The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-03-08

little romance in which L. C. Shum-
way is the hero. Miss Walker receives
the support of such other well known
players as Herbert Prior, Alene Hale.
Stanley Orr, Andrew Arbuckle and
Lydia Knott. Love Hunger" was di-
rected by William p. s. Earle, who.
with Arthur Edwin Krows, adapted
the story from John Breckenridge
Ellis famous novel, Fran"
Halle Ermine Rives, whose novel,
THE Long Lanes Turning" has been
dramatized for the screen for Henry
B. Walthall, is one of the most pop
ular and sensational writers of the
day.
Miss Rives was born in Christian
County, Kentucky, in 1878. and is
cousin of the equally well known au-
thor. Amelie Rives who married Prince
Troubetzkoy after her divorce from
John Armstrong Chanler, the eccentric
New York millionaire.
Halle Ermine Rives is most pro.
life writer, her novels numbering over
twenty, all of which have had wide
circulation. Among the best known
of her works are "A Furnace of Earth
Smoking Flax Hearts Courageous"
Satan Sanderson,' THE Valiants OF
Virginia" and THE Long Lanes Turn
ing" the last named being published
in 1917 by Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE Long Lanes Turning" achieved
remarkable popularity and is listed
among the best sellers of the day. lis
dramatic possibilities appealed so
strongly to Mr.. Walthall that he re-
quested a dramatization for his use.
The picture is released by Exhibitors
Mutual. At the Murray Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday.
A spectacular and exciting scene in
"Hoop-La," starring pretty Billie Rho
des, in an engrossing comedy-drama OF
circus life, shows conflagration in
which the entire circus structure col
lapses and falls to the ground in
blazing mass.
The confusion is augmented by the
panic-stricken animals trying to es-
cape the flames. Billie Rhodes, the
Circus Queen" is seen rushing into
the burning tent in an attempted res
cue of her drunken husband, whose
negligence tharted the fire.
The photoplay in this scene is mag
nificent, and the camera man has
caught some real live action in vivid
high lights. At the Murray today and
Sunday.
MURRETTE.
The story of Under the Top the
new Aircraft picture in which Fred
Stone the famous musical comedy
star, is to appear at the Murrette
theater next Sunday is said to be the
story of Mr.. Stones early life. The
famous comedians early warnings for
circus life led him to run away from
home and take up circus work. The
love interest of the picture is we'll sus-
tanned throughout
Guy Oliver, who plays Robbins, the
comic servant in "The Dub" Wallace
Reid's new Paramount picture, which
is on view at the Murette theater Fri
day and Saturday, used to play leads.
Now he is known as one of the best
character men in the pictures and his
work in recent Paramount and Art
craft pictures has placed him among
the foremost exponents of his art.
Peggy Hyland, the William Fox star,
will be sen at the Mufrette theater
in a photoplay called THE Girl with
no Rrgrets." Manager Holland de.
clares that this picture is the best of
Miss Hylands list. The Managers
judgment is to be respected, not only
as to Miss Hyland, but as to all mo-
ton screen productions. This picture
will appear Wednesday and Thursday.
The difficulty often experienced in
translating great literary work to
the screen, was experienced by Direc-
tor r. Butler Clonebaugh, when he
filmed Lila Lees new Paramount pho
toplay. The Secret Garden" which is
to be shown at the Murrette theater
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