The Washington herald., 1914-07-23
LATEST PHOTOPLAY NEWS

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These Aims win be exclusively exhibited
by the company In the Michigan Building
At the~Panama-Pacinc Exposition during
the entire life Of the exposition AZ Sau
Francisco.
The State Of Michigan has no direct
or official appropriations for building ths
Michigan Building, 50 all the money ID
be had IN this direction viii be raised by
subscription from the various Michigad
commercial clubs, civic bodies. manufac-
turers, etc, by means Of moving pictures.
watterson r. Rothacker. general man
ager OF the Industrial Motion Picture
Company, feels particularly proud Of OBJ
tanning the contract since the deal was
contaminated in competition with several
concerns.
Leslie Potter. who for some time. has
acted in the official capacity OF Detroit's
bis activities along this line and returned
to regular police work. Films shown In
this city will no longer be passed upon
oy the police department until they are
shown In the theaters. Is the report from
headquarters.
Chief Of Police Gillespie, Of Detroit. says
the theaters will be censored, but he has
not settled on a plan Of operation Pa
trolmen on their beats viii probably be
pass
more than likely that different detectives
each day win be assigned to visit the
theaters and make complaints, II neces-
sary. The former censor followed the
practice Of passing upon the films before
they were run In the theaters.
The hlm people showed Us quite clear
ly that we have no right to censor films
before they are shown" said Mr.. Gill
Iespie. "An We can censor are the thea
ters, each one individually.
The photoplay, Joan Of Arc, Maid of
Orleans" in five parts, win be presented
at the Parkway Theater tonight Joan
OF Arc" presents in its five parts a spIen-
did production 1t Is q production that
bespeaks the most careful preparation
and unusual expenditure The history OF
the Maid Of Orleans from the year If29
until her death has been followed
throughout the film with remarkable ac-
cLracy, and has been presented with q
cast far above par. The story Of Joan
Of Arc is no doubt familiar to most peo-
pie, and II Is necessary to do more than
briefly outline it Joan, the daughter 1t
a peasant OF Domremy, a young woman
Of extraordinary energy and religious
tendencies, being visited by a vision of
St Michael and later by voices Of per-
suasion and encouragement, which are
from angels which, by the way, are the
blot on the escutcheon." with their
wingless bodies and pasteboard crowns,
convinced that she is the virgin who Is
to rise out Of Domremy to deliver the
French from the hands OF the English
ana thus restore the throne Of France 10
its legitimate heir, calls on the governor
of Vaucouleurem. Robert de Baudricourt.
to supply her with an army. with which
she may march against the English In
vaders. Baudricourt refusing to treat the
matter as anything but q joke, the cour-
ageOus maiden journeyed to Rheims 10
ask assistance in her project of the
Dauphin Charles, afterward Charles VII
Of France, who, although after much
persuasion, granted her her request and
aftcrward expressed his gratitude by a.
icwing her to suffer death at the stake
The entry to Orleans Is a wonderful
scene, one to generate enthusiasm even
at this late day. The production II won
derful+ artistic and highly instructive.