Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

October /p, 1918 2491 Book Fox Pictures! Witness also the William Fox VICTORY PICTURES ! These releases, now only a month old, are the sensation of the new season ! The stars— Tom Mix, Gladys Brockwell and George Walsh— are being shown in a series of productions that rival the highest grade pictures ever released by any producer. The proof will be found in the current release, George Walsh in "On the Jump" a revelation of German attempts to muzzle the American press— a timely picture in which the pepper box of the films performs a most amazing series of stunts, including the climbing of the outside of a seventeen story building. Witness likewise theproductions that have been properly named EXCEL PICTURES— releases featuring Virginia Pearson, Peggy Hyland, Jane and Katherine Lee and the star of "The Caillaux Case", Madlaine Traverse. The current release showing Peggy Hyland in "Marriages Are Made" is the story of a real American heroine — a girl who upset a German plot to destroy American ships and thereby won the man of her choice. Then there are those amazing productions Henry Lerhman's Sunshine Comedies which have come to be recognized as the only dependable releases of the sort on the market. They are a pleasant relief from slap-stick, pie-throwing attempts to be funny. They have a real clean comedy basis— true comedy situations — and they go over big everywhere. Shorter, but every inch of them full of fun, are Mutt and Jeff Animated Cartoons Bud Fisher, their author, is the recognized American war cartoonist. He's there at the front— captain of an artillery company — and he's showing the folks at home that there's a happy side to life in the trenches. Try the easy way to success ! Book these Fox pictures ! FOX FILM CORPORATION AND KEEP THEM! We have secured good advertisers to talk to YOU. Listen to them!