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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 SPECIAL FILMS STAMP* 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 ‘'•sssgssjr*- motion Pietro C». ‘gSTST FAMOUS; FIATEB8 ****** °°* PRODUCriONS 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 WORLD SPECIAL FILMS DORP Slo w.40th ST.. NEW YORKCUY «0A»t 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 ' - ‘ 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- E “STS A N AY FIVE-A.WEEK SEE THO* ATXOUE THEATRE uniformed Uhlans. POWER’S CASERAGRAPH No. 8A Th® perfect meAton picture .mertda*. i 8eod far MtalocueW with fall details, MCHOtASPOWER CO* MtM«K,1UC* m'