Motion Picture News (Sep-Oct 1917)

October 20, 1917 MOTION PICTURE NEWS 2737 Margery Wilson in Triangle Drama October 14 Appears in Second Release of Week, Following Western Drama with Roy Stewart in Star Role— Comedies Also Promised Profile. Miss Grey is a Triangle Acquisition Chaplin in " The Adventurer " to Be Seen Oct. 22 " The Adventurer," next of the ChapHnMutual specials, will be released October 22. . This announcement was made by John R. Freuler, president of the Mutual Film Corporation upon receipt of a telegram from Los Angeles announcing that the film, completed after weeks of delay, was on its way to the Mutual's executive offices in Chicago. " The Adventurer " has met with innumerable adventures in the course of its completion. Just as the final scenes were about to be shot Mr. Chaplin was taken ill. He was well enough to appear in the studio for only a few da3'S when Edna Purviance, his leading woman, was forced to go to the hospital for two weeks. After the last scenes were finished and Mr. Chaplin began his task of cutting the 20,000 feet to 2,000, it was found that certain of the scenes, destined to remain in the film, were not done to the satisfaction of the comedian and he ordered retakes. Syd Chaplin, the comedian's brother, who had been in the East, arrived at Los Angeles to help in the final cutting of the production. Bee-Hive Has Rights to West Comedies The Bee-Hive exchange, with offices in the Godfrey Building, suite 1103, has secured the state rights. New York and New Jersey, for all Billy West King-Bee comedies. Nat. H. Spitzer will be general manager of the Bee-Hive exchange. Helen Spencer with King-Bee Helen Spencer, a well-known comedienne, has been added to the roster of the KingBee Films Corporation and will assist Billy West in the making of King-Bee Comedies. Miss Spencer was featured in all the Vitagraph O. Henry comedies. IN Triangle's program for the week of October 14 two dramas stand forth as being fully up to the excellence of Triangle standards, and in them are starred two artists who have done much to make the productions of this company popular in the various cities of the country. The features are " One Shot Ross," in which Roy Stewart brings about the triumph of justice (jver lawless brigandry, and " Wild Sumac," in which ;\Iarger\ Wilson cavorts as a gj^p-y of the huge forests in the Canadian Northwest. To fill out the program Triangle has provided two one-reel subjects, and a feature. Surrounded by the genuine article in cowboys, Roy Stewart in " One Shot Ross " undertakes to clean up a Western settlement infamous for its wild disregard of law and order. His direct methods of dealing with offenders earn him the title of " One Shot, and as the vigilante of the community, he comes in for a deal of admiration and necessary bloodshed. But when his unerring aim of authority brings sorrow to a little child, he decides to pull stakes for a camp where eternal vigilance is not the price of safety. The hold-up of the outward-bound stage brings him under the shelter of the Sheridan roof, and sows the seed of a pretty romance in which the gunman uses his skill to avenge a father's murder and rid the earth of a villainous rival. Supporting Stewart in this new drama are Josie Sedg^vick, as Mary Sheridan, and Jack Richardson, whose bad man " characterization gives the familiar " gambler of the screen " an opportunity to desert his faro table for a time. In the second release of the week, '' Wild Sumac," a picture which William V. ilong directed while on leave of absence from the Culver City playing forces, Margery Wilson has an unusual opportunity to adapt her personality to the character of a fair young gypsy of the big woods, untamed and unguided, who is charged witli a murder of which she is innocent. The long arm of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police figures prominently in this story as the half-breed boatlegger is brought to justice and the girl Sumac's true identity revealed. Her thrilling rescue from a burning pyre and a realistic man-battle rivaling in its intensity of emotion the fight scene in " The Flame of the Yukon " are high points in the wistful love story. Jack Cunningham prepared the scenario from the story by Elaine Sterne. On the Triangle Komedy program for this week are " Their Love Lesson " and " A Prairie Heiress," both one-reelers. The Keystone feature, " Pearls and Perils,'' concerns a maze of trouble started over a string of pearls, the original and bogus jewels going the rounds of an exclusive millinery shop and its " vamp " model with lightning rapidity. Blotter Advertises Billy West N. H. Spitzer is executing a new idea for program advertising. He is having a blotter made with an artistic advertisement of Billy West in King-Bee comedies, placed in the upper part of the blotter, with liberal space left for the exhibitor to print his daily program on. Having a commercial value, it is a foregone conclusion that the movie fan will take it home or to the office for further use. Constance Talmadge Doesn't Appear to Loathe Being Lashed to the Mast, or the Davit as it Happens to be. This Interesting Feature is Part of " Scandal," Her Next Selznick Play