Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1917 - Jun 1918)

iEXHI B I TORS HERALD) General Announces Blue Ridge Drama First of Ned Finley Productions Announcement is made of the schedule for the Blue Ridge )ramas. produced by Ned Finley for General Film Company. U 'The Return of O'Garry," the first of the series, will be issued i n April 13, a week later than originally planned, and other fliubjects will follow every second week. Three of the Finley I 1ms have already been completed and the company is makn ,ng arrangements to return to u.at Cave, North Carolina, to M esume its work on other films 'ach subject will be a drama ~M!j{ virile type, two reels in lengL.. "The Return of O'Garry" is a stirring tale of the Northt vest in which Ned Finley returns to the screen in the role Ijiiade famous in his O'Garry pWures produced several years ►J go by Vitagraph. Marion K y is featured with him in 8 peroine roles. The action revolves around the attempt of the toyal Mounted officer to break up the operations of a gang V fi cattle rustlers which has established itself near the American border. O'Garry disguises himself as a tenderfoot and finds emI Lloyment on the ranch which is the headquarters of the gang. ■ i?he tenderfoot is asked to help in the re-branding process, but I alls a halt by arresting the foreman. A fight follows in which I he officer is overpowered. Ciel, the foreman's daughter, at -firemPs to release the officer, but is detected and to save the llituation she pushes O'Garry into a beartrap, telling the men Blhe did it to prevent his escape. Later Ciel manages to release O'Garry and speeds him ■ (in his way for reinforcements, but is forced to seek safety t rom wolves in the top of a tree. O'Garry returns in time to ; escue the girl from her stepfather, who is attempting to brand B'ler with a red hot iron for her refusal to marry his half-breed | Companion, and another fight follows in which the mounted >fficer is victor. "Mountain Law" and "The Raiders of Sunset Gap" will ■ >e among the forthcoming Blue Ridge Dramas. Fox's April List of Films Includes Six Features and Two Cartoons The April films of the Fox Film Corporation include two t standard Plays, four Special Features, two Mutt and Jeff ani ■ 'nated cartoons and one Sunshine comedy. Of the Standard Plays, "The Soul of Buddha," is a Theda I 3ara production, written by Miss Bara herself and featuring Jfier as a half-caste Indian girl. The picture was directed by I L Gordon Edwards. "The Blindness of Divorce," the other Standard Picture, ■ .vas written and directed by Frank Lloyd. The cast includes t 'Bertha Mann, Charles Clary, Rhea Mitchell, Bertram Grassby ind other well known players. The drama tells in an effective nanner the story of a woman divorced by her husband in spite • bf her innocence and driven into despair by the scorn of so:iety. Jewel Carmen, in "The Bride of Fear," a Fox special feat jture, portrays the part of a young girl, discouraged in her at:empt to make a way for herself in a great city, who is saved from suicide by a crook. The play was written by Bennett Cohen and directed by S. A. Franklin. "American Buds" features the Fox "Baby Grands," Jane md Katherine Lee, in a romantic drama in which the two children are seen as inmates of a poor farm. Tom Mix in "Western Blood" Tom Mix. it is said, has an uproarious comedy in "Western Blood." The play is something quite different from what Mix has been accustomed to appear in because it features him and his cowpuncher friends in dress suits. George Scarborough's thrilling drama, "Her One Mistake," is the April Special Feature written for Gladys Brockwell. In this play the star again brings to the screen a dual role. The drama was staged by Edward Le Saint. Supporting Miss Brockwell are William Scott, William Louis, Charles Perlcy and other prominent screen players. The Henry Lehrman Sunshine Comedy scheduled for April is "A Waiter's Wasted Life." Mutt and Jeff, Capt. Budd Fisher's famous cartoon characters, recently adopted by W illiam Fox. will disport themselves in two April films. One is "The Freight Investigation," and the other is "The Leak." he PERISCOPE i By Fuller Pep Many a Big Ben was called a liar last Monday a. m. Well old von Hindenburg disappointed the newsweekly boys. \\ e was afraid he wouldn't show up at the gates of Paris on April 1. That was his little April Fool joke. He was only kiddin' all along. Is D. IV. G. to have a rival in that zviz. of the stage David Belasco? It looks that n-ay. Must be something in the name David, eh? The Squirrel Film Corp. has asked the court for permission to change its name to the Rita Jolivet Film Corp. Probably a poor year for nuts. "I didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" and "When the War Is Over" songs, with their sentimental mush are to be consigned to the ash can by New York music publishers. It took the film people to show them the error of their ways. Grover Cleveland Instructs Doug. Paramount's publicity agent says Alexander the Great toek no interest in motion pictures, yet we see by the papers that Doug. Fairbanks took a couple of lessons from Alexander the other day on how to curve a brick. Yes indeed those gas masks will come in mighty handy when the war is over to muffle the idiots who insist upon reading the subtitles out loud. "Figgers Don't Lie" If you don't believe it costs a tremendous amount of money to make slap-stick comedies, just cast your practiced eye over the following statistics, furnished us at great expense by the King-Bee P. A.: 170.000 feet of negative to make 2,000 feet<comedy. 14,000 actors and extras, in 20 comedies. 200 assorted pies. So buckets of soap-suds. 12 barrels of flour. 6 new automobiles, completely smashed. 29 evening gowns completely ruined. 1 accident. Strong Men Wept We think it was carrying realism too far for Nat. Goodwin to cause his case-hardened director to weep while appearing before the camera. According to one witness in the Mirror Film Company's suit this actually happened. One juror was taken sick immediately after Nat testified about the vinegar baths. It probably soured his stomach. Another vampire has caused the downfall of a mere man. This time it was a movie "director" in Chicago. The "vamp." was a Policewoman who answered the director's ad and when he said she'd be great in vampire roles, she made the "pinch." Things We'd Like to Know Why do subtitle writers insist on writing "all right" "alright" when there isn't any such word? Why they speak of Germans spreading "dissention" in "The Kaiser" when they mean "dissension?" Why the railway station in "Naughty, Naughty" is marked Florence" when the subtitle says the town is Lilyville? Joe Brandt, general sales manager for Universal, is reported to have said: "Middle west exhibitors are repairing every broken chair and putting in benches to take care of ihe spring rush of business." That may be so but we haven't iound any western theatres equipped with broken chairs or 'oenches in a long time. Most of them seem to be as comortable as the average eastern house, and quite a few a little setter.