Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

44 THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS The Test. Vitagraph. (Oct. 11.) The name "The Test" does not seem to be the most appropriate that might have been chosen out of the many available. In this case "The Test" means little, as it refers to such a small part of the drama. Dick tests the man that is flirting with his wife and finds that he is wanting in nerve, and yet he leaves them together. That is where the title fails to enlighten. However, the name, in this case a small item, is the only fault to be found, while there are many things to recommend it to public favor. One of these is the wonderful emotional acting of Clara Kimball Young as the misguided wife. Her disguise as a native was also good. The story offers nothing brand new. It tells of the jealousy of a woman of her husband, which is entirely undeserved. His brother officer and friend betrays his confidence and plants in her head mischief of all sorts. The test comes when the husband discovers the truth, and cuts the cards with Larry Gordon to determine who will stay with Eleanor, and who will leave for the plague camp in the interior of Africa. The husband wins, but goes in Gordon's place as he thinks that is what the girl wishes. She, however, repulses Larry and in disguise joins her husband and nurses him back to life. Great attention is paid throughout to details, and the scenery is excellent. PATHE WEEKLY No. 57 It is one thing to pick up the daily paper — one that specializes in foreign news will only serve in this case — and to read through its pages, analyzing and getting a mind picture of the most important items, but it is quite another thing to see them as plainly as though you were right on the scene. That is the duty of the various manufacturers who are placing "weeklies'' before millions every day. And it is not the easiest thing in the world by a long way. Their photographers are as keen reporters as any star on a New York daily, when it comes to ferreting out the important news and getting it. No. 57 of the Pathe Weekly covers many countries, opening with pictures of Travers Island in New York, where they show the amateur athletic sports, following with the unveiling of the Harry D. Thomas monument at Cleveland, O. The youthful King of Spain, who has miraculously escaped assassination so many times, makes an interesting picture. The strike of 7,000 miners in Colorado is followed by the giving away Trade JOHN J. CAULLET, manager of the Lyceum Theatre, East Orange, N. J., reports capacity business for four consecutive weeks with Kinemacolor featured at the top of a personally selected program of monochrome photoplays. "We have a cultured and rather fastidiuos clientele who regard the ordinary sensational photoplay with scorn, but respond enthusiastically to artistic or educational motion pictures, especially if they have real dramatic value," said Mr. Caullet. "Therefore I make it my business to come to New York and personally select such programs as I believe will appeal to our patrons. "Kinemacolor subjects are very attractive, because of their intelligent selection and the artistic manner in which they are produced. We know that they are real 'drawing cards' because people visit the box-office several days in advance to inquire about the coming Kinemacolor pictures. of many bushels of apples in Denver of that state, by the Governor, to poor worthy citizens. "Steeplejack" Wilson is pictured in Jersey City in some of his dangerous work, then a journey to Paris to see the Sultan of Morocco, then back to the National Park in Montana, then to Nebraska, and then after a lengthy and interesting trip, we finish in Washington, D. C, and are greeted by Oscar W. Underwood, who is responsible for the recent tariff bill just passed. Surely a pleasant trip! PATHE WEEKLY No. 58 The truth of the few lines which precede the foregoing story must surely be evident to all. What a wonderful thing it is when we come "right down to tacks" to be able to sit in one spot and see the world in motion before our eyes, but, unlike the reading of the news of the day, we are sure to see it absolutely authentically, and not with the tampering that ofttimes accompanies stories in the press. We read that a nine-hundred-year-old turtle has been caught, and that it weighs fifteen hundred pounds, and that it is to be stuffed and placed on exhibition. But to be on the spot, almost, and see the turtle is most realistic. (Continued on page 48) Notes Scenic and scientific features are greatly in demand, and the Panama Canal pictures are still the talk of the Oranges. Features -like "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Steam," "Nathan Hale," "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Rivals" bring out the "S. R. O." sign nightly, and our people are anxiously awaiting the promised Kinemacolor series of popular players in their hours of ease." In addition to the Kleine-Cines stock companies now working at Lake Como, the several engaged at the central studio in Rome, and the company now operating in Sicily, Cines have sent a large company of their well-known "leads" to Seville, Spain, where the proper atmosphere can be had for a series of Spanish plays in contemplation. A troupe of Spanish actors, who have been working a good part of the summer in the Rome studio, returned to Seville for the new company. 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