Arizona republican., 1916-08-20

that here was a director to whom l ! could safely intrust my ideals and | artistic reputation.
 For any actor or actress to take l the lofty position that he or she is [ superior to motion pictures is sui cidal. The art of the actor. until l now, has been buried with him. Tn q decade or two after retirement or ! death the greatest Of stage players | Is but name and q tradition The motion picture offers every dramatic | artist chance to perpetuate his or 1 her art Think what is would mean | 10 be able today to see a motion pie | ture of Rachel in one of her great | I triumphs.
 The photo- drama is striding along ! in seven-league boots Evep a com parison between this years produc- tions and those of last year is amaz ! ing. The possibilities are limitless, when such man as Herbert Brenon devotes his genius to the advance ment of this newest of modern arts.
 Gail Kane. after all. is not com- mitted eternally to the films. At all i events. she will desert the screen long enough to be John Drew's lead ing woman in "Pendennis."
 The Frohman Amusement Corpora ton is putting Booth Harrington i "Conouest of Canaan" into pictures. and MT Harrington k taking an ae- tive hand in the procedure
 Anita Stewar; Is struggling with 2 case of typhoid fever.
 Mar Piclxford's next will be a se- ven reeler-her second this year.
 Infantile paralysis has caused drop of 90 per cent in the receipts of
 New York motion picture houses
 William A Brady is.authority for
 the statement that $500 100000 Is in-
 vested in the motion picture business Also. there still is plenty of stock for sale in Wall street.
 Alice Brady is to be seen next in Her Majesty it isn't q costume 1 play. The manufacturers have about l decided to make no more costume plays. on the theory that the public
 doesn't want them.
 Clyde Fitchs drama. The Woman
 In the Case has been stirred thor oughlv and allowed to jell and 1t has turned out to he a motion picture.
 The Famous Players company has 1 mad the production. Pauline Freder-
 ick is the star. and the Strand the
 ater will have tho photo play 3s it's
 feature this week Miss Frederick
 plays. not the woman. but the wife q
 part which has been slightly built up
 i'm he process of turning the play
 into film. Clarence Handysides
 heads the supporting cast.
 There will l.,- the customary side
 lines and the ew Chaplin nm. cne
 A. NJ" will be added to the bill to-
 morrow.
 Jules verne's story Twenty Thous-
 and Leagues Under the Sea will De
 produced in New York this fall by
 the Universal company. The well
 remembered scenes of the Verne
 story. including the fight with an
 octopus. Captain Nemo's discovery ol
 pearls. the hunting parties sent out from the Nautilus across the ocean
 bottom and the burial Of coinri-ne l fin the coral reef cemetery. actualis
 were acted far below the surface or
 the sea bv players incased in diVlls suits built to resemble those descrit- cd hv inc famous French author.
 Transatlantic submarine activity fbis summer makes the Jules Verne film. which has been in process ot construction for two years, one of the most timely motion picture prodde- tions on record.
 In Charlie Chaplin's latest comedy "Onc A. NJ" ne has no supportlns company. except a single character who appears at the opening Of tet picture For two thousand feet ol film he is alone on the screen. William aandolph Hearst is putting "Beatrice Fairfax" into fillums. ana one of the characters therein Will pe Arthur Brisbane. played by none other than MT. Brisbane himself Sessue Havakawa's newest Is Hon orable Friend now in the pocess oi
 manufacture Ii will contain, among
 other things. a little real iu -jltsu.
 Fannie Ward in an article on the ! films says that in many respects ! the life of a photo-play star Is the hest life in the world and in others it is the most trying. The same Is true about the lives of those who read the articles written by photo play stars
 J. WARREN kERRlGAN AT THE COLUMBIA TODAY At the Columbia today J. Warren | ,y ...,. a.a ,f tho haut litad of ihp