Paramount Press Books (1918)

ADVANCE PRESS STORIES To Be Sent to the Newspapers Prior to and During the Display of “The Source,” A Paramount Picture WALLACE REID HAS GREAT ROLE IN HIS NEWEST PHOTOPLAY Paramount Star Seen as Derelict Who Is Redeemed Through Love for Noble Girl w ALLACE REID has one of the best parts of his career in Van T wilier Yard, the young man who comes back, in “The Source,” the latest Paramount Picture in which he is starred and which will be shown at the theatre next The role affords an interesting study in psychology, but the development of the man, far from being morbid, always shows the upward trend, and the optimistic and cheerful note is sounded throughout the picture. ^ Yard is a drunken loafer who is shanghaied and carried to a logging camp in Vermont. He is cruelly treated by a savage foreman, and he offers no resistance until Svea Nord casts a contemptuous glance at him in reward for his cowardice. He then resolves to reform and once the fumes of liquor have left him, his strength and courage return with highly dramatic results. How he succeeds in transforming this girl’s contempt to love is told in a series of thrilling scenes. The picture has many dramatic moments and the support is of the best. Dainty Ann Little appears as the girl and other players in the cast are Theodore Roberts, James Cruze, Raymond Hatton, Charles Ogle, G. Butler Clonbough, Noah Beery, Charles West and Nina Byron. “THE SOURCE” SHOWS WOMEN LOVE BRAVE MEN: HATE COWARDS Photoplay Provides Wallace Reid With Excellent Role of Man Who Regains Himself * I ’HE theory that women love brave men and scorn cowards is brought out vividly in “The Source,” Wallace Reid’s latest Paramount Picture. Mr. Reid portrays the role of Van Twiller Yard, a well-born young man, who has sunk low through indulgence in liquor and who is shanghaied to a Vermont lumber camp. A Swedish girl, Svea Nord, becomes interested in him, but a lumber boss who wants to make a hit with the girl beats him up cruelly. She is at first astonished, then scornful, when Yard proves too much of a coward to defend himself. But she does not realize that Yard’s cowardice springs from physical weakness and too much liquor. Two months later he has redeemed himself and again comes to blows with the lumber boss, while the girl looks on. But this time he does up the boss in great shape. Wallace Reid scores in the role of Van Twiller Yard and Ann Little is excellent as Svea Nord. James Cruze is Langlois, the lumber. The picture, which will be shown at the theatre next , was di rected by George Melford. Kelland Noted Novelist LARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND, who wrote “The Source,” Wallace Reid’s new picture, which is on view at the theatre, is an American novelist of note, and “The Source” stands as one of his strongest and finest stories. It ran as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post, and later as a book it enjoyed a large sale. ANN LITTLE HAS CHARMING ROLE IN “THE SOURCE” Talented Paramount Actress Seen as Swedish Girl in Wallace Reid’s New Photoplay l^AINTY Ann Little, the costar of Wallace Reid in many Paramount pictures, has a charming role, that of a Swedish girl in a logging canfp, in “The Source,” Mr. Reid’s latest Paramount photoplay, which will be shown at the theatre next Miss Little always is an excellent actress and as Svea Nord in this picture, she does some of the best work of her screen career. She meets Van Twiller Yard, a derelict through drink, and when he submits to degrading punishment at the hands of a savage boss without offering resistance, she treats him with scorn. She displays the girl’s staunch character vividly as she watches the metamorphosis of Yard from the wreck of a man to a strong, vigorous, whole-souled chap, whose manliness finally wins her love. Both Mr. Reid and Miss Little are finely supported in this splendid photoproduction. The photoplay was directed by George Melford and it promises to be one of the finest of Mr. Reid’s repertoire of picture successes. An Excellent Cast The excellent cast which supports Wallace Reid in “The Source,” now being shown at the theatre, includes some of the cleverest players in motion pictures. Ann Little plays the leading feminine role, and Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, James Cruze, and Noah Beery all have important character parts. Others who appear to advantage are Nina Byron, Charles Ogle, Gustav Seyffertitz, and Charles West. 13