mmmmMmmmmmmtmmmUMillKSmliimimim - '-iNfJ 1tf- -r "jfr44 mmmmmiMmmmmmmMmmMmmm?mMm "mJ'mmfr' W Wl,'ifwnfwyji ' ric Evening Ledger Amusement Section, Saturday, December 18, 1915 1 "OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES" SPEEDING IT UP THE THEATRE WORItD frxysggawww AS IT IS TODAY A Small Girl's Idea of Hero and Villain in Magical Movielan'd. .Jottings of Personalities Now Before the Public on the Stage X John Cossar. Essanay actor, who takes the leading role in "The Law's Decree," met his little daughter just after he fin ished the tight scene with Ernest Mau pain. in which he sustained a sprained hand and various other injuries. Miss Cossar, who Is 5 years old, took in the sight of her father in awed silence. Cos sar, usually immaculate, was very badly disarranged. His collar was ripped open and hung by one button, his shirt was torn and his trousers were covered with dirt. "What part were you playln' in the picture, daddy?" asked the little maid. "I am the hero, dear," said Mr. Cossar. More silence. Then: "Well, daddy, if you were the hero, the villain must be an awful big man." Sessuo Ilayakawa, Japan's most famous dramatic artist, who is appearing promi nently in the support of Fannie "Ward. In "The Cheat," was the first actor to introduce the modern drama into Japan. Mr. Ilayakawa came to this country a number of years ago, and studied literature and drama at the Chicago University. He then translated many of the modern American plays, as well as the classics, into Japanese. He returned to Japan, and has the distinc tion of being the first dramatic actor to appear In Shakespeare and Ibsen plays on the island. Mr. Ilayakawa has now a play on foot to organize, after the war, an all-star Japanese dramatic com pany, with which to tour the world to show the different countries how Japan has advanced in the dramatic art. E. H. Calvert, Essanay director, has returned from.a three weeks" hunting and fishing trip in the Ozarks and is hard at work on a mutiple-reel feature, "A Daughter of the City." The party camped a hundred miles from the nearest rail road. Mr. Calvert killed many ducks, as well as other game. He made a record of bringing down every duck he shot at. Richard C. Travcrs, leading man, recently returned from a three weeks' vacation in Georgian Bay, Canada, where he lived In the open. Travers caught 27 fish, all lake trout, the smallest of which weighed six pounds and the largest 42 pounds. He distributed the fish among hi3 friends at the studio. Kaoml Childers, one of the Vitagraph stars, has acquired the goldfish habit. Every available space in her home Is occupied by a globe containing varieties of the little carp from almost every por tion of the globe where the fish breed. Specimens from China of a dull olive hue. Garibaldis from California, gold-hued fish and those that are tinged with silver by crossing go to make up Miss Childers' fast growing family. So enthusiastic Is the Vitagraph star over this Interesting fad she has applied for membership in the American Association of Goldfish Fanciers, and on confirmation of her ac ceptance as a member intends exhibiting a raro specimen of the Shubunkin at the first meeting. Louise F.zenda. the Keystone come dienne, who i3 under the direction of Dick Jones, nas just returned from a quiet visit to the San Francisco Exposition, accompanied by her mother. Miss Fa zenda was brought to Los Angeles by her parents when she was six months old. She says that this is the longest trip the has ever taken and that It was the first time In her Ifie she slept in a rail road berth. 1 wi. i ??" ' vy H Elsie Janis out in her car between movie and dramatic engagements. CLOSE-UPS OF SCREEN FAVORITES JACKIE SAUNDERS At the suggestion of three of Ani'-iira'.i foremost artists Jackie Saundei t the Balboa girl became a motion-! cture player. While do ing Ingenue parts in a Philadelphia stock company, Harrison Fisher saw Miss Saunders and invited her to New Tork to pose for him. Because of her girlish beauty she was much in demand in the Btudios of the metropolis; How ard Chandler Christy used her in some of his best-known pic tures of three or four years ago. Then she became a model for Clarence Underwood. He it was who drat sensed Miss Saun ders' photographic possibilities, at the time that cinema productions began to become popular. But as the silent drama did not stand very well. Miss Saunders was a bit uncertain about appearing before the camera. She discussed the matter with all three of her artist friends, and on their united advice decided to give It a trial, with the result that she has been a film actress ever since. She broke In as a leading woman with the Reliance Company, In New York, by saying she had already had studio experience when she applied for an engagement. If JbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbB-i, J When the star of the motion-picture empire began to move westward to the I Facific coast Miss Saunders followed it i to southern California. There she ap I peared successively in Blograph. Kinema I color and Universal productions. Subse quently she joined the Balboa forces at Long Beach when the Horkheimer broth ers began their activities. Now she has a contract which runs three years longer, and the photoplays in which she appears find a ready market. Jacquelin is the first name given to Miss Saunders at birth, but it was soon shortened to "Jackie" and she likes that sobriquet best. It expresses her nature, for she Is a, bizarre, out-of-doors girl. Her preference Is for raggety-taggety parts, in which she can rear and tear with her luxuriant hair flying in the winds. Of late she has done several mountain pictures, going bare-footed over the rocky trails. Yet It is not difficult for this screen favorite to put on ballroom gowns and become Jacouclln in a nonce. Sha wmm J her clothes as gracefully as she is nat- !ural in tomboy regalia. During the last year Miss Saunders has appeared in a dozen of Balboa's big gest productions. The list includes "Will o the Wisp." "Rose of the Alley." "Lit tle Sunbeam," "Reaping the Whirlwind." and "A Bolt from the Sky." Her In terpretation of "111 Starred Babbie." the story of the Pennsylvania coal Melds, by the Rev. Will W. Whalen. pleased the author so thoroughly that he pronounced the characterization perfect. Miss Saunders last feature is called "The Shrine of Happiness." This turned out so satisfactorily tha,t Pathe Freres sent it abroad to be hand-colored. The fact that it is the first five-reel photoplay ever treated to such costly consideration gives an Indication of the fine quality of Jackie Saunders cinematographic work. STATISTICS NOW A MOVIE FEATURE MME. AUGUSTE BURMESTER The veteran actress, so delight ful in "The Bubble," whom Phila delphia met some vears ago at the German Theatre. Continued from rate One France with 17. When It is considered that the United States has 35 persons to each square mile of its area, the crowded condition of Austria and Germany will be brought home. By means of a motion picture chart the fact that Austria and Germany must spread out can easily be planted in the minds of the motion-picture public. Despite the fact that other countries are eo Intensely involved, the war seems to us to be one between Eng land and Germany. Germany is fighting for things she feels she must have in order to live. She feels that it Is right that she should seize from England what England seized years ago from other countries. England feels that it is just as necessary to maintain what she has taken in order to live. This la true. England Is the greatest shipping coun try In the world. Her tonnage. In round numbers, i3 almost four times that of Germany. Her exports and imports large ly overshadow those of any other coun try. Imports are slightly greater In the United Kingdum than exports, and the same applies to Germany. Therefore, it would seem that both countries require .freedom of the seas. England controls the international highways today. Ger many feels that for economic indepen dence, which means prosperity and pow er, she must control them. This all can be shown by means of animated charts, cartoons and trick pho tography In a way that the average man will remember. The causes that have brought on the war, as well as Its prog ress and Its inevitable results, can be car ried to a larger number of people In a week than would read of them in years In books or magazines. For Instance, the question Is often asked, what should be the attitude of an American? The answer la usually that he shouid bo neutral. Of course, being neutral Is a difficult thing, but it Is well to remember that personal feelings in in ternational affairs havo caused much trouble. Let us see why it is not only theoretically but practically proper for tho American to be neutral. Statistics will show this, and moving pictures will bring the lesson home very forcibly. An overwhelming victory for one aide- or the other might mean that the next war will be between the victor and tho United States, whereas a draw will probably mean an international law court which will be so formed that fairness will have to be exercised and Justice administered. The latter i3 what we want. The high cost of living is a sore prob lem. The prices of almost all commodi ties have it is true, increased, but sta tistics will show that some communities are successfully coping with the situa tion and the first of my films to bo re leased through tho Paramount Pictures shows this. Questions of such vital Interest as those which I have outlined can be asked and answered by means of our animated mag azine, which embraces many other fea tures of interest to tho great public. On the Popularity of Orphans At kwt I have Oxural oat why It Is that the character of an orphan kIxl Knch. for example, an that of Judy Ab bott, in "Daddy Longlexs' remains always one of the public's dramatio favorites. An orphan, obviously, has no parents. This, equally plainly, reduces the number of bad actors In the avenge east by two. Georxe Jean Nathan. The baseball fans of New York missed one of their most illustrious members from the grandstand on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons last summer. De Wolf Hopper. George Cohan and Willie Collier were at first surprised at this dereliction on the, part of Louis Mann until they both bethought them that he was playing matinees of "The Bubble" at the Booth Theatre during the entire summer. As Louis is a noted fan. It must havo been a disappointment to him to miss the games, in spiteot the fact that ho was playing to crowded: houses. Listening to Frank TInney build a sum mer home Is one of the joys of "Watch Your Step." which comes to the Forrest Theatre Christmas night for a limited engagement. When "Watch Your Step" first settled at the New Amsterdam The atre, New Tork, where It remained for six months, Frank TInney (the carriage caller) In tho duologue m which ho In dulges with William Halllgan (the pa tron of the opera) spoke proudly of his summer home at Freeport but did no more than locate It in his speech. As Halllgan betrayed an increasing Interest In this place, TInney begaa the construc tion of the House itself. After a week ho was talking of the beauties of the building; in another week he had it fin ished; the third week he was boasting of its comforts and conveniences; during the fourth week he built an aquarium in the cellar with blueflsh. Having com pleted the house, he began to Improve the grounds: At every performance some new detail of the scheme came to light, and each feature, from the bay windows to the roof garden, was greeted by the audience with delight. TInney declares that building- a summer noma in such fashion Is such an agreeable task which everybody else seems to enjoy as much as he does himself that ho Intends to add a lot of ground to his estate, so that he can construct an amusement park In his backyard. Mrs. Pauline DufTleli", one of the sweet and venerable "old ladl3" of the stage, has naturally succeeded to the position vacated at the time of the death of Annie Yeamans and now ranks with Mrs. Thomas Whlffen as one of the two most experienced players on the American stage. Mrs. Duffleld creates the part of Mrs. Fenton in Oliver D. Bailey's three act drama, "Her Price," with Emma Dunn in the principal role. Mrs. Duffleld for many years has been in the companies of Charles Frohman and has supported tho majority of the great stars of that sterling producer. After four prosperous seasons In Louis N. Parker's "Disraeli" George Arllss has undertaken the adventure of finding a new vehicle for his subtle and vivid tal ent as character actor. He is now rep resenting Nlcolo 'Paganini, the hlstorlo virtuoso of. the violin. In a play called "Paganini" at the Blackstone Theatre of Chicago. In this comedy of character by Edward Knoblauch, author of "Marie-Odlle" and "Kismet," Mr. Arllss haa obviously found what he was looking for. viz., a com panion pleco to "Disraeli." Briefly de fined In theatrical terms tho piece Is an other "Disraeli." That is to say, in mood and manner It Is of the same species as the piece which brought Mr. Arllss his greatest success In the theatre, but only the box office statements of the season, of course, can testify that "Paganini" is another "Disraeli" from the commer cial point of view. & aSBBSc7v 3. IsBA SH bbBHhssl " jP nSBSBsCdBBSBBa '.aBBBBBBBBBKh v JM WflHSBBBSBBSBSBSpi' f VaBBBBBPBBBSBBBV. 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