Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-24

~ JUNGLE am ysrs,on s pTooducePd 20 Pdiopb BY tie he
III star Eeasurg .,ras gprlyateiy at Philadoiphii.
II $R.r,s srs r. iaiS' iSS ...,......e George Nash
itRGls' '''''''.'.......,....,...i Gall Kane
QNAy @f,t,RHAM,.,,clarenco RnfndyssildGs ifnd q rs
EaRitA ~: cast arc Robert Cummings,
Others Hurley and May McCaoe.
IN. linton slnclair's brutal novel
wy" feared it created sensation and
~ .".hsd M the race of best sixth sellers.
- aid more than that, however.
~ .r,ed the Chicago packing indus
lad 10 a Federal investigation Of
,.Aor conditions s.., ,tr,o ros.
Ihe III ,,ithout doubt the one big fllm
tfoN ,,car. When Grlhlth's The
q tns Conscience" WAS shown at the
Nehss street Opera House some two
Cheqth". 90 the writer thought that the
mop ia in pnotoplays had been spoken.
lut WI ,,istaken, THE Jungle Is the
He Nas ,bing done in motion pictures
Wses.h mention of that art
ing rot tina. photography has lent Its
la IN producing illusions, Any
tIlc8 producer can do that nowadays.
dsYeI storv In "The Jungle'-brutal'
lhe,s l,so n YOU will, but story with
,sul..sh"-.s story which enthrahs anu
.. luN a,d dries the throat and tugs at tne
w ,s,rlnss. There Is no need loI re
..,,Irg SO well-known a tale as olh.Iaii
tenink As a dln It's very condensa-
@ ,Ion hns improved 'te 'aplal,S Vi ''9 az
von VA Tho ulrldlty Of its plot.
pon ~ .i,o actina7 Never in their illus
Anu s,.gc career have George Nash ana
irlous 80 ss pnnroached the heights they
1aii ,arho Jungle" Gail Kane, as the
sntan o. ~ girl buffeted by fate, sacritic-
ny SsrsoIf that her starving babe might
ihs !. sunerN Mr.. Nash, enacting the
nse, 20 ven,an hes for the once forgotten
1,...0I In his role With no audience
m,.se ..s ,hn camera, TO distract him, he mas
.sse 49,, bimaelf into the part OF the
8 '..r,,gra t-siave-socialist with ierNu,
la'."s ". shandon which nugurs well for still
batter things TO come 80 .ho ro,t
toct tho entire cast Is of the real
~ rarietv-not the kind that Is em-
u..ored on electric signs, but the type
.us,Sh can act and does. Incidentally,
,,..on sinclair appeared in one scene ana
,rauited himself acceptably. .-r,
vIAwed from whatever point lne
,nnrle' is a great film. 1t Will De SHOWN
i ,be public as soon as the right theatre
can be obtained.
staving "The Lily of Poverty Fiat
.rbe I,,Iv Of Poverty Flat" the latest
mai uarte story to be adapted into
voyla Film feature. is being filmed at
pon,der Creek, California, with the as
.,s,anre of Mrs. Josephine Cllhord NC
cyacIiln who, 45 years ago, was one OF
~ co,erle of brilliant writers engaged
,si,h Rret Harte in editing the old over
lsnA Monthly. Beatriz Michelena, star
N The company. has sought her adVlce
n order 10 insure historical accuracy III
the photoplay. 49,, -e.,
This pioneer woman, now IN heT ,otH
year, passed the greater part OF her
eyentful life on the Western oorder' III
amy posts in the days of Indian raids,
and in slerran mining camps, similar to
The picturesque duplicate of Poverty
T1at.' which the California Motion PIC
lure CORPORATION has erected as perma-
nent "scenery" in the Boulder Creek red
wood region. She knows her early Cal
ifornia as we'll as did her former literary
assocIates-Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller,
Ambrose Bierce, Noah Brooks. Charles
Warren Stoddard and Ira Coolbrith.
New Lubin Star
Billy Reeves. widely known as the
original drunk' and one of the funniest
comedy acrobats and pantomimists in the
country, has Joined the Luoin Company
and is 10 be featured under the direction
.tf Arthur d. Hotaling at the Lubln
southkrn Studio in Jacksonville, Fla. In
The company that has gone South with
Reeves are Billy Potter, Charles Grif-
aths. Johnnie Doyle, Mary Hartwell Amy
Forrest and Amy Webb. a number of
other well-known comedians will Join Ho-
talng's company later.
Reeves has been before the public as an
aerobat and pantomimist for 25 years. re-
eelving his training in England by being
bound over to a master as a youngster
and taught everything In the show line
from dancing to acrobatic tumbling.
When Reeves came to America several
years ago he made the entire country
laugh with his eccentric tumblng as
drunk in "A Night in an English Music
Half' and he will long be remembered for
ihe famous boxing match he had with
Harry Watson in the "Follies of 1905"
Reeves also appeared in number of
other farces including THE Jail Birds"
The Smoking Club and TOO Full for
Words" Reeves had never played be-
lore the camera previous to his coming to
he Lubin studio. but his debut was a