The Moving picture world (May 1920-June 1920)

June 12, 1920 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1465 the coming year. "The Village Sleuth" and "An Old-Fashioned Boy" are considered among the best that Ray ever did under the direction of Mr. Ince, and are of that type of wholesome, good-humored comedydrama that made Ray one of the foremost stars of the screen. Popular Supporting Players. Sydney Chaplin has completed the first of the big five-reel comedies under his contract with Famous Players-Lasky. This is "One Hundred Million." He is about to begin on his second production, which also will be released next season. Two special Lois Weber productions also will be released as Paramount pictures. Miss Weber has practically completed the first, details of which will be announced in the near future. Not only will Paramount pictures carry the work and personality of these famous stars and directors, but they also will continue to be enriched by the artistry of a number of well-known supporting players, whose names have come to stand for the best in motion picture art. In the supporting casts of Paramount pictures next year will be seen such sterling artists as Elliott Dexter, Theodore Roberts, who probably will play the leading role in "The Old Homestead"; Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee, Margaret Loomis, Viola Daniels, Conrad Nagel, Monte Blue, Walter Hiers, Jack Mulhall, Clyde Fillmore, Jack Holt, Mabel Julienne Scott, Lois Wilson, Harrison Ford, David Powell and Theodore Koslofl. All of Barrie's Works. Not only, however, has the production department already produced a number of plays scheduled for next fall, but it also has a great reservoir of photoplay material which includes some of the world's best best known books and plays. Included in this material are all of the works of Sir James M. Barrie, including such favorites as "Peter Pan," "What Every Woman Knows" and "The Little Minister." "Peter Pan," Maude Adams' greatest success, originally was played in London by Pauline Chase and is revived in England every Christmas. Last year Georgette Cohan, the talented daughter of George M. Cohan, appeared as "the boy who never grew up." Miss Adams also made popular on the American stage that other great Barrie play, "The Little Minister." "What Every Woman Knows" also is stamperf with the Adams reputation and artistry. Among the other properties owned and scheduled for production by Famous Players are : "The Secret Orchard," Channing Pol lock's dramatization of the novel by Agnes and Edgerton Castle, a production of which was made several years ago under the direction of William DeMille, with Blanche Sweet in the leading role. ■ "Brewster's Millions," George Barr Mc"Cutcheon's novel, which was a pronounced !fetage success with Edward Abeles in the Reading role and which will be filmed with Roscoe Arbuckle as the harried millionaire. "The Witching Hour," Augustus Thomas' play, a story of the occult, which as a play with John Mason in the leading role enjoyed one of the most successful runs of any drama from the pen of that playwright. "The Conquest of Canaan," one of Booth Tarkington's earliest and most successful novels. "Free Air," a Saturday Evening Post story by Sinclair Lewis. "The Husbands of Edith," a story by George Barr McCutcheon. Du Maurier's "Peter Ibbetson." "Peter Ibbetson," Du Maurier's novel, which in its dramatic form was one of the most successful pieces in which John and Lionel Barrymore have appeared, and which has been one of the successes of the London season with Constance Collier in the same part she played in the New York production. "The Great Day," a Drury Lane melodrama by George R. Sims and Louis Napoleon Parker, the latter the author of "Pomander Walk," "Disraeli" and "Joseph and His Brethren." "Toujours de L'Audace," a Saturday Evening Post story by Ben Ames Williams. "The Quarry," a novel by John A. Moroso. "Easy Street," a short story by Blair Hall, originally published in Snappy Stories. "The Night Hawk," the dramatization of Edgar Jepson's novel by Norrall and Merivale. produced in 1912 at the Globe Theatre, London. "Camille," Dumas' perennial favorite, which has served as a starring vehicle for the world's greatest actresses more often than any other play. "Old Chester" Story. "Good for the Soul," a story by Margaret Deland appearing in "Old Chester Tales." "Her Own Money," a comedy by Mark Swan, which was produced by Withrop Ames, owner of the Little Theatre. "Is Matrimony a Failure," the adaptation of a German comedy by Leo Ditrichstein, which had a long run when produced in New York by David Belasco. "The Mythical Millionaire," by Max Marcin, author of "The House of Glass" and "Cheating Cheaters." "The New York Idea," Longdon Mitchell's satire, which was one of the greatest successes of Minnie Maddern Fiske and her Manhattan company. "The Sixty-first Second," Owen John^son's novel. "The Curse of Wealth," a story by Cosmo Hamilton, and an original story by Hector Turnbull to be produced by Cecil B. DeMille. In addition to these works of famous novelists and dramatists, Mr. Lasky also has assembled a staff of writers and artists who will work directly for the screen. Penrhyn Stanlaws Engaged. Notable among these is Penrhyn Stanlaws, one of the best known illustrators and painters in America, who, it was announced this week, will give up his brush forever to study the motion picture under Mr. Lasky's direction. Among the novelists and dramatisL^ wn-, are writing for Paramount Pictures are Hector Turnbull, author of "The Cheat," critic and magazine writer; Rita Weiman, author of "The Acquittal," a successful Broadway play of this season; Julien Josephson, who wrote many of the successful Charles Ray pictures; Cosmo Hamilton, author of "Scandal," "The Blindness of Virtue" and numerous other novels and plays; Nina Wilcox Putnam, whose stories in the Saturday Evening Post and other publications have made her one of the most widely read short story writers in America ; Roi Cooper Megrue, author of "It Pays to Advertise" and numerous other successful plays; Max Marcin, the well liiown playwright; Mann Page and Izola Forrester, well known writers for the screen ; Byron Morgan, Frank Condon, Will Ritchie, Ouida Bergere, Clara Beranger, Jeanne MacPherson, Beulah Marie Dix, Olga Printzlau, and others who have proved themselves to be the leaders in writing directly for the screen. Charles Ray's October Release Charles Ray in "An Old Fashioned Young Man" — story and scenario by Agnes Christine Johnston — will be one of the October releases. In this Thomas H. Ince production Ray plays the role of a youth who has the old-fashioned ideas of love, marriage and home. This picture is replete with the wholesome, genuine small-town atmosphere for which Ray pictures have come to be so distinctive and popular. Jerome Storm directed and the production has the unique distinction of having been filmed without an iris, or "fade-out." Two Excellent Views of Mae Murray's Special Paramount Production to Be Released in September. „^ ^ „f u la "The Right to Love," and Mae appears to be exercising her right In scene 2 and defending her rleht The name °f '|ne 1 With her in scene 1 is H. B. Herbert. The picture was made by George Fitzmaurice,