Arizona republican., 1914-04-06
FAM0USPLAYERS
 DUE IN PHOENIX
Manager Levi of the Ave nue Theater Closes Con- tract for Presentation of Films Featuring Actors of the Legitimate

For several months the moving pie nouncements of the entrance into the film world of score or more of the stage. The work of the artists in the legitimate field has in the past died with the stars or has passed into mem ory when the great productions have been taken from the stage But through the medium of the moving picture camera these productions are to be perpetuated and the face and form of the artists are to be brought into every city and town in the United States.
 When Manager Newt Levi of the Avenue Theater, formerly the Wigwam. found that it was possible to secure the exclusive showing of the pictures pro dused by the famous players under the personal direction of Daniel Frohman, he abandoned his pet plans for expend
 ing no small sum in the beautifying of his popular moving picture house and decided to give his patrons the bene
 fit of the proposed expenditures in the bringing to Phoenix of the greatest ser
 ieS of pictures ever shown here. And so it has come about. that under the arrangement he succeeded in perfeeting yesterday these films will be brought
 to this city and shown at the Avenue
 without the advance of one penny in
 the price of admission.
 .l,a who are under contract to appear in the Famous Players Features" are Minnie Maddern Fiske, who has given specially produced and exqusitely staged and cOstumed production of Tess of D'Urbervilles', without doubt Mrs. Fiske's masterpiece. And this will be the initial offering next Tues day and Wednesday at the Avenue. In the near future. under the contract l secured by Levi, Mary Pickford will be seen here in Tn the Bishops Car i riage' Charlotte Ives will present | Clothes" Lillian Langtry will be seen in His Neighbor's Wife Cissy Loftus will appear in Confessions" and Car l lotta Nillson will be seen in one of her suCCessts now .n the course of special preparation for the moving picture | camera.
 The Prisoner Of Zenda," with James
 K. Haokett, will be an early offering:
 and John Barrymore is preparing a production that will be filmed and in-
 cluded in the series. James O'Neill in
 the Count of Monte Cristo," Cyril
 Scott in The Day of Days" Dustin
 Farnum in Soldiers of Fortune the
 "Squaw Man" and "Strongheart," Ho-
 bart BOswOrth in Jack London stories 1 dramatized including The Sea Wolf" John Barleycorn," and The Valley of ! the Moon," are among others soon to 1 be shown Henry Dixey and Charles i Hawtrey are also announced as artists i having films in the course of prepara- l tion
 1 In all of the series not one scene is
 cut from the original play. There is enough of the lines and text shown upon the screen at frequent intervals i to carry the story for those unfamiliar with the piece. In each production the
 minimum will be 4,5OO feet of film with
 maximum of nine reels or over 5000 i feet of pictures.
 | In addition to the pictures with the 1 Famous Players, the service will in clude some of the sensations of the Eu- ropean moving picture field including
 such stupendous scenic productions as 1 The Battle of Waterloo" and others of equally high class. Nothing ap- preaching these pictures has ever been
 shown in Phoenix. It is the first time
 that they have been brought to the , southwest