Variety (January 1914)

14 VARIETY FILM FLASHES 1 Billy Quirk won a pool tourney at the Prank Gavegan s Opinion in the Supreme Tlcbeoor Screen Club blowout Teft Jobnson, -, . , • , , . • . ». «• Court, in which he denied the applica- ble final ■aw-off, bad a lame wrist. Prealdent Rock of ibe Vltagraph, baa re- newed tbe Alaska seal lapels of bis ''bennle." If tbe weatber Is cold enough he'll reveal bis new gladness at tbe VI 'h opening of tbe Cri- terion. received a handsome present ecutIves for his able handling of the U's noise works while Joe Brandt was abroad tion for a permanent injunction against the police, restraining them from in- terfering with the exhibition. Justice Ford had granted the temporary re- Phil Mlndll. of th., Mutual continues to straining order which permitted the load up and fire off tolling publicity maxims. «,.«.. . , Park and Bijou to remain open a few S 0 ,3 , . Sl r.Srni.°' P r , i 1 . , . B V' , rr?m b, {i l . t 'u ,U .?: **• after the police had ordered them closed. Provided John B. Stanchficld, retain- ■f55Tflta? eh hopefl §oon to ,ppear ,n bl8 cd on behalf of thc " Whitc Slave" John Bunny got l^~per week when he "lm people decides to appeal, a stay sUrted with the vi« He wouldn't get up early will be asked pending the argument in for that bagatelle these the highcr CQUrtj wJth t||e hope the stay will allow the showing of the film in New York until final decision is given. This week "The Inside of the White Slave Traffic" is being shown at Tren- ton, Philadelphia, Allentown, Pa., and Schenectady, N. Y., without interfer- a single morning daya. cf the White Slave Traffic" appeared for a time to smother "Traffic itv Souls" which is reported to have been doing little business at the Republic on West 42d street. It opened there last week, with admission 25 cents. The Republic film picked up some- what in business this week with the holiday crowd around. Tuesday the Universal had a half page advertise- ment in one of the dailies. It was an open letter addressed to Vincent Astor about "Traffic in Souls." Contrary to the impression about and the announcement made, the Shu- berts, through J. L. Rhinock, are said to have only taken one-sixth of the "Souls" film. Leo Mayer, the book- maker, also has a sixth interest in it, according to report. A&A SLAVER The International Film Co. Is expected soon to make a fresh announcement of Its plana Five prominent New York theatres are now showing feature films, and three more are dated up to follow suit soon. Ladles of Bl Paso, Texas, have written to Mayor Kline protesting against the presenta- tion of their pictures on screens In New York. The ladles are those shown In the crib die- ... trlct of tbe Samuel London "Inside of tbe ence by the authorities. White Slave Traffic" films as habitues of the \i~-a**, m » rn : n » tt,. n;;«„ ,*:*«.„«.,* New Orleans red-light district. The ladles Monday morning the Bijou dispensed socfail be,Dg connected w,tb New 0rleanB eTen with the legal-tangled picture in haste, having secured over Sunday a foreign Maym Kelso, four years In fllmdom, aays musical comedy folk make better Aimers than "legits." They "get" things faster, and al- ways work quick and "front." says Maym. The "legit" she says will take 45 feet of film for a situation that a musical comedy mum- mer will compress Into six. Hattle Delaro. now with the Mutual, was the first vaudevllllan to present a film act This was 14 years ago at the Proctor 28d St. . „.. ., , ... ., . house when "Bill" Lykens was a comparatively the BlJOU was allowed until Monday made feature film in four reels called "The Exposure of the White Slave Traffic." The picture did business from the outset and had a crowd waiting to gain entrance by 1 o'clock. Last week after the Park had closed and JOB WRITES IN. Joseph Rosenzweig, of 903 Prospect avenue, the Bronx, N. Y., writes Variety asking the publication of a complaint against current practices of scenario departments of returning sub- missions with a curt printed stereo- typed card of rejection, "uninforming, rude and discouraging." Mr. Rosen- zweig intelligently and adversely criti- cizes the general mass of film plots and stories with "arms of coincidence that stretch across the ocean in an instant," and other vagaries. The missive is too lengthy for publication in Variety. young man. The Wedeplct Motion Picture Co.. which has the Boy Scout movement movie exhibit, has everything set for a New York showing. Alberta Gallatin Is In tbe movies. Ann Sutherland says she In waiting for someone to ask her to belong, also Fred Lennox. •— The Faymous Players Co. announces fol- lowing John Barrymore In "An American Citi- zen." Cyril Scott will be shown In a film ver- sion of Louis Joseph Vance's "The Day of Days." The latter will be released Jan. 20. to show the original "Slave" film, the management doubled the prices of ad- mission without diminishing the attend- ance. The publicity attending "The Inside NE8BITT PLATERS CLOSING. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 31. The Nesbitt Players are scheduled to close here Jan. 9, the business not warranting any further continuation. With the conviction that sensational films are a detriment to the welfare of trade. D. W. Griffiths Is handling with the utmost care and delicacy the film version of Paul Armstrong's "Tbe Escape." Several exposures of such scenes as threaten to be at all questionable are taken and the one selected which gets over the ground with the least possibility of giving offense. The Universal studios In Hollywood, Cal , are working at capacity. . There are In prepara- tion two four-reelers, a two-reeler and a tbree- reeler. RELEASED NEXT WEEK (Jan. 5 to Jan. 12, inc.) MANUFACTURERS INDICATED BY ABBREVIATIONS. VIZ.: GENERAL Vltagraph V Blograph B Kalem K Lubln L Pathes Pthe Sella 8 Edison E Essanay S-A Klelne Kl Mellcs Mel EXCLUSIVE Gaumont G O.N.8.F. .. G.N. Rama R Solas Sol Eclectlo Eel F.R.A F Lewis Pennants..L.P. Gt. Northern.. .G.N. Dragon D Itala It O.N.X.X. ..O.N.X.X. UNIVERSAL Imp 1 Gem Gem Bison B101 Chrystal C Nestor N Powers P Eclair Eclr Rex Rx Frontier Frnt Victor Vic Blaehe Features.. Bl MUTUAL American A Keystone Key Reliance Rel Ma.lestlc Mai Thnnho'jser T Kay-Be© ...... K.B. Broncho Br Domino Dom Mutual M NOTE—The subject Is in one reel of about 1.000 feet unless otherwise noted. Fenlmore Cooper's "The Spy" is being filmed by tbe Universal with Otis Turner di- recting. Hazel Burkham has been engaged by the Universal to play Ingenue roles under the Rex brand. In "The Return of the Twin's Double" oc- curs a section In which tbe film bas been ex- posed five times. Maurice Rasmusoen. Frisco beauty and actress, and a member of the Vltagraph Co. In Southern California, has been selected by Dustln Farnum for a leading role In the Vltagraph's early six-reel production of "Tbe Squaw Man." "SLAVE" PICTURE APPEAL. "The Inside of the White Slave traf- fic" disappeared from the New York theatres showing it by Monday, when the Bijou discarded the film, upon the aplication for an injunction being with- rom -' c JAN. 3-MONDAY MUTUAL—The Power of Light. 2-reel dr.. A ; Love and Dynamite, com.; Key; Rel, title not announced. GENERAL F—The Janitor's Revenge, com., and The Mystery of Milk, com, split reel. B; A Shot in the Night. 2-reel dr.. K ; Tbe Story the Gate Told. dr.. L. Pathe Weekly No. 1 for 1014 (west) and No. 2 (east*) ; Unto the Third and Fourth Generations, 2-reel dr., S; Franclne, dr., V; Tbe CTIrl In the Middy, com.. E. UNIVERSAL—The Magic Skin. 2-reel dr.. Vic; Sam Slam 'Em Slammed, com., Imp. : Them 01' Letters, dr., P. JAN 6—TUESDAY MUTUAL—Apollo, title not announced ; Mai. and Thanbouser releasee, title not announced. GENERAL F—On the Great Steel Beam, dr., E: Hearts and Flowers, dr.. 8-A ; The Smug- gler's 8on, 2-reel dr.. Clnes; Whom God Hath Joined, dr., Pthe; The Living Wage, dr., fl; Jerry's Uncle's Namesake, 2-reel com., V; The Squire's Mistake, dr., L. UNIVERSAL—The Lie. 2-reel dr.. Gold Seal . Shadowed, com., and Fighting 1b no Business. drawn that day. Examination was waived by those arrested in connection with the ex- hibition at the Park theatre, and they are. awaiting trial before the Court of Special Sessions. The police court hear- ing would have come before Magis- trate Murphy, who rather severely cen- sured the picture from the bench. An appeal may be taken from Justice JAN. 7—WEDNESDAY MUTUAL—A Military Judas. 3-reels. Br; Mutual Weekly No. 54; Rel., title not an- nounced. GENERAL F—African Sea Birds, educa- tional, and The Sherlock Holmes Girl, com., split reel. E; Her Husband's Friend. 2-reel dr., K: A Foot of Romance, com.. S-A : Dishing Pick's Dishwater, com., and Snow Effects In Australia, scenic, split reel, Pthe: Diana's Dress Reform, com., V; By Unseen Hands. dr.. S. UNIVERSAL—The Dead Line. dr.. N; Mike and .Take Line Close to Nature, com., Joker; The Case of Cherry Purcelle, 3-reel dr. Eclr; Universal Animated Weekly No. 96 JAN. 8-THURSDAY MUTUAL—American, title not announced. Harp of Tara. 2-reel dr.. Dom ; Keystone, title not announced. GENERAL F—His Father's House, dr. B; The Hills of Peace, dr., S-A ; Between Two Fires. 2-reel dr.. L; Wards of Socjotv. 2-rerl dr.. Pthe: Pletro. the Pianist, com.. S: Their Interest In Common, com.-dr.. and Montana State Fair, topical, split reel. V : Pthe Weekly No. 3 feast) and No. 2 (west). UNIVERSAL-—The Wntch Dor of the Deep. 2-reel dr.. I ; An Arrowhead Romance, dr. R : SHm's Strategy, com., Frnt. JAN. 9—FRIDAY MUTUAL— Narcotic Spectre. 2-reel dr.. K.B. : Princess and Thanbouser releases, title not announced. GENERAL F—The Witness to the Will. 2- reel dr.. E; The Hour and the Man. 2-reel dr.. S-A : The Joke on Jane com. nnd Making Cut Glass, Industrial, split reel. K; On the Breast of the Tide. dr.. R : Bunny's Mistake mm.. V; The Engineers' Revenge, dr., L. UNTVERSATi—When Ursiis Threw the Bull. 2-reel com.. N : Whoso Dlgireth n Pit. dr.. P : Admission Two Pins, com.~dr., Vic. JAN. 10-SATURDAY Ml'TUATr—The Son of Thomas Gray. dr. A ; Kevstone and MaJ. releases, title not an- nounced. GENERAL F—A Lonely Road, dr . E : Rnake- vllle'" New Doctor, com., S-A ; When the Doc- tor Called, com., ami Married Men. com., split r^el. L: The Minister's Daughter, 2-re<M dr.. Pthn; Officer Johnson. 2-r«»el dr.. V; Tell-Tnln Stains, dr.. K: The Bartered Crown, dr., B. UNIVERSAL—Some Nightmare, com., and St. Claude and Surroundings. Jura, France. Hcenlc, Bpllt reel. Joker; Cross Roads, dr. Frnt; Tbe Eleventh Hour, 2-reel dr. B101. Theodore Kremer must have written wroten thla one, but E. A. Brown, wtio lectures after it la the best thing In the show, though a man behind mo at the BIJeu Tuesday night said the star bit was a still picture of "The Rock of Ages," with a choir accompaniment. Mr. Brown explains and exhorts In a sort of film slave epilogue. In a pleasingly modulated voice he cuts each word of his address Into Its separate and distinct articulations with a won- derful, mellifluous hiatus between. The cap- tion "A A A Inc." tops the newest soul traf- ficker to hit Broadway. Ascher & Adlor, well known East Side and Bronx exhibitors, own It, and with the whole movie crowd of the Ghetto and Harlem must be laughing nt Broadway. Though now called "The European Version of the White Slave Traffic." three years ago the same multiple went the rounds of the city's exhibitors who were willing to pay so much per day for Its rental. Broadway hadn't been lit up to Its present vogue of red lights then. and the East Side movie patrons looked at the picture, and, not knowing how the white slave thing Is done In London, merely guessed It was all right. But AAA tacked a Bcure or more still pictures of vice folk and sections to their fenture, discovered the priceless Brown, sent the combination to the benighted regions In other states where censorship Is negotiable, and have been tucking away rube money ever since. Ascher (popular Sydney) didn't know white slave films were coining money on Broadway until a friend told hlra of the first raid on the Samuel London "Inside of the White Slave Traffic" pictures at the Park theatre. But Syd got up steam right away and next morning's filer from Dallas. Texas, was bringing his partner Adler. and the A&A film slave outfit back north. And when the cops later klboshed the London film at the Bl.lou, Syd shot the AAA films In. It's Edith, poor girl, who barely escapes ruin In this antl-vlrtue drama. She's first decoyed, then Incarcerated In her "buyer's" palace, pawed over by her "owner," and slammed somethln' orful when she avaunts her captor. Jack Lester, In the end. saves her. Jack wears a twin-pointed French chin beard and silk braid down his evening dress pants. The story Is propelled by the ferocious rivalry of two buyers to possess Edith, once she is snared. A "stool" of the "organisation" initially picks Edith up at a railway station. When Edith, after a boat ride later Is turned loose at a terminal, a handsomely liveried equipage bears her away. Provincial, the girl thought she was heading for a poor aunt. But the white Blavers through misleading notes. Blgned by John Somebody, "Bart.." reconcile her to tem- porarily agree to be happy in a marble col- umned palace. But Jack Lester, who met her on the boit ride and got acquainted through rescuing her veil from a fugitive wind, saves her at last after a turrlflc hand to hand fight with the slavers over roofs, with a bunch of English bobbles acting as a match for the traffickers. In some respects the AAA films appear to have been the general model for the Universal "Traffic In Souls" feature. The climax with a raid by the cops over roofs is Identical In Its general scheme, though staged with vastly more effectiveness by the "copy" film. But after all, once out of the theatre. It Is Mr. E. A. Brown and his South Bend delivery that one remembers with most pleas- ure. Morally, the A A A film Is In the class of Its strlctured neighbors. Girls seeing It who note that marble palaces and liveried servants are Incidentals of stolen virtue, might find the picture a temptation Instead of a warning. CORB. "MUTUAL GIRL" DATE CHANGED. The first release of "Our Mutual Girl" will be made Jan. 19 instead of Jan. 5, as was first announced. Jack Noble is director of this Mutual fea- ture, although General Director D. W. Griffiths is much interested in its de- velopment. Among the stage celebrities who have posed before the camera in the series arc Bilie Burke, Jane Cowl, De Wolf Hopper, Alexandra Carlisle, Marguer- ite Clark, Laurette Taylor, Christie McDonald and Fannie Ward. CAMDEN MpVIE OPENED. Camden, N. J., Dec. 31. With a seating capacity of 1,000 th» Plaza, new and handsome movie house opened here last week. Phenomenal business has been recorded so far and nearby houses are feeling the effects. The place is owned and managed by the Campbell Amusement Co. GIVING UP STOCK. Jersey City, Dec. 31. Stock at the Academy is closing Sat- urday night. The house takes on pop vaudeville for the remainder of the winter. If yon don't advertise don't advertise at all. In VARIETY