The Moving Picture Weekly (1918-1919)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -21 Seme Page for "A Little Brotiier of the Rieii" AT A GLANCE ^^'^'■y Joseph Medill Patterson. broker, got him a job as tipster to the Directed by Lynn F. Reynolds. rich men he had known in college, and he got in with a rich woman who SUBJECT— "A Little Brother of the CAST. craved admiration. Sylvia heard of it Rich." Henry Leamington....J. Barney Sherry and broke off the engagement. LENGTH Six reels Sylvia Castle Kathryn Adams Then came the crash. Old man cTAucT^oi ht' t c P*"' Potter Frank Mayo Castle failed and left Sylvia iienni c5Wv~rj^^ Sofi. ^^°'A^'^ Muriel Evers Lily Leslie less. She came to New York and t^to^™t?V Adams. Carl Wilmerding, Jr Jack Gilbert worked in a department store, where DIRECTED BY — Lynn F. Reynolds. an old actor, seeing her, was struck STORY BY— Joseph Medill Patter vttt t nxxr ^, . with her beauty and offered her a son. A YELLOW streak was the bar sm position. In a few years she was a c^r^-c^-KT A T>Ti-w T ister on his coat-of-arms. Like a blazing electric light star. SCENARIO BY— Lynn F. Reynolds, saffron Galahad he swathed himself Sylvia was willing to forgive Paul LOCALE A small town, New York invulnerable armor of a good all his errors and forget his marriage City, a man's college. ' woman's love and stalked among the to the woman who had bought a ' * weak with eyes aflame. Paul Potter divorce to marry him. Finally IIME ioday. ■was his name, and all Broadway was through an accident the opportunity THUMB-NAIL THEME The story hunting ground. He had looks, came. But poor, spineless Paul re of a girl who goes to New York, be money, social position, influence and fleeted that a marriage with Sylvia comes an actress, finds herself' in spine of a jellyfish. He was as might injure his social standing. He volved in a triangle and eventually ^^st as a clipper-ship, as foul as a told Sylvia so. There was no acting marries the unexpected man in or nigger-galley and cruised so low that in the scene Sylvia staged for his bender to reform him. ^is gunwales were awash with sin. efit. She amply upheld the traditions Yet Sylvia Castle, beautiful Sylvia, of scorned women in all ages. That um A I wanted to marry him. They had been night on the stage she told the actor, H£RALiD sweethearts until Paul went to college who had made a strenuous effort to . and got in with the millionaire class, quit drink, that she would marry him wwTTT.m , . , . . Carl Wilmerding, millionaire stock and make him reform. ^yHAT does hfe in a department store offer to a beautiful girl ? " J£ Utte^Sri"' -it ADVERTISING CATCH-LINES sickening smirks of smut enlathered ah i i i • • i • e men. A yellow streak was the bar sinister on his coat-or-arms. b,™,^urryI^?a'c'£LSfL;t;f * saffron Galahad clothed in the invulne^ble armor of love. via aiTived in New York when her Wealth s scavenger — A Love Buzzard. So, too, had closed her engagement to the deck of the Maytlower. Paul Potter, the football hero who He wrecked women; she salvaged men. had gone to New York to break into _ ,. i ri i ii the charmed circle of society and Tast as a clipper-ship and as toul as a siave galley. ""tJi? first work that offered itself Sylvia Castle was a salvager of men; a seeker after drifting was in the dingy aisle of a cheap and wrecks. gawdy department store. Sylvia took Joseph Medill Patterson wrote "A Little Brother of the Rich," it. Any work, she believed, was hon it i i i • i i tr ^i. orable. Then into her drab and list Universal produced it and rrank Mayo, Ivathryn less life came the glamor of the stage, Adams and J. Bamey Sherry are the stars. the winking lure of the lights. Under the tutelage of a broken down director she acquired dramatic Ar\\71?D"T'ICI'Mrf^ DfTIVI/^UirQ art that won her the grudging plau ALfVlliKllOll^O JrUl^\.^niliO dits of Broadway. Her name blazed » ,. i. , • , i. across the metropolis in a riot of elec 1 — Three popular stars in one photo 4 — A glimpse behind the scenes of a trie lights— yet she was unhappy, play, Frank Mayo, Kathryn New York theatre. woefully unhappy. What came into Adams and J. Barney Sherry. 5 — The introduction of a suave, smil photodrama, starring Frank Mayo, J. ^.r^ ^ ot tne same name. Bamey Sherry and Kathryn Adams. 8— The relentless unmasking of a It comes to this theatre 3 — A whirling version of the eternal „ love-buzzard. ^, . , It was filmed by Lynn Reynolds from triancle a pin-wheel whereby 9— Scenes showing the hollo^v mock the successful novel by Joseph Medill ^ ^ , ^ Z-^ 1 ^^^^^^^y ery of New York's Bohemian hfe Patterson, the Chicago journalist of those who play with fire are con lO— Remarkable photography and international reputation. stantly clmnging position. lighting effects.