Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-06
DETECTIVE MOVIES
KTDNAPPERS' FOE
Films Will Try to Restore
Missing Child to
Mother
BY the Photoplay Editor

Now the Universal Film Manufacturing
Company is asked to do something It
never dreamed would ever be one Of the
side lines Of the motion picture business.
Many times newspapers Of national cir
culation have been asked by parents to
locate lost children. or by children to find
their parents, but for the first time in the
history Of motion pictures a mother asks
the Universal to assist her in the search
for her lost boy.
She Is Mrs. Charles l., Glass, OF 13
Llenau place. Jersey City. n. j.. and says
that her son James Douglas Glass. aged
4, of fair complexion. wi!h heavy hair
cut Buster Brown style double-crowned
blue eyes. good teeth, full face, about 3
feet inches tall and weighing at the time
% pounds. He was last seen in Greeley,
Pike County, Pa, on May is. 1915 He
wore tan overals with pink trimmings
white stockings. black shoes, no hat. and
he does not talk very plainly. Mrs Glass
offers $500 reward for the return of her
little son.
Last May at the time of his disappear
aucc the newspapers had many stories
about the boy, but none were able to find
a trace of his whereabouts Now Mrs.
Glass appeals to the Universal Film Man
ufacturing Company for assistance In
her letter she claims to have received
anonymous Information that her little son
is appearing in motion pictures. where he
is represented as being the child OF the
actress who has him in charge and with
whom she has become infatuated. She
asked the Universal to let her know of
any possible clew that 1t may he able to
obtain.
When Jane" Lestocque's immortal
comedy classic. was originally produced
with Charles Hawtrey and Lottio Vcnne
at the Comedy Theatre. London, Herbert
standing was n prosperous actor-managcr
at the famous Criterion Theatre in asso-
citation with Sir Charles Wyndham. II
is an interesting coincidence. therefore.
That In Oliver Morosco's forthcoming
hlmizntion of Jane" its first presenta-
ton upon the screen, one of the biggest
personal hits Is registered by this same
Herbert Standing. who Is now living his
life over again. SO to speak. in motion
pictures in California. With Charlotte
Greenwood and Sydney Grant. the popu-
lar Broadway favorites, as the stars,
Jane" is coming to the Stanley Theatre
the first half of next week.
Charles Chaplin ras been to the front.
t''lll'NItlt III FRANCE ana mas StTNt'l
as n target IN the British trenches. The
Essanay Company's London office re-
ceived an order and sent several reels
Of Chaplin comedies to France for the en-
of the cntrcnched troops. \
letter received hy the company from an
officer in the 6th divisional supply col
umn of the British army at the front,
tells of the reception accorded to the
by the British troops Says the
writer
"Gcntlemen.-I have to thank you for
the letter OF September II, forwarded to
me today and for the gift of films.
at is impossible to make you realize
how they were appreciated. and truly
wish you could have heard the cheer that
went up when Chaplin a. oeared on the
screen.
"The posters, l. e., cardboard figures of
Chaplin, were carried off during the night
to the trenches. and have been the sub
iect of great attention by the opposing
factions.
"W. MURRAY. Major. A. S. c."