Evening star., 1917-09-23

in ARIZONA" Eileen Percy has the
leading feminine role.
THE Mysterious Miss Terry" featuring
Billie Burke, will hold the screen at
Crandalrs Savoy next Sunday and Mon
day. Miss Burke is pictured as a wealthy
goes incognito to live in a second-clasa
boarding house. within the Law" fea-
turing Alice Joyce and Harry Morey: a
Mae Marsh. in Polly OF the Cicus," and
Jack Pickford and Louise Hun, in rThe
Narmint," will be shown also next week.
The Bluebird company has made a film
feature with the startling title Urea
son." which is rather a warning appro-
pirate to the times well as an appeal
to loyalty and love of country than a
gruesome story Of wrongdoing. 1t
shows how a brave soldier, goaded by
imagined neglect by his country. ulti-
mately wins patriots fame. after hav-
ing weakly yielded for a time to the
temptation of "a yellow streak" 1t will
be shown for the first time in Washing
ton at the Cosmos this week.
Essanay henceforth is to produce
only comedy-dramas.
Marie Dressler has gone to CALI
fornia. She is to make eight pictures
the coming year
An educational feature. Saving the
in October
Elsie Ferguson's next photoplay will
be The Rise OF Jennie Cushing" by
Mary S. Watts.
Besides writing his own picture
stories. Douglas Fairbanks is now said
to be writing songs.
Elizabeth Risdon. who has been
called "the English Mary Pickford." IL
| featured in a photoplay of Hall Gaines
The ManXman."
The increasing cost of gunpowder IL
said to be fndangering the use OF gum
| play in the movies. The villain can't
| hold up a train with a dagger.
The last scene in War and the Wo-
| man. depicts Florence La Badie. garb-
ed as Columbia. walking down the
| middle of the street in 9TH avenue.
| Frederick warde and Jeanne Easel,.
who supports George Arliss in "Hainil-
ton" are pictured in Under False
Colors."
The next Mary Pickford picture will
be THE Little Princess" by Frances
Hodgson Burnett. 1t is being made in
Hollywood. Cal
Max Lnder, the French comedian.
| VINO came TO th1S country TOT "ofh
in the movies, has returned to Paris
| for a brief vacation.
| In Taylor Holmes third photoplay.
| Two Bits" Margaret Clayton has the
part of girl who refuses to let her
| beau buy expensive theater tickets.
The movies have put Aladdin and
the Wonderful Lamp into picture
| form. with Francis Carpenter and Viz
| ginia Lee Corbin, the little stars OF
Jack and the Beanstalk," as Aladdin
| and the princess.
Bertrand W. sinclair's romantic
| story. North of Fifty-three." with
Dustin Farnum in the role of Roaring
Bill" Wagstaff. is scheduled for re-
lease today-somewhere.
A two-reel drama. The Reincarna-
ton of Karma," tells the story of a
woman's vengeance after 1900 years.
Rosemary Theby. Lillian Walker.
Courtney Foote and Charles Eldridge
are pictured in it.
Capt Joseph W. Mates of the Illinois
artillery. who was shot to death in tho
recent Houston citizen-soldier riot.
was filmed shortly before he left for
the south in military photodrama.
II Nine. Olga Petrova. who has formed
her own company and is now filming
| ner own pictures, mas engaged bdrVif
| DEWITT, a Danish authority on tech
nique Of the drama, "art-connois-
| seur-regisseur" for her staff. which
is said to be the correct term for
| censor cinematique."
The United States district court at
Chicago has removed the censor's ban
upon The Spy" in Chicago. The
censor's name was Funkhouser and he
is quoted to the effect that the picture
was too dramatic in places. making
the sweat stand out on his brow"
Jane Cowl, who won the name OF
Weeping Jane" with her impersona-
tions of prosecuted shop girls and serv-
ing maids. is to he pictured as "a sweet,
romantic girl of the sixties" in Basil
Kings story, The Spreading Dawn
The story of Mary Turner in within
the Law" besides making fame for
many noted actresses on the legitimate
stage, has earned its producers. il il
said. S3,OO0.0O0. The Mary Turner's
have included Emily Stevens. the orig
inal; Jane Cowl. Helen Ware. Margaret
Ellington Muriel Starr, Catherine
Tower Clara Joel and host of others.
, Alice Joyce is the last in the photopisy
production.