Photoplay (Sep - Dec 1918)

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"Contains more plots than the moving-picture people could use in a hundred years. " -Popular Science Monthly. "A machine that actually thinks." —Boston Sunday Herald. "It does indeed supply unusual combinations which offer frrsh ideas to a writer." — Eustace Hale Ball, celebrated director and author. One great California moving-picture studio, after testing this wonderful machine, bought 12 more for its writers. Sent postpaid with simple instructions for $1.00. PAMPHLET FREE. THINKING MACHINES, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Propaganda (Concluded from page 45) ganda. In Chicago the censor board took a notion this picture would offend our German-American citizens, and though we were openly at war with Germany, held up the picture. The courts and a patriotic judge horrified at such a censorial report, killed the order and upheld Miss Pickford. Rita Jolivet made a cinematic memoriam to those who lost their lives on the Lusitania. It was she who stood on the deck with Charles Frohman in his last moments and carried back his now famous message, "Why Fear Death? It is Life's Most Beautiful Adventure." Miss Jolivet was assisted in making the film by her husband. Count de Cippico. It has been sent from coast to coast, and, after America has thoroughly digested it, she tells me, it is her hope to take it into France, England and Italy. "My best friend." said Miss Jolivet, "was in Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was soon to become a mother. During her accouchment she had every care, but after the child was born one of the delicate oculary nerves was ruptured so that the baby would be blind. This, Charles Frohman's death, the loss of so many of my kinsmen in France and the thought that if I could make every woman understand how much her services are needed if only to save a teaspoonful of flour a day inspired my picture." It is difficult to discriminate and say which film has done the most to aid the fight. Madame Sarah Bernhardt's 'Mothers of France," which should have been titled "Mothers of the World," has probably called forth the most tears. Madame Bernhardt, with a brave spark burning in her feeble body, stood knee deep in the trenches and offered herself a living sacrifice to her beloved France. The tears are not only for the bereaved mothers, but also for the pathetic old woman, lame and sick, who forgot her own discomfort to try and stir the other women of the world to action. The motive of this picture glorifies it. No one who ever saw Bernhardt and her silent plea that we give our loved ones gladly and proudly to the cause will ever forget her message. Herbert Brenon made a stepchild to the war films in a screen play featuring Rasputin and the downfall of the Romanoff dynasty. This and his English birth brought forth an invitation from the English government for him to make an historical film record for the British archives. Mr. Brenon is now in England working on this mission. There have been many official war films, some of them actually photographed at battles which have now gone down in history as decisive moments in the great world's war. Among those which have occupied the screen during the past year are: "The Retreat of the Germans at the Battle of Arras," "The Italian Battlefronts," "The Battle of the Ancre," and "Heroic France and the German Curse in Russia." The last named is more of a pictorial discussion of the Russian situation than a moving picture of any specific battle scene. All of these war time pictures have been received with enthusiasm with the exception of a few which had been better left unfilmed. These are hectic dramas using the war as a reason for their existing, and made with no high patriotic purpose, but with a thinly veiled camouflage to make money. They have offended both the individual patriot and the government. The very fact that some of the producers have taken advantage of war time has induced the government to put every patriotic picture released under strict surveillance, with a trained corps of men to pass upon their fitness to serve as propaganda. Some of these features, while harmless enough, are so badly done, that even the heavy Teutonic nature must have found them amusing. But the good done by the screen has far outweighed any evil effects of these ridiculous war films. The President has congratulated the moving picture industry on the help it has given the nation at this time, and he and the other men now at the helm in Washington have gone on record as saying these pictorial propagandas are among the most valuable war-time assets United States owns. Plays and Players (Concluded from page 104) AT last the unusual in a press agent's story. Mae Marsh appeared in Traffic Court recently as witness for Lela Jones, a scenario writer, charged with exceeding the speed limit. The wistful star plead that the car was unruly — but — a fine was imposed just the same. THEY say that Alexander Clarke, son of the actor, is now private secretary to Francis X. Bushman. Although the name Bushman is somewhat familiar, we can't remember having heard of "the actor. Alexander Clarke." CARUSO, it is reported, is to be a Paramount star at $100,000 a picture, with "I Pagliacci" as his first production. Paramount has neither denied nor confirmed, which means that the details of the contract have not been completed. WHEN Herbert Brenon had nearly completed the film which he went to England to make for the British government under the supervision of Hall Caine, the entire negative was burned. Alien enemies were suspected, and the celluloid tragedy will result in Germans in England being subjected to much closer surveillance than ever. Mr. Brenon, by this time, has the picture well on the way to a second completion. GLORIA HOPE has lost a vacation but she doesn't care. She has started work in Griffith's latest feature, which will be released by Artcraft. Ever since she went into the films a little over a year ago. it has been her ambition to work with Griffith and she is enjoying the experience far more than the holiday which she had intended to take. Every advertisement in THOTOrLAY MA0AZIXE is guaranteed.