Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

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18 EXHIBITORS HERALD "THE LOST EXPRESS," WITH HELEN HOLMES, NEW SIGNAL, IS IN PRODUCTION • J. P. McGowan Has First Episode of New Photonovel Well Under Way; Will Contain Fifteen Parts with Weil-Known Cast The Helen Holmes Company is well along with its production of the first episode of its new Signal-Mutual serial, "The Lost Express." The production is to be made in fifteen two-reel episodes, making it the same length as the three serials already put out by the same company featuring Helen Holmes. Production is going forward under the direction of J. P. McGowan with practically the same cast as that of "The Railroad Raiders" appearing in support of Miss Holmes. Leo D. Maloney, Thomas G. Lingham, William Brunton, Will Chapman, W. A. Behrens and Andrew Waldron remain of those who played important roles in the last chapter play. F. B. Bennett Is Author The story from which the films are being made was written by Frederick Balfour Bennett, one of the bestknown magazine and newspaper contributors of this country. Mr. Bennett is a graduate of the University of Christiania, in which city he resided for a number of years. It was there that he met and became the protege of two of Norway's greatest men of recent years, Ibsen and Grieg. With his combined knowledge of science, travel and the drama stirred into the detailed plot of the present Signal serial, it is predicted that this will be the most unusual serial the company has thus far attempted. Has Railroad Background The photonovel has a railroad background, as has been true of all Signal productions, but there is also introduced a touch of mystery which promises to hold the interest of the spectator from the first reel through to the solution in the last half of the fifteenth installment. The production will be published in fifteen two-reel chapters through the Mutual exchanges. Thus far, however, no date has been set for the appearance of the first of them. CHICAGO ART DRAMAS SUFFERS $1,800 LOSS IN FILMS FROM FIRE A fire caused by the ignition of a film in the inspection room of the Art Dramas Service Exchange, on the sixth floor of the College Building, Wabash Avenue and Adams Street, Chicago, destroyed films valued at $1,800. The fire which occurred Friday, June 22, was caused by friction, which ignited a film while .one of the inspectors was rewinding it. Nobody was injured by the blaze which was confined to the inspection room. Besides three Art Dramas films, several other features were destroyed. PHILADELPHIA HOUSE HIRES ACTOR TO SPEAK CUT-OUTS BY CENSORS Philadelphia, Pa. — The management of the Stanley Theater here has discovered a way to overcome censorial objection to a film and at the same time bow to the censor's wishes. The censor board deleted five subtitles from the feature "On Trial," which bore directly upon the circumstances described in the photoplay. Finding his appeals useless and knowing that the missing subtitles meant injury to the play, the theater owner hit upon a novel plan to use the cut-outs effectively. He engaged Henry Herbert, an English actor, to deliver the expurgated lines in their appropriate sequence audibly in place of the printed subtitles. In an announcement issued by the management, it explains its action as follows: "The State board of censors ordered five subtitles taken out of the screen version of "On Trial," but they could not eliminate free speech. We have engaged Henry Herbert, formerly of Sir Herbert Tree's Company, who will speak these titles from the stage, and thus the picture will be exhibited intact." "LOVE THAT LIVES" IS PAULINE FREDERICK VEHICLE FOR JULY 9 Star Has Novel Role of Scrubwoman Who Becomes Bird of Paradise to Educate Son "The Love That Lives," a drama by Scudder Middleton, has been completed by the Famous Players studio with Pauline Frederick in the stellar role, and will be published by Paramount on July 9. The picture, which shows Pauline Frederick in the novel role of a scrubwoman was produced under the direction of Robert G. Vignola. In the opening scenes Miss Frederick is nothing more or less than a scrubwoman working in an office building as a common drudge. Later she becomes a bird of paradise in order to give her son an education, and then reverts to the pail and mop in her later years when she is broken down in health and in spirit, and is a white haired old woman struggling to keep body and soul together.