The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-14
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The screen Offering at the Bijou to-
day includes q two part Vitagraph
drama, Ills Wife and His Work." a
Biograph play, when the Night Call
Came" and a Selig drama entitled
"a Jonah" Wednesday Tuily Mar
shall and the original Broadway COM
pany present Paid In FULL" Eugene
Walters famous play. It is present.
ed in five reels. wednesday afternoon;
in connection with this play, Finger
Prints" q two part Essanay featuring
Francis K. Bushman will be shown.
Heart-Selig news pictorial No. 5 will
also be shown Wednesday.
Jesse Bonstelle is at the head of
stock company in Detroit.
The show for today at the orpheum
Is exceedingly good, as 1t includes one
Of those laughable Keystone comedies
called Fatty and the .Ieiress." It Is
In two parts, and features the mint
able Roscoe Arbuckle, or Fatty, al, |
he Is better known, who is supported
by an all star cast Of Keystone stars.
The Land OF Liberty a Majestic
drama, and "Bobby's Plot" high
class Reliance comedy complete the
program. Fedora the great $4,000
race horse production, will be seen on
the Orpheum screen tomorrow. This
play has made a hit wherever shown,
and Is positively one of the most sem
sational photo dramatic masterpieces
ever shown.
A musical comedy was lately pro-
duced in Chicago called THE Flop
Among the plays by Henry Arthur
Jones that will be produced in motion
pictures by the Famous Players Film
Company are 1.-THE Masqueraders,"
Saints and Sinners THE Dancing
Girl" and the most celebrated Of all
his works, THE Silver King" which
has Just been given command per-.
Torrance before the king OF England.
band the film version Of which is now
being produced in that country under
the direction Of Edwin 8. Porter and
Hugh Ford.
Edward e. Rose has finished AN
ME Laurie" which will be sent on
tour.
The vitagraph Company in striving
for realism in their picturized stories,
has already spent thousands Of dollars
to meet the demands Of moving pic
ture fans for the sensational. Not
long ago the company purchased and
destroyed ninety horsepower, seven
passenger touring car, which cost it
several thousand dollars; week or
so ago, 1t spent $4,000 in a train
wreck, and now, as the big feature in
broadway Star Feature release, for
production in the near future, 1t has
purchased private yacht, a deep sea-
going craft, which will be blown to
atoms by a giant torpedo fired from a
torpedo boat. The yacht originally
cost $4,000, but was purchased by
the Vitagraph Company for s25 900.
and It will consider the amount well
spent, II the scene causes the sensa-
tion-hungry motion picture enthusiasts
to experience one added thrill of
pleasure.
Frances Nofdstrom is the leading
lady Of a stock company In Pitts
burg.
Henrietta Crosman, one Of the fore
most stars on the American stage,
will be featured in perturbation Of
1.-THE Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch"
strong, emotional domestic problem
play, by Mrs. Burton. Harrison. The
subject will provide Miss Crosman
with distinctly novel role, her in
depreciation Of which is anticipated
with interest and the certainty that 1t
will be as polished and decisive as her
other characterizations.
Marie Lohr is to appear In this
country in revival Of THE Little
Minister"
That the vitagraph Company OF
America has some smashing big
things in preparation and contempla-
ton is shown by the purchase from
the Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
LID, the picture rights of five Of his
best known novels.
These are "The Island Of Regen-
GRAFTON" Hearts in the Highway, :"
THE Sword Hand of Napoleon"
"Britton of the Seventh" and '.The
Little Angel of Canyon Creek The
two last named novels will not be on
sale until September. but the adj
vance sheets were so thrilling and
good that the yitagraph purchased
them.
These five books. together with
"The Fetters Of Freedom" "The
Chalice of Courage" and "Sir Henry
Morgan, Buccaaneer,'' previously
bought. make eight books purchased
by the vitagraph from this dis
tinguished clerical novelist. Each
book is Of distinct type and filed
with intense interest.
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