Moving Picture World (May - Jun 1918)

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Ma) 11. 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WORJLD hotel In Pittsburgh, and tells his sweetto meet him thei e and be mai rled. Youn^ Firkins hears of Rooth's api it and boards the sain. train to the gylvania city. Firkins executes many les to keep Uooth from the prince's but not even a stick of dynamite near the end of the play halts Booth. is the blR order, and In is married despite the attempts of Firkins to steal the girl. Feature George Walsh as Robert Booth .in.1 Regina Qulnn as Ruth Hunneywell. Program nnd Advertising Phraaesi l'.ati Million With a Girl. A Ripping Storj of Love and Business. A Photodrama of Love and Ledgers. As Full of '•Pep*' as a Hot Tamale. A'alsh, the Unman Dynamo. \ Screen Success Replete With Thrilling Stunts. Maal Suggestions: Put out a banner with this inscription, ••Wanted: One Billion Hollar Contract." Make a little mystery of the hour Booth is to meet the prince. 4:40 o'clock. Put an advertisement in the paper or have little slips printed reading, " 'Brave and Bold' — be there at 4:40 (name of theater)." "You'll >1. "00, 000,000 if you're not at the nted place at 4:-tu (name of theater!.'' "If you never saw a billion dollar contract be at i name of theater) today." advertising Aids: Two styles each, one, three and six-sheets. Lobby displays, 8x10, llxl i 1'ress sheet and mats (mats can be secured free by writing to the Fox Film Corporation, Publicity Department, York City), cms are made on special order at the rate of 20 cents per column. .iren to participate, Make it a real circus daj tdvertlsiag Mdsi Two styles each one, three and alx-aheets Rotogravure Lobbj dlspla] s. 8x10, 11x11 an. i 22x28 Ten .tits each "f star an. I production, ■•' three columna wide, slides. Advert laj out mats. Press i k. "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH." Thomas H. Ince Presents Enid Bennett in Florence Vincent's Story; Directed by Jerome Storm. Photographed by Charles Stumar. Paramount Release for May 6. Cast. Roxie Kemp Enid Bennett Owen Trent Earl Rodney Mar jorie Trent Ethel Lynn Mrs Trent Bliss Chevalier Col. Jeffrey Trent Carl Stockdale Xat Kemp Melbourne MacDowell The Story: Roxie Kemp is a showgirl whose act is to face several lions in their cage. She quits the circus when she is seventeen, and enters a girls' academy, where she has many interesting adventures, including one in which she saves a eirl chum from a vicious dog. The mother of Roxie's sweetheart is an aristocratic woman who refuses to sanction the marriage of her son to a former circus girl. Her husband, however, a colonel, then confesses that he owns part of the circus, and hints that if Roxie is not good enough for his son he (the colonel) is not good enough for the proud mother. After Roxie risks her life to save her father's circus from a riotous mob she is accepted as true blue all around, and finds happiness. Feature Enid Bennett as Roxie Kemp and Earl Rodney as Owen Trent. Program and Advertising Phrases: An Interesting Story of Intimate Circus Life With a Love Interest of Intense Appeal. Brave Girl Trains Wild Animals and Tames Social Lions. Fascinating Life "With the Circus Revealed Day by Day. Brave Circus Queen Show Ability to Run Society Circus. Dan Cupid Proves Himself the Greatest of All Showmen. Sensational Photoplay With Impelling Heart Interest. Advertising Suggestions: There is every chance to "bill like a circus" and pull all the "circus stunts" that may be devised. Transform the lobby into the appearance of a circus "marquee"; tent concerns in all of the large cities will rent banners and "fronts." Extra paper can be secured from the lithographic firms to literally "bill like a circus." Tou can devise your own street parade and get plenty of chil "MLLE. PAULETTE." Triangle Presents Claire Anderson in George Cowell's Story. Scenario by Frank Condon. Photographed by G. E. Peterson. Directed by Raymond Wells. Released May 5. < list. Paula Grey Claire Anderson Robert Wayne George Pearce Jack Wayne Wallace MacDonald Hill Jones Walter Perry Hilda Dot Hagar Mrs. Wilkins \nnu Dodge Oscar Smallett George Hernandez Rev. Iehabod WhifTen John Lince I he otory: At a mountain resort where his father lias sent him to keep him from further Indulgence in New York City's gay life, Jack Wayne rescues Mil.-. Paulette, an actress, who, in private life, is Paula Grey, from drowning. Assuming that she is just a visitor. Jack takes her to his .amp. Shortly after his father, who has decided to pay him a surprise visit. appears. Jack tries to smuggle Mile. Paulette out concealed in his bathrobe, but Mr. Wayne, believing that his son is up to his old tricks again, orders him back to New York. Some time later a girl friend of Jack's invites him to the home of Mile. Paulette, and he is surprised to recognize in her the girl he rescued in the country. A newspaper reporter complicates matters by printing a notice to the effect that Jack and Mile. Paulette are engaged, thereby arousing the ire of Mr. Wayne, but in the end everything turns out happily as Jack and Mile. Paulette announce their engagement. Feature Claire Anderson as Paula Grey and Wallace MacDonald as Jack Wayne. Program and Advertising Suggestions: When Father and Son Compete for the Same Prize the Call of Youth to Youth Awards the Victory. The Idle Rich Engage in Battle Under Gen. Dan Cupid. Surprising Outcome of a Vacation Romance. Sensational Newspapers Uncover Stage Scandal. Stage Beauty Makes Quick Choice Between Father and Son. Romping With the Sirens of the Great White Way. Advertising Aids: Two one-sheets, one each three and six-sheets. Heralds in rotogravure. Slides. Lobby displays, llx 14 and 22x28. Electros and mats. Press sheets. "AN HONEST MAN." Triangle Presents William Desmond in Henry P. Dowsts' Story. Scenario by George E. Jenks. Released May 5. Cast. Benny Boggs William Desmond Beatrice Burnett Mary Warren Xanine La Rose (Ruby Cushinm, Ann Kroman Old Man Cushing Graham Tette The Story: Benny Boggs, a tramp, is rejected at a recruiting station. Wandering, he lands at Old Man Cushing's farm. Cushing, who is taken violently ill, and fearing that he will die. tells Boggs of a package behind a cider barrel which he would like to have delivered to his runaway daughter, Ruth, who is somewhere in the city. Boggs finds that the package contains $50,000, but being an honest man refrains from stealing the money. In the city, after various experiences, he comes upon Ruth, who, being unable to make a living on the stage, is almost destitute. Boggs takes her home to her fat hei . « ho i Th.. t wo fall in love, and 1 1 • 1 ward Boggi lesvei to fight tor his country, Ruth vowing to marrj him upon I urn Peat ore William i >■ mond u Bennj B ami Ann Kroman a Ruby Cush Prog rasa and tdvertlslas. Phrases i Would ["rust a Tramp With jr.", In to Bi Delivered to foui Daughter in New fork's i rnderwoi id ' Rejected i Recruit, Accepted Sweet loan The Call i.i Countrj and the Call of Love. i m.e Moi .• Horn ' . Provec to Be the Best Policy. True Love survives Despite Hungei Poverty. Rugged Honesty wins Reward in Wealth and Happiness. Advertising \ids: One design ea.h one, three and six-sheets. Special process art heralds. Lobby displays, 11x14 and 22x2*. Photographs, slides. Electros and mats. Triangle Magazine. Press sheet. "A ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD." Frank A. Keeney Pictures Corporation Presents Catherine Calvert in the Late Paul Armstrong's Greatest Screen and Stage Creation. Directed by James Kirkwood. Released on State Rights Plan. « ast. Doris Elliott Catherine Calvert Richard Elliott David Powell Thomas McDonald Eugene O'Brien Michael O'Leary ICdwin Forsberg Mamie Bronson Sybil Carmen Dopie Benny Cecil Chichester Slippery Jake Harry Lee Sarah Marcia Har-is The Story: When Thomas McDonald, a young reform lawyer, institutes an investigation of the underworld, Doris Elliott, recently out of a convent, learns to her dismay that her brother, Richard, is a habitue of the low dives of the c:cy. Michael O'Leary, a trafficker in drugs, lures Mamie Bronson to an opium den, and nothing more is heard of her. O'Leary then tries to set Doris into his power, and is attacking her when Richard, who has been apprised of the plan by Benny, a dope fiend, enters. In the struggle which takes place in the dark a shot is fired, and O'Leary is found dead. Doris shoulders the blame, but during the trial Dopey Benny announces that he killed O'Leary. Benny succumbs to the effects of the drug, and the climax pictures Doris as the wife of the reform lawyer, who defended her during the trial. Feature Catherine Calvert as Doris Elliott and Eugene O'Brien as Thomas McDonald. Program and Advertising I'hrases: Picturing the Great Sociological Problems .sed in the Fight Against the Use of Habit-Forming Drugs. Exposing the Iniquities and Crimes of New York's Underworld. Great Moral Force Disclosed in Crusades Against Crime. Realistic Scenes and Incidents Picturing New York's Underworld. Backing the Government's Fight Against Habit-Forming Drugs. Great Love and Noble Sacrifice Revealed in Gripping Drama. Advertising Siurjjestions: The crusade ..gainst habit-forming drugs is going on all the time in every bite city. Even the smallest communities have their victims. Showmen should investigate the conditions in their vicinity, and may easily couple the picture with the situation. Drug habits constitute a deadly evil, and this picture can be made to serve good purposes. \dvertising Aids: Two styles of onesheets. Two styles of three-sheets. One six-sheet. One twenty-four-sheet. Lobby displavs. Heralds. Cuts. Press matter.