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Evening star., 1923-06-24
The Man Between

part feature. which Associated
Exhibitors has set for release July 15.
is a Finis Fox production. Mr.. Fox
wrote the story, adapted it for the
screen. prepared the scenario. selected
and assembled the cast, directed the
production, wrote the titles. cut the
film. personally took his print east.
offered IL to Associated Exhibitors,
conducted the ensuing negotiations
and signed the contract for the fea-
ture's distribution by that organiza- =
tion. Otherwise. Mr.. Fox is declared
to have had absolutely no connection
with The Man Between"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Lincoln for Posterity

FEBRUARY, IL. 21os. the 3o0th an
niversary OF the birth Of Abraham
Lincoln. is 1856 years in the future;
but, If the Rocket Lincoln Film Com
pany has its way. the people of that
day will have the opportunity 10 see
a great motion picture made in 1928.
for the company has arranged to
inurn copy of The Dramatic Life
of Abraham Lincoln" either in Wash
ington. D. c., or Springfield, ILL.,, the
home and burial place of Lincoln.
The Rockett-Lincoln Film Com
pany claims to be the first TO con-
ceive the idea of preserving to pos
terity motion pictures of historical
and national interest, and the Lincoln
subject will be the first filmed in
America available for this purpose.
1t was the original intention of the
company to inurn the picture in
Washington. but recently friends of
Lincoln in Illinois have expressed a
strong desire that the film be depos-
tied there, either in custody of the
State Historical Society or of the
municipality Of Springfield.
This enterprise is not to be con-
fused with the Will H. Hays ar
rangement recently made to preserve
notable films at the White House in
Washington, for the Rocket idea is
a definite attempt to preserve a sim
gle work of art of one period Of time
for the delectation of the people OF
another and remote period. and to
prove the contention of such experts
as DR.. Alfred B. Kitchens and others
that film properly prepared and pack
ed can be preserved not only 1876
years, but 1000 to 5000 years.
The Rocket people regard theiI
enterprise more as a scientific expert
ment of and for the entire motion
picture industry than as any sort
of device for publicity or for their
own personal credit. Therefore every
picture producer in the United States
will be invited to contribute a testi-
monial of his organization. with ros-
ter. photographs and documents, fol
deposit in the special vault, and all
organizations within the industry
will likewise be invited to contribute
their deposits with this film.
In discussing the project President
Ray Rocket said:
TT is a gift to the industry, done
to it's glory and credit.
1897. how much do we really know
of those days? Why, even in re-
searching a subject of world interes,
like Abraham Lincoln, who has beer
dead only fifty eight years, we find
1T difficult to separate the true from
the false and to clear the simples,
points beclouded by rumor and
lcalumuy.
"Tn 2109 there may be no such
| thing as a motion picture. 1t may
be a lost art. or motion picture tech
| ntque and practice may be SO i'm.
proved that the picture we hail
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Wept at Wrong Time.

THE ability OF an actress to shed
tears to order is an unusual
gift. but, it is said, there are rare
occasions when tears come at the
wrong time.
Leatrice Joy, during the filming of
touching scene of 1.-The Silent
Partner" is visiting the bedside of
very dear sick friend. who tells
how she has been reduced to poverty
by the speculations of her husband.
Accustomed to luxury. the dainty
woman lies. starved and pale in the
broken iron bed of a New York tene-
ment room. Her empty pocketbook
and expired pawn tickets show how
Jewels as well as money have all gone
to satisfy her husbands pleas for
more money to gamble.
1t was an intensely emotional
moment and as the pity of 1t all
overcame Miss Joy, the tears rolled
down her cheeks.
A pretty story. but 1t necesitated
new makeup and the retaking of
the whole scene, so the story goes.
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competed. ana tncH IStuili " tliN
stage in "Kiki.'
Notable Casts Announced.
Agnes Ayres and Jack Holt are to
head the cast with which William
De Mile will produce Spring
Magic" for Famous Players-Lasky.
Others will be Charles De Roche,
Mary Astor, Robert Agnew, Ethel
Wales and Bertram Johns. The
play was adapted from William ta-
vershams stage success, The
Faun."
Another notable cast has been as
sembled by Lasky for the support
of Pola Negri, who ha0 just begun
work in The Spanish Dancer un-
der Herbert Brennon's direction.
The play. originally Don Gear de
Bazan," was purchased nearly two
years ago for Valentino, but has
been changed for woman lead
Antonio Mareno will have the male
lead, and others in company will be
Gareth Hughes, Wallace Beery.
Kathelene Williams, Adolph Menjou
and Dawn O'Day.
Grand Pictures Corporation, which
has been making short films, an
nounces an expansion into the fea-
ture field and the early production
OF The Love Trap with cast
headed by Bryant Washburn and his
wife, who is known to the screen as
Mabel Forrest.
Harry Langdon, known to Keith
and Orpheum circuit patrons for his
skit, .Johnny's New Car is now at
work at the Sol Lesser lot on a
series of twelve two-reel comedies.
The thirty-acre lot of the United
Studios, remodeled and practically
rebuilt at an expense of 100000, will
soon house eleven producing COM
panies and negotiations are under
way for handling five other units.
Kate McLaurln's stage success.
"The Six Fifty" is in production at
Universal City with Renee Adoree,
loaned bv Louis B. MAYER, as the
star.
lice Bound" for Screen.
Famous Players-Lasky has pur-
chased Owen Davis Ice Bound for
production by William De Mile.
The director will. however, first
complete Spring Magic and then
make a film version of Rita Co
ventry." -.
Finis Fox is completing the con-
.tinuity for Edwin Carewe's finn YER
sion of THE Bad Man" Holbrook
Blinn, now playing the star part on
the stage, will enact the same role
in the film.
The name of Harold Lloyd's next
release has been changed from 20,
Nv Heart" to "Why Worry" II
has been seven months in the max
ing. Mr.. Lloyd and his bride,
known to film fans as Mildred
Davis. have tickets for New York
for belated honeymoon trip.
Copyright. 1873, in o. s. and Great Britain
by North American Newspaper Alliance Al
rights reserved.)
Evening star., 1923-06-24
That $4,000 annual Prize

book publishers have done for
writers.
LAS soon as any form of art be-
comes involved with business we i'm
mediately hear the cry of CONNER
cialism' leveled at both artist and
his business associate. But 1 won
der II ell of us have given credit to
the great good that this very COM
mercialism has accomplished. Can
We deny to the greatpublishers and
editors the credit which is due them
in fostering and encouraging the
artists whose works they have put
before the public? Can we say that
great editors like George Horace
Lorimer and Ellery Sedgewick have
done nothing for American letters?
represent the commercial side of the
literary endeavor with which they
co-operated.
NAV I prophesy that in the not
distant future the motion picture
producer will be your publisher in
literary art and that he will stand
in the same relation to the author
as the book and magazine publishers
now stand?
"As an earnest of this conviction I
am writing you this letter to offer
TO the Authors League of America,
Inc, prize of $4,000 to be awarded,
annually in cash. to the author of the
best story produced upon the screen and
exhibited publicly in a theater during
each year beginning September 1.
The term author shall be considered
as applying to the person or persons
so designated in the main title of
the positive print of the motion pic
ture production.
The first of these prizes shall be
awarded for the best story exhibited
upon the screen during the year be-
ginning September ], 1925, and, IL it
Is convenient, 1 think it would be
better to give the prize to the winner
not later than the Christmas day i'm
mediately following the expiration of
the prize year
Il place no restriction on how the
award shall be made by the Authors
League, but. subject to your full ap-
proval. i suggest that the league ap-
point jury which will include in its
membership the president of the Au-
thors. League. a newspaper editor, a
novelist, a dramatist and a producer
actively engaged in the production of
motion pictures.
Il am glad that the congress has
started an organization which will
continue the work, and hope that a
year from now we shall find that our
efforts here have borne fruit in better
and finer action pictures
Evening star., 1923-06-24

MEMBERS of the Authors League
of America and persons in the
motion picture industry are giving
enthusiastic praise to the offer of
AdoIph Zukor. president of the Fa-
nous Players Lasky Corporation. OF
that $4,000 annual prize for the
best story produced as a motion pic
ture.
Among the league members the
offer is called a great step toward
active cooperation between writer's
and producers. 1t is considered one
of the important results of the first
international congress on motion pic
ture arts. which was held recently.
One of the important results of
this conference" Mr.. Zukor states, "is
that 1t has convinced many authors
that producers are willing and anx-
ious to have their corporation. MY
hope is that not only will many of
those at present selling their stories
for the screen join in this competi-
tion. but also that new writer's will
be tempted to put forth their best
efforts to study screen requirements.
There can be no question that a
new field of expression has been open
gress." says Eric Schuler. secretary
Of the Authors League. "A new at
titude toward motion picture writ
ing has been developed among our
best authors and an incentive has
been provided for preserving and de-
veloping it."
The offer of Mr.. Zukor was read at
the closing Of the congress at the
Waldorf-Astoria. It was addressed
to Ellis Parker Butler president of
the Authors League. There were no
restrictions attached to it, but it
contained a suggestion as to the jury
to choose the winner
Mr. Zukor stated as follows:
IF it has accomplished nothing
else, this congress has brought the
picture producer and the author into
closer bonds of understanding. This
Is a big thing, indeed, and one that
should be welcomed by everybody
who has the welfare of the motion
picture at heart.
""One of the speakers likened the
picture producer to the publisher of
books, declaring that in picture pro-
ducers the author has found a new
publisher. This, I feel. is a particu-
larly happy comparison, and. if I
may I should like briefly to discuss
this new relation in the light of what
Evening star., 1923-06-24

as great today may be but sugges-
tion of it's great archetype to be In
2109. But II there be motion pic
lures in 2109, we want the people of
those days to know what we pioneers
actually did-not merely to read about
our works in books. We want them
to see with their own eyes that the
motion picture ia bricators of 1923
were workers that need not be
ashamed
We will inurn with our picture the
names and photographs and stories
of the works of the men and women
master workers in the cinema world
of these times. and we will put there
also books to tell how their works
were done. And as this generation
lives and reveres our forefathers I'm
all departments of our national life,
so may 1t be that the people Of 210S.
looking back upon our achievements.
may love and be grateful to all of us
for blazing the way in this our be-
loved art industry.
But this is not all. Recognising
that Abraham Lincoln is the precious
heritage not only of the United
States, but of the whole world, we
look upon the presentation of his life
and events in pictures as a patriotic
public service-a thing desirable and
needful and q duty to mankind, more
particularly at this time. when un-
rest has so gripped the nations that
no man may predict the future.
THE establishing influence of such
picture setting before the eyes of
the people the amazing example OF
this man, one of the people, in his
victroy over poverty. ignorance, in
tolerance. slavery. war hatred and
every form of lack and evil, will
make for peace in greater degree
than all the books, teachings. legisla- :
ton. war threats and moralizing in
all the world.
What we need is to sit again at
the feet of the fathers and learn OF
them. But we can never entirely
know the fathers by books. We need
something more intimate. No man
can know the true Abraham Lincoln
and his events unless he be a student
of Lincoln. How many men in these
days have the time or the disposition
to read more than a book or two
| about our great men? Indeed, the
ignorance about our great men among
people who ought to know is amaz
ing and even dangerous to our. free
institutions.
mocracy, Americans must know hex
history and the men and women who
! made 1t. Our meager~and often un-
reliable school histories are made
Quate to teach all that should be
known. The motion picture. with its
research departments to supplement
the work of the schools, overlooking
nothing, but examining and proving
all, is, therefore, the ideal instructor
OF the nations, for she speaks in a
language that all may understand
and the people, once informed, NAV
always be trusted"
Evening star., 1923-06-24
4 japanese Ne,U Point

"EILM production methods OF Amer
= lea are astounding after seeing
the same work in Germany. France.
italy and Austria" says s. Shimidsa,
secretary Of the department of COM
munication. Toxic. who visited Uni
versal City on the last lap of a world
tour that took him to practically
every large city in Europe.
THE American methods are more
direct and they impress an idea by
pictures with far less effort and far
less film than the European producer
does. Mechanical methods, too, are
nearer perfect, although perhaps no
more artistic than the German
methods" 81 E~s1,
Mr.. Shimidzu inspected the ''Hunch-
back Of .Notre Dame" and Marry Co
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Indorses Alice Adams

THE Cinema Club of Cleveland, Ohio,
an organization of $50 representa-
tive women, II is said, has given its
hearty Endorsement to the screen ver-
sion of Booth Tarkington's story.
Alice Adams Ohicial action was
taken declaring the picture admirable
and the work Of Florence Vidor and
of Claude Gillingwater, who plays
the role of Virgil Adams. as superb.
Mrs. Elmer G. Derr. president of the
Cinema Club, was one of the speakers
at the recent national convention in
Chicago Of the Motion Picture Theater
Operators Association. The club is
in close touch with the exhibitors In
opposing the Ohio censorship law. the
women believing that the passing
upon the merits Of pictures is a func-
tion which should be handled by local
communities.
Alice Adams" IL is claimed, offers
proof that a novel can be adapted to
the screen without distorting the
the authors story or misrepresenting
his characters.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

aroused keen interest.
'I was In Vienna a short time ago
and visited the Prater," he said. "and
it fs perfectly duplicated At the set
ting at Universal City. I recognised
1t at once"
Regarding the FHunchback" set, he
said: 81 have never seen anything so
massive. The front Of the cathedral
is exactly. as 1t Is in Paris today, and
the interior practically the same. but
of course, the neighboring buildings
are all changed now to modern struc-
lures. Among the impressions / carry
back to Japan this scene will be
among the most important"
/ The Japanese oficial toured Cali
fornia while waiting the sailing of q
ship that was scheduled to take him
to Japan. His tour was largely In
the nature of series OF diplomatic
Visits.
Evening star., 1923-06-24

The world of books has provided
the following:
'1The virginian'' the American
romance of the plains by Owen
'Wister, loved both as story and
play. purchased from Douglas Fair
banks, who had long contemplated
using it as vehicle for his own
talents.
Poisoned Paradise'-Robert W.
Services story Of Monte Carlo.
Faint Perfume"-by Zona Gale,
author of Miss Lulu Bett"
White Manly George Agnew
Chamberlain. An adventure story OF
drawing rooms and jungles.
"The Trifiers"-a novel by Fred.
ericl1 Orin Bartlett.
THE Breath of Scandar-Edwin
Balmer's story of modern society.
The screen originals on Preferred's
schedule are April Showers" by
Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton:
when Woman Reaches Forty" by
Royal A. Baker, motion picture CEN
sor for Detroit, and "Mothers.in-
Law" BY authors of "Rich Mems
Wivsss ana sHoor-Men.s WIveat.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Shorter and Different
CUPPLANrING the time-wor

CUP PPLANTING the time-worn
phrase of bigger and better pic
lures" comes Maurice Tourneur with
the prediction that shorter and diff
ferent pictures. with longer runs at
the theaters. will be the vogue next
season.
producers who have strived for
bigger pictures now realize that II
takes more than footage. big sets and
large production costs to make for
success" said Mr.. Tourneur. The
trend toward shorter feature pictures
has been helped along also by theater
owners who demand productions of
not more than six reels in order to
give their audiences the diversified
program OF entertainment they desire.
Every producer is now striving to
get stories that are different Such
stories as The Isle of Lost Ships ar
The Brass Bottle. offering novel
situations and different dramatic con-
struction will be the goal of film men
for the coming season. The run of a
feature of two or more weeks will be
the rule rather than the exception.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
LATEST MOVIE GOSSIP,
FROM HOLLYWOOD
Buster Keatons First Big Feature
By HALLETT ABEND

ANGELES June film play needs
especially long comedy Laugh
film had the experience of enjoying
evening with the audience instead OF laughing
a because of the picture.
mind settled myself the little projection
studio wondered could stand Buster keaton
Three Ages When the lights turned and the opening titles
admonhed myself sterny keep mind the tact
people test for
sides ached from much laughter
asounded find that sparks from
the of newest and
Busters publicity director looked at with
said This about shirt
that will believe those true stories
tina never geti I'M 10 print" But here is it.
has been the making September 1t Buster
FIVE and half reels long Unless my
judgment greatly katon rank equa
0 Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.
not cnanSeo
days when began look upon apes with a
this idea the same pn
striking similarity enacted IN
Buster Margaret Leahy during
during the days OF the greatest
third shows Oh poor
of who has contend with wealthy rival
independent conclusion Instead the
This method makes possible
ocne and and the cutting has been SO
locking plots
Evening star., 1923-06-24
CRANDALL'S-Rupert Hughes
"Souls for Sale"

Fifty-four noted screen players are
said to appear in Rupert Hughes
screen version of his own novel of
life in the Hollywood movie colony.
Souls for Sale" which will be shown
the first three. days of this week, be-
ginning this afternoon. at Crandalfs
Theater. The story is the spirited re-
woman seeking advancement before
the camera. In the cast are Eleanor
Boardman, Mae Busch. Barbara La
Marr, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix and
teur Night on the Ark" will be
shown also On Wednesday and
THURSDAY Maurice Tourneur's picture
Evening star., 1923-06-24
RIALTO-"Lost and Found. "

A picturesque and exciting romance
of the South Seas Is promised at
Moore's Theater. beginning today in
Goldwyn's picture. directed by r. A.
Walsh, entitled Lost and Found"
and featuring House Peters. This is
the picture for which the entire cast
and a boatload Of equipment were
sent to Tahiti. the scenes taking place
on that island and on board the ship
of a slave trader The island set
ungs and the photography are said
to be unusually fine and beautiful.
The story concerns, wealthy
planter named Cochran, whose wife.
through the falsehoods of an island
governor, deserts him, taking her
eldest daughter. Lorna, but leaving
her baby, Madge. Corchran becomes
embittered. swears vengeance on all
women and takes to the seas as Capt.
Blackbird. Years later the woman
and her daughter are in turn deserted,
after which Blackbird comes in con-
tact with his daughter and not know
ing who she is leaves her in the hands
of Waki, a villainous, half-cast native
chief.
In addition to an interpretative
SCORE, unique overture, the beau
tiful BLUE Danube Waltz" inter
preted and conducted after the man
ner of Strauss, by Elias Breeskin,
concert master Of the Rialto orches-
ira will be a. feature, with Herberts
kiss Me Again as an encore
number.
A De Haven comedy. Private,
Keep Off," and the Fox News will be
shown also. ...
Evening star., 1923-06-24
At Gettysburg Again.

CORNELIUS M. COLE, United States
Senator from California during
the years Abraham Lincoln was
President of the United States, and
who sat upon the speakers stand at
Gettysburg when Lincoln delivered
his imin ortal address. will once more
sit upon the speakers platform at
Gettysburg whem the Rockett-Lin- =
coin Film Company reproduces that
historic scene for their big photo
dramatic life of Abraham Lincoln.
now in process of filming at Holly
wood. Senator Cole Is said to be the
thentic witness OF Lincoln and his
times ard. his memory being very
clear, his advice has been OF. ines
timab1e help to the producers Of the
Lincoln picture.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Miscast.

THE Piute Indians are a warm
b.ooded tribe preferring the val
leys and gently rolling plains to the
snow-capped peaks of the Sierras.
Director Lynn Reynolds, filming '"The
Huntress" for First National, made
this discovery recently when he took
a bunch of Piutes to the higher alti-
tudes near Bishop, Calf. region
where ice and. snow hold forth
throughout the summer as well as
winter.
with the loud Interrogation. swhy
didn't you get Ebkimos IL it's going to
be this kind OF pdcture?
Evening star., 1923-06-24
The Faun Now
Spring Magic

WILLIAM DE MILE has returned
to Los Angeles from New York
with the script for his new Para
mount production. Spring Magic"
and Is scheduled to begin work on
1t as soon as possible. 1t is an
adaptation of Edward Knoblock's
stage play. "The Faun." Its name
has been changed to Spring Magic"
The cast includes Agnes Ayres, Jack
Holt, Charles de Roche, Robert Ag-
new, Mary Astor, Ethel Wales. Rob
ert Boulder and Bertram Johns.
Evening star., 1923-06-24
Chevy Chase.

Today. "Singed Wings" Before the
Public" and Urban Movie Chats; to-
morrow and Tuesday, The Nth Com
mandment." The Stork's Mistake"
and International News: wednesdsy
and Thursday, Adam and Eva" Pest
of the Storm Country" and Interna-
tional News; Friday. THE Boss OF
Camp Four" Under Two Flags and
Oregon Trail. No. Is; Saturday. This
Go-Getter." Don't Get Fresh" and
'Plunder' No IL
Evening star., 1923-06-24
C0LUMBIA-Agnes Ayres, in
"The Heart Raider"

The conventional way of a maid
with a man, when Cupid had done
his deadly work on the two. is to
stand with shyly averted face and
wait for the gentleman to awkward
ly pop the question or, failing that,
to fold the maiden fair with ardent
but clumsy embrace to his manly
breast.
Under the new dispensatfon. how
ever. that apparently has gone out of
fashion, SO that now when a beauti-
full. headstrong damsel sees the man
she wants, she simply goes and gets
him. regardless of what people. may
say or think.
At least that's the method Agnes
Ayres employs in the wooing Of John
her social set. in "The Heart Raider"
the newest of all Paramount pictures,
which will be shown at Loew's CO.
lumbia theater this afternoon and all
this week.
II may cast additional light on the
determined nature of Johns enchan-
tresS to remark that her father. ap-
palled by her reckless characteristics,
had covered himself with a freak In
surance policy that guaranteed him
be incurred in this beauty's madcap
career of courtship Such is the
theme of the story that Julie Herne
and Harry Durant have given the
screen in The Heart Raider" Wes-
cludes Mahlon Hamilton, Charles
Ruggles. Frazer Coulter, Marie Burke
and Charles Reigle.
The program will include also the
titled High and Dry" the lnterna-
tionaI news and orchestral music.