Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-22
MOVIEGRAMS FROM
SCREEN TO PATRON
Film Flashes Of Interest to
Fans of the Photo
play

NRIFFITH has harked back to the
~ history of California in the days of
1S49 for the hero of "Scarlet Days"
the principal feature next week at the
Stanley.
In the years when the quickest and
straightest shot was usually the best
man, a bandit by the name of Joaquin
Nuriette roamed the highways. A sort
Of American Robinhood, he would rob
tile rich and give aims to the poor, al
ways treated women chivalrously and,
though terror to every sheriff in Cali
gornia, was a slave to his little Mexi-
can sweetheart. He finally ended his
life in q wild fight from a posse by
riding a broncho bareback over preci-
pice. =.
MIR. Griffith has woven this romantic
character into thrilling motion pic
fire. The role is taken by Richard
Barthelmess, the "chink" of Broken
blossoms.
T OIS WILSON, charming and talented
Lleading lady, who appears opposite
Brvant Washburn in at Pays to Ad-
vcrtise." " next week at the Arcadia,
graduated from a normal school and was
hent ON becoming a school teacher. She
taught school for three weeks so that
rnrsI school master might take a vaca-
tion. At the end of three weeks the
school master came back. A little later
Miss Wilson went to Chicago, played
bit in n picture and then went to Los
Angeles where she became motion pic"
tnre leading woman. sit Pays to Ad--
yertise" marks the end of her third
year in pictures.
WHEN George Walsh was asked re-
w Gently, apropos of his new photo,
nlav s'The Winning Stroke,' to tell
some of the pranks he committed at col
lege. he smiled and shook his head.
"i was a good boy ut college, because
- he paused refectively; then con-
tinued. ,ho,,
7 was at college that, no matter now
great the temptation may have been 10
cut capers along with the 1elIows lesS
ambitious in the line OF sports, neld
"auereJy to the most rigorous discipline
not from any law abiding goodness
within me. but in order to let nothing
debar me from the practice OF athletlcs
or from the event for which l was try
ing .s.,;. - Walsh added with
n twinkling eye, "that liked athletics
better than study, except my STUDIES or
nhysical training, and the one strong
Incentive that egged me on to get high
credits--that is, hig enougn-was my
love of college sports. :,
Walsh is an expert swimmer and
"a osrsman. and has chance to display
these accomplishments in his latest
nrbotoplay. rhe tThe Winning Stroke"
which will be shown at the Regent next
week.
HLsIE FERGUSON will be the star
II at the Stanley week of December
1. when she will appear in the hrst
showing of ttCounterfeit This is a
Tercuson, as Virginia Griswald, daugh-
fer of an old southern family, returns
home from abroad to find her family
in straits. An old friend of the fam
iIv places her with the secret service,
and she works on an international coun-
terfeiting case traced to Newport News.
DELEASES for December which will
~ receive early production in this city,
include ''Victory" "The Cinema MUIR
der" a Cosmopolitan production; BE
yond the Door," with an all star cast 4;
Dorothy Dalton in His Wife,ss
Friend, An ADVENTURE III nitSi
with Robert Warwick; 'The Woman
in the Suitcase" with Enid Bennett ;
IA Girl Named Mary''-Margnerite
Clark and Wallace Reid in ''Haw-
thorne, u. s. A. in addition to every
Woman" all of which are to be seen
at theatres playing Paramount Aircraft
program.
Ethel Clayton will reappear before
the local screen patrons in her latest
picture, "More Deadly Than the Male, "
to be shown at the Arcadia the week Of
December l. Miss Clayton's absence
has been commented upon widely by
movie -goers. The pretty star but re-
Gently returned from tour of the
Orient, during which, accompanied by
her mother and brother, she visited
China, Japan and several other
sTyHT Metro Film Exchange, OF this
4 city, announces an enthusiastic re-
eeption on the part Of exhibitors Of