Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

October 13, i Q I 8 2379 laBBHBIIiliUllWIWIIIMUlllllUllWUUUM Additional Live News from the Producers (Continued from page 2374) MaHanMiwMuiu'>iiiiii.iii lOTiinmmiiiiiimiiitmiiimiii iimmimmiiiiimiimiimirammmmmnimmmmm™ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiitiriniiiiitniiitiiTiiitriiiiTiiiiHinifTiiiriiiiitr«ttiiitiitifiiiirjiitriiiiiTi»iiiiiiiiii»xii:iu iiriitniTTiirtiiriiijriiiiiTiiiriiJiiTTTr Alice Joyce, Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Star, Whose Latest Picture Is " Everybody's Girl " New " Around the Clock " Universal So great was the popularity of " Around the Clock with a Rookie," said to be, that Universal has arranged to release a similar subject in behalf of Uncle Sam's Navy. The newest picture is " Around the Clock with a Sailor," which will be issued the week of October 6. This film is a tworeeler, where as the rookie subject was only in one reel. Two well-known players take the leading roles. They are Otto Kruger and Helen MacKeller. Mr. Kruger was in training for an officer's commission, but gladly made arrangements to serve in the film. He will be recalled as a player on the legitimate stage, having starred in " Young America " and " Seven Chances." Miss MacKeller was the star of "The Tailor Made Man," and this year is appearing in " The Unknown Purple." The war service of the Y. M. C. A. is strongly treated in the picture. It was produced by H. E. Hancock and photographed by George Coudert. " The Daredevil," October 15, Gail Kane-Mutual The release date of "The Daredevil," the second in the series of productions starring Gail Kane, which are being made by her own company, Gail Kane Productions, for Mutual, has been set for October 13. "The Daredevil" was taken from the story written by Maria Thompson Daviess and directed by Francis Grandon. Norman Trevor is in the leading male role. Mildred Marsh, sister of Mae Marsh, is seen in the part of Sue Tomlinson. Duncan McRae plays the role of Armand de Lascelles, a French army officer; Roy Applegate does Colonel Robert Carruthers. " Our Four Days in Germany " is the title of one of the latest of Capt. Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff Animated Cartoons, as announced by the Fox Film Corporation. Although Mutt and Jeff spend only four days in Hunland, their stay is crowded with thrilling events. A raid scene which contains both thrill and comedy will be a feature of Emmy Wehlen's forthcoming Metro picture, " Sylvia on a Spree," now in process of production at Metro's Eastern studio under the personal supervision of Maxwell Karger. Harry L. Franklin is directing " Sylvia on a Spree," assisted by Fred Warren. In Dorothy Gish's first Paramount picture, to be released October 6, Hornetsville, a little town in the great big land of Uncle Sam, is said to play a role that is real, humorous, pathetic and most of all so human that you know each character, each action and each photographic " shot " made within the narrow walls of its existence. That the Hun is not the only enemy in the Italian Alps is vividly shown in No. 15 of the Official War Review, released by Pathe the week beginning October 6. White death in the shape of avalanches comes with sudden sweep upon the passing troops ; and these pictures give a view showing how such a disaster has engulfed the intrepid fighters and other soldiers struggling desperately to rescue them. " The Temple of Dusk," the second of the Haworth Pictures Corporation series of productions starring Sessue Hayakawa, is set for release by Mutual October 20. It will be prereleased October 13. In " The Law of the North," produced for Paramount by Thomas H. Ince, and directed by Irwin V. Willat, Charles Ray appears clad in furs and the usual attire of the dweller in far_ Northern wilds. He is known as " The Eagle't," and the romance and mystery of the snowbound lands enter into the story with all their majesty and splendor. The eighth episode of " Hands Up," the Pathe serial, featuring Ruth Roland, is called " The Fatal Jewels," and will be released the week beginning October 6. Echo, the heroine, is rescued from death at the hands of the Inca Regent by the Phantom Rider. Maurice Tourneur's second independent production, now in course of filming, is unique in many ways. For one thing the photo-offering is said to be remarkable in the number of beautiful women utilized in telling the story and the few men necessary to the unfolding of the plot. " Love's Law," the first in the series of Gail Kane productions, released September 15 on Mutual's schedule, is booked strong in the South, is the statement of S. T. Stephens, general supervisor of Mutual exchanges. Wallace Reid is in the midst of his new picture which James Cruse is directing, and which as yet is supplied only with a working title. It will be largely comedy. Edgar Franklin wrote the magazine story from which the picture has been scenariozied by Will M. Ritchey. Priscilla Dean is soon to be seen as a beautiful crook. That is the role she essays in " Miss Dorris, Safe Cracker," a play of the underworl' now being made for the Bluebird brand under Jack Dillon's direction. Fred Myton prepared the continuity from an original story by Jack Boyle. Norma Talmadge, her director, Sidney A. Franklin, Assistant Director' Ward Lascelle, Thomas Meighan, Gladden James and A. E. Warren, of her company, have left for Los Angeles to do the exteriors for Miss Talmadge's next picture, " The Heart of Wetona." George Larkin, the strenuous rough rider, and Betty Compson, who can manage a broncho as well as most of the cowboys, are said to have an excellent subject for their talents in " The Border Raiders," a Western serial, produced by Diando, and released on October 6 as the first of the Pathe Program Features. The many new and varied uses to which a camping trailer outfit may be put are comically depicted in " Society-in-Tents," a Century comedy featuring Alice Howell and Hughie Mack. Clara Kimball Young is Now Making the First of Her Second Series of Select Pictures Fox Secures Dillon to Direct Walsh William Fox, because of the success attained by George Walsh in the light, wholesome, young-American type of comedies in which he has appeared recently, has just engaged for this popular star one of the best-known light comedy directors, Edward Dillon, who will begin work at once with Mr. Walsh in a new play which, it is believed, will prove one of the best the athlete-actor has ever enacted. Mr. Dillon is one of the veterans of the screen art and he directed De Wolf Hopper in "Sunshine Dad," "Don Quixote" and " Mr. Good, the Samaritan." He also directed Bessie Barriscale in several productions. Other stars whom he has directed are Ann Pennington and Madge Kennedy. It was while directing Miss Kennedy in " The Danger Game " that Mr. Dillon broke his ankle. Laid up for fourteen weeks, he only recently recovered. Demonstrations Planned for " The Yellow Dog " The latest cities to take up the Yellow Dog Drive are Cleveland, Ohio and Pittsburgh, where the most elaborate preparations for the organization have been perfected and the formation of clubs is now under way. In Cleveland, the Jewel production will find waiting for its presentation an organization headed by the Mayor, with branches in each ward in charge of political workers attached to the Mayor's staff. A big parade is being planned which will be headed by the city officials and be participated in by Boy Scout Troops, Red Cross workers and other regularly organized organizations that have joined in the campaign.