Moving Picture World (Jul 1917)

656 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 28, 1917 arc at the station to meet the Rev. Mr. Fox, their new pastor. Moore Is broke and so he decides to go through with an impe'raonation of the minister. He takes his trick bicycle to church so that if his preaching falls flat he can do his bicycle He begins the service by taking. the collection. Then he disrobes in what, unfortunately, is represented as Billy Sunstyle. He finishes by riding his bicycle up and down the aisle and out. Although this picture will amuse many people, its use of Billy Sunday's name In this connection will not commend it to Mr. Sunday's admirers. And they are legion. further adventures of this luckless chap afford ample opportunity for a cartoon that is among the best ever done by this versatile artist. Joe Welch in "The Peddler" Yiddish Comedian Appears in a Screen Amplification of His Famous Sketch. Reviewed by Arthur W. Courtney. JOE WELCH'S popular vehicle of nearly a generation ago, "The Teddler," produced by the U. S. Amusement Corporation in six reels, is on the Art Dramas program for release on July 25. If memory serves, this play was at one stage of its career a variety sketch built about the situation of Joe Welch discovering his own son robbing the safe. At another time it was a full fledged Bowery melodrama with lots of tremulous incidental music. The photoplay is merely a screen version of the stage play. It is an undramatic story told at great length. Every hint in the dialogue of the stage play has been built up into a scene in the photoplay. Undoubtedly many persons will be interested in this plain tale. It is scrupulously clean. When Mr. Morgan discovers his wife with Sammy he puts her out of the house and makes Sammy support her. She makes Sammy "leave early every night" and the detective reports further to Mr. Morgan "everything is right and proper." Joe Welch's voice is missed. But the titles in his dialect, which are inserted so often for their own sake, not to make situations more intelligible, may well have been spared. Joe Welch is an itinerent country peddler who saves enough to open a second-hand clothing store in the city. He is a modern Job. His own. son, Sammy, robs him. But finally oil is discovered on the tract of land in Oklahoma which his wife left him, and he is paid $500,000. He ends his days in affluence. Toung Catherine Calvert, as Sarah, the housekeeper, who marries Sammy, gives an interesting impersonation. Sammy is played by Sidney Mason. His is a thankless job. The part is frankly intended for theatrical purposes only. This is true also of the part of Mrs. Morgan, played by Sally Crute. A subtitle tells that all she wants is affection. The blind foundling, Mary, is played by six-year-old Kittens Reichert with much tenderness. Those who have seen Joe Welch in the stage version of "The Peddler," and those who wish they might have seen him, will find in this photoplay an hour of good entertainment. It is an authentic record. "Betty, Be Good" A Five-Reel Balboa on the Mutual Program Featuring Jackie Saunders. Reviewed by Arthur W. Courtney. JACKIE SAUNDERS is featured in a five-reel Mutual entitled "Betty, Be Good!" It is the story of a rich, motherless girl who is constantly being admonished by her father to be good. She reads in the newspapers of the food riots at the city hall and decides to bake bread for the hungering multitude. She gets all stuck up with dough, burns the bread and tosses it out of the window on the butler's head. This is typical of the humor of the picture. Each reel is just added to the preceding one. There is no vital connection between them. As we look back, however, we realize that Jackie's father refuses to lower the price of food until the end of the last reel. He is on bad terms with the mayor and has affidavits sworn to incriminate the mayor and keep himself out of jail. All the developments of the plot are transparent. The father is setting out to town with the affidavits. He hands them to the chauffeur, who places them beside him in the roadster. Then the father decided to take the big car. The chauffeur gets it, but leaves the affidavits in the roadster. Jackie runs away from home with the roadster. She is held up by a mule. A tramp steal the affida He shows up in 'the last reel trying to sell the affidavits the mayor. Then we get a flash back of what has actuall happened. When the mayor sees the affidavits he laughs says that the man who made them has since been put in th insane asylum. Everyone registers surprise and Jackie father reduces the price of food. The mayor's son spends his vacation as an officer on police force, incognito. He arrests Jackie for disobeying traffic regulations. In a sense, she arrests him, for they marry eventually. and ho Pathe Program Schedule for Week of June 29 Features Mollie King, Pearl White and Ruth Roland. MOLLIE KING in a strong feature directed by George Fitzmaurice, Pearl White in a thrilling episode of her "Fatal Ring" serial and Ruth Roland in an intense-compelling chapter of "The Neglected Wife" are features of Pathe's program for July 29th in addition to two issues of the HearstPathe News which at the present time is claimed by exhibitors to outdraw any five-reel feature. "The On-the-Square Girl" is the title of beautiful Mollie King's five-reel Gold Rooster play, produced by the Astra Film Corporation under the direction of George Fitzmaurice and written by Ouida Bergere. The splendid supporting cast includes L. Rogers Lytton, Aimee Dalmores, Donald Hall and Ernest Lawford. It is a fast-moving, strong story dealing with the phase of New York life similar to that side of English society depicted in "Our Betters," W. Somerset Maugham's play which was produced after the picture was written and which ran all season on Broadway. In it, Mollie King has the role of a beautiful Fifth Avenue cloak model and she wears some of the handsomest gowns ever seen in a motion picture Pearl White appears in "The Warning on the Ring," the fourth chapter of "The Fatal Ring" serial. It is one of the most exciting chapters yet. Carslake determines to secure the Violet Diamond, but Pearl, with the aid of her pet dog, cleverly eludes him. The end of the episode has a strong carry-over interest to the next which will bring theater patrons back to see it. "The Fatal Ring" is called "another 'Iron Claw.' " "Embittered Love" is the title of the twelfth episode of "The Neglected Wife" serial, in which Ruth Roland is starred. This chapter is marked by the attempt of the veiled woman to kill Horace Kennedy after she has sent to Mary Kennedy the following note: "Your husband visited the other woman's apartment this afternoon. Remember he ruined my life and I am going to punish him." The seventeenth release of the "Know America" Combitone scenics is entitled "Eastern Texas." The release shows very interesting scenes of Galveston, the immense sea-wall that protects the city from the ravages of storm, scenes in Dallas, the largest cotton gin in the world and views of the state fair grounds. An International cartoon and scenic split reel release and Hearst-Pathe News Nos. 62 and 63 complete the program. Triangle Program for July 22 Charles Ray Appears in "Sudden Jim"; Jack Devereaux and Winifred Allen in "A Successful Failure." THE long-heralded Triangle production of "Sudden Jim," the Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Budington Kelland, starring Charles Ray, will be released or. the program for July 22. "A Successful Failure," produced under the supervision of Allan Dwan and featuring Winifred Allen and Jack Devereaux, is the other feature of the week. The scenes were filmed in the big woods of California. One of the most spectacular is that showing a burning trestle, one hundred feet high, over which Charles Ray drives a trainload of logs just before it collapses to the ground. In the cast supporting Ray are Sylvia Bremer, Joseph J. Dowling, Lydia Knott, William Bellingford, Frank Whitson and Georgie Stone. Director Victor L. Schertzinger has charge of the production. "A Successful Failure," featuring Jack Devereaux and Winifred Allen, is a humorous view of the struggle which a young man makes to gain enough currency of success to marry the girl he adores. When a package of counterfeit bonds is tossed at him by a young woman in a taxicab he believes that fortune has blessed him, not detecting their bogus species. He keeps the bonds as capital, and the confidence they give him is of inestimable value in giving him the courage to win. The supporting company includes William Riley Hatch, George Renavent, Frank Currier, Russell Simpson and Robert Crimmins. The play was written by Robert Shirley and direct/a1 by Arthur Rosson, under the supervision of Allan Dwan. te OTTO LUCK AND THE RUBY AZAMATAZ. For the seventy-sixth release of Paramount-Bray Pictographs, Wallace Carlson sent his now famous movie hero "Otto Luck" in quest of the "Ruby" of Razmataz and the DET IN SELIG'S "NO GREATER LOVE." ina. BadAt. the emotional French actress, is pree ril^BjM^tfunah the Dancer, in the Selig Red Seal ]ay,""*T*^Jreate^^Bver This K-E-S-E production was written William Le Quex and is a life drama of to-day, being the dy of a woman's heart. "Sadunah the Dancer" has a daughwhom she wishes to shield from the life she haW led. Pursuing her sole ambition, Sadunah marries a rich financier, and when he gets into serious trouble and it would seem that he will lose all his money she tempts him to commit a terrible crime. But she, too, is ready to sacrifice all for mother love The call coming, Sadunah, at whose feet the artistic world has paid homage, gives her life for her child. Regina Badet is known to many as "The vampire of the French screen." "No Greater Live" is said to present not only a strong plot, but beautiful photography, scenic effect, etc.