Motion Picture News (Jan-Mar 1918)

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1260 Lewis Stone Films on Way East Delcah Photoplay Company Has First Two Productions, " Inside the Lines " and " Man of Bronze " Ready to Show Trade JOSEPH MONTROSE, general manager of the Delcah Photoplay Company, is on his way to New York with the first two photoplays made by this new organization of Los Angeles, in which Lewis S. Stpne is starred. Mr. Montrose was for a number of years associated with Oliver Morosco as manager of Morosco's theatres in Los Angeles. More recently he ser\-ed as manager of Klaw & Erlanger theatrical attractions on the West Coast. WTiile in New York he will make his headquarters with the latter company. One of the photoplays is an adaptation of Lewis Stone's speaking stage success, " Inside the Lines," which ran one season at the Longacre theatre, and the follo\ving season in Chicago, with Stone in the starring role. The play began a successful run at the Apollo theatre in London, ten months ago, and is still playing to good business. The play is an adaptation from the Earl Derr Biggers novel, and both the story and play were used by Monte M. Katterjohn, who prepared the screen Industrial Department of Universal Will Assist Fuel Administration in Demonstrating to the Public Proper Fire Room Methods PLANS for a motion picture campaign as part of a great national drive liaving for its object the prevention of another such fuel famine as recently crippled the nation's industries have been submitted to the Fuel Administration by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company through its industrial department and have received the O. K. of Administrator Garfield. Although various mediums are to be used in waging the conservation fight which is expected to save to the country at least 100,(XXJ.OOO tons of coal a year, moving picture lilms will form the first line of attack. The fight will be carried right into the trenches of the manufacturers and their engineers and firemen, the weapons of attack consisting of two reels of film showing proper and improper fire room methods. Six leaks through the profits earned by the sales organization may be allowed to escape as the result of fire room inefficiency as will be pointed out. When completed, the films will be turned over to Mr, Garfield, who plans to distribute^hem broadcast through the medium of the various manufacturers' associations. Boards of Trade, engineer and firemen's labor organizations, etc. It is planned eventually to issue moving pictures which will show householders what fuel waste in the home is costing them. This will also be done by Universal in co adaptation. The supporting cast in this subject includes Margaret Clayton as leading woman, George Fields, Joseph Singleton, Helen Dunbar, Ida Lewis, Willard Wayne, Arthur Allardt, Nick Cogley and others. Every player has had experience on the screen. " Inside the Lines " is a story of Germany's secret service octopus, with suspense sustained to the last hundred feet of the film. The photoplay is decidedly timely, dealing as it does with a subject daily under discussion. The second production is titled " The Man of Bronze," and is an original photoplay by Karl Koolidge, which has a decided western atmosphere. Miss Clayton, Harry Von Meter and George Fields are Mr. Stone's principal supports, and some exceptional work is done for the screen by Teddy, the "dog with the human brain." Both productions were made under the direction of David Hartford, former stage director for Oliver Morosco, and who had two years' experience with the Thomas H. Ince organization. Lewis Stone is considered by speaking stage producers as one of the best leading men of to-day, and for this reason his debut in pictures will be watched with interest. operation with the government and the films will, in all probability, be released through the medium of the Universal Screen Magazine in addition to the Fuel Commission's other channels of distribution. Universal to Show Munitions Plant at Work To serve as a direct appeal for support of the Administration and to refute the contention of those who have been criticizing the alleged failure of the War Department to speed up the manufacture of munitions. Universal plans eventually to show to the general public, through the medium of the Universal Screen Magazine, the industrial films recently taken of the Colt Patent Fire Arms Co. plant at Hartford, Conn. The pictures were taken under the supervision of Harry Levey, manager of Universal's Industrial Department, and although they show the entire ordnance product of the Colt concern, particular attention was paid to the filming, in detail, of the construction of the machine guns that are being turned out in vast quantities to equip the United States forces, both here and abroad. According to Mr. Levey, it is Universal's intention to first show the film to the workers in the Colt plant, after which it will be shown to workers in every industrial center throughout the country. It will then be placed in the Screen Magazine to be shown to the public at large. Motion Picture News " Prussianism As It Really Is "—Gerard Director William Nigh has shot the final scenes of James W. Gerard's picture, " My Four Years in Germany," adapted from Ambassador Gerard's book, of the same name, and is now engaged in cutting, editing and assembling the production. It is announced that a trade showing will be given in the near future. The exact date will be announced later. Mr. Gerard, in commenting upon the picture and the interpretation which Director Nigh and the cast have given his exposition of the incidents happening during his four years in Germany as Ambassador to the Imperial Government, said : " I was impressed," said Mr. Gerard in a recent talk to a gathering of film representatives, " by the eagerness shown by the thousands of people, who flocked to hear my lectures, to learn about the inside history of this gigantic struggle of nations, and my interest in this film production is so great, because I realize the vastness of the audiences reached in the motion picture theatre, and the thoroughness and reality with which the story is told in the film. If there be any American in whose mind there is still a question of the necessity of America's entry into this war, the production will settle that question forever." It shows Prussianism as it really is — the Kaiser, whose oath is worth nothing, whether he pledges himself as monarch or man, Tirpitz, Hindenburg and the Imperial ring. It shows the iron hold of Prussianism on the German people, the outrages of women and children in Belgium and France, the systematic starvation of prisoners, the deportation and enslaving of non-combatants to deliberate ravaging of. towns and countries, the sinking of neutral vessels, and the attitude of the Emperor and his clique toward America before war was ever dreamed of here. Ohio Board Eliminates Surplus Lingerie The Ohio Board bi Censorship, during the first nineteen days of the new year, made but seven eliminations in 131 reels reviewed. These were mad* in five plays, three of which were comedies and the other two dramas. For the greater part the eliminations were in scenes disclosing women's lingerie. Entertained for Enid Bennett and Fiance Enid Bennett, the Thomas H. Ince star in Paramount pictures, who is soon to marry Fred Niblo, the actor, was a guest of honor, with Mr. Niblo, at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. C. Gardner Sullivan at their Los Angeles home, Jan. 26. Jersey Exhibitors Meet Independents Motion picture exhibitors of the State of New Jersey attended a meeting at the Robert Treat hotel, Newark, N. J., on February 12, at 10 a. m. with the independent producers of the Producers & Exhibitors, Affiliated. Films to Teach Fuel Saving