Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

January 5, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 17 January Triangle Program Announced Olive Thomas, Alma Rubens, J. Barney Sherry and Jack Richardson Are Featured in Plays of a Diversified Nature. TRIANGLE will open the new year with a program of merit that includes a comedy drama with Olive Thomas, a big drama of the Navajo Indian country with Jack Richardson, a production of beauty featuring Alma Rubens, with scenes laid in Italy and France, and a tense drama of professional life with J. Barney Sherry, are among the features to be released in January. And there will be others, all with an interesting story to tell. For the first week in January, Olive Thomas with Charles Gunn, is scheduled to appear in "Betty Takes a Hand," a pleasantly humorous, fast moving story written by Katherine Kavanaugh. For the second .release of the week, Jack Richardson will appear in "Man Above the Law" with Claire McDowell and Josie Sedgwick supporting. The second seven part feature to be produced under the new Triangle plan of a seven-reel picture every month, will be released January 13, under the title, "I Love You," with Alma Rubens as the star. For the second part of the week's program, "Law's Outlaw," featuring Roy Stewart, now recognized as one of the foremost delineators of western characters, will be released. The story was written by Ethel and James Dorrance. For the week of January 20, "Evidence," a drama dealing with professional life and with J. Barney Sherry in the leading role, will be released. Jack Cunningham, of the Triangle scenario staff, wrote this play. Margery Wilson who has added new laurels to her achievements with every successive appearance will have the leading role in "Flames of Chance," adapted from the story, "Three Godsons of Jeanette Contreau," by Francis W. Sullivan, which recently appeared in The Ladies Home Journal. For the last week in January, the first release will be "The Gun Woman," a brilliant western story. Texas Guinan, formerly of the Winter Garden, New York, bas the title role. To round out the month's program, Triangle has a Japanese production of exceptional beauty, "Her American Husband." The play is a reversal of the characters and situations in John Luther Long's famous "Madame Butterfly." Dainty Teddy Sampson appears in the leading feminine role as a beautiful Japanese girl and Darrell Foss has the leading male part. This is Miss Sampson's first appearance in Triangle features. Thomas Kurihara, the well-known Jap anese actor, and Jack Abbe, also have prominent parts. Starts New Picture Ann Pennington has begun work on her new Paramount picture, "Calvary Alley." Picture Men Lose Fight There will be no moving picture theater on Grand avenue, St. Paul, Minn. The lively fight which was waged between residents in the neighborhood of 1051 Grand avenue, who favored or disapproved of the attempt of Heilbron & Weiskopf to put a theater in this neighborhood, is over. The city council of St. Paul, by a vote of 4 to 3, decided against the picture theater promoters. Productions Completed for 1918 CTUDIOS producing features for the Mutual Film Corporation have completed releases for the first two months of the new year and a schedule for January, 1918, has been announced. Completed productions include pic Mutual Releases for First Two Months of New Year Are Finished — Schedule Is Announced for January tures from east and west coast studios starring William Russell, Mary Miles Minter, Margarita Fischer, Edna Goodrich, Olive Tell, Ann Murdock and Anita King. The schedule for January includes: December 31: Edna Goodrich in "Her Second Husband," a five-reel satire built on the extraordinary adventure of a young husband and wife who rush into divorce when "easy money" jars domestic tranquillity and find love again in a strange fashion. January 7: Margarita Fischer in "Molly Go Get 'Em," a five-reel comedy drama of the experiences of an attractive and irresponsible young woman who chafes under parental efforts to keep her charms subdued until a rapidly aging sister manages to marry. January 14: Ann Murdock in "The Impostor," a picturization of the Charles Frohman play which casts Miss Murdock in the role of a self-supporting, unsophisticated miss, whose trust in a wellmeaning married man leads to complications, defiance of convention and stops just short of a scandal. January 21: Mary Miles Minter in "Mile. Tiptoe," wherein the adorable Miss Minter is cast as a charmingly enthusiastic reformer of things as they are, political and economic, and relates her adventures in trying to make the world better and easier. January 28: William Russell in "In Bad," an adventure drama which reveals Mr. Russell's unusual abilities as an actor and an athlete to even greater advantage than they have heretofore been shown. Preview of "In Bad" has resulted in a declaration that it is easily the best thing Mr. Russell has done and trade and newspaper critics used superlatives in their reviews of his latest release, "New York Luck." Other productions completed at the Mutual studios include "The Girl and the Judge," starring Miss Olive Tell, Edna Goodrich as she appears in the Mutual star in "The Unforeseen" and "Her star production "Her Second Husband." Sister," both Frohman plays. "The Girl