Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-06

her ''Tlllie's Punctured Romance" has
signed a two years contract with Lubin's
4 tho highest salary paid to a motion
picture actress.
THE Avenglng Conscience" which be-
BRn n run at the Chestnut street Opera
House yesterday was reviewed favorably
tn this column when Il was shown pri-
vately some weeks ago The Aim. for
which Wizard Griffith is responsible, is
based on Edgar Allen Poe's THE Tell
tale Heart" The Aim version Is tre-
mendously powerful fascinatlng-even
horrifylng, The photography is superla-
tive and the acting OF Blanche Sweet. as
the girl "called Annabel Lee" Spottis
woode Aiken as the uncle and Henry h.
Walthsll as the man plagued by the con
science is beyond criticism
Taken ms whole. The Avenging Con-
science" is well worth seeing either as
picture PLAY, as a powerful sermon or
as specimen of remarkable pantommo.
Go and see 1t and be convinced
Big Film Offer
Charles Frohman and David Belasco. on
their return from Boston, where they
have been rehearsing an all-star company
In "A Celebrated Case" were mot bv
Adolph zukor, president of the Famous
Players Film Company who offered them
the record king sum of $4,000 in the
form of cash paid in advance, for the
privilege of taking moving picture OF
"A Celebrated Case acted by the stars
who win shortly appear i'm II at the Em-
pire Theatre
Mr.. Frohman and Mr.. Beasco have
practically accepted the proposition-and
contracts ready for signatures have al
resdy been exchanged 1t is stipulated
oy the Famous Players Film Companv
that the motlon-picture representation Of
a el
two hours i'm performance and that it's
cast shan 'tnclude all the stars in the
present Frohman- Belasco roster Tho piIr-
pose In taking the film Ia two-fold II
is known now that II will be impossible
70 Keep the present all-star cast together
pssono this season so that when this
organization finishes with the plav II will
still be shown in the form of moving pir
lures in frst-class theatres thro,Irbout
the country.
"The Tenderfoot"
y, FRANK Brookliss, European repre- |
sentative of the Lubln COMPANY who 20 |
making brief visit to Phi1adelnhjn and
NeW YORK, had most interesting dav |
tnis week with the cowpunchers and
rough riders at the Lubin ranch. which is
phia. '''''''iei-
Brookliss had expressed a desire IN ride
horseback. so word was flashed m ~
ranch, and he was hurried out there I'm
an automobile. The cowpunchers gave
the visiting Englishman real old-fash-
loned western welcome. with plenty of
noise, gun work and spectacular stunts on
norseback He was conducted in state
90 the headquarters OF the rough riders.
where he was equipped with a complete
western riding outft-chaps, spurs shirt
hat. gun and all
brookliss does great deal of riding in
but he got his first introduction
70 bucking horses on the ranch Two of
me Lubln riders led from the corral n
ratner harmless looking broncho, and
sroohliss swung into the saddle Then
things happened. The broncho reared
plunged, bucked and did everything pos
iole in the repertoire OF a horse OF that
'articular type of temperament. Brook
lss stuck in the saddle; not gracefully
erhaps but he stuck, and afterward he