Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

706 MOTOGRAPHY World to Release "The Trap" on April 15 T Picture Features Alice Brady in Role of Girl Who Finds Happiness in Spite of Persecution and Duplicity 'HE TRAP" with Alice Brady in the star role is scheduled for release on April 15 by World-Pictures. The character of this picture is a decided deviation from the star's immediately previous drama, "Spurs of Sybil." That picture was a society comedy done in a broad farcical manner, but "The Trap" is a forceful drama dealing with the vicissitudes of a persecuted girl. It gives Miss Brady several supreme opportunities for the expression of her dramatic ability and possesses a climactic development of the intensest kind. Director George Archainbaud, who directed "The Cross Bearer" and many other World successes, handled the production and the supporting cast is of unusual excellence. Miss Brady plays the role of Doris Shaw, who is a motherless child living in an obscure fishing village, the principal interest of the inhabitants being the persecution of those who have different religious opinions. Nat Fletcher was a keen suitor for her hand, but he scarcely measured up to her standards. It was only when Stuart Kendall, a wealthy artist, visited the village that she found a man fulfilling her requirements. But Nat revenged himself by circulating false reports regarding her so that the fanatics became worked into a frenzy and stoned her out of the village. An outcast, she succeeded in reaching New York in a penniless condition. One day while enviously watching the laughing diners in a little bohemian restaurant, she fainted. They solicitously carried her into the place and compassionately gave her a position as a waitress. One day Kendall dined at the restaurant with a client for a prospective poster. While complaining that he could not find a suitable model, he cast his eyes upon Doris and recognizing her at once, requested her to pose for him. Kendall showered luxuries upon her and begged her to take his apartment temporarily. It was then that a young ranchman from the West, who happened to see the poster, vowed to make the original his wife and in pursuing his enterprise came east and by accident met Doris. He appealed to her and their friendship grew, although Kendall expressed his disapproval of it and pointed out their relationships. But he found Doris adamant and then changed his tactics by pretending to be favorably interested in their happiness. Masterson, the Westerner, asked her for her hand. Kendall maliciously resolved to disillusion Masterson on the evening of their wedding, but his duplicity attained only partial success, although Masterson left the city in a rage, for Doris, discovering his plans, left on the same train and the final scene discloses the couple reunited. Vol. XIX, No. 15. Norma Talmadge Resumes Work Norma Talmadge, the Select star, has returned from her flying trip to California, during which she made a four-day visit to her mother and two sisters. Her return was the signal for resumption of work on her next production, "De Luxe Annie," the screen presentation of Scammon Lockwood's successful stage play of the present season, which, following its New York run, has been on tour of the larger cities. Roland West, formerly manager of the Talmadge studios, is in charge of this picture. Miss Talmadge is again supported by Eugene O'Brien, who has been leading man in her recent productions, and who with her scored such a tremendous success in "Ghosts of Yesterday." The adaptation was made by Paul West. Anthony Kelly, who was doing this script, was obliged to withdraw on account of the acceptance of a play from his pen for a production on the speaking stage by Cohan and Harris, necessitating his close attention to the spoken drama for a time. Alice Brady, Select star, as she will appear in her new picture, "The Ordeal of Rosctta: Alice Brady Completes Picture Alice Brady, Select star, has just completed filming "The Ordeal of Rosetta," in which her versatility and artistry are given full expression in the dual role of the twin sisters, Rosetta and Lola, respectively the heroine and villainess of the story. An earthquake in the little Sicilian town of Cantonia, where the girls live with their father, Professor Gelardi, separates them. Rosetta comes to New York with her aged parent and becomes a stenographer and later the secretary of a successful novelist. Lola becomes an adventuress and drifts to South America. Later she, too, comes to New York and the tangling threads of fate involve the sisters in a web cf circumstances that furnish the ordeal from which Rosetta emerges victorious. Miss Brady'j company made an efficiency record in this production through the synchronized filming of exteriors and interiors. While Emile Chautard, the director, worked in the studio, his assistant, Albert Lena, not only made all arrangements for exteriors and built reproductions of a Riverside Drive apartment and a Mulberry Bend flat, but also actually photographed many of the outdoor scenes, including automobile runs on the Long Island estate of the novelist, the entrance to Sherry's and other bits of the production. The star's leading man was Crauford Kent. Others in the cast are Ormi Hawley, Maude Turner Gordon, Henry Leoni and Hazel Washburn.