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brother of the famous comedian, who has contracted to do a series of five-reel comedies for release as Paramount-Artcraft Super-Comedies. These pictures will be unlike any comedies ever made, it is said, and six months apiece is to be spent in making them. Mr. Chaplin has been away from the screen for several years, handling the business affairs of his brother, but he was formerly internationally known as a comedian of unusual excellence, both on stage and screen. Announcement has also been made that several specials will be made for release by this company by Mayflower Productions, under the direction of George Loane Tucker. Maurice Tourneur will also give some pictures. His work as director is known through his great spectacles "Sorting Life," 'The White Heather," his delicate fantasies, "The Blue Bird" and "Prunella" and many strong dramas. In the coming year the Famous Players-Lasky will branch into another field, a field which has never been entered, although always recognized as full of possibilities. This is the production of educational motion pictures. There have been yet no strictly educational motion pictures—that is, pictures for use in schools and colleges in the teaching of various subjects. Clear-seeing men have known, from the time the tremendous revelation of motion picture possibilities first flashed on their vision, that this medium, if applied to education, could fulfil one of the greatest functions of the nation in a way that it had never been fulfilled. History, geography, engineering, chemistry—there is scarcely a subject which cannot be taught more easily and more thoroughly by motion pictures than by text-books. Complete courses in all subjects, from primary to college, will be prepared by experts in the various branches. These specialists will outline the courses and supervise their production. Those who wish to study mining engineering, or architecture, or geology, will have the mines, the structures and the secrets of the earth brought direct to them by the magic of the screen. This new department, under the direction of Nathan Friend, is already at work selecting specialists and planning courses. Releasing of these courses to schools and colleges will commence some time during the year. Brvant Washburn in "Venus in the East" Marion Davies in "The Dark Star"—Paramount-Artcraft Specially produced by Cosmopolitan Films