Canadian Moving Picture Digest (Apr-Sep 1918)

THE CANADIAN MOVING PICTURE DIGEST. EE EE RE EE OE EE SE EE EE EEE ED ee Sy eR SE a ES Se CE ED ee Page Nineteen ADVANCE NOTICES FROM THE EXCHANGES | Speen ee A A PS LY MS PS PN NY ‘“WHICH WOMAN?’’ In ‘‘Whieh Woman?’’ the Bluebird release for week of June 10th, Priscilla Dean takes the role of Doris Stand~ish, who is forced to marry an aged millionaire, Cyrus Hopkins, by her uncle Peter, and her mother, and is naturally very unhappy. Mary Butler, an adventuress, suggested at a meeting of the gang of crooks to which she belongs, that they steal the jewels at Doris Standish’s wedding, promising to pose as a maid in the Standish home and also furnish a man to drive the car for them. When Jimmy Nevins hears that the job is to be at the wedding of Cyrus Hopkins, he agrees to drive the car, though it is his first association with erime—Hopkins having ruined his father. The night of the wedding, Jimmy, waiting in the car for Mary to come with the jevels, sees a figure with a suitcase rushing toward him, and hurries her into the car. In a lonely country road the ear overturns, and during the events which follow Jimmy discovers that instead of aiding Mary he has kidnapped Doris Standish, who at the _last moment decided she would not marry Cyrus Hopkins. She insists she will not return, and asks Jimmy for protection. He takes her to the gang’s dive, and goes for food. On returning he is intereepted by Mary and Morgan, who believe him to be a quitter. Doris is recognized by other members of the gang, but manages to slip away. home her uncle Peter and Cyrus Hopkins are summoned to the dive and told they must pay for information concerning the girl. They promise, and Peter is allowed to go, but Jimmy holds Cyrus to revenge his father’s treatment. To their astonishment, Doris returns, and from under the bed pulls out the suitcase containing the jewels. She has managed in some way to exchange her and Doris they try to leave, but Mary is furious, and summons the rest of the crooks. The furious fight which follows is interrupted by the police, whom Doris had notified before she returned to the dive. All the crooks are arrested, while Jimmy and Doris realize that they are to be more than friends, WAR STIMULATES FEATURE. Submarines Continue Introduction of ‘‘The Last Raid of Zeppelin L-21’’ to Public. No direct stimulation of a motion picture film has been more marked than the German submarine raid on Ameriean coastwise shippimg, and its aceidental introduction of ‘‘The Last Raid of Zeppelin L-21’’ to the public as a timely war thrill subject. This tworeel feature, from the Interstate Film Company, just released through General Film Company, owes its importance to the picturing of an actual aerial raid Digitized by Goc gle Before she reaches. upon London, and the destruetion of the Zeppelin L-21 after a series of outrages committed upon an English’ countryside. As one evidence of the intense popular appeal of the feature, Montreal’s office of General Film reports ‘‘The Last Raid of Zeppelin L-21’’ has been put in the Loew house for a solid week. KIMBALL YOUNG “THe EASIEST WAN.” SELZNICK@PPICTURES WGGQqq_ WW [¢Q °°" e "EZ ’™§E fea. RMN QQQ ow wMOODDswWo hl” : ‘“*KIDDER & KO’’ PATHE RELEASE. In ‘‘Kidder & Ko’’ the Pathe Play released June 16th, Bryant Washburn has a-part that is just suited to him, and which is not unlike the Skinner role with which he leaped to everlasting popularity with the fans. In this new comedy Washburn is the son of an amiable parent, who is head of a great dried fish concern in Kiddersport, Maine. “‘If there is anything I loathe,’’ exclaims the hero, ‘‘it is canned cod—and women.’’ And thereby hangs the tale. Pathe has given this feature a splendid mounting and a fine supporting company, and ‘‘Kidder & Ko’’ is expected to repeat the success made by earlier Washburn comedies . “*Kidder & Ko’’ was written by John W. Grey and M. Ramirez-Torres. The heroine is Gertrude Selby, who played the lead in ‘‘Twenty-One.’’ Harry Dunkinson, who was the butler in this recent hit, is Silas Kidder in the new picture, which tells how his youthful offspring goes forth and returns a husband, and on the way to becoming a millionaire. “The Wheat and The Chaff” You want to know what to avoid in pictures. The “Exhibitors Film Reports” will do it for you five-reel | x NEW WORLD PICTURE. ‘‘Neighbors’’ is Its Title, and Madge Evans and Johnny Hines Are the Stars. A new World-Picture is coming. The title of this picture is ‘‘ Neighbors,’’ and the stars in it are Madge Evans and Johnny Hines. Both of these popular stars are seen in particularly congenial roles in this production, and ‘‘Neighbors’’ is one of the most wholesomely pleasing and delightfully interesting photoplays that has been filmed in a long time. ‘*Neighbors’’ is the story of a small New England town and of two neighboring families. . ‘“‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.’ No greater announcement has come from the Famous Players:Lasky Corporation regarding any of their future spectacular productions than that made last week, when it was announced that Marguerite Clark was at present working in the two leading roles of ‘‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ she playing both Little Eva and Topsy, supported by an allstar cast, with the scenes being filmed in the South on the precise spots whero Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about n her immortal piece of American literature, HAYAKAWA SPECIALS COMING ' THROUGH MUTUAL. Eight Sessue Hayakawa special productions, produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation, will be distributed through the exchanges of the Mutual Film Corporation. The first of these pictures, now under the working title of ‘‘His American Birthright,’’ has been completed and will shortly be ready for sereening at the Mutual exchanges projection rooms. The first picture will be released July 29th. The eight productions will be released at intervals through a period of fortyeight weeks. They will be presented in five or six parts. The negotiations for the distribution of the pictures have been conducted by Charles Greenberg, secretary of Hayworth Pictures Corporation and James M. Sheldon, president of the Mutual Film Corporation. Mr. Greenberg gives promise of a product of decidedly exeeptional box office value. Wild West riders, so necessary for western pictures, cost the photoplay producers just three times as much, a day, as they did two years ago. Once daredevils ‘might be hired for $10 a day, their mount included. But now they are scarce at $30 a day. The war did it, for nearly all the range riders have joined the United States Cavalry units. Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY