Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-05

sBEN BLAIR" A Pallas-Paramoun picture
and TS plagins P a, TIE stanley ne sn& e &c
week Reviewed at private showing y the
Famous Players projection room
Fiorenee winthrop ..... winnifred Kingston
James Winthrop. .,.,,...... ,Herpcrt SsanaIns ,
Mrs. Scott Winthrop. ......... ,Nirginia Boltz
John Bankin' .....'.''.'''''' rahN a. trrg t1T,p
Ben blair. the boy ......... Gordon Griffith
Dustin Farnum is the synonym Tor
Wild West action, COW puncher hero,
fight and goodness knows how many favor
lite movie types. But in no previous pic
ture of Dustin Farnum's screen career has
he done better work of all types than in
ben Blair" the new Pallas-Paramount
picture, which will play the end OF this
week at the Stanley.
Farnum was fine in Captain Court
esy" "The Call of the Cumberlands" and
"The Gentleman from Indiana But none
of these pictures showed him as the all
around finished actor he is In Ben Blair
Yet striking as Farnum is as the man
Ben Blair young Gordon Griffith, the
Paramount Kid, as the child. Ben, is
equally clever. For one reel and three
quarters young Griffith plays the lead BY
the time Farnum arrives, following a tue
which as usual says After some years"
we almost wish we could dispense with
the star and keep the boy.
The acting of this picture is really ex.
cellent, but 1t is the marvellous scenery
and artistic photography that make 1t a
really unique photoplay
All the Western scenes on the cattle
ranches are taken with great range of
glorious mountains as a background, the
wonderfully rugged skylines forming
striking setting for the horses and men
silhouetted against the sky.
There are two particularly lovely pieces
of photography. one n sunset behind
line Of pine trees; the other n glorious
moonlight scene on river. The sunset
scene reminded one of the background at
the close of THE Birth of a Nation"
Two Douglas Fairbanks fve-reel COM
edies in one month is the interesting an
nouncement from the Triange Film Cor
poration in its list of April releases. The
coming month also marks the return to
the Triangle screen, after long absences
of De Wolf Hopper and Frank keenan,.
Later II. b. Warner, previously seen In
''The Raiders" will appear in new c.
Gardner Sullivan story, The Begger of
Cawnpore," So in India during the Sepoy
Rebellion of 1857. In addition to these
stars the five release dates of the month
present In an unusually long list William
s. Hart. Dorothy Gsh William H. Thomp-
son and Lillian Gish. Ten Keystone
comedies will be contributed by Mack
Sennett, one of them with Roscoe Ar
buckle again doubling as director and
star.
Last week rumors foated about town.
which could not be confirmed. that the
Ballet Russo is to be filmed on their re-
turn to New York Such a proposition
was taken up by Thomas Ince earlier in
the season, but he then announced that
too many difIicultles-price, time and seem
~ nriOE-stoOd in 10
The williamsons-C. y. e A. M.-aban-
doning the creation of a best seller for the
moment are taking a spring flyer in photo
plays. The gifted English couple are to
do a serial for one of the prominent movie
manufacturers in collaboration with Nor
bert LuslS, n photoplaywrght who de-
lights in depicting hectic heroines and
violent revulsions of feeling. He sails
April l for Monte Carlo where the three
will meet
To tour in an automobile from Los An
geles to New York and carry personal
message from the west coast Fine Arts
studio to the principal Triangle office in
the East is the plan of Mrs Ella Woods
of Hollywood, who Is making arrange
ments for this transcontinental journey in
the near future
Ella Woods, who plans on driving her
Stearns-Knight automobile straight
through to New York. will also carry a
message from Mayor Sebastian TO Mayor
]. p. Mitchell, of New York
She will be accompanied by Mrs. w. F..
Wing, and will travel under the auspices
OF the Southern California Automobile
Association, who advised Mrs Woods to
motor over the Southern route.
Mrs. Woods is the wife of Frank r.
Woods manager for d. w. Griffith, pro-
ducer of THE Birth of a Nation" and
Mrs. Wing is the wife of W. f. Wing the
well-known photoplaywright, Both ladies'
are successful photoplay authors.
On their trip East the tourists will stop
at the local Triangle office and consult
with Manager ]. II. Butner on trade con-
ditions and carry the report to the New
York office.