Moving Picture World (Jul - Aug 1918)

August 31, 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1283 Matt Moore is Leading Man in Blanche Sweet Company IN the production of Harry Garson's screen version of Itupert Hughes' story, "The Unpardonable Sin," which ran as a magazine serial and has just appeared in book form, Blanche Sweet will have as her leading man Matt Moore, who has just been added to the personnel of the Garson forces. Mr. Moore's experience has been gained both on the speaking stage and in a wide range of motion picture work. Before his entrance into the photoplay field he spent six years on the stage in dramatic work. Since entering motion pictures his sterling work has attracted wide attention, having appeared with William Fielding in "The Wild Goose Chase," also with Mary Pickford in "The Pride of the Clan." His latest screen appearance was with Elsie Ferguson in "The Heart of the Wild." "The Unpardonable Sin" will in all probability be followed by "Told in the Hills," the first of Marah Ellis Ryan's stories to be filmed. Miss Sweet has practically completed the purchase of gowns and wardrobe and will return to the Coast within a week to start work on "The Unpardonable Sin." The picture will be made at the Sunset studio, which Mr. Garson has leased in Los Angeles. Scene from "Green Eyes" (Paramount). Real Negro Camp-meeting in Dorothy Dalton Picture Goldwyn Weeks in Middle West. Omaha and Minneapolis are running a neck and neck race in staging "Goldwyn Weeks." Several weeks ago the Strand and Rialto theatres of Omaha played Goldwyn pictures simultaneously for an entire week. Now comes a great ''Goldwyn Week" in Minneapolis and an equally successful engagement of two of Goldwyn's most popular stars. Starting August 6, the Strand theatre, of Minneapolis, played Madge Kennedy in her Goldwyn patriotic production, "The Service Star." Miss Kennedy played to large and enthusiastic audiences during a four-days' engagement. Following "The Service Star" the Strand featured another Goldwyn success, Mabel Normand in "The Venus Model," giving Goldwyn productions eleven straight days in one of the leading arid most progressive houses in Minneapolis. THE trouble that sometimes ensues when a man past middle age weds a girl is depicted in "Green Eyes," Dorothy Dalton's new Paramount picture. This is an Ince picture, directed by R. William Neill, and is scheduled for release August 26. The husband becomes insanely jealous of his young wife and disaster almost ensues. But through a strange climax the tragedy is averted and peaca and happiness follow the turbulent period of the marital career. "Green Eyes" is laid in the South and includes a real old-fashioned negro camp-meeting' for "color." To make certain that this camp-meeting would be faithfully reproduced Ince engaged more than fifteen hundred colored people, all residents of Los Angeles and vicinity, and took them by a special train to the small town of Norwalk, where, in a shaded grove, a regular camp-meeting was held, with the exhorters, the colored choir, the pickaninnies clinging to the skirts of their "mammies," and the brothers and sisters who were supposed to "get 'ligion " Director R. William Neill, who held the megaphone over the shoutings of the enthusiastic colored singers, had much difficulty in making the spoutings of an old colored minister at the proper moment he might as well have tried to stop a Niagara. It was a scene that had all th* atmosphere" of the regulation campmeeting. There were tables loaded down with 'eats"; good-natured young colored fellows sparked" saucy-eyed Ethiopian damsels, while the more staid of the colored aggregation at once took to the religious scenes with great interest and fervor. Miss Dalton as the young wife is said to give a performance lacking nothing Jack Holt as the husband is declared to have accomplished a splendid piece of work, while the remainder of the cast is apparently excellently chosen. Ella Stuart Carson wrote the story. Scene from "The Common Cause" (Vitagraph). Maciste, "Cabiria" Samson, Coming in Screen Serial MACISTE, the herculean Adonis of the screen, "discovered" by Gabriele D'Annunzio for the outstanding character in "Cabiria," and later the muchdiscussed star of "The Warrior," returns to the screen shortly in what Harry Raver terms "the most unusual serial ever offered the American fan." No announcement has been made as to the title of the "Maciste" serial. When it is remembered that this Samsonic star enacted the role of "The Warrior" while serving as a soldier in the Italian army ajid that the Associated Press dispatches from Rome reported him killed in action cable advices from Turin disproved the report by stating that he was only wounded and was "enjoying his usual appetite." The new serial, according to Mr. Raver, has been in course of production since July, 1917, and was finished only three weeks ago, the delay being caused by the war activities of both "Maciste" and his director, Pastrone, while serving the colors. No decision has been reached by Harry Raver in the matter of exploiting the serial. Mr. Raver says, however, that the picture would not be given a "Broadway run" at his expense, as the star, backed by the earning power of his previous productions, had sufficient prestige to put the serial over and, as "The Warrior" was sold outright after its run at the Criterion theatre last summer, Mr. Raver may decide to dispose of his North American rights to the new production without exploitation on his own part.