Motion Picture News (Jan - Mar 1914)

40 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS •4s % PANCHROMATIC NEGATIVE FILM STOCK At Last IS NOW SUPPLIED to the PUBLIC for the First Time HARRISON-RAMSAY PROCESS Color sensitized virgin negative Film now supplied — guaranteed highly balanced and of delicate color sensitiveness. Any make, virgin negative stock, treated for color sensation. Write for particulars fkr.%% Harrison -Ramsay Panchromatic Film Co. Ltd. 152 Lambeth Road London, S.E., England HERE IT IS! LEVY & McGUINESS have been elevated to the KNIGHTHOOD OF BROOMSTICKS, and have been awarded the Great Grand Gold Medal of the Cotillion. The wonderful achievements of the above mentioned characters are chronicled in a film under the quiet but much meaning title "TRAFFICKERS ON SOLES" Notwithstanding the dead earnest and serious efforts of our heroes, the film is nothing but one grand Comedy-Travesty, in 3 parts, pronounced by connoisseurs of Burlesque to be a CLASSIKER OF FUN A full line of multicolored paper and other display matter. A FEW BARGAIN STATES LEFT ON "THE GREAT LURE OF PARIS" in 3 parts A FEW BARGAIN STATES LEFT ON "JUSTICE OR LOVE?" in 3 parts FE4TURE PHOTOPLAY CO. 220 West 42nd Street, Candler Building NEW YORK CITY I'lionc P.rvant S4Sf> 'MICHAEL PERRIN," OR "A SPY FOR A DAY" AmbrosioAmerican MANY noted players of the legitimate stage have recorded remarkable successes in motion pictures, but one of the greatest triumphs yet registered is credited to Ermete Novelli, one of Europe's foremost actors of the legitimate stage, in "Michael Perrin," or "A Spy for a Day." The picture, in three parts, is to be released, February 20th, by the AmbrosioAmerican Film Company, 15 East Twenty-sixth street, New York ( ity. With European theater patrons Mr. Novelli is as much of MICHAEL PERRIN MEETS AN OLD FRIEND IN THE MINISTER OF POLICE a "stage saint" as Joseph Jefferson was in America. No; every player's face is adapted to the screen play, but Mr. Novelli's most certainly is. His power of facial expression is remarkable. Even the slightest change in feeling is distinctly indicated by his face. There is a novel introduction to the picture. Mr. Novelli is shown retiring from a stage, amid vigorous applause, to assume the disguise of his famous role. Michael Perrin is a poor parish priest in an out-of-the-way village in France. During the revolution his church is burned and he is left destitute. His haven of escape is the home of his sister in Paris. Upon arriving there, however, he finds that his sister is dead. So he lives with his niece, her daughter. After a short time he learns that his niece is working nights to support him. In search for work he finds that the minister of police is an old school chum of his. He re-establishes their friendship and is given a position which is a sinecure. There is a plot against the life of Napoleon, and through his niece's lover Michael unconsciously comes into possession of information regarding the plotter's plans and the names of the plotters. They have been left at his niece's home, and he turns them over to the minister of police on the back of his first day's report. The arrest of the plotters follows and Michael unwittingly givt them freedom through a secret door after pleading with them. His earnestness causes them to abandon their plot and reform. Their only regret, however, is that Michael has l>rrn a spy. He resents the term. For his services in preventing the assassination of Napoleon, Michael is rewarded by having his church rebuilt. The lasl scene --Hows him again in his classroom with children Throughout the Story Michael is shown as the innocent victim of favorable fate. in writinu tu advtrtiwr. please merit. on "THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS"