Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

EXHIBITOR’S PRESS BOOK CHARLES KENMORE ULRICH, Editor PRESS STORIES Iti^MOUSPlA^'ERS-IASKY CORPORATION AD CUTS and MATS Editorial Chats on Dorothy Gish and Her Latest Paramount Photoplay ^^Boots^^ Although scarcely out of her tenes, Dorothy Gish, Paramount star, is one of the most famous of American screen luminaries. Miss Gish has a distinct personality which is the dominant feature of every picture in which she appears and its value to exhibitors is vastly enhanced on that account. Dorothy Gish’s photoplays, such as “Battling Jane,” “The Hun within” and “The Hope Chest” already have proved themselves winners, and “Boots,” her latest starring vehicle, dealing, as it does, with the Bolshevist menace, doubtless will lead them all in popular esteem. Dorothy Gish, Star Dorothy GISH’S first Paramount starring vehicle was “Battling Jane.” The artisti'y displayed by her in this picture was fully on a par with that of her characterization of the “Little Disturber” in David W. Griffith’s masterpiece, “Hearts of the World,” and it instantly established her stellar fame on a firm foundation. Her succeeding photoplays served to render her even more popular with the motion picture public. Miss Gish is not only young, dainty, charming and magnetic, but she is endowed with histrionic talents of a high order. She is a comedienne whose chic, vivacity and brilliancy as an artiste, place her on a pedestal far above most screen players of the younger school. As a slavey of the London slums in “Boots,” who frustrates a Bolshevist plot to commit wholesale murder, she creates an absolutely new characterization, and in which her native genius finds ample expression. Martha Pittman, Author Martha pittman, author of “Boots,” is introduced to motion picture fans through this screen offering, which . is her maiden effort. That she has talent is evidenced by the fact that her narrative was picked from some seven hundred scenarios and stories, as TABLE OF CONTENTS Front Cover — Billing Inside Front Cover How to Use the Press Book Page Editorial Chats 1 Production Cuts and Mats. .. 2 Dorothy Gish in “Boots” 3 Production Cuts and Mats . 4 Cast and Story of “Boots”... . 5 Production Cuts and Mats. .. 6 Exhibitor’s Notes 7 Productian Cuts and Mats . 9 Advertising Cuts and Mats 10-11 Advance Press Stories 13 15 Special Mat and Story 17 Mail Campaign Exhibitors’ Accessories 19 20 Inside Back Cover Paper and Slide Back Cover Latest Releases being the best offering suitable for Miss Gish, and that she doubtless will provide many more screen stories for this star, the excellence of “Boots” unquestionably indicates. M. M. Stearns, Scenarist The adaptation of “Boots” for the screen is the work of M. M. Stearns, a writer of short stories, and head of the department of scenario and screen writing of the University of Southern California, where he is giving a course of credit lectures. He has had several years experience in motion picture work and regards his latest effort as among his best. An Anti-Bolshevist Story IMAGINATIVE, emotional, impulsive and charming, “Boots” is a slavey living in the London slums. She is employed in a boarding house where she shines shoes for the boarders, among them being Everett White, but “Boots” is unaware that he is attached to the Secret Service, and is trailing a band of Bolshevist conspirators. The leader of the mal contents, who aim to destroy with bombs a building in which a peace conference is to be held, is a woman whose acquaintance White assiduously cultivates for the purpose of obtaining from her the details of the Bolshevist plot. “Boots” loves White and he treats her with such consideration as to inspire belief in her that he returns her affection. But when “Boots” finds him one day kissing the woman, her love romance is wrecked. She has a garden in the rear of the house where she works during her leisure hours and she goes there to forget her troubles. She begins to dig when suddenly the earth gives way and she is precipitated into a tunnel where White is struggling with several Bolshevist agents. They overpower and gag him and after placing a time bomb near him, make their escape. “Boots” rescues White, who tells her of the bomb. “Boots” picks it up, carries it out and throws it into the river where it explodes without inflicting damage. “Boots” faints without realizing that she has saved the peace delegates and her sweetheart as well, but when she is revived she finds herself in the arms of the man she had believed a traitor to her faith. Elmer Clifton, Director ONE of the most widely known and talented directors in the country is Elmer Clifton, director of “Boots.” Mr. Clifton directed Miss Gish in “Battling Jane” and “The Hope Chest” with happy results and his work in “Boots” is of a high order of excellence. Mr. Clifton has had extensive stage experience and he was identified with David W. Griffith for seven years. Splendid Support MISS GISH is finely supported in “Boots,” her leading man being Richard Barthelmess, who played opposite to her in “The Hope Chest.” Others in the cast are Fontine LaRue, Edward Peil, Kate V. Toncray and Raymond Cannon.