The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

IN IN TRIANGLE-kAY BEE PLAY, AKER SEX"
  I pictures and it's return has been eagerly
 awaited by thousands of Miss Pickford' S admirers.
 The Odeon One offers tomorrow "A Lass
 of the Lumberlands" with Helen Holmes and 8 Vitagraph comedy.
 JOHN BARRYMORE SIGNS WITH
 BRENON.
 After an absence of nearly two years, l John Barrymore is returning to the
 screen. He has signed contract to ap- pear under the direction of Herbert Bren- on in photodramatic version of Louis l Joseph Vances popular novel, "The Lone I Wolf" Work on this production will begin at once.
 In "The. Lone Wolff Barrymore will
 have an opportunity to demonstrate his
 talent in both theAHghter and heavier branches of his art.
 MIME. OLGA PETROvA LASKY STAR. | One of the greatest acquisitions of stel- lar talent ever announced by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play company was made when Mime. Olga Petrova, who has created a sensation in the photoplay world by her marvellous emotional act ing in Metro productions, signed long, term contract with Jesse l.. Lasky, preSf- dent of the company. In order to give ample time for the preparation of her l first photoplay for the Paramount pro- | gramme on which her motion pictures will appear, the release date of her in- itial appearance under the new manage l ment has been set for April.
 | THE BRUTAL DIRECTOR. Now you've got me. what are you | going to do with me?" inquired Paul | inc Frederick of Thomas Meighan
 after he had outbid all the others for
 her and bought her for about $50,0O0 l in screen money. 'T'll tell you what 1 you are going to do," interrupted Hugh Ford. who is directing "The Slave Market" for the Famous Play CTS. You are going to do that scene | over again. There is a modest, shrink ing violet of an extra who seems to think that he is the star of this pro-
 duction." So the slave block scene had
 to be done over again.
 HUFF AND PICKFORD REST Louise Huff and Jack Pickford have folded away their nineteenth century costumes and are once more adorned with the latest styles Great .Expec- | tations," the Famous Players adapta- tion of Charles Dickens novel in | which they co-star on the Paramount programme, is completed; Frank Losee is no longer an escaped convict | and passes traffic policemen without I batting an eye, and Director Bob&Vig- i ro1a is tearing his hair because he cannot use every scene he took. l THROUGH THE GLASSES DARKLY. 1 Del Henderson has perpetuated a l new crime upon poor Owen Moore, who l is co-starring with Irene Fenwick in | "A Girl Like That" for the Paramount
 programme. He has placed those i Come Hither Percy" horn trimmed 1 goggles on Moore anG made him wear 1 them all through the picture. Moore's 1 slogan for the last few weeks has l been tout of the goggles by Christ mas" but the cruel Henderson refused l to hasten the picture and Moore had
 to have a special dispensation in or l der to take off the glasses in order
 to see his Christmas turkey
 l HART ON THE DESERT. 1 William S. Hart has begun a new play written for him by J. G. Hawks, the scenes of which are laid along the
 Arizona and Mexican border. Mary | MacIvor a newcomer to Triangle, plays the heroine of the play
 l Much of the work will be done out 1 on the desert and no one is looking forward to it with any degree of joy
 ful picnic feeling, for this is the sea- l son of the big desert storms. NEW DALTON-DESMOND PLAY. l Once again there is the contrast be- l tween the east and the west, for
 while Hart is playing a story along l the Arizona border. William Desmond and Dorothy Dalton are working out
 a quaint story of downeast life at Cape
 Cod under direction of Walter Ed wards.
 Here is the old Puritan. weather
 beaten atmosphere of the New Eng
 land fisherfolk. with the tang of salt water and lobster pots and whale | boats and rusted harpoons and the | grizzled old men in their shingled cot tages who drove the whalSrs through : out the seven seas.
 1 "JIM BLUDSO."
 1 However. to get back to the civil
 war atmosphere: Jim Bludso is cast in
 the same period and Jim himself | appears as a thick -shouldered. thick necked soldier in the blue of the
 Army of the Potomac who is not very particular about the neatness of the brass button side of soldering or the | lady parades, but who is mostly all | there when it comes to a showdown l with the real business for which he | enlisted. Ana W1tn Lucas is little GeOr- | gie Stone, resplendent in his brand
 new real boy. haircut in place of the Russian clip and playing the part of Little Brooches in his proud little old 1 fashioned copper-toed boots of two generations past
 The fine old poem of John Hay- written before he ever dreamed of be- ing one of Abraham Lincoln's con- fdential secretaries during the war | times or of becoming a Secretary of State himself later under Roosevelt -is assured of fine setting and a noteworthy production. A river steam boat plying on >the Sacramento river has been bought and will be burned in the climax of the play. while Wilfred Lucas holds her nozzle agin the
 bank" amid real flames and genuine perils.
 NEW CONCERN WILL FEATURE JASSALYN VAN TRUMP. | That several well-known capitalists have gotten together for the purpose of form I ing a film company in which Jassalyn yT~. L. Al