Evening star., 1917-05-13

GllmS) CRANUAlS
voluntary service. awakening t, find
one"
"The knights of the Square Table" a
story by James Wilder, Boy Scout COM
missioner of Hawaii. is to be filmed
under the title, 1.-The Grail"
"Checkmate'' is to be the May release
of the Jackie Saunders series of ro-
mances, and "Kfndling" will be the June
release. with "Betty-Be-Good" for July.
THE Star Spangled Banner" an
Shipman Andrews" is to be filmed for
release on the Edison Conquest Pic
lures program.
Roscoe c'Fatty'D Arbuckle is quoted
as saying There is so much good fun
to be gotten out Of life that there is nc
necessity of resorting to questionable
methods to win a laugh"
Rider Haggard's story Jess" Is to be
filmed under the title Heart and Soul
for Theda Bara. 1t is romance based
ON the devotion of two sisters. each to the
other.
Virginia Pearson says that more than
two-thirds Of the matinee idols in the
movies are within the age limits for con-
scription. She thinks it may mean good
bye to the hero romance.
Mae Marsh, now on view at the Ma.
tional in Intolerance" is working under
contract that agrees that she is to re-
ceive a quarter OF million dollars for
two years Of her time
Shirley Mason. starlfof ..'rhe Seven
Deadly SINS" was Leonie Flugrath be-
fore she; was elevated to stardom. She
made "a great hit in THE Law of the
North" recent Edison picture.
William T. Carleton. who won fame
here with his own opera company, ap-
pears with Maxine Elliott in her first
moving picture for the Goldwyn com
pany. He was born in London August
%. 1855.
Many of the scenes for 1.-THE Night
Workers." a story of those who are
forced to earn their living under the
cover Of darkness. were filmed in the
editorial and press rooms of Chicago
newspaper.
Mary Pickford's next photoplay after
"A Romance of the Redwoods" will be
The Little American" followed by Re
becca of Sunnybrook Farm" In "The
Little American the sinking of the
Lusitania will be represented.
In her next picture Ann Pennington
will be seen as wealthy heiress who
Is about to be forced to marry a man
she 1oathes, by her guardian, and who
escapes by donning a Boy Scouts uni
form. The Boy Scouts help her to es-
cape.
Ann Ivers. who poses for comedy films,
says: 81 don't mind being slapped in the
face with a pie but in nv new picture I
had to be stuck with a fork and burned
with a hot iron, besides fall over a stair
way railing. Red Cross work under
shrapnel fire now has no terrors for me- -
Bryant Washburn's new picture. Fill
ing His Own Shoes" tells the story of an
American shoe clerk who rescues a
wounded Turk in the Balkan war is left
his fortune of s2,000.000 with the proviso
that he care for the Turks three daugh-
ters. Everybody marries at the close.
Mollie King, the film star, recently
pleaded SO eloquently with an elevator
conductor to enlist that she had diff
Guilty getting down from the sixteenth
floor OF a skyscraper The man took
his car down and also took her advice
before successor could be Installed
Mime. Petrova will be pictured Of
Moore,s Garden Theater next week in
The Soul of a Magdalene." woman
more sinned against than shining and
Anita Stewart will be seen in '.The Re.
bellion,' the story Of a woman who re-
bells against marriage to an aged mil
lionaire.
Little Mary Pickford will he tbe
picture star at the Strand Theater pext
week in Less Than Dust" and Emmv
enleh, another popular film star,
in Sowers and Reapers," story of
thrills and surprises. Peggy Hyland
and Marc MacDermott also vii, he
shown in "The Sixteenth Wife,
Yankee Pluck" which will be shown
next week at Crandalrs, may interest
because mai1y of the
scenes We're filmed In the National Cant
tai Ethel Clayton, Montagu Love and
John Hines are pictured in 1t. "The En-
press press with Doris Kenyon and Hoibrook
Biinn featured, and MARY Lawson's Sc.
cret, picturing Charlotte Walker in the
leading role, will be shown also.
In The Saints Adventure" the new
n. = Walthal picture, a mnisrer So
lourning in the lumber camus snr b;s
health shares a common experience ;n
notion and reads of his own sisuddet,
death" He embraces the opportnritx
20 lose his identity and returns with the
purpose of cleaning up the slurns of tha
city in which he has preached. He also
hnds his romance in the slufns.
A wave of Indian fashion is now nre-
parlng to sweep over the country. and
the tom-tom drum" is to succeed tho
ukelele, while the nratty
papoose will overshadow the unduIat,
Ing tropical hula-hula exponent in the
New York cabaret spotlight. Al this
moment one of the Metropolitan mid
night restaurants is installing an an
dian ROOM" where formerly existed the
Hawaiian ROOM" More than that the
star dancer.is, now doing .eThe Cherokaa
Scalplng Dance and her scanty Ha
Waiian grass costume is packed away
In moth balls, if they are what tronica,
attire Is kept in. Smoke the pine of
Peace With Me" has supplanted ION
the Beach at Waukiki'' and the New
York costume makers are running out
Ia h,,o