The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-03

As a monologiSt he was one of the few who never tired his audience though frequently he held the stage for three quarters of an hour
 As q minstrel he stood out from bis fellows just as prominently as did some of the never-to-beforgotten old timers who helped to make min, strelsy.
 The Honey Boy" had legion of friends; few. indeed, in the pro- fessiOn had so many, and he will be sadly missed and sincerely mourn ed
 Anthony Hopes romantic comedy of the eighteenth century. The Ad- venture of Lady Ursula" which was first acted by E. H. Sothern and Virginia Harmed at the old Lyceum theatre on Fourth avenue. New York in 1898. has been revived by Mana ger Joseph Brooks as vehicle for his latest star Phyllis Neilson-Terry the young English actress
 
 IN MOVIE LAND
 T prominent star, John Barry more. who attained phenomenal pop ularity throughout the world as an irresistible screen comedian in the two Famous Players Film Co.'S com edy triumphs. An American Citi- gen. and "The Man From Mexico, surpasses both his former screen sue cesses in the five part film adoption of Leo Ditrichstein's excruciatingly funny farce, Are You a Mason?'' which was released last month.
 Clarence Chandler, motion pie ture actor, was shot and killed in the San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles, Cal, Feb 26, during the action of a mimic battle. All pis- tols had been loaded with bullets to produce realistic scene in shoot ing down cabin door. A shot be- fore the signal was given felled Chandler. He died immediately.
 Mayor Spiegel of Cincinnati, ve- toed the o. K. of the Ohio Censors, and closed down on Three Weeks, ? which had been showing at the Al withdrawn, and Manager Wiegel UoNeu to tle eulCl. MdyOI opleSeI called Three Weeks" a "glorifica- tion of the crime of adultery" and put his official foot upon it.
 William H. Crane has found time to take part in performance of David Harum' for the films,
 Realism, in these times, is neces- sary in motion pictures. People want to see the real thing. The real thing in realistic sensations is very often dangerous as we'll as difficult to obtain, says the N. Y Mirror.
 Hearts in Exile" the World Film Corporation Russian drama, in which Clara Kimball Young stars as the beautiful Hope Ivanova> is full of striking scenes of Russian and Si- berian life, made with hazardous risks and the penalty of creative enterprise.
 In the progress of the plot it is essential to show two horsemen on a frozen river, one in desperate pur- suit of the other. The man endeav- bring to escape has to plunge into 2 hole in the ice.
 For this purpose, Director James Young selected a sheet of frozen water remote from observation on Saranac Lake, New York. and a rectangular opening of 30 feet by 20 feet was cut into the thick ice.
 The first horseman took the plunge into the water at full speed, and sank with his horse so deeply that the onlookers thought he had dis appeared forever He was subse- quently rescued. more dead than alive. suffering seriously from the intense cold
 The second horseman fared very little better. He. too, made the headlong plunge right on top of the man he was pursuing. but suffered far less than Gus Fischer, the first horseman, who was in serious straits for several days after his Arctic experiences on the frozen ice.
 When this part of the motion pic ture. Hearts in Exile" was made, the temperature was five degrees above zero. Director James Young himself walking on thin ice. fell In thirty feet of water, and when he succeeded in freeing himself. his clothes were frozen stiff as board |"