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THEATRES
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AMUSEMENT SECTION
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1915
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In "The Girl of the Barracks."
STATISTICS NOW
A MOVIE FEATURE
Animated Illustrations of Con
ditions a New Use of the
Motion Picture
By Roger W. Babson
Mr. Uopcr 11. Babson, the well
known statistician and economist, has
Joined the Paramount Corporation as
associate editor of its Xeicspictures.
His animated statistics Kill be run in
conjunction Kith these.
Trobably there is nothing so uninter
esting to the average man as do" sta
tistics. He cannot get very excited when
ho reads on tho printed page that 5C6,
009,009 cans of beans are sold in the
United States and Canada; or that In
New Jersey there are JO. I per cent, more
mosquitoes to the square mile than in
any other State in the Union, but by the
free use of illustrations I have been able
to circulate my books quite largely, and
I am informed by public libraries that
they are in considerable demand.
Let us take the European War as an
example. First, we will take the popu
lation per square mile of the larger
countries at war. We will see that Aus
tria has MM persons for each square mile
of its area, more than three times tne
population of any country; Germany
comet) next with 62; the United Kingdom
of Ungland with 3J; Itussia with 13. and
Continued on race- Seven
Poujal of "Julie Bon Bon."
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INCE, MOVIE MAGICIAN
Intimate and Interesting Details of the Prominent
Director of Triangle Films by One
Who Knows Him Well
By ROBERT GRAU
amazingly meteoric , idolized, too. by the millions who flocJc
AF ALL the
J careers in Movln;
Picturedora. the
one most widely
discussed on the
theatrical rtialto is that of Thomas H.
Ince, a man who less than six years ago
nas wont to congregate with theatre
folk on upper Broadway; content if he
could secure an engagement at a two
ligure weekly salary, for while Ince's
stage career was not unworthy, there was
nothing about it to indicate that a few
years later he would become one of the
greatest arm3 of a new industry which
has been the biggest boon to stage folk
in the history of the theatre.
The last time Tom Ince came to Broad
nay, about a year ago. he was hailed
by the Thespians as the King of Ince-
CHARACTER ACTOR PAR EXCELLENCE
On this page appear eight varied and well-defined character imper
sonations by Louis Mann. Of the four immediately above, the one
on the upper right shows Oom Piet, the Boer of "The Red Cloof :
on the upper left Leopold of "The Second Fiddle"; on the lower
right Hochstuhe of "All on Account of Eliza," and on the the lower
left Hans of "The Girl From Paris."
villc. Actors and managers, who would
not give him an audience live years be
fore paid him homage, for the Ince of
101 1 ' as known the world over as the
SU.O.0GO a year director of photoplays.
The man vho put the move in 'movies."
who began at a. daily wage of three
dollars in sheer desperation to find a
place of shelter for his wife and baby.
It was thus that Ince entered Movieland.
Before two years 1-ad passed. Ince was
a magnate. First of all he insisted on
having full authority. The company he
( started with had everything but money.
but the output lor tne screen was still or
1 that kind calculated to drive people out
ot tne meaires. At me outset oeing
denied real actors. Ince undertook to
teach cowboys vand Indians the art of
acting. Not a few of these possessed the
divine spark, and two at least who began
with him in a primitive environment are
today permanently intrenched at Inceville
to the neighborhood theatres all ovei
the country.
It was Ince who flr3t saw tho need of
experienced players for picture plays.
While he was able to obtain good results
from the amateurs who fell under his
magnetic spell. hi3 insistent telegrams to
New York headquarters for the best
actors was followed by a veritable stam
pede of stage folk bent on conquest of
the new art. Ince's associates, now
multimillionaires, by name Kessel and
Baumann, granted his every wish, for
ihey knew he would make good in every
new move-
A11 road3 lead to Inceville' became
the actors" slogan. But Ince wanted cer
tain actors only. Ho knew the peculiar
requisites for screen conquest, and in his
precarious stage career had played with
the best :is well as the worst. Ince be
lieved that about one out of ten of aver
age players could make their impress In
the new field and he set about securing
the one in ten.
Itisht here Ince revealed his most con
structive policy. While other feature
producers were Insisting on new faces for
each feature picture, engaging1 no one
for more than one production, Inca be
gan to assemble an all-star stock, com
pany, the only organrtwiVjn. In all filmdom
where the famous a jie was paid for on
a baste of prolonged service. With others
It was the shorter tho engagement the
more the star was paid. With. Inca it
was just the other way.
Ince engaged W. S. Hart two years ago
at a salary a grand opera diva, would,
envy. Hart is still with Ince. His pay
envelope contains double now what it
Continued on Fage Klgat
Mueller of "The Bubble,"
A MANN OF
MANY PARTS
For More Years Than One
Should Count, Louis Has
Been With Us
No character actor upon the American
stage today has created a more versatile
and unique galaxy of footligrht portrayals
than has Louis Mann, of "The Bubble."
Few playgoers realize, despite their fa
miliarity with Mr. Mann's more famous
characterizations, that he' has been upon
the stage nearly half a century, bavins'
begun as a little Thespian at the tender
age of threo years. During his boyhood
days he played many parts. Indeed, rang
ing throughout the classical and standard
drama and Shakespeare, and was asso
ciated with such illustrious stars as Ed
win Booth, Lawrence Barrett, John Mc
Cullough. Daniel Bandman. Louis Morri
son, James O'Neill. Maria Prescott and
that herculean Italian tragedian. To
masso SalvlnL
A young Lambs" Club actor, lust sprouting-
his first feathers, in a recent Shake
spearean production, once asked Mr.
Mann why he didn't desert his character
work: for a while and attempt Shake
speare. "Attempt Shakespeare?" ex
claimed the astonished Mann, "why, I
played Shakespeare when you were In the
cradle yes. and played. Shakespeare from
Contained on l'aze Elsht
la "The Man Who Stood Still.