The Washington times., 1914-09-09
THE BEST
Photopldy Department in
WASHINGTON
Promise Of Big Film
In Local ThedterS
During Coming
Season

Tho film programs that are being
displayed throughout Washington
this week are the best recommenda-
ton that could possibly be given OF
the unusually high character OF the
audiences attending motion picture
exhibitions. None the less are they
positive evidence Of the care with
which the Washington exhibitors are
nov selecting Their programs. In
Atlantis" Damaged Goods The
Lure" The Story OF The Star
Spangled Banner The Million Dol
lar M!stery," the George Ade come
dies and the Mary Pickford pictures,
the public is given opportunities 10
see the very best there is in the
moving picture field. They are
evidence, also, of the picture pos
sib.lities of the coming season AMI
OF the. foresight of the local exhibit
Ors in making arrangements to get
them Atlantis, Damaged
Goods, and The Lure are all
films with big moral lesson.
The photoplay of Damaged Goods
at the Belasco this week was made
by Richard Bennett. who produced
the original play and is still III
charge OF the various companies
that are acting ii throughout the
country. Mr.. Bennett appeared AS
the h-ro OF the play IN the original
production. 1t was his courage and
perseverance that secured the play
hearing Ii was in California last
winter that he became interested in
the motion picture industry and he
de'ayed his departure for Europe IN
order that he might have charge OF
the production of Damaged Goods
in the pictures. 1t is because of this
fact that the play is as great a les
son on the screen as II was when
produced on the stage.
Atlantis" which occupied the
screen at Crandall's MOnday and
yesterday and is to be seen here
again today. is a film play made
from the famous novel of Gerhardt
Hauptmann. Mr. Hauptmann was
awarded the Nobel prize for litera-
ture last year and is well known
Ior his essays anu stories along So
Geological lines. In Atlantis he
has written story OF the immi-
grants. The scenes in the play show
something of the way the immi-
grant is treated and what happens to
him in the holds OF the crowded
steamers. The production brings the
spectator face to face with the mn
migrant problem and gives some
ideas as to how it should he met.
The Story of The Star-Spangled
Banner an Edison production,
that its release in this city coin
cides with the beginning of the
celebration in Baltimore of the
writing of the words for the cele-
brated song by Francis Scott Key.
The play is produced in the usual
careful Edison manner and is we'll
worth seeing. from the artistic as
w~ll as the historical standpoint.
The production OF THE Lure" at
the Garden the first two days of the
week and at The Olympic tomorrow
afternoon and evening. marks the
beginning of an important epoch in
the motion picture industry in this
city. II is the first of the films
TO be sent out under the trade mark
OF the Shuberts, the big theatrical
firm which owns or controls many
theaters and many plays OF the
highest character. The Garden and
the Olympic are among the theaters
in the city that have contracted to
produce these Shubert plays on the
screen. But in closing their contract
with the ShubeTts the proprietors of
the Olympic Theeter have done
significant thing they have insisted
that each film to be shown at the
fheater shall first be seen by Their
representative. and is not TO be
finally accepted unless he approves
its presentation. The management Of
the Olympic Thoater has the polio?
~ seeing the film first, so long ad-
Nocated by The Times. very firmly
established and tho large clientele
~ tbs thnater understand this thor
oughly. The result is that the very
best Of the Shuhert plays will re
DrOdI5Ced at the olympic. those thai
tho management believe would be
accepta bic TO its patrons.
Iriring the past week word has
heen received from several exhibit
tors that they have adopted this
same policy. and will show no pic
ture that has not been seen and ap-
proved by the management. This
IS the best sort of indication of the
improved conditions in the business
nnd the interest Of the exhibitors IN
the desires Of their patrons. G. NJ.