Evening star., 1918-01-27

The Mena Film Company has had the
pictures of Super Strategy" colored.
1t is to be released about March /.
THE Song of Songs" Elsie Ferguson's
new picture, is described as high-class
melodrama replete with sensational in
| cidents.
Telephones and Troubles is the apt
| name Of new Big V comedy. 1t is one
of those narrow escape pictures Rock
and Montgomery are the comedians.
Edith storey's first Metro release will
be, probably, THE Legion of Death" a
| screen play based upon the wonderful
woman warriors of Russia.
The Western vitagraph Company is to
feature Earle Williams in an o. Henry
story adapted from a number of the
stories in the "Cabbages and Kings VOL
ume.
Fatty" Arbuckle In new travesty on
life in Jazzville has the role of a bell
| boy and head barber In a rube hotel, with
Al st. John as the hated rival and Alice
Lake as the manicurst heroine.
Amedee Rastrelli. the French comedian
and winner of war medals for bravery, is
in this country making a series of one
reel Essaray comedies for release by the
General Film Company.
"Headin' South is the name of Doug
the scenes were filmed at Fort Lowell. the
| location of the battle where Gen Miles
captured Geronimo, the notorious Apache
| chief, and his tribe
Ivy Deibel. the girl who won in a re-
| cent Cleveland newspaper contest to
determine who has the best camera
face" has been rewarded with an auto
| graphed photograph of Theda Bara and
is happy.
Constance Talmadge is to follow up
THE Shuttle" with up the Road With
story, and Goodnight, Paul" a screen
version of the musical comedy in which
| Ralph Herr is starring.
The Balboa working force of 200 peo-
pie assists In the sardine fisheries OFF
southern California on the of days.
decreed by the fuel administration Ef-
! fort is being made to increase the output
| to 5000 cases a day for shipment to tine
| allies.
Mary Piekford holds her own. leading
all competitors in 1917. according to
a recent contest conducted by a motion
| picture magazine, with 1.-The Little
| American" Poor Little Rich Girl' and
"Rebecca Of sunnybrook Farm" as the
| favorite pictures.
His Hidden Purpose" the next Mack
Sennett comedy. is described as a Laura
| Jean Libby melodrama turned into q
"merridrama." disclosing the perse-
vile villain and the scheming father
Every sob In 1t is said to be smile
| spot"
The story OF Clara Kimball Young's
picture. 1.-THE House of Glass" centers
about an innocent girl implicated in a
| jewel robbery by the man she is to
marry. her release on parole, her nigh,
| west and marriage to a prominent man
and an expose after ten years of hap
| piness
One OF the big scenes in Fannie
Wards Pathe play. Innocent" pic
lures q Chinese street. in a warm, sun.
shiny scene. although the ice and snow
that really covered 1t had to be dis.
guised with sand and paint and the
characters were pictured as smoking
breath.
George X. spoor. president of Es.
sanay. is said to have offered to the
government new war invention
termed mechanical ferret" which is
Ing hour. according to the claims Of
the inventor.
Herbert Brenon. who is now both ar
Independent producer and distributor
announces his output this year to In
Third Floor Back" picturine si,
Johnston Forbes Robertson as "the
stranger; Hail Gaines. "The womar
Thou Gavest Me-: Knoblock's "Kismet,
beggar, and "The False Faces" a CON.
tinuation of Louis Joseph Vance's ad.
ventures OF THE Lone Wolf"