The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02

MRS. CHARLES DAVIS TALKS
 INTERESTINGLY OF MOVIES
One of Best Posted Patrons of Pictures Birmingham Favorite Film Actors-Astonshing Development of
 This Form of Cheap Amusement

different support I ina zine. Of course Dustin Farnum and Robert Edeson are tremendously attractive. whether on a real stage or reel And Mrs. Leslie Carter and Mrs. Fiske and Bertha Ka-
 lich and Mime. Bernhardt and Ethel Bar rymore, who was here very recently you must, l suppose, also consider from a different angle because they were celebrities long before consenting to ap- pear in the movies 1 am glad Mrs. Carter is coming soon in The Heart of Maryland Do you know, l much pre- ferred her 'Du Barry as a picture to the stage production which l though so won- derful few years ago. And other peo- pie did, too, I've heard. The Heart of Maryland is, I hear, exquisite.
 Everybody here" continued Mrs. Da- wis. is naturally interested in those men or women who have gone into the pie lures from here. We all like to know they are making good. Henry Walthall, for example, is one of the real artists of the picture world and as he is a brother of MT. Junius Walthall. Mrs. Iide and Mrs. Ashton his plays are always watched with particular interest May Allison, Mrs. Alfred Lathems sister, has also made good Mrs. Lathem, by the way, expects to spend the summer with her at Santa Barbara. Mrs. Edith Armes Fucker went into the work later, but is also making a success, I've heard. Just lately I was told that Percy Tabler, former Birmingham club man, now resident of California, has organized a company and one of his films has al- ready been shown in Birmingham. Miss Frances Craven Parks, the niece of Mrs. John Craven is one of the younger film players making good. I have heard, and do not doubt she will be one of the leaders in the motion picture world. Many people remember her here as a wonderful little girl who inherited the histrionic talSnt of her gifted mother She was visiting Mrs. Alexis Craven, sister of Mrs. Motion Smith, who has since left Birmingham and her unusual witch like beauty and remarkable inter- pretation even a child of seven caused her to be quite raved over here and afterward in Georgia.
 'I am interested in film plays said Mrs. Davis, partly on their own account but largely because they are such splen didly progressive force in modern edu- cation You often see a faulty picture, truly, but have you ever considered the rapdity with which they have developed? A few years ago one even hesitated to go into a picture play house. They were badly ventilated, often i'll kept, warm and poorly lighted Today look at the places we have here, the surroundings are all that one could ask The music furnished during the play is pleasant, that beautiful organ at the Trianon is high class and there is an atmosphere or refinement and quiet in every one of them at variance with the decidedly crude ventures of the early picture pro- ducers here. And there seems to be no limit to their development. So, people who few years ago were totally indif- ferent to this cheap form of amusement, are able to appreciate its real worth, not merely to those in the humber walks of life, to whom it is blessing, but to the cultured person. the pleasure loving person, the humanitarian. the scholar. in fact to anybody, she finished amatically, that isn't blindi"