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And ail iirmmmn 05 There are very few legitimatesage lar stage a chance of u-itno players who have not taken a wh'.r! rare art, if only in shadow 1 in the movies, and when the difference . 0 rTa' J of hours, sklary and other things ar taken into consideration, there are few who have not liked it consid er this at a cost that was no greater erably better than the other form 01 than the car fare that was necessary dramatic work to carry you to the regular theater. A Few "Holding Oat," f When the dramatic producers saw Grace George, John Drew and the growing success of the pictures Maude Adams are three notable ex- they began looking into the game a septlons of the great players who little closer. Their discerning eyes have not been seen in the films. 1 and more convenient sort of amusi-"like to see Mr. Drew, with his tin- scrlption to be acceptable to the pro. ment, and the first thing anybody peceable drawing-room manners aud dncers. Send direct to the scenar' knew they were making pictures dress, working in the pictures. department. Do not address any par themselves. Grace George, who in private life ticular person. When the dramatic producers got in islrs. William A. Brady, has Just re- MAT Tom and Oven Moore art the game there was nL longer any turnedMo the regular stage after an brothers, but Victor comes fr0ai hashfulness on the part of the stage absence of a season, and it is hoped another tribe of Moores. Owen th9 1 r Answers to I Picture Fans -ii 1 1 '' 11 CV-Besides a strong plot, story must have strong pii. lure possiDinties and must v. H BT A. H. GUBtEK !rp HEY are still coming over to -II the movies. Every week brings . news that another g luminary of the Regular stage has packed his or her make-up box and Stepped over the thin line that divides the domain of the speaking drama Irom that of its silent sister, tne raories. I Many of the stars of the regular stage come over to the movies as Untative guests. They take a whirl t the new game to see how they like rt, and wind up by liking it so well Jiat they 6tick. I Actors who have had engagements jrtth traveling companies come over jo the . movies jmd forget the night nare of "liTing in trunks," forget ,'rairoad schedules, railroad accident, ate trains, bad hotels and poorly !tjuipped theaters that hare been their wrtion, and revel in the newly found privileges of regular hours, and the lossfbility of living in their own 'ipmea. - v I Even those who have been fortu tate enough to be cast in a big success ihatfplays six months or a year in a ig 6ity,; find the new work and new iWdittons a welcome change irom 'he everlasting sameness of speaking he same lines, singing the saxus onge, smiling the same smiles monai A :'::::5v5S:v:::5s;;iSSS8S8SSS Iter J month. I In i the studio they find constant fhange and variety. One day they forfc inside the studio, the next day fn the city streets, at another tim3 .a a beautiful park, then up in the fountains; by the seashore, anywhere nd J everywhere, but always in the post iv pleasant and congenial gur- ioundtags. And last, but not least, by any leans, there is almost always a fat. 9r - and fairer p figure set opposite heix names on the pay roll when fie host walks. And it may also be said 1 Ihis conection that. taWn it v fnd: large, the gtost walks with con- iderable more frequency and regu- irity 'in the movies than it does m ny; other field of dramatic endeavor, refused to work in the studios for The late Charles Frohman was one Only the Applause Missing. fear their former managers would of the first of the big dramatic, pro- f. About the only thing the regular hear of it and hold it against them ducers to see the nossibilities of the tage players miss when, they come d refuse them parts when there pictures. Oliver Morosco has been , Tofi ver . to "the movies is the applause was an-opening. makine movies for a. inns- Hm about this. The audiences, hitherto players. They went in with a rush, that now she has come bacs to husband of Mary Pickford, ana icm I the stage. But when the-ft that Almost unheard-of salaries were of- Adolph Zuker, William Fox, Jesse I. sure and falthful. began going arouud Once in, ihey found that instead or the speaking stage, that she will step of Alice Joyce, n audience can damn as well as tered by the early moving mcture Lasky are ud to their tipc'w in ti, the corner to the nickelodeon, where being disgraced they had improved over to her husband's big studio at TULSA You are not the only fr raise witn its applause is taken in- consideration, this Is not such a reat loss, after all. producers to actors of the regular game, and William A. Brady, the hero they saw wonderful pictures, which their work and widened their audi- Fort Lee, N. J., and give screen audi- wJl0 William Russell is a gooo stage, and in most cases where the of a hundred melo-dramas as an actor althouSn crude, was ' such a great ence; they found' that millions of ences a chance to see her artistic actor. He is-at the American Studio, actor had anything of a reputation and afterwards one of the country's novelty and so fascinating that they people who never wouldx have been work. Santa Barbara, Cal. I There is a great difference in tha the offers went begging. greatest producers of stage successes 00,11(1 not resist them able to sce tnem n reSuar siap Maude Adams fs said to have refu- A5XI0US Philo McCullough vW ttitude of the regular stage players Ince, a pioneer director, says has been producing pictures for sever- Tne alleryrgods were the first to -w tneir wor tuu imcu cu iu uow nerseir to oe pnotograpn- ed one of ltne fading parts in uo ward the movies today and a few ne walked up and down the length of al years, and this winter will se th go over to the picture shows. The pictures. ed by a moving picture camera for' recent Patne seriai The Neglected T n A n. '. , 11 onv..n t 1 . . . i 1 1 x 11 r- i n f- rm. ntntiirce xtTdTa o In tnC anV COnslnprntlrtn. Kilt what it AfaiTrts ,iuauway m tne eany a ays seetuug u&uaL r. ruy mmseir in a movie aeau mai uau cos, mem j.o iq o xc i"jiu,vo "v. , - - (When the pictures were .new they . histrionic help in vain. Many acto's Part in one of the big features being cents, had been occupied largely by a "small-time actors, the players who Adams would come over to the screeu ere looked , upon merely as a pass- would listen to the proposition of made at the World-Brady studios. class of people to whom the moving made up the little traveling compa- and bring Peter Pan with her? ig tancy and fit only for the cheap working in a studio with great in- The. first pictures were crude an i Pictures had special appeal, both nies that played at the smaller cities What a treat it would be, and what audiences. The regular stage play- terest, and even those of them .who were shown only in the cnirut as to price and theme. and towns. a realistic thing the movies would rsjwho were used to appearing In wei"e "at liberty" would turn the offer ters and oftentimes by men who had The gallery d' WQO spent his Many of these people were excellent make of the scene where Peter Pan leaters where from 50 cents to ?2.50 down with great reluctance, but turn had no previous experience in the uarter for blod and thunder plays artists, but so great was the cotap- loses his shadow, with the possibil? imissioii was charged, thought-they it down they did most of them ba- show business " at the theater, got a double dose of tition of the regular stage that few ties of double exposure. The uu melodrama and five times as much ?f of them ever got beyond the one- in the treeytops and the underground it at the picture show. night-stand stage of the drama. house andthe alligator that swallow- The other seats in the house began Most of the great players of the ed the alarm clock would not b ? to show a yawning emptiness. Their screen today came from the small faked. gan going to see what stock companies and the tank-town Instead of a mechanical "gater" the ould cheapen themselves by being cause they were afraid of losing caste Gallery Gods Were Pioneers. ;en irv a performance where the fee among their fellow-players and the n,P as one beggarly nickel or a dime. , e Iar f W Producers looked !tw uw ft Wt miiir other . Affet t 111)011 em Wlth senile tolerence that - . wgiwiojue' lrrvaucer. was aimnst rnntrnni tv aia 2. The legitimate u . tMv U1U ao1 occupants be , . .111. T7r)lHl Wife." He is now working wiia Storey in a Metro feature. Addrew him in care of Metro, 1476 Broadway. New York. CENTAUB Nearly all the film ex changes in St Louis carry suppU35 for motion-picture theaters and can put you fin touch with dealers w&o handle equipment of the heavier order such as seats, projection booths an things like that. lives , . - -o'"niuic stage prouueer did ididk mat such a Rimnio . 9wub w nv. - . "vvuumoi gaiu cuts ! mUlions of people spending mil- not look upon the films with anvti Dicttir iQ " a3he Ptures were like, and in tne troupes. These players were not as movie producers would just about gt. in Los Angeles, Cal., and he is ':.-:-4-m-- a av0 OT.n'H.v , ... 0 witnanytning piurea piay could ever make inT- xv. xv. , . . . nmrns stiU W - MU respect unti, they begaa mtttoi erenoe m theS ; "cco- - . ocuous mroans upon his box office In fthe early days of the films, receipts; but when he did see the itorswere very hard to get Only strength and power of th v,- iu .wuu we wut o wWuuu me wwe thing 'by becoming the single. Anyone who can commaad v bUU D LUC. II II 1 V IPH WPrH I.KILI 1IC 1 1 1 i If . IV V 2L LUC dLLll K 111 LJ1C 2& WI fllH Tlflf IT fiT Q MMfAMi great huslnfiss. v , , . ... .... cms to iit'i j r- i nmn i a. a m a mm 4a i ai ir a a m wvavrtftwMn j a. .i - if i ruin iiimi a vu i v. x, - its a 5 per cent proposition," they picture without rhyme or reason, i.he They literally jumped at the movies, unconvincing thing of papiermache us to be very sound mentally. CbapU Lt h "fi' apPls onl7 t0 the Pe began to see well-worked-out with their better salaries, shorter and canvas, but a real ship, on real has been on the stage practically igaged, and many times even these producer of pictures himsjj a 5-cent clientele. There can be no danger to the regular stage." t But they. ,ojn changed their minds littie comedies and dramas that were boors, absence of travel and the water, that would splash up when tho his life and was well known on slices of real life. chance of living at home. pirates jnmoed overboard. - Emriish stare before he came to tM in - ftddjgon jnnvi wtfet . Thev v did Hot hive any reputation Whether the jnoyies ever get this United State n ( , -a- J
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