The Moving Picture Weekly (1918-1919)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -15 AT A GLANCE. STAR: Ruth Clifford. PREVIOUS HITS: "Midnight Madness" and many Monroe Salisbury successes in which she co-starred. DIRECTED BY: Rupert Julian, who produced the year's greatest money picture, "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." SCENARIO BY: Fred Myton. SUPPORTING CAST: Ralph Lewis and George Fisher as the two principal supporting characters; a village priest, society folk and police officers. LOCALE: A palatial townhouse, its surroundings, and the interior of a village Catholic chapel. THE TIME: Now. THUMB-NAIL THEME: Lucile Linforth, a beautiful girl, is maiTied to a man twice her years who has lost the art of iove. She tries to awaken in him the instincts of fatherhood, and in failing, turns unconsciously to a young man who was brought under her husband's roof by circumstance. In the end her marriage to him is made possible. ADVERTISING PUNCHES: 1. — The plot of a young wife and an old husband brought to a wholesome climax. 2. — The beauty of the star. 3. — Rupert Julian's name as the director. 4. — The daring scene of a young woman trying to arouse desire in her doddering husband. 5. — A frank statement that love frequently dies in the boudoir. Ruth Clifford, the dainty star of "Fires of Youth" which will be seen at Theater, on , has a new leading man in the person of George Fisher. He has played with almost every feature company on the Western coast. They make a very interesting looking pair. Although the "Fires of Youth" treats of a daring subject, the same being the attempt of a young wife to arouse the desire for paternity in her aged husband, it has been exquisitely handled by the director Rupert Julian and is as delicately played bv Ruth Clifford as star. "Fires of Youth" will be seen at Theatre. ADVERTISING DISPLAY LINES Better a Poor Man's Wife Than a Rich Man's Plaything. Love Never Dies With His Boots On. Nature's Greatest Law Made Her An Outlaw. She Fanned the Flame of An Old Man's Love and Saw the Embers Die. Love Has a Toll-Gate On the Highway of Life. He signed Away His Liberty To Save the Girl He Loved from the Pain of Veiled inference. He worked Eight Hours and Slept Eight Hours. That Left Eight Hours for Love. A DARING THEME EXQUISITELY HANDLED. FOLLY OF YOUTH MATING WITH AGE. "Fires of Youth "with Ruth Clifford as Star Was Directed by Rupert Julian. There Is Bound to Come a Reckoning As Will Be Seen in "Fires of Youth." LUCILE LINFORTH, the young and beautiful wife of an old man in whose heart the fires of love were ashes, looked from her boudoir casement and saw around her the working out of nature's greatest law. She saw it in the lives of the birds that nested in the stately trees of the estate, in the kennels where shaggy mother dogs taught fuzzy little balls of downy fur to walk without falling over their front feet. All around her she saw the majesty of birth and marvelled. It meant nothing to her, however. It was a thing unattainable. When she tried to play upon the heart-strings of her husband he turned her away and drifted back into a maelstrom of business statistics. Small wonder then that the beautiful Lucile Linforth experienced the love of youth for youth when Ronald Standish, a young friend of the family, came to live with them. Ruth Clifford plays the role of Lucile in "Fires of Youth," a Bluebird photodrama with a daring theme and a delicate presentation. It is directed by Rupert Julian, who produced "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." you would see the lovely Ruth Clifford in a role that calls for her utmost in artistry, see "Fires of Youth" to-night at the Theater. [^UTH CLIFFORD, whose beautiful face and superb acting gave luster to "Midnight Madness" in which Bluebird photoplay she co-starred with Kenneth Harlan, is at the Theater, a star in her own right. The beautiful girl has become favorably known for her work in support of Monroe Salisbury and other stars and her own starring day was only delayed for want of a suitable vehicle for her artistry. In "Fires of Youth," the Bluebird masterpiece now at the Theater, Ruth Clifford appears as Lucile Linforth, the young wife of an old husband. The Bluebird was directed by Rupert Julian, who produced "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin." In it Ruth Clifford depicts with beautiful delicacy a daring theme based upon the unsuitability of age to youth. Ralph Lewis, who plays the role of the elderly husband in the Bluebird features "Fires of Youth" which comes ■^o Theater on , was born in Evanston, Illinois and educated at Northwestern University, 'ie has had a long stage career as well as six years in motion pictures, arting with the old Reliance. He has also an important part in the new Dorothy Phillips special attraction, "The Talk of the Town."