Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-09

London's plays. used to be an opera
singer. Some people do go from one
extreme to the other-laughter, sad
ness, anger, despair, noise, silence.
1.-THE Love Victorious is the title of
an allegorical drama upon which Direc
tor Wilfred Lucas of the Powers com.
pany, Universal, is now working. The
story deals with the life of woman, her
| trials, temptations and SHINING. Her
acceptance of evil and it's cohorts as
positive forces in her life and the final
struggle of sin and the Christ-spirit for
possession of her soul.
Those who have any doubts about
| the most beautiful actress on the
! screen today should witness Gertrude
Cameron in the forthcoming Pathe pro-
! duction, Lucille
Daniel V. Arthur has left the Play
goers Film company and has returned
to legitimate work. He is at present
associated with the Reginald De Koven
Opera company.
Leah Baird has forsaken the ranks
of the Universal and is now en- route
to join her old lover, the Vitagraph,
which concern was first to place Leah's
name all over the country.
Helen Gardner, who organized the
Helen Gardner Players, has returned to
her tutor, the Vitagraph, where she will
be seen in new plays.
Shadow of the Past" is a succession
of thrills, startling as any melodrama,
plus spoken words, that has enjoyed
the favor of the captious street of
amusement.
Oh, rats, And Grace Cunard abso-
lutely refuses to play in scene with
them. Therefore certain portions of
that Lucille series are being con-
formed to meet with her requirements.
And just to make Flora Finch jeal-
GUS. Francis Bushman has gone and
had three world-famous scupltors de-
clare him perfect in figure and facial
contour.
For the benefit of those in doubt, it
is stated on behalf of Flora Finch and
John Bunny that Mrs. Bunny absolute
ly denies that her husband is the hus-
band of Flora. In fact, Flora is so
weak she can hardly speak to him.
Dear old Ned Burton, who was such
grand old granddad in the Pathe
plays, has left the Jersey City studios.
Edward Jose, who took the part of
Judge Harding in 1.-The Stain and the
lieutenant in 1.-The Corsair," is taking
one of the principal parts in new
picture now under the direction of
Frank Powell
That wizard of all he undertakes, |
Jesse L. Lasky, is now making an ex-
tensive trip through the west on |
screen business.
There is story behind every man |
in the street. Have you ever stopped |
and pondered the remarkable secrets |
which hide in the breast of the man
who stops you as you are passing |
homeward and asks you for few pen
MES to purchase for himself place to
lay his head? When you have passed
him few coppers, and as he shuffied
on down the street, have you ever won
dered just what that man might have
been, and what caused him to sink to
such miserable depths of despair? Yes.
there must be reason; there is al
ways reason. AS you watch his fig
ure disappear. do not condemn him, for
his present position may be due to
some almost uncomfortable chain of cir
cumstances. which, despite his every
effort to escape them, had him marked
for destruction. 1t is not to be doubted
that fate often DEGREES, even before a
lad has heightened his trousers, that
his life shall be a failure, and despite
his efforts to escape from himself and
get back to an equal footing with his
feliowmen he finds 1t impossible He
never succeeds. and IL he does. 1t is
only for moment He may be gifted.
and capable of delivering or
ders to those more successful than
but there's a something In his
life that holds him back. And he new