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On the Trail of the Motion Picture ON THE TRAIL OF THE MOTION PICTURE without question. It is an effect fruit¬ comedies: "Mv Girl Suzanna," "The O'Brien Makes Real lessly sought by many and many an Midnight «¡iri" and "Oh, Louisel" Eugene actor and an nuthor before now, and we Adolf Philipp appears in oil three of A New in think it is achieved here mainly by our them. Aiso Patsy Do. Forrest, Mario Guy Erapey j seeing our hero gradually acquire a Pagano, George Henry, Edward Elkae, Ascent Into Stardom deep fund of self-possession, like that Louise Buckley, Harold Pool and of a man who really knows his destiny; others. The Post-Bellum a sort of reservo strength of independ¬ Days ence and security such as, in their dif¬ that lowers with so <"rr* -.en niul yet so a tree or a or B. A. Rolfe Ibis week finished the Young Actor Does Some fering ways, king a day agitation. "It is the height 0r burnin¡r a torment from that first laborer or any great natural fore« production of "The Amazing Lover.;," By Harriette Unclerhill ambition," and the our and the is now in the next day Mr. Emóev right-dark, storm-swept street. might have. This never leaves La/;« negative cutting On«« tlay last week tho telephone called up to say that he Convincing Work in Hi» Clothed in from the moment he to room being assembled and edited. The was quita Vivid Photography begins pail rang arid when we answered it a brisk, serious about the title« and we his real picture- not. even when picture, based on the Robort W. Cham¬ said Ralph luce begins his as if eneriretic -.oice said: "lilis so were we -just dying to shew . First Stellar Role and picture snatches a of bread from his «. bers story "The Band," with extremely a it were some piece Shining world some really good til i¦- glorified table, not even when we see for the screen Charles is Guy Kmpey talking. My press rep¬ mystery story. cmy's adaptations by o Is "The Perfect Lover" He knows the drama of wife's turn the wo A. is the first of a series Everything that : i wool. fat cy lighted windows necessity actual Logue, resentative said that you bad con¬ was into a kind of delirium.and we til' founded on stories Mr. Chambers. Empey going to be e isn ..' in the rain, of storm drops bouncing by sented to take luncheon with me to- has a wond« ful from the it is this which marks his perform: imagination, i pavement like malevolent as not only but day at Claridge's, but that J was to says the most unexpected :. little worlds, of the profoundly excepti D. W. Griffith's sensational achieve¬ Listen to this one: By Virginia Tracy mockery in the ally imaginative. ment, "Broken Blossoms," which has call up and verify it.-' Two girls gleam of a street lamp on that door¬ In as a new the tab!«; next to ours in the AT "De Luxe Annie," when the young fact, star in thai had such a successful "Consider it verified," we answered, way where Lazar shelters for a mo¬ which we never weary of phenomenally room. They were perfect pr« crook had turned from ment and of tin« of trying run in several of the principal cities with all the vivacity we could muster to New York. sorrowfully opening that cold, read, we had. intended expounding fti of the under Mr. Griffith's indigenous They re his lost we heard a woman re¬ wet hand with its frayed sleeve to O'Brien with all the learned country, at the cold, gray, hopeless hour of waved, powdered and perfumed b¦.- love, disclose all analysi personal presentation, is now going t«; of them was not the fire and the of at our disposal. We knew there was a 10:.-50 a. ni. satisfied. mark.such a wise-looking, stout, gray the glory be released throughout the country by her mirror up She'pi " great jewel in tho which'this certain in unless we against the woman: ring danger this, took United the so- "Will know me," asked Mr. Em- Yes, but when they have shivering scarecrow has been care to a Artists Corporation, you bowl and proceeded to touch not say word about his . op her carrying ap¬ called Four." "in ease I not him for a star he'l! take just the same like a splendid secret through the pearance or personality, or admit that "Big pey, do remember you? eyebrows. parts everybody takes and I'll know night. Struck with an interest incom¬ his Lazar would have had any different You know, it is two years since I saw "Poor little thing!" said Mr Emt more on us one of his beforehand that he'll marry her and parably vivd-and intriguing than effect if it had been played by an Irving Willatt, the most dar¬ you, and ladies have an alarming way shai-.ing head. "Did you ever driv« we had expected, we soon see that to old with a beard. We have ing and efficient directors in the mov¬ fast the '11 turn out all and I gentleman of the style of their hats, and through countr*. and everything right Mr. Ince a spiritual struggle is a thing learned that a feminine revi-ewer is ing picture business, hau .lust com¬ changing you stop find dead as color of their hair from sea¬ butterflies shan't care what becomes of him!" It (»lowing and resounding as the siege naturally suspect as unable to dis¬ pleted for Thomas II. hice a filmization even the over your radiator? That is what i» was an on the other who of Troy, and the artist the play toward young gentlemen with ap¬ oí Gouverneur Morris's story "Behind son to season." going to ha* pen to those actor, hand, world is fighting little g ; to him as pearance, with and without (he Door," in which Hobart come into contact o* ,.~ once quite casually observed: "What gallantly exciting personality Bosworth, "Shall we know you?" we answered they as Jack the Giant Killer. He a beard that completely impartial judg¬ Jane Novak, is featured. will be withered up on the i I want is to in all the proclaims supported by "Of course. You wear a get good parts this by the enormous reliance on sheer ment invariably displayed by masculine In this story Mr. Bosworth did some scornfully. "Not if are are and they salamanders" va I can before they star me, because, of beauty which he displays so unhesi¬ reviewers« toward members of the op¬ remarkable stunts, among which was a khaki uniform, and you pale answered, for we f It But we we quite optimistic course, after that I'll never do much of tatingly and with such an actual en¬ posite sex. hope would jump from a battleship forty feet into haggard and battle-scarred. Don't you concerning the fate of these "butter¬ anything." chantment of success. have braved this danger if oii-c of these a high sea off the west coast. T;i<: remember 'Over the Top'?" flies." Oh, those heroes, o'" virtue His picture walks very masculine colleagues had not got it is will be one of the patterns in beauty: it Is picture, said, but I'm not nor "Thank you." Baid "I'm or blameless victims of who must made of it; for ahead of us. He begins his review by most sensational ever released «..i the "Oh, pale haggard Empey, going fate, suggestion, interpreta¬ ' to use that one, too." never know an impulse which might tion, emotional quality, you might al¬ saying? ''No doubt the women elected American screen. any more. Just lock around for the lose sympathy for that expensive prop- most say he has used nothing else. Eugene O'Brien as a star," and then shortest, fattest, homeliest mar. you osition, the star. As if The lip-lit that touches he adds: "I can't help liking him." It sympathy the lovemaking So is the demand new can lind, and that, is Guy Empcy." Staff of tho < ¡toi were by always in the amid those those is enough. When a man says that u pressing fpr ap Announced gaine«! being country reads, ponds and beautiful film stars that P. A. So 1 o'clock we are right, by Sir Charles Grandison and and hedges, and spring woo«llands with star was elected by the women and at sharp.for Managing Direct« «' ard not and Othello! We such ineffable and yet that he can't help liking him, no Powers, of the Universal, is going to nothing if not punctual, it being the Bowes of by Yaljean long crystalline youth a the send group of trained directors out we know to the Theatre an: ounc« - dallied with the nudge we meant to speaks as differently as words from frail feminine words can add one syl¬ easiest way gain upper Capitol d yestei the ¿and the malign fireshine of that lable. Praise can no further go. ovei' the highways and byways as lian«! we climbed the stairs in the day the person f his staff give mysterious guilt;, "they," masked scouts for material. The Universal is and discovered Mr. Em- engaged criticism from two such dif¬ ball which is not so much like a Claridge lobby to create ami indicating flesh in need of material as the result of the desk. He discovered sup« the motion ferent sources. We dallied and we and blood ball as like that where New Filins S h a cl o w s o n pey down by Wanted.Octavus Cohen the.Roma-New York Pictures Corpora¬ us at the same time, and each recog- pictu re presentation ..: have lost our chance.
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