1000 and One--the Blue Book of Non-Theatrical Films (1926)

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Fourth Edition LITERATURE AND DRAMA o3 GROUP 84 ( Continued ) Literature and Drama Jane Eyre (3) From novel of Charlotte Bronte. (S3) Keeper of the Bees (7) Gene Stratton Porter's last work. Well done. (VIII) Kidnapped (5) R. L. Stevenson's story. (77) Lady Windermere's Fan (5) Oscar Wilde's world famous play. Not the recent film. (56) Last Days of Pompeii (6) The classic story. (77) ***The Little Match Girl (1) Hans Andersen's tale of the ragged child of the citv streets, done by Madge Evans, with a happy ending. Prizma color. (XX, 19, 49, 56) Little Orphant Annie (5) James Whiteomb Riley's poem. (49) The Little Red School House (7) Hal Reid's play. (19) ** Maud Muller (2) Idealized version of Whittiers poem. Rich girl reads poem to her lover who is poor and afraid to ask her hand in marriage. (XV) Memories (1) Picturization of Whittiers poem. Prizma color. (28) A Christmas Carol (3) Dickens' famous Christmas story. Produced in England with and by Seymour Hicks. (33) Old Scrooge (4) A wonderful characterization of the miser in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. (XVI) Peck's Bad Boy (5) Delightful picturization of the famous story. Jackie Coogan in title role. . (1, 23, 42, 69) *** Peter Pan (10) Barrie's story done as only the movies could do it. (VII) Prince and Peasant (5) Dramatic story founded on the opera The Dumb Girl of Portigia. Sherlock Holmes (Series of 4) (IV) The Man with the Twisted Lip (2) The Resident Patient (2) The Beryl Coronet (2) The Devil's Foot (2) Silas Marner (7) Frederick Warde in George Eliot's classic. (18, 56, 79, 112) * Silas Marner (6) A recent and well done rendering. (n) The Sky Pilot (7) Dramatic picturization of Ralph Connor's great epic of the west. (I, 23, 42, 69, 156) ***Sonny (6) George V. Hobart's play acted by Richard Barthelmess. (19) Spartacus (6) The classic story. (77) ***Timothy's Quest (7) Kate Wiggins' simple, homespun story, over-flowing with sentiment and kindly humor. (I, 2S, 69, 156) Treasure Island (7) Robert Louis Stevenson's epic of adventure. (42) Uncle Tom's Cabin (5) Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal story. (79, 156) Vanity Fair (6) Thackeray's story. (77) The Vicar of Wakefield (6) Oliver Goldsmith's story faithfullv reproduced. (I, 37, 69, 71, 156) ***The White Sister (12) Marion Crawford's novel acted by Lillian Gish. Directed by Henry King and produced in Italy. (19) ** William Tell (1) Schiller's immortal drama of the Swiss legendarv hero. (49) (See also Groups 19, 42, 59, 61, 84, 135-7) NATURAL SCIENCE GROUP 85 PLANT LIFE Plant Life Carnivorous Plants (1/4) How insect-eating plants obtain their prey. (22) A Cottage Garden (1) Growth of flowers with stop-motion photography, Prizma color. (156) ***Do You Know Beans? (1) Exceptional scientific film telling life story of bean seed from time it is planted until shoot appears above ground. Seed structure explained and processes involved in germination demonstrated. (151) An Enchanted Garden (Y2) Analyzed-motion pictures showing growth and blossoming of dogwood, poppies, iris, etc. (XI, 22) Eternal Nature (Y2) Cycle of life in growing plant, from pollenization to maturity. (22) Field and Wayside (1) How milkweed blossoms hold captive many an insect guest; tragic end of snowy tree cricket; haunts of the common "tick"; where the lady bug comes from; some common spiders and their lairs; how the sroldenrod, despite gall flies, bravely attempts to put forth blossoms. (134) Know a Garden (1) Prizma photography of famous gardens in New Jersey. (XX) Nature's Garlands (1) Beautiful flowers of manv varieties in natural colors. (156)