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Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04
PARTY
 FOR CLYDE MILLER

Monday evening at the homo of Mir. and sfrs. Clyde Miller of Wood stock, most enjoyable birthday party was given Mfr. Miller. Twenty-Five guests were present from Webster Pomfret and Putnam. Music gave great pleasure, nni refreshments of cake, ice cream, wafers and punch were served during the sYepipg.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04
A. S. KING BUYS CONVERSE
 HOUSE ON CENTER ST

4. g. King has purchased the house on Center street owned by Henry L. Converse and occupied by the fami- lies of George Clifford and Wallace W Futile. Mr. Kings family will move from their present home on Grove street 10 Center street the last of this month. moving into the side of their new house now occupied by Mr. Futile.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04
woMAN's BOARD MEETING

The regular quarterly meeting of the Woman's Board of the Day Kim ball hospital will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, Union Block. Wednesday,, September Q, at 3 o'clock ?. m. Executive committee will meet at 2.30. Important busi- ness is to be considered
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04
CHURCH CHOIR HAS OUTING
 TO PLEASANT VIEW

Members of the choir of the Second church held an outing at Pleasant View on Thursday. The party of twenty-five went from Put nam in five automobiles, leaving early and spending the whole day atI the beach. The weather was little cold and it rained for 6 short time during the day, but nevertheless the affair was voted n real success.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04

Miss Lavina Falkins. nurse at the Day Kimball Hospital, is at Lords Point for a few days. Later she will visit at her home in Moncton. Nova Scotia.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04

Miss Matilda Dumas of Mt. St. Joseph's convent. Hartford. has been spending a week at her home here On her return she took her sister. Miss Aldueia Dumas. with her for a ,yisft
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04

Mrs. Harry Csrrell of South Wey- mouth. Mass. is visiting her sister. Mrs. E. l.. Prince, South Main street.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04

Mrs. Eidon s. Johnson and daush- ter Bernyce of Willimantic are spending a few days with Mrs. John sons parents, Mir. and Mrs. c. l.. Adams, South Main street.
Putnam patriot., 1925-09-04

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Evening star., 1925-03-22
Tivoli-" Loves Wilderness

Corinne Griffith will be the star al
Crandalrs Tivoli Theater the first
two days of this week. beginning this
afternoon in First Nationals film YER
sion of Evelyn Campbelrs Loves
Wilderness" with Holmes Herbert
and Ian Keith in the leading male
roles; also Neal Burns in Sea Legs"
and new issue of the Pathe Review
Tuesday and Wednesday Will be
shown Metros production OF Henry
Miller's stage success, THE Great Di-
vide" featuring Alice Terry and Con-
way Tearle; Charlie Chase, in Should
Husbands Be Watched?" and a fan
tasy in natural colors, THE Song of
the Nightingale" Thursday and Fri
day, D. W. Griffith's production,
America" and a new Aesop fable,
The Jungle Bike Riders" Saturday,
Patsy Ruth Miller in "The Girl on
the Stairs" together with an "Our
Gang" comedy. Buccaneers" and, as
an added matinee feature, the Gran
dall-Hahn Children's Carnival, intro
ducing the first installment of a new
chapter play, idaho" with souve-
Mrs and candy for all
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Retrospect1on.

Sterling. AL St John, Chester Conk-
lin, Mack Swain and numerous others
all appeared in prominent parts.
Many of our feature subjects are
amenable to the same retrospections.
Take, for example, LAS Man Desires
the First National attraction an
nounced for showing here this week.
When the activities cited above were
at their zenith Milton Sills, star OF
LAS Man Desires" had graduated
from the Chicago University and was
leading man for the most distin-
guished actresses on the stage, in
cluding Mrs. Fiske. Viola Dana, CO.
star with Mr.. Sills, was a stage
dancer who had just finished a sue
cessful engagement in THE Poor Lit
tie Rich Girl" and was essaying in
genue roles in Vitagraph productions.
Irving Cummings, who directed "As
Man Desires" and plays a small part
in it, was still stock star in the Poll
houses in New England. Rosemary
Theby, instead of the seasoned
''vamp" that she is now, was a slip of
girl, attempting any sort Of role
that was allotted her She really got
her first real opportunity with a Flor
ida producing unit some six or eight
years ago in support of Pauline
Frederick.
Today all are rated as players OF
the first rank.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
The Spirit of Outdoors.

& n inspection of Harold Bell
"A Wrights workshop gives a quick
insight into the reasons for this
authors wide popularity and his
great appeal to the public at large.
The place radiates the breath of the
out-of-doors. The walls, the fur
nishfngs and even the ceilings are
in a beautiful restful green. Yet,
despite all the beauty everywhere.
the room is arranged for the greatest
efficiency, indicative of the writer S
penchant for orderliness
Mr.. Wright actually is a builder of
books in more than the literary sense,
for he goes to work in the same
methodfcal manner as would the
builder of a house. He first deter
mines the purpose of his story, what
force it shall expound, and thus
makes his theme. Then he selects
from his acquaintanceship, which
numbers thousands, those persons to
be considered products of this force
SO carefully chosen.
Being adverse to. the noisy tap-tap
of the typewriter, Mr.. Wright does
his manuscripts with pen or pencil
and the shelves of his big workroom
are piled high with sheets, which are
filed away after having been tran
scribed by a typist.
One of his stories, THE Mine With
the Iron Door" is a screen attraction
here this week.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

| expressed it, having their attention
directed to the subject in question
and giving them the opportunity TO
avoid making into picture the novel
or play under discussion"
Mr.. Hays pointed out that during
the year just passed more than 100
books and plays-including some Of
the best sellers" and stage sue
ceses-were kept from the screen be-
cause 'our members believed them
unsuitable for perturbation" And
Mr.. Hays added, There have not been
more than half dozen disputed In
stances
Some pictures. he admitted, have
been made which might very we'll
have been omitted; a few have been
| made which should not have been
| made at all, but. he emphasized,
more than 100 questionable books
and plays have been voluntarily kept
from the screen by our members by
this reasonable method, which is not
censorship in any case. No censor
ship could bring these results"
Mr.. Hays impressed upon his hear
ers that this formula does not, by
any possible construction or appli-
cation, limit the production Of vital
! or artistic pictures, as any method
doing that would fail absolutely. And
he further emphasized the fact that
| this is good business as we'll as good
morals"
| 1t was further made clear that in
| his opinion the movie public in the
end prefers clean" pictures, and that
to ignore this fact is not so much
to bring on political censorship as to
drive customers from the box Office"
| An instance was cited in which one
producer is said TO have scrapped d
motion picture after he had paid s25,-
I 600 for the book from which il was
| adapted when he learned that il had
been rejected under this scheme by
| another producer.
| There has been no cheating on the
part of the pledged producers, 1t is
| declared. and a cheater would be
quickly called to account by his fell
lows, according TO proponents OF the
| formula
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Columbia-'S -'Sackcloth and
Scarlet"

Henry King, who directed such clas-
sizes as "Torable David" The White
cinema dramatization of "Sackcloth
and Scarlet" the novel by George
Gibbs, which, with Alice Terry, star
of The Four Horsemen" and "Scara-
mouche," in its chief role, opens a
weeks engagement at Loew's Colum-
bia this afternoon. Added features
will include THE Guest Of Honor by
Richard Harding Davis and featuring
Earle Foxe; the International news
reel, with orchestral establishment.
The story contrasts the weak quail
tiles of one sister with the patience
and self-sacrifice of another. The
headstrong girl becomes involved
with a California guide, and the self
sacrificing sister shields and suffers
for her.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Nav Rival Pola.

I LILLIAN HALL DAVIS, claimed to
be the most beautiful actress on
the European screen, who will make
her initial appearance before the
American public in Quo Vadis" as
Lygia, a Christian beauty, is being ad
vanced as a possible rival on the screen
of the more famous Pola Negri
Miss Davis is native of England.
She first won success on the London
speaking stage and later was won
over to the silent drama. She is of
Grecian type, with a face like a
cameo, sensitive, emotional and re-
fiecting the mood of the moment. A
few inches over 5 feet in stature, she
is slender. graceful, pliable.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Plays With Lion Cubs.

THEORIES on raising babies con-
= fict. There is the ultra modern
theory that makes a great to-do
about calories, vitamines and the
like, and the old d-fashioned theory
used by those who now are grand
mothers and who point with pride to
their own offspring as evidence that
the old fashioned way is the right
way.
Probably no baby was ever raised
in an environment like that in which
baby Charles Bernard Murphy, jr.,
one of the cast in "The Price of
Pleasure" the Universal-Jewel pho
toplay, was and is being raised.
Young Murphy is the son of the
Zoo superintendent at Universal City
Calf, where Universal pictures are
made, and his strange environment is
a lions cage.
it is true the kid does not mingle
with adult lions, but he is perfectly
happy sprawling among a bunch Of
lion cubs before they are old enough
to get rough. Each time new lion
babies arrive, the cubs and the baby
can be seen rolling around in the
sunny cage, the floor of which is
covered with shavings. while on the
other side of a partition, the mother
lion runblcs her doubts as 10 the
propriety of the association.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Palace-"The Denial"

A romance of the days of the Span
ish-American war in '9S and the pres
ent jazz-mad day, featuring Claire
Windsor and cast including Bert
Roach, William Haines Edward Con-
nelly, Lucille Ricksen. Robert Agnew
and Emily Fitzroy, will be seen in
Hobart Henley's Metro Goldwyn pro-
duction, "The Denial" which will be
shown at Loew's Palace this after
noon and all this week, together with
Mack Sennetts comedy, Get Up.' the
Pathe news reel and Topics of the Day.
The musical setting and overture will
be provided by the Palace Orches-
ira, under Thomas Joseph Cannon.
Miss Windsor, as the girl of '97 and
the mother of today, is said to offer
brilliant and remarkable charac-
terization, and Lucille Ricksen is said
to be adorable as the girl of today.
Bert Roach is the unwanted suitor
of the Spanish War days, William
Haines the lost sweetheart and Rob
ert Agnew an aviator, and Edward
Connolly and Emily Fitzroy the
father and mother of '97.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
DOROTHY MACKAILL
StraAd
Paris Movie Congress.

AN International Motion Picture
Congress has been called for Paris
in June, and Ernst Lubitsch who is
now directing the Warner Bros pro-
duction, Kiss Me Again. has been
invited to attend and make an address
The invitation came from the COM
mittee on intellectual cooperation,
which was organized by the League
of Nations and works under the aus
pices Of the league
The purpose of the congress, Mr..
Lubitsch explained, is to assist in max
ing a survey Of the motion picture
industry in all countries and to OBJ
tain cooperation for making scien-
tific and educational films so as to
use pictures as a means to better in
ternationl understanding.
Represent tatives from every coun-
try where pictures are made have
been invited, and LubitSch is one of
several from this country who will
attend. The United States, it is un-
derstood because of it's outstanding
leadership in the industry, will have
a greater representation at the con-
gress.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Metropolitan AS Man
Desires.

This weeks attraction at Gran
dalfs Metropolitan Theater, beginning
this afternoon at o'clock, is First
Nationals production of "As Man De-
sires,' in which Milton Sills and Viola
Dana are the stars, supported by Ruth
clifford, Rosemary Theby, Irving
Cummings--who also directed-Tom
Kennedy, Hector Sarno and Frank
Leigh. The comedy will be "Our
Gang" in Hal Roach's two-reel riot,
Dog Days" and the bill will be
augmented by the Metropolitan World
Survey reel. scenic and musical pro-
gram by the Metropolitan Orchestra
under Daniel Breeskin.
"As Man Desires was adapted
from Gene Wright's novel. Pandora
LIE CroiX,' and is based on the idea
that woman who loves shapes her
life "as man Desires The action
ojens at a British army post in Cal
cutta, India, where, after a quarrel
Maj. John Craig, apparently deceived
by his fiancee, is confronted: with a
charge of murder. Unwilling to drag
the girls name into the affair. he
fees the country
The locale then shifts to the pic
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Ambassado-"As a Man
Desires"

Milton Sills, Viola Dana. Ruth Cliff
ford, Rosemary Theby and Irving
Cummings have the leading roles in
First Nationals production of "As a
Man Desires" to be run at CrandaIrs
Ambassador Theater the first three
days of this week, beginning this aft
ernoon, together with Cliff Bowes, in
High Hopes" and other short reels.
Wednesday and Thursday, Eric Won
Stroheim's Greed" taken from Frank
Norris novel. "McTeague," featuring
Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean
Hersholt, Chester Conklin and Dale
Fuller, and the Aesop fable, I'm
Dutch" Friday, Baby Peggy in THE
Family Secret" Mack Sennetts
Loves Sweet Piff1e" and a Bruce
scenic. "Just Waiting" Saturda
THE Great Divide" co-starring Alice
Terry and Conway Tearle; also
Should Husbands Be Watched?" star
ring Charlie Chase, and the third in
stallment of the chapter play, Idaho"
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Hays and Clean Movies.

~ simply lay before you one formu-
la, and that OF what you must
not do. You must not offend common
decency. That's all"
Thus spoke VIII Il Hays. the
forceful president of the Motion pSe-
ture Producers and Distributors OF
Am erica, in recent address made at
Hollywood. Mr.. Hays organization.
it is claimed, produces IS per cent of
all the motion pictures shown in this
country.
For more than a year, Mr. Hays
pointed out, the motion picture in
dustry has been functioning under
self-imposed formula, by which
each of the larger producers and dis
tributors does his own censoring. On
February 26, 1924, % corporations,
composing the Motion Picture Pro-
ducers and Distributors of America,
incorporated, adopted resolution
pledgfng themselves to:
Prevent the prevalent type of
book and play from becoming the
prevalent type of picture; to exercise
every possible care that only books
or plays which are of the right type
are used for screen presentation; TO
avoid perturbation of books or plays
which can be produced only after
such changes as to leave the pro-
ducer subject to the charge of decep-
| ton; to avoid using titles which are
indicative of a kind of picture which
could not be produced, or by their
suggestiveness seek to obtain at
tendance by deception, a thing equal
| ly reprehensible, and TO prevent mis-
| leading, salacious, or dishonest ad-
lvertising."
To make this equally effective. il
is explained, method was adopted
by which. when the scenario depart
| ment of any OF the companies was
offered the picture rights of a book
| or play which did not meet these pro-
visions, it would decline to picturize
| the book or play and would notify
Mr. Hays office of Its rejection, and
| IL confirmed by Mr.. Hays Office such
rejection would be forwarded to the
| other members. .thuS." as Mr.. Hay:
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Rialto-"T The Price of
Pleasure

THE Price of Pleasure" the Uni
versal-Jewe1 photoplay. co-starring
Virginia Valli and Rerman Kerry,
will be the feature at the Rfalto this
week.
Virginia Valli has the part of a
salesgirl in department store. Kerry
plays the part of young man of
wealth and established social stand
ing, who is quite dominated by an
aristocratic mother. He invites the
girl to go to a show with him, and
there follows a week of magic JOY for
both. But, like bubble, delight
bursts when his people return from
abroad. There is a comedy vein run
ming throughout the story, ably han
died by Louise F'azenda and T. Roy
Barnes.
The Guarneri brothers, phonograph
record artists, are here for a return
engagement and will head the musical
pogram. The overture will be Victor
Herbert's Mile. Modiste." An Ink
well comedy, entitled Vaudeville -
and the International News will COM
plete the bill.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

1T Is easy for the 'old-timer' to cast
l his eye over the cast of practically
any Of the better photo dramas on our
screens and remark to himself, Il
knew them when"
While still, of course, the newest
form of dramatic expression, the si-
lent drama, nevertheless, is old
enough in America to afford inter-
esting contrasts between the first
screen work OF many of its promi-
nent players and their present work
before the camera.
Who doesn't remember the old Bio
graph days, when Griffith was just
perfecting the close up and the fash
back. and Mary Pickford and her
blond curls were coming to the fore
a Americas sweetheart? And it is
not even so broad span as that to
recall the athleticisms of Douglas
Fairbanks in the Triangle releases
that first started him on his way to
the heights from which he has handed
down The Three Musketeers, Robin
Hood" and THE Thief of Bagdad."
In the lighter branches it is equal
ly easy to recall when virtually all of
the comic stars who appear indivfdu-
ally. today might be seen in a single
picture. For instance, in TITLES
Punctured Romance" Marie Dressler,
Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand,
Charlie Murray, Louise Fazenda, Ford
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Wardman Park-"Way
Down.East."

D. w. Griffith's great spectacle.
Way Down East" will be seen today,
tomorrow and Tuesday at the Ward
man Park Theater.
For this perturbation of the famous
stage success, furnished by Lottie
Blair Parker and Joseph Grismer, Mr..
Griffith assembled a great cast. The
work ends in a thrilling climax of
spectacular scenes amid the veering
flaws of New England blizzard and
the explosive breaking of river ice
gorge. The tender moments, the
tragic episodes, the laughabIe situa-
tions and the stirring scenes are ac-
centuated by unusual orchestral ac-
compartment. pronounced the most
ambitious yet attempted in the the
ater.
Wednesday and Thursday will be
seen 1.-THE Man Who Played God, -
with George Arliss: also Lloyd HamiI-
toms comedy. Good Morning." and
North of Sc" will be shown Friday
and Saturday, with Kathleen Clifford
furnishing the comedy in Grandpa s
Girl
Evening star., 1925-03-22
FILMOGRAMS

Barrymore, the former for a period OF
years. the latter for two pictures In
1885.
Ramon Novarro has signed a five
year contract with Metro Goidwyn-
and It is said three starring vehicles
have already been provided for him.
Although Henry King will direct
Stella Dallas" for Samuel Goidwyn,
1t will not affect his contract for two
pictures to be made for Ritz Pic
lures, which has simply loaned him
to Goldwyn.
Rudolph Valentino Is linked up
with United Artists, under the man
agement of Joseph NJ Schenck, with
the good wishes of the management
of Ritz Pictures, which seemed dis
posed to object some time ago.
A committee has been appointed by
the ton Picture Distributors AS
ssociation TO work with Will H Hays
in all matters affecting future pro-
ductions. especially delicate situa-
tions that might offend religious sectM
and the sensibilities of foreign ma
tions.
In Milwaukee in May promises to stir
things up. A "call to arms" has been
issued by the Independents" against
trust methods. Ditto for the Minneap-
oils exhibitor convention March "a.
The Kansas Legislature killed d.
bill requiring theaters to be so equip-
ped as to supply 80 cubic feet OF air
per minute for each person. 1t Is a
sort of reminder of a Washington,
D. c., street car regulation that each
passenger must be provided with S
square feet of standing or sitting
room in the cars.
Associated Exhibitors is to produce
new version of The Miracle OF
Life which was originally made and
released in 1916 by American Film
Production in the East.
THE Last Laugh" the remarkable
photoplay featuring Emil Jannings in
a one-character story without sub
titles, which was recently given a
private showing to newspaper men al
the Rialto in this city, will open at
the Capitol in New York the last of
the month, s@d Mr.. Jannings is
coming from Berlin for the prsmisgs.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

turesque pearl beds of the South Seas
where Craig becomes a pearl fisher,
known on account of his silence as
the sphinx" Here, into his life,
comes half caste girl whom he eventu-
ally makes his wife. From this sit
uation springs an unusual climax
when it becomes known back at
headquarters that the sphinx" is
Craig.
Milton Sills has the role of the
officer who becomes the Sphinx"
Viola Dana is the half-caste wanton.
Ruth Clifford, beautiful and repent
ant firt, and Rosemary Theby a
tigerish siren.
The musical numbers include
Dance of the Hours" from "Gia-
conda" by Ponchielli, as overture; as
interpretative melody for the feature,
MY Desire" by Charles Wakefield
Cadman, and the exit number will be
AT the End of the Road" a popular
hit.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

A CONNECTICUT censorship bill,
"A pending In the legislature, aroused
verbal battle and brought out
charges that the bill was being
argued under false pretenses as a
revenge measure"
A proposed law in South Carolina
provides for censor board composed
of two members of the State Senate,
two Of the House and one woman to
be chosen by the speaker of the
House and the president of the Senate.
westfeId, Mass. is waking up to
the need OF special film programs for
children at week ends.
Paramount Is to maintain a. fashion
bureau in Paris all the year round
How far that little candle throws
his beams! So shines a good deed in
a naughty world" A motion picture
exhibitor in Terre Haute, Ind, re-
Gently gave a benefit performance for
the widows and orphans created by a
mine dlSa Ster.
"Chu Chin Chow" the photoplay,
recently was condemned by the Que
bec board of censors.
Eleven thousand one hundred and
ninety-seyen disputes between dis
tributors and exhibitors, involving
s2,119,622.56, were disposed of during
1924 by the VIII Hays organization
arbitration plan.
Allen Dwan has signed a new con-
tract with Famous Players to run a
year.
In San Francisco Supervisor Ralph
McLeran has issued a ruling prohibit
Ing the sale Of tickets in motion pic
ture houses to those for whom no
seats are provided.
The State Supreme Court of Wash
ington. reversing the lower courts,
has declared picketinG theaters ille-
gal, declaring there is no such thing
as peaceful picketing. The Musicians
and Theater Employees Unions had
been picketing theaters owned by
John Danz.
1t seems that Glenn Hunter is not
to play the lead in, My Buddy's
Wife," Tom Terriss' next picture.
The Warner brothers have signed
two new stars, Sid Chaplin and John
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Central-"On the Stroke of
Three"

"On the Stroke of Three" to be
shown the first two days of this week,
beginning this afternoon, at Gran
dalrs Central Theater, relates q story
of gripping action and tender pathos,
the leading roles played by Madge
Bellamy, Kenneth Harlan and Mary
Carr, supported by Eddie Phillips and
Robert Dudley. 1t was adapted from
Edward Payson Dowst's magazine
story, The Man From Ashaiuna." The
comedy will be buccaneers" star
ring Our Gang
Tuesday and Wednesday, Jack Holt,
Lois Wilson, Ernest Terrence and
Noah Beery in North of 36," and
Cliff Bowes in "Merrymakers"; Thurs
day and Friday, Douglas Fairbanks in
THE Thief of Bagdad"; Saturday,
Bebe Daniels in Paramount's Miss
Bluebeard,r and Jimmie Adams in
"Sten East