The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY .35 P"peciallx5elccte6 4 Hearst News No. 51 Scenes in London During the Great Railway Strike. Sub-Titles. — Waterloo Station — deserted— not a single train moving. Suburbanites engage in a mad scramble for overcrowded trams. Hyde Park becomes a food distributing center— motor lorries keep the milk supply moving. "Oo, La, La!" — Fifth Avenue is startled by Dame Fashion's latest Paris creation — the pantaloon skirt.— New York City. Sub-Titles. — An interested gallery. It is convenient and comfortable is the Paris argument. Skate On Skis. — Alpins Club prepares for the winter season with practice among the sand dunes. — Berlin, Germany. Sub-Titles. — Turning is a difficult job. How to ascend a hill on skis. "Fair and Warmer." — Maybe — perhaps— showing how the weather man works atop a Manhattan skyscraper. — New York City. Sub-Titles. — Reading the barometer to determine the atmospheric pressure. Hoisting the storm signal flag for the benefit of seagoing ships. "Colder — with light snow flurries — — northeast winds!" — Even the weather man has a chill at the prospect. Christmas Eve! — Time — late. Soft light, sleepy kiddies; sleigh bells off stage. — Somewhere, U. S. A. Sub-Title. — A dream come true! In the Public Eye. — Secretary of War Baker and General March return from Panama. — Hoboken, N. J. Sub-Titles. — Members of the House Military Affairs Committee and famous aviators confer at the Capital upon the advisability of creating a cabinet officer of aeronautics. Samuel Gompers and Labor agents of the country hold a national pow-wow at Washington. Samuel Gompers and John L. Lewis, leader of the recent coal strike. Major Haslett, Representative La Guardia and Lieutenant Commander Bellinger. A Private Zoo. — Millionaire resident of Uruguay's capital keeps a menagerie at his home. — Montevideo, Uruguay. Sub-Titles. — Senor Rios is very strong with the younger set — naturally! Putting a baby elephant through his paces for the amusement of the children of his wealthy neighbors. Feeding the seals. A guest from the North. Motorcycle Thrilis. — Riders compete in hill climb. — Los Angeles, Cal. Sub-Titles. — Stealing some stuff from the ancient Roman charioteers. Cutting figure eight. Allied Troops Honor Czecho Slovak Dead. — Vladivostok, Siberia. Sub-Titles. — Led by khaki-clad Yanks the fighting men of many nations march in tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice. Czecho Slovaks bearing floral tributes for their comrades' graves. The poilus — followed by their British comrades in arms. And the Yanks. FAMOUS PARSIAN THEATRE ERECTED AT UNIVERSAL. 'J'HE Odeon, the famous theatre of Paris, has been duplicated at Universal City for the concluding scenes of "The Woman in the Plot." "The Woman in the Plot" is Erich von Stroheim's Universal photoplay of Parisian love-intrigue. It is a fitting screen story to follow Stroheim's master-drama "Blind Husbands." In the notable cast appear Clyde Fillmore, the matinee idol of "Civilian Clothes," Sam de Grasse, who played one of the leading roles in "Blind Husbands" and Una Trevelyn, the dazzingly blonde beauty of the screen. Immaculately costumed men by the hundred, scores of bewitchingly pretty girls, gem-enclustered dowagers of the Continent and the army of atmosphere necessaiy to a big production are used in many of the scenes. The Parisian street scenes are said to be particularly accurate. Several years before the war Stroheim was a military attache of the Austrian embassy in Paris and knows the ins-andouts of the French metropolis thoroughly. EXPLOITING "THE MIDNIGHT MAN" Barney Goodman, manager of the Frolic Theatre, San Francisco, worked a stunt" for his opening of Jim Corbett's serial that sent his "kid" business up one hundred per cent and at the same time got him yards of newspaper publicity. He arranged with George Warren, dramatic editor of The Daily News, San Francisco, to give a special children's performance on Saturday morning during the week of the first episode. The idea was that any boy or girl under fourteen years of age would be admitted to the Frolic at this special performance on presentation of a coupon that was published daily in The News and one cent war tax. Stories appeared every day for a week preceding the performance with the result that the Frolic was given more publicity than any other theatre in town. And on the day of the special performance over one thousand children were lined up in front of the house before ten o'clock in the morning. This "stunt" can be worked anywhere on any attraction but it is particularly effective on a serial as what child, after seeing the first episode of a thrilling picture, can resist the temptation of seeing the rest of the picture. Try this one and watch your business go up. THOUSAND WOULD PAY TO BE WALLACE BEERY. IF Tod Browning, directing Priscilla Dean in "The Beautiful Beggar" at Universal City, should ask for volunteers to double for Wallace Beery, the noted character player, he would be killed in the rush. Wallace Beery appears in support of Miss Dean as a Turkish sheik with a modest little harem of a hundred wives. The harem set constructed at Universal City is accounted one of the most magnificent interior settings ever used for a motion picture. ' Far-flung marble halls of glistening marble and mosaic are gorgeous thoroughfares to the many luxurious alcoves where Beery, as a powerful shiek of Constantinople, reclines on silken pillows to watch the rhythmic gyrations of his dancing wives. In the words of Confucius: "It's a great life if you don't weaken." A guest at Universal City recently watched the filming of a harem scene and attacked the business accumen of the world's film capital bitterly: "Why," he asked, "should Beery be paid large money for this work when there are thousands of tired business, men who would do it just for a relaxation ? "