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MOVIE NOTES
News Of the Films and Film Actors
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News Of the Films and Film Actors
Best Known to the Public.
The new illustrated titles for the
World Films special Clara Kimball
Young service have been so well re-
ceived that the corporation has per-
manently engaged the corps of ar
lists chosen for this work, and they
will decorate all future World-Brady
picture plays.
A recent investigation by Motion
Picture News yields an interesting
item This trade paper, endeavoring
to discover the average price or film
entertainment in this country, found
that the admission fee of eighty per
cent of the American picture theatres
average ten and one-half cents.
Great Britain also is to have It's
own Birth of a Nation The gov
eminent is behind 1t and 100000 is
to be expended on it. The story tells
how st. George, reincarnated as an
army chaplain. comes from the tren-
ches to point the way to greater ma
tional effort. The title will be 1T IL
for England
Annette Kellermann, having mas
tered the art of moving in H2O in its
liquid state, has rented ST. Nicholas
Rink for her exclusive use at certain
periods to practice the art OF motion
on water in its frozen state. Miss
Kellermann is to have the use OF the
10000 square feet of surface of the
rink all to herself every day between
the morning and afternoon sessions
for a period of two months. During
that time the aquatic queen hopes to
master some OF the figures of fancy
skating
Maxine Elliott has been engaged by
the new Goldwyn Corporation to pose
for q series of motion pictures. Miss
Elliott arrived recently from England,
where she has made her home for the
past five years. Since the beginning
OF the war she has been devoting
| most OF her time to hospital work in
France.
Concerning the general run OF mo-
| ton picture comedies a contributor to
the Salt Lake Telegram of Salt Lake,
Utah. makes the following observa.
| ton:
Why is it we nave so few really
| funny movies?
| have seen many comedies on the
| speaking stage which were full Of
| laughs. but few Of them have been
| pictured Instead we have on the
| screen the slapstick abominatlon, ut
| terly lacking in humor. and when the
| producer seeks to rise above this the
result usually is far fetched and
| dreary.
Why not some of the old Hoyt far
ces and such stage successes as TOO
Much Johnson "Charley's Aunt" and
The Private Secretary" as well as
other real comedies that made people
Taught not so many years ago?
After stopping stove lids. runaway
flivvers, rabid motorcycles and fire
engines with various parts OF her ana
tony for two years without even sus
tanning a bruise, Polly Moran, Key
stone coincidence, has finally reached
the hospital. II was nothing more eX
citing than the stumbling of hel
horse, the fair Pauline being precipi
tated to the ground. and mourning in
the process one broken arm, s
sprained ankle and severe Commissions
Helen Gibson, the kaiem railroad
| girl. performed some unusual stunt:
this week in the filming of "a Daugh
ter of Daring" Jumping into {
steam shovel she is hoisted to it!
entire height and then dropped into
a dump car which is released on al
inclined track After travelling dowI
the track at high speed she jump!
to the cross arm of pole from thu
car and then to the ground, throwing
a switch which prevents the dunn
car from crashing into an express
train. The car is thrown to spu
line built for the stunt and crashes
through a railroad station, also bull
for the scene.
Suffering from a number OF lacera
lions resulting from flying glass in al
automobile accident, Mary Miles Min
ter, youthful American film star o
Santa Barbara, is confined to he
home in that city. Her mother Mrs
Gertrude Selby and her sister, Ger
trude Selby. have more serious in
iuries, the former being laid up Will
broken arm and the latter suffer
ing from severe Commissions and abras
ions On the day of the accident the
three left their home for Santa Bar
bara, with Mrs. Selby at the wheel o.
the car On the Lancaster boulevard
1.-THE car skidded and overturned.