Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-12-30

! pictures Is emphasized by many COM
rnunioation. One Of the pioneers In the
movement for the use OF educational pic
lures in the schools has been the high
school OF Pasadena, in California, G. II.
| Carson, the chairman OF the Motion Pic
ture Committee Of Southern California
high schools. writes that a plan has been
worked out "for correlating the pictures
! with ordinary class work, reviewing each
week the main points covered in that
weeks study OF the texts" Another evil
dence OF the practical value of Mr.. Car
sons work will be found In the state
| ment that there has been formed an as
| ISOLATION OF is or 20 schools of Southern
! California together with a number OF
| churches and Y. M. g. A. with the hope
OF eventually forming a regular educa-
| tlonal circuit
"In addition to this the State Board OF
| Education has taken great interest In
the matter and will probably do some
thing very shortly to supply pictures for
! schools In this section
Here is an example for all teachers who
see the value OF the film as an aid TO
| education. 1t Is only too true that at
| this time no complete regular course OF
| kinematographic instruction is available,
| but It is equally true that good deal
! IL the teachers will go to the trouble of
painstaking inquiries and of sorting and
| classifying.
| THE RISKS OF, THE MOVIES
! Walking the plank is pirate stun, and
II is not being done nowadays. But scut-
| tling more or less light across a plank
60 feet from the ground Ia nothing-to
movie folk. They do II with a careless
abandon that Is born OF desire TO make
good, that being about their sole aim.
In "The Reader of Minds,' a recent re-
lease, the plot called for the heroine and
the hero to recover certain military plans
that had been stolen from the hero by
wonderful mlnd-reading trick and
whose theft had caused his dismissal
from the army. The heroine located the
plans In the garret ~ an old house.
When the hero went there to get them
| he was caught and tied up In the garret.
Did that stop the heroine7 Not when
Muriel Ostriche played the part. She
enlisted the aid OF tho family next door.
Then she put out a plank from their
attic window to the ledge OF the garret
window, is feet way and clambered over
it. She broke into the garret, freed the
hero and then led him to safety and re-
instatement via the dangerous route she
had taken aross the plank.
| II any one thinks this wasn't taking a
chance-a plank one foot wide across n
chasm 10 feet wide and so feet deep. with
| the plank ends unsecured on the window
ledges-he or she who doubts Is welcome
to try II.
PERSONALITIES.
| Walter Belasco, character man at Ince-
VILE, has invested in a couple Of lots at
San Francisco. For many years he has
| yearned to own a part of certain sec
ton in the Bay City, and his wish re-
Gently was gratiied. He jumped at the
chance, and now he Is telling everybody
at the studios about my property"
| Frank Dayton. of the Essanay Com
pany, unintentionally put one over on
| Chicago detective The detective, who has
a great memory for faces. tapped Dayton
on the shoulder as ne was walking down
| the street.
your face Is too familiar to be walk
| ing around loose; better come with me-"
| he said.
| Dayton was puzzled for moment. Then
he laughed and pointed to the posters on
! nearby photo-play house.
Maybe that's where you saw me-" said
/ Dayton The detective looked, and there
| was Dayton's picture in the photo-play in
| which he appeared as convict.
| The detective grinned sheeplshly and
| admitted that he had seen the play the
| night before, and while the picture stuck
| in his mind he did not associate the face
| with the play at once.
| Betty Nansen, conceded to be, since
\ Bernhardt's retirement, the greatest ex-
! ponent of tragic and heavy character
| roles on the stage. Is in America to pose
! for series of William Fox's productions.
| Miss Nansen Is leading woman OF the
| Theatre Royal. of Copenhagen, Dem
| marks endowed and Government-man-
aged playhouse, q temple OF the drama
/
| classic Theatre Franchise Is to France;
| has been decorated by the King Of Dem
| mark personally with the coveted Order
1 OF Literature and Art. She is the only
| woman ever to be so signally honored.
Wallace Beery, the ''Sweedie' OF Es-
sanay's. photoplay comedy company.
| made lightning jump into the leading
\ part in a dramatic, production on the
speaking stage last. week. In just one
hour and 10 minutes after he had been
| asked to play the leading role In THE
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" at the I'M
perial Theatre, Chicago, he had familiar
ized himself with the 76 pages OF the
manuscript covering HIS part, to so
through with the play.
At one o'clock. Bsery received a tsle-
phone message from his brother Noah
| Reery, who ts In the company, telling
| him that the leading man. Wells Knibloe,
had had a paralytic stroke and asking
| him to play the character OF Jack Hale.
Beery mastered his first part and rushed
on the stage for the matinee at 2:16
After that 1t was one mad rush from the
stage to the wings for another glimpse
OF the manuscript every time he was
out OF the scene for moment. While in
the dressing room tho stage manager
drilled him in the words while he was
making up. Berry sat up all the next
night to master his part and played the
| leading role all weak