The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Sep-Oct 1922)

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September_9, 1922. “TELL YOUR CHILDREN.” Interesting Donald Crisp Production to be Trade Shown Next Week. 66 ELL YOUR CHILDREN,” an important film produc i tion made by Donald Crisp for the International Artists Film Company, Ltd., is to be trade shown at the New Gallery Kinema on September 14. This film special interest for the reason that it marks the introduction cf a new organisation with an ambitious and constructive prcgram in the British film production field. The International Artists Film Company, Ltd., of which Mr. Alan S. Butler is president and Mr. Martin Sabine is general manager, has been building plans tor scme time looking to the development of a producing company whcse output will have international appeal and be a credit to British film production the world over. The Facts of Life. This Donald Crisp production has a vital theme which evotyone interested in human welfare and betterment will recognise as of great interest and s‘gnificance, ‘* Tell Your. Children,’? ii is of Above: Scene from ‘‘ Tell Your Children.’’ Below.: Doris Eaton in a scene from the film. Digitized by Gor gle YHE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. sr brief, emphasises the importance of educating young people on the facts of life, and points cut the dangers cf iznorance on such subjects to the youn. Miss Doris Eaton, the widely-kuown and admired beauty of the ‘* Ziewfeld Follies,” New York, makes her English debut in this p'cture, which is also interesting for the screen debut of Waltcr Tennyson, a member of the family that gave England its great poct of that name. Oth.rs in the cast include Margarét Halstan, Mary Rorke, Gertrude MeCoy, Mrs. Hayden Coffin, Robert English, Cecil Morton-Yorke. and Mr. Warwick Ward. The Producer. Donald Crisp, the producer of ‘* Tell Your Children,’’ is an Englishman who, as actor and stage and film producer, has had an interesting and important career. He staged many of tlie noted stage productions for the late Charles Frohman and for Messrs. Cohan and Harr's in New York. Fourteen vears ago He joined the Biograph Film Company in New York, where both he and: Mr. D: W. Griffith were actors, later both of them becoming film producers. Mr. Crisp assisted Mr. Griffith in making ‘* The Birth of a Nation and other productions. In 1914 he made * Ramona,” and after that joined the producing staff of Famous Tlavers-Liasky Corporation, for whom he came to England. i } ( i ' ! Above: Below : Gertrude McCoy. M. Donald Crisp instructing Doris Eaton and Walter Tennyson. Original from NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY