Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

406 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 20, 1918 Scene from "Good Night Nunc" (Paramount). Arbuckle Gets Really Soaked in "Good Night Nurse" IN the new Paramoont-Arbuckle comedy, "Good Nik lit. Nu ised July 8, "Patty" Arbuckle accomplishes, after many ludicrous attempts, the unuaus of lighting : q a blinding rainstorm, while this might i" possible to almost anybody blessed with patlenci perseverance, it la ; il that it takes n •■Fatty" Arbuckle to make it funny. This table Bt unt Is •• t hlrty which should cause a full minute's Laugh minute in tbe new travesty on life In a sanitarium. "Good Night, Nurse" opens with .\>buckle trying to make ins waj ward through a terrific rainstorm. At the i drug Btore the jovial on< nother happy pedestlan— happy, but in a .-...i condil Ion "Fa 1 1 him post. .) ust how "Fat! s ' In his adventures would lose the humorous edge In the telling, but safely be reported that he Anal home ami wife with lom Id companions — an Italian organ grinder, ■ pretty girl dancer and a monkey. Thi and long-sufferinu spouse ti n\'s" friends out and puts him to bed and the next morning takes him to a sanitarium lu the cure. At this point, it may i. the fun has really just commenced, for what the doctor and interne do to poor "1' would be shameful were anybody else victim. But "Fatty" has a regulai field day when he masquerades as male nurse. Arbuckle wrote this comedy and directed it himself, while George Pi did the camera work. Hip V's, both in the matter of story and settin ■ i.h one seems to get better than its predecessor. Great Mob Scenes in "The Road to France" ONE of the largest mob scenes ever employed in the east in pictures was handled b\ Director Pell Henderson in "The Road t.. Prance," in which Carlyle in a<-k well and Evelyn 1 1 The title of this picture is claimed bj World Pictures to I" indicative of nisi low il,. present COnftlCl between nations will be bi ought to ■ ssful tern Hon It displays just what weapons the United States will employ in forcing peace on the Huns Kv.n though our people a general idea of the resources of ■ auntry, "The . ace" will open the enormous power of this nation in tin way of i.rial .i mi iii. ana Mr. Hi ■ tin: that never In all his career has he bad a pit nu that gives him tin one great chain e he found in this one Five Second Year Plays Under Way at Goldwyn's FIVK productions, two of them virtually complete. 1. for Goldwyn's second producing year, which begins the first week in September, are under way at the Fort Lee studios of the company. This means that the twenty-six pictures promised for the year which was begun With Polly of the Circus" have been finished dud arc undergoing titling and assembling. With the release of "Money M ad," Starring -Mae Marsh, on August 2S, Goldwyn's first milestone will have been passed. Geraldine Farrar's initial Goldwyn production, which probably will be the first '•base of the new year, is nearing completion under the direction of Reginald Barker. Its title has not been announced, nor has the nature of the story been made public'. Herbert Rawlinson heads a supporting cast Including such wellknown figures of the stage and screen as Violet Heming, Haasard Short. Percy Marniont and .Maude Turner Gordon. Tom .Moore's first Goldwyn starring vehicle, completed 'some time since, is being given the final polishing touches Of assembling and titling and will be read] for release among the first few of the forthcoming season. A capable cast supports the new slar. formerly a popular leading man for each of Goldwyn's feminine stars in turn, in an original Story from the pen of Charles A. I^ogue. Madge Kennedy has been photographed in the concluding scenes of "Friend Husband." written by Lois Zellner, and directed by clarence G. Badger, and has begun work on her first picture for the new year. Its title has not yet been announced, nor has its nature been made public. It Is said, however, to be one of the most delightful vehicles provided for her since inc a screen star nuclei i loldw \ n a UBplCeS, Mab.l Xiii mand's "Hack to the Woods" Led, and she Is at work on another production. Mae Marsh has finished "Money Mad " Sennett's Next Is "Ladies First." Tin Paramount Mack-Sennetl comedy release for July 1 Ti is "Ladies First," and Chester Conklln, Mary Thurman and Harry Grlbbon. Its theme lies in t it would be all right for anyone to have a beautiful wife if all the other men in the world were blind, otherents complications. For Chester the most acute of these "comi i make! among t he othei i i omedland In the plcturi an Eva Thatcher and Paddy McGulre, I . a ad Pred Pish back directed the picture. Exhibitors Enthusiastic Over Vilagraph Serial Policy No Summer Let-Up in "Big V" comedies. There is to be no .Summer let-up in the pi mhi, tion of Big V comedies. panic idlly working at the studio In Hollywood and they will continue there indefinitely. One companies Is 1 by Lawrence Semon. the other by Earle Montgomery and Joe Hock, and they alternate weekly on the Vltagraph program. A statement from the Vltagraph offices is to the effect that the comedy business IS on the increase and It is attributed to the general desire of the public to the brighter side of life, even if it is slap-stick. Exhibitors report that there has been a steady improvement In the A DEMONSTRATION of exhibitors' faith in Vltagraph promises and Vita product | recorded during the past week as the result of the new continuous serial policy announced h\ Albert I-;. Smith, president of the Vltagraph con, pany. .lust a week ago Mr. Smith, in biting it be known thai ton no had On I he roster of V 1 1 graph stars, gave oul a statement In which be announced that a permanent serial policy had Ided upon by rraph whereby William Duncan, with Edith Johnson and Joe Ryan, would load one serial company and Moreno and i Holloway another. The company will produce four serials a year, each of these companies appearing In two productions, it was Bt ! Already of exhibitors in vai sections of the country have signed in advance for a yearly serial service on the new Vltagraph booking plan. This Is believed to be the first time that oxhn have been given the opportunity of arranging their serial bookings B more in advance, and the first time that contracts for such servo • havi been made for that perfod of I imi President Smith, in discussing th( BerlaJ policy of his company, said: "Vitai has arrived at that point In serial production where we can safely promt in advance four high-class serials in B twelvemonth. A year ago we established the rule Of 'S Serial episode for each week in the year,' and BOW, with two strong compa i nlsed and producing. rangementa made definitely, we are in a Ion to a nnounce fai I n a<u a nee the ,t t he se\ era! i erials. 1 also e to exhibitors thai all of our serials in the future will be up to the stand set by 'The Fighting Trail,' 'Vengeance — and the Woman,' and 'The Woman in the Web.' To these will be added on July 1C 'A Flghl for Millions,1 featuring William Duncan with Kdith Johnson and Joe Ryan, On October 21 this will be followed by the first Antonio Moreno-Carol Holloway serial; this In turn will be followed by another Duncan serial on January 27, 1919 The second Moreno-Holloway serial will be released on May 16, 1919."