Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

«2018 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 13 Scenes from Vitagraph Releases on the General Film Program for the Week of Sept. 25. Left: Right, " She Who Laughs " issue a series of screen articles, telling more than fifteen million Paramount patrons how they can safely do the ordinary things of life and eliminate the everfearful accidents that happen day in and day out through the year. These series of pictures begin by telling of the little things that cause the biggest accidents and bring forth the greatest thrills, and will continue through its series by taking up such catastrophes that really crush people so terribly that they are beyond being thrilled. Getting By"; Centre, " Busting In and Out of Society" Three Pals " Heads Mutual Releases for W eek of September 18 "PRUDENCE THE PIRATE" STARS GLADYS HULETTE AND WILL BE SEEN ON PATHE PROGRAM OCTOBER 22 " Prudence, the Pirate," starring Gladys Hulette, will be the second Thanhouser feature released through the Pathe exchanges in October. October 22 is the date upon which " Prudence " will haver her first public showing. Florence La Badie in " The Pillory " is to be Thanhouser's first October release. The director is William Parke and the author is Agnes C. Johnston. Prominent in " Prudence " is Panthus, the ugliest pup in the world, who was rescued from the New Rochelle dog pound and turned into a first rate moving picture actor. The feature is a comedy drama about a little girl with piratical ambitions, who sets sail in the good ship Bucket of Blood, and captures a house boat. An exciting fire aboard the Bucket of Blood is one of the features. In the supporting cast is Flora Finch, famous for her long engagement with the late John Bunny. Others in the play are Riley Chamberlin, Barnett Parker and W illiam Parker, Jr. "GETTING BY" FROM "V" ON SEPTEMBER 25 On Monday, September 25, the General Film Company will release a Vitagraph one-part comedy made at the Ba\shore studio by Director Robertson. It is entitled "Getting By" (no double meaning intended), and features Huntly Gordon and Shirley Moore. On Friday, September 29, Hughie Mack is seen in the comedy offering " She Who Last Laughs." This is another large scene production from the script by himself and Graham Baker. Patsey De Forest and the rest of Semon's " Sea Lions " support Hughie. ttHTHE Three Pals," the fiye-part comedy ■I drama which heads the Mutual Film Corporation's program of releases for the week of September 18, as a Mutual Star Production forms a vehicle for the talents of the widely famed character comedians, C. William Kolb and Max M. Dill. At the same time it is giving the two actors, whose experience on the stage has taken them to every city in the country, their second appearance on the Mutual program under their contract with the American Film Company. The first Mutual screen release in which they appeared was " A Million for Mary." May Cloy, who played the role of Mary at eighteen, in the first Kolb and Dill picture, is cast in the role of Mary Markham in " The Three Pals." Mary is a girl who elopes with a worthless scoundrel, and by so doing gets herself cut off in her father's will, and finds herself in all sorts of difficulties, which the artless old couple, Mike and Louie (Kolb and Dill) determine to help her out of. The comedy drama was put in scenario form by Al Santell, and directed by Rea Berger, whose ability as a director was pHoved. in the fjcature starring Audrey Alunson, " Purity " and in " A Million for Mary." Anna Little as a boy will delight the eyes of her many admirers in the five-part Mutual Masterpicture of the week, " Land O' Lizards." The setting, as usual in the photoplays in which Anna Little and Frank Borzage appear, is in the western countr}', this time located near a stream which is rich in gold. Aliss Little and Mr. Borzag are supported bj' a cast composed of Harvey Clark, Laura Sears, Perry Banks, and Jack Richardson. Mr. Richardson is seen again, of course, as the villain. This time as Buck Moran, the leader of the Bar C band of outlaws. He is the first one killed in a fray with the valiant stranger in defense of Bobbie. " Land O' Lizards " was written by Kenneth B. Clarke, the short story writer, and directed by Mr. Borzage himself. It will be released on Monday, September 18. " The Mysterious Fingerprints," the third episode of " Fantomas," will go out as a Gaumont-Mutual product on Thursday, September 21. " A Flaw in the Evidence," a Than houser production, and " The Father of Her Child," a screen offering from the Horsley studios, compose the week's twopart releases and appear on Friday and Saturda)% September 22 and 23, respectively. A " Beauty " comedy will find its way to the public on Tuesday in " The Stinger Stung," a one-reel laugh maker in which Orral Humphrey as the editor of The Beeville Stinger gets himself into all sorts of scrapes with the ladies of two rival aid societies, with the local political boss and with the loafers club, who finally railroad him out of town. In support of Mr. Humphreys appears Rea Berger, George Clancy, Bessie Banks and Lucille Hard. The Vogue comedy release of the week is " Paste and Politics " with Paddy McGuire again to the front in the leading role of bill poster. " Movie Struck " offers George Ovey, the Horsley comedian in a one-reel Cub comedy of Friday, September 22. The remaining releases of the week consist of the Mutual Weekly, No. 90, and " See America First," Gaumont, both set for release on Wednesday, September 20, and the screen edition of " Reel Life," The Mutual Magazine, by the same company, will appear Sunday, September 24. "THE PILLORY," WITH MISS LA BADIE, IS A THANHOUSER, FOR OCTOBER 8 RELEASE A blow at bigotry is delivered in " The Pillory," a Thanhouser feature starring Florence La Badie, which will be released through the Pathe exchanges on Oct. 8. The story, by Philip Lonergan, tells of the injustice resulting from the fanatical acts of an intolerant woman who, with the literal words of the Bible as her auhority, casts stones at an unfortunate woman who is trying to atone for a sin. The feature gets its title from a denunciation scene, splendidly staged by Director Frederic Sullivan, in which a narrow minded woman places one who has sinned, upon a social pillory, as cruel as the pillory of the middle ages. Florence La Badie is a country girl who battles staunchly for her unfortunate mother, played by Marie Shotwell. Others in the cast are Ethyle Cooke. Marie Haynes, George Mario and Yale Benner.