Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-16
PARAMOUNT ADDS
TO ITS TRAVELOGUES
Burton Holmes and Bray, Car
toonist, Join With This
Company
BY the Photoplay Editor

Two important additions to the Para
mount program, in tho way of one-reel
motion pictures. are announced by the
Famous Players Exchange, of Philadel-
phia. Burton Holmes, the well-known
travelogue lecturer, has contracted with
that concern TO take 10000 feet of film,
comprising the most interesting of his
many wonderful lecture tours. Out Of
this 100000 feet. 10000 will be selected to
be made into 80 reels, one being released
10 the public each week. These motion
pictures are on the order of those which
Mr.. Holmes uses for his regular lectures.
and are decidedly interesting. 1t is not
known when tho first will be released.
but the new year will probably usher in
the scries, which will be run in several
prominent Philadelphia theatres
The other series of one-rcel subjects
will be known as the Paramount Bray
Cartoons. J. r. Bray, well known the
originator OF the animated cartoon,
known as "Col. Iieezn Liar" is now
under contract with Paramount, and has
on his staff such well-known cartoon
lists as G. r Anderson. creator of the
Police Dog Series: l.. VI. Glackcns, form
erly of Puck drawing stone Age ad-
ventures: Earl Hurd, famous animal
cariCaturist Leighton Rudd with his
grotesque Lunylnnd series. and Paul
Terry, originator of Farmer AL Falfa, and
others These animated pictures will be
made under the Bray patent This seems
10 be a new field in motion pictures, as
Bray is apparently the only one on
record exploiting exclusively the work
of artists for motion pictures. Tho first
of tho new series will he released to the
public on January g. and will be called
"Col. Hee2a Liars Waterloo" BY spe-
Cial arrangement. u few hundred feet in
each release will be devoted to animal
studies. Curator II, L. Ditmars. of the
Bronx Zoo having given permission for
the taking of pictures of the animals.
The Theatre Franchise, one of New
York's foremost playhouscs, was recently
used by the Raver Film Corporation 10
film several interior scenes called for IN
the scenario OF The Other Girl" the
famous, Augustus Thomas stage success.
1t was necessary that these theatre
scenes he representative and in keeping
with the rest Of tho picture, While ii
would have been possible to build these
sets at the Ravcr studios they would not
have been any more representative or
The Theatre Francaise is n
modern theatre richly fur
nished and exactly the type called for in
the picture II was secured by Mr.. Ravcr
through the courtesy of Mr.. Bonaire OF
the Theatre Franchise.
The World releases for January include |
he following stars-George Beban, Kitty .
iordon Robert Warwick and Alice Brady. ,
II is on the cards that the Mutual and .
Universal will get together about the first
Of the coming year on some sort of
agreement to release their out
put in conjunction, dividing the cost of .
combined agencies throughout the Coun-
ry with such working alliance II Is
planned to have each releasing company
out out three 5-rcelers and five S-reelers
IN their regular program service weekly,
without any advance in price to their
'lients.
BY this plan It is expected they will
capture the entire program business of
he country, and particularly to corral
he business heretofore held by the Cen
.ral Film
In order TO finish their last picture for
he Keystone Film Company. Weber and
Fields. the famous comedy team, worked
teadily for is hours without even halt
or meals on the day their contract ex-
,ired Cloudy and rainy weather made 1t