Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

February 9, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 275 Eight Fox Releases Due This Month Two Are Standard Pictures, Four Special Features and Two Sunshine Comedies — One Is Farnum Picture ANNOUNCEMENT has been made by William Fox of the scheduling of eight productions for release during February. There will be two Standard pictures, four Fox special features, and two Fox-Lehrman Sunshine Comedies. June Caprice and Henry Lehrman are providing the first releases, the former appearing in "The Heart of Romance," and Mr. Lehrman's comedy offering being "Hungry Lions in a Hospital." Both of these are available now. "The Heart of Romance," a Fox Special feature, shows Miss Caprice as a rich girl whose guardian suspects a struggling young author of courting her for her money. The plot revolves around the test which proves the sweetheart's sincerity. The second week of the month, beginning February 10, will be a big week from the standpoint of the Fox management. The special feature set down for this date is "Jack Spurlock, Prodigal," in which George Walsh is featured. This production has been advertised as an extra-special offering exclusively for exhibitors who hold contracts for special features. It is based on a serial story written by George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and published in that journal and in book form. The other release of this week, considered the most important which William Fox has made this year, is "Les Miserables," the William Farnnm de luxe production that has just finished a long run at the Lyric theater in New York City. Gladys Brockwell will be seen in "The Moral Law," beginning February 17. This special feature gives the actress a double role, thai) of two half-sisters, and makes her both heroine and villainess. Another Sunshine Comedy also will be released this week. It is titled : "Are Married Policemen Safe?" It was ordinarily scheduled for January 13. Jane and Katherine Lee have completed a new Standard picture which will be offered to exhibitors February 24, but which is not yet named. The Fox "Baby Grands" are active this time in an orphanage and at an army post. The Fox special feature for the week of February 24 will be "The Girl with the Champagne Eyes," a western drama in which Jewel Carmen is the star. "Wild Youth" Has Solid Background That immutable law of love — the call of youth to youth — which defies the shackles of conventionality, the bars of prison, in fact, every barrier, is the basic principle upon which Sir Gilbert Parker's wonderful story of "Wild Youth" is founded. Scenarioized by Beulah Marie Dix, the story in film form will retain the qualities and incidents that made the work of the famous British novelist so much liked and placed it in the class of the very best of his books. It is the third story from his pen that has been translated to the screen for Paramount under the personal supervision of Commodore Blackton. George Melford is directing the picture at the Lasky Hollywood studios. Paul Perry is doing the camera work. The tale is told something after this fashion: Louise Mazarine is the girl wife of Joel Mazarine, a veritable cave man, old enough to be her father, and who is really, more of a jailer than a husband. He is a rancher, and Louise comes to him virtually in payment of a mortgage and to satisfy the bestial cravings of a belated manhood, coarse in its every demand. Orlando Guise, the youth, is the son of a neighboring ranchowner. The two young people meet and the result is inevitable. Joel is attacked and is saved from a thug by Orlando, who thus gains access to his home — and his child wife. The coarse husband's jealousy is awakened and he suspects with cause the mediation of Li Choo, his servant, whom he beats severely. Louise plans to escape and is placed by a doctor under the protecting care of a Mrs. Boyle, at the latter's ranch. Mazarine has become a demon of vengeance. But he is later found dead and suspicion points to Orlando. Finally, however, Li Choo confesses that he is the murderer, calmly declaring that age cannot remain as a barrier to youth and love. Thus the two young people are united and love has its way. Theft of Shoes Halts Film Wallace MacDonald, playing the lead in "The Shoes that Dance," now being produced by Triangle, recently purchased an expensive pair of shoes for the part. The other night there was a dance hall scene with about two hundred "extras." The shoes hurt. Wallace was sleepy. He took off the shoes. He went to sleep. In time he awoke and the shoes were missing. And they're still missing. Who can guess what was said when two days' work had to be retaken on account of "The Shoes that Hurt." Ann Murdoch, Mutual star, in "The Impostor.