Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

PROGRAMME PARAGRAPHS To be Used by Exhibitors in Their House Organs or for General Publicity in the Exploitation of Paramount and Artcraft Pictures GOVERMENT restriction on the use of railway passenger cars caused no end of trouble for Director Fred Niblo of the Thomas H. Ince studios while he was filming the latest Enid Bennett picture, “Happy Though Married,” soon to be displayed at the theatre. The action of the story called for a railway passenger train. Unable to secure a special train, it was up to the company to use a regular passenger train while it was at the station. A lot of comedy action takes place in the scene and before, the players had finished, the cars pulled out. Of course there was a name on the side of the coach. Director Niblo and his actors haunted the station for a week before they caught that same car again to finish the scene. * * * Don’t leave your sweetheart in the care of your best friend while you are away. This might be the title of a popular song or just a piece of advice, but as a matter of fact, it is a suggestion of the plot idea in “Happy Though Married,” in which Enid Bennet will star at the theatre on This picture is a Paramount and was produced by Thomas H. Ince. Fred Niblo was the director. The story has a really substantial plot with much stispense, action, romance and thrill. It is a picture for the whole family, full of a certain tone that is unusual in the average picture. Lois and Arthur Zellner wrote the story and C. Gardner Sullivan the continuity. * * “I’m sure the new picture, ‘Flappy Though Married’ is going to please,” remarked Douglas MacLean, recently. “Why? Because it is so different and there is so much genuine comedy.” Mr. MacLean is leading man for Enid Bennett, the dainty Ince star in this Paramount picture, which will be seen at the theatre on You should see it. * * >1: Enid Bennett has overcome a certain nervousness she experienced early in her film career when called upon to do an American girl’s role. “I was afraid they’d know I was from Australia,” she smiled. However, if she Enid Bennett A Close Up By Morrie Ryskind As naughty as the girls we see In any comedy by Sennett; And just as beautiful is she — I speak, of course, of Enid Bennett. Though I say “naughty,” understand She’d not do anyone an injury; I mean she’s young, good-looking, and. Like Old New York, spicy and gingery. Though ten below, or hot the day; And be it clear or be it snowing — I’ll go to see my Enid play. You bet I’ll go: she’s got me going! did betray any of her Antipodean characteristics at that time, they are all gone now. She’s one hundred per cent American. Just the same she’s proud of Australia, as she may well be. “It is only,” she explained, “that I didn’t want to be criticised for actions that were not according to the standards for the American type.” Miss Bennett will be seen in her new photoplay “Plappy Though Married” at the theatre shortly. + * Fred Niblo and his wife, Enid Bennett, recently attended an auction sale at a beach town and just to help the auctioneer along, Mr. Niblo bid ten dollars for a bum poodle. The auctioneer knocked it down to him so fast that he had no back out. And they had to take the poodle home, where already the Ince star in Paramount pictures — dainty Enid Bennett — has five or six canine pets. “Who knows, though,” says Miss Bennett, philosophically, “that dog may turn out to be the best of the lot and save our valuables from burglars or something. You never can tell.” * * * “Happy Though Married,” Thom as H. luce’s latest starring vehicle for Enid Bennett, was written by Lois Zellner and is the second devised by this author for Miss Bennett, the previous one being “The Little Brother.” It will be displayed at the theatre soon. :i: « * Enid Bennett’s versatility has been forcefully demonstrated during the past few months in her photoplay work, for she has been alternating between strong dramatic and light comedy parts. From the stern she skips lightly to the frivolous and as seriously back again to the portrayal of the more vital problems in life. * * Lois and Arthur Zellner, authors of “Plappy Though Married”, Enid Bennett’s latest Paramount picture which will soon be shown at this theatre have a record for clever motion picture stories and it was the former who wrote Miss Bennett’s first picture, after the little Australian actress had forsaken the stage for the screen. C. Gardner Sullivan did the continuity and it needs no especial notice to call attention to his work. There are few scenarists comparable to Sullivan, .whose prolific output is characterized by its remarkably excellent quality. « 3ic 4: Robert Newhard is the camera expert who did the photographic work on “Happy Though Married”, Enid Bennett’s new film soon to be shown here and some of the scenes are deserving of particular mention. * * * The influence of literary suggestion is amusingly portrayed in Thomas PL Ince’s new Paramount photoplay “Happy Though Married,” which will be shown at the theatre, next This picture is decidedly a laugh producing vehicle for the young actress, develops its comedy situations on the incident of a young bride finding in her husband’s trunk a book entitled “How to be Happy Though Married,” and a picture of another woman.