Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 279, 3 October 1914 — Page 3

PAGET! MOVIE" NEWS OF RICHMOND

CE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914

MAKING MOVIE REEL REQUIRES PATIENCE AND APPLICATION Film Editor Must Time Action and Keenly Watch Dramatic Incidents in Plot to be Flashed. BY MOVIE CRITIC. The movie fan who sits in a comfortable, well-ventilated theatre and gives himself up to the enjoyment of the pictures, if he marvels at anything beyond the histrionic ability of his lavorites on the screen, perhaps may give the producer a slice of the credit. Hut if somebody, who has seen the inside of a motion picture factory, suggests that he cast just one appreciative thought in the direction of the Jilm editor and the humble artists who 'assemble" the picture, he will not liave a ghost of an idea what this is ell about. No picture would run smoothly, however; it would not be timed properly; the incidents would not be true to life iior even appear in the right order, were it not for the expert labors of the assemblers, under whose practiced, discriminating eye the thousand or more feet of celluloid ribbon undergoes a critical review. It is they, who, with dextrous fingers cut, re-assemble and eplice together, until the perfected film Is ready for projection from the mo

tion picture machine. I was talking the other day with the clever film assembler of Our Mutual Girl. She has been six years in the business, and she is an enthusiast. "Most persons don't realize," she told me, "that a picture is never photographed In the order of events and scenes In which it appears on the screen. A director never follows the scenario literally. If he has four or live episodes enacted in the same setting, he takes them all, one after another, though they may be scattered all through the story. They then come to us to be cut arpart and inserted in their proper places. "The director may take the interior ecenes today and the exteriors next week. Yet all these will belong to one subject. The film reaches us in rolls of different lengths, the story a

hodgepodge. We unravel it by following the scenario. It is necessary to examine every piece of film to find the beginning, the end and the intermediate parts, and get them all together in dramatic sequence. In Reel 28 of Our Mutual Girl there were eighty-one different pieces, and from one hundred to one hundred and twentyfive different phases of the same scene. These all had to be separated, essorted and put together again. In The Escape, there were at least a thousand scenes, and any number of cut-cuts and changes. The picture vas never two days the same. That vas one of the biggest jobs we ever handled."

Scene From "The Dollar Mark" . , y

Robert Warwick, as "Jim" Gresham, and Barbara Tenant, as Alice Chandler, do splendid work and win cordial praise from spectators of "The Dollar Mark," a five-part picture made for World Film Corporation by the Peerless Feature Company of New York city. The action opens in Cobalt and closes in the East Newport and New York city. It is markededly a picture of vigorous action which rings true through nearly all of the picture surely, and surely every part of it holds the interest strongly. The best part of the story is the adventures of the two lovers in a flood. A terrible storm has driven the girl into the hut of a miner "Jim," owner of the Nellie Davis mine, a property worth millions and which the Trust, of which Alice's father is one of the leading spirits, wants to get cheaply. The dam above the hut breaks, the water washes down the valley, and the hut goes with the rest of the primitive buildings. The hut's heavy door serves Jim and Alice as a raft. The stream washes them furiously along toward a terrible fall.

MURRETTE OFFERS FAITH JNJMAIIITY Sunday Reel Shows How Man Lost and Again Found His Faith.

Cast. Jim Marsh William Garwood Robert Sands' .... Harry Von Meter His Wife Louise Lester Warden Carey .... Jack Richardson Mrs. Vanzandt Vivian Rich Robert Sands believes that there is the hope of regeneration in every human being. He picks up Jim Marsh, an outcast, and gives him a chance as a servant in his household. Mrs. Sands however, is skeptical of the experiment. She loses heavily at bridge, and, ashamed to confess to her husband, takes money from the safe. The suspicion falls on Marsh. He has been a witness of Mrs. Sands' theft, but to shield her he accepts his dismissal in silence. Hurrying, conscience-stricken, to pay her debt, the door opens and Marsh comes out. The explanation she demands is simple. He has answered an advertisement, "Butler Wanted," but has been turned away because "good references" are lacking. Mrs. Sands wakes to the

pathos of the situation and the wrong she has done him. She makes amends and her husband's faith in humanity

is restored.

MOVIE PROGRAM

MATHEWSON IN NEW FIELD JFJNDEAVOR Makes First Appearance in "Love and Baseball" at the Lyric. Christy Mathewson has arrived in flldom, in a play of rare qualities specially written for him, around his life, which will be shown Wednesday at the Lyric. It is a "101 Bison" two-

reel drama. Motion pictures have done more toward familiarizing the public with, giving it intimate studies of great or famous personages than the pen or the painter's brush could ever do. That they secured Mathewson for a series of photoplays is only another evidence of what it can do. Baseball has long since established Itself as the national game there are millions who follow its destinies. And, just so, there are untold millions who are acquainted with the name Mathewson, and who follow his career upon the diamond studiously. Christy Mathewson has acquired more fame in the baseball world than any other player;

he has established a reputation as the greatest pitcher the world has ever produced.

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MURRAY

ANNOUNCES

VAUDEVILLE OPENS Regular Attractions and Motion Pictures to Be Shown at Play House. On Monday afternoon will Bee the opening of the regular vaudeville season at the Murray, and Manager Murray announces an excellent bill for the week. There will be a complete change of program on Mondays and Thursdays and four acts of vaudeville and two reels of pictures will be shown. The first three days the Strand series of war pictures and the last of the week Johnson's travelogue pictures will be flashed. Laughlin's dogs with the clever tricks and funny capers hold down the headline position. Performing stunts that seem almost Impossible these dogs are trained to the very highest point of perfection. Their attempts at keeping their balance on the roulette wheel keep the audience in a roar of laughter. Little Miss Jean, vaudeville's daintiest juvenile comedienne is a good looking youngster who sings a song and tells a story In just the way it should be done.

One of the best sketches that has been seen here for some time will be

presented by Estelle Wordette and her clever company, entitled "A Honeymoon in the Catskills." Miss Wordette

who for several yean starred In some of the prominent successes Is an accomplished actress and In this sketch Is to be seen at her best. She has surrounded herself with an excellent cast. Wilson and Aubrey, open the show with a comedy bar act and burlesque wrestling.

RICHARDSON BOASTS VILLAINOUS VILLAIN

Jack Richardson of the "Flying A" company, is once the handsomest and the most villainous villain appearing 'on the screen. Fortunately for all concerned, including Mr. Richardson, the villainous villain stuff is reserved for his work before the camera. In private life he still is handsome, but he also is one of the gentlest, most likable of men. Some of the compliments he receives are made with such evident sincerity that they are almost alarming. One woman signing herself "Mother" writes that she has raised four boys, but if any of them were to develop as evil looks as Jack has she would sure poison them. A preacher writes "that no man could act the parts so realistically without being a bad man at heart."

Mr. Richardson is five fet eleven Inches tall, weighs 175 pounds and has brown hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion, r

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Gennett Theatre TONIGHT Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch And "Lovey Mary." PRICES 25c to $1.00

LYRIC. Saturday "The Redemption"; and 'Fate's Finger." Sunday "As the Crow Flies"; "The JJark Horse." PALACE. Saturday Alice Joyce "The Mystery of the Sleeping Death." Sunday "When the West Was Voung." MURRAY. Saturday "The Five Million Dollar Counterfeit Mystery." Week of October 5 Vaudeville. ARCADE. Saturday "When Mackbeth Came to Snakeville"; "The New Reporter." Sunday "Face Value"; "A Study in feet." THEATORIUM. Saturday "Down by the Sounding Foa," "Does It End Right?" "The Sheriff's Prisoner." Sunday "The Gunman"; "The Butterfly Bug." MURRETTE. Saturday "The Vanity Race"; "Our Mutual Girl." Sunday "The Faith in Humanity"; '"Parson Larkin's Wife." MURRAY. Saturday Five Million Dollar Counterfeit Plot." "Sunday Million Dollar Mystery."

"THE DOUBLE LIFE

ARCADE

OFFERING

Next Tuesday the Arcade offers "The Double Life," written by Narbert Lusk. Cora Tracey, proprietor of a gambling resort, has but one touch of softness in her nature her love for Alice, her young daughter, whom she keeps in the country in ignorance of her mother's life. Cora visits her secretly and is bullied by her partner, Hollister, to tell where she goes. Alice meets David Richie, and they become attached. Cora laughes harshly at Hollister's admiration. David goes to the city and is decoyed to Cora's. Hollister later motors out to see Alice, and on the pretext of visiting her mother Alice is taken by Hollister to the city. David sees the departure and follows to protect Alice. Hollister takes the girl to a private room in a restaurant, and telephones Cora, asking if he may marry Alice. Hollister hurries Alice to the gambling house, but David bars their entrance.

Cast.

The Idiot, a boy of 18 . . Robert Harron

His Father, a man of 65. .F. A. Turner

His Mother, a woman of 60

Mrs. Crowell This picture, "The Idiot," showing at the Theatorium next Wednesday, is an unusual one. The principal character in this powerful play is Robert Harron, who takes the part of the idiot, known as Oliver Chapin. From his babyhood his parents knew there was something the matter with him, but they did not know exactly what it was. Ollie was of little assitance on the farm, though he was willing to attempt any task that was not beyond his mental capacity. With the cruelty of mere thoughtlessness Ollie had been dubbed "The Idiot," and he was known by that name to all the neighbors. He was not an idiot. He had too much good

sence to deserve such a nickname; but he was not as bright as the other boys her was queer and irresponsible.

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Afternoon and lMlgnt Presenting Cleo Madison and George Larkins in the Famous 2-Reel Photo-Play AS THE CROW FLIES Series 9 Trey ' IHIearte The Big One Reel Drama

The Dark Horse

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5TH Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday A Treat For Young and Old LAUGHLIN'S DOGS Featuring the Canine Roulette Wheel Vaudeville's Daintiest Juvenile Comedienne

Estelle Wordette & Co., Introducing a Novel Skit, Entitled Honeymoon in the Catskills Aubrey & Wilson Burlesque Wrestlers and Gymnasts Strand War Series No. 1 Actual War Scenes Taken in Belgium. News o! the World in Animation Entire Change oi Program Thursday Three Shows Daily--2:30, 7:45 and 9:00 TOOIP117C 1UATINEE lOc jrKlJCii3NIGHT 10c, 15c, 20c and 25c

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The Edison Co. presenting Ben Wilson in the Powerful 2-Reel Drama

A Vitagraph Comedy.

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Thursday "The Hidden Letters" 2 Reel Vitagraph Drama "Generals of the Future" Edison Descriptive "Buster Brown on the Care and Treatment of Goats" Edison Comedy

TONIGHT:

HI on day "The Band Leader" Vitagraph Comedy 'The Path to Ruin" Kalem Drama "Broncho Billy the Vagabond." Essanay Drama Wednesday "The Lost Cord" Vitagraph Comedy "Squaring the Triangle" Lubin Drama "The Backslider" Biograph Drama

Friday Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 51 "Sophie's Legacy" Essanay W. Com. "Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" Vitagraph Drama.

Tuesday Afternoon and Night, Oct 6. "THE DOUBLE LIFE" 2-reel drama of today, featuring the Lubin stars, and "DICK POTTER'S WIFE" Edison Drama.

PALACE

TODAY See the Kalem Special ' The Mystery ol the Sleeping Death "To Be Called For" Selig Comedy. . SUNDAY:

vv lieu uic west was xuuiig A Sellg from the book by Cyrus Townsend Brady, and a Vltlgraph Comedy.

SPECIAL Wednesday SPECIAL Stupendous, Startling, Stirring Military Drama

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A tremendous 5-reeler that portrays the great German Struggle. ONE DAY ONLY ADMISSION Sc.

Coming Oct. 13-M Shubert and Brady Present Robert Warwick in Tbe BaUar Msrt A Stirring Story of the Early Cobalt Days.