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New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
I'm Picture Theaters

ASTOR-"The Four Horsemen OK the
Apocalypse" continues.
CAPITOL-"S "Snowblind," from the novel
by Katherine Newlin Burt, is the
film attraction. Sascha Jacobsen, the
violinist, furnishes an unusual fea-
ture for the music program.
CENTRAL-"A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court" begins an in
definite engagement.
CRITERION-"The Last Romance" be-
gins it's third week. "Moongold,' ~
Tony Sarg's Almanac and the Benda
Mask dancers also remain.
FORTY FOURTH STREET -"'way
Down East" continues.
LYRIC-"The Queen of Sheba" contin-
ues.
PARK-"Over the Hill" continues.
RIALTO-Bebe Daniels, in 1.-TWO Weeks
With Pay" is the chief attraction.
Tschaikowsky's "Capriccio Italien"
and Weber's "Invitation to the
Dance" are on the music program.
RIYOLI-"The Woman God Changed"
with Seena Owen, is the film feature.
The "Oberon" overture, selection
from 1.-THE Merry Widow" and
Widor's Fifth Symphony" are some
Of the music numbers.
STRAND-Marguerite Clark, in her own
production, Scrambled Wives" is
the feature picture. The music
program includes selections from
Naughty Marietta" and apple Bios
SONS"
TOWN HALL-"Dream Street." the
talking picture, remains.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
George Bchan Issues Edict

Reports throughout the country to
the effect that George Beban's playlet
"The Sign of the Rose" was being used
as prologue to his production Zone
Man in Million" have impelled Mr..
Beban to announce that he has given
no one permission to use his sketch
in this fashion and that he will prose
cute any person violating the copy
right. Mr.. Beban owns "The Sign of
the Rose," and has it copyrighted as a
one-act play, four-act play and an
eight-reel motion picture. 1t is under
stood that several exhibitors have
staged "The Sign of the Rose" as pro-
logue to "One Man in a Million" be-
lieving that they had a right to do so
Mr.. Beban, however, has other plans
for the story.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
''I'he Woman God Changed
Study I'M the Unwritten Law
New Film Also Raises Question to What Extent
Mercy Should Season Justice the
Strength of am Amended Life

the story of the shooting in the restau-
rant is told by the waiter, and the
testimony regarding her arrest in the
South Seas, the shipwreck and the
many months on the island, is graph
cally detailed by the officer. Interest
ing comments are made by the visitors
in the courtroom, often arousing an
ticipation regarding the silence Of the
defendants attorney or bringing sym
pathy to the prisoner through the re.
marks of some of the women.
Seena Owen appears in the part OF
Anna Jannsen, the prisoner; e. X. Lin
coin is cast in the aole of the police
officer; Henry Sedley appears as the
rich old man; Lillian Walker appears
as Lilly, the latter's second sweet
heart; H. Cooper Cliffe plays the part
of the defendants attorney; Paul
Nicholson is the district attorney and
Joseph Smiley is the police commits
sioner.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Brooklyn 'rheaters

MAJESTIC-"The Emperor Jones" is
the current attraction.
MONTAUK-"Mary," the Cohan musi-
cal show, plays here this week.
BORO PARK-Harland Dixon and the
London Palace Girls headline the
vaudeville, with "The City of Silent
Men" as the screen feature for the
first of the week. Later, Dolly Kay
will lead the vaudeville and Mack
Sennett's "Love, Honor and Behave"
will be the picture.
BUSHWICK-Belle Baker, as topliner
with William Gaxton, Glenn and
Jenkins, Herschel Henlere, Buck
eridge and Casey. Duffy and Mann
Cats Brothers and others form the
bill.
ORPHEUM-John Hyams and Leila
Mcintyre divide stellar honors with
Lillian Shaw, Kane and Herman
Moran and Mack, Georgia Campbell
Horlick and Sarampa Sisters, Henry
and Moore and Anderson and Zoe
complete the program
LOEW'S METROPOLITAN "Decep
ton" will be the film feature for tn,
entire week. The vaudeville bill will
be headed by Hugo Jansen's "Fashio,
Frolic of 1921" for the first of tn,
week and later by the Royal Har
mony Five.
STRAND - Marguerite Clark in he
own film production, "Scranble5
Wives" is the chief feature of tht
program.
Observation-Disclosures Stool
Company presents "Way Dow,
East
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Continental Film Producers
Fall Short of Best Standard
They Have Few Masters of Direction, but Cene,.r.
Lack Efficiency of American Methods, Saw.
Miss MACPHERSON, Home From European Ton.

Fresh from comprehensive tour of
Europe which took her to all Of the
motion picture producing csnters of
the Continent and introduced her to
the directors of the great foreign-made
pictures which have shaken the laurels
Of American producers, Jeanie Mac
pherson, author of the scenarios of
many Of Cecil B. De Miles special
productions for Paramount, gives a
frst-hand report on the condition of
the film industry abroad.
Europe is interested in an entirely
different type of story from those we
are generally accustomed 70 in
America" Miss Macpherson says, $50
it is difficult to make any compar rison
as regards the material which goes into
the pictures made on opposite sides of
the Atlantic. Deception and Passion
and 'Dr. Caligari' prove that. There
fore, shall speak only of the actual
making of pictures and of the tech
nical side of the work. However, let
me say in passing that indications on
the Continent are that directors will
continue to make big spectacies. I
visited new studio which was not yet
completed and noticed that the
stages were all tremendous, designed to
hold enormous sets and huge crowds
of people.
"Since my arrival in New York have
learned that the showing of foreign
made pictures in this country has, in
some quarters, stirred up a great deal
of protest. 1t has been claimed that
the Importation of pictures will per-
manently injure the industry in this
country. After closa study of film
conditions ON the other side, / cannot
believe that such will be the case.
ain the first place, Europe is years
behind us in the technical side of pic
ture production. She has marvellous
directors, such as Ernest Lubitsch,
who directed Deception and Passion
more of him lster-and it has won
derful actors, who put rs much thought
and study on the playing of tiny bit
as they do in the impersonation of a
leading role. Europe has remarkably
trained artists and artisans and the
sources and seekers for minute de-
tails in bringing accuracy to settings
and costumes, but she has not the
mechanical efficiency that we have
in this country and it will be many
years before she develops it.
'The greatest weakness of foreign
made films is their lighting. They have
not yet acquired the knack of placing
lights so as to develop the mood of
the scene being photographed or to
bring certain characters or features
into relief or to give depth to scene.
Indeed, after watching many foreign
pictures, might say that their sets are
simply lighted, with no definite at
tempt to do more than that.
"Lubitsch, master of direction that
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

has something pretty good in the way
of g story.
There is really less demand fo-
scenarios than there was year ago,
because there is less production. But
prices for scenarios remain as high as
ever, even though it is harder to sell
them. Producers who are making pic
lures to-day are trying to make super
latively good ones, which will have a
longer run at each theater. They will
pay top-notch prices for a good story,
but nothing at all for a bad one"
American audiences are tired of
heroes and heroines who offer nothing
more than face, according to Mr.. EN-
erson.
"One of the most encouraging signs
of the times is the success of players
whose personality depends on character
rather than well-modeled features" he
said. Especially in the case of men
audiences are demanding a more virile
type. They would sooner see their hero
in blacksmith shop, covered with
SCOT, than in dress clothes, any day.
"The success Of women who play
real character parts has caused great
change of viewpoint. There is a new
school of screen actresses who can
hardly be classed as pretty, although
at times they are very beautiful. Their
| charm depends upon their strong per-
sonallty, and this in turn depends upon
their part in the story In the end it
all comes back upon the photo -dramat-
ist, who must give his heroines a
chance to become real people, with real
characters, rather than mere photo
graphic models"
Mr.. Emerson and Miss Loos are the
deans of the scenario writer's. Miss
Loos has turned out steady stream
of successful photoplays since she sold
her first story, "The New York Hat" to
d. W. Griffith at the age of fourteen,
This story was produced with Lionel
Barrymore and Mary Pickford, and soon
afterward Miss Loos became staff
scenaroist at the Griffith studios-the
youngest professional dramatic writer
in the country.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

he Ia, saw print Of Forbidden r..,.,
the picture which l wrote for Cart
Mile. While he declared the sto,r :.
not his kind Of story-he has clr. 'a'
the spectacle picture in an Of ii, 50, =
he was amazed at the effects NJ J1A
Mile had secured. The lighting 49, ~
ished him.
"'Where did he put his light,n !.
asked. How did he get such. 49,
such variety of light and sbads, :.
approaches color in it's richness, NJ
Cinderella episode, which you rsu.s
Der, staged in a set made ent:,.s
Of plate glass, he called more bs.n..
full than J had ever believed mo.;.
picture could be- He was esns.;.r
interested, of course, because the seors
was in the nature Of spectacle md
he could not understand how n, n
Mile managed to light it SO perfs.,,.
and yet avoid the reflections VIII.
the lights playing on the glass sesr.s
bound to give. As matter Of fart !.
took Mr.. De Miles concentrated -
forts for three days and nights b.ss,.
those halations were obviated.
at is my belief that foreign di,..
tors, to hold their own with our -.
ductions, must adopt American ~.
duction methods. That is exactly wb..
has been done in the London s,n
dio of the Famous Players.r.skn
British Producers, Ltd, where Brit;,.
Paramount pictures are made. An od
power plant in Isiington has been p.
modelled and fitted with Amsr;..,
made equipment and American metbod,
have been installed under the directio,
of Major Charles H. Bell, an English
man, who has made a complete stBdv
of American studios. Coupled with ths
fact that American trained director,
are now employed there, the result i,
that the Islington studio is little
corner of Hollywood set down in Great
Britain. Only the machine for con.
densing the fog which on occasion fills
the big stage destroys the Illusion Of
America"
Miss Macpherson brought to light an
interesting bit of news for the motion
picture censors. She was shown the
remarkable Italian screen version Of
the Bible, twenty-six reel picture
made by the same genius who was re-
sponsible for "Cabiria"
at will never be shown in this coun.
try" she said. "It is the Bible,
faithfully, reverently placed upon the
screen. Yet censorship has made it
impossible to present in pictures life
as it really is; so, adhering to its con-
ventions, the censorship board will
leave so little of the Bible that there
will not be enough to show on the
screen"
Miss Macpherson ard her mother,
Mrs. O'Neill, who made the trip to
Europe with her, are returning to Hol-
lywood Immediately. On her arrival
she will begin work on new De Mile
picture for Paramount aad will see
for the first time her own picture,
"The Affairs of Anatol," which was
suggested to her and Mr. De Mile by
Arthur Schnitzler's play.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Vaudeville
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@ J

PALACE-Joseph Santley and Ivy Saw
yer present their new act, "Klick-
Klick," of which Hassard Short is
the director. The Courtney Sisters,
Fred Lindsay, Frank Dobson and
Company, A. Robins, Rome and Gaut
and others complete the bill.
RIVERSIDE-Kitty Gordon, Jack Will
son, Frank Griffith, Vera Beresford,
William Kent, Tom Swift and Mary
Kelly, D. D. H.? Dave Roth and Sell
bini and Grovini make up the bill.
COLONIALr--Henry Santrey tops the
bill, which Ruth Roye, Harry
and Anna Seymour, Al and Fanny
Stedman, Julia Nash and C. H. O'Don-
nell, Edwin George and others COM
plete.
EIG HTY-FIRST-"Ch:c" Sale will head
the bill. The screen feature is "The
Oath"
FORDHAM-Francis K. Bushman and
Beverly Bayne head the vaudeville
for the first part of the week. "See
My Lawyer" is the screen feature.
John B. Hymer is topliner for the
latter half, with "The Oath" 9or the
picture.
HAMILTON-Harry Fox on the stage
and Mae Marsh in "Nobody's Kid" on
the screen are the features for the
early part of the week. The last half
will show Francis X. Bushman and
| Beverly Bayne and "The Oath" as
I star attractions.
JEFFERsON-The Six Brown Brothers
with Elsie Ferguson in Sacred and
Profane Love" are the chief features
for the first part Of the week. From
Thursday, Harry Watson jr. will be
the star attraction, with specially
selected first run picture.
LOEW'S AMERICAN--Ro Reilly in
"Bedelia O'Shea" heads the vaude-
Vile; "Uncharted Seas" is the
picture for the first part of the week.
MOSS BROADWAY-"Bob Hampton
of Placer" is the screen attraction,
with Burt Gordon and Gene Ford in
Recital Classique" heading the
vaudeville portion of the bill.
PROCTOR'S FIFTH AVENUE-The
first half of the week has Ray Ray
mond and company, Pressler and
| Klass, Sam Liebert, Maria Lo and
others. The last part, "Flirtation," "
Elva Lloyd, Kelsey and Allen, Jack
Osterman, and Nadji are on the bill.
PROCTOR'S TWENTY-THIRDS STREET
Monday to Wednesday, Harry Hay
den, Morley Sisters, Greenlee and
Grayton, Kramer and Boyle and the
film, "The Wakefield Case" The last
of the week features Newhoff and
Phelps and Sacred and Profane
Love-
PROCTOR'S FIFTY-EIGHTH STREET
Monday to Wednesday, sold Dad"
on the screen, Morgan and Gates and
Bobby Gordone on the state. Thurs
day to Sunday, Sentimental Tommy"
Elsie Pilcer and Dudley Douglas,
Kelly and Quinn, Major Jack Allen
and others.
PROCTOR'S 125TH STREET-Monday
to Wednesday, "Old Dad" and New
hoff and Phelps are the chief attrac-
tions. Thursday to Sunday, Princess
! Radjah and "The Oath" are the feat
| ures.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Justice on the Screen Is
Promised for the Autumn

Myron Selznick announces that he
has purchased the moving picture
rights to John Galsworthy's play Gus.
tice." This was the drama which in
troduced John Barrymore, previously
known as light comedian, as a
dramatic actor, established John D.
Williams as one of the foremost Amer
lean theatrical producers and gave
Galsworthy his frat stage success. 1t
ran for an entire season on Broadway.
In announcing the acquisition of the
picture rights Mr.. Selznick assures
the admirers of the drama that it will
be produced as nearly as possible in
its original form. He says:
Anticipating fears of critics based
upon mutilation which has been ad
ministered to certain masterpieces of
literature, l want to say that Justice
Will be placed upon the screen under
It's own name, with no change in the
plot or the ending. The continuity
VIII adhere, as closely as picture con-
ditions permit, to the original. There
will be no attempt to inject romance
or happy ending into the story"
No selection has been made as vet
of the player for the central char
acter, in which Mr.. Barrymore starred.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
AT Outlying Houses

SHUBERT-RIVIERA - William Faver-
sham in "The Prince and the Pauper"
is this weeks bill.
BRONX OPERA HOUSE-"The Mi
rage with Florence Reed, is the
attraction.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
New Styles i'm Scenarios
Call for Serious Drama

There are styles in scenarios, just
as in everything else, and John Emer-
son and Anita Loos, screen authors,
predict radical changes in photoplay
fashions for the coming season. Young
writer's are advised by these veteran
scenarioists to try a more serious type
Of photo-drama if they wish to sell their
manuscripts this summer. Even in
comedies, the demand is for satires
rather than sugar and water romances
these authors declare.
The styles in heroes and heroines
are changing with the times. Last
year Mr.. Emerson and Miss Loos pre-
dlcted season of light condolences,
with tendency toward blondes in the
leading part. This year there is the
same demand for this type of CO.
medienne, but in addition there is
growing market for stories which build
their plot about highly emotional, al
though not necessarily beautiful, wom-
en- of the Continental type.
Probably it is the influence of this
period of reconstruction throughout
the world which is changing the view
point of American producers, and, more
important, of the American public"
says Miss Loos. There is more of a
tendency to face the facts of life in
the movies and to buy real drama in
stead of madeto-order melodramas
which sacrifice every opportunity for
fine situation to produce some trite.
happy ending. Especially is it true
that audiences appreciate satire more
than ever and are coming to detest
meaningless light comedies of the type
which deals with the summer resort
romance or the millionaire in disguise
who marries the shop girl.
"The costume story-the historical
dramas again coming into vogue in
many studios. But in order to sell this
type of scenario you must have a cork
ing idea. No producer will waste for
tune ON costumes and scenery unless he
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

en- Mans Game" Assisting her in the
artistic task are Eddie Burns, Henry A.
Barrows, Dwight Crittenden and Wade
Boteler. Miss Macdonald recently
completed the perturbation of "Her So
cial Value" prior to>wkich she starred
in Stranger Than Fiction" These lat
ter productions will be released this
summer. Under her new contract the
American beauty receives $4,000 a pic
ture, and she has eleven more to make
under this arrangement.
Al Christie is working on a new
comedy. Nothing Like It," which
deprcts the efforts of Dorothy Devore
as small-town girl in putting on q
play, using the props which a stranded
theatrical company left in the town
opry house. The show advertises the
Nile River, with real water and a
chariot race with real horses. How
the Nile overfowed on the orchestra
by the villains Vaccinations is really
the crux of the action. Dorothy De-
wore, Earl Rodney, Gene Corey, Eddie
Barry, Helen Darling, Ward Caulfield
and others are in the latest Offering.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Vera Gordon, the beloved mother Of
the screen, closes her vaudeville tour
this week, and after a fortnight of
rest will resume her film work She
is to be starred in another picture by
Harry Rapf, who was the producer of
"The Greatest Love-"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
5bano1ns olt
Ube 5rreen

June Mathis, who made the screen
adaptation of "The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse" has completed the film
version of "Liliom." This will be re-
leased under the title "a Trip to Para
disc"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Bryan M. Battey, the youthful ex-
service man and skilled air pilot, who
aided Orlando Kellum in perfectng the
synchronization of talking pictures,
learned the art of synchronizing when
timing the propeller on his aeroplane
to miss the German machine gun fire.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Dorothy Ward, the English beauty
OF "Phebe of Quality Street." has re-
ceived so many fattering motion pic
ture offers that she says she does not
| know which to choose. However, she
has decided to remain in the land of the
free for the coming season.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

One of the large ferryboats plying
between New York and New Jersey
has been chartered by Vitagraph. 1t
will be used in filming several scenes
In the new Alice Joyce production "The
Inner Chamber" 1t was found that
any ferryboat on its regular trips
would not do, as the passengers would
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Two Italian-made films "Theodora," :"
from the famous Sardou play, and
Gabrielle d'Annunzo's "The Ship" have
been bought by Goldwyn for showing in
this country.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Katherine Macdonald ia now working
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

get in the scene at the wrong time
Director Edward Jose will have hun
dred or so professional actors as pas
sengers when the scenes are taken.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Burn EN- Up Barnes" has been Sc
lected by Charles c. Burr, the producer,
as the working title for the first of the
series of feature productions starring
Johnny Hines, who temporarily deserts
the happy role of Torchy in Torchy
Comedies. Johnny will start work at the
Master Films Fifty y-fourth Street
studio next week.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

The Chicago Hebrew Institute is
starred" in a two-reel picture, "The
Oasis" produced by the Rothacker
Film Company. The picture shows how
The institute is proving an oasis to lit
tie wayfarers on the desert wastes of
life-youngsters of the Chicago tene-
ments. Institute officers will lend the
film where it can help further welfare
work in other cities.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Marion Fairfax is now Shooting" the
final scenes for "The Lying Truth"
This film tells story of small-town
politics and newspaper life, and is ex-
pected to outshine her scenario for Go
and Get It," another newspaper story.
In the cast are Marjorie Daw, Pat
0'Malley, Tully Marshall, Noah Beery,
George Dromgold, Claire Mcdowell,
Charles Males and Robert Brewer.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

Much of Marguerite Clark's work in
Scrambled Wives" which comes to the
Strand to-day, is done in colors. These
colored shots are a favorite device of
many directors at present and they do
relieve the monotony of the black and
white film.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22

William Fox, who has leased studio
IN Rome, sent j. Gordon Edwards, the
director, abroad, and will produce films
there. The players will largely be re-
cruited on the Continent.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-07-29
MRS. KABER SENTENCED
TO PRISON FOc LIFE
Found Guilty Of First-deoree Murde,
In Plotting the Assassination Of
Her Husband

Cleveland.-Through mercy recon.
mended by jury of men. Mrs. Eve
Catherine Kaber escaped the electric
chair. though found guilty of first-de
gree murder for plotting the assassin.
alton of her husband. Daniel F. Kaber
II was the hope that mercy would
be extended by those Of the opposite
sex which included her counsel to ex.
clude women jurors on grounds that
they are more "eold blooded and mer.
CHESS than men," AS a result of the
recommendation for mercy. Mrs. Ka.
Der was sentenced to life imprison.
ment In the Ohio reformatory for
women at Marysville by Judge Maurice
Bernon. There remain five others to
be tried on first-degree murder charges
In connection with the crime. Two of
these are Mrs. Mary Brickel. mother,
and Miss Marian McArdle, daughter
OF Mrs. kaber. Miss McArdle was
with her mother, who WAS lying In a
semi-conscious state In her cell In the
county jail when news OF the verdict
was brought to them by w. Poulson,
Mrs. kabers personal counsel.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-07-29
ULSTER LEADER PLANS
RETURN TO CONFERENCE
Premier Lloyd George to Make First
official Proposal to De Valera
Next Week

London. The British cabinet sat
for two hours and a half Wednesday
evening considering the Irish plans
after which Premier Lloyd George
went to buckingham palace and laid
before the king. whose interest In nm
irish settlement IL the keenest. the
proposals for submission 10 Eamonn
DE Valera, the Irish republican leader,
nj Thursdays conference.
Tn. prime minister presided at tho
cabinet council. which was held In tho
house Of commons and outlined for
the benefit OF those ministers who had
not been closely concerned in the Irish
negotiations the history of recent
events and the premier's new offer 70
ireland. which IN described as being
drawn on generous lines.
Whether Mr., Lloyd George has sue
ee~ded In overcoming the reluctance
az sir James Craig, the Ulster pre-
mier. TO Join IN a tripartite conference.
In not known. hut an announcement
that Sir James II coming to London
again. probably next week, IL con
sidered a favorable omen, and In any
ease no hint ~ n breakdown In the ne
rotiatinns IL apparent. Gen. J. &
SHUTS, premier Of south Africa, II hold
Ing himself In readiness To 20 TO Ire
land ~ needed.