Paramount Press Books (1919)

ADVANCE PRESS STORIES-Continued GEN. E. H. CROWDER IN GRIFFITH PICTURE Famous Provost Marshal in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home” THE faces of the world’s celebrities are fast becoming familiar to the average newspaper reader and the playgoer. Many of them, however, are shy about this publicity attached to being in high position and many refuse to allow the weeklies the privilege of showing them at their real work. With the production of “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” which will be shown at the theatre next Mr. Griffith shows us some of our own celebrities in surroundings not familiar, either to the newspaper reader or to the playgoer. For instance, Provost Marshal General E. H. Crowder, whose name is known at least to everyone who was in the draft age, will be seen in this picture at his own desk in his own office in Washington, a picture never released to any news agency or paper, but posed for the Griffith camera that the correct detail might be given the film. Others to be shown are Secretary of War Baker and General March, both in their own offices at work. Smallest Girl in Pictures CLARINE SEYMOUR, who appears for the first time in a Griffith film in his latest production, “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” which is on view at the theatre this week, is probably the smallest actress fn motion pictures. She is four feet and nine inches tall, weighs eighty-six pounds, and the only article of woman’s wear she can find to fit her in the shops is a handkerchief. SUPERB LOVE SCENES? SEE GRIFFITH’S FILM Shown Most Refreshingly in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home” LOVE scenes in photoplays have become very much a matter of “Three steps forward, two to the side, meet, clinch, kiss for three feet and fade out,” and the variation is largely in the length of the kiss and the number of steps. So the announcement of a new love scene, in the David Wark Griffith picture, “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” is refreshing if nothing else. Mr. Griffith is a master at doing old things in new ways, so it is not surprising that he should play a love scene in a way no one else has ever thought of. Manager of the theatre, where the picture will be shown beginning next , states that the scenes between Robert Harron as “Jim, the Oily Peril,” and Clarine Seymour, Mr. Griffith’s bright new star, as “Cutie Beautiful,” are not only love scenes, but are also the cream of comedy. Such being the case, we opine that we shall cease studying the war tax and have a look. Dark-Eyed Girls in Film EACH of the new Griffith players in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” the latest Artcraft production by the great producer, is dark-eyed. It is the first time Mr. Griffith has presented a dark-eyed girl in a leading role, and this time he gives us two. Both are slender, and dancers of exceptional ability, and both are seen in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home” at the theatre this week. ROBERT HARRON HAS MOST UNUSUAL ROLE Real Comedian and Athlete in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home” HE found it very convenient to have a cough, particularly to demonstrate when there was a flurry of patriotic talk. It was a devoted, loyal cough, there at hand when needed, and disappearing as soon as circumstances might dismiss it. And because he had it, he became the leading character in “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” the latest Artcraft production by David Griffith, which will be shown at the theatre for days beginning next The role is presented by Robert Harron, whose friends won’t be entirely acquainted with him until they have seen this film, for in this portrayal he is a lighter, happier, more mischievous person than they have known, a real comedian and athlete. The character Mr. Harron portrays is one of the most vivid in our national life of the last decade, one of astounding impudence and apparent uselessness, yet drawn after all from the fine fabric of true American citizenry. Around this character Mr. Griffith has draped those revealing incidents with irresistible fineness, and with Mr. Harron for his medium, offers another character for the world to remember. Wonderful Photography THE girl who stayed at home and wrote letters to her boy “over there” is one of the conspicuous figures in D. W. Griffith’s new Artcraft picture, “The Girl Who Stayed at Home,” which is being shown at the ...... theatre this week. Wonderful new photographic effects, by G. W. Bitzer, are featured to fine advantage in this photoplay, bringing to it a rare quality of atmosphere such as has not been surpassed in any of the previous Griffith pictures. 15