Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-16
MOTIECRAMS FROM
SCREEN TO PATRON

rrELPFUL hints TO girls and boys
anxious to ascertain whether one
certain member of the opposite sex Is
responsive to their respective emotions
ring Constance Talmadge, at the Stan.
lev next week.
This production is the workmanship OF
tohn Emerson and Anita Loos. whose
Former stories and adaptations for Miss
Taimadge since her afiiliation with the
fret. National Exhibitors Circuit are
KS Babs, a romantic young boarding
school girl. Connie is probably in her
noost5 delightful Characterization ss-
,hewing the cut-and-dried educational
smhiects she devotes herself to self
instruction in the science Of practical
love-making. '.
Miss Talrnadge has the support OF such
excellent players as Arnold Lucy, John
uaiIldsy Natalie Talmadge, Fanny
Bourke and Mrs. Nellie p. iSpaulding.
J1FFECTIvB scenes of enormous oil
T. wells, gushing hundreds Of feet into
tbe air are features OF THE Jailbird,"
Paramount. starring Douglas MacLean,
which comes TO the Palace next week.
The gusher scenes were taken in the
Bakersfield district of California.
'The Jailbird" Is the story of crook
who attempts to swindle the inhabitants
OF small town by promoting an oil
boom and dlsposlng of large amount of
worthless stock However the we'll
foiied and lie finds himself the towns
wealthiest and most respected citizen. To
make the story complete, through his
love for the prettiest girl In the village.
he is reformed In a novel manner. -
Doris May heads a capable supporting
east
TO YOU want to get into the movies?
~ The fabulous salaries reported have
filled many with the ambition to star on
the screen. and millions would be de-
lighted to receive advice from an ex-
perienced photoplay star whose work on
the screen Is meeting with magnificent
success. -,
Cecil b. De Miles Something to Think
About" the Paramount picture now
playing at the Arcadia. issues the fol-
lowing advice to all those aspirants for
high hOnors on the screen:
THE best way for you to get into the
movies. as long as you want my advice
about It, is to go to the nearest moving
picture theatre. buy ticket. find a
vacant seat and sit down, And let It
10 Los Angeles. but I've seen too many
boys and girls with no experience hang
around till their money was all gone,
and then. scared TO death. try to work
sens @ wa" IN snt sometSns tsst sseTy ol
one would want to use as a model.
II got In hanging on the end of
pick as laborer. One day as I was ar
tisticaily opening up Mother Earth near
that my hands, not being used to the
pick we're in bad shape. He promised
TO get me something to do in the movies.
and, al last, after further acquaintance
Will. win tne &c, peiIHE' eIa l got job In the mob
After l had worked at that long
enough to get over the shock OF such
sudden wealth, It happened one day the
wasn't getting over. The same director
sent for me and gave me the chance to
try 1t. BY the time finished with that
mob had them chewing up their lunch
baskets and throwing them at each
other. After that thought Douglas
Fatrbanks's rival was matter OF a
mere week or 30, but that wasn't the
story at all
NY next picture, The Kentuckians,"
Is comparatively peaceful-only three
fights and duel, so I'm looking forward
10 n good rest"
BECAUSE Sylvia Jocelyn can swim.
~ ride. drive and display iron nerve
che is playing an important part in the |
Coins" in which Tom Mix viii appear
az the Nict oria next week. Tom likes |
women who play in his pictures to be |
able to do things like that-women who |
are athletic; Miss Jocelyn swan nearly |
= mile IN still fresh, water. which is some
,eat when she wanted to ride one of |
MiXs most dangerous bucking horses at
MiSville, tho star had to command her
not n 10 try 1t. She had induced one of
toms men to saddle this animal and
was about TO mount when he interfered
A LTHOUGI the plot of The Honor
4 System" which William Fox will
present at the Capital next week. Ia a
tnrllllng one, the picture has been en-
Walsh. WV" Va ~ a.
care was exercised in selectinr this
cast and the whole play Is an artistic
performance The personalities through
out are true to type.
C T. a. Walsh in producing The Honor
sSstem has taken place in the front
ranks Of directors. His rise has, been
s"P5n. = nIG,r Hls work has certain verve and
stand out. His first picture for William
FoN was Degeneration"
-, Hs an actor Walsh is picturesque and
mEid. U,i lie will be remembered for his
~ Is as wilkes Booth in The Birth
To SEE Creighton Hale chasing n
- butterfly in Way Down East" at the
sI sneSsInut or to catch glimpse of him
tSs 'b h,rn dances in bewiidered fashion in
impeTsonatooaa Sp oanGe of one one would think the
rather an unskilled person But the
ncImohWardness a. of Hale is art, not ineffi.
.reIncy. Hale Is n good aviator. motorist
I"u r. ~ swimmer. That he has made good"
versatility '''oh Vi MS
boh h%le I was born in Cork and in Dublin
,hnn mau ms early education. He comes OF n
ber b"of'cal or "a Iamily. He played in a num-
isrS ErS, american stage debut with Gertr,Js
AL,,iott IN The Dawn of a Tomorrow
PYUiIf MS screen appearances were ",rha
pni,ITuS OF f,laine' and "Tha PeriIs of
KjrEadmme 6oth popular seria Is; Hazel
anu Ihe Old Homestead"
"ir poet and romanticlst of France,
=. .ctor Hugo spent more than twen-
LES s'Wrs W,soW writing his monumental epic.
nroS, r,eS Mlserables" Fox Film Corporotion
fnnstarpHd a screen dramatizatIor of this
liam ~ n.nGe IN about three months. VIII :
'WS,m WnIm, rarnum plays the leading role Law
NwWtiii!eah' In the visualized story wbinh
',rb ne SHOWN AT the Regent next week
nere Is no better index to- the won,
inoviOnk vTiOgk,ng OF the screen" n well-known .
the coatrast re ma man commented, than
film VitHStTerpiece and the time IL took 70
frapstSS, %, Inc remarkable thing is that In
nothIelrlnR the story to the silyersbeat
LOST ot Importance In the original is
tanlamSs lms atmosphere of the book Ia rs.
cha ro,,y oy the excellent staging, and tha
OF s'"'nCtsilzations are intact as a resuIt
" superb acting" '''''' r
0F INTEREST even in odvoroo 10 ,,o
.ric,i announcement that Pauline Fred, !
dIc,Io d%N will appear in the Coldwyn nro- :
X" ',on ,1 OF Alexandra Bisson's Madame c
Frodnre;Hi month at the Stanley, Miss ]
tionaI uk @ mas one of the greatest emo 7