Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1073 "THE ROAD TO THE DAWN." This photoplay is one of Arthur Johnson's masterpieces, the sad story of a derelict, who after the golden days have passed is brought to realize that drink has destroyed his life, and caused the ruin of the beautiful girl, who loved him. The picture is a Lubin two-reel and employs a select cast of the home studio players. Bill Hedrick, the village drunkard, works enough to get the cost of his jug of liquor, which is sent every week. From the town where the liquor is shipped, Mary Lane, a widow, broken by privation, realizing that she is near her end, takes her little girl, Daisy, to the express office and consigns her to a near relative. She places a ring in a bag around the Scene from "The Road to the Dawn" (Lubin). child's neck instructing her not to let anybody enrovite see the ring. In the express office the tags get mixed and the child is consigned to Hedrick. On delivery Bill refuses to accept the child, but the express agent bullies him into paying the $4 and taking Daisy. Bill puts the baby to bed and as he watches her he thinks of days long ago, when a handsome young blacksmith, he hammered a ring out of a gold coin and gave it to his sweetheart, who deserted him on account of his drinking and married another man. As Bill is watching the child his craving for the jug of whiskey overcomes him. A booze peddler passes and offers a small bottle; he has no money, but by feeling the bag around the child's neck he finds that it contains a ring. To get the liquor he steals it and recognizes the ring he had hammered out for Mary. He drives the peddler away and taking the child in his arms hurries out into the night taking a road to a new and better life. JEANETTE TRIMBLE REJOINS KLEINE-CINES CO. After a portracted illness, which necessitated her retirement from pictures, Jeanette Trimble, well known to American picture fans as a Cines leading woman, announces that she will again be seen in regular Kleine-Cines releases. Miss Trimble plays Cleopatra in "Antony & Cleopatra," the seven-reel Kleine-Cines feature. JAMES NEILL TO DIRECT FOR UNIVERSAL. James Neill, the veteran stock actor and impresario, has joined the Universal forces as director. This announcement comes as a finale to a persistent campaign upon the part of general manager Bernstein of the west coast organization at Universal City, who offered a series of inducements that ' eventually persuaded him. — CHARLEY SIMONE IS AT LIBERTY. Charles Simone, the undiscovered Mansfield of Italy, whose business talents have been recognized in America, writes from Bayonne, N. J., that he has just resigned his dual position as general manager of the Centaur Film Co., of N. J., and the Venus Features Co. He says he feels very much at liberty, though he feels confident of hooking up somewhere, somehow in the immediate future. Charley has been in the moving picture business a long time and understands the manufacturing and selling branches of it thoroughly. Personally he is a gentleman, and has a most amiable disposition. He has held many positions of trust and his integrity as a business man is unquestioned. RELIANCE— MAJESTIC— AUTHORIZED STATEMENT The Reliance Company has now moved its studio to the newly acquired Clara Morris Estate at Riverdale, on the Hudson, and, according to Mr. H. E. Aitken, who in addition to his many other activities is president and general manager of the company, elaborate arrangements are being made for larger and better productions. Geo. W. Lederer, the well known theatrical producer is now associated with the Reliance and will stage some large and expensive features. J. P. Dunning, formerly vice-president of the Corn Exchange Bank, who has recently become associated with Mr. Aitken is also very active in the company at the present time. Mr. Ritchey is treasurer of the company and still active in its affairs, but his outside interests have become so pressing as to demand a great deal of the time formerly given to the Reliance. Mr. Aitken. who is also undertaking the active management of the Majestic Company, of which he has been president since its organization, also announces that Fred Mace is coming east' to work at the Reliance studios, where he will, however, produce pictures for the Majestic. This move has been made for the purpose of affording Mr. Mace better support and assistance in the productions in which he is featured. "STREETS OF NEW YORK" SELLING WELL. "The Streets of" New York," Pilot Film Company's threepart attraction of Dion Boucicault's great play, has been secured by Herman J. Garfield, Columbia Building, Cleveland, Ohio, for the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is in four reels of high class photography and is one of the best moving pictures ever made of New York life. One thousand feet have been made specially for Mr. Garfield, introducing the different scenes in that great play. A special high class lobby display and an extraordinary line of advertising material and lecture has been prepared for each of the five companies that Mr. Garfield expects to operate in the territory included in his purchase. "HIGH TREASON." Kleine-Cines Release for September i6th. "High Treason" is the title of a Kleine-Cines release which, it is predicted, will make a distinct sensation among picture fans. The story centers about the bribing of a Government wireless operator and aside from a good story, the infinite work of the producers cannot fail to deeply impress. For instance, one gets many enchanting glimpses of the board of trade at its busiest hour, a complete wireless station, the embarking of thousands of troops, the composing room of a great Italian daily with thirty compositors at their boxes, the war extras coming from the presses, the crowds of hooded women and bare-foot boys seizing the papers as they are handed from the circulation rooms, the thousands of frantic, war-mad people swarming the streets, with the occasional fanatic mounted on a convenient window-sill exhorting the populace to war. There follow many battle-scenes which were actually taken by Cines during the Balkan war and are cleverly worked into the story. The big thirteen-inch disappearing guns^ cavalry charges and infantry skirmishes all combine to make a two-reel subject of extraordinary power and appeal. The release of this picture, will, no doubt, create wide comment. SMITH OPENS SUPPLY HOUSE. There has come a new member to the ranks of motion picture supply houses. He is Percy L. Smith, of Roanoke, Va., who has opened a first class supply house in that city. Mr. Smith carries in stock everything that exhibitors and operators need, and wants manufacturers of all kinds of supplies, worthy of handling, to get into communication with him.