Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1918)

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January 5, 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 109 Pathe Program Irene Castle and Doris Kenyon Featured in the Schedule for the Week of January 6. IRENE CASTLE'S best feature, Doris Kenyon in a thrillingchapter of "The Hidden Hand," and Harold Lloyd in a onereel comedy, are big points in Pathe's program for January 8. Irene Castle appears in "Convict 993," a Pathe Play special In Ave reels; produced by Astra; story and scenario by Wallace C. Clifton; directed by William Parke. To this picture goes the distinction of being the first Pathe feature of the year 191S. It marks the first time that Irene Castle has been under the direction of William Parke and it is the best picture in which the famous star has yet appeared. In the cast are a number of players of sterling merit, including Warner Oland, Helene Chadwick, J. H. Gilmour and Bert Starkey ("The Spider" in "The Fatal Ring"). "Convict 993" is a "crook" play of the kind that every audience delights in. There is plenty of action and thrills. It is an excellent picture from every angle. In it we offer to exhibitors a great box-office star, an unusually good cast and strong story. The story gives Mrs. Castle every opportunity for a display of her artistic talents and for an exhibition of a gorgeous array of gowns. It also has the virtue of a happy ending after working up a great amount of sympathy and compassion for a popular heroine who finds herself in an apparently hopeless situation. Doris Kenyon is seen in the seventh episode of "The Hidden Hand," entitled "The Fire Trap," with Sheldon Lewis, Arline Pretty and Mahlon Hamilton. Twenty feet from the ground Doris descends hand over hand down the rope which is held by Ramsey at the opening of this exciting chapter. Despite the Hidden Hand's best efforts they escape. The Hidden Hand pursues them to the Whitney lodge in the country, near which on a swaying foot bridge Ramsey and Doris come to a pause as they see the henchmen of the Hidden Hand at both ends of the bridge. Blocked, Ramsey takes a pair of handcuffs and loops one around his wrist. He fastens the handcuffs to a wire which leads from the bridge to the opposite bank of the ravine. Doris clings to him and they both shoot on the wire across the ravine, as the Hidden Hand and his men fire at them. Harold Lloyd stars in "The Tip," a one-reel comedy produced by Rolin. This is a wonderful burlesque of the various crystal gazers, fortune tellers, and other fakers in whom some people repose such confidence. Farina, the crystal gazer, tells Harold he is going to meet a beautiful blonde, a millionairess. He proceeds from then on to have one adventure after another. "Picturesque Rivers of France — The Tarn and Its Gorges" and "Here and There in Keswick," in Cumberland, England, is a Pathe colored split reel scenic. An International Cartoon and Educational Split Reel and Hearst Pathe News Nos. 3 a-nd 4 complete this program. NO LET-UP AT GOLDWYN STUDIOS. The business outlook in the motion picture industry, as viewed by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, is such that Goldwyn, instead of lessening or temporarily curtailing its production activities, has redoubled its labors in its big Fort Lee plant, with three companies working under the glass top and a fourth company ready to begin work the day after Christmas. Madge Kennedy is hard at work under the direction of Edward Dillon making "Our Little Wife" from Averv Hopwood's successful play. Mabel Normand, having finished work in "Dodging a Million," by Edgar Selwyn and A. M. Kennedy, under the direction of George Loane Tucker, has started work again in a new production, as yet unnamed, and Mae Marsh, just through working in "The Beloved Traitor," is hard at work in a new picture from a story by Irvin S. Cobb. Within a few days R. A. Walsh, one of the industry's ablest directors, makes his advent into the Goldwyn organization. ESSANAY SCENICS MAKING GOOD. A favorable impression among exhibitors of the country has been created by Essanay's series of one-reel de luxe scenics being distributed by General Film Company. Theaters which have shown the first of this series, "Salmon Fishing in New Brunswick," almost invariably have booked the remaining subjects in the series for their programs. One of the many examples noted in the last two weeks is the action of the Rialto theater in Denver, a leading picture theater of that city, in booking the entire series for extended runs, after having seen the first release. Forthcoming releases in this series are "Water Powers of Western Canada," "Through Canada from Coast to Coast," "How Canada and the Farmers Co-operate in Grain Raising," "Agricultural Opportunities in Western Canada," "The Two Biggest Things in the World — the Grand Canyon of Arizona and Canyon DeChelly," and "Electrification of Railroads." NEW MARY PICKFORD PICTURE FINISHED. Mary Pickford's newest Artcraft picture, "Stella Maris," adapted by Frances Marion from the novel by William Locke, has just been finished at the Hollywood studio of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. It is announced that William J. Locke's novel has made an extraordinary production, even for Artcraft, replete with stirring incidents and deeply charged with pathos. In the parts of Stella Maris and Unity Blake. Mary Pickford will present on the screen two of the most one pro Scene from "Stella Maris" (Artcraft). widely different characterizations ever disclosed i: duction. Opposite the star is Conway Tearle. Others in the excellent cast are Camille Ankewich, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Josephine Crowell and Mrs. Coonleu. The photoplay was produced under the direction of Marshall Neilan. Mr. Neilan was assisted by Nat Deverich, and Walter Stradling is responsible for the camera work. This film will be released by Artcraft the latter part of January. AMERICAN RED CROSS WORKERS IN FRANCE. The work of an American Red Cross Ambulance Corps in France is most interestingly pictured in No. 156 of the GaumontMutual Weekly, which is released on Sunday, December 23. On arrival in France the members of the Ambulance Corps proceed immediately to the headquarters of the Red Cross in Paris, where they are given their credentials. Their personal belongings are forwarded to the ambulance bases by Red ■ Cross motor trucks, "while they proceed by train. Red Cross workers do not wait long before reaching the "front," where they are under fire almost from the hour of their arrival. Nothing is sacred to the Huns, and the members of the Ambulance Corps who must seek out the wounded on the battle field are probably in mere danger than the actual fighters in the trenches. The wounded soldiers are given first-aid treatment at dressing stations just behind the lines, and then removed to base hospitals further from danger. It is a common sight to see ambulances which have been wrecked by German shells, as pictured in one of the scenes of this subject. Another of the foreign subjects pictured in this number of the Gaumont-Mutual Weekly shows the convoying to their French homes of soldiers who have been interned in Switzerland for many months. That the United States has not yet been fully aroused to the destruction which can be wrought by German spies in this country is shown in the picture of the steamer O. P. Clark, which was burned by incendiaries on the Pacific Coast with the loss of a valuable cargo. However. U. S. Marshal Bradley. of Chicago, is "doing his bit" in guarding property, and one of the pictured subjects shows him superintending the posting of warnings to alien enemies. TOM MIX FINISHES "CUPID'S ROUND UP." Tom Mix, who is working at the William Fox western studios, has completed "Cupid's Round Up," his first picture as a star in Western dramas. The story deals with the results of the betrothal of a girl and a boy because of the desire of their parents, who are old friends, to unite the two families. Most of the scenes are laid on a ranch where the young woman, posing as a maid, meets the young man a few weeks prior to the date seC for their marriage. Mr. Mix is supported in the production by Wanda Petit and the production was made under the direction of Edward J. Le Saint, this being the latter'? first picture for William Fox. "Cupid's Round Up" is tentatively scheduled for release January 13 as a Fox Special Feature.