Film Fun (Jan - Dec 1916)

MARGUERITE 'MICE AND CLARK, MEN." Peggy shines the wash basin to see herself in it, to the awed amazement of her felloworphans in the Foundling's Home. The Same Old Dilemma of Love and Duty I" ITTLE Marguerite Clark and her company spent a happy time down in Savannah, Ga., while they were rehearsing for "Mice and Men," Madeleine Lucette Ryley's celebrated play. There is plenty of real Southern atmosphere in the picture. It is easy enough to film an occasional picture that has a Southern appeal; but to get the real old Georgian flavor, one must spend weeks in the place. "Mice and Men" is distinctively of the Southland. Miss Clark, as Peggy, the breezy little orphan from the Foundling's Home, gives us another phase of her versatility. J. Searle Dawley, who directed the play, searched ceaselessly for the right effect to every bit of detail, and the scenes bring back fond memories to exiled Southerners when they look at the typical pillared house, the cook and the porches. Peggy is a high-strung little soul, quivering with sincerity and naivete, from the vibrant moment when she, of all the little orphans in the Foundling's Home, is selected by the philosopher, who decides that he will train a wife to exactly suit him. To this end, therefore, he goes to the Foundling's Home to select a girl who has neither family nor friends to deter him from his scheme. Peggy, who has been the life of the home, faces her new life with somewhat perturbed sensations, but manages to be the same little Peggy through every step of her development from the drab little foundling cocoon to the accomplished and beautiful young society girl. But she meets the nephew of her philosopher, who is a trifle more to her taste than the stern, grave old scientist, who is face to face with the fact that he has gone to a lot of care to train a wife for his nephew, instead of himself. There is plenty of quiet comedy in the play — close enough to the pathos that brings a catch in your throat to make it all a real comedy should be, only a step from a tear. Miss Clark is at her best in this wellknown play and has a good support in such well-known screen actors a Marshal Neilan, Clarence Handyside, Robert Conville and Charles Waldron. Bad Man to Handle Charlie Chaplin's pal was being choked black and blue during the showing of a" Night Out, ' ' when two rural citizens down in the first row became very interested. "Gosh! he handles 'em ruff! Now watch him grab that other fellow!" said one. "I'll be doggoned if he is! If he bothers with that fellow with the little mustache, he's flirtin' with death, 'cause I'se seen him before, and say! he'll fight a circular saw if he gets real mad!" exclaimed the other. Can HeFill'Em? The motion picture fan (watching Chaplin in "A Night in the Show") — Look ! See how nice Chaplin looks when he is dressed up ! Friend — He looks grand. But say! I wonder what he did with the big pants and shoes. Motion picture fan — I understand that he gave them to the camera man. nd — Whatja know 'bout that? Suppose he can film? FAMOU9 PLAYERS SCENE FROM "MICE AND MEN." Peggy has been adopted by a wealthy Southerner, to be trained to his liking as his wife, and she returns to the Foundling's Home to tell her friends all about the glories of her new home. FAMOUS PLAYERS 'I ain't seen dat chile nowhars, " says the old cook, when Peggy finds it somewhat difficult to adjust herself to the requirements of her new home.