Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
MOViECRAMs FROM :.
SORRENTO PATRON

Sieutn,, next week, have hew ,ars T.,
s,aith the progressiveness, OF s,.rn .me cali
ior eIsrtain I district OF sou'n
foTgni,ss,. Of the scenes in "A ,Ia Village g
some I've, ~ mace In an apple orcnaro.
siepsb pssb,,re the proper atmospnete,s enr
70 Tses Sc iourneyed to a section .no.eu loi
he he excellence OF ,ltisrsstediy lts apys while the
farmers ors' ,ovb being .filmed Hardly had
scenes p.v peturned to the Thomas n. ince
MT t"y yy,hen he received letter "a from
M ssuuso sormer in whose orchard the scenes
tne me- "a, made asking for copies OF tne
rlctures taken there. he etplan'SSu ~ a
Tor publicity psriposeh pes1iInss his apples. :.
CHARLES RICHMAN. after an absence
Of more than year, makes his re-
~, N pictures in Barrie's Half an
ttyn,,r." Ii, which Dorothy Dalton VIII
.ior at the Palace Theatre next week.
As Richard Carson, crude put
wealthy art connoisseur, MI. hicnmsh III.
" seen in Half an Hour" In all his
sorce and power. Carson actually buys
adv Lillian, daughter of the Earl OF
ugcstford. and when she can no longer
endure his taunts and vulgarisms she
DECIDES to run away with Hugh Patton.
Hugh Is killed before this step can
he taken and Lady Lilian's efprts to
conceal her absence from her home and
set dressed for dinner all In half hour 3
snace make one Of the neatest and swift.
eel moving stories seen In long time.
DISTINGUISHED casts have become
IL taken-f for granted in connection with
Cecil B. De Mile productions, but in
this respect Something to Think
About" which comes TO the Arcadia
next week, excels even the mark set by
why Change Your wifeg" and Male
Elliott Dexter returns to the screen
In the leading male role after an
absence, due to illness, Of almost a year.
Gloria Swanson, the beautiful leading
woman of four famous De Mile produc-
tons; Theodore Roberts. one of the
finest character actors of the screen, and
Monte Blue, who has won high rank by
his work in recent Paramount Aircraft
productions, complete this list
caliber Claire Mcdowell portrays an
important character role. Theodore
Koslog, Russian interpretative dancer,
contributes a satiricallY humorous bit
Of pantomimic acting.
TN SELECTING Emmett Corrisan and
/ william Ingersoll for the production
o. Partners of the Night" next week at
the Victoria, the Goldwyn company has
secured two experienced actors. Both
began careers in the eighties and de-
nes at their height in those days. Mr..
Ingersoll began at the Boston Museum
and Mr.. Corrigan In Baltimore with the
Esmeralda stock company. He was
leading man OF the Dearborn stock CONF
pany In Chicago and for three years
played in the lead in Ben Hur Mr..
1ngersoll made a name for himself as
director of a stock company in Pitts
burgh In 1900 and later was for years
the favorite leading man of the Orpheum
stock In Philadelphia ~.
Last season he played on Broadway
in Three Wise Fools" while Emmett
Corrigan played in Three Faces East"
THE immortal poet and romanticist Of
l. France. Victor Hugo, spent moro
than twenty years of his life in writing
his monumental epic, Les Miserables."
Fox Film Corporation produced a screen
dramatization of this masterpiece In
about three months. William Farnum
plays. the leading role, Jean Vatican, In
the visualized story. which will be shown
at the Regent next week. r
There is no better index to the won
der-working Of the SCREEN" a well-known
maving-picture man commented, than
the contrast In the, time 1t took to write
the masterpiece and the time 1t took to
film It. NJ.
The remarkable thing is that In trans
3 ferring the story to the silversheet MOTH
Ing Of Importance In the original is lost.
The atmosphere Of the book is ra-
taned by the excellent staging, and the
ohsracterlzations are intact as a result
Of effective acting"
DERHAPS the most striking note in
/ the many interior scenes in "Cleo-
patra" the William Fox photodrama,
coming to the Capitol Theatre next week,
10 the anlmal-like form of the furniture.
Cleopatra's throne is lion, its body
making the seat and it's head rearing ma
Egypt were often in tne shape of swans,
and sphinxes furnished the motif for
many table and chair.
Storks were sacred to the Egyptians,
snakes and crocodiles were sacred. Cats
enjoyed distinction they never since
have possessed. Indeed, II Is said that
an invading Persian army, driving a bat
talon of cats ahead of It. was allowed to
conquer Egypt unmoleBted, SO chary
were the inhabitants of harming sacred
animals
Part of the duties Of the priests of the
temples was the care of sacred menag-
cries of swans. cats. crocodiles, snakes,
storks and bulls.
"TT is my firm conviction that jazz
/ music is going out" said Sidney
L!.0wenstein, the musical director of
strssxt oDsrs Down unss East at the Chestnut
belief some time ago, but I am more
nrmly convinced that I am right since
nave been playing here In Way Down
hast, There Is a little of syncopated
melody In the score, but have come to
me conclusion that the music most ap-
peaiing to the audience Is that Of real
anaity-as for instance the overture to
Inc lne Elying Dutchman' and Liszt's Les
rreludes,' which the orchestra plays for
'he Impressive storm scenes.
THE me score for this picture Is alive
Sscnr MMn meiody-most Of IT very familiar
because OF frequent playing. That is
a decided help In the showing of the
ptsure, Tor no one Is disturbed by any
mt.lcacy or score, but can devote him
sell 70 the scene before him.
a. FROM the directors stand can hear
Zines %C ZINES me murmur of delight that is
oGgasloned when We revert TO the good
1la tunes OF yesteryear, but the little
thrilling. 50
.,oi think we are advancing In our mu-
dSot a tastes. ! would not like to pre-
viii me ne nature or the new music that
d,n t please us. but It is going to be
SSanerent and II is going to be better
.s"any thlnk that our new taste will he
""''e'y a rad as 1t was with jazz"
| NlfED Artists have received re-
~ quests for an explanation of the
gRsoper RsrtSo, way to pronounce Richard
adI'nesss advIssd y. last name. Fans were
m spite Of the Volstead act In othcr
Na %oras the popular young star who % ant
iaiasss IN The Love Flower" Grif3th's
nsSt t nun at the Academy of Mus,c
WIN WIN week, pronounces it Bar-tle.mess mess
Barths me accent on the first syllable,
ms ms play. dealing with ALA, 'he Iey cast OF
6is 66I,n sd,,oN ~ New York in 1896. He Receives
ford CSaaon Conn at Trinity College. Hart
tlon bis SaErthelmess first attracted atten-
OF The Cb,ns ms masterful characterization
Later he annsn IN Broken Blossoms"