Evening star., 1916-12-03
Filmogranns.

Grafton Of women's Clubs says as long
az q ticket to tho movies stays around
the price OF a drink the saloon has 70
reckon with the first rival that has sVOr
been able to compete with and beat It.
Tho movies arc claiming = place in
the cabinet for good work. well don4
the screen"
A trio of engineers OF the Massaohn-
sets Institute OF Technology claims 20
have discovered q process to make
pictures In their natural colorA II 10
not the three-color process, % we'll
known.
Pauline Frederick killed willard
Mack so artistically in a photoplay re-
Gently that he invited her to luncheon
afterward. 'Nanette OF tho Wilds"
shows how she did II.
The Famous Players are TO feature
Louise Hum and Jack Pickford in an
name not announced. Marie Doro is be-
ing featured by the Lasky company in
oliver Twist"
Movie news says that John Drew,
Blanche Bates and Elsie Ferguson
alone of the legitimate stage have re-
sisted the sweep Of the movies
Doris Kenyon will be featured with
Frank Mcintyre in the photoplay pro-
duction OF The Travelling Salesman"
Viola Dana is experimenting her
work as the picture star in The Co.'S
sack Whip" by appearing "in person"
where II Is shown.
A giant ruby. set in rare flgre work.
gave the name to and is an important
element in the photoplay, The Heart
of the Hills
VIII NJ. Ritchie of Balboa, is quoted
as appealing for Constructive criti-
cism' of photoplays. Destructive criti-
cism is what 1t most needed for many
of them.
There is to be a cycle of Lincoln
photoplays presented with the chief char
acter portrayed by Benjamin Chaplin.
who. both as playwright and actor. at
tracted marked attention in the theatrical
world In 1913 with his play Lincoln"
Norma Talmadge is to he presented IN
| a photoplay version Of "Panthea." Monck-
| ton Hoffe's drama. in which Petrova was
starred on the legitimate stage.
| Robert Warwick. for his own produc-
ing company. is to make version Of
| THE Argyle Case" by Harvey OHig-
gins and Harriet Ford.
Clara Kimban Young is to be featured
| in a film production of THE Easiest
Way" Eugene Walters play.
| Nazimova is quoted as saying the
movies have disincumbered the legitf-
mate stage of 'fimsy melodrama." leav-
| ing it free to rise to freattr heights
than ever.
| William A Brady has changed the
name of the new Ethel Clayton-Carlyle
Blackwell feature from THE New South
to Broken Chains"
| ha ri ly,rc 10 hall
picture, The Rise of Susan" is to be
released December IL. 1t is separate
from the special Clara Kimball Young
service.
| The rejuvenation of a FOUNDER IL a
basic feature of "All Man." in which
Mollie King is the picture star with
| Robert Warwick.
| A pretty but amusing story of moth
er-love in a young girl just entering
her teens is pictured In The 1nno-
cence of Lizette," Mary Miles Minter's
new photoplay.
Mary Nash. who is now featured on
Broadway in the big success, The Man
Who Came Back is the picture star
in the Pathe Aim feature Arms and
the Woman
1t took wedgwood NOVEL;. a player
of the Universal, to SO fascinate the
!
Reward of the Faithless" that he for
got to turn the crank and the acting
was all lost.
| Ghosts are becoming easy for the
movies. Many recent pictures show
phantom stuff" galore. Some have to
be photographed eleven times to catch
their misty, intangible outlines.
| Thomas Ricketts,. director general or
the Horsley studio. says action and
scenery count but little in Shakespear-
can plays, where the diction is every
thing. He doubts IL the movies can
reproduce" them.
Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carof'
lis to be made into photoplay with
Agnes Vernon and Rupert Julian as the
picture stars.
The partisan zeal of Pittsburgh ex-
hibitor has caused William Fox to
| broadly send out statement that
NO act or policy of the President Is
reflected upon in any scene of The
| Honor System"
| Mary Pickford's picture is to adorn the
| Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. II has
| been chosen as the centerpiece OF col
| lection Of autographed theatrical photo
| graphs which Tunis F. Dean, now asso-
| ciated with the Harry Davis Amusement
| Enterprise. has presented to the institute
and which includes every celebrated actor
! .pd ocfrass Of quarter of a century.