Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-29
NEW LOCAL COMPANY
TO PRODUCE FILMS
Franklin Film Manufacturing
Corporation Organized.
Photoplay Notes
By the Photonlay Editor

Philadelphia has stm another new
photoplay producer. The Franklin Film
Manufacturing Corporation has been or
ganized, under the laws Of Delaware.
capitalized at 100000. with Offices in
Philadelphia.
The officers are Freeman Bernstein.
formerly general manager Of the Conti-
mental Photoplay Corporation, who is
the president and general manager;
Jacob Edelstein, well-known real estate
operator Of tho southern section of Phi,a-
delphia, is treasurer; Alexander w weld
enfield, central real estate broker, secre-
tary; Maurice Rose Esq, well-known at
tOrney Of the Widcner Building, is
one of the directors. together with other
well-known business men OF the city Of
Philadelphia.
The corporation has engaged for It's
first star the well-known May Ward, who
has been the feature Of The Continental
Girl and who will appear in a 5-reel
feature, "A Wild Rose, under the able
direction Of Joseph Ademan, of New
York city, formerly one of Charles Froh-
mans directors.
The new corporation has leased the
studios Of the Liberty Manufacturing
Corporation, 20-54 East Herman street.
Germantown, and a farm at Barren Hill,
comprising 25l acres, where there are all
the facilities for scenic and rural pro-
ductions.
The Franklin Film Manufacturing Cor
poration has five scenarios ready, and
expect to produce one feature every four
weeks.
The movies in Germany-even war-rid-
den Germany-are just about what they
would be anywhere else under the cir
cumstanCes. Here is sample as report
ed in the London Chronicle:
THE performance begins with
lengthy poem glorfying the services OF
the cinema to civilization and especially
to German Kultur Then three acts fol-
low, giving the fall and rise of the hero,
a naughty German noble, who has led
a wild life, forged names to various bills
and generally misconducted himself He
flies to the United States, where so many
of his kind have preceded him. His lot
is hard; he hunEers and thinks of the
parable of the Prodigal Son. Then he
works and by steady application he rises
i'm the social scale and marries an Ameri-
can girl fabulously rich.
Then the war breaks out. The claims
of his business the claims of wife and
home are thrown aside as of minor inn
portanCe. He has only one thought-this
reformed rasCal-to fly to his hard
pressed fatherland, pressed on all sides
by INSCRIPTIONS enemies, and to offer his
campaign he performs prodgies of valor
and is rewarded with the Iron Cross
first class. With this on his breast he
returns wounded to his parents, who
proudly clasp him to their hearts and for
give everything. We are not told whether
the police forgave him. The conserva-
tive journals are alone in Obiecting to
this beautiful story. German nobles
they say, do not forge signatures to bills
With the return to Hollywood, Cal, re-
Gently of Cecil B. De Mile, director gem
eral of the Lasky Feature Play Company,
and Jesse L. Lasky, president of the
concern, it was announced that elaborate
plans for the enlargement of the Lasky
studios had been completed.
The principal addition to the plant will
be a great laboratory with capacity for
100000 feet of film week. All prints
will be made in the West Mr.. De Mile,
while IN the East, visited the plant of
the Eastman Company, inspecting the
new daylight system of developing which
will be inaugurated at the Lasky studios.