Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-21

mounts. AS he does so the sun appears,
and with a magnificent gesture the
sheik throws up his arms in greeting
and stands there rapt and adoring as
the curtain falls. Thus is the audience
brought in tune with the atmosphere of
the story.
TINE departure Of "Maytime' from the
l. Shubert Theatre January 6 will bring
the new Mcintyre and Heath attraction.
Hello Alexander" to. that Broad street
playhouse. The book is by Edgar Smith
and Emily E.. Young, the lyrics by AL
fred Bryan and the music by Jean
Schwartz.
AT the Broad Street Theatre January
90 THE Better ole" will be the attrac-
ton. 1t is a wal play with music and
is based upon Captain Bruce BARN.
fathers inimitable drawings Fragments
From France"
IMITATION has always been the sin
i cerest sort of fattery and there is no
exception to the rule in the movie
makers catalogue Of "takings." An eX-
ample of what a producer can do with
an idea without giving credit to the
author is to be found in n forthcoming
picture release which carries the basic
idea of the interesting play, Eyes of
Youth" now enjoying popularity at the
Adelphi Theatre. The monthly bulletin
issued by the firm heralds the picture
as follows:
1T will achieve the greatest sensa-
ton ever created in motion-picture art.
1t is unique. II will blaze acrosS the
armament of filmdom like a flaming
comet, and it will burn its path to a
success that will dwarf every other sue
cess in the history of the mo~tion-picture
industry"
All of which leaves nothing for the
future spectator to do but wait with
bated breath for the pictures release.
CECIL B.. De Miles The Squaw
" Man" will be presented at the Stan
ley Theatre New Years week, with
Elliott Dexter in the name part and
Ann Little as the Indian girl. Beulah
Marie Dix is responsible for the con-
tinuity and is said to have made an
effective story. The plot is familiar to
many, but is one of those that does not
grow old. The picture should in nc
way be confused with reissues, for It is
an entirely new production.
MOTION pictures helped no small BIZ
4fl in winning the war and they are to
play a still greater part in r~e-establish'
ing peace. The newly treated morale
division of the Wal Department will
rely to a great extent on pictures Il
enlist the enthusiastic cooperation o,
citizens and soldiery in what now need.
to be done and the spirit in which W,
should all set about It. Brigadier Gen
eral Munson is head OF this morale di,
vision and Raymond d. Fosdick, chair
man of the committee on training cam
activities, is next in command. Doug
las Fairbanks Is now making n serie
of photoplays for the morale division
the first of which is nearly completed.
..LNIHEN YOU Soldiers Hit" the frs
; w of the u. s, A. series of two
~reelers announced by the division o
films, committee on public information
l will be released December %. 9TH
' Bath of Bullets" which was schedule
; for the second picture of, the series, ha
been set back, and the first release wi
: be followed in January by Wings Q
I victory" in which every phase of tn
making of airplanes is shown.
when Your Soldiers Hit" the frs
picture, shows the treatment of wounde
o troops.
II MAE MURRAY, who is. to head he
e 1fl own producing company, formed b
= herself and Robert Leonard, is now
4 New York, and will start for London q
a soon as passports have been repair
a II IL said a large salary awaits Mis-
n Murray in London, Cameramen an
g other assistants will be Of the party.