The story of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (1919)

A LIST of some of the important productions for the coming year is evidence of what the company's policy is to be in regard to stories, artists and directors. Among the pictures now being created for the new Selective Booking Plan which is described later, are the following: Maurice Tourneur Syd Chaplin Cecil B. DeMille will produce some of his especially- directed features, dealing with subjects that strike home to every class of audience. "A Girl Named Mary," starring Marguerite Clark, from the Metropolitan Magazine serial and book by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. "April Folly," from the book by Cynthia Stockley, Author of "Poppy." One of the first of the new Cos- mopolitan Productions. "Capt. Dieppe," starring Robert Warwick, from the play and novel by Anthony Hope, author of "The Prisoner of Zenda." "Eliza Comes to Stay," starring Marguerite Clark, adapted from the play by Henry B. Esmond. "Everywoman," from the drama by Walter Browne. To be produced with a special cast. "Hawthorne of the U. S. A.," starring Wallace Reid, from the play that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, by James Fagan. "His Official Fiancee," starring Vivian Martin, an adaptation of the novel by Berta Ruck (Mrs. Oliver Onions). "Huckleberry Finn," a new production from the book by Mark Twain to be directed by William Taylor, director of "Tom Sawyer." "In Mizzoura," starring Robert Warwick, adapted from Augustus Thomas' first famous play. Directed by Hugh Ford. "It Pays to Advertise," starring Bryant Washburn, from the stage success by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett. Directed by Donald Crisp. "Luck in Pawn," starring Marguerite Clark, from the play by Marvin Taylor produced on Broadway this season. "Mary's Ankle," starring Douglas MacLean and Doris May, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince in an adaptation of May Watson Tully's comedy. "Miss Hobbs," starring Ethel Clayton, in an adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's play in which Annie Russell made her greatest success. Directed by William C. DeMille. "Mother," starring Ethel Clayton, in an adaptation of the book by Kathleen Norris. "Peg o' My Heart," with a special cast, directed by William C. DeMille, from the play by J. Hartley Manners. Productions as yet unnamed will include the "Fatty" Arbuckle Comedy features, John Barrymore, the Syd Chaplin Comedy features, Cecil B. DeMille productions, Dorothy Gish, the Mack Sennett Comedy features and the productions of Maurice Tourneur. "Sadie Love," starring Billie Burke, in the comedy by Avery Hopwood. "Sick-a-Bed," starring Bryant Washburn, from one of the first farces to win success on Broadway last season, by Ethel Watts Mumford. "Speed Carr," starring Wallace Reid, from an original story by J. Stuart Woodhouse. "The Copperhead," starring Lionel Barrymore, from Augustus Thomas' great play. "Stepping Out," starring Enid Bennett, under the super- vision of Thomas H. Ince, in a story by C. Gardner Sullivan. Directed by Fred Niblo. "The Black Bag," starring Wallace Reid, in an adapta- tion of the mystery novel by Louis Joseph Vance, author of "False Faces." "The Cinema Murder," from the mystery story by E. Phillips Oppenheim, which ran serially in Hearst's Magazine. A Cosmopolitan production. "The Fear Market," starring Ethel Clayton in Amelie Rives' drama of high society, blackmail, romance and adventure. "The Female of the Species," starring Ethel Clayton, in an adaptation of the surprise story by Joseph Gollomb. "The Lottery Man," starring Wallace Reid. From the play by Rida Johnson Young, author of "Brown of Harvard." Directed by James Cruze. "The Market of Souls," starring Dorothy Dalton, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince in a story by John Lynch. Directed by Joseph De Grasse. "The Miracle Man," a Mayflower production, directed by George Loane Tucker. From the play by George M. Cohan. "The Misleading Widow," starring Billie Burke, adapted from the Margaret Anglin play "Billeted," by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. N. Harwood. Directed by John S. Robertson. "The Other Woman," starring Enid Bennett, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince. An original story by C. Gardner Sullivan. Directed by Fred Niblo. "The Restless Sex," a Cosmopolitan production from the New York society novel by Robert Chambers. Scenario by Frances Marion. "The Sea Wolf," a new special picturization of the story by Jack London, directed by George Melford. "The Teeth of the Tiger," with a special cast, adapted from the great mystery story by Maurice Le Blanc, telling the further adventures of Arsene Lupin. "The Third Kiss," starring Vivian Martin, from the story by Heliodore Tenno. Directed by Robert Vignola. "The Thirteenth Commandment," starring Ethel Clayton, from the novel of New York life by Rupert Hughes, author of "What Will People Say?" "The Valley of the Giants," starring Wallace Reid in a story by Peter B. Kyne which ran as a serial in Red Book. Directed by James Cruze. "The Witness for the Defense," starring Elsie Ferguson, directed by George Fitzmaurice. Adapted from the play by A. E. W. Mason. "The Young Mrs. Winthrop," starring Ethel Clayton, in an adaptation of the play by Bronson Howard, author of "Shenandoah" and "The Henrietta." "Told in the Hills," starring Robert Warwick, directed by George Melford, from the novel by Marah Ellis Ryan. "Too Much Johnson," starring Bryant Washburn, adapted from William Gillette's farce. "What's Your Husband Doing?" starring Douglas MacLean and Doris May, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince. From the comedy by George V. Hobart. Directed by Lloyd Ingraham. "The Egg-Crate Wallop," starring Charles Ray, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince. An original story by Julien Josephson, author of "Greased Lightning." Directed by Jerome Storm. "Why Smith Left Home," starring Bryant Washburn, from the farce comedy by George Broadhurst. "Widow by Proxy," starring Marguerite Clark, in an adapta- tion of the farce by Catherine Chisholm Cushing. Directed by Walter Edwards. Geo. Loane Tucker