eleventh issues of Screen Telegram will be published April 3 and 7. The demonstration in Chicago for the cause of Polish freedom, in which 35,000 Poles took part, headed by the famous pianist and patriot, Ignace Jan Paderewski, who posed exclusively for the Screen Telegram, was a feature of the issue of March 13. The Telegram of March 18 contained Official War Pictures from France showing impressive ceremonies over the bodies of the first Americans killed in action. The reiease of March 20 also contained some remarkable pictures from the war front. One of these shows the ruins of the beautiful cathedral of Saint Andrews, in France. Billie Rhodes will appear in a Strand comedy, "She Couldn't Grow Up," on April 2. Mary is always stealing her older sister's sweethearts, so she receives orders to keep in the background. She is compelled to dress as a child so as to give sis a chance. But on the night of the big dance she locks her sister and mother in the room and captures big sister's best beau. When sis escapes from the room she finds her beau's wife has shown up, and Mary is forgiven. Madge Kennedy, Mabel Normand and Mae Marsh in Coming Goldwyn Plays Goldwyn's spring drive is in full operation at the Fort Lee, N. J., studios and the big glass top shelters a host of busy workers. With Mary Garden's feature, "The Splendid Sinner," completed, workers in every department are breathing easier now that the finishing touches have been placed on the social melodrama of today in which the singer makes her second appearance on the screens of the world. It was issued March 24. No small part of Goldwyn's activities are attributable to Mabel Normand. Hardlv had she become acclimatized to the chill of Fort Lee after her sojourn in Tampa, Fla., than she started on another production. George Loane Tucker directed the scenes made in Florida to replace those eliminated at the request of the Government and he will reconstruct "Joan of Plattsburg" before it is issued in May. Miss Normand's new production, the title of which is not announced, it is said, affords unusual scope for her rapidly maturing abilities as an actress who is equally herself in moments of pathos and tears. Clarence G. Badger is directing the play, an adaptation of a Broadway success by a noted playwright. Mae Marsh, having finished "The Face in the Dark," has begun work on her new production. Whimsical charm and exciting conditions are woven into the new production being directed by Hobart Henley. The story is by Edith Barnard Delano. Madge Kennedy is reaching the close of "The Danger Game," under the direction of Harry Pollard. Alice Brady Plays a Dual Role in Select Film "The Ordeal of Rosetta' "The Ordeal of Rosetta," which Alice Brady is now making for Select Pictures, is said to be noteworthy, not only for its tensely emotional plot, but also for the many particularly interesting high lights in the production itself. Permission was recently secured to photograph the members of the cast entering Sherry's, the famous Fifth Avenue restaurant. The interior of this resort has been reproduced, with the aid of numerous pictures, in Miss Brady's studio, and the audiences which will see her latest photoplay will see what is, to all intents and purposes, the very restaurant itself. From the luxury which Sherry's embodies, the camera will next be directed at the contrasted immigrant neighborhood about Mulberry Bend Park, which is thronged by recent arrivals from Italy. Miss Brady's director has completed arrangements to photograph a four-room apartment, which is the actual residence of a Sicilian family, thus carrying out the adherence to realism displayed throughout this picture. For this picture also, was built an exact reproduction of Chamberlain Brown's office for the theatrical agency of the story; and The New York Bill Posting Company loaned for it its giant bill-poster to stick up the lithograph on which much of the action hinges. Alice Brady's portrayal of the dual role, the two sisters in the story, will undoubtedly establish the star's reputation on an even higher plane that she has achieved in her earlier Select Pictures. Germany's Attempt to Corner Cotton Shown in One "Eagles Eye" Episode In one of the episodes upon which The Whartons are now working in their production of Chief Flynn's story of German spies and propaganda in America, "The Eagle's Eye," it will be shown how the agents of the Hohenzollern tribe used the white and fleecy cotton ball as an instrument of destruction in the United States. Many of Imperial Germany's crimes in America are distinctly traceable to cotton. Germany wanted cotton. It wanted it badly. In one of the papers taken from the portfolio of Dr. Heinrich Albert, fiscal spy, it is shown that Germany sought to corner the entire cotton output of the United States, so that no one could have cotton. Germany had been stopped from receiving it by the cordon of battleships which Great Britain had thrown across its lane of shipping. And Germany made up its mind that if it couldn't get cotton no one could get it and, if anyone did get it, it should be a Frankenstein that would destroy them. The result was that cotton formed the basis of many a crime in which Boy-Ed, von Papen, Albert, and even Johann von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador to the United States, were involved — crimes that ran all the way from arson to murder — and even farther, to slow torture of the ill and injured. _ J All these things are to be displayed in the cotton episode upon which the Whartons are working, many of the scenes for which will be taken in the cotton districts of the South, and in the gins and bale compressors. A company is to be sent South shortly to cover all phases of Germany's activity in the world of cotton.