Evening journal., 1914-05-04
lack O. Diamonds
Best On The Card
Stellar Photoplay Company
Releases Six Part Play Full
Of Life and Action
Ralph Stuart Forced to Do Some Tall
Climbing in Rehearsing Scenes for
Hearts Of Oak"

The Stellar Photoplay Company Ia
Just released striking Six part featur
entitled Forgiven Or the Jack o Dia
monds.' The scenario is BY Bennet
Musson and the production was directe,
BY VIM. Robert DAILY. Frank ]. Carroll
president of the company, who IS
veteran film man. gave close persona
attention 70 the production Of the play
md e him is due great part Of III,
credit for the success it can justly claim
10 doubly assure success, an excep
iionally strong cast was secured com
prising the following Edwin Forsberg.
% The leading role Of Jack Diamond. is
II well known New York actor who
played opposite Dorothy Donnelly in
Henry w savage's production Of
Madame X; Frederick Burton had
Iusi closed before being cast with this
picture with General John Regain
playing the American Gentleman: Luke
J. Loring has been with Henry w. Saw
age for a number of years; Hector Dion
IS a well known motion picture actor.
formerly leading man with the Reliance
Company; Caroline French the leading
lady, was formerly OF the All Star Com
p9ny where she played opposite Tully
Marshall in Paid in Fulr' Ricca Allen,
who has played with the Biograph and
Reliance companies; FRITZ Brunette had
been leading woman with the Victor
Company before being cast for this pic
ure; Lois Alexander, the clever little
baby, who has played in many Of the
Universal productions in the past two
years, and Daniel Bcrtona, who has been
with the Imp Company for some time
an'il cast for this picture.
The play tells the story of lack Dia-
.,mnpd a successful gambler who wins
Annie Dennison from his rival Willard
5raham, abiurcs gambling and settles
down 20 business Later Graham re-
turns, leads Jack TO believe his wife is
uniaitntul and causes separation be-
tween the couple, Annie disappears
with her child, Leonic, and lack goes
20 Texas. where he makes a fortune.
iiis wite IS also in Texas teaching
school. Graham traces her and resumes
ms wooing. Jack discovers the presence
o. ms wiie and daughter and also that
OF arahau. The two men come 10 a
clash and Graham plans 70 murder Jack,
but IS himself slain. Before diving he
clears the wife's name and lack IS re-
united TO his wife and child.
George Cooper. the heavy crook"
lead for Niiagraph, al Santa Monica.
has cut his ties with the local company
and has been on two weeks vacation
he lives in a bungalow on the beach and
swlms daily IN the surf He has closed
with the Universal and will be in Gold
Seal films.
There exists great difference of opin-
ion among motion picture experts as to |
the possibility of producing a perfect
talking picture-that is. one in which
there will be a machine giving utterance
TO speech in exact synchrony with the
movements, gestures, facial expressions
Of the actors ON the screen In fact.
there IS also almost as great a differ
snfe Of opinion as To the desirabilitv of
accompanying the action OF the motion
picture play with the reproduced voices
ot the actors even though the machine
capable Of doing SO with ideal exactitude
IS perfected.
AS to singing however. the case Is
entirely different. Whatever difference |
of opinion there may have existed as TO |
the possibility OF the desirahility OF pro- |
ducing and utilizing the perfectly syn |
chronous singing equipment has been |
swept away by the fact that such an |
equipment IS possessed by the Renfax |
tilm Company and that its use in the |
presentation of musical motion pictures
before delighted audiences is a matter
Of daily and nightly occurrences Al
though the introduction of the Renfax
method of producing singing pictures is
but recent, It has already proved that il
luStiflcs all claims made for its mechan-
fcal perfection, and that it wins instan-
taneous favor from every audience that
has looked upon the pictures and lis
tened to the accompanying voices Of @lu
Bagdad," "Faust." apple Blossom Time
10 Normandy or any other of the two
score musical motion pictures the COM
pany has placed before the public So
there has ceased 10 be discussion or dis
sension of opinion as to the possibility
Of presenting the lyric drama in any of
its forms on the screen. with voices 1
accompanying in perfect melody and
perfect synchrony II has become sim
Ply one Of accomplished fact,
Ralph Stuart had to do some tall
climbing IN Hearts of Oak" when Terry
scene Of the FIRST act In rehearsing the
scene for the camera on the Maine coast
near Portland, he actually climbed up
rocky incline Of Is feet. When he was
up about 90 feet Mr.. Stuart missed his
footing and slid back considerable dis
lance To the camera man and the mem
hers of the company who were watching