Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-27
Nat GOODWIN FORMS
s1,OOO,OOO FILM co.
Rernhardt Posing for Patriotic
spectacle-Umpires to Have
Their Innings
Rr the Photoplay Editor

IA ,o he Incorporated under New York
s,s,s laws as a s1.OO0.0Q0 company, new
s'otlon picture producing organlsatlon mas
IN formed In the metropolis. The founders
" re company are Nat G. Goodwin, well
...~n 2. a. an actor and husband; John w.
rn,man. James Byron Totten, b. F, Moran
srd walter Mcnamara.
work on the first film VIII be started
o.,nner is with Mr.. Goodwin starred. II
rsfi be remembered that Mr.. Totten was
snrcerned with the production in celluloid
~ Rerinald Wright Kaufmans The House
- Rondage." when II was Visualized with
iottIe Pickford In the central character
ssvsral years ago. Mr. Mcnamara is the
IAN who started the white slave agitation
I, movie circles with his story, Traffic
~ souls" and later brought forward IRE
land Nation" n patriotic affair The
nature Of the new corporations initial
feature is not disclosed.
Az a recent meeting In New York city
ths national executive committee of the
Motion Picture Exhibitors League OF
America went on record as unalterably
epposed 10 legalzed censorship In any form.
n w Grfith. producer OF The Birth of a
Nation" and Intolerance" was a speaker
against the censorlal blue pencil.
y Word comes from Paris that Sarah Bern
hardt for the last few months has been
engaged in posing for a mammoth patriotic
Aim British and French military authorl-
ties gave her permission to visit different
fghting lines. She was even filmed in some
Of the bombarded French cities
The Bluebeard releases for the first three
weeks In october sound interesting. Among
them are "The Social Buccaneer" october
Is; WANTED A Home" October 2, and
s.The Challce of Sorrow" October 3. The
stars for these attractions include J. War.
rem Kerrigan, Louise Lovely, Mary Mac
iaren. Cleo Madison and Wedgewood
Nowel
Baseball umpires should be cheered by
The announcement that their growls of "out"
and safe" are to be substantiated. Even
the most rabid "umpbaiters" will have to
acquiesce when the Paramount discloses its
series OF films of close decisions at the home
plate. In making the pictures large bat
tery Of speed cameras was used.
Irwin Cobb's first photoplay will be a
vitagraph production indorsed by the
American Bankers Association as an asset
70 its national campaign on thrift The
title is "The Dollar and the Law" and
wilfrd North is the director.
Pulsing news from the Yorle-Metro
studios carries the statement that Har-
old Lockwood is a Hughes booster May
Allison an admirer of Wilson and Director
Henry Otto a Bryanite. Well. why not?
Features of the EVENING LEDGERs Uni
versal Animated Weekly for the current
week are
sswins-up an Actor--Joe Martin, "well-
Inown movie comedian" has ten stitches taken
IN cut foot. Universal City, Cal. SxtY-six, But
Some Kid-Monster parade celebrates ami
81 Ballet Srs Dss By stste ss
Albertina Rasch and troupe practise on shore
and in surf. Houston, Tex. Cop Athletes
Break Records-Stars of many police forces
compete at big carnival, Washington. D.. C..
iork city what You'll Have. TO Buy-~Latest
Momens Work in War-wives, sisters and
sweethearts take place OF men In trenches. Lon
don. Eng. Warship's Survivors at Hospital
Men saved from Memphis. wrecked at San Do
pingo, and mascot they rescued, Naval Hospital.
washington, d. c. Bicycling Twenty seven
make annual run. Boston, Mass. A Familiar
Embellishments, bound for trenches leave so
often they pass virtually unnoticed. London.
Eng. Worse Than a Jitney-Hard to stick on
HI Truckers" at WAR Bonnet Roundup Idaho
Falls. Ida. Shell Plerces House-New armor
plate and sand pile could not stop sixteen-nch
ravy projectle, Indian Head Testing Ground.
Nd. On Battle Line With Camera Man--Battle
scenes I'm Carpsthian caught In action by films.
Cartoons by Hy Mayer, caricaturist.