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New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
ON THE TRAIL OF THE MOTION PICTURE

! VI
the Triangle when it put forth "The
Lamb" and Acquitted" and "Aloha-
o-e," "The Edge of the Abyss" "The
Coward" "The Disciple" "The Wild
Girl of the Sierras"; the time when
"The Birth of Nation" was already q
year old. If our guess is right, then,
"The Manxman" may be fairly weighed
against our best pictures-for better
than these we have never done-nor is
it, indeed, second "Tanqueray." 1t
has the shape. though in distortion, of
modern picture and drags its slow
length along with hating and wound
ed stimulation of modern picture move
ment; it makes an earnest effort after
emotional strength, and its photogra-
ply, though without depth or brilliance,
modelling or emphasis, does make zeal
Gus attempts to use modern shading.
But this is a degree of success before
which neither Hollywood nor Fort Lee
need quake.
Consider "The Manxman." Never
was theme more ideally suited to pict-
ure form, picture feeling, picture
beauty than that story Of blind passion,
of fate and struggling righteousness
composed into an almost Biblical mould
by the very beauties and severities of
the region against which it wreaks it.
self and which implacably fashions it.
Imagine it in the hands of Griffith, an
lnce, DeMille, a Blackton, a Nelan,
and see how every threat and glory of
storm or night or noontide, rock or sea,
would be blended into an expressive
ness which would back the emotions of
the story as deeply as the voice of
thunder backs the flare of lightning;
think how the continuity which as
mere consecutiveness now lies along
the ground like the links of a dead
chain would be fused by suspensive
emotion and stir into the tide of liv-
ing river. For that matter, set it
against the gay grace, the tenderness,
the happiest sophisticaton of Mr..
fuckers own enchanting modern of the
moderns, "The Cinderella Man," made,
we think, only about year and half
later, but made in America, against the
velvet-steel engravings, the eagerly
employed graces of both fashion and
nature with which we sought to screen
the mechanical best-sellingness of
"Virtuous Wives"-if he did these
things in America, mustn't he have
found in America better conditions?
What, then, do we want of foreign
pictures? Well, of course, that invin-
chile armada. if there is one. But if
not, then strangeness, challenging COM
munications not so much from the
England of our own speech, but from
the countries really strange to us,
which would then, instead of capering
with astonishment at the things sent
by the costumer, appear civilizations as
prosaic to themselves as ours to US;
the real thing in foreign expression,
selected, indeed, from what is to any
public the undecipherable mass of life,
but untampered with to pleasure alien
standards.
Alas! upon these airy grounds we
fear that, far from driving out the
home product, the foreign films would
starve before they had had time to
educate us in fraternity. Or could they
be kept going by subscription? That
necessity alone would somehow make
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Post Pictures 10 Star
Worlds Most Re1uf;fuJ H.

What used to be the "Post Film
Company" has become the Post pict.
ures Corporation,' and Clyde Elliot,
vlce-president, announced that pic..
ure starring Paul Swan, "the worlds
most beautiful man." is imminent
Just what the picture is to be is not
revealed. Perhaps a screen version of
"Lida and the Swan
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
In Which We Go TO Call
On Ethel Clayton

it, but do need vacation, supnos. -
1t seems in this world that neon,.
are divided into two classes-thos.
who have everything and those uhs
have The power to enjoy everythins
that they haven't.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
ShUdO1Us ON the Screen

The double standard of morality,
which excuses in man that which it
condemns in woman, is the theme of
new photoplay based on Augustus
Thomas's great drama GAS Man
Thinks" produced by Harry Raver for
Four Star Pictures, with George Irving
as director and Leah Baird as star 1t
is the first of new series of Thomas
dramas in pictures to be distributed by
the w. W. Hodgkinson Corporation and
put, in being under the supervision Of
Mr.. Thomas himself
An announcement is made by the
World Film Corporation that an ar
rangement has been made with George
Kleine whereby World Pictures takes
over the selling and distribution of five
Charlie Chaplin pictures. Four of
these are revivals and one a newer
picture. The revivals are might at
the Show" "Police," "The Bank" and
"Shanghaied." The newer picture bears
the title Of "Trple Trouble.'
months has been enjoying a winter
vacation at Palm Beach. has signed a
new contract with Famous Players
Lasky Corporation to continue her ap-
pearance in Paramount Pictures by ar
rangement with f. Ziegfeld, jr Miss
Burke will return from Palm Beach
next Tuesday, and will start work
under her new contract.
Georgia Woodthorpc, who earned the
distinction of being the youngest
Ophelia when at sixteen she played
the part with Edwin Booth many years
ago, mas recently gone into pictures"
accepting an engagement to play
young old lady in King Vidor's new
Brentwood production.
Irene Castle, with her director.
Charles Maignc, has gone to Miami,
Fla, to start work on "The Firing
Line In the supporting cast are Yer
iioiA NoCCiJ 0dNiu OWcll ana Anne
Cornwall.
contract has just been signed bv
Paul Swan, who is known as "the
worlds most perfect man." to star in a
series of photoplays with the Post
Pictures Corporation. The work on the
first picture is to begin immediately.
Betty Blythe will leave the Vitagraph
with which she has been as
sociated for some time, to begin
work on picture to be produced bv
Arthur Guy Empey. 1t was in cover
the Top" the perturbation of Mr.. EN-
pey's famous book, that Miss Blythe
found fame.
Cecil B. DeMille has completed "For
Better, for Worse" his Aircraft Special
written by Edgar Selwyn and scenar-
lied by Jeanie Macpherson, and will
shortly start work on "The Admirable
Crichton," the j. M. Ba~ric play, re-
Gently purchased by the Famous Play
Corporation.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

nounces three Star Series attractions
for distribution during the month of
April, including Marion Davies in Get
ting Mary Married." Constance Tai
madge in "The Yelled Adventure" j."
in which shs will be presented by Lewis
J. Selznick bnd Alice Brady's "Red-
head"
B. S. Moss has sold Break the News
to Mother" featuring Pearl Shepard, to
Select Pictures Corporation.
Frank G. Hall, president of Inde-
pendent Sales Corporation, announces
that he has bought the United States
and Canadian rights to J. Stuart Black
tons big special production, "a House
Divided" adopted from Ruth Holt Bou-
cicault's novel, "The Substance of His
House." by Anthony Paul Kelly, and
produced under the personal direction
of Commodore Blackton. Sylvia Bream-
cr and Herbert Rawlinson will play the
leading roles.
Alexander j. Herbert has completed
onc-rcel comedy for the first Rothapfel
unit programme, and is off to Philadel-
phia to play the juvenile lead in "The
Melting of Molly" Mr.. Herbert will
return to the pictures as soon as his
theatrical engagement is ended
Contracts have been signed between
the Select Company and Sergeant Ar
thur Guy Empey, author and star of
"Over the Top for the production of a
new big special feature photoplay which
will bear the title, "Hell on Earth"
Charles +. Philippi, of the Balboa
Film Company, has sent several copies
of "The Stowaway" which contain sam
Piles of his clever pen and ink sketches.
Phillip is just back from the front and
wants to do business, but not at the
same old stand.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

Loew's New York Roof "a, 42d St W; of B'way
BEGINNING TOMORROW (MonS ~ ~ ~
T.. 11iONS ~, hoSCO, other acts All Seat.
n ~ imeafre, Chas. Ray, "The Reserved
Sherih's SON." Excel Vnud i25 q, IN
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

Select Pictures Corporation an
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
ADJUSTMENTS

Loew's Ls :: New York Theatre i io H9op g. %
Cont II A NJ. to II p NJ Roof to i A. ~ ~
bEhI LYTELL, "BInclxe's Redcmption';
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

Charlie Chaplin in revival called
"Police" will be shown at Loew's New
York Theatre and Roof Monday and
Tuesday of the coming week. D. W.
Griffith's latest production, "The Girl
Who Stayed at Home" Will be shown
with Chaplin Monday, and Sessue
Hayakawa, in "a Courageous Coward"
on Tuesday. The features scheduled
for the balance of the week will be
Albert Ray and Elinor Field, in Mar
ried in Haste,' on Wednesday; j. War
rem Kerrigan, in "The End of the
Game" on Thursday; Taylor Holmes,
in "a Regular Fellow" and Bessie Love,
in "a Yankee Princess" on Friday;
Montagu Love and June Elvdgc, in
"The Quickening Flame" on Saturday,
and little Viola Dana, in False Evi-
dence,' on Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

B. S. Moss has sold "Break the News
to Mother" featuring Pearl Shepard, to
Select Pictures Corporation.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

How winsome, charming Irish girl
assumes high title and how she falls
in love with a duke Eyes, real, live
duke) are ell told in "The Delicious
Little Devil" in which Mae Murray is
starring at the Broadway this week.
BY way of comedy Mr. Kashin pre-
sonts Charlie Chaplin in "The Jazz
Waiter"
There will be the usual programme
of music and news pictures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

the ghosts of buildings and the re-
Elections of the lights of the old
Cremorne Gardens. -'. .'.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
PAINTINGS ARE
ON EXHIBITION
Famous Whistler Pictures
Now on View in
National Gallery

London, Aug. 22.-One of Whist
ler's most famous paintings, the
Little White Girl" is now on view
in the National gallery to which it
was presented together with two
other Whistler paintings, Gre
morne Lights" and the Fire
Wheel"
The Little White Girl' was
painted in 1864 and exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1865 where it
created a sensation and aroused
much hostile criticism. One critic
regretted that Whistler should
make the most bizarre of bipeds"
out of the women he painted, and
an American critic described it as
a powerful woman with red hair
and a vacant stare in her eyes"
Among the few who appreciated
its charm was Swinburne who after
seeing it wrote the poem, Before
the Mirror" The picture, for
vzssn the model 30" sat, shows a
girl in a simple white gown leaning
against the mantle, her face re-
flected in the mirror.
"Cremorne Lights" is a nocturne
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
WOMEN MAY SUIT.
THEIR OWN STYLES
Fashion Show Displays Wide
Latitude in Designs of
Feminine Apparel

New York, Aug. 22.-This Is the
land of the free and the home of
the brave. and you may have any
kind of a Silhouette" that you think
is becoming next winter and still
remain a woman of fashion. III
other words, consult your own type
of beauty in having your clothes
made.
The general tendency will be to-
ward long, straight lines. The
coats of suits will be trif1e longer,
the skirts of evening dresses a. trifie
shorter-quite short if you have a
pretty foot and ankle. Russian
blouses will be good and your tall
ored suits may abound in rippiy
ruf11es.
Such is the verdict of the fash
ion show which has Just opened i'll
the Ritz-Carlton ballroom under the
auspices of the Shelton Looms and
associated manufacturers.
The purpose of the show, as ex-
pressed In the catalogue is, first,
to stimulate interest in garments of
American design, made from tex
tiles of American manufacture" A
special feature is an exhibit of more
than fifty coats of cloth which
closely initiates the textures of the
popular furs. limitations of mole
skin, cheetah. Persian lamb and
sealskin were shown made up alone
and In combination with real fur.
A few OF the garments were of
cloth of American manufacture
made up by Paris designers.
A group of unusually pretty
mannikins displayed the beauties OF
the garments yesterday. A riding
habit of black and white, with
leather facings, a velvet dressing
gown with a little cap. and an even
ing gown of velvet, illuminated" in
color by hand, were among the cos
tunes that elcited most applause
from the large assemblage of
buyers.
Use McEeils Pain Externipator-Ad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Vigorous Men
and Women Are
in Demand

II your ambition has left you, your
happiness mas sous forever unless
you take advantage of your drug
glst's magnificent offer to refund
your money on the first box pur-
chased If Wendelis Ambition Pills
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Wendell's An bltlon Pills, the great
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price or the box.
Be sure and get a SO cent box to-
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ber your druggist and dealers
everywhere are authorized to guar
antee them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Imports Increase in July
as the Exports Decrease

Wilmington, Aug. %. Imports
in July were the largest in the his
tory of the country, while the ex-
ports were the lowest in any month
of this year, according to a state
ment given out to-day by the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, Of the Department Of Com
merce.
The July exports amounted to
s570, 100000, nearly $350,000, 900
less than in June, the high record
month, but an increase over the
s507, 100000 exports in July, 1918.
For the seven months ended with
600 in 1919, and s3,4S2, 100000 in
1918, an increase of nearly 33 per
cent. in one year.
July imports were valued at $S45,-
100000 as against $293. 100000 in
June. 1919 and $242, 100000 in
July, 1918. They are the largest
monthly imports in the history of
our foreign trade, exceeding by $16,-
100000 the previous high record in
May Of this year. Imports for the
seven months ended with July were
s1,955. 100000 in 1919, against ST.
7SS, 100000 in 1918, an increase in
the last year of less than 10 per
cent.
The excess of exports over i'm
ports was 1925. 100000 in July, and
S2,663, 100000 in the seven months
of this year, 1868, 100000 more than
the excess in the seven months per-
iod of 1918 of s1.694,000,000, an in
crease of 81 per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
HUGE DRYDOCK
DEDICATED
Mrs. Josephus Daniels Presses
Button That Floods
Structure

Honolulu, T. H., Aug. 22.-With
Mrs. Josephus Daniels. wife of the
Secretary of the Navy, pressing the
button that flooded the structure.
the great Pearl Harbor drydock was
dedicated by Secretary Daniels yes
terday.
The drydock is one Of the largest
in the world. 1t is 1901 feet long
and has an inside width of l3S feet
and inside depth of 321a feet. 1t
will accommodate any ship ahoat.
and represents an investment of
more than $5,000,0OO.
The dock and naval base have a
setting in what is considered one
of the finest natural and most
beautiful harbors in the world. En-
tirely landlocked in a I'm of hills.
Pearl Harbor could anchor all the
naval fleets of the world out of view
from the open sea.
Pearl Harbor has an area of ap-
proXimately 10 square miles. Its
depth is approximately so feet. En-
trance to the harbor has been made
safe for all time by dregging and
other work done by the United
States.
The dry dock had been under
construction since 1910. Its open
ing had been planned to take place
long before to-day but various de-
lays and the war caused postpone
ment.
The most serious delay occurred
when the entire bottom of the dry
dock upheaved suddenly. running all
work that had been done and de-
laying construction for a year. First
theories were an earthquake had
caused the mishap. Then engineers
decided the dredged out bottom left
a floor softer than surrounding
terrain and the pressure of the lat
ter caused the center to upheave.
The accident necessitated a new
plan of construction. Concrete was
moulded into huge blocks. sub
and securely anchored.
From this beginning the other work
went rapidly forward.
The dock is operated by the latest
type of machinery. Electrically
driven pumps free the dock of
water after entrance OF a ship for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
YANK'S LOVE GRAMMAR

A boy with the medical corps OF
the American Army of Occupation
in Germany writes to his mother:
You see n beautiful girl walking
down the street. II she has silk
stockings on, she is feminine. II she
is singular. you become nominativc.
You walk across to her, changing to
verban and then become dative. II
she's not objective, you become plur-
al. You walk home together. Her
mother is accusative. You become
imperative. You go in and sit down.
The little brother is an indefinite
article. You talk of the future. She
changes to the object. You kiss her
and then she becomes masculine, her
father is present, things are tense
and you are past participie.-On-
tario Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

count for cash, wholesalers and
jobbers are allowed a maximum of
xty-eight cents per 100 pounds
for handling and retailers are per-
mitted a profit of one to one AID
one-half cents per pound, making
n fair price eleven cents, except IN
cases where dealers have purchased
at an unreasonable" price due to
misunderstanding in the trade.
When this is a fact, a reasonable
advance over the actual cost will
be permitted.
With the House Agriculture Com
mittee's amendment for extension
of the powers fthe food control
act before it, the House is prepared
to take action to-day on the amend
ment and thereby make its first eX.
tensive step toward beating down
living costs. The amendment, which
was reported to the House by a
unanimous vote, includes retailers
among those liable under the food
control act, and its enactment along
with the control exercised over
sugar, officials believe, will do much
to curtail protiteering by retailers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
PROFITEERS IN
SUGAR WARNED
Licenses of Those Who Sell
Above II Gents Are
to Be Revoked

nine cents, less two per cent. dis
Washington, Aug. 22.-Active con-
troll of sugar prices has been re-
sumed by the government, throu 5h
an agreement reached between che
Department of Justice and the food
administration. that licenses will be
revoked by the latter when it is
shown dealers have been profiteer-
ing.
Sugar should reach the consumer
at approximately eleven cents 4
pound, it was announced, based on
the ownership of the entire domes-
tic and Cuban crop by the United
States Sugar Equalization Board.
which is selling to refiners at 7.2S
cents a pound. Refiners are under
contract with the board to sell at
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

The Fire Wheel" is a picture Of
a fireworks display, a nocturne In
black and gold d..--..----....
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Don't Spoil Your Hair
By Washing It

When you wash your hair. be
careful what you use. Most soaps
and prepared shampoos contain too
much alkali, which is very injurious,
as it dries the scalp and makes the
hair brittle.
The best thing to use is Mulsified
cocoanut oil shampoo. for this is
pure and entirely greaseless. It's
very cheap and beats anything else
all to pieces. You can get this at
any drug store, and a few ounces
will last the whole family for
months.
Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub it in, about a tea
spoonful is all that it required. 1t
makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly
and rinses out easily. The hair dries
quickly and evenly, and is soft,
fresh-looking, bright fluffy, wavy
and easy to handle. Besides, it
loosens and takes out every particle
of dust. dirt and dandruff.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator-A,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Women Will Aid .
the Government in
Reaching Pro6teers
Ru Associated Press.

New York, Aug. 22-Joining with
the Federal government in its drive
on corner grocery profiteering in
the necessities OF life, the Womens
National Economic Committee to-
day issued a questionable to the wo-
men of the country to take to the
retailers.
Home economic teachers Of note
in the East have assisted the COM
mittee in preparing the QUESTIONABLE,
package of which will be sent to
every woman's club in America for
distribution at its next meeting.
When filled out the information
giving slips are to be sent to head
quarters of the committee at New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
EVIDENCE OF INSANITY

A north countryman, charged with
having set fire to large hayrick,
was defended on the ground that he
was not altogether responsible for
his actions. One of the witnesses
testified to the belief that the prison
er was ''wrang in his held"
Can you mention any occasion
on which the prisoner behaved in q
manner to warrant your statement ?"
he was asked by the learned counsel
Yes" answered the witness
"Once at work he got half a crown
too much for his wages, am
We'll " said the counsel, as the
witness hesitated.
He took it back to tn manager"
concluded the witness. - Edinburgh
Scotsman,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
No Trace of Train
Robbers Is Found
BIZ Associated Press.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 22. - No
trace had been found early to-day
of the four masked bandits who yes
terday held up and robbed Louis
Vile and Nashville passenger train
No. Z, ten miles south of Columbia
Officers were continuing the search
through middle Tennessee but 1t ap-
pears the robbers had made good
their escape.
Booty amounting to $4,000 in
cash was reported taken from the
mail pouches by the bandits, al
though no official estimate could be
obtained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
CONDEMN PROHIBITION

Atlantic City. N. j.. Aug. "a
Resolutions condemning prohibit
ton and the protracted war CEN
sorship were adopted by the Penn
sylvania division of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians at the closing
session of its annual convention yes-
terday The prohibition resolution
declared the enactment was a
''usurpation Of personal rights"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

in blue and and silver, a twilight
scene with only two tones, the sky
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-03-10
pionesr Railroad Builders

Major John S. Wolfe, just dead in Omaha
at the age Of 100 years, was one of the last Of
the pioneer railroad builders. giant in size,
he used his giants strength for the good of
humanity Under his power for leadership
dreams Of the engineer became reality When
the great west took on its expansive growth
after the civil war, the needs of advancing
civilization called for the railroad Construction
in those days was not the simple process made
familiar in these times of machinery. It called
for the exercise of primal forces, and men and
mules provided the energy that pierced the
wilderness, penetrated the forests, bridged the
rivers and laid the tracks over which the newly
born commerce of the coming empire found its
way, Men who directed these forces were
generals in the great army whose battles were
to bring unconquered nature into service of
man. How well they buiided the result viii
show. No monuments have been set up to com
memorate their deeds, but in the rumble of the
enormous trains that shake the earth in their
passage may be heard the paean Of their praise
There were giants in those days, mental and
physical, and the work they wrought for the
world was enduring.