The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

Vol. 15, No. 7 The Moving Picture Weekly 19 lawlinson in "The Man Under Cover" ONE of the chief reasons why Herbert Rawlinson is a star of Universal Special Attractions today is that he is such a clean-cut, open-face model. Men aren't made any more honest or sincere. But extreme honesty doesn't always show in a man's personality. It isn't always engraved as it should be on a face that fronts an honest mind. Frankness sometimes registers only fifty per cent or less on the outside. Rawlinson's doesn't — it shows up plainly, one hundred per cent, visible. Of course there is a reason back of it: Rawlinson's personal life and his personal tastes. The star of "The Man Under Cover," a Universal photoplay coming to the theatre next , isn't any Bohemian artist of the type so common in pictures. He doesn't go raving crazy over the latest exhibit of futuristic painting or the current ■8 TELL 'EM ABOUT— 1— HERBERT RAWLINSON, the star, handsomer, more athletic and with more pep and animation than two ordinary stars. 2 — The direction of Tod Browning, master director of "Outside the Law," "No Woman Knows" and other Universal-Jewel successes. 3 — The fact that this story was written by a "man who knows" — Louis Victor Eytinge, not only a brilliant writer, star prisoner of the Arizona penitentiary, but one of the most interesting figures in America as well; whose unique "comeback" has been written about by many prominent journalists. 4 — The well known oil game, nemesis of many an amateur capitalist, which furnishes the story with its pivotal situations; not much oil, but a lot of swell, gilt-edged stock ! 5 — Barbara Bedford in the opposite lead and knockout cast including George Hernandez, George Webb, William Courtwright, Willis Marks, Gerald Pring, Ed. Tilton and others. 6 — The fact that not only has comment in literary and screen circles been aroused to a high pitch by this unique picture written by a convict, but the attention drawn to his case may secure for him a long deserved pardon! 7 — Harvey Gates, the scenarist, a good bet — with "Hell Morgan's Girl," "The Wild Cat of Paris" . and "The Sting of the Lash" behind him. 8 — World-wide exploitation through one of the leading news services HERBERT '£/-/£ MAM t//VD£# COV£Ml' >\ UNIVERSAL PICTU P2_E of the case of Eytinge, first made famous by Peter MacFarlane in "Men Who Came Back," a story that has every one interested in seeing what kind of a crook picture Eytinge would write. 9 — The fact that Herbert Rawlinson made his greatest success as a leading man in crook pictures and this is his first opportunity under his new starring agreement to appear in such films and that it's a reversion also of Browning to the type of picture of "Outside the Law," a knockout crook film. 10 — Typical Universal filming for a good star and director; only — with a few unique elements above even the Universal average. CAST Paul Porter. HERBERT RAWLINSON Daddy Moffatt George Hernandez Mayor Harper .... William Courtwright Jones Wiley George Webb "Coal Oil" Chase '., Ed. Tilton Holt Langdon Gerald Pring Margaret Langdon ...Barbara Bedford The Kiddies Helen Stone Betty Eliason celebrity in the field of verse libre. Funny parties of the Greenwich Village type, where the men mostly have long hair and the women short, appeal to him about as much as a dish of fried pork fat garnished with broken glass and seived with maple syrup. He is thoroughly normal. From six in the morning till ten at night he is keenly alive with the pleasure of a well-balanced life. Athletics give his physical self practical perfection and wholesome diversions keep him in topnotch trim from the-neck up. He is strongly interested in the case of Louis Victor Eytinge, the author of "The Man Under Cover," whose efforts to lead a normal, productive life within the gray walls of a penitentiary have aroused the interest of a real sensation in the literary world. Eytinge is a lifer in the Arizona State prison, and "The Man Under Cover" is the f ruit of his years behind the bars^ % AT A GLANCE TITLE— "The Man Under Cover." BRAND — Universal Special Attraction. STAR— HERBERT RAWLINSON, PREVIOUS SUCCESSES— As leading ing man of "Conflict" and as star of "The Millionaire," "Cheated Hearts" and "The Scrapper." SUPPORTING CAST— Barbara Bedford, George Hernandez, William Courtwright, Willis Marks, George Webb, Ed. Tilton, Gerald Pring, Helen Stone and Betty Eliason. DIRECTED BY— Tod Browning, who directed "Outside the Law," "The Virgin of Stamboul" and "No Woman Knows." STORY BY— Louis Victor Eytinge, the most famous prisoner in America, a "lifer" in the Arizona State penitentiary, who, after seventeen years of prison life, is astonishing the literary world with pen pictures of life. SCENARIO BY— Harvey Gates, scenarist of "Hell Morgan's Girl," "The Wild Cat of Paris" and "The Sting of the Lash." PHOTOGRAPHY BY— Virgil Miller. TIME— Today, a "new leaf" later than yesterday. LOCALE — Homeville, the old home town anywhere. $7,000.00 IN PRIZES! Read Announcement on Page 10