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The Cream Sheet Life's Finer Side, Music and Song, THE STAGE AND THE DRAMA, i 1 i Part III: 24 Pases una LITERATURE SOCIETY. XXXVIth YEAR SUNDAY MOUSING, APRIL 15. 1917. THE HOME 9m rm 4 aaas REAL RAXGKK TALES. the studio he escaped from bond-1 i SCREEN.

Dozvu Among the Bright Lights. STUDIO. ghratfrH Amttanngnlg Sntfrtafantftitg ASCKCFERA Cue Week Tivm HOUSE coa. liuiiiwi im; ijlms. DIstlEgnIsfccd Actor MR.

Mauide I Cyril In His 7 Ai OP The Comedy Drama CRD.MPY Popular Matinee J. A JfJ I 4 PRICES: Evenings and Saturday Matinee 50c to $2.00. Wednesday Matinee 50c to $1.00. B. C.

WHITNEY Presents WILLIAM li. RAN: rt ilk luminosity during the present week. wtK ay'17c yyi) wa A tVAf mWt mi YA la i TvCi--f 'ivw'iiv 7 i In a-New- Comedy of Koniua, Mystery." Tenderness and Human Appeal "THE HAPPY ETHLSSgS TB BEST OP VAUDEVILLE S1 BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE GEORGE WHITING SADIE BURT "Songsaytnva" MUM- 'I'HVVi- I I IRVING NEWHOFF and BODE PHELPS Somewhat Different Sinter BRENT HAYES The Master of th Banjo NATALIE ALT A Musical Comedy Favorite In a New Group ot Especially Selected Number RITA MARIO AND HER ORCHESTRA to charming- Girl 10 Who Play Charming Music axe, and. wandering about the lot. came upon a choice bit of food.

which he proceeded to devour. That! the tempting morsel chanced to be I the script of a thrilling episode ot I "The Railroad Raiders" probably only made it more "tasty" to his I goatship. Wherefore Sir William devoured forty-tive scenes. Including a powder I mill explosion and a railroad wj-et-k. before anyone discovered that the I banquet was on.

It would -be folly to state that Mr. McGowan tore his hair, because that isn't the kind of hair Mr. McGowan has, but he undoubtedly would have done so If the barber had left more of it. The question now before the house Is whether It would be easier to write a new script, or whether time might be saved by carrying the goat along on location and reading the original script with the aid of an X-ray. Don't Know the language.

Visitors at Universal City fre quently misunderstand the terms I used by people engaged In the mak- ng of motion pictures. One day at the zoo a director used the com mon term, "shoot," meaning the op- I eration of the camera, and when he remarked to his cameraman, "We'll shoot the old lion first and the big I one next," a woman visitor made run for the entrance, declaring ahe wouldn't remain to see anything; so cruel. A few days ago, while a woman and two -children were looking at the animals in the zoo. Director Henry McRae came In, and calling to his assistant. Rex Hodge, said: "Get Dynamite." With a cry of fear the woman exclaimed: "If there's going to be any explosion here I'm going to get out!" With which she grasped the children and ran, not waiting to hear that "Dynamite" Is the Universal pet name of J.

A. Futrelle, who works the wild beasts In the pictures. Very Good, Eddie. There's one man In the world who isn't afraid of any sort of "yellow peril," much less the Jlu-Jltsu. Eddie Polo, one of the leading players at Universal City, Is going to meet Ito, one of the greatest Japanese jiu-jitsu exponents In the World, in the arena as soon as a match can be arranged.

Polo Is a circus man of several years' experience, and is impressed with the idea that he can beat tha Japanese at his own game. "I think I have learned some new tricks," said Polo, "and I believe I can beat Ito, but If I don't, at least when I get through with him he will know he has 'been on the mat" Some Actor is Charlie. One day out at Universal City Irvln S. Cobb was shown a jungle photoplay In which Charlie, the elephant, had quite an Important role. As Cobb was leaving, he remarked: "Well.

I must-say the ele-plant was well supported by the company." Since then Charlie has not had such an excellent opportunity to show how well an elephant can act as he will have in a film play upon which Henry McRae has Just commenced production. In addition to the huge pachyderm, lions, leopards and tigers will appear in many of the scenes. Unlversal's Undine. Better not make "Babe" Sedgwick mad, nowadays, or she's liable to "sic" a lion or tiger on you. She has great Influence with the beasts.

Miss Sedgwick is appearing in Mr. McRae's picture, and says she Is beginning to feel lonesome If she doesn't hold artistic communication with the Jungle beasts every day. Already she has been film-bitten by a lion and chased by an elephant, while she will encounter tha tigers next week. Miss Sedgwick claims Undine had a cinch compared with her, since the classic lady dealt only with lions. "And p'ooh, lions," says Miss Sedgwick, "are only just big kittens." He Should Know.

The dark-haired picture stars are Invariably most temperamental. Ask any of the blond stars if this Isn't true. Anyhow that's what Douglas Fairbanks says. Ince Experiment. It Is definitely announced this week that arrangements have been made whereby the Fine Arts productions will come under the per sonal supervision of Thomas H.

Tnce, and will be put on at the Culver City studios. Bessie Love, Alma Reubens, Mildred Harris, the child actor, George Stone, and Director Paul Powell are among those who have been retained. MaclViwcll With Ince. Melbourne MacPnwell has been enraged by H. Ince.

and wll appear in a picture starring (Continued on Twenty-first Page.) r- Ch Films to Be Built Buck Connors Stories. Buck Connors, who is supposed to know more about Texas Rangers than any other living authority, will supply coneiderable material fir forthcoming William. S. Hart pictures on the Triangle programme, Thomas H. Ince having lately bought outrtsht ten of his best storiea and secured an option on the future output of Connors.

Buck Connors's stories are the real thing, as ther relate Incidents of adventure In which he participated during his long service with the rangers. In his own words. "I know the Texas Rangers. I've ridden, stirrup to stirrup with them: I've eaten bannock and bacon out of the same skillet and have slept under the same blankets. I have made long scouts In the brush country and have seen the little lone cronses here and there.

I know Those stories will serve to show an entirely new phase of Hart's dramatic capabilities, dealing, as they do, with entirely new aspects of weBtern life. The Texas Rangers, only twenty-eight In all, are the pride of the largest State in the Union. They were selected with great care as to character, level-headedness, range craft and experience, and last but not least, absolute fearlessness. Hart fane will look forward eagerly to his new characterizations. the author's perception of unity en ters, at which there, Is a yielding up of self to the great purpose, the swallowing up of personal vision In that effulgent light that shines for all and through all that, in the end, there may be sight This vision should Intensify the writer's intelligent control.

Instead of bringing him to confusion, and where It does so It becomes the purest inspiration and the surest way to the sound and the uplifting. Given this foothold upon the granite of the basic and what pre cedes is with authority and must pass unchallenged, must be acceptable to both the conscious and the unaroused, because of its tnh-rency. Such a flame consumes the tawdry, the Irrelevant ana the compromising. Such a sword cleaves the despicable, the destructive and the unavailing. Such a light withers the lie, puts an end to confusion, and establishes the essential.

Nothing Is better than the announcement that is final. Should a character have done should he have answered thus, or have left off sooner? Certainly There was only one thine to be done, there was only one sure answer, there was nut tne one Inevitable turning point Granted a course of action and whoever stops with the equivocal will be miroa tne oogs or the indeterminate. Sequence and not opinion matures to accuracy of conclusion. Thererore every writer of plays needs, most of all, the courage of his logic. William Fox and his family left Ln Angeles last week for New York City.

Like all of the big moving picture magnates who have made a trip west, Mr. Fox came here expecting to stay a few days and remained many weeks. "My allotted eight days here had expanded to six weeks before I knew What had happened to me," Mr. Fox said, upon his departure. "Thii was due partly to my keen In.

terest in the big things we are try-" insr to do at my Ios Ansreles studios pnrtly to the necenxttv closet Idontltv between administration in York ami irl ion. in Oili-fxrnia, -end partly to the which h- he-intv and the softness of (Couliituccl on Twentieth Page.) Oiange. SHINING UP CINOIA. THE NEW FILM PLAYS HAVE A BRIGHTER APPEARASCE. Is It merely good luck that Los Angeles picture exhibitors have lately been pressing wholesome photoplays to the front -or Is it a fact that the producers are happily overcoming the notion that a drama to be strong must be morbid and that a comedy most be vulgar to be interesting? The optimistic cinem enthusiast will naturally lean to the latter opinion, but time alone will confirm his judgment or show him the folly of his expectations.

However, regardless of the reason, the fact remains that the photoplays now being shown at local picture houses are exceptionally clean, aa well as clever, and for these favors the pleture-lovtng public is duly thankful to whoever or whatever la responsible for the change. Among the stars appearing In cinema skies this week are George M. Cohan. Gladys Hulette, Kitty Gordon, Gloria Swanson. Bobby Vernon, Mary Miles Inter, Walter Belasco, Ella Halt, Olga Petrova, Mahlon Hamilton and scores of others.

Gnrrick. The things Charlie Chaplin did In "Easy Street" are said to be tragic compared to the stunts that ha pulls at the Rest Cure Sanitarium in "Th Cure" which Is to open at the Gar-rick today. The picture is said to be "the richest thing that the king of comedians has ever turned out" One of the things he does at tha sanitarium Is to take a Turkish bath. It sounds simple enough but It would require an Imagination as rich in wild humor as that possessed by Chaplin himself to Imagine the stunts Charlie does in that bath! Palaor. This is Gladys Hulette week at the -Palace.

The charming young star will appear in a clever Irish comedy drama called "Pots and Pans and Peggy," which is said to be better i than "Her New York" or any other photoplay In which the versatile llt tie acreas has ever been seen. Tha i play is one of human Interest, blended with comedy, and that will doubtless appeal strongly to Palace patrons. In addition to th. feature the Palace management has secured an exceptionally clever Max Under comedy. Cinne's Auditorlurn.

The last week of "The Barrier." written and produced by Rex Beach, will begin at Clune'a Auditorium tomorrow. The picture haa been one of the biggest successes ever shown at the Auditorium. It Is vital with, the heath of Alaskan forests and the spirit of the North and the character are true to unusually vigorous types of American manhood (and womanhood. It Is a drama tense with big situations, yet the story moves steadily and smoothly forward to a logical and beautiful finale. Superb scenery and interpretive music play a big part in tha charm and Illusion of this extraordinary film.

Tally's Broadway. In an appealing role of youthful Innocence, Mary MUles Mlnter will reappear at Tally's Broadway be-1 ginning tomorrow In "The Gentle Intruder." It Is said that James Kirk wood, who directed this latest picture of Miss Minter, asked the dainty star to follow her own conceptions of the part and "be her natural self and photoplay lovera are unanimous in the opinion that Mary Miles Minter's "natural self la well worth while. Better than any other screen actress, perhaps, Mary knows It does not pay to be stingy with smiles. MUler's. The latest sensational Fox pictura, entitled "The Derelict." Is billed at Miller's Theater for the week beginning today.

The photoplay stars popular Mr. Holmes, who was last seen as Dlmmesdale In "The Scarlet Letter," and he haa excellent support In Mary Martin, Dam Mason, June Daye, "the smallest vampire In captivity;" Carl Eckstrom Petit The play plot centers about Teddy Brant, a man about town who succeeds in winning the hand of a charming debutante from which moment his troubles begin! The play was written and directed by Carl Harlbaugh. The companion feature at Miller's this week is a Foxfilm comedy called "The Film Spoilers." Wooclley'a. The second "Teddy picture" la here. It is called 'Teddy at tha Throttle," and will be shown at Woodley's Theater beginning today.

Reports from the Sennett-Keystone studio declare that this new thriller. featuring the Great Dane, surpasses even "The Nick of Time Baby," which recently made such a tremendous hit. The star (who is th big dog) is well supported by Gloria Swanson, Bobby Vernon, Wally Vernon and other funmakera, The companion feature will have the famous George Beban as its This feature Is "The Bond Be- tween." Another Woodley special will be shown, entitled "Events In the Daily Life of a Keystone Girl." Majestic No other feature photoplay offered in Los Angeles this season, it is said, has drawn such enormous audiences during Its first week as the spectao-ular photodrama. "Twenty Thousand 4 Leagues Under the Sea," which enters upon Its second week at the Majestic with today's matinee. The -story Is based upon Jules Verne's masterpiece, and is a revelation in photography.

Many of the seen em were photographed on the floor or the ocean, the battles between the armed hunters and the man-eatinj sharks, and the encounter between a giant octopus and a pearl diver being exceptionally thrilling. Clune's Broadway. George Cohan's first appear ance on the-screen was such a success that the management of Clune's Broadway has decided to. "show him off" for another week at that popular theater. "Broadway Jones," Mr.

Cuban's ereatest stage success. leTwts Itucir-happily to the film. The walk and Restores 0f the Yanke Doodle comedian lose none of tbeli CloeO-aiM. ALONG SUNSHINE LANE. EDITH STOREY IS TO BE SOLITAIRE SPARKLER.

liy Grace Kingslcy. There is much pother nowadays, especially among the club women, about the sort of motion pictures children should' be allowed to see. One hears little from the strictly home-staying: women on the subject. Whether this is because there are so few home-staylns; mothers, or whether it's because the mothers who stay home just naturally look out to see that their children attend only the right sort of picture shows, it is not the question to be considered here. Suffice it that more and more it is the tendency" of the ape to e-ive the child over to the care of the public school and the public entertainer.

Many mothers, to be entirely just, do not forget their own childhood and conscientiously take a couple of hours a week to accompany their children to picture shows, where from sympathy and understanding they are able instinctively to Judge what will be harmful and what will not be. As a matter of fact, would you be pleased to have your youngster quite satisfied to see a picturization of the Kollo Books? I think you'd send him to an alienist to find out what ailed him. As a matter of fact, a child is a human being. We forget this every once In a while, and try to give him canned pap in pictures. It's no use.

He will run around the corner to see Tom Mix and Charlie Chaplin at the first opportunity. Another thing. Do you believe any child was ever injured by being turned loose in a library with the classics. Instead of insisting on his reading the Pansy Books and Oz fairy tales? I don't It's the same with pictures. Wouldn't "The Birth of a Nation" be infinitely better for a child than the wishy-washy drivel which is occasionally produced by some movie reformer who wanted to make his purity practical? However, no money ever- was or will be made, by such, and they are giving way to producers with brains, who are putting out more and more films suitable for children to see.

Often these are pictures of childhood as viewed through grown-up eyes, like Tarkington's "Seventeen" and Mary Roberts Rinehart'a "Sub-Deb" stories, i As for fairy tales which term sounds innocent enough there are fairy tales and fairy, tales. In a recent Mature, for instance, supposed to be a fairy story, there appeared hordes of nearly-naked women, and one scene depicted a piece of gross cruelty done to a bird. Yet I heard a careless mother say to her boy: "Oh, yes, "that's a fairy tale; run along and see it, Johnny." That picture was a wonderfully beautiful spectacle but it was not for Johnny. Yet that same mother refused to let Johnny go and see "A Tale of Two Cities" out of mawkishly sentimental reasons about war and the French revolution. The Oz stories, so popular In book form, failed when visualized not even Fred Woodward as all the animals could save them yet the whimsical beauty and pure, imaginative quality of "Snow White brought Old and young together in an hour of real, unaffected happiness.

Dan Whitcomb's "Mary Sunshine" stories have much of the same quality for appealing to both old and young. When I Baw the first one, I personally loved it, but I said to myself: "It will never do. Older people, as a rule, won't care for it." So I was infinitely surprised when a sophisticated young man of my acquaintance declared his enthusiasm over it. And, of course, the children are quite mad about little Mary Sunshine. Also, whatever caD be said against the sameness of the early Mary Plckford stories, they were at least sweet and clean.

Nqw we are watching with interest the experiment of putting on only fairy" tales and children's stories, which are being made by Mrs. Lule Warrenton, a woman who knows all angles of the picture game and who has, to boot, a warm, Intelligent sympathy with childhood. "The Birds' Christmas Carol," pic-turized from Kate Douglas Wiggin's story, was the first venture In this line, and has been enthusiastically received. Now "Hop My Thumb" is about to be picturized, with others of like type to follow. It is even proposed to put the ever-popular Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales into film form, and if these are done in acceptable manner, as we have every reason to believe they will be, Mrs.

Warrenton's name will be synonymous with success in a rich and creditable new field of film endeavor, 'o Miss Roland with Pathe. Ruth Roland has been engaged to play the leading role in a new Pathe serial. It is not known as yet whether the pictures will be filmed here or in the East Star de Ijuxa Now another popular favorite is to be enshrined in her own studio. The Edith Storey Film Corporation, for the purpose of exploiting Miss Storey in pictures to be put out as special feature releases, is at present being formed in New York. These probably will be released under the Selznick banner.

Laugh Factory at V. H. O. Davis, and general manager of the Universal, stated in an interview the other day that the Universal will herfceforth have six comedy companies at work. "Will the war hurt pictures?" said Mr.

Davis. "No, I think not. Judging from present indications. I think that perhaps depressing and tragic auhlects will suffer a slump, but 1 believe that people will turn morel and more to comedy when they seek entertainment and relief from the- weight of war. Some of these companies will make that kind of pic tures which, for lack of a better name, we call comedy-dramas that hs, they will present sane, cheerful stories accent on the cheerful.

His Goat Ih Got. Helen Holmes has found her goat, tnd he is again safely corraled at the Signal studios. But with the findins of Sir William. J. P.

Mo fjownn's goat has disappeared. He seems lost, with small chance of recovery, too. Thi- Mca Is that two days after Sir William was brought back to IOr am mean GEORGE' KELLY (Anna Cleveland and Nora O'Connor) In "FINDERS KEEPERS" The World Famous Humorist LEW DOCKSTADER In "The Political Boss, or Tha Power Behind tho Throne" Orchestra Concerts 2 and. p.m. qpRINITY AUDITORIUM PHOTOPLAY EXPRESSION.

QERHARDT BY HENRY CHRISTEEX WARNACK. Most distinguished llederslnger of the aot mlaa this treat! Tickets J5e, $1, SATURDAY MATINEE APRIL 21 Reinhold Fritz Warlfch mh Interpreter ol at the Piano Tickets T5c $1.5. Sale Now. Every Nlht at 2, 10-25-50-T5c; boxes II. Matinee at 2 DAILY, l-25-0c; boxes, 76c.

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On sale Trinity Box Office. FESTIVAL EFREM ZIMBALIST, Violin Soloist ll0 JunlPero Serra. I'auy unci. Hunaay.) 2:1 i p.m. also Wed.

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Phones AS3fi: Main 0L Price. 21.00. 26e, 60s. THIS ONE Merrill's Fnnafles MATINEES 10 Cecis all SEATS ItVKS las a ViUiiIiiS Atl5 0 SYMPHONIC New York Symphony Orchestre WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor EVENINGS, APRIL 24 and 2 ft MATINEE, APRIL 25 FRITZ KREISLER. aid EFREM ZIMBALIST will play the Bach double concerto with orchestra on April 24.

First time In history these two treat artists appear together. Mail reservations will be filled In order of receipt. For Joint appearance tickets will be $1, 11.60, J2," 12.60. For matinee April 36 and evening April 27, tickets will be T6c, 1. 11.60, (3.

Order early and avoid disappointment! Indicating On the picture screens CXXXXXXXXXXXCOOOC I MOTIFS OF OCXXXXX)COOOCOCQC FOR maturity, significance and conclusions we look to the essences of compounds. There is no magic; what seems so is but method. Art triumphs where so correct in principle that intelligence confirms it beyond the challenge of Ignorance. Every teacher's business is adherence to method and every pathfinder's work is the Invention of superior system. Under a great dispensation, the people become discoverers of spirituality and government, completely expressed and sustained through accuracy of method.

As an illustration of the apt formula, consider the Ten Commandments, For the enrichment of photoplay building, commend me to that clear symbology that is the background of all consciousness. Let It be recognized by every yet remain unconfessed by him In his utterance. To be effective, the symbols of a drama for the screen should be as the hidden foundation upon which the visible structure rests. In obedience to this law, we have had many recent examples as delicate as masterful. In Marguerite Clark's "Snow White," some little birds always come to warn her of approaching danger.

Once, when the child has swooned, the little birds go tell a wise old rabbit, and bunny tellB the dwarfs. 4. i. This Is the symbol of the Watcher. It represents the psychology of accident, the same being that something In men and women, which mysteriously conducts them in safety through many a crisis of alarm.

In a crash people will Jump one way without knowing whv. when to have Jumped In the opposite direction would have meant sure death. The Watcher is Invisible yet ever present There Is a counterpart for the Watcher in the conscience. There always a whisper of right and wrong that breaks upon the inner ear at the moment of doubt. The sensitive hear always and the fortunate obey.

Another fine example of the recognition of this principle and Its smesfful personajlzntion is the char-ncter of Conrad LaOrange In "The Eyes of the World." There Is pever a time in this fine story where he hero in likely to make a mUwup TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17 LOS ANGELES CITY TEACHERS' CLUB PRESENT IA1Y IE GRAND REEB -SOPRANO. IN RECITAL, ASSISTED BY BRAHMS QUINTET and AXEL 8IMONSEN, 'Cellist" i Tickets 1. 11.60, 22. On Sale Trinity Box that the wise old novelist-is not at his elbow to protect him from evil design and to warn him against false action. This picture makes one -mistake where it confesses Its symbols in the sub-titles by admitting in words the spiritual significance of the different characters.

Such inferences should, generally speaking, be left to the Intelligence of the audience. Still anuther instance where the Watcher ensouls the drama is that of "The Witching Hour." The master mind In this story approximates the Oversoul. Of course, I am not now considering Its otherwise psychological import In all playg wofth while we have the triangle of body, mind and spirit Representing body, Is the heavy, who is usually the villain of bravado and the man or woman of action. As we have the hero the plan is his conception, and he supplies the will. The girl is spirit, and she represents love, devotion and courage.

Another triangle is the concept of society with labor and wealth at the flase and their point of identity for the moment in the visualization of the author at the acute angle. Every photoplay Is designed to bring us realization. Back of this are love, hope and purpose as attributes and dominant traits of personalities. Probably the clearest thought form for the photoplay Is the goal, the starting place and the way between. Of course.

Imagination enters at every angle. This embraces the action that is In the mind and releases the whole slumbering volcano of men and worlds and the Illimitable potency of creature and Idea. For instance, a man may be sitting in a Pullman car. There Is little action to this, yet the richness of the author's mind may give us such a picturization of what- the man In the car Is seeing and thinking that we have here the making of many vivid Where the anthor begins and ends as the instrumentality through wbi'-h the cosmic mind Is evpretwd rr-A throijth which life Hows as clnr water through an unobHtrcted flri. "-n scarcely be determined.

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JO IIP IVp (Continued, ou Twentieth Paso.).