Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Apr-Sep 1918)

Page Eighteen The Baby Marie Osborne Company at Diando has finished ‘‘The Soul of a Child,’’ and it is now in the cuttingroom, where Director William Bertram is putting his final O.K. on this feature. The title of Baby Marie’s next picture will be ‘‘The Record,’’ the scenario being by Frank Beresford and Clara Beranger. ‘“‘THE HILLCREST MYSTERY’’ AT SHEA’S. Manager McArdle, of Shea’s Hippodrome Theatre, Toronto, has booked the latest Pathe picture, ‘‘The Hillcrest Mystery,’’ for week of April 22nd. Trene Castle, the star of ‘‘The Hillcrest Mystery,’’ is a great favorite with Hippodrome audiences. Manager McArdle has shown a number of Castle pictures with good suecess recently. ‘‘SHE COULDN’T GROW UP.’’ Billie Rhodes is scheduled for release in a Strand Comedy, ‘‘She Couldn’t Grow Up,’’ released April 15th. Mary is always stealing her older sister's sweethearts, so she receives orders to keep in the background. She is compelled to dress as a child so as to give sis a chance. But on the night of tho big dance she locks her sister and mother in the room, and captures big sister’s best beau. When sis escapes from the room she finds her beau’s wife has shown up, and Mary is forgiven. ‘‘WHITHER THOU GOEST.’’ ‘‘Whither Thou Goest,’’ the Thomas TI. Inee production, soon to be released by Superfeatnres, Limited, was produced in the Arizona deserts. During the filming of the picture Rhea Mitchell, who is playing one of the leading parts, fell exhausted in the desert. While she was lying on the ground a copperhead snake, one of the most dangerous that the Arizona deserts know, approached Miss Mitchell while she was in a stupor, but fortunately, Arthur Peckham, the camera man, discovered the snake when about to strike, and Mr. Peckham, prepared for emergencies, shot the snake before any harm was done. FOX TO RELEASE MUTT AND JEFF The first Canadian release of the new Mutt and Jeff series will be commeneed April 28, when ‘‘The Decoy’? will be offered to the Canadian exhibitors. This will be followed each week by a Mutt and Jeff release. Following ‘‘The Decoy’? will come ‘‘Back to the Balkans’’; then ‘‘The Freight Investigation,’’ and the following week ‘‘The Leak.’’ These first four Mutt and Jeff releases are said to be really some of the very cleverest work that the famous ‘*Bud’’ Fisher has ever produced. There is no need to dwell on these features from a box-office angle—everybody, old OVS and young, big and small, know the famous pair of fun-creators. There will continue to be one release each week, which will comprise a single recl of about 500 feet in length. The Toronto office of Fox Film, Limited, have received many enquiries from Ontario exhibitors asking them to give full particulars about these famous comedies, ‘‘A BIT OF JADE.”’ Mary Miles Minter in ‘‘A Bit of Jade,’’ heads the Mutual schedule of releases for the week of April 22nd. The production was made under the direction of Edward Sloman, and is based on a story by Mildred Oarl Graham, scenarioized by Karl Coolidge. A rare and valuable necklace which had been stolen from an idol in an Indian temple and had been acquired by a young American collector of antiques, comes by accident into the hands of Phyllis King (Miss Minter), who believes it to be a present from her brother. A wily Hindu is on the trail of ~ the necklace, and Phyllis beeomes the I unconscious storm centre of plot and intrigue which lead her into exciting and mystifying situations. There is a legend attached to the ‘‘bit of jade’’ that it will win for its owner the heart of the maiden who wears it, and Phyilis sustains the truth of the legend when, after saving the life of the young gem collector in a murderous attack by the crafty Hindu, she wears the necklace and the owner claims her heart. ‘‘THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY.’’ Superfeatures, Limited, has secured a mighty strong attraction for Canada in “‘The Fringe of Society,’’ which io ready for release. The fact that it is a Hoffman-Foursquare—a brand which is gaining prestige steadily—invites additional confidence in its excellence. Probably no finer interiors have ever been shown in a photoplay. The simple artistic superiority of the furniture and decorations appears due to the taste of George Backer, head of the organization which produced ‘‘The Fringe of Society.’’ Tt is George Backer (who just completed the Hotel Chatham, finest ever built) who reeently declared that he would no longer employ carriage anid door men at the apartment houses and hotels he owns, Mr. Backer’s contention heing that the scarcity of janor demanded that all able-bodied men be released from ‘‘unnecessary’’ ositions to perform work so urgently needed by the government. Ruth Roland and Milton Sills are co-stars in ‘‘The Fringe of Society.’’ The remaining leading principals aro Leah Bird, J. Herbert. Frank, Ollie Kirkby. George Larkin, Tammany Young and Jules Cowles. e THE CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST. ‘‘THE WOLF-FACED MAN.’’ The first episode of ‘‘The Wolf-Faced Man,’’ being made by Diando for Pathe, is well on its way, and Stuart Paton, the well-known serial director, is putting lots of action with unusual lighting and stunt effects, into the picure from the start. Geo. Larkin, leading man, is lined up for some sensational stunts, while the leading lady, BKetty Compson, is entering into the serious drama with energy. Horace B. Carpenter is more than living up to his reputation as a handler of heavy roles, while True Boardman, the hero of ‘‘ The Stingaree’’ serials, Frederick Malatesta, William Quinn, Harry O’Connor, and the female heavy, Ora Carew, who all have prominent parts in the new serial, are well started in the production. As an illustration of the care of deiails made by the director, the entire company was taken to the mountains east of Fresno, 300 miles away, where the company took one scene, showing George Larkin and the leading lady, Betty Compson, taking a dive for life on a log down a precipitous mountain side in a flume, the end being projected into a chasm below. The latter part of the programme was not in the plot, but the log caught just before it reached a turn, with the result that both of the principals were badly lacerated and received first aid at a cabin some distance down the mountain side. No serious after-effects are expected from the accident, but for a time it looked like a calamity. The ‘‘Frontier House,’’ as the studios for the serial are known, is one of the busiest places in Southern California at this time, and the location is proving most ideal for the filming. GRIFFIN BOOKS ‘‘EAGLE’S EYE."’ ‘‘The Eagle’s Eye,’’ the thrilling patriotie serial being distributed in Canada by Superfeatures, Limited, has been booked over the entire circuit of Griffin’s theatres in Ontario. Ernie Moule of the Brant Theatre, Brantford. has also booked this serial for an early run in his house. One feature of this serial which will help business is the fact that the tenth episode is to he entitled ‘The Invasion of Canada.’’ This will give a local angle on the serial that will be interesting the patrons every where. ‘“‘THE KAISER’’ GOES OVER BIG. ‘‘The Kaiser—the Beast of Berlin’’ has gone across with a decided bang! This Universal special played this week at Loew’s Theatre in Toronto, and all attendance records were smashed. At the Holman Theatre in Montreal last week all previous records were smashed. There is no question about the great box office value of this feature. 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