Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

August 24, 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WOULD 1137 Madge Kennedy Puts On Scenes at Daly's Theatre WHILE the oppressive hot wave was breaking all heat records for New York City, Goldwyn was setting a jiew mark for motion picture realism. The big event was the transforming of Daly's Theatre in Broadway, New York, into a motion picture set for scenes in Madge Kennedy's newest Goldwyn picture, "A Perfect Lady," from the successful stage play by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. The playhouse where Augustin Daly, playwright and producer, achieved his biggest successes and the scene of Ada Rehan's greatest triumphs not so many years ago became a burlesque house for the three days the Goldwyn players used it — just as it had been in late years. One of the scenes required eighteen chorus girls. They surround Miss Kennedy, who plays the role of Juliet, leading woman of the troupe. In the audience were 300 extras applauding the work of Juliet and her pretty chorus assistants. Also in the audience were four prominent members of the cast posing as members of a Sabbath league, one of them being the sheriff. The latter, urged by other members of the committee, orders the curtain lowered because of the apparent vulgarity of the show, and then tells the audience to file out to the box office for its money. Because of the intense heat, Goldwyn had a cooling plant installed at Daly's Theatre. For luncheon four tables were set the length of the lobby and food was brought from a nearby hotel. Jere Austin, Miss Kennedy's leading man, acted as host in the garb of a clergyman, the role he plays in "A Perfect Lady." A sixteenpiece orchestra engaged for the theatre scenes made music for dancing between hours of work. Scene from "Kildare of Storm" (Metro). Young Picture for Loew Houses. Clara Kimball Young and Her Own Company are appearing at all the Marcus Loew theatres this week in "The Savage Woman," opening Monday and Tuesday at Loew's New York Theatre and Roof. The picture has been boiled down to five reels. The picture was directed by Edmund Mortimer from "La Fille Sauvage," by Francois Curel. Loew Books Outing-Chesters. Loew's circuit of New York theatres has just booked the entire Outing-Chester travel series of twelve pictures released by Mutual to run in all the Loew houses in New York. Each release works twenty days. These one-reel classics, which were produced by C. L. Chester in co-operation with Outing, "the world's authority on the great outdoors," are meeting with wide popularity, their range of unusual subjects having commended them to the travel-loving public. The Outing-Chester cover parts of the semi-civilized world never before caught by the motion picture cameraman, their subjects extending from the jungle interior of Fiji to those equally little known islands of the West Indies, Saba and St. Eustacia, with in-between visits to Venezuela, including a canoe trip up the Orinoco, a ramble among the glaciers of Mt. Columbia, a trip to the Gulf Coast islands off Louisiana, side tours among the pines and mountain streams of upper Canada, and again among the Florida Everglades. Intimate housekeeping arrangements of native tribes in remote and nearly inaccessible parts of the world are revealed in this series. Jewel's Anti Yellow Dog Campaign Is Spreading Fast THE practical "win the war" campaign being conducted by Jewel Productions, Inc., in connection with the visualization of "The Yellow Dog" has spread throughout the country so rapidly and grown to such proportions that the greatest expectations of the company have been surpassed and Henry Irving Dodge, author of the now famous story and founder of the anti-Yellow Dog agitation, says his fondest dreams have been more than realized. In addition to the chambers of commerce and patriotic societies that have already been reported as sponsors of the campaign in various cities many great newspapers have taken up the work of organizing the boy power of their cities in co-operation with the leading picture theatres. In several cities this plan has been reversed by the most prominent exhibitor assuming charge of the campaign and securing the co-operation of the newspapers in his territory. This latter plan gives the widest publicity to the movement and is made possible by the fact that every phase of the campaign that is suppressing the destructive influence of Hun propaganda is free of commercialism and is in no way associated with the picture that will later be released to do its share in converting yellow dogs into thoroughbred patriots. One of the biggest Anti-Yellow Dog clubs in the country to date is in Dallas, where the Dallas Dispatch is "whooping up" the drive in association with the leading picture houses and legitimate theatres. A big street parade in which over one thousand members participated was conducted by this paper, and after being review by the Mayor, Joseph E. Lawther, and Harry Olmstead, of the Council of Defense, the paraders were presented with membership badges that were honored by admission to the Old Mill theatre at a special performance. Other special performances have been given as part of big Yellow Dog rallies and still others are planned to keep the campaign in Dallas going. Miss Chadwick Featured By Pat he in Two-Reelers A GIRL whose vivacity and screen personality won foi her success over night in the Pathe serial, "The House of Hate," is to be starred in a number of two-reel dramas produced by Astra and released by Pathe Exchange, loc. The first of these dramas of plot, counterplot and the underworld is entitled "The Honest Thief," and will be released in the near future. It tells a story ot a girl cashier in a country bank whose ingenuity and brains circumvent the plots of crooks and wins for her a husband and happiness. Miss Chadwick has been surrounded by a capable cast of players. Another one of the two reelers in which Miss Chadwick will be starred is entitled "Getaway Kate," a drama of the call of the heart. Pathe will give further details regarding these two-reel dramas in the near future. Western Photplay's Serial Named. The international title contest conducted by Leah Baird has come to a close. The majority of film fans throughout the world decided against the opinion of Miss Baird and the original title selected by Joseph A. Golden of the Western Photoplays, Inc., has been settled upon as the final selection for the serial in which Miss Baird is being starred. A majority counted in favor of the choice originally placed on the serial as being the most appropriate and the most interest compelling. "The Messenger of Death" is the title of the coming fifteen-episode serial. Gillstrom Directs the Lees. Jane and Katherine Lee, the diminutive stars, have begun work on the first of their pictures which will be released under the William Fox brand of Excel Pictures. The play bears the temporary title, "Go Get 'Em," and is said to be full of thrills and opportunities for the Lee children to play their mischievous pranks. Besides being the first Lee Excel Pictures, "Go Get 'Em" also marks the advent of Arvid E. Gillstrom into the forces of William Fox directors. Mr. Gillstrom has had a wide experience in producing film comedies, and "Go Get 'Em" is expected to mark several departures in this type of screen play. The last few pictures of Jane and Katherine have been directed by Kenean Buel, but Mr. Buel has now been assigned to another play.