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As A Film Star Secs
The Picture’s Future
Gene Gauntier Surveys the
Photoplay PieM
Us What Is Needed There
Gtofte Sisgmmna Moulded by Naaite
to Aiauine Heroic Role*. —1 Eyelyn
Selbio- Sine* in Mournful Number*
oi Urn Tr*eio Fate Tint Befell
Her Kit.
Recently Mia* Gene Gauntier, the fa
mous motion picture actress appearing
in Warner's Three Part Features, was
approached aud asked to give her opin
ion of the future of the motion picture
industry.- She replied in her characters
tic style as follows:
“I believe thoroughly in the future of
the motion picture, but to what heights
it may reach I would not dare to pro.
diet—It depends on the manufacturers.
At present we are compelled to five the
audience what it want*—not what is
good for It. We may not carry out our
ideals or we would bankrupt our em
ployers—or so they think. • The, great
crying need is for good original scenarios
- not adaptations of books or plays
There Is a new field of literature await-,
ing those who have the unique talent
necessary for their production. . We need
tLOFTWS TORE U
SEEN ON THE SCREENS
AS CLORiNDA THE HOYDEN
The Famous Players to Present Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett’s Drama, “A ljady of Quality”, as Its
• Important January Release.
For its release of January the Famous
Players will present the prominent star
and international stage favorite, Cecilia
I .oft us, in the famous novel, and play,
“A..Lady of Quality,” by Frances Hodg-
Burnett. The play is" an" Idyllic
blending of the .romance,- beauty and
daring of the days of , knighthood, and
the film version has developed into a
brilliant reproduction of the warmth add
color if , a picturesque, period?*..
In the . role off. Ctdrlnda^nU head-,
strong, tempestuous hoyden whose fatb-
copteznpt far. the other toex extends
|o Ids- owftj* daughters; but fwho
later ^w^^ hisf respect ,, and grow? up
aiuon^ Tija folate companions,; learn-
Tbe God of Gireah (Bison—2 parts).—
An.. English colonel steals an idol of
Bnddah. from the temple of Girtah,
thinking it will never be missed. How
ever, the result of this act overshadows
his entire life. Priests of Gireah de
mand its return, but the colonel denies
time he'has it. His servants league
themselves with the priests against him.
His lifip is attempted through the agency
of the deadly cobra, one of the many un
usual tod thrilling scenes, And his liquors
are poisoned-
Fifteen years later, he comes to the
United States with his nephew. One
night, his eyes failing him, he sends his
valet for a private secretary. A moment
Sioux Indians
Take to the Tango
Isadore Bernstein Introduces
the Motion Picture Within
a Convent’s Walls
The Feature Film Protective Association
Organized Co Proteot Feature Film
Men From Pirates.—The Killing of
Medero .Filmed for Warner’s Features
as “The Fugitive Law".
The thirty-two Sioux Indians of the
Broncho Motion Picture camp at Santa
Monica canyon have become so versed
in real American ways and manners that
they have taken up the tango craze.
Isadore Bernstein, general manager of
the Pacific Coast Studios of the Univer
sal, at Hollywood* Calk, has invaded a
virgin territory with motion picture*.
Mr. Bernstein’s little daughter is receiv
ing her education at the Ramona con
vent, near Alhambra, Cali. Bernie 1*
STANDARD SET BY WORLD
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ALL ITS RELEASES
“A Son of His Father”, A Lubin Release, Illustrates the
Strength of Heredity.—A Supposedly Bogus
Count Proves to Be the Real Article
When the Wcrld Special Films Cor
poration announced their advent Into
the feature end of the motion picture
business, they said they wonld handle
nothing but what they considered the
best of the world’s output of both the
European and American manufacturer
which it was possible to secure.
Up to the present time they have fully
lived up to their promise. Hundreds of
films have been ottered them for ex
ploitation, the vast majority of which
they refused as not being up to tho
standard. Phil Gleichman and Emanuel
Mandelbaum are both pioneers in the
film game, and their sole aim is the up
lift of the motion picture business. In
order to carry out this policy they real
ized that they would have to be in a
position to market their films all over
the United States. In order to accom-
A Son of His Father (Lubin Special—
2 parts).—Will Temple, n gambler,
leaves his wife, Mary, alone most of the
time with their baby boy, Harry. The
night Mary can stand it no longer is the
night Will Is the heaviest winner. Will
decides to leave his home and wife and
go his way undisturbed. He leaves a
note to’her to that effect and that she
will bo well cured for, and nlso an en
closure to he given to the boy when he
becomes of age. Then he goes away and
eventually becomes proprietor of a gam
bling joint out West.
Harry grp* -8 to manhood and on the
day of his majority learns from the note
his father had left that there is $1,000
and interest awaiting him in the bank.
Inadvertently his father has told him in
Irvin Willat 4n Foremost Rank of
Photoplay Photographers. — Thomas
lace, of the New York Motion Picture
Company, Scoores, Miss Tsuru Aoki
'as a Recruit.
Miss Eva Unsell, who has nntjl now
?en a reader with the De MiUe Flay
Agency, and who is also known as one
of the best scenario writers In the coun
try, has joined, the Scenario Department
of the Famous Players’ Film Co. Miss
Unsell has written many scenarios for
the Salem Company, the most notable
among which Is ‘‘The Pawnbroker’s
Daughter.” She has mado a careful
study of the work, and has some orig
inal ideas on the technique and construc
tion of film stories. She has had a valu
able training as'a magazine writer and
journalist, havipg been associated with
the “Kansas City Post.” '
Irvin Willat has won much well-de
served praise from an appreciative pub
lic and from his confreres In the picture
world for the strikingly excellent photo-
>!:d technique to stand on,
vivid imagination that can express
tiou without word* all human emotions—
it requires a fine sense of dramatic pro
portion, and. above all, that indefinable
quality we call, for want of a better
name, *The Picture Eye.’ When we
have masterpieces in the new literature,
w hen we have producers who are artists,
with ideas, when we have actors who do
not act, but are living and breathing the
characters they portray, then, and not
till then, will the photoplay become the
dangerous rival of the theatre.
George A. Siegmnnn bolds a prominent
place in the Reliance Stock Company,
and this prominence is due both to his
ability a? an actor and to bw innate
personality. He is cast in heroic mold,
and naturally finds himself cast for roles
that demand dominance, virility and
forcefnlness. Mr. Siegraann popular
with all with whom he comes into so
cial association- and especially with nts
brother members of the New xora
Screen Club. # # *
Evelvn Selbie, of the Western E#m»-
nr.v Company, Is in mourning for her
cat. This was rid ordinary cat. and its
demise has left an attains void on the
back porch Of Miw Srifctof* bnnptiow,
to say nothing of her heart. be
reaved refuses to speak to V. A. Potel
for an indefinite period. Potel recently
kicked the cat in the daric. but It most
have hurt the feline elsewhere>aa|w*U for
death ensued within a few The
funeral was quite an elaborate affair,
Harry Todd being chief pall-bcarer. An
Ill-timed grin decorated Jifc f
ing the performance of hw sad duties,
bnt everybody knows flut Todd is a cat-
hater and that be therefore denv-
ing pleasure and profit from these post
mortem proceedings. .The BssanayKoo-
Koo KTnb was present in force, and the
following epitaph was engraved hr
Selbie over the grave under the lone
some California pine:
Here lies my kat; Petri's the rum
Who boasted he would atom tt:
He kicked my tot to kingdom kum,
I seen him when be done it.
Here lies my tot:
And if Potri . •
Peuie* the deed*
He lies as well.
ing to drink, smoke and swear as freely
to any of them, until the derision of the
epan., she Iqves at her masculine manners
and dress prpmptsher to renounce them
and become - a Lady of Quality, Miss
Loft us has a part that lends many op
portunities to display her unusual tal
ents, as a character actress. The thrill
ing and sometimes pathetic incidents
that enter into the character’s later ca-
the successful wiles of Sir John
Oxon, the beau ideal of London Town,
her untutored heart, after which
he coldly spurns her, her piqued but
faithful marriage to the old Earl of
Dnnstanwolde, and the terrific and
tragic scene, subsequently, when she
conns face to face again with Sir John
Oxon, are faithfully portrayed.
Cecilia Loftus begun her dramatic ca
reer under the direction of Daniel Fro li
man, abandoning a vaudeville income of
jsysf©
salary —
cerience under Mr Frohfban’s guidance
Within two years she had succeeded so 1
capably that Mr. Frohman made, .her
leading lady with K. H Sothfexn, then
under his - management By a ! strange
coincidence; is Ift’the ease of James K
Haciett* -Miss Loft ns now returns to
Mr. Frohman's .direction, under vitally
before the secretary—a girl—is ushered
Into the room, two Hindu priests enter
and stab the colonel to death. The girl
is accused by the valet, who finds her by
the body. She makes her escape by
jumping fifteen feet from a window, and
three months afterward meets the neph
ew and marries him. When the nephew
brings his wife home, the valet recog
nizes her, threatens her with exposure
and succeeds in blackmailing her. Her
life is made unbearable until she finds
the colonel’s diary, which tells of the
former attempts upon his life. She con
fesses everything to her husband and is
cleared of suspicion, while the valet is
exposed.
Devotion (Domino—2 parts).—Colonel
Brush, a staunch Southerner, whose
daughter, Edith, is in love with Walter
Boyd, a Northern physician, during an
argument strikes the doctor across the
face with bis- whip, leaving a very bad
UK ccar The colonel prepares to join his
week to accept a much smaller regiment at the front Before leaving
order to acquire dramatic ex- ke h,des 1x13 wealth in an old well, giving
Simon Boldt bonds to cover the mort
gage which Boldt holds on the colonel’s
home. During a retreat the colonel is
cut eff from his men and changes clothes
Trapped in the Castle of Mystery
(Warner’s Features—3 parts).—Colonel
Barton's automobile breaks down' near
th« quaint old village of Doromy. While
talking with the inn keeper he learns
that JDoromy castle is peopled with ghosts
and that travelers who venture within
re never seen eTfve again. * Tn lUkpirit
f adventure the Colonel sets out for the
as tie, resolved to spend a night. there
with a Northern private, hoping to make
bis escape The Northern private is
found and buried as the colonel* while
the colonel is wounded by an exploding so-called pirates,
shell* becoming almost an imbecile. He]
is discovered in a Southern prison by hia; Irving Cummi
faithful servant, Pete, and taken hotae ; leading
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and disprove the villagers’ superstitions
Margaret, the attractive daughter of
Oontran, leader of a gang of counterfeit
ers ‘who have their headquarter* in-old
Dorony castle, is quick to carry word of
the colonel's visit and to warn the coun
terfeiters of their danger. That night
Colonel Barton is intimidated and tor
tured by Gontran’a men dressed as
ghosts. He goes mad and the next day
is found wandering in the fields.
Then fate takes a hand In the game.
The colonel's son, Charles, falls in love
with the counterfeiter’s daughter, who
saves him from a horrible death at the
hands of the counterfeiters. Escaping,
he aussiste the police to break up the
gang, and takes Margaret to his home
when her father Is killed. In an Intense
ly dramatic scene Colonel Barton is *©n-
fronted with a white veiled figure that
the shock may restore his reason. Tho
experiment la successful and Margaret,
although the daughter of a counterfeiter,
marrie^. Charles.
all wrapped up in his child and, princi
pally to afford her amusement, he hasim-
augurated the practice of taking to the
convent every week a few thousand feet
of film and a projecting machine. The
pictures are run off in the gymnasium
of the school. The first picture he took
was “The Battle of Boll Con.” It was
the first motion picture the good sisters
at the institution had ever seen. That
thy were delighted with it goes without
saying. The films were furnished by
the courtesy of the California Film Ex
change.
Lillian Christie, forjnerly with the
Vitcgraph and Kaleru companies, has
joined the Western Essonay ranks at
Niles, Cat, where she was warmly wel
comed by her new fellow players. Miss
Christie has a remarkably pleasant per
sonality and is full of life—both of
which desirable attributes toe finds little
difficulty in reproducing in her screen
work.
the newly organized Feature Film Pro
tective Association. The object of the
association uf announced- is the getting
of better features, the improvement of
the condition of exhibitors in general
and the devising of ways and means to
protect all feature film men from the
well known as a
__ r „ _ „ _ legitimate stage for
to his daughter who, now that Boldt has’years, and a screen star of great popu-
foreclosed the mortgage, is forced to live!larity, has accepted a flattering offer
~ ~ *■*“*' from the Universal Company to join
with the negroes. Dr. Boyd is the chief
surgeon of the Northerners that take the
own in which the colonel lives. He op-
rates upon the colonel and restores his
reason.
Her Legacy (Kay-Bee).—Jed Conners,
_ wealthy but miserly farmer, starves
his danghter, Mary, in his greed for gold.
A snarling, grouchy lawyer named Caleb
Mundy, wishes to marry her, bat she
does not lote him, and refuses. Mary
falls in love with her father’s hired man,
Jim Grace. Jed Conners makes his will,
.with Caleb Mundy as witness. He then
hides the will, also some money, in a
hollow tree. Conners, being very deaf,
fails to hear runaway horse one day,
and as w result loses his life. Mary can
not find the will. This fact gives Mundy
the idea that he can forge one success
fully. In the forged will Mary is only
given the wood lot. She marries Jim
Grace aud they go to live in a *
the wood lot. Mundy is
stricken one night, and thinking he
a ghost, runs, and falling over a diff, is
later found dead- Mary dreams that her
father hid the will and some money in
the hollow tree and toe and Jim find
them the next day. The ordinal will
bequeaths everything to the daughter
Mary.
them as a leading man. Three plays that
have made Mr. Cummings famous
throughout America and Europe are:
“Success," “Ashes” and “The Man from
Outside.”
DEMAND THAT
UNIVERSAL PROGRAM
The Great West Motion Picture Co-,
manufacturing three-reel pictures for the
program of Warner’s Features, Inc., has
planned a unique campaign in the Golf
of Lower California. Their first three-
reel picture entitled, “Tbe Fugitive
Law,” which is a faithful expose of the 1
killing of Madero, tod more recent event*
of Mexico, will he followed by three-
reel -features manufactured off the west
C °Arrangementa" have been entered into
for the temporary charter of a schooner
which wiO skirt the western coast of
Lower California and exnlore the waters
of the Gulf. During this trip pictures
will be made of the Japanese fishing
concessions, objected to fax the United
States Government. Exciting plots wjil
be written arpqnd the situation, teeming
with international in trim*, and Amencan-
Japanese interests. The waters of the
Gulfof Lower California will be ‘
from Spn Bias up to the G
Islands which exist in the northern part
of the Guff. Aitbowfr- cannibalism is
plish this purpose they have already
opened seventeen branch offices, extend
ing from New York to Minneapolis in
the North, New Orleans in the South
and Kansas City in the West, and they
anticipate having a half-dozen more of
fices open, extending out to the Coast,
by the first of January. Every man con
nected with the organization is ranked
among the topnotches in the business.
There is Jules Burnstein, at the head of
the rental department, a man of excep
tional ability and wide popularity; J. K.
Burger, the auditor, and Milton E. Hoff
man, toe brilliant idea man. Mr. Bur
ger has established an auditing depart
ment that is without parallel In the busi
ness. M. E. Hoffman is another pio
neer in the motion picture game and is
well prepared to give the exhibitor the
benefit of a lot of new ideas that will
tend to elevate the ton* of the motion
picture theatre. The motion picture ex
hibitor has travelled along the same
lines in business for several years, reap
ing the harvest of a few dollars, but
never giving thought to the morrow, hut
the patrons of. the motion. pictures are
demanding more and-more of the exhib
itor and the motion picture manufac
turer. It stands to reason that no firm fot
can make pictures all of which are thi
always good- How much better is
plan -.of the World Special. They
absolutely unlimited in scope both of
manufacturer and subjects. Nothing Is
too big or. too- small for them to ex
ploit, provided it meets with the ap
proval of Messrs. Gleichman and Man
delbaum. As witness; Pssquali’s -“The
Last Days of Pompeii” This photo
drama is undoubtedly the greatest crea
tion ever offered the American picture-
goer. Produced at a cost of a quarter of
a million dollars, amid the very scenes
where Bulwer Lytton’s wonderful novel
.is laid, depicting *11 the characters of
the story amid the very surroundings in
which they, lived, showing the customs
and manners of the time and finally the
eruption of Vesuvius in all its awful ma
jesty, one cannot fail to realize the
greatness of the picture. Another
cellent example of their endeavors
give the exhibitor “the best'’ it; tbeir
five-reel thriller “Protea,” which has
created a greater stir than any film eve
marketed. “What the Gods Decree,’
which will soon be ready tor the ex
hihitor, Is another. It is, if anything,
more beautiful than “Protea.”
Eva Unsell Now
on Universal Staff
Has Made an Enviable
Reputation as a Writer of
Successful Scenarios
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the letter that it is hr? poker winnings,
and the thing that his mother most fears
comes to pass—a desire to gamble. Har
ry gets liis money and very soon finus
his way, despite his mother's pleadings,
to the gambling table. At first he wins,
and he lies to his mother about what he
is doing, hut eventually ho loses all, and
rather than face her he runs away West.
K» winds up in his father’s gambling
house and not knowing it is his son, thei
father engages him. The son enters his
father's employ unconscious of tho fact
that it is his father who has given him a
helping hand. He 'becomes dealer
through his wonderful and instinctive
ability. J-ater he rescues a Western girl
Jennie, from the insults of a strange
gambler aud they become sweethearts.
The stranger shows up again aud ip a
game sitting opposite Harry, ho falsely
accuses the boy.of cheating. Herr:/draw;
year when hearts should be free and gay
—when life on earth should be heaven.
A poor man, the father of a young child,
wants his offspring to have a Christmas
sach as every child is deserving of. He
is penniless. For the love of his child he
commit* burglary. A happy Christmas
morn is the result. He father is ar
rested. Broncho Billy, the sheriff, with
true and loyal Christmas spirit, sends
th* father to enjoy toe remainder
: th* holiday with hi# wife and baby.
IF ITS A
WARNERS FEATURE
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he f
adjo r .
dp. with the barricaded door between.
The girl learns of the trouble aud goes,
the sheriff. In front of the .saloon
sheriff finds that the gambler is a
notorious crook, wanted by the authori
ties of many states and immediately
to the rescue of Harry. When they
burst into the room they find Harry has
fainted from a wound and a scrawled
beside him tells only to advise his
mother, Mary Temple, and then is cut
short. On the reverse side, however, the
father finds his own letter, and realizes
that he has cent his boy wrong. Later
reconciliation follows and the father
puts up his joint for sale and loth. Har
ry and the girl go back with him. Back
in the East the family is reunited and a
daughter added.
graphic work he turned out in the film*
of the “Soldiers of Fortune.” When
Augustus Thomas selected a company
to go with him to Cuba to produce this
famous military drama for the All-Star
Feature Corporation he chose Mr. Willat
as photographer, and the choice proved a
wise and fortunate qne. Mr. Willat had
previously given ample proof of his abil
ity as photographer for Imp, the New
York Motion Picture Company aud ReU-
Fred B. Murphy, well and favorably
known in motion picture circles, is re
ceiving the congratulations of friends
on his return to his post as manager of
the Waterville, Maine, Exchange of the
Mutual Program. While he was away
business fell off, but immediately as
sumed its former volurao on his return.
Peter Lang, the justly popular photo
player, celebrated bis silver wedding an-
niversury last week at his handsome
home in New York City. Richard Mor
ris, of the Lubin Company, acted aa
Master of Ceremonies and the occasion
was made memorable by many pleasing
tokens of esteem which were showered
Mr. and Mrs. Lang by their hosts of
friends and admirers in and out of the
profession.
Thomas Ince, director for the New
ork Motion Picture Corp., at Eden-
*^le, seems to be in the field for every
big attraction, regardless of cost. Re
cently he signed a contract with '
Miss Tsuru Aoki, whose work with the
Majestic Company in the film, “The Oath
of Tsura San,” has been meeting with
such success. Mr. Jnce has five new film
dramas in which he wil feature MM*
Miss Aoki was contemplating *
seostn in vaudeville when the picture*
‘‘got” her.
Oliver Morosco Is now considering
Incognito (Victor).—Ref using to marry
the woman of his father** choice, Rene,
son of the Marquis de Tiller, is disin
herited and goes to the United States
to begin life anew as a plain American
citizen. Rene, never having attempted
to make a living, soon becomes stranded.
spaper he reads an advertise
ment calling for a competent valet. I
knows the duties of a valet aud applL_
to a banker for the position. The bank
er has just had a portrait painted by a
woman artist. During his sittings, h©
makes overtures to the eirl and is scorn
fully rejected. Thus, when Rene applies
for the position of valet, the banker con
ceive® a plan of revenge against the girl.
He offers Rene $fi,000 and a position if
he will pose as a nobleman and wed the
artist.. Rene visits the artist. It Is a
ease of love at first sight. He returns
to the banker/ind accepts his proposition.
Rene wins the artist’s.hand in marriage.
After the wedding the vindictive bank
announce* to the girl: “You have
ried my valet!” However, the bai
eye* are opened when the French c......... „
steps forward with a letter announcing German prince and a company of gaily
offer from Thomas EL Ince, vic<
dent and general manager of the New
York Motion Picture Corporation, for tho
motion picture rights of Mr. Morpscq’s
successful Hawaiian drama, “The r BikI
of Paradise.” Mr. Ince Is also negotiat
ing with David Belasco for the motion
picture rights for severed of the former
Belasco successes. This would include
“Darling of the Goda” and “Madame
Butterfly.”
Director Albert W. Hale, of the Ma
jestic Motion Picture Go.’s studios at Los
Angeles, has given unusual care to the
staging of tbqImportant two-reel produc-
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