El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-08

, ing her in a moment OF seriousness,
| for young reporter was interviewing
/ the fifty thOusand-a-year girl in the
{ crowded lobby OF the Alexandria hotel
You could not have learned by consult
/ ing the register that one OF the most
! beautiful and expensive suites OF the
sumptuOus Alexandria was occupied by
| the little star who is best loved in
rags, for the only PickfOrd entry on
l the register was that of her sister Lot
! tie. Yet Mary's name was on the line
above Why elucidate, when thar might
I only spoil the romantic twinge you feel
I when you see her in great screen dis
tress, and when. besides, the young man
| in the case seems content to abide in
/ background -Obscurity?
Never on the Stage.
Bess EytOn, star OF uncOunted and
unbelievable experiences in the dark
corners OF the jungle, as people on sew
eral continents are aware, was never
on the stage until recently when she
stepped in front OF the screen in a Los
Angeles picture house to say ten prom
issd words to the audience. The prom
Use was never fulfilled by half After
Z five words Bess Eyton. who had sent
many a Numidian lion and ebOn chief
tain sinking to cover with her I'M
Wavering eye, collapsed, and was as
, sisted to the kindly wings 1t was just
like a million cameras on YOU she
said, and she was used to never more
! than three.
EathIyn Williams. who has had ten
times as many narrow escapes from
wild beasts as there are beasts in the
huge Selig zoo, came from the stage,
and she would seem to have sacrificed
more than most Of the foOtlight peo-
pie in leaving her voice behind The
fact is, Kathlyn Williams, protege OF
former senator ". A. Clark, Of Mon
tana, was singer who had been ex-
tenslvely and extensively prepared Ter
the heavy roles in grand opera
Behind the Scenes
Unfortunately, sometimes, the motion
camera records only what goes on in
front OF it. Behind the black box and
the revolving hand Of the camera man,
usually about four yards from the cen
ter OF the dramatic action, is the
gesticulating fellow who is trying his
best TO have evrything he Is thinking
mirrored in what the actors do
Like race horses these directors are
They have not their derby days. but
their derby plays Colin Campbell. the
veteran, numbers his productions by
the hundred. yet IL is likely that when
he sits gOWned and sliDpered before
his evening fire il is to The Spoilers"
that his thoughts most frequently and
lovingly stray Perhaps Phillips Small
ley regards THE Dragons Breath"
with most affection. Allan Dwan has
several substantial successes from
which to choose. So have Isidor Bern
stein and Mack Sennett. Hobart BOs-
worth has a great fondness for all the
Jack London novels he has carried TO
the screen, but his audiences insist that
The Sea Wolf surpasses the others
A Woman Director.
Miss Lois Weber is a director who
has won her way to the first rank BY
her originality and ability From play
ing leading lady parts she stepped 70
she had mastered the intricacies OF
direction-and helped direction along
TO intricacies II had not understood
before-she stepped back Into the
through the greater part or her inter-
esting career. she has also been writing
the strong plays which she turned into
film To screen acting this unusual
young woman has brought 2 wealth
OF charm. she is respected and fol-
lowed as an advocate and originator
OF plays OF the type that arouse the
mind and quicken the heart with a
nobler impulse Maclyn Arbuckle
never appeared to finer advantage than
in It's No Laughing Matter" which
Lois Weber wrote around him She
also directed the filming. Her "HypO-
critics" has done as much as any other
play to prove the power Of the screen
to teach a great lesson.
some Big Plays.
The writing and producing of plays
like The Italian" with scenes laid in
Venice and New York, might have
a
Yet II is with such plays as The Bar
gain" and The Night stage" that he
has most endeared to him the people
OF the extreme west Ince knows his
west and he has undertaken to put il
into his pictures with a fidelity that is
rare.
Mr.. Inces father made history on the
Mother Lode when Virginia City was
the rough and ready capital Of the
world The father beQueathed TO the
his nnEcfnmgra love nf the hrrn~a
raw. elemental factors OF his day
Ince Will build up a poker game in
the FL Paso OF today and make palmer :
than could any word tFickster OF n ;
novelist why men stake life itself on
the turn OF a card, or fight for the I
favor OF a woman whose very stock I
in trade is her lack Of constancy.
Artist and q Poet.
David ". Griffith is an artist who !
works in more comprehensive me-
dium than oil. a poet who expresses :
his thoughts on a surface broader and I
deeper than a printed page No sooner /
had he convinced the trembling pro- [
ducers that the public would stand ]
for pictures which departed from dis
tOrted clownish action and showed peo- I
pie in normal action, than he under
took the filming OF the subtle emo
tons that play through Kingsley's
Three Fishers" "Enoch Arden" and
"Pippa Passes" A rerolutionist Ike
Griffith was able TO survive only be-
cause his revolutions proved to be
revelations. His innovations stood the
test which the doubling producers i'm
posed They paid Many times over I
the producers got their money back.
The Mutual concern is said to pay I
Griffith more than 100000 a year for
cOunseling and guiding the work OF the
directors OF ten OF the Mutual COM
panies.
In addition to overseeing the work J
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