The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-26

MOTIONPI TRIUH1PHS.


IS MSlA=lSlN I'll y
HI Ugh Standards
81 By FEEDER.
The higher literary standards
adhered by the noy1es each sea son
enhance their educational value 10
| the millions of people who attend
them The world classics are being
filmed in. q way that preserves their
/ literay value. while placing them
Within the range of popular under
STANDING. The Dickens revival IS
being especiaHy EN- hasized in Fhm-
vile The latest presentation. that
iof Barnaby Rndge in I'VE parts, Is
/ now ready for the screen IS an
elaborate production showing old
/ lament and old Newgate prison
Thousands of persons are included
lin the mob scenes. Oliver visit.
f..David Copper6efd. and old Curl
fosity Shop have each been filmed by
1 the same-company with excellent re-
suits. though less e1aborately
shakespearess pays. The Last
DAYS of Pompei, The Mill ons the
Floss. Felix Holt. y and Jane
Eyre are few OF the other Eng
lish classics which are being mined
1 in a manner to create an interest IN
standard dction- Victor Hugo:s Les
Ito and a number of standard Ger
] man works are-also being produced.
while Paradise Lost and Dantess
f"Inferno, are now under considera-
ton. The preservation of Augusta
]. Evans,s old southern novel, Beu-
iah." with an all star cast, is one OF
the latest efforts Of a large hlm com
pany.
] The reproduction of modern &c
ton in the movies is yet more mo-
ticeable. Five years ago. Rex Beach
predicted that all of the longer works
of modern fiction would become
photo-plays. The manager to wnon,
he made this statement disagreed
with him at that time. because pro
lductfon as a popular novel was for
merly regarded as improbable Time
has sustained Mr.. Beach's contention.
| however, and the royalties he draws
from the production OF his novels on
! the screen are almost equal to those
! from the original books. and more
| lucrative than the special photo-olays
| he has been induced to write
Gilbert Parker's Fright OF Way,
4
Frances Hodgson Burnett's Dawn
OF Tomorrow are among the more
! serious works which are becoming
Aknown to a larger. number OF people
i through the films than they couio
/. eyer have reached in book FORM
Anna katherine Greene. Richard
Hardins Davis. Rudyard zkphng. Cy-
rus Townsend Brady. GecSse Bar, !,
NcCutcheon, Arthur Hornbfower and
countless other popular writers are are
I now becoming better known to the
! moving patrons than tneysdle " stes =
1 book-buyers.
\ While. few writer's will go to the
Length of agreeing with the ltaI1an
poet. D,Annunzio. as to the move vs.
i being the best way 10 perpetuate -, ~
/ treasures of modern literature. tnes
/ are beginning to regard it as wortns
of their art and not Few. OF ths .1L
I are now engaged photo-plaSs.Wst Es.,
| ing. In the photo-play, ao1Ila,s
iD,Annunzio claims to nave WI1I u.s1
i his masterpiece. All movie scenarios
have made rapid gain in literary qua
! Ify within the last two years
Pie question of censorship for.tSe
! nhoto-piay is being fought out IN the
| cei1rts of several states me nk1n
j noannfacturers urge a freedom OF PIC
! r,,res equal to that granted the pup
| lie press and have number OIL cidAn iis
] In support of their attitude q nsa-
fional board of censorship, represent
ing the film manufacturers, nov Ite
/; ~, ,tsseesS upon the bulk of the PLAYS
! p,,eSd They contend that II
wo1Iid be detrimental to their own
! i,,te-ests 10 pass an OBJECTIONABLE
/ MAY as it would tend to insure the
movie business in the eyes OF the
onbIfc. They hold that certain plays.
t vbich have been passed and then -oo-
5acfed to. have not been oo3ectiona-
/ Bile fr-themselves except 10 a Spec I.<a
class for small number OF peop1es" "
are astuated by personal plas ~
I rTe+ other: hand. many persons re
ear,1ed as fair and broad-minded are
81 the opinion that considerable
number of the plays now oefnS:pro-
l;Iced would be improvedSby a Sfsor-
! o5,s censorship. It is EenefaAS So on
aded that such censorship shouio- pc
S,niform so that a play which IS Cd
Iactionable in one locality couto not
[e PRODUCED in another with perhaps
additional advertising on account u
ifs having been prohibited
/ The educational influence OF Ii
movie is becoming well recosntzeo'
a,,d has been utilized for many pur-
I S aoeas well known church paper
| ap..sreeefs that since fully nth OF
ssae eenfireS population, of the nation
/ s s4 moving picture plays. theysare
/ .tS.t1e nv exerting the strongest
/ saa~ence for good IN the present cen
/ ..,,s It cites the i've cent movie
.he deadliest enemy of the cor
/ as % icon as Indicated by the fact
t ~ The LIQUOR interests of Connectl-
s,,4 are asking for law to compei
! The picture exhibitors to pay nn ts
sane license they thernseives nus lcs
I p pay has been. tremendously re-
dI,ced by the movie