Motion Picture News (Apr-Jun 1918)

3270 Motion Picture News Wx^eacLii U72ade Z&d Dalits* Wallace MacDonald in "Mile. Paulette"; Father and Son Fall for Same Girl (Triangle Five-Reel Production) " Mile. Paulette," a late Triangle release, features Wallace MacDonald, who recently won first prize in a contest conducted by the Motion Picture Classic Magazine to ascertain the screen actor possessing the most charm. Six million ballots were casted in this contest, and some of the screen most popular artists were included. In this late Triangle production, " Mile. Paulette," produced under the direction of Raymond Wells, the story written by George Cowell and scenarioized by Frank Condon. Mr. MacDonald is supported by George Pearce, Claire Anderson, Walter Perry, Dot Hagar, Anna Dodge, George Hernandez and John Lince. . Mr. MacDonald has the role of Jack Wayne, whose father sends him to a summer resort to keep him away from the Gay White Way. Mile. Paulette, a famous actress, in private life, Paula Grey, is rescued from the lake by Jack. Later Jack's father pays him a surprise visit, and arrives in time to see his son attempting to smuggle Paula from his room. He concluded that Jack is having another affair, and orders him back to New York. Jack insists that the woman is only his maid but father cannot see it that way, so back he goes to the Big Town. In the meantime father meets Paula Grey and a friendship springs up between them. Jack, once more in New York, chances upon an old girl friend and is invited to the apartment qf a charming girl. The charming girl is none other than " Mile. Paulette." The love affair is revived. A reporter who has been offended, reports an erroneous announcement of the engagement of Jack and Mile. Father sees the announcement and rushes to Paula's, alias Mlle.'s apartment. A burglar arrives at the same time, the police are called and there is a general mix-up. Jack is sent for and clears up the mystery. Father then consents to the marriage of Paula and his son Jack. Wallace MacDonald in " Mile. Paulette," at the theatre on of week. Harry Morey in Best Characterization of His Career — " The Golden Goal " (Vitagraph Five-Reel Production) Do you like character studies in the drama? If you do don't miss Harry Morey's characterization in Vitagraph's latest Blue Ribbon feature, " The Golden Goal," produced under the direction of Paul Scardon with Florence Deshon, Jean Paige, Arthur Donaldson and Denton Vane in the supporting cast. " The Golden Goal " was written by Lawrence McCloskey and tells how a big, rough longshoreman rises from a stagnant life on the river-fronts to a place in the world that spells power and influence. Mr. Morey has the role of John Doran, a big husky who inhabits the river wharfs and establishes a reputation as the best fighter along the front, by defeating the bully of the crowd. He wanders into a mission house and after throwing the self-same bully through a window turns to look into the admiring eyes of Beatrice Walton, daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder. Beatrice likes excitement and thrills and invades the slum districts for this reason. She engages Doran to work on her father's estate and when he makes advances toward her, having been lead on by her, she orders him from the place. He tells her before he leaves that he will return some day and demand her respect. He gets a job in the Talbot shipyards and it is not long before he is made foreman of the workers. In the meantime, Beatrice's father is seeking to control the Talbot shipyards. He sees in Doran a good instrument to gain his ends. Beatrice invites him to her home and Walton offers him five thousand dollars if he will call a strike among his workmen and ruin Talbot. Doran agrees. During his employment in the shipyards he has made friends with Laura Brooks, a stenographer. Laura teaches him the rudiments of the primary studies. Doran calls a strike and the result is that he nearly ruins Talbot but he realizes that he has done wrong and turns the tables on Walton, returns the money and sits down to the realization that he is a man and far above the so-called aristocracy. Harry Morey in " The Golden Goal " will be seen on the screen of the theatre on of week. Gladys Leslie and Edward Earle in " The Little Runaway "—Irish Comedy-Drama (Vitagraph Five-Reel Production) Gladys Leslie and Edward Earle arc featured in an Irish drama, written by Paul West, noted short story writer, and it is one of the best subjects dealing with life on the Emerald Isle, seen on the screen for some time. It is a comedydrama and one of the better grade. Miss Leslie and Mr. Earle make a good team when it comes READY-MADE AD-TALKS PUBLISHED IN LAST WEEK'S ISSUE May 25, 1918. FEATURES TITLE OF PLAY Producer " Passing of the Third Floor Back " First National 6 reels " The Ruler of the Road " Pathe 5 reels "The Purple Dress" General (O. Henry) 2 reels " The Trail to Yester day " Metro 5 reels " The Marriage Lie " Universal 5 reels " An Alien Enemy " Paralta 7 reels " The Lonely Wom an " Triangle 5 reels " Social Briars " Mutual 5 reels " Cyclone H i g g i n s, D.D." Metro 5 reels ". The Oldest Law " World 5 reels " Peg of the Pirates " Fox 5 reels " Riders of the Night" Metro " Paying His Debt " Triangle 5 reels 5 reels to putting over the straight comedy and in Paul West's latest contribution to the list of screen dramas, they are afforded opportunity after opportunity to show what they can accomplish along these lines. William P. S. Earle directed the production and in the supporting cast are seen, Jessie Stevens, who gives a remarkably good characterization of the Irish type of mother; Mary Maurice, the grand old lady of the screen who, since this production was made, Has been called to her reward ; William Dunn, who will be remembered for his work in numerous Vitagraph pictures and Betty Blythe, who has an important role in Arthur Guy Empey's " Over the Top." This is a corking good comedy-drama offering and all will be the better for having witnessed the screen version so capably given by the principals and cast. Miss Leslie is casted as Ann, the little Irish girl who lives with her aunt and grandmother. The little family manage to support themselves by weaving Irish lace. Lord Killowen, who owns the little township has placed Harvey Dowd and his son Peter in charge of collecting the rents. Killowen seldom visits his property. Killowen plans to visit America where he has been invited to spend the summer by Eileen Murtagh, a rich American girl who is seeking a title. He informs Dowd that he must collect the rents, as he needs the money. Peter collects and leaves for America with the money collected. Ann resolves to find him and leaves for America. She arrives without a penny and is taken into the house of a kind-hearted policeman. Killowen learns of her presence and Lord Killowen and Ann return as husand and wife. At the theatre on of week, " The Little Runaway." Alfred Henry Lewis's Most Popular Short Story, " Cynthiana " — In Two Reels (General Two-Reel Release) One of the best of Alfred Henry Lewis' popular short stories, " Cynthiana," has been adapted to the screen and produced under the direction of George Sargent for release on the General program. It is in two reels and has portraying the principal roles Patricia Palmer, Jack Dill, George Golt, Tex Allen, William Lester and Hattie Buskirk. This is one of the Wolfville series. Cynthiana Bark drops into a camp hidden away in the Southwest and opens a " Votes for Women " saloon. She bulldozes the men unmercifully and makes them patronize her, letting it be understood that she will stand for no nonsense. She demonstrates this when she drops a Mexican who is rude to her. Then young Oscar, " one of them human deficits," goes soft and proposes to her. She refuses with a Winchester, but changes her mind as she is about to kill him and merely shoots to scare. Oscar has had enough and jumps town and waits for the stage. Cynthiana discovers that he has gone and pursues him, marrying him before he gets his breath. Then Oscar's main worry is that his paw is due to arrive. Paw does get there and falls into a fit when he learns that his son is married. But Cynthiana fixes things by nursing the old gent — so well, in fact, that upon his recovery the old fellow proposes to her. When he learns she is his son's wife, it is quite a shock, but he can do nothing else but bless them and admit his son had more sense than he suspected. At the ■ theatre on of week, " Cynthiana," one of Alfred Henry Lewis' most popular short stories, in two reels. Fannie Ward in Big Stage Success, "The Yellow Ticket "—Milton Sill* (Pathe Production) One of the best and most talented casts ever assembled for the production of a motion picture is seen in Pathe screen version of A. H. Woods' stage success, " The Yellow Ticket." Fannie Ward is featured and in her support are seen,. Milton Sills, who has been seen opposite Mary Pickford in some of her most successful plays ; Warner Oland, who is seen in " Patria," featuring Mrs. Vernon Castle ; Armand Kalisz, prominent both on screen and stage; J. H. Gilmour, popular character man; Helene Chadwick, one of the most beautiful girls on the screen; Leon Bary, who was leading man for Sarah Bernhardt for many seasons ; Anna Lehr, who is gradually rising the ladder of success on the screen and Dan Mason, an old timer in pictures. " The Yellow Ticket " was produced under the direction of William Parke. Tom Cushing made the screen adaptation. In its stage version, thisdramatic piece was the sensation of the speaking stage during its run on Broadway and in Chicago. It ran for four hundred consecutive days in New York and three hundred in Chicago, to crowded houses. It presents a scathing denunciation of Russian Secret Service Police methods employed in prosecuting the Jews and the story deals with the way in which the Russian Police took advantage of their position in dealing with the beautiful and defenseless girls of the Jewish race. Miss Ward has the role of Anna Mirrel, the beautiful young Jewess, whose remarkable facial attributes do not betray the fact that she belongs to the race which in Russia, is prosecuted beyond all endurance. Milton Sills has the part of the American newspaper representative, investigating conditions in Russia with particular regard to the treatment of the Jews for the Government. Fannie Ward in screen version of A. H. Woods' famous dramatic success, " The Yellow Ticket." At the theatre on of week. William S. Hart in "Selfish Yates"— Western Realism in Abundance (Artcraft Five-Reel Production) Can you imagine Bill Hart as a selfish egotist? Perhaps you can, but it is rather difficult. Still, that is the kind of role the Artcraft star has in " Selfish Yates," in which he will be seen at the theatre on . It is something quite different from any thing Hart has done before, inasmuch as he has to go " ag'in his own natur'," so to speak, yet, after all, it is a typical Hart role with lots of gun-play and tense situations. The story is by C. Gardner Sullivan, one of the most talented as well as one of the most prolific of scenarioists. Hart directed the picture himself, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, and a cast of favorites among motion picture audiences supports him in the play. These players include Jane Novak, leading woman, who appeared opposite him in "The Tiger Man"; B. Sprotte, Harry Dunkinson, Ernest Butterworth and Thelma Salter. As his name indicates, " Selfish " Yates is an egotistical and brutal dive keeper in an Arizona mining camp. Debased by his sordid surroundings he exhibits no manly qualities until the germ of love, planted in his soul by an innocent, brave and charming woman, blossoms forth in a consuming flame. Enraged at his own weakness and the disarrangement of his life's philosophy, he seeks in vain to escape the mysterious influence which this pure woman's character exerts over him, bending him inexorably to her will, and which he futilely resists. The regeneration of Yates is a subtle psychological study, which carries the message that selfishness is a hideous trait, as debasing as it is loathsome to lofty minds. With love in his heart Yates' selfishness vanishes and happiness, filled with undreamed-of joys, is his reward. Mr. Hart's portrayals in Western picture subjects have not only become film classics in this country, but they have won worldwide recognition because of the realism with which he vests the robust characterization he essays. In " Selfish Yates " he rises to higher planes of artistry than he has heretofore attained. William S. Hart in " Selfish Yates " at the on . " Her Decision," Tale of Money, Marriage and Sisterly Sacrifice (Triangle Five-Reel Production) " Her Decision," the Triangle picture to be shown at the theatre on , undoubtedly will carry a strong; appeal to the feminine element in the community, for it is the story of a great problem which confronts a woman. Gloria Swanson and J. Barney Sherry appear in the leading roles, and their supporting cast, including Darrell Foss and Ann Kroman, is worthy of being characterized as all-star. For once in a screen drama, Sherry's supply of money is limited, though to no great degree. Instead of being a millionaire, he is only the general manager of a big supply company, struggling along on a mere pittance of $12,000 a year. However, even as a general manager, his money is the lure which wins him a beautiful young wife. In this picture he has the role of Martin Rankin. His secretary, Phyllis Dunbar, is in love with