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Evening star., 1920-01-25
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

In place of the usual list Of new
this week reading list on Theodore
roosevelt. The notes for the books
as The Nation" 1.-The Atlantic Month
ly," The A. L. A. Booklist."
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Photoplay Features.
CONTINUED from Sixth Page.)
Olympic.

Holmes. in love, Honor and :
and Saturday, all-comedy night.
Evening star., 1920-01-25
SAVOY.

Today and tomorrow, Clara Kimball
Young, in Eyes of Youth; Tuesday.
Marion Davies. in The Cinema MUIR
der; Wednesday and Thursday. Wal
lace Reid, in Hawthorne of the
u. S. A." and Mack Sennett's The
Speak Easy; Friday. Hobart Bos-
worth. in Behind the Door" and
Saturday, Mabel Normand, in Pinto"
Evening star., 1920-01-25

Some of the new millionaires in Japan
have taken up golf. which they play on
links maintained in the most approved
style.
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Truxton.

Today, Eugene O'Brien. in Sealed
Hearts,; tomorrow, Constance Tall
madge. in The Honeymoon: Tues
day. Albert Ray and Elinor Fair. in
Tin Pan Alley; Wednesday. Robert
Anderson. in Common Property; !;
Friday. Mary Miles Minter, in "Yvonne
From Paris" and Saturday, Sessue
Hayakawa, in 1.-THE Tong Man."
Evening star., 1920-01-25

Lillian Hall. Goldwyn leading wom-
an, dressed up as a boy in Rex
Beach's Going Some" is said to be
"a dead ringer" for Jack Pickford.
Evening star., 1920-01-25

Vitagraph is to film James Oliver
Curwood's story of the Canadian
northwest, THE Courage of Marge
O'Doone"
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Goldwyn is to picture stop Thief"
the mystery farce of the stage, which
was sponsored by Cohan & Harris
in 1913 Its author is Carlyle Moore.
Evening star., 1920-01-25

George LIE Guerre. who recently ap-
peared in the Harvard prize play,
..Mamma's Affairs" is not only a
we'll known film star. but before that
was George Mulally, a graduate of
Georgetown University.
Evening star., 1920-01-25

A Los Angeles picture director is
credited with inventing new process
! of picture photography which gives
to the screen the appearance of a
painting. 1t is called pastelography.
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Filnnogranns.

The next Montgomery and Rock
comedy is to be called knights and
Knighties."
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"The Land of Opportunity" with
Ralph Ince in the leading male role.
will be the first of the Select Pic
lures AmericaniZation features. Its
Evening star., 1920-01-25

Barbara La Marr Deely is to write
six film stories for Gladys Brock
we'll, the first of them THE Mother
of His Children"
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OR GREATEST BATTLE. BY Fred

erick Palmer. author of "Amerfc;
,n France New York: Dodd. Meat
& Co.
Evening star., 1920-01-25

Made Kennedy is quoted as au-
thority for the statement that her
new picture. Two Cents Worth Of
Humaneness." shows the chorus girl
as she really is-"a good. hard-work-
ing, ambitious, plucky girl"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
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New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Sidney Blackn1er Trains
For Stage as He Did When
Playing Football, He Saws

$50 IDNEY BLACKMER doesn't use
t2sA@ much makeup. lie depends for
mis- effects on facial expression. But
even the amount that he does use can
not hide a scar on mis- forehead
You couldn't help getting scars if you
played football under the direction Of
an allAmerican coach at the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina, and that is
what the leading man Of Not So Long
Ago at the Booth Theater did not so
many years ago.
GO through the line with your head
up. Take all the slams on YOUR face"
was the coachs instructions, and
Blackmer, halfback, obeyed along with
his fellows.
Just as he trained fol football, to
go through the line with his head up,
so did Sidney Blackmer train for the
part Of Billy Ballard in Arthur Rich
mans charming comedy of New York
in the '70s.
at takes imagination to create
role and vitality to project IT," said
the dark, young North Carolinian in
his dressing room few evenings ago
as he arrayed himself in the garments
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Liz htnin' Bill Joneses
Plentiful I'm Real Life:
Nothing's New to Them

Somehow, every time | am near a SOL
dlers home | want to 60 in and ia TX
with the men inside. always do it.
Il attracts me. Its mighty sad There
are lots OF Bill Joneses inside those
homes. Did you know that? Well,
there are. Men whose homes have been
torn to pieces by trouble or illness or
death, and men who just 20 on living,
day after day, with nothing in view but
the happiness they can get out of their
own storehouse Of imagination"
Mr.. Bacon has a strange policy CON
corning the accepting. for reading. Of
manuscripts sent to him by ambitious
writer's of stage works. He will not
accept plays sent in by mail unless he
is assured that the play has been pro-
duced.
Il get lot OF plays" he says. "The
writer's ask me to read them. They
think may want them for myself. I
won't read them. Just send them
back, or answer and say, No, I can't
do It,
"That's because I don't want any
body to ever accuse me OF stealing his
idea. I might write a play some time
Continued on next paoe)
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
National Pilgrimage Play
Planned as Rival of That
Given at Oberammergau

Will present virtually tho whole spirit
ual life and teachings OF Christ in
about two and half hours. The four
gospels have been so Transcribed into
dramatic form that the words Of the
greatest spiritual figure Of the ages
are given literally and without altera-
ton. substitution or the introduction Of
a single word He did not say"
The Passion Play at Oberam-
mergau depicts only the events of the
last week in the Life of Christ. The
gospel play to be presented next
month in California gives vlsuallza-
ton of the entire manhood of the
Saviour, so far as it is given in the
Scriptures. Lighting. music, drama,
singing, pageantry and decoration IN
all their modern forms are being used
to make the play success. The
costumes to be used will be authentic
copies Of Palestine costumes of the
time OF Christ. Florence BenOliels
collection of Palestine costumes has
been placed at Mrs. Stevenson's dis
posal for reproduction. The artists
who will cooperate in the production
include some of the best known names
in the American theater, but it has
been agreed among them that n per
sonality shall be exploited, and no
names announced in connection with
the interpretative art work.
Mrs. Stevenson's arrangement for
the National Pilgrimage Play consists
Of fourteen scenes, divided into two
parts. Part one consists Of the pro-
logue and the first act, and part two
consists Of the second act and the
epilogue. In all, there are about
sixty speaking parts and about eight
leading parts.
On the committee supporting Mrs.
Stevenson are Bishop Rhnelander,
of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl-
vania; Bishop Johnson, Of Los
Angeles; George Arliss, president Of
the Actors Church Alliance; Violet
Oakley, mural decorator; Clayton
Hamilton, author and dramatic critic;
Mrs. Charlemagne Tower; the Rev.
DR.. Edward Yates Hill, pastor Of the
Mother Church OF Presbyterianism in
America; Edward W. Box, until re-
Gently editor OF "The Ladies Home
Journal" and Mrs. Otis Skinna.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

**BE:L1-some day. may-g get
~ tired-of-Bil Jones l don't
know. | haven't as yeti"
Frank Bacon, talking with that soft
ness and hesitation that have so
marked his portrayal of Lightnin' Bill
Jones in his great play that now is
rounding out two years at the Gaiety
Theater, doesn't like to talk about what
he is going to do after he finishes with
'Lightnin'." That is too far in the
future.
But one thing is interesting, and
many thousands of men and women
and little children who have sat quietly
through the splendid production which
he wrote, and in which he is starring,
Will be glad to know that some day
Mr. Bacon may take role IN motion
picture play-one that will enable his
face and his own inimitable mannerisms
to be shown to men and women through
out the United States, in the little
towns and country districts where for
two years his name has been a house
hold word, and where he would not
possibly be seen otherwise.
There is no sign Of an ending at
present Of the run of ''Lightnin'" 1t
will play, perhaps, in New York an
other year. and it is expected it viii
have year in Boston and Philadel-
phia, and a year al least in Chicago.
Then it may go on tour, appearing in
such cities as Kansas City, st. Louis,
San Antonio, San Francisco and Seattle
The kindly-faced man who has Gre
ated a character through which he has
so strkingIy portrayed everyday
human nature traits that always, be
fore witnessing :he play. have been
dormant, hidden, unknown even to men
possessing them, doesn'C know Just
what kind of picture he may appear
in, but he says he has received offers
involving salaries that are so large
you wouldn't believe it if told you"
He was asked if he ever had appeared
before the camera, and in that quiet.
unboastful way in which he says those
very words in the play, ne replied;
"Eh-yes-l was in picture once
Bill Jones in the play has d weak
ness of forever informing his friends
that, no matter what new idea is sug-
gested, or what activity in life is ap-
preached in conversation, he himself
"once did that" Everything that hap
pens had its birth in the mind Of Bill
Jones
And, Mr. Bacon says. there are men
everywhere who play the part of Bill
Jones in that respect every day of their
lives.
"Why, l know a man." he says. still
speaking so softly one can scarcely
hear him. who never sees anything
new. He's always either done it or
seen it done somewhere else"
A small, faded, blue felt hat of the
Grand Army Of the Republic style,
bearing a gold cord around it. which
he wears, marking him as an inmate
of an old soldiers home, lay on one
end of his dressing table.
THAT hat expresses great deal in
the play" it was suggested
"Yes?" he replied Well, there
aren't many Of the old boys left now.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Thomas Burke VIII
Write Sketches for
Vaudeville Stage

When Edward V. Darling, chief book
ing agent for the Keith circuit, visits
London early in July in search of new
material he will visit Thomas Burke,
the author of "Limehouse Nights" and
complete arrangements for series 81
vaudeville sketches b. the young
author, who s9ecializes in London
types. Mr.. Darling believes that vaude.
vile has room for successful pres
entation OF the famous Burke tales O,
the meeting OF East and West in Lime
house. Burke is vaudeville fsn-a
music hall habitue who knows the art
lists and their turns quite as we'll as
the men who arrange the bills. us
has genuine fair for the varje+;e.
and Is Aeen to try his hand in shaping
his stories for vaudetille production
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

worn by men of society fifty years ago
I trained for this part Just as did
Tor football, and right now | could
run mile without the least effort
What an actor needs, and these are
the ideals which |, as a young actor
+, am guiding myself by, are sensitive
ness, articulatencss and creative
ness Above ALL ne must lead clean
life"
Only little more than a year ago
Sidney Blackmer was the negro waiter
IN ''39 East one-linc part of slien
Importance. Now, by his finished, intel
lgent performance in Not SO Long
Ago. he has earned the right to be-
called one of the leading younger
actors on the American stage. Billy
Ballard in the play is young, but he
is not the ordinary Juvenile, and to
give the audience a proper conception
OF the role it is necessary to play it
with great care. Only at certain
places in the first act should the
moody young man smile, yet smile he
must or the audience would think of
the play in key entirely different
from the one intended BY the author.
So, alone in the woods Backmer went
through the part time and time again
dUr.nG the rehearsal period, striving
to find the proper place TO smile. And
he has found it. and the Illusion OF the
character is convincing one
Blackmer's Southern accent is soft,
unmistakable one.
Its funny, isn't it, that when you
play a part in which Southern accent
is used, and used properly, there is
no comment. But the slightest mistake
IN the accent and there is all The COM
ment one would want laughed the
young actor.
Frcm Salisbury, y. c., to the univer-
s:ty went Blackmer to study law and
football. He did well in both until he
was knocked unconscious by particu-
larly hard blow on the head. For
many hours he was unconscious. When
he recovered and started 20 attend law
lectures again he found It imposs bic
TO concentrate properly and read the
cases. 50 ms law work suffered In
1914, IN his junior year at the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina, he went abroad
and when war broke out volunteered to
aid the diplomatic corps of the United
States in taking care Of the many
Americans who were caught without
funds and who we're otherwise in diff
Guilty. On his return to the United
States he tried vainly to enlist, and
went back to the university. After
graduation, in 1915, he went to Atlanta
but business life was not for him, and
he came North. Substituting for Henry
Hull in "39 East" on the road in The
Thirteenth Chair" season of stock
at Northampton. Mass; nearly a year
in the army as an artillery instructor.
and with. Maxine Elliott in "Trimmed d
in Scarlet" constitute the main features
of his experience before his appearance
here in mot So Long Ago" at the
Booth Theater
Sidney Blackmer has ideals. and he
has been steadfast III refusing to com
nlercialize lis ability to the detrinne ent
of his ideals.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

GMER1cA is 60 have another "Passion
Play" Called the National Pilgrim
age Play, hrss presentation Of what Is
planned to be an annual pageant show
ing the life Of Christ and his teach
ings will be given on June 27 in a
canyon near Hollywood, Calf, pur-
chased by Mrs W. Yorks Stevenson,
Of Philadelphia. Mrs. Stevenson has
written the play and is now in Cali
fornia directing preliminaries. Cali
3ornia was chosen because 1t Is believed
that lis climate will permit a ten
weeks season each summer with little
hazard Of bad weather and also because
OF the facilities it offers to tourists.
In new form, rntrammelled by ira
oHional lines Of pageantry, It is planned
70 present the spiritual message Of the
Ne" Testament with all the beauty that
nature and art will lend. Mrs. Steven
son has announced that she will devote
o'~ life TO the production OF the Ma
uonal pilgrimage Play, and has given
up her social and artistic activities in
Philadelphia to do So Believing that
'hiS age requires it's own special Scrip
'ufal message, she wrote the National
pilgrimage Play as form OF spiritua!
inspiration for those seeing it and par
"cipating in it. Mrs. Stevenson has
cope that the California project will
saAe place in the same class with that
~ oberammergau.
discussing her plans for the estab-
nsament of an annual National Pill
sfimage Play in California, Mrs. Stew
enson said, before she left for the
coast:
we nope to make the annual Gospel
pay an object of pilgrimage. The
eahyon obtained for the presentation
ausms -, great national amphitheater.
acoustics have been pronounced
's'iecs by experts. A voice on the
s,ags In the valley IS plainly audible
1'gh up on the hillside.
Inc site is being inclosed in tenn
'''Asy stadium for this season. The
10y Will be given In the evenings, and
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

recruited her company. Every one o.
them born in Ireland, they welcomed the
opportunity to act in plays which de-
plcted the life they knew and lived, and
they overlooked many difficulties which
would have made other actors balk.
Also, many of them sacrificed engage
ments which promised greater financial
returns.
They act differently in these plays
than they did in Broadway and other
productions that they have been in.
They live the parts. And everything
must be done the way it was done in
ireland or their acting is affected. See
this currycomb. I walked all over town
looking for one which would satisfy the
company. No, a blackened hair comb
would not do. That's not what they use
III Ireland was told, so I hunted
around until got this"
lrishmen are not practical, thinks
Miss B.elne, but they are serious. And
they are most humorous when they try
to be serious and talk of serious prof
ects. An 1rishman who is practical Is
uninteresting and not true to type.
They are mystics, are the Irish. What
is coming after this life interests them
more than the lie they are living now.
A race Of poets are the Irish
On the opening night husky Irish
man. evidently longshoreman. came up
TO the box Office and inquired about the
price Of admission. He did not look as
L he might be interested in symbolical
poem-play by Padraic Pearse. So he
was told about the bill.
"A poe2l-play by Padraic Pcarse. is
it?" was his comment and ne walked
away hurried}y. 4 little later he re-
turned. accompanied by his wife, and
instead OF buying one ticket, as ne orig
inally intended, he asked for two. After
the play Miss Bierne asked him aboQt It.
Il read great deal OF poetry" he
told her. "In Ireland my father used
to read poetry to US every night"
A burst of song, a merry laugh and a
flash OF repartee are features OF the
Celtic Players in their rehearsals. They,
like all Irishmen, love difficulties. and
the more difficulties that arise the more
enthusiastic they become.
The Irishunen from the South enthuse
Immediately and. bout anything. but
those from the North are inclined to
throw cold water at first and enthuss
afterward," says Miss Bicrne
You can't drive the Irish. To lead
them you must be with them and that
is the theory on which Miss Bicrne il
working. An Irishman means what he
says, but MS opinions change as his
mood changes. Bat the changes are
never hidden
Once Miss Bierne managed an English
dramatic co2pany on the road in Can
ada and in the United States. The we're
serious, every one Of theln.
But the Irish are so different. One
whole day was wasted during rehaarsals
because they insisted on going through
the whole of Birthrght' rs Sarah Bern
hardt would have played it. Picture ar
English company doing the same"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

81 LTHOUGH play Is supposed to
l/a end with the definite promise
~ that all the favorite characters
will live happily ever after,
some Of the best plays Of the year move
US TO q wish Cor sequel We would like
10 see more Of Clarence and learn how
he and the governess got along after
he got back to his bugs. And, al
though it hardly belongs among the
happy-enders, we would like to know
more Of Jane Clegg, or rather of
Henry. We want 70 know how ne got
along In Canada with Kitty. Despite
the fact that Henry is such bounder.
We had a certain sympathy for him
We rather feel that this was within
the scope OF the playwright's inten-
ton. He did not make Henry gam
bier and liar without some thought
Of the extent OF the fraternity.
Personally. we would not feel bit
surprised if he and Kitty hit it off
pretty we'll After all, Jane was no
sort Of person TO take to the races.
Kitty would be different. She might
even help him enough in his selections
so that he might win bet occasion
ally. We hope Ervine will not allow
Henry to walk out of Jane Clegg"
into oblivion.
There might we'll be more Of The
Famous Mrs. Fair" Once she got set
lied back into domesticity, we wonder
how She really liked it. We rather sus-
pect that there must have been moments
when she longed again for the war or
me lecture platform. And then Mr.. Fair
may have found that it was easier to
swear off widows In the last act than in
all the acts to come. Moreover, we
should certainly like to hear something
about Miss Fair. We can't remember
her first name, but she was much too in
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

teresting q character to exhaust her well
como in one play.
Of course, we are glad that 1.-THE
Bonehead" had only one life to give to
this country. Nor are we particularly
anxious to hear anything about the folk
in can Innocent Idea" On the other
hand, there might we'll be more about
"Not So Long Ago" The married hfe
OF the hero and heroine Of this light
comedy can hardly have been altogether
calm and sdventureless from the final
curtain time onward. No young lady
could lie with such grace and spirit with
out inviting mishaps. And then there is
Beyond the Horizon" with all the
tempting possibilities it offers for play
about the widow of the poet Any good
play deserves sequel.
Martin Browns AN Innocent Idea"
proved distinct disappointment.
There was excellent stuff in this au-
thor's previous play, "A Very Good
Young Man." even though Il fingered
only shortly In New York. Even the
rev play is not barren Of occasional
merriment, but Brown has not yet
learned discretion, His very best Is
sometimes excellent, but he has no
substitute in reserve which is just as
good. The author OF many plays, 1t
may be that he has tried to spread
his material too thin. We rather sus-
pect that II he should combine them
all there might be one excellent play
in the lot. Unlike newspapermen,
playwrig ghts are under no obligation TO
fill certain amount of space at Ger
tain given times. They can afford to
profit by the excellent advice that
when man has nothing to say he
should take sedulous pains to do so.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
lrish---On Stage and Off
Celtic Temperament Causes Involved Sly
uations at PrOvincetown Theater

lST you who would manage a
NB group Of Irish players, List 10
~ words of advice from Deborah
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
AS AsWeWereSaving-
BY Haywood Broun

~ THOUGH play Is supposed to
l2A end with the definite promise
- that all the favorite characters
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1920-10-22
MISSIONARY SHOWER

The Ladies' Aid Of the Prcsby-
terian Church, will hold their re-
gular quarterly Missionary meet
ing on Nov. 4th. This meeting is
to be in the nature of a shower.
Every one, man, woman or child.
who is interested is invited to send
or bring some article, with price
plainly marked--which can be sold.
The contributions may consist Of
anything that meets another's-
need--canned goods. bakery goods.
fancy work, clothing, or money.
IT any one wishes to bring their
contribution before the day of the
meeting. the same can he left with
any one of the three members of
the Missionary Committee, Mrs.
Bryan. Mrs. Rowland or Mrs. Stu
art. The place of this meeting
will he announced later Watch
for it in the next issue of The
Press.