Moving Picture World (Jul 1919)

116 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 5, 1919 Snow in “Beauty Proof” Soothes Summer Patron \T ITAGRAPH apparently has selected a good moment to present “Beauty Proof,” Harry T. Morey’s new play of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The locale affords opportunity for utilizing furs, snow, skis, snow shoes and winter life in northern Canada. By a process of mental suggestion, the picture conveys a sense of coolness to those who witness it. Paul Scardon directed the production, and the story was written by James Oliver Curwood. The hero is Corporal Steele, of the Mounted Police, and because of his indifference to women he has been dubbed “beauty proof” by his comrades. Steele is warned that Carol Thorpe, sister of the accused man, will make every effort to see that her brother is not caught. She lures him into a trap. Her brother and his companions drop on Steele from a tree and carry him to their hut. There he is bound and gagged, secured in a box and delivered bock to Hodge as a box of tools. Betty Blythe has the role of the girl, George Majeroni characterizes Hodge, Denton Vane has the role of young Thorpe, Tenny Wright and Bernard Siegel are two half-breeds, Robert Gaillard is seen afe the inspector. “Elmo” Serial Has Many Thrills. The fourth episode of the Universal serial, “Elmo the Mighty,” featuring Elmo Lincoln as the hero, and Grace Cunard as the heroine, is another chapter of excitement and intense action, fairly bristling with climaxes and hair-breadth escapades. It is entitled “A Fiendish Revenge,” and centers about the mad attempts of the vallainous Rawden and his gang of desperadoes to capture the lovers and, by systematic torture, force from their lips the secret of the hidingplace of the wealth of the girl, which the bandits are bent upon securing by hook or crook. First Martin Animal Comedy Ready. The first of the Joe Martin animal comedies titled “Monkey Stuff” will be released the week of July 6. Universal promises exhibitors as well as the public a treat in the picture. Joe Martin is an orang-outang that could not be a better actor had he been born a man. The persons on the supporting cast are Harry Lorain, Phyllis Allen. Beatrice Lovejoy, Harry Burns, and Lucille Smith. During the action Joe carries a baby around with the ease and carefulness of a human. He manages to put to flight the elephant and the lion, cast as crooks, and finally patches up the quarrel of the father and mother of the baby. \ irginia in Desperate Situation. Virginia Warwick, playing the ingenue in the Fox Sunshine comedy, “Wild Waves and Women,” almost turned the comedy into a tragedy when the bath house, which in the picture was being washed out into the ocean, was turned over by the rough water. Virginia disappeared. A hurried search revealed her still within the bath house holding on for dear life, and her head just out of the water. Immediate advantage was taken of the situation, and the accident was turned into a real scene in the picture. Eason Has Name on Screen. Reeves Eason, chief aide to Director Allen J. Holubar, in making "The Right to Happiness,” the new Dorothy Phillips super-feature, will have his name flashed on the silver sheet as associate of the noted producer of “The Heart of Humanity.” Eason has been a valuable rightbower to Holubar, having directed important productions himself. When the Villain Stops Villaining. Joe Ryan, Vitagraph serial bad man, gives Bill Duncan, the star, a rest, as they work on a new chapter play. George Le Guere Will Be Seen on Screen in July KNOWN to both stage and screen as one of the drama’s best known juveniles and leading men, George Le Guere who has appeared opposite Blanche Bates, Robert Edeson, Lena Ashwell, Irene Fenwick, David Warfield and Jane Cowl, and who has the leading juvenile role in “Business Before Pleasure,” will be seen on the screen next month in the first of the series of eighteen special productions to be made by Gerald Bacon for release by Frank G. Hall, president of Independent Sales Corporation. The picture is titled “Sun-Up,” a screen version of Max -Marcin’s play, “Substitute Prisoner.” Lucy Cotton has the leading feminine role. Mr. Le Guere has the part of a young husband, addicted to drink, and whose reformation is brought about by his young wife. Lionel Barrymore Who will appear in Artcraft’s picturization of his stage success, “The Copperhead.” Acclaim “The Great Gamble” at New York Trade Showing ONE of the most successful and widely attended trade showings recently held in New York attracted several hundred exhibitors from the metropolitan district to the New York Theatre Roof on June 20, when the first three episodes of the Western Photoplays serial, “The Great Gamble,” co-starring Anne Luther and Charles Hutchison, were exhibited. “The Great Gamble” is to be released by Pathe, on August 3. Present at the showing to meet the exhibitors were Director Golden; A. Alperstein, treasurer and general manager of Western Photoplays, Inc., Miss Luther and Mr. Hutchison, the co-stars; and the remainder of the cast, including Richard Neill, Warren Cook, Billy Moran, William Cavanaugh and Edith Thornton. The three episodes shown were No. 1, “The Great Gamble;” No. 2, “The Clock of Doom;” and No. 3, “Into the Chasm.” The showing was enthusiastically received by the exhibitors, which was arranged and put on by W. E. Raynor, manager of the New York branch of Pathe Exchange, Inc. Location Work on “La Rue” Finished. Select announces that Mitchell Lewis has completed the location work on his coming Select picture, which is announced under the working title of “La Rue of the Strong Heart,” and has returned to the Brunton Studio in Los Angeles where the interior scenes will be made. For the last three weeks Mr. Lewis, Director Robert North Bradbury, and Mr. Lewis’ company have been stationed at the head of the Columbia River in Washington. One of the big scenes in “La Rue of the Strong Heart” will show the burning down of the church in the community where Mr. Lewis’ company was working. Negative Arriving on New Duncan Serial. Several hundred feet of test negative sent to the Vitagraph studio from Lake Huntington, near Fresno, Cal., where William Duncan began filming his new fifteen-episode serial, has proved a revelation to the laboratory men. They declare that the test negative is the finest ever seen by any of the laboratory staff. It was found that the atmospheric conditions at the lake were practically ideal. Such remarkable depth and sharpness of detail were obtained in the test negative that the officials at the West coast studio are enthusiastic in promising something quite unusual in the forthcoming Duncan serial. “The Great Gamble" Completed. With the filming of two big scenes this week. Director Joseph A. Golden completed work on the Western Photoplays serial, “The Great Gamble,” co-starring Anne Luther and Charles Hutchison, which is to be released by Pathe on August 3. In the first of these scenes Mr. Hutchison was required to climb a steep embankment on a motorcycle and race after a speeding train. On catching up with the train, the “stunt” star, at great speed, leaped from the saddle to the rear platform. Chicago Exhibitor Acclaims “Oh Boy!” “A delightful comedy, treated with the skill of a great director. Albert Capellani’s screen adaptation of ’Oh Boy’ is a perfect gem of entertainment set to its familiar, popular airs. It is to have a sure place in the affections of the people." That is what the management of the Ziegfeld Theatre, Chicago, thinks of this new Capellani production released by Pathe. First run houses in Des Moines and Sioux City have booked the production. and are playing to capacity business.