Moving Picture World (Nov 1915)

November 20, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1461 Some November Vitagraphs Several Good Features Promised for Thanksgiving Week — Sidney Drew in Comedy. TWO exceptional pictures produced by the Western Vitagraph Company at Los Angeles, Cal., a Sonny Jim story and a Sidney Drew comedy comprise the single part pictures announced by the Vitagraph Company for their weekly program beginning Monday, November 22, a program that also includes a Broadway Star Feature and a two-part comedy feature. From out of the West comes the Monday release, entitled "Love and Law," a comedy written by William Dun Scene from "Love and Law" (Vitagraph). can, produced by Rollin S. Sturgeon and enacted by Mr. Duncan, George Stanley and Ann Drew. One of the strongest dramas of the month, "Saints and Sinners," is announced as the release for Tuesday. It was written by Ouida Bergere and produced by Van Dyke Brooke with a cast including Maurice Costello, Leah Baird, Adele de Garde, Garry McGarry and Mr. Brooke. Mr. Costello, in the character of a bookworm, who cannot understand the social needs of his more vivacious wife, is seen at his best, while Miss Baird as his wife plays an emotional lead that is artistically perfect. A Thanksgiving story, "Sonny Jim and the Family Party," by Elaine Sterne, in which Bobby Connelly is featured, is the announcement for Wednesday. The story was produced by Tefft Johnson, who selected a cast to support the little Scene from "Sonny Jim and the Family Party" (Vitagraph) . Vitagraph star that included Mabel Kelly, Karin Norman, Joe Halpin and Frances Connelly. The Thanksgiving Day release will be "Ghosts and Fly Paper," a story, as its title implies, that has to do with ghosts, but, as they turn out to be flesh and blood spirits, what looks to be a tragedy develops into a delightful comedy, the Western Vitagraph Company, for the second time during the week, being responsible for a screen story that is unusually attractive. Anne Schaefer, Marguerite Reid, George Kunkel, Alfred Vosburg and Otto Lederer are responsible for its enactment. Friday, the regular "Drew Day" release will be "All for the Love of a Girl," by Lulu Case Russell, in which Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew are featured. The chairman of the publicity committee of the Woman Suffrage party (Mrs. Drew) and Mayor Hawkins (Mr. Drew) fall in love with each other and the Mayor is converted to the cause. During a speech he collapses and is taken to a hospital. Here the comedy is accentuated by a dream in which the Mayor sees himself attired in the latest feminine fashion of the year 1590 and is being walloped all over the place by huge manlike women, dressed in exaggerated Suffragette style. An all-star cast features the release for Saturday, a twopart comedy-drama, entitled "A 'Model' Wife." Lillian Walker, Antonio Moreno, Louise Beaudet, L. Rogers Lytton and Lillian Burns enacted the story under the direction of Wilfrid North and succeeded in getting the last bit of comedy out of a manuscript that was overflowing with laughable material. ^ those deex Ocean Film Completes "Life Without Soul" AFTER having been engaged for a period of five solid weeks, without one day's let-up, Joseph W. Smiley, the head director of the Ocean Film Corporation, lately organized, completed the initial release of that company, "Life Without Soul," adapted by Jesse J. Goldburg, the vice-president and general manager of the company, from the classic, "Frankenstein," written by Mrs. Shelley. The photoplay abounds in startling incidents and possesses just sufficient sensational scenes to whet the appetites of siring hazardous ploits. The story is an unusual one, dealing with the experiences of a young scientist, who discovers a life-giving fluid and attempts to create a human being superior, mentally and physically, to his fellowmen. A delightful love theme pervades the Lucy Cotton. photoplay, and the scenic effects can best be judged by the statement that the company traveled to Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla., Savannah and Dahloniga, Ga., Arizona and northern New York, where the exterior scenes are largely laid. The Ocean Film Corporation will proceed to immediately produce two five-part features a month, for a period of three months, after which it is expected that the organization will be so complete as to permit of the producing and releasing of one five-part feature a week. Miss Lucy Cotton, who assumes the ingenue role in "Life Without Soul," the initial release of the Ocean Film Corporation, was chosen by Harrison Fisher, the artist, as the true type of southern beauty. EMMY WEHLEN ONLY LOANED TO ARROW. In order to correct an error regarding the status of Miss Emmy Wehlen as a Metro star, the Metro Pictures Corporation announces that Miss Wehlen is under a long-time contract to appear in Metro pictures produced by Rolfe Photoplays, Inc. She has been granted permission to appear in a serial now being made by the Arrow Film Corporation for Pathe, and at the conclusion of her work in this serial she will appear in Metro pictures until the completion of her contract. This announcement is made because of a report that Miss Wehlen had completed her contract for Metro pictures. I. S. PLAUT TO RETIRE. In the very near future, I. S. Plaut, who has been operating for some time under the name of the I. S. P. Co., will retire from the film business. In closing out his affairs Mr. Plaut will dispose of a number of features that have made envious records, among these are "The Sacrifice of Pauline," "The Cellar of Death," "Was He a Coward?" and numerous others.