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Vol. XIX, No. 22
Norma Talmadge Takes Role of Dancer
"Sid" Franklin, Her New Director, Says Star Has Improved 1000 Per Cent Since They Were Associated Before
NORMA TALMADGE, Select star, who recently completed a screen version of "De Luxe Annie," is proceeding rapidly with the filming of her succeeding production. It is the story of a little music-hall dancer who is rescued by her soldier lover from a theatre fire and also from falling prey to one of the harpies who infest the dramatic world.
"Sid" Franklin, who is directing Miss Talmadge, is fairly glowing with appreciation of the actress' performance.
"Even back in the old times," said Mr. Franklin, "when Norma Talmadge was first being starred and my brother and I were her directors, it was easily patent that here was a girl whose future held remarkable promise.
"After our association was severed, my brother and I were always on the look
out for her pictures and wc followed with great interest her career as a Select star, noting the increased felicity of her performance in each succeeding production.
"It was with genuine pleasure, therefore, that we accepted her invitation to return as her directors and when my brother was called into the service my envy at his opportunity to win glory on the field of battle was partly balanced by the realization of my own opportunity on the screen through Miss Talmadge.
"This wonderful little actress — only superlatives can describe her work — 'has improved a thousand per cent since the days when we first worked together. There is no limit to her capacities and her ability to 'put over' every shade of emotion and feeling while portraying the character to the very life."
Shall We Shoot
the Trumpeter? By Melville Davisson Post
IN the old fable the trumpeter captured by the enemy prayed consideration because he bore no arm, but he was answered that he incited the soldier to battle and was therefore equally dangerous. The policy of the enemy was sound. The trumpeter was an effective belligerent.
I think the German government would consider our newspapers and periodicals as the most dangerous element of our fighting force. I think the kaiser would rather shoot these belligerents than any other.
But for our magazines and newspapers America could not have been awakened; but for them it cannot be kept aroused to the impending peril of German world dominion. Insidious German propaganda would lull the country to slumber but for the blare of these never ceasing trumpeters.
Beyond question it would be wisdom for the kaiser to shoot them. But is it wisdom for our own government to shoot them? And they are effectively shot if an unwise revenue postal law drives them out of existence.
The staggering cost of paper and the unparalleled advance in labor and the price of every printing material, has removed any question of profit. This immense patriotic industry can hardly maintain itself: to now burden it with a heavy revenue tax and increased postal rates is to decimate this arm of our fighting force. All the little magazines and newspapers must stand up against the wall, not for the kaiser's bullet, but for our own.
We must cheerfully bear the burden of this war; we must bear it to save ourselves from the murderous Hun in his amuck of frightfulness. But can we not distribute the weight of this burden so it will not entirely crush to death the little newspapers and magazines?
Write to your senators and congressmen in protest against this destructive and disastrous postal "zone" law!
Norma Talmadge receiving a bouquet of her favorite flowers, American Beauty roses, in her latest Select picture, "De Luxe Annie."
Katterjohn Leaves Paralta
Monte M. Katterjohn, scenario writer, has resigned from the Paralta. While with Paralta Mr. Katterjohn wrote "Carmen of the Klondike," "Madam Who?" "Within the Cup" and "An Alien Enemy."