El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-21

: vaudeville appearances of celebrated
cartOonists and newspaper artists, who
formerly spent lots of time on tours
giving chalk talks. Moving pictures
of these artists making their sketches
are great favorites with the public,
and must be a boon to the artist, as he
does not need to leave his place of
residence Hy Myers, of the New York
Herald, is a favOrite in this line OF
work"
Combine Gives Better Pictures
The moving picture manufacturers
are forming combinations with the pro-
ducers in the legitimate" said VIII r.
w inch, manager of the WlgWam last
night And as a result, the best copy
r1ghted plays will be seen some time
this winter on the screen at the houses
that use the licensed service. The Bio
graph company has tied up with KIaw
q Erlanger and will screen some of
their plays. Ben Hur' is owned by the
X. & E. forces and it may be among
the lot but this has not been an
nOunced.
The Vitagraph company has formed
a combination with Liebler * company
Tor the production OF their successes.
Ii is not unlikely that they will press
some of their famous stars into service.
Since James K. Hackett concluded that
he was not too good for the pictures
and produced The Prisoner of Zenda,'
which was shown during the winter
at the WigWam, many of the other
prominent stars have announced their
Willingness to appear
Higher Class Pictures.
The tendency now is towards bet
ter and higher class pictures Two and
three reel productions are crowding out
the single reel ones. The licensed COM.
panieS, or the trust, as the independ-
entS call them, are now putting out
eight multiple reels a week. Com
mencing with October the WigWam
VIII show four two or three-reel pro-
ductions every week, where it has been
showing but two in the past. These
productions are more pretentious than
the single reels have been, as the man
ufacturers can afford to spend more on
them. There is also a tendency to raise
prices in the cities. This is caused By
an increased price in service and be-
cause so many specials that cost ex-
the wedding out OF the smaller places,
which had low rental and low expenses
Take our theater, for instance. The
cost of operating it is over twice as
much as was the cost of operation at
the old WiSwam of a year ago. 1 be-
heve the public is willing to pay
little extra when the theaters can Of
fer il something high class enough to
be worth the increase"
Wants New Comedies.
1t strikes me that the picture plays
which take best in the high class stuff
are those plays containing a lot of
action and excitement, or in other
words when there is something doing
all the time, said T. N Hervey, of the
BijoU theater. But 1 also think that
there have been SO very many high
tension plays where the action IS so
stirring all the time that if some very
nigh class good comedies were to be
put on as a change by the film players,
that the people would welcome the
change. 1 do not mean farceS-we
have thCSe-but very light clever
plays that keep the smile in constant
use Of course the main thing in the
picture line is to keep getting out
some thing just = little different from
the last thing 1 do not think that
straight love plays take with the
whole audience. OF our stars. Miss
Mary Fuller, who has been appearing
IN the What Happened 20 Mary series,
and MISS Helen Gardner are big favor
ties"
Same Pictures rs New York
81 P2soans are getting some of the
pest pictures at the same time that
New York is getting Them said the
manager of the Alamo theater An
example OF this, Is the magnificent pro-
auction of Sir Walter SCOTS novel
IVanhoe,' which We viii show in Ell
faso the same night il is first shown
IN New York city. This much heralded
production in three reels possesses the
= tmOSphere of the period of the story
to remarkable degree, visualizing for
tne observer very effectively the
knights of olden days, the ancient cas-
Ties and battlements, Robin Hood and
ms band of merry men, and from a
scenic standpoint the entire production
IS most remarkab BILE IvanhOe will be
acted by that very popular matinee
ldcl. King BagSOtt, with Miss EVELYN
Hope as the Lady Rowena and Miss
Leah Baird as Rebecca-"