Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing and Alec Francis in the “Gold Diggers” Showing at Metropolitan Theatre, Baltimore, for the two weeks commencing October 15th i We Desire That Which We Cannot Have A STARTLING STORY OF MODERN SOCIETY LOUIS BURSTON ‘Presents J •f'Ji. i. • • •»' v. .. s <. * : i?y John R. Clymer and Henry R. Symonds ‘Directed by ROWLAND V. LEE • ‘ •v'- WITH THESE STERLING PLAYERS MARGUERITE DE LA MOTTE _ JOHN BOWERS ESTELLE TAYLOR DAVID BUTLER EDWARD CONNELLY LUCILLE HUTTON RALPH LEWIS »*.•> !<’% f > :ni tt'j. V < •* WALTER LONG ncture Issued Trice a Month in the Interests of the 'JKCotion Picture Exhibi- tors and Distributors Within the Territory Comprising Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia Film News Publishing Company 700 INSURANCE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. New York Office, 1540 Broadway - TOM HAMLIN, Representative VoL. I No. 5 OCTOBER 15, 1923 $2.50 a Year Charles Chaplin Explains His First Serious Production “As I see it,” said Mr. Chaplin, “the pur- vince the audience and to enable the spectators pose of story telling is to express the beauty to lose themselves in the story as it unfolds. of life, condensing its high spots, for purposes We can have too much realism, which, of course, of entertainment. For after all, it is only borders on boredom, but to my way of thinking, beauty we seek in life, whether it be through the nearer to actual life we get, the more power laughter or tears. we have in story telling. “And beauty lies in everything, both good “In ‘A Woman of Paris’, I have tried to and evil, though only the discriminating, such make a story of life as I see it—a life that is as the artist and the poet, finds it in both. A not composed of heroes and villians, but of painting of a shipwreck in a storm at sea, or men and women with all their passions given of ‘George the Dragon,’ in their fundamentals to them by God. are horrible, but as architecture and design “My sole purpose is that of entertainment, they carry a compelling beauty. In analysis but if a moral has crept into it it is a preach- they chill the blood, but in poetic feeling they ment for tolerance and understanding for those take on warmth and beauty. who have made mistakes, to invite your pity for human weakness, for after all, none is “The object of the theatre is that we lose perfect. It is so easy to condemn so hard to ourselves in another world that lies in the realm — understand and forgive. I dwell on truth of beauty. This can be done only by getting because of the fact that in this picture treat- as near to the truth as possible. The more we ment and technique are different from the become educated, and the more we know of usual run of pictures. As I have noticed life; life, the more we demand of truth to entertain in its dramatic climaxes men and women try us. To entertain people you must convince to hide their emotions rather than seek to them, hence the realism of today. express them, and this is the method I have “Super-optimism and 100 per cent senti- pursued in an endeavor to become as realistic losing mentalism are out for those of intelli- as possible.” gence do not lose themselves in a brand of Mr. Chaplin both wrote and directed “A entertainment that is not convincing. So Woman of Paris,” which had its premiere at realism and truth are merely applied to con- the Lyric Theatre, New York, recently. — filmTnews Of General Interest Stills from “Tiger Rose” Made Costume Museum Planned Talking Pictures at Washington Permanent Exhibit in Con- Five women met one afternoon Press Club gressional Library last week in the Joseph M. Schenck The 1923 model of talking motion An unusual request was presented offices to complete the plans for a pictures was presented at the Press at the Warner Brothers’ Home Office remarkable costume museum. Club in Washington last week, the last week when the National Geo- It is the intention of the three program including a humorous ad- graphical Society expressed their Talmadge sisters, Clare West and dress by Irvin S. Cobb and addresses desire to possess a complete set of Frances Marion, to group all the cos- by the Secretary of Labor, D. W. stills from “Tiger Rose” to be tumes which have been used in past Griffith and Walter Damrosch. Er- placed in the Congressional Library, Joseph M. Schenck productions on nest Davis, of the Metropolitan Washington, D. C., as a permanent two entire floors in the new building Opera Company, rendered a tenor exhibit. which is being erected at the United solo. The request was based on the fact Studios. The costumes will be kept that the exterior scenes of the in glass cases. Every period in California Forest Fire Cost Goldwyn Warner Classic were taken in Yo- will represented. Judicious history be $7000 a Day semite Valley, in locations untouched purchases have been authorized to The big forest fire which raged in by the camera up to this date. fill in historical periods which already the vicinity of the Big Dipper Mine, Because of their pictorial beauty, the are not represented. ” where the company making “ Greed National Geographical Society de- It is planned to open the museum from Frank Norris’s “McTeague” sired them as a photographic record to the public which at present is were acting the mine scenes under the of the most rugged and natural barred from the studios. It is mani- direction of Erich von Stroheim, was spots of beauty in the National festly impossible to permit all visitors a costly one for Goldwyn Pictures Park. from the East to go through the Corporation. Von Stroheim and the First National Films 250,000 Cattle studios while photoplays are being members of his company were en- quarter of a million head of made as this holds up the production. A rolled by the fire marshal to fight cattle were driven across the border But the costume museum, it is felt, the flames. into Mexico last week, and the will satisfy feminine curiosity in one Owing to the interruption in shoot- spectacle was filmed by Associated respect, at least. ing the mine sequences, Goldwyn was National Pictures as the basis First out $7000 a day while the company of an epochal drama of the passing Public Invited to View Filming of was helping to fight the fire. of the west, called “Sundown.” “America” Converging from the rim of the To counteract the prevalent im- Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Arizona pression of faking in film productions, Shipman to Film Productions in and Columbus, N. M., three mighty D. W. Griffith has invited the general South herds were concentrated. The scenes public to be present at the taking of With a view to increasing his show the last desperate stand of the the principal scenes in his forthcom- annual output of outdoor photoplays, cattle-Kings to regain the open range ing picture, “America.” Galleries Ernest Shipman will produce a from the grasping hand of civiliza- of from 1,000 to 13,000 have taken series of pictures in the South during tion. For months the cattlemen advantage of this opportunity, but the current months. A five year have been fighting to save their very the state police had to take a hand program has been determined upon, existence, and the amalgamation of to prevent “pirate photography” of under which Mr. Shipman will divide three biggest herds in the world for a some of the scenes by smaller cam- his activities between Canada and drive into Mexico has been carried eras for sale to local companies to Long Island during the summer on secretly. use in minor productions. months and the Southern States dur- Six aeroplanes were used in getting ing the winter to obtain continuous sky shots of the stampeding herd, a Virginia First State to Have “Dry” production of outdoor dramas thru- prairie fire and the burning of a com- Film out the year. Altho no announce- of homesteaders. has been definitely plete settlement The Virginia Prohibition Enforce- ment made as to addition to the six cameramen in the locale of the southern activities, In ment Director, Harry B. Smith, twelve other cameramen it is generally understood that one aeroplanes, together with Attorney-General John were rushed from the Coast studios of the states east of the Rockies will N. Saunders, were “shot” in a pic- Mexico in order to make be selected. Mr. Shipman is to to New ture recently made depicting the certain of getting every angle of the start on a tour of the South within work of the dry officers in enforcing stirring spectacle. the next few weeks, to decide on the the provisions of the Eighteenth one best suited to his winter pro- F. B. O. to Distribute Palmer Amendment. Every day activities duction plans. Releases of the dry agents form the basis of The Film Booking Offices have the film, which shows the conditions been selected to handle the releases surrounding the making of bootleg Goldwyn to Hold “Jimmy Granger of the Palmer Photoplay Corpora- liquor and why it is dangerous to Week” tion for Hollywood, it has been drink it aside from the alcoholic The week of November 25th definitely announced. Three of the effects. In one instance, the still December 1st has been set aside by Palmer pictures are available for was even located in a pig-pen.