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SIR GILBERT PARKER UNCONSCIOUS PROPHET OF PHOTOPLAY
Distinguished Author's works to be filmed for Paramount by J. Stuart Blackton.
J. Stuart Blackton^ whose affiliation with Paramount was recently announced, will bring to the screen practically all the works of Sir Gilbert Parker, the eminent English novelist. "The World for Sale," "Judgment House" and "Wild Youth" are three of the important novels controlled by Mr. Blackton who holds outright the moving picture rights of practically all of Sir Gilbert's present available works and whatever fiction he may write in the future.
As far back as 1894, Sir Gilbert Parker said: "What has struck me with the romanticist is this — that while romanticists like Dumas, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Quiller Couch, Rudyard Kipling, for whom I have the greatest respect, deal often and literally in blood, the blasting of battleships and the hacking to pieces of armies, there is always running through their work the divine element of courage and hope. Unconsciously the romanticist is an optimist. Out of the extreme realism of our lives, we are turning to dwell upon “these larger adventures."
Since that time. Sir Gilbert has come fully to recognize the motion picture field as one in which "We are turning to dwell upon these larger adventures." His association with Mr. Blackton, in the adaptation of his stories into photoplays was one of keen personal interest.
Sir Gilbert Parker's books are especially well adapte4 to picturization . In them the breath of romance, the great outdoors, the strong characterizations of his figures of fancy, the absorbing plot — at once intricate and clearly worked out — are all features that will fit into film stories with particular appropriateness.
Mr. Blackton, in his production of Gilbert Parker's photoplays, will add a decided note of that same "divine element of courage and hope" spoken of by the famous author years ago.
The second of these Paramount productions offered by Mr. Blackton is "The World for Sale" which has been one of the most
popular stories of the epoch, and which is to be shown on
of .... week, at the Theatre.
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