Motography (Jul-Dec 1917)

I1 July 7, 1917 MOTOGRAPHY 47 audience in the story which acclaims the "clodhopper glide" as the sleep punch of the season. At home, a run is made on the flint-hearted father's bank, but he refuses to ask his successful son for aid, but Everett, come for by his sweetheart, returns to his home town with bags full of money just in time to save the tottering bank in spite of its owner's protest. The father finally comes down oft of his highland mighty stand and congratulates his son with clue humility. Margery Wilson was a very fortunate choice for the part of the sweetheart who prevails upon the clodhopper to return and make up with his father. Miss Wilson's works is always attractive and convincing. Charles French makes us hate the old father, and Lydia Knott furnishes the part of the mother with just the right ingredients. "The Clodhopper" is a delightful mixture of the comic and the pathetic. In fact, the two elements arc largely conjoined. The picture is a winner from every angle. 'The Little Orphan" Ella Hall as a Belgian Orphan in Bluebird Play. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris THIS picture is in its general outlines similar to other Bluebird offerings featuring Ella Hall, and the star's role is like many others she has played. Therefore an exhibitor whose patrons have liked the star in other plays can be fairly sure of pleasing them with this. There is quite a bit of honor, especially in the early reels, and this goes far to counterbalance the improbabilities which form the story's worst feature. An element of timeliness which may provide an advertising point is that the leading characters in the story are three Belgian orphans, adopted by three American young men in response to the "Adopt a Belgian Baby" campaign. They wanted three boys but through a mistake a girl is included in the party, which complicates things and forms the basis of the story. Placing the beginning of the story not quite three years ago gives the three orphans a short time in which to grow up, but they manage to do this, and the story ends with the marriage of ward and guardian. The Story: Three young men decide to adopt three little Belgian boys but by mistake two boys and a girl are sent them. The girl, accompanied by her numerous pets, is something of a problem but one of the men to provide for her. In turn, the little Belgian takes charge of the guardian's affairs, breaking up a love affair with a woman she disapproves of and starting another. But this second affair proves disappointing also and, after she has been sent away to school and returns, a young lady, the little Belgian realizes that the best way for her to provide her guardian with a wife is to marry him herself. 'The Land of the Rising Sun" First Four Episodes. Released by American Japan Pictures Co. Reviewed by H. D. Fretz. v'THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN" will be released July IS on the state rights plan by the American-Japan Pictures Company. These pictures, which are now haying a successful run at the Rialto theater, are in ten episodes. They are of great educational value. The Japanese being of an alien race whose manners, customs, dress, mode of living, amusements, food, activities, religion, etc., are so radically different from the ways of our own race, that a series of pictures pertaining to these characteristics win undoubtedly furnish absorbing entertainment for any American audience. These pictures are splendidly photographed, very expressive and interesting in almost every detail; not less so, perhaps, from their beauty than from the extreme strangeness of everything portrayed. They were filmed in Japan under the personal direction of J. B. Millet. Episode 1 — "First Impressions." Some of the principal features in this episode are scenes showing the most important buildings, gardens, streets and the people in the towns of Yokohama and Tokyo. Episode 2 — "A Night in a Japanese Inn." This is a little comedy concerning the experiences of Percy, an American, in a Japanese inn. It shows the home life of the Japanese and their peculiar method of serving and eating their food. Episode 3 — "Odd Fishing Methods." As meat is scarce in Japan, fishing is an important industry. Cormorant fishing is shown, together with the way in which fish are kept alive until marketed. • Episode 4 — "Jap Kiddies." This episode shows the life of the child, the manner in which the little one is carried on its mother's back or that of the nurse-maid, their school life and their games. Motion theater patrons who daily exclaim over the clearness of the pictures may not know that U EASTMAN" is stenciled in the film margin— but you do. EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. MOTOGRAPHY in Bound Volumes (J The following volumes of MOTOGRAPHY, bound in black cloth, leather corners and gold lettering may be had at $3.00 each. Only a limited number of any volume. Volumes 11—1914 12-1914 13-1915 Volumes 14-1915 15—1916 16-1916 Address Circulation Dep't MOTOGRAPHY Chicago