Evening star., 1916-09-17
In Filnnland.

In Filrnland. |
william N. sslig. prssidsnt o. the
selig Polyscops Company. has with
Dr. IN from the v. L 8. d. and will
release the selig red seal plays through
George Kleine. Tho Essanay also will
release through q new agency.
Helen Green. who played the role Of
Youth in Experience" is being filmed
Reporters" by tho Niagara Film Com
pany.
william 8. Hart. in his new Triangle
parture. He is to be devil. reporter.
editor, printer and pressman of GLORY
Hole Nugget" frontier newspaper.
Daughter of tho Gods" the great film
fantasy starring Annette Kellerman.
about which William Fox and Herbert
Brenon have gone to law. is about to
be released in the larger American
cities.
In Diane of tho FoIlies." Lillian
Gish Is shown as a chorus girl who re-
verts to type after marriage to =
scholarly aristocrat. who hopes to save
Every we'll equipped photoplay pro-
ducer now has "a vampfre"-htgh cheek
bones, heartless eyes and look OF
hauteur-humph!
Maybe the Balboa company can bring
about peace in Europe It's forces
include Roland Bottomley, an English
man. George Rizard. q Frenchman;
Frank Erlanger, an Austrian: Makato
1nokuchi, a Japanese; Nicholas Cyrus,
a German; Ivan Margaroff, Russian:
Alex Petrovich, a Bulgarian, and Harry
Harvey, an American. The agent says
they are all friendly and dwell to-
gether In unity"
D. W. Grifith's film production. I'm
tolerance" is described as colossal
spectacle 1t tells of the ambitions and
passions which have swayed mankind
for centuries past. The threads OF the
four parallel stories running through
the picture are broken frequently with
tremendous groupings. with which it
aSounds.
Tho "world-Brady" output Of photo
plays is completed for tho next ave
months, 1t is announced.
Joan Sawyer, the popular dancer, has
Joined the William Fox forces.
Clara Kimball Young in a new play,
THE Dark Silence" is announced by
the World Film Corporation.
Theda Bara's latest contribution to
the screen Is said to furnish a remark
able motion effect with an automobile
scene.
Virginia Pearson has discovered that
the Scotch do not use orange blossoms
on bridal wells. They use daisies.
The concluding chapters of "The Grip
of Evil" are said to be the most beau
tiful and interesting of them all.
Vivian Martins new photoplay for
Pallas Pictures Is called The Right
Direction" 1t was written by Julia
tin as a tenement waif. Colin Chase is
the leading man.
Mary Pickford's new play, made un-
der her own management and to be
In October by the Aircraft Pic
lures Corporation. is entitled Less
Than the Dust" and pictures her as a
little English castaway in India 1t is
based on poem by Laurence Hope.
Herbert Brenon, at least, has a word
for the much -maligned general public.
He says: The success of those COM
panies which have made Intelligent ef-
forts to bring their productions up to
an dEtlSIlC point SHOWS the Is
always ready for the best"
Emily Stevens Is being filmed for the
Metro program in a production which
deals with the weakness Of circumstan-
tial evidence.
The duck that SWAN all the way
from Chicago to New York for Mary
Pickford," 1t seems. swan in a tank on
the cars, and was consigned to Miss
ialrf fvfa
+. One of the biggest studio scenes"
ever built is a feature of "The Velvet
Paw" Washington picture play with
This scene represents the House of
Representatives in Session at a vital
moment. House Peters and Gail Kane
are the stars.
Marie Dressler has dramatized most
of the funny things at Coney Island for
her new World-Brady picture play,
Titles Night Out" Steeplechase was
especially rich picking for Marie.
Friday. the 18th" with Robert War
wick as It's star actor, Is motion pic
ture version of Thomas w Lawson's
novel Frenzied finance is its topic.
A big scene visualizes a panic on the
New York stock exchange
The three E. H. Sothern photoplays
announced for first release in Washing
ton at the Casino Theater are The
Chattel," filmed under the direction of
Fred Thompson, former stage director
at the Columbia Theater; "a Man of
Mystery adapted from Archibald Cla-
Vering Gunter's story, and AN Enemy
to the King" camera adaptation of
Mr.. Sothern's greatest stage success.
John Hare. the great English actor, in
Caste: Sir George Alexander in The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray"; THE Battle
Cry of War" and The Dawn of Free
dom" are other famous film productions
to be seen for the first time here at
the Casino.
Thomas Dixon. author of ''The Fall
Of Nation" declares that his big
film is not anti-German. Touching the
charge that German faces are seen in
the armies depicted on the screen.
Dixon is quoted as saying: I chose
these men because they were out of
work and hungry. Fiva hundred Ger
mans. many of them reseryists. an
piled to me for work in the battle
scenes of the picture and 1 was glad
to give 1t to them"
Classic dances by a number of the
dancers from the Imperial Russian
Ballet are to be featured in the Es
sanay production of "Graustark."
Ernest Maupain is making special
ty OF characterizing American million
aires In the movies. He Is a French
man and says he has seen "the orig
inalS In action abroad"