Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1914)

30 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS "HEART OF MARYLAND" SCRIPT IS READY The first of the Belasco plays to he put into motion pictures will be "The Heart of Maryland." The scenario has been arranged by Mr. Belasco and turned over to the Lasky Feature Film Company, who will make the production. The company will be sent into Southern Maryland, where the scenes of the play are laid. Starting at Frederick, the company will traverse the famous Shenandoah Valley and Braddock's Road, which runs through Cumberland, west, along which the Army of the Potomac marched. Several scenes will be laid at Harper's Ferry, Greene Springs, W. Va., and along the Potomac River, through Maryland to Piedmont, W. Va. There will be three hundred players in the cast and the pictures will be 5,000 feet in length. Poe's "Tell-Tale Hearts" in Pictures "The Avenging Conscience," a D. W. Griffith Production, Soon to Be Released Through the Mutual Film Corporation AT the Strand Theatre, the principal photo feature for the week of August 2d will be "The Avenging Conscience," an adaptation from Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell-Tale Hearts," which foremost directors of motion picture productions. The play is beautifully conceived and splendidly executed. The picture was taken in California and the cast includes some of the fore SPECIAL REELS FOR CHILDREN Special to The Motion Picture News Baton Rouge, La., July 27. Manager Boehring"er, of the Columbia Theatre, has adopted a somewhat novel manner of appealing to the children and at the same time to get the full benefits of the general business. In daylight hours he is running seven reels at the Columbia, reducing the number to five at night so as to get in two performances before a very late hour. The two additional reels that are run during the day are carefully selected to appeal to the children, who generally attend afternoon performances. THE UNCLE DRIVES HIS NEPHEWS SWEETHEART AWAY Scene from "The Avenging Conscience" (Griffith-Mutual Feature) has been produced by the Mutual Film Corporation under the personal direction of D. W. Griffith. . In presenting this picture, it is said that Mr. Griffith has again proved conclusively that he ranks with America's Active Preparations for Centaur Releases David Horsley Signs Harry Palmer, "Babbling Bess" Cartoonist, and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fahmey — Julia Hurley as the Witch in "II Trovatore" HARRY PALMER, author of the "Babbling Bess" serial comics, which appeared in the daily newspapers, is under contract with David Horsley and will commence work for the Centaur Film Company on August 1. Mr. Palmer will make his headquarters at the Bayonne studio, where he will not only create the famous "I didn't do nothin' but I won't do it again" series, but will arrange them in scenario form and personally assist the stage directors in working them out before the camera. Arrangements have already been made through the New York daily in which the drawings originally appeared, to resume their publication in its columns and to have them appear simultaneously in fifty-one of the leading newspapers of the continent. Milton Fahrney and his wife, Alexandra Phillips, have also been signed by Mr. Horsley and are now actively engaged in producing one-reelers for the Centaur Film Company. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fahrney are old time Horsleyites, having been on the Centaur staff for the last six years, doing their principal work on the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Fahrney has won high honors as a scenario writer, and Mr. Fahrney is credited with some of the most pretentious productions ever made. Julia Hurley, remembered for many artistic performances in Famous Players productions and even more favorably for her skilful acting in "The Jungle," has sufficiently recovered from her recent severe attack of la grippe to resume work in the sixreel production of "II Trovatore." most motion picture artists, among whom are Blanche Sweet, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aiken, Jack Pickford, Robert Harron and many others. The story of "The Avenging Conscience" deals with the development of a young man who as a baby has been left in the care of a bachelor uncle, who lavishes all his love and tenderness on his charge. He plans a great literary career for him, for the boy has shown promise of future greatness. But he had reckoned without thought of a possible obstacle— woman. In the freshness of his youth, the young man meets a beautiful girl, whom he^calls in the joy of his poetical nature, "Annabel Lee." The twain soon grow to love each other with the power which Poe has so vividly portrayed in his poems of the affections. They "loved with a love that is more than love." But the old uncle, his heart set upon the boy's future, interferes. When "Annabel" calls to invite her young swain to a garden party, the uncle insults her by accusing her of pursuing his nephew with unmaidenly modesty. Then comes to the young man thoughts that are black and evil and he plans murder. It is at this stage that conscience demonstrates its power and saving influence.