Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1918)

2706 Motion Picture News "EVERYBODY'S GIRL"— VITAGRAPH A Corking Good Picture Says Harrison of This PICTURES like this one accomplish many little tricks. First of all, they remove from you the dread of facing your audience; secondly, they raise the level of the motion picture; thirdly, they give good satisfaction, and lastly, they make new show goers. " Everybody's Girl " ranks among the best Vitagraph output of the year. It contains more human element than five other program productions put together. It is the most successful five-reel offering based on an O. Henry story. The heroine assumes a human role. She arouses a lot of sympathy. For instance, when the tough looking character enters her room and pleads with her to conceal the weapon, an evidence of his guilt in a shooting affair, in which his adversary is slightly wounded, she sympathizes with him and accedes to his request. The stranger is grateful to her for this act, and from that time on he regards her as a sister and watches over her as a real brother. When she is estranged from the man she met and learned to love, he removes the cause of the misunderstanding. The above are all heart appealing situations. Several of the scenes have been taken in Coney Island. They show some of its attractions, such as Luna Park's Virginia Reel, Honeymoon Express, Witching Waves and others, as well as of Steeplechase Park's Ferris Wheel, the Horses and a few others. The picture contains also several substantial comedy touches. It is clean and will surely have universal appeal. — Released Oct. 21.— Length, 5 reels. — P. S. Harrison. THE CAST SUGGESTIONS THE STORY Florence ALICE JOYCE °ne of th'-^os} hura?n .of a!l of 9: H.enry's Florence, who trims hats for a living, shares Blinker Walter McGrail ?.t°nes. was "'"'"d on which to base this picture, an apartment with Ella, her friend. The apart Ella May Hopkins ■■Bnck ,Dus.' Ruow' , by name ~,ke others of ment which they live is located in Brick Dust Bill Percy Standing his works it breathes reality, human nature, Row, a block owned by a miUioilaire. Said Oldport W. T. Carleton f?lsltyi aU t™"5 °f ll> remov<;d-. Try 1° get millionaire sublets the front parlors of his apart From O. Henry's '« Brick Dust Row." th,s atmosphere into your advertising and into ments to other tenants and as a result Florence Directed by Tom Terris. y°u.r„ho"se du"n.? the lowing of « Everybody's and EIla are obli d to entertain their men {riends Girl. Forget the sensational methods— address and spend the evenings in the park. In this way your appeal to those of intelligence they see a good bit of the life of the city that rArru I impc tAn advertisement might be compiled with a cut wouId not otherwise unfold to them. CATCH LINES of a photograph of a set of O Henry across the Billi one o{ Florence's friends of shady reputa Alice Joyce in one of O Henry's classics u°P,,of j td' Xave f space left in the row of tioni gets in a shooting scrape and seeks refuge .. d ■ I : u >» . j S .u if.i I books and show the volume belonging there lying u,? r0Om He ™nvinr« hfr that h, u in "Brick Dust Row," presented under the title of at the hnttnm Hjv> its nriuinal titu nrint^r? room, tie convinces nertnat he is m " Everybody's Girl " •? i -A . d . g t }ir printed nocent, so when the police arrive she says that he iweryBooy s uin. across it " Brick Dust Row." In the space in is her brother and that he has been there the „, . .... _ ll?e middle put your advertisement of star and entire evening. Because of this BiU owes her The romance of a millionaire apartment owner picture and then use the line adapted from or great gratitude and makes a solemn vow to him and one of his poor tenants. " taken from " just above the picture of the seif to always watch over her. At the same time* volume below. . . Bill discovers himself falling in love with Ella. Florence rented rooms from a millionaire apart For lobby display try here also to inject the Qn a Coney Island boat Florence meets Blinker, ment owner— and lateHheTecame h° " tenant for real atmosphere. O. Henry most always wrote a gentleman in good clothes, whom she likes mem owner anu later sue oceanic nn> kmiii iui Q£ jjew York. If you can suggest the city in Jlte your lobby by the use of pictures try to do so. (Continued on page 2707) Florence knew that Blinker was " different " and Blinker knew that Florence was " different." But love covers greater distances than those created by social position. Woe betide the man who ever approached Florence in anything but a gentlemanly manner — there was a gunman who vowed to guard her life with his. The millionaire didn't realize that all girls want the company of men. When he found that out he reformed in various other ways besides. AD TALK The management of the theatre takes great pleasure in announcing as its attraction for of week, the Vitagraph feature, "'Everybody's Girl," starring Alice Joyce, a real favorite. Everybody's Girl " is based on one of O. Henry's short stories entitled " Brick Dust Row." This is one of the most charming of all that author's delightful stories of New York, giving as it does, a slice of life in the poorer quarter of the city and portraying faithfully characters that one might encounter any day on a journey there. It tells of the romance of a girl of the tenements and their millionaire owner. Truly, not a startling basis on which to build a story at first glance, but as treated by the king of short story writers it makes an entertainment of the most attractive sort. Tom Terris, the director, caught the spirit of the author in practically every passage of the picture, with the result that the story lives again — a human document on the screen, as well as between the covers of a book. Alice Joyce is supported by such well-known players as Walter McGrail, Percy Standing, May Hopkins and W. T. Carleton. All our patrons are urged to be present at the theatre sometime during the run of this feature, for we consider it one of the treats of the season. ALICE JOYCE in Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature " Everybody's Girl " Scene Cut Ready at Vitagraph Exchanges