Paramount Press Books (1918)

ARTCRAFT PRESS BOOK PUBLICITY and ACCESSORIES P R ESS SfORIES ^ K FAMOUS PLAYERS -LASK.Y CORPORATION ADOLPH ZUKOR Prag JESSE LLASKY Vka Pro. CECIL B DB MULE 0/mftrl OIIW YORK-* • AD CUTS andM AT S Notes of Interest on Cecil B. De Mille’s “Till I Come Back to You” CECIL B. DE MILLE, PRODUCER rT''HE name of Cecil B. De Mille, the disinguished motion picture producer, is well known throughout the amusement world. Mr. De Mille is a producer of special subjects of the highest class, which, for several years, have been making cinema history of vast importance to the industry. He produced many notable photoplays including “Joan the Woman,” a magnificient spectacle, “The Woman God Forgot,” starring Geraldine Farrar, “The Whispering Chorus,” “Old Wives For New,” “We Can’t Have Everything” and his latest production, “Till I Come Back To You,” is said to be one of the most magnificient cinema spectacles thus far presented to the public. Mr. De Mille is a director of exceptional talent, who has made rapid strides toward absolute perfection in his recent ,-ictures. That his reputation for artistry will not suffer as a result of his latest production, but that on the contrary it is a distinct advance in the art of which he is a master, seems to be assured. THE AUTHOR AS a writer of large motion picture spectacles Jeanie Macpherson, easily ranks as the most talented in the country. Miss Macpherson is a screen writer of wide experience and thorough training, and her brilliant talent was displayed with masterful effect in such photoplays as “The Woman God Forgot,” “Joan the Woman” and other great film spectacles, which she created. She has a strong and forceful imagination and her treatment of dramatic themes is most artistic. In “Till I Come Back To You,” her latest creation, Miss Macpherson deals with the conflict in Europe from the standpoint of a child and in the presentation of its varying phases as influencing the lives of children, especially in Belgium, she exhibits the widest knowledge of a most intricate psychological subject. ALL STAR CAST TN this superb photoplay, “Till I Come Back To 1 You,” no one is especially featured, but nearly all of the players are of stellar importance. Bryant Washburn, a well-known player, has the leading role and playing opposite to him is Florence Vidor, one of the best known actresses in motion pictures. Others in the support are G. Butler Clonbough, Winter Hall, Georgia Stone, Julia Faye, Lillian Leighton, Clarence Geldart and others, all screen actors of exceptional merit. TABLE OF CONTENTS ! Front Cover — Billing Inside Front Cover Production Cuts and Mats Editorial and Contents. . Page . . 1 Special Feature Article. . . . . 3 Cast and Story . .5-7 Advance Press Stories . . . .9-11 Accessories . . 13 Advertising Cuts and Mats 14-15 Mail Campaign 16-17 -Press Review .. 19 Inside Back Cover — Advertising Posters Back Cover Current Releases STORY OF PHOTOPLAY npHE scenes of “Till I Come Back To You” are located in Belgium, just prior to and subsequent to the Hun invasion. Yvonne, a young and beautiful Belgian, is the wife of Karl Von Krutz, who is presumably a merchant, but in reality a German secret agent. This was a marriage of convenience on her part and she bears no love for her husband. She lives with her brother, Jacques, and her husband in a farm house and one morning after her husband had spent most of the night carousing with boon companions, Yvonne finds a roughly traced map of Belgium penciled upon the white tablecloth. Von Krutz enters and takes it from her roughly, and she then suspects the truth. The Germans invade Belgium and Von Krutz takes his departure. King Albert stops during the retreat of the Belgians at the Von Krutz cottage, where he finds Jacques playing the game “beating the Huns.” The King plays with him and tells him to be brave and wait “till I come back to you.” America enters the war and Captain Jefferson Strong, an officer of American Engineers, is detailed to destroy Hun tanks containing liquid fire, which the Germans propose to use against the Allies. By pretending be an escaped German prisoner he gains access to the German lines, reaches Yvonne’s cottage, learns where the liquid fire is being stored, and by means of pigeons dropped from aeroplanes he communicates the news to the American Commander, and tappers are instantly set to work to tunnel under No Man’s Land to the hill where the liquid fire is stored. Meanwhile, Von Krutz returns, finds Captain Strong telephoning, destroys the instrument, and a desperate battle ensues. Yvonne takes sixty-five orphans from a nearby asylum into the tunnel and awaits a message from Captain Strong, which does not come. The hour for the explosion being at hand, Strong, to save the lives of the children and the woman he loves, cuts the electric wires and prevents the explosion just as the button is being pressed. He is arrested for disobedience of order and tried by court-martial and but for the interference of King Albert, would have been shot. As it is, Yvonne, who has learned that her husband has been killed, finds consolation his love. in 1