Motion Picture News (July-Aug 1918)

July is, i 9 i 8 227 " Old Wives for New," adapted from Richard Harding Davis' book of the same name, was received by motion picture audiences throughout the country in a manner that stamps it with the approval of all. This, his latest production, deals with the vexatious problems of marriage and divorce in the high society circles of New York. In the cast interpreting the principal roles are seen Kathlyn Williams, as a society woman; Elliott Dexter, Wanda Hawley, Sylvia Breamer, Thurston Hall, Raymond Hatton, Tully Marshall, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Ernesy Joy, Billy Elmer, Charles Ogle and Sylvia Ashton. Mrs. Cleever is the neglected wife of Peter Cleever. a wealthy man who succumbs to the wiles of a pretty dancer. Jim Dyckman loves Mrs. Cleever, but she remains true to her faithless husband and gives Jim no encouragement. Later, she obtains a divorce. Jim has married a motion picture actress. Jim's wife soon tires of him, obtains a divorce and marries a young aviator. Jim becomes a captain in the U. S. army and Mrs. Cleever a nurse. They are married on the battlefields. At the theatre on of week, Cecil De Mille's latest creation, " We Can't Have Everything." A Rupert Hughes story. "" The Coming of Faro Nell." Latest Wolfville Number by Alfred H. Lewis (General Two-Reel Release) " The Coming of Faro Nell " is the latest number of the Alfred Henry Lewis Wolfville series of two-reel dramas released on the General program. In the cast are seen, Robert Burns, Tex Allen, William Lester, George Hold, Patricia Palmer, Hattie Buskirk and Euna Luckey. The picture was made under the direction of George Sargent. The scenes of the action are laid in a Western dance hall. Cherokee Hall is seen dealing for the boys at the Red Light when the game is interrupted by the entrance of a surly stranger, one Boone, who has spent most of the evening imbibing in whiskey at the bar, unnoticed and alone. He loses steadily until his last dollar has passed across the table. He leaves with a threat to return with a six-shooter working overtime. That night he returns and is shot dead as he enters the door of the saloon. Cherokee is the only person around. He cares for the body and rides away into the night. A posse is sent in search of Cherokee, who is also accused of robbing the stage. The posse apprehends the real murderer and hold-up man. Cherokee arrives on the scene and explains that he has been at Boone's cabin, protecting his daughter, Nell. The latest number of Alfred Henry Lewis' Wolfville series, " The Coming of Faro Nell," at the theatre on of week. Jack Pickford, Louise Huff in " Sandy," by Author of "Lovey Mary" and "Mr. Opp" (Paramount Five-Reel Production) Jack Pickford and Louise Huff present " Sandy." If nothing more be said in the way of introduction, these few words, alone, should be a sufficient incentive for you to be present at the theatre on of week. " Sandy," you will, no doubt, remember, is from the pen of Alice Hegan Rice, author of " Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," " Lovey Mary," " Mr. Opp " and " Calvary Alley " — all " best sellers " and all having been presented on the screen with huge success. It remains for Jack and Louise to interpret the author's loveable characters of Sandy and Ruth and they give a characterization of these parts that will surprise the author herself. In the supporting cast with Jack and Louise, are seen James Neill, Edythe Chapman, C. H. Geldart, Julia Faye, Louise Hutchinson, George Beranger, Raymond Hatton, Jennie Lee, Parkes Jones .and Don Lykes. George Melford produced the picture. It tells the story of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, Kentucky belles, thoroughbred horses and gentlemen of the old school of Southern chivalry. The action centers about a young Scotch lad, who arrives in America as a stowaway and is befriended by a Kentucky maid. The girl has a brother whose dissipation and deviltry causes her the only unhappiness she knows. Jack Pickford and Louise Huff in Alice Hegan Rice's story, " Sandy," will be seen on the screen of the theatre on of week. Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran in " Shot in the Dumbwaiter" — Biff, Bang, Bing (Universal-Moran-Lyons Comedy — One Reel) Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, the Universal fun-makers, offer as their latest comedy, " Shot in the Dumbwaiter." There is only one reel but — Oh boy — what fun these two comedians do squeeze into this one reel. Zip, bang, bing — from start to finish. And comedy every inch of the way. There is no time left for anything but good hearty laughs. Eddie and Lee are on the job every minute and turning funny tricks during the entire course of the thousand or more feet of some of the best comedy film you have seen for I MISSED IT Another Exhibitor Who Doesnt Want His Name Used Is Heard From PRETTY soon we are not going to be able to print any names with the letters that come in to the Ad Talk writers. Two weeks ago we printed a letter from a man who admitted that he has been overlooking an opportunity because he did not use these. Now read this: " Three weeks ago I played a certain picture and I did not do much business with it. I'll have to admit that I didn't even see the picture before I played it or during that time. As a matter of fact I was out of town during the actual showing, but I know that I ought to h2ve known about it in advance. " Last week a theatre in the neighborhood section played the same picture. I met him at an exchange today and I said: ' Such and such was an awful flivver, wasn't it? ' ' Not for me,' he replied, ' I did next to my best day's business with it.' And then when I asked why, I found that a local girl who is in the pictures had a role in this film. I asked him how he knew this in advance so as to circularize his neighborhood. '"I read THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS,' he replied. " And I am going to read every line of it hereafter." some time. Mr. Ups and Mrs. Ups — Mrs. Downs and Mr. Downs, are two young couples living, one above the other, in the same apartment house, but each ignorant of the other's presence until one night Mr. Ups and Mrs. Downs return home at the same time and discover that there are burglars in the apartment. Mrs. Ups and Mr. Downs had remained home and it is Mrs. Ups who discovers the burglar. She rushes to Downs's apartment and the chase starts. Up and down the dumbwaiter the couple go until they are intercepted by Mr. Downs and Mrs. Ups and a policeman. What happens? A reconcilliation, of course, and they are happy for ever afterwards. Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran in their latest comedy, " Shot in the Dumbwaiter." At the theatre on of week. Roy Stewart in One of the Red Saunders Stories, " The Fly God " — Western Drama (Triangle Five-Reel Production) Another of the red-blooded, " Red Saunders " stories, " The Fly God," presents Roy Stewart, one of the screen's most capable portrayers of Western characters, in the role of Red Saunders. The story was written by Henry Wallace Phillips and produced for the Triangle program, under the direction of Cliff Smith, who has turned out some of Mr. Stewart's best Western dramas. In the supporting roles with Mr. Stewart are seen Edward Peil, Claire Anderson, in chief feminine support; Aaron Edwards, Percy Challenger and Walter Perry. Unlike anything that Roy Stewart has done, " The Fly God " is a type of the Western drama that will get under the skin and take you to the land of the Western sun. It's real in its presentment. The action runs at top speed from the flash of the title to the end of the final reel, and during all this time, Roy Stewart is portraying a character that will elicit the sympathy and admiration of every man, woman and child in the audience. Red Saunders is riding the plains when he hears a cry for help. On investigation he finds Robert Allers, a consumptive, and his wife, who are on their way to Arizona. Allers has been robbed of his savings and Red takes him and his wife to his ranch and provides every comfort. Allers is bent on getting the man who stole his money, and he does so. He is saved from lynching by Red and his band of cowboys. The trial is had, the jury retires for deliberation and a fly decides the verdict. How? See Roy Stewart in " The Fly God " at the theatre on of week. Billy West in His Latest Fun-Maker, " Straight and Narrow " -Laugh-a-Minute (King-Bee Comedy— Twp Reels) Billy West is going the " straight and narrow " now. He demonstrates that this can be done in his latest comedy, of the same name. " Straight and Narrow " is a scream from start to finish and any patron of the theatre who fails to get a bunch of laughs when Billy covorts on the screen in this, his latest comedy for the King-Bee Film Corporation, has got something against his or herself. The comedy shows, in addition to Billy, Babe Hardy, Leo White, Rosemary Theby, Budd Ross and Fay Holderness. Billy and Babe wander into a mission house. Billy decides that it is for his best interests in life to go straight but Babe can't see it that way. They are not in the mission house long when a detective, who has been on their trail, nabs both, and away they go to the station house. The mission head pleads for her two new charges at the station house and they are released on the condition that she take them to her home. Soon after their arrival, Babe's fingers start to, itch and he commences an inventory of the? silverware and other valuables kept by his hostess. But wait until you see what follows their initiations into the society, as presented at the home of their hostess. Babe and Billy certainly do make things lively about that woman's house. Billy West in his latest comedy, " Straight and illy Narrow," at the of week. theatre on Charles Ray in "The Claws of the Hun," a Story of a " Slacker " Hero (Paramount Five-Reel Production) If you want to witness the real, American spirit in regard to " doing your bit " in the great world war, accept the invitation of the management of the theatre and see Charles Ray in " The Claws of the Hun," which will show at the theatre on of week. Nothing Mr. Ray has ever done for screen presentation can compare with his latest drama, in point of real, absorbing interest. Its theme strikes home because it deals with a subject in which every man, woman and child in America today is interested. " The Claws of the Hun " tells of the son of a wealthy munitions maker, who wanted to enlist in the army but is persuaded not to because of his mother. His heart and soul are with the boys at the front. But there is more than one way to take a punch at the Kaiser, and Charles Ray demonstrates one of these many -ways. He could not be downed. He wanted to do something for Uncle Sam and was not contented until he had done his bit. His bit amounted to a big bit before he finished, for he saves not only the life of his father but those of thousands who worked in his father's munitions factory. And he emerged from the battle which he stages, with flying colors. He gets the respect of those who had condemned him for being a " slacker." Jane Novak is Mr. Ray s leading lady. , „ ... Charles Ray in " The Claws of the Hun will be seen on the screen of the theatre on of week. Chester Conklin and Mary Thurman in Sennett Comedy Full of Laughs, " Ladies First " (Paramount-Sennett Comedy — Two Reels) Do you want a good laugh, or more correctly stated— do you want many good laughs? Chester Conklin and Mary Thurman, supported by Harry Gribbon, Eva Thatcher and Paddy McGuire, will be at the theatre ■ week in " Ladies First," to furnish these promised laughs. This collection of fun-makers has never failed to date to supply a brand of comedy that is inimicable. Chester Conklin has delighted more people by his funny antics on the screen than any other comedian now working before the camera. He has been seen in comedy for years back and he is just as good now as he was when he first made you laugh in the early days of the motion picture. Mary Thurman is considered one of the prettiest comediennes working before the camera. Nor does she have to rely on her beauty. Miss Thurman is an accomplished comedienne and has had her schooling in the most popular comedy company furnishing amusement for picture patrons — Mack Sennett and his cohorts. The trials and tribulations of a husband who is not appreciated by his young wife, form the backbone of this comedy which Chester and Mary put over with a bang. If it hadn't been for a male dressmaker, whom Mary took a shie to, Chester would have been a most contented husband. But — well, " Ladies First " will tell the story better than we. Chester Conklin and Mary Thurman in " Ladies First " — a bunch of good laughs.