Motion Picture News (May-Jul 1916)

4050 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 13. No. 26 Reel Life features bird life, being pictures in the series of Gaumont animal studies. The "See America First" city for July 5 is New Orleans, La. There are pictures of the Cabildo, the Spanish government building which became the seat of French authority, and then in turn the home of the United States government ; St. Louis Cathedral, erected in 1794; the French market, known all over the world; and Metairie Cemetery, one of the most beautiful burial places known. There is a picture of the monument which commemorates the Amer On July 2 Gaumont Will Release " The Hidden Face Landmarks of Ancient Egypt in Reel Life ■"P HE Gaumont three-reel release of the first week in July is a melodramatic feature called " The Hidden Face." It will be shown as a Mutual Picture July 6. The stars are Alexander Gaden and Iva Shepard. The photoplay has its scenes laid at an old New England tavern, although no effort has been made to localize the story too closely. Others in the cast are Lucille Taft, Mabel E. Trinneer, Henry W. Pemberton, John Reinhart, Alyles McCarthy, Charles W. Travis, Albert Macklin, James Levering, Fritz Orlamond and James Davis. The first day of the week, July 2, is marked for the release of the ninth number of Reel Life, the Mutual Magazine in Film. As usual, this one reel Mutual picture has three subjects. An industry which the majority of people do not know is still practiced in the United States, is pictured in the spinning of wool and its home manufacture into cloth by women in the mountains of Georgia. The Gaumont cameraman found that this primitive method was in vogue in the families of well-to-do mountaineers, those who were well able to purchase cloth woven on modern looms. All the processes are shown from the shearing of the sheep, through carding and spinning to the weaving on a loom over one hundred years old. A second section of Reel Life shows some remarkable motion pictures of temples, tombs and palaces of ancient Egypt. These include the pyramids and the Sphinx, the celebrated ruins of the Temple of Phtah, the grand temple at Karnak, 1,200 feet long and 300 feet wide, and the ruins of the Temple of Ammon, the largest in Egypt. A third section of this issue of ican victory of Andrew Jackson over the British in 1815. On the same reel Cartoonist Harry Palmer has one of his ludicrous Kartoon Komics. The third single-reel released weekly by Gaumont is the Mutual Weekly. Since this motographic news reel depends for its success upon the timeliness of its news, it is impossible to forecast what the issue of the week of July 2 will contain. However, a recent feast of the Mutual Weekly is worth chronicling. Pictures of President Wilson addressing the cadets at West Point on graduation day were shown the same evening in the Rialto theatre. New York, at nine o'clock. Blanche Sweet in Laskys " Dupe " and Donald Brian in The Smugglers," from Famous, Are Paramounts for July 3 Flivver " and " Boob Town New York," in which Gotham is picturized as the city wh^re people are too busy to work. Comedy is staged in " Farmer Al Falfa's Waterirelon Patch " in this release of the BLANCHE Sweet in the Lasky production " The Dupe," and Donald Brian featured by the Famous Players in " The Smugglers," will be the stars in the fivereel Paramount Pictures released for the week of July 3. The Lasky picture will be released on Monday and that from Famous Players on Thursday. Short subjects v/hich complete this week's program will be " Munich the Magnificent " in the Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel-Pictures ; Paul Terry's drawing, " Farmer Al Falfa's Watermelon Patch," in the Paramount-Bray Animated Cartoons and the weekly release of the Paramount Pictographs. Included in the index of this Pictograph edition will be " Weights and Measures," " Testing Your Mind ; Memory for Numbers," by Professor Hugo Munsterberg, and more " Better Babies." Film novelties in the same issue will be " Assembling a Paramount-Bray Animated Cartoons and Paul Terry, the artist, has provided a number of amusing situations. " Munich, the Magnificent," will be the third release in the European series of the Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel Pictures, showing the Meccas of the tourist as they looked before the war. MONTESSORI PUPILS IN PICTOGRAPHS Kindergarten tots in the Montessori schools of New York City and Lawrence, L. I., are starred in "Better Babies" features of the Paramount Pictographs. One of the latest releases shows how to teach the child to dress and undress.