Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-21
GRIFFITH TO RETURN
TO5-REEL FEATURES
Producer Of Spectacles Willing
to Make Simpler Films Than
His Intolerance"


According 20 n New York interviewer,
who had n long talk with ID. w. criffth.
producer OF Intolerance" now running in
the metropolis. and OF The Birth Of a
Nation" at the Chestnut Street opera
House, this city. the director is going in
for shorter motion pictures than those two
epics which added lustre 20 his name.
Asked n his next production would be
another supreme effort, he replied: II hope
not. I'm willing that some one else should
try the experiment. prefer TO make some
simple nve-reel pictures; they do not tie
up large sums Of money" Before The
Birth Of Nation" Mr.. GrifnIth made
shorter features. such as "Avenging Con-
science" The Escape" and Home Sweet
Home" His action In returning 20 less
elaborate hlms may have compelling In
huence on other directors. and may result
IN general trend away from the spec
tacuiar and gigantic In cinematography.
Pathe win release next month The Light
That Failed" the first moving picture based
on Kipling story. The celebrated Rud-
yard is said TO have written all the leaders
for the nlm- Robert Edeson will play the
blinded Diolx: Lillian Tucker, the ambiti-
Gus and selfish Maizie; and Jose Collins.
Bessie.
Bessie Bsrriscsie rnoe-Triangfe leading
woman, is IN New York for n vacation,
nfter three years of work IN California.
She is halving business and enjoyment by
the East. Philadelphians remember Miss
Barriscale in the flesh from her perform
snces in The Bird of Paradise" and I'VE
Are seven." some seasons ago.
Sidney Ayres, one-time idol Of the fem,-
nine photoplay fans, is dead in Los Angeles.
Before the mood Of stage stars inundated
the motion-picture plain several years ago,
Mr.. Ayres was exceedingly popular. He
played with Selig, Universal and American.
Los Angeles has welcomed John Barry.
more, visitor there. He may play in an
Ince feature before returning to New York
Names OF national prominence are asso-
cfated with the Photoplay League. in pro-
cess Of formation in New York city. This
association Is designed to unite patrons of
the flms In an organized effort to create
q demand for wholesome, attractive and In
structive plays. Included in the advisory
committee are Mrs Charles Dana Gibson,
f. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Norman
Hapgood. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs
Charles n Whitman. wife of the Governor
of New York
Mizzi Hajos. the little Hungarian oper.
eta star. has gone into pictures. She will
take the role OF an Austrian girl in an
eight-reel feature, 'Hyphenated." which the
Sunbeam Motion Picture Corporations will
release Naturally. the film discusses the
problem Of the hyphenate.
Perhaps veteran movie frequenters re-
call Pathe's old trick picture. adapted from
Jules Verne, "A Trip TO the Moon" An
other of his novels Around the World
In Eighty Days" is to be visualized in six
reels and distributed by the Herald Film
Corporation In October. Phileas Fogg. the
: hero visits London Suez. Alexandria Hong
Kong. Vancouver New York and Cherbourg
This ought to provide cosmopolitan back
ground.
FATTY Arbuclde has completed a new
Keystone, in which theater scene neces-
STATED a large orchestra and stream of
water running down a papier mache noun
tain