New-York tribune., 1917-08-26

day night, Raymond hllCncoch Neu-
nesday night and Thursday night, Will
Rogers Friday night. The picture pro-
gramme includes Rupert Julian and
Ruth Clifford in Mother O. Mine"
Monday and Tuesday, Bessie Barris-
Gale in "Wooden Shoes" Wednesday,
Enid Bennett in They're of" Thurs
day, Dorothy Phillips in Triumph"
and Harry Carey and Molly Malone in
Straight Shooting" on Friday, Gladys
Brockwell in "The Soul of Satan" Sat-
urday and Harold Lockwood in Under
Handicap" Sunday.
"The Submarine Eye" lies at the
bottom of the sea. This is the news
which the Williamson brothers have to
announce. Joseph Fisher, of the Bio
scope Of Cape Town, bought the South
African rights to "The Submarine Eye"
and left New York on the City of
Athens July II. The vessel was sunk
in sight of Cape Town, and one of the
survivors was Mr.. Fisher, who i'm
mediately cabled duplicate order. So
"The Submarine Eye" has returned to
the element from which it was taken.
Plans for the distribution of the new
Alice Howell Century comedies have
been completed. They include the es-
tablishment of exchanges throughout
the country by the Longacre Distrib
uting Company and the immediate re-
/ lease of her first three pictures-"Auto-
maniacs," "Balloonatics" and "Her
Bareback Career" The last named is
now playing at the Broadway.
J. Stuart Blackton's first feature
picture for Paramount is almost COM
pleted. 1t is a perturbation of Sir
Gilbert Parker's "The World for Sale
The final scenes are being taken at the
Blackton estate in Oyster Bay.
Contrary to the usual discouraging
remarks offered the amateur scenario
writer, Douglas Fairbanks announces
that ne is in crying need of material
for stories and that he is especially in
/ terested in securing ideas from ANA
teurs. They need not be scripts, Doug
asserts-just ideas. And he says fur
ther that "Wild and Woody" was writ
| ten at the suggestion of a rank out
slider.
Elfe Fay, perhaps better known as
/ The Belle of Avenue A, has recently
returned from five years tour of the
world and will shortly appear before
1 the camera.
Following the success of her recent
screen adaptation of Cynthia Stock
ley's novel Poppy" Norma Talmadge
has announced that in the future all of
her scenarios will be written from
books. Miss Talmadge has just fin
ished "The Moth" from the book by
William Dana Orcutt, and is at work
on. "The Secret of the Storm Country"
Donald Mackenzie, Pathe director,
says that child of the slums has
greater chance TO make good on the
screen than a child reared in affuence.
at is all a matter Of foundation, and
a child Of the slums is generally bet
ter mimic, less self-conscious and an
/ all-around better actor than the child
| Of the well-to-do. They have demon
strated this many times in their actual
| work"
I Bessie Love is working on new
Triangle picture, polly Ann" which
promises to equal her recent success,
"The Sswdust Ring"
Richard Bret Harte, a grandson OF
| the great Bret Hsrte, has just been
engaged by the Triangle company to
write scenarios for them.
Metro Pictures have acquired the mo-
7 tion picture rights TO blue Jeans" Jo-
seph Arthur's old stage success, for the
use Of Viola Dana. John Collins will
direct the production