Paramount Press Books (1918)

ADVANCE PRESS STORIES— Continued STORM FAMOUS AS PICTURE DIRECTOR Has Done Good Work in Charles Ray’s New Film, “Bill Henry’’ JEROME STORM, who directed Charles Ray’s latest picture, “Bill Henry,” which will be displayed at the theatre next , has the distinction of being both the baby and the veteran director at the Thomas H. Ince studios in Culver City, Cal., where all the Charles Ray pictures are made. He is the youngest director in number of years and the oldest in point of service on the Ince lot. Mr. Storm started his career as an actor on the speaking stage, then he became an actor for Thomas H. Ince in the pictures and was promoted to a position behind the camera by his superior. He has a keen sense of humor and is especially adapted to directing the Ray type of pictures. New Types in Picture A LOT of decidedly amusing ** new types will be seen in “Bill Henry,” Charles Ray’s new Paramount picture which will be shown at the theatre next . The setting for the story, written by Lois Zellner and picturized by Julien Josephson, is in the South. Director Jerome Storm picked a great crowd of southern types for the atmosphere and some remarkable natural characters for the parts. Mr. Ray has been given an unusually strong cast in this picture, the players including Edith Roberts, William Carroll, Bert Woodruff, Walter Hiers, Mrs. Courtright and Walter Perkins. Ray in Ideal Role Z'-'' HARLES RAY has a part that fits him like a glove in his latest Paramount-Ince picture, “Bill Henry,” which is coming to the theatre on next. As a rural hotel clerk, Mr. Ray trims the city sharpers at poker, then wins wealth and the Girl from Keokuk after a fierce battle at fisticuffs. CHARLES RAY FOOLS SHARPERS AT POKER Paramount Star Rakes in Good Pot in “Bill Henry’’ THOSE who understand cards, and especially the national game of poker, are going to get a good laugh out of the game in which Charles Ray plays in his latest Thomas H. Ince picture, “Bill Henry,” which comes as a Paramount offering at the theatre . Mr. Ray is seen as a country boy who is inveigled into the game by some “wise” travelling salesmen. It develops toward the end of the game that he isn’t such a boob and when he lays down the winning hand, he rakes in a jackpot big enough to let him do the thing he wants — buy the seemingly worthless piece of land owned by the girl he loves, who is in desperate straits for want of a sale. Walter Hiers, the fat boy, is the wise salesman who lures the youth into the gambling game and finds that instead of a lamb he has coaxed in a lion. Vibrator Brings Wealth WHO of us has not fallen at some time or other for one of those alluring advertisements that promise us a fortune for selling some “miraculous new invention?” In the case of Charles Ray in “Bill Henry,” the new Paramount photoplay which is on view at the theatre this week, it was an electric vibrator that was to bring him barrels of gold. But as a salesman, Bill Henry was a “flivver,” and especially when he charged his vibrator with electricity and tried it out on the sensitive anatomy of a rheumatic ! Bill transferred his talents to the hotel business at once, where he had more success and fought a terrific and successful battle for a girl and a fortune. “Bill Henry” has the same intensely human quality that pervades all the Charles Ray pictures and is crowded with laughs, cheers, and thrills. It is up to the highest standards of the popular Paramount star. RAY SOME FIGHTER IN PICTURE “BILL HENRY” Nearly Knocks Out Player During' Filming of Photoplay 0 TAR and player were battling ^ fiercely. “That was an awful wallop you gave me on the chin,” said William Carroll, raising himself up on an elbow on the floor of the Thomas H. Ince photoplay studio stage at the end of a fight scene with Chas. Ray in “Bill Henry,” his latest Paramount picture that will be shown at the theatre next . “Pm sorry,” apologized the star, “if I hurt you. In the tenseness of the fight I didn’t know just where 1 was striking.” “Oh, that’s all right,” replied Carroll, “anything for art’s sake you know,” and he arose to his feet with the assistance of the apologizing star. Mr. Ray impersonates a country salesman who seeks the way to fortune by selling vibrators until he gets into trouble with a rheumatic to whom he administers a real electric shock. Then comes the girl, and a real novel poker game, and a terrific fight with a real estate operator who seeks to defraud the girl out of a fortune which Bill Henry has placed at her disposal. Edith Roberts is the girl and sheheads a capable supporting cast. Win With Cards and Fists EVEN though he is only a country hotel clerk in his latest Paramount picture, “Bill Henry,”’ which is the attraction at the theatre this week, Charles Ray is a pretty smart young fellow. Not only does he trim the city drummers at poker, when they took him for an easy mark, but he has heard of the oil boom that is sweeping the country. That’s why he holds so tightly on to the land which the smart real estate agent sold him as worthless and fights a terrific battle to prevent it from being taken away from the girl he loves. You’ll agree that there is just as much excitement in the rural districts as. there is on Broadway. 15