Motion Picture Mail (October 28, 1916)

October 28, 1916. MOTION PICTURE MAIL. Page 11, A FTER three months at the George M. Cohan Theatre ' 1 Seven Chances,” David Belasco’s first production of the present season, has moved to the Belasco Theatre. This bright and amusing comedy has an excellent cast, numbering, besides Frank Craven, John Butler, Harry Leighton, Hayward Ginn, Charles Brokate, Rowland Lee and the Misses Carroll McComas, Anne Meredith, Beverly West, Marion Abbott, Gladys Knorr, Florence Deshon, Alice Carroll and Emily Calloway. M AURICE COSTELLO is appearing in person in every one of the twenty-six Marcus Loew houses in Greater New York this week, addressing 100,000 people—thus out-Hughes-ing the candidate. T HE Winter Garden this week inaugurated its sixth season with ‘‘The Show of Wonders. ” It is the twentieth musical extravaganza to be produced during the five years of the Winter Garden’s existence. The new production, the book of which was written by Harold Atteridge, with music by Sigmund Romberg, Otto Motzan and Herman Timberg, has in its cast McIntyre and Heath, Eugene and Willie Howard, George V. Monroe, Walter C. Kelly, Tom Lewis and John T. Murray, Daisie Irving (an importation), Marilyn Miller, Grace Fisher, Mabel Elaine, Marie Lavarre, Alexis Kosloff, George Baldwin, Clayton and White, Dan Quinlan and others. (Cl -J NDER SENTENCE,” at the Harris Theatre, celebrated Sing Sing Mutual LA Welfare League night on Tuesday. All of the members no doubt desired to be present, but other engagements prevented. But, joking aside, the Roi Cooper Megrue-Irvin Cobb drama is doing decidedly well at the Harris. George Nash and Janet Beecher head the able cast. « R ACKFIRE,” Stuart Fox’s melodrama, is moving next Monday from the O Thirty-ninth Street Theatre to the Lyceum, where it succeeds Otis Skinner in “Mister Antonio.” “Backfire” promises to upset the criticisms of the New York reviewers, who predicted the storehouse in short order. “Backfire,” with a few alterations, outgrew Francis x Bushman -* Romeo and its original theatre, and is now Juliet," at the Broadway Theatre, moving to much larger quarters. Emma Dunn, in Rachel Crothers’s “Old Lady 31,” follows “Backfire” at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. T HE most vivid war pictures thus far contributed by the great war, ‘ ‘ The Battle of the Somme,” said to be authentic and to be the official pictures of the British government, are at the Strand this week. These pictures are unquestionably graphic, even gruelling. Death stalks about the motion picture camera through every foot of the film. The films are being divided into two parts, to be shown this week and next. I CELAND, the society ice rink, Broadway at Fifty-second street and Sev- enth avenue, will be the scene of an elaborate ice carnival on Thursday night. Many of the prominent motion picture stars of New York will be present and many of the stars of the legitimate stage. Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Pauline Frederick, Anita Stewart, Kitty Gordon and Marguerite Clark are among the movie stars who have taken up skating at Iceland. Ice skating has taken the place of dancing as an indoor sport this winter, and Iceland, with its luxurious appointments, is the rendezvous of the smart skater. T HE selfish, cynical and unscrupulous old ‘ ‘ Major Pendennis ’ ’ of Thackeray is a decidedly interesting role for John Drew. Langdon Mitchell did not try to compass the whole novel, but has built a light comedy around the major and his nephew, Arthur. Mr. Mitchell has made some distinguished contributions to the American stage, notably “The New York Idea” and Becky Sharp,” which he took from “Vanity Fair.” John D. Williams made the production, which assures an intellectual offering. The well-balanced cast includes Brandon Tynan as Arthur Pendennis. Emma Dunn and Regi- nald Barlow in "Old Lady 31," coming to the 39th Street Theatre. A B U S Y week is just con- cluding in the New York thea- tres. Seven new attractions ap- peared on the Broadway hori- zon. These in- cluded John Drew in “Major Penden- nis, ’ ’ at the Criterion; Ruth Chatterton in “Come Out of the Kitchen,” at the Co- han ; “ So Long, Letty, ’ ’ at the Shubert; “Go To It,” at the Princess; the new Winter Garden production, “Object, Matrimony,” at the Cohan and Harris, and a Ger- man musical comedy, ‘' Die Tolle Dolly” (“The Mad Dolly”) at the Yorkville. Mary Nash in The Man Who Came. Back,” al the Playhouse.