Select Pictures Magazine (1918)

SELECT PICTURES MAGAZINE Page 7 CLIP THESE INTERESTING ITEMS YOUR LOCAL PAPER WILL GLADLY PRINT THEM Mr. Ford Got Start in National Capital Harrison Ford, who plays the lead with Constance Talmadge in her newest Se- lect Picture, “A Lady's Name,” in which she is presented by Lewis J. Selznick, and which can be seen at the Theatre on , once lived in Washington, D. C. This fact had a decided influence on his subsequent theatrical career, for as it hap- pened he lived next door to a theatre and on one occasion, while a mere youngster, he was given the chance to appear with a company there. He remembered the inci- dent after he grew up and when the time came for him to choose a profession, he promptly chose the stage. His first part was with Robert Edeson in “Strongheart,” William C. de Mille’s famous play. Soon he was playing leads, and he served in that capacity in “Excuse Me.” When “Excuse Me” was made into a film, Ford went into the pictures too, to play the leading role and he has been there ever since. In “A Lady’s Name” he plays Noel Corcoran, the chief male figure, and does some of the best acting of his screen career in the part. Splendid Cast in “A Lady’s Name” A splendid cast is to be seen in “A Lady’s Name,” which Select Pictures offers to the Theatre on in which Lewis J. Selznick presents Constance Talmadge. Harrison Ford, who has been playing opposite Constance of late, again plays the lead. Constance discovers a real man. Note the joy. Emory Johnson, who appears as Gerald Wantage, Mabel’s (Constance Talmadge) fiance, is one of the screen’s most leading men. Vera Doria plays the part of a suffra- gette, Maud Bray, who gives an amusing and excellent interpretation of the part. She is an English actress who has appeared as leading woman with Sir Charles Wynd- ham, H. B. Irving and other famous Eng- lish stars. Lillian Leighton appears as Mrs. Haines, the cook, whose acting as the sentimental cook is highly amusing and well conceived. There are several other excellent persons in the cast. “A Lady’s Name” Chuck Full o’ Pep The pen is mightier than the sword, decides Constance. “A Lady’s Name,” in which Lewis J. Selznick presents Constance Talmadge, and which Select Pictures will offer to the Theatre on presents a great field for the talents of the ever popular Constance. “A Lady’s Name,” adapted from Cyril Harcourt’s play of the same name, is a picture with the true American flavor— good, clean, rollicking fun, chock full of pep. Constance is delightful throughout the whole picture, which offers her a splendid chance to portray her versatility. You are introduced to her as a young and pretty woman novelist. Later she becomes a but- ler’s sweetheart, still later a cook, and finally ends up being engaged to the butler’s master. Scenario of “A Lady’s Name” by Miss Ivers Lewis J. Selznick presents Constance Talmadge in one of her latest, fascinating, drawing-room comedies, “A Lady’s Name,” which Select Pictures will offer to the Theatre on . The combination of scenarioist plus di- rector have helped to make “A Lady’s Name” the excellent picture that it is. Julia Crawford Ivers, who wrote the sce- nario version of the picture is the author of numerous screen successes. It was she who wrote the Tom Sawyer pictures in which Jack Pickford was starred and her skill in scenarioizing the Mark Twain classic and other famous novels and plays led to her selection as the author of the light comedies in which Miss Talmadge has recently been starred. Walter Edwards directed the picture. Mr. Edwards has come to the front as the director of the enchanting comedies in which Constance Talmadge has been so successful. Mr. Harcourt, Author of “A Lady’s Name” Cyril Harcourt, who wrote “A Lady’s Name,” the Select Picture offered at the Theatre on in which Lewis J. Selznick presents Constance Talmadge, is a playwright of the modernist school who writes delightful comedies. He also wrote “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” in which Miss Talmadge recently starred, and in “A Lady’s Name” he has given her one of the best light comedies in which she has ap- peared for some time. In the form of a play the comedy was most successful on the American stage. It depicts the humor- ous and somewhat extravagant adventures of a young woman writer in search of literary material, who is also trying to es- cape the boredom of a somewhat priggish fiance. Her adventures are amusing and unexpected and keep the audience in con- stant good humor. Constance in Role of Fascinating Novelist After a vacation of two months Con- stance Talmadge is to be with us once more in a spick and span new comedy, “A Lady’s Name,” which Select Pictures will offer to the Theatre on . “A Lady’s Name” is taken from the play of the same name by Cyril Harcourt, that accomplished weaver of light comedy situa- tions. “Too many cooks spoil the broth” — sometimes. The effervescent and always delightful Constance, whom Lewis J. Selznick pre- sents, plays the role of a young and fasci- nating woman novelist in this new picture, not the short-haired, bespectacled type of writer, but a buoyant, whimsical young woman whose search for literary material leads her to insert an ad in a daily news- paper for a husband. She intends to study the applicants as they arrive, but events do not happen just as she expects, and the result is a rapid unfolding of humorous events with Mabel Vere, the young woman played by Constance, as the chief figure.