Motography (Jul 1918)

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July 6, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 31 Scenes from three productions on the Goldwyn schedule, "Smiling Bill" Parsons, in the Capitol Comedy, "Widow's Might," Mabel Normand in '"The Venus Model," and Madge Kennedy in "The Service Star." Goldwyn Announces Next Four Releases Mabel Normand, Madge Kennedy and Two Mae Marsh Features Will Wind Up Year's Schedule GOLDWYN'S next four releases. Miss Normand has just returned to which will complete the cycle of Fort Lee from an excursion into the twenty-six begun with "Polly of the Cir Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where cus" on Sept. 9 of last year, are declared many of the exterior scenes were filmed. by the producers to constitute a powerfully fitting climax for the organization's first production anniversary. Following "The Glorious Adventure," in which Mae Marsh is starred and which is to be seen everywhere beginning July 14, the productions and dates of release are: July 28, Mabel Normand in "Back to the Woods"; August 11, Madge Kennedy in "Friend Husband"; August 25, Mae Marsh in "Money Mad." "The Glorious Adventure," directed by Hobart Henley and completed some time since, was held up to make way for another Mae Marsh production, "All Woman," which has been given unanimous newspaper and trade press approval. Goldwyn describes it as "the story of the girl who bought happiness for a dollar." Adapted from Edith Barnard Delano's story, "When Carey Came to Town," it is a thrilling and interestingromance built around the adventures of a girl who invited herself to be a ward in the home of a gruff young bachelor and who eventually made him a happy benedict by marrying him. Wyndham Standing, distinguished leading man to many feminine screen stars, heads an unusually capable cast. Mabel Normand is doing something entirely new for her in "Back 'to the Woods," which is from an original story by J. Clarkson Miller and directed by George Irving, a newcomer at the Goldwyn studios. In it the star is the progressive daughter of a reactionary old lumber millionaire who tests out her theory of life as teacher of the school in a lumber town. There are comedy opportunities, of course, but there is an absorbing story to carry them along. Herbert Rawlinson, famous as a screen star in his own right, is Miss Normand's leading man. "Friend Husband," with Madge Kennedy, is a comedy drama. It is an amusing story of a girl who marries a man she doesn't love, to gain an inheritance, and the things that happen later to make her wish she hadn't and glad she did. "Money Mad," Mae Marsh's last production in Goldwyn's first releasing year, is perhaps the most dramatic story Miss Marsh has appeared in in her entire career — certainly as a Goldwyn star. As the heroine it develops upon her to track down the murderer of a man slain in her own home. How she does it makes a thrillingly melodramatic tale, filled with action from beginning to end. Packs House with Children Children in the neighborhood of the Plymouth Theatre of Rochester, New York, arc film friends of Manager Joseph Stoffel. For a week Manager Stoffel had a corps of photographers out scouring the neighborhood to catch the pictures of all the youngsters they could find. The next week Manager Stoffel announced he would give a special showing on three days of the pictures caught by his cameramen. There was a joyous response by the youngsters and the theatre was besieged by those who wanted to see if they had been filmed. The idea proved an excellent advertising novelty and gave Manager Stoffel the additional satisfaction of pleasing his young friends, with whom he is exceedingly popular. Alice Brady Loyal to Work Alice Brady puts pictures first. This is a fact which is well known to all the studio associates of the Select star, but it was exemplified recently in a most emphatic manner when Miss Brady balanced in the scales interest in her picture and the desire to wear two fetching costumes. It was at Long Beach and Miss Brady was accompanied by some very particular friends. Now it happens that in the Select picture she is working on there is a bathing scene, and for it Miss Brady had bought two handsome bathing costumes, the price of which, be it whispered, ran into three figures. These costumes Miss Brady had just purchased and had taken along with her in her car. What would most girls do? The answer would appear to be a simple one; but not so in Miss Brady's case. She struggled — and Alice Brady, the star, triumphed over Alice Brady, the friend. Although her companions teased, Miss Brady stoutly refused to wear her new bathing costumes before they had been filmed for the scene in her picture. Choking back her vanity, she astounded her friends by buying a very ordinary suit. This she put on, and drably attired, when she might have been gorgeously arrayed, enjoyed her dip in the surf. News Reel Shows Eclipse Remarkable pictures taken by astronomers at Denver of the recent total eclipse of the sun are shown in Screen Telegram No. 33, released by Mutual, June 23. The mammoth machine used in taking these pictures measured more than twenty-two feet in length. Buys Second Theatre The Orpheum Theatre, Fairfield, Iowa, has been sold to Hugh Bennett, proprietor of the Fairfield Theatre. Mr. Bennett will manage both houses.