Moving Picture World (Jun 1919)

1678 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD June 14, 1919 These Doughboys Don't Mind "The Volcano" Erupting in the Above Manner. Augustus Thomas, Harry Raver, Leah Baird and Director George Irving watch some wounded soldiers enjoy an ice-cream feast while producing > "The Volcano," distributed by Hodkinson. Lewis Getting Ready for Fourth Select Picture ARMED with fishing tackle and an untouched motion picture script, Mitchell Lewis, star in Select Pictures, and his entire company, left Los Angeles Saturday, May 31, for the Columbia River, Washington, with the dual objective of an unprecedented trout fishing season and the filming of his fourth attraction for Select. Mr. Lewis' latest Select Picture, "Jacques of the Silver North," will be released this week. Mr. Lewis' coming production, the title of which has not yet been announced, will require about three weeks of location work in the district around the head of the Columbia River. A number of mountain scenes are also necessary, but it is believed that the Select star will return to the Yosemite Valley district to obtain these shots. The studio work will be done in Los Angeles. An announcement of importance in connection with Mr. Lewis' next picture is the fact that Robert Bradbury will be his director. Mr. Bradbury was last week appointed to the position of director general of the Mitchell Lewis Producing Company. The name of the story, the author, and the cast has not yet been announced, but it is known that it will be an out-door picture presenting Mr. Lewis in the type of screen character which he has made famous. and without makeup, he stepped into the scene. For a large part of the action, he worked alone on the set, the business being of the tense gripping sort that would naturally be expected of a man who has just committed a murder and who is still in the apartment with his victim, momentarily expecting discovery. 'Director Seitz Plays Heavy Role in New Pathe Serial JUST to prove that he can act as well as tell others how, George B. Seitz, head of George B. Seitz Productions, Inc., and director of the coming Pathe serial, "In Secret," starring Pearl White, stepped into the firing line recently and assumed the role of the principal heavy in one of the closing episodes. The serial has the unique distinction of having a different villain in each of the fifteen episodes. The part played by Mr. Seitz called for exacting delineation of emotional facial expression, which was Bhown for the greater part in close-ups and semi-close-ups, as well as some finely timed action. Mr. Seitz is one of the few directors who has never had acting experience. He knew exactly what he wanted, however, Popular Comedy Players in "It's Easy to Make Money" IN "It's Easy to Make Money," with Bert Lytell as the star, Metro has a story with the comedy element uppermost, for the star has been surrounded with a cast of supporting players whose forte is comedydrama. The leading woman with Mr. Lytell, Claire Anderson, is a newcomer to the Metro ranks. Miss Anderson is a Detroit girl. Frank Currier plays the role of Lytell's father, ol' man Slocum, who thinks his son good enough for any girl. In the role of the bank president who attempts to foreclose on the hero's sweetheart, Frederick Heck makes a genuinely disliked villain. Ethel Shannon has a refreshing light comedy part of the banker's daughter whose first shot with Cupid's arrow misses fire when aimed at the star. Edward J. Connelly is another member of the cast who has an important role. The two remaining principal parts are in the hands of John Cossal and Bull Montana, Mr. Cossal's part being that of a man of the law. Mr. Montana portrays a "heavy" role. The production is being directed by Edwin Crewe. Rf<-eives Print on, "Happiness a la Mode." Select announces that the print Ion Constance Talmadge's coming Select picture, "Happiness a la Mode," in which she is presented by Lewis J. Selznick, has been received from the Coast studios. It is also reported that two more prerelease runs on this attraction have been booked. These latest pre-release dates, one of which is in Boston and the other in Indianapolis, follow the pre-pre-release at the Zeigfeld Theatre, in Chicago, and the pre-release run at the Bijou Dream, in Chicago, which were announced last week. Holmes Finds Reasons for Divorce in "Upside Down" HAVING firmly asserted their intent that each Taylor Holmes picture in the Triangle star series of this former legitimate comedian shall be equal to if not better than its predecessor, the executives who viewed the star's latest offering at a private showing express their satisfaction with reference to "Upside Down," just received from their film editing department. In selecting the script for "Upside Down," scheduled for release June 22, "Lovely Reason," a story by George Agnew Chamberlain, was the choice, not alone because of the author's popularity, but because of the story's unusual appeal and the enthusiasm with which it was received when it was published In a popular magazine a short while ago. Taylor Holmes, as Archie Pirn, a man infatuated with his own wife, is struck speechless when the lady, Anna Lehr, declares that she must be freed from the bonds of matrimony, that she may develop her individuality. She simply compels poor Archibald, the most faithful husband in captivity, to furnish her a "reason." The husband is completely at a loss, but, once forced along the way of the transgressor, he discovers his task becoming wonderfully congenial. And before the end of the picture, in which he turns things upside down generally, Holmes, or, rather, his director, Lawrence C. Windom, is said to have supplied twenty of the lovliest "reasons" for divorce that man ever set eyes upon. "Bishop's Emeralds" Heads Pathe Program for June 8 PATHE program for the week beginning June 8, is unusually strong in special and in serial quality; for the first of the Virginia Pearson Photoplay productions, "The Bishop's Emeralds," is given and one of the most thrilling episodes of "The Tiger's Trail," starring Ruth Roland, now on a visit to the East, and George Larkin. Captain Houghton Townley's dramatic and emotional story, portraying high society life in England, has been splendidly adapted by Miss Pearson. "Danger Ahead" is the title of the eighth episode of "The Tiger's Trail." Belle Boyd, the heroine, played by Ruth Roland, has been left in the flooded mine, and the villain, Randolph Gordon, has poured oil on the ■water and set fire to it. Pathe Review, No. 11, in showing "What the Eye Misses," by Novagraph slow motion pictures, presents a series of ice skating views which are unrivaled in photography. There are many who often have marveled at the skill of ice experts on their knife-like runner of steel. Herein you may see just how the most amazing ice stunts are done. The Harold Lloyd comedy, "Pistols Before Breakfast," has been characterized as "a rapid fire of explosive laughs." It is a brisk satire on the use of firearms in the motion picture, and the comedy spirit is admirably expressed by Lloyd and Bebe Daniels and "Snub" Pollard. Big Commercial Publicity for Alice Brady. A big wave of commercial advertising and publicity on Alice Brady, star in Select Pictures, will soon sweep the country, following her appointments this week to pose for five of the largest national advertisers in the commercial line. This vast amount of billboard and magazine advertising will keep Alice Brady's name even more prominently before the public than usual, and exhibitors will benefit thereby.