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TODAY'S KILM FEATURES.
National "Jeanne Dore."
Sunset "The Yellow Streak."
Pick ford "Sealed Lips."
Peoples "The Ragamuffin,"
"The Goddess."
Columbia "T he Missing
Links." "Fatty and Mabel Adrift."
Majestic "The Serpent."
SAVE in exceptional cases, the five
and six-reel pictures will not be
produced so much In the future, ac
cording to H. M. Horkheimer, president
smd general manager of the Balboa
atudio. Speaking as to what the new
year holds in store for the screen in
dustry, he (ires it as his opinion, after
a. careful review of the more important
factors, that there is going to be an
early return to shorter photoplays.
"Audiences agree that S per cent
of the five-reel features are too long
and draggy," says Mr. Horkheimer.
"Their storv Is not sufficient to sua
tain the interest for the time required
la unreel them. Too much padding and
extraneous matter has been filmed and
the neoDle soon get tired of it.
"What they want Is a. crisp tale, told
tersely and directly. I don't believe
there are many stories the screen ver
sion of which cannot be given In two
or three reels. We must remember that
motography is like a battleship strip
ped for action. The frills and trimmings
which go to make up other modes of
expression have been laid pside. Here,
we give only the heart of the story
the elemental fable.
"I believe that if exhibitors will con
centrate their advertising on two and
three-reel features, they can work up
a stronger patronage than with the
longer picture. The short story is the
most vital form in present-day litera
ture. Its screen equivalent wouJd be
the two or three-reet picture; while
the five-reeler Is more like the novel
ette. There are few good ones. Of
course, every once In a while there
will be a gripping long picture: just
as we have occasional 100, 000-word
novels of note. But the public prefers
the short version."
From the papers recorded in the Su
preme Court, of New York, last week
it would appear that the matrimonial
troubles of James Young, until recent
ly director of the Peerless Feature
Producing Company, have brought in
their wake a number of others.
The director, it may be recalled, was
recently sued by hie wife. Clara Kim
ball Young, the moving picture star,
for a separation, and also for S2S.0M0
for money advanced to him. .Coincident
with her action there rime a flare-up
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between the two at the studios of the
Peerless Company, which resulted.
Young claims, in his discharge, but ac
cording to other sources, he handed in
his resignation.
Anyway, Mr. Young has begun In the
Supreme Court a suit for J9500 damages
against the Peerless Company, alleging
he was discharged in violation of a con
tract of employment. He claims, on
August 19. 1914, he entered into an
agreement with the present defendant,
to direct for a period of two years at
the comfortable salary of $200 a week.
Last June 1 the company voluntarily
raised this to $250 a week. But on De
cember 11, the exact date of the publi
cation of the news that Mrs. Young was
suing for a separation, the director al
leges, he was discharged from his em
ployment. The story of a peculiar situation in
connection with the trouble was told
by Lewis J. Selznlck, vice-president of
the Peerless and general manager of
the World Film -Corporation, of which
Mrs. Young is the bright particular
star.
"Mr. Young resigned his position be
cause his wife refused to work with
him," declared Mr. Helznick to the
Morning Telegraph. "He was not dis
charged, but in the presence of Will
iam A. Brady, Mrs. Young and myself
and a dozen others, refused to continue
because he could not direct films in
which Mrs. Young was appearing.
"What else could we do?" inquired
Mr. Selznlck. "We couldn't force his
wife to work with him nor him to
work 'with hef. As far as I am con
cerned, I would be glad to see them
together again, because Mr. Young is
a capable director, but at the present
time it seems impossible.
1 have hopes it may be accom
pllshed in the future, however," he
concluded.
Mr. Belznicic also said he thought It
very foolish of the director to sue the
Peerless at the present time, because
he was not discharged, but simply re
fused to continue when his wife de
clined to appear under his direction,
either at home or in the studio.
H. E. Aitken-, president of the Tri
angle film Corporation, announces the
completion of arrangements for ex
hibiting Triangle films in Australasia
under contracts from which the cor
poration will receive a minimum guar
antee of mora than $200,000 a year net
profit. Arrangements have also just
been closed for the showing of Tri
angle films in Canada, providing for a
substantial guarantee to the corpora
tion and also providing for participa
tion in additional profits. Mr. Aitken
states that the signed contracts which
the Triangle now has in the United
Stnte stTKrerate more than .40.00l
THE SUNDAY OREGONIA3SV POR'nLAJm, JANUARY 23. 1916.
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per annum an increase of $500,000
since December 22, 1915.
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Marguerite Clark, the Paramount
star who appeared last week at the
Peoples Theater in "Mice and Men," is
32 years old, although this film favorite
of diminutive stature suressfully In
terprets child roles. She has had an
active stage career, as well as a more
strenuous one in the movies, and ap
peared in Portland as De Wolf Hop
per's leading woman. Miss Clark is
unmarried.
One thousand "extras" in the roles
of early Virginia settlers and Ameri
can Indians will lend atmosphere to
the picturization of "To Have and To
Hold'" from Mary Johnson's novel of
the same name, which is now being
made iX the studios of the Jesse L.
Lasky Feature Play Company at Holly
wood, California.
This photo-play, which is a picturi
zation of one of the widest read and
best known novels in the last ten years,
will serve to Introduce Mae Murray as
a photoplay star. She will divide the
stellar honors with Wallace Reid, who
will soon appear with Cleo Ridgley in
"The Golden Chance." Miss Mae Mur
ray was late star of the Ziegfeld Fol
lies and has been a favorite of musi
cal comedy audiences for several years
and more recently has been promi
nent as one of the leading exponents
of the modern dances.
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California, they are building an en
tire village representing Jamestown,
Virginia, as it was in the days of the
early seventeenth century.
The million dollar Annette Keller
man picture William Fox is making at
Jamaica, has costly oriental settings
which go far to account for the money
expended for a film which promises to
be one of the most spectacular of film
dom's efforts,
A zoological garden was created to
house the lions, tigers, elephants,
camels, panthers, flamingoes, swans,
baboons and the rarer species such as
birds of paradise, costing $5000 each.
A gigantic oriental city costing $30,
000 to erect and covering 20 acres of
ground has been built on Jamaica's
highest elevation.
An inland Moorish city even more
lavish on a plateau of unusual tropical
beauty.
An underwater city where nymphs
are seen in graceful spectacles.
Not the least striking of the effects
seen in the million dollar production,
is the oriental city with its slave mar
kets, mosaues, minarets, and bazaars
all aglow with life and action a city
opulent and colorful as Bagdad or
Cairo.
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J. Warren Kerrigan, according to his
own statement, is perfectly satisfied
with the Hniversa! Film Manufactur-
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ing Company, and intends to continue
his' motion picture work with them.
When it was rumored that Kerrigan
was to leave the fold of the Universal
a wire was sent to Universal City, and
the following reply was received by
General Manager Joe Brandt: "Kerri
gan denies any intention leaving. Just
signed for another year two weeks
ago and will positively appear exclu
sively with the Universal."
In "Dimples," a forthcoming feature
production in which Mary Miles Minter
has the stellar role, the character of
Mrs. Riley, rrer aunt, is played by
Charlotte Shelby. It has been noted
that there is truly a remarkable re
semblance between Dimples and Mrs.
Riley. There should be, for Charlotte
Shelby in real life is none other than
Miss Minter's mother. Mrs. Shelby-
was formerly a well known actress,
but has not appeared professionally
for a number of years. However, she
is always found with her charming lit
tle daughter around the studio, and
when the company went South to
make the exteriors Mrs. Shelby went
along. Director Edgar Jones induced
her to take a part In the production.
Mary Miles Minter's name was Juliet
Slhelhy until after Phe made her big
Vitagraph Special
odd ess
gest stage success in "The Litt.est
Rebel." She changed her name then
on the theory that it sounded "too
stagey."
"A YELLOW STREAK" IS BILL
Lionel Bar rj more and Irene Howley
Appear- at Sunset.
Lionel Barrymore, whose dramatic
gifts have won him notable distinction
in stellar roles on both the speaking
stage and the screen, and Irene Howley,
a recognized stage and screen favorite,
will be seen today at the Sunset Thea
ter in "A Yellow Streak," a Metro
offering of much strength.
The story of "A Yellow Streak" fol
lows: Barry Dale. a Wall-street
broker, is financially ruined by a faith
less wife and her companion. Richard
Marvin. Marvin is found with the wife
in her apartments and Dale is thrown
into the street, given a pistol, and ad
vised to shoot himself. With this in
mind he walks across the Brooklyn
bridge and there prevents Mary Austin,
a girl of the tenements, from com
mitting suicide; although the only
glimpse he gets of her is. a silhoutte.
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The girl is trying to escape marriage
with a gambler. Jack Rader.
Barry goes West and falls in with
a hunted outlaw. The outlaw is killed,
as is a preacher, who joins the two
just before the posse closes in on them.
Barry buries them both and takes their
clothes, deciding to impersonate first
one and than the other.
Tom Austin, Mary's drunkard brother,
is sent West and the sister and father
join him. Barry, as the outlaw, holds
up the stage in which the girl is
riding, and barters the safety of the
passengers for a kiss. Afterwards,
as the preacher, the two become friends.
Rader, the gambler, turns up, coii
promises Tom in a hold-up, and is shot
by Barry, who turns the trick as an
outlaw and then appears as the min
ister when the posse arrives. Barry
secures funds and returns to New York,
throws Marvin into the street, wifh a
pistol and the same advice he has re
ceived a year before.
. Back West, Mary awaits the return
of the minister, standing every- night
on the little bridge that spans a moun
tain stream. She despairs of his return
until one night she hears the same
voice she hears, on Brooklyn bridge,
turns, and sees the same silhouette,
ana the two realize that their first
meeting had been in New York.
'SEALED LirS" IS AT PICKFORD
Keen Drama Is Built on Weakness
of Deep, Religious Thinker.
In "Sealed Lips," which opens today
at the Pickford Theater, the Equit
able Motion . Pictures Corporation has
visualized Maxwell Grey's great novel,
"The Silence of Dean Maitland," in a
manner which makes a powerful ap
peal to every lover of the silent drama
or the pictured story. The cast, every.
member of which, is a star, was es
pecially selected for this .production
and directed by John lnce. wunain
Courtenay is the cold-blooded, impas
sive medical man; Arthur Ashley, the
imoulsive. temperamental, reckless and
at first somewhat weak-willed clerical
student, and Mary Charleson, the vic
tim of the impetuosity and selfishness
of the young minister.
The romance of the two friends, each
of whom marries the other's sister, the
weakness of the man who afterwards
bAoomei the arreat Dean, and the bur
den of guilt and mental anguish which
he carries through the passing years,
even up to his high station in the
church, the sacrifice which the calm,
dispassionate doctor makes to save the
fame of his boyhood friend, and the
tragic climax of the nerve-wrecking
combination of circumstances result
ing from weakness and deception, are
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