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You can't read the title pape of Clara Kimball Young's music on the
piano rack in her home, but it is the famous "Serenade." Thus docs
the Selznick star amuse herself when not facing the camera for "The
Easiest Way," the Stanley's next week bill.
"THE NEGLECTED WIFE,"
PATHE'S NEWEST SERIAL
First Installment of Mabel Herbert Urner's Stories in
Film Form to Be Published in the
Evening Ledger
"THIi SKai.KVTKH WIFE"
Chapter .Vo. "'fhr Woman AUmr"
(S'ovelltrd from fii I'athe srrliil of Ihr
satne name, bnsctl on novels of Mabel llcr
oert t'rnrr. Sutemllng timliiUmriils trill
be published in the ftt-t'iiiiif l,tdrcr rrrry
Saturday I
Hy JOSKPH DUNN
With weary dejection Margaret e limbed
tho throe dark flights to lirr back liall
room. The smoke-blackened roofs shut
out the daylight from I lie one small stained
window
The II rst glimpse of the null that liad
been thrust under tlio door liruiiKlit to her
throat the Hick clutching that always caiiio
with a rejected manuscript. Inside, was the
usual Blip, without even a personal line
to take away tho sting.
Would she have the heart to send It out
again? Sho had put into It her best work
for she had written about the things she
knew. It was a story of a sordid boarding
house the life she was living. Having
woven into It her own struggles, her hunt
aching loneliness, her starved ambition, she
had called It "The Woman Alone'."
She wan still turning broodjngly throiiBii
the manuscript when there came the
clamorous clang of the dinner bell How
she loathed tho long table crowded with
garrulous boarders! There was no escape
and she started down to the basement The
entranco of Mrs. Devlin cut short tile com
plaints of her boarders, who a moment
before had been demanding "something
different once in a while."
Jimmy Dale, a fresh young shipping
clerk, whoso scat was beside Margaret's,
annoyed her by obnoxious attentions
throughout tho meal, and Margaret was
glad to rush off without her dissert.
Hurrying up, she closed the transom over
her door to shut out the sounds of dis
turbance downstairs.
That same evening, several miles across
the city, Mary Kennedy stood before her
silver-strewn dressing table examining tho
faint lines under her eyes.
There was in her heart tlip dread chill
that comes to every woman with the first
signs of fading youth. Sho tried to com
fort herself with the thought that nuth
meant less to her than to most women, for
she had so much in her home and Horace.
Yet this very reassurance brought a more
poignant worry. Kor inouths Horace had
been becoming more abstracted, more ab
sorbed In his work and less interested In
her and the home, it was the price of
his success that she must pay
Horace's heavy step on tho stairs!
Eagerly she ran out to meet him. Anxious
solicitude was rewarded with u kiss, given
absently. Horace pleaded he was dead tired
and asked May to hurry up dinner At
table, Horace was unusually loquacious He
told his wife how Doyle, a lawyer, dis
barred through his efforts because ho col
lected $100 from a magazine for Margaret
Warner and kept It, was vowing nil sorts of
(vengeance,
"I do wish, dear, you would be more
careful." was her plea.
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An echo of the pioieccllng-i came with a
letter from the Star reiiue-tlng Kennedy to
write a series nf articles on the abuses In
the courts through unscrupulous attorneys.
It had always been Kennedy's ambition to
write ami In tills offer Mary saw an oppor
tunity to In log them nearer, arresting his
glowing abstraction, lteluctantly Horace
promised I , -end a typewriter home so that
she might rop. the articles.
Another week anil the were well Into the
work. Accustomed lo his olllce Monog
rapher, be was at tlrst amused, then lm.
patient at her many errors. He suggested
a regular stenographer at the house, but
ilid not press the point when lm saw her
hurt disappointment lint that same eve
ning 111 getting a iefcrcneo book fiom an
upper shelf, she slipped on tin lihratv bid
der and In catching herself spi allied licr
wrist
lteluctantly she conceded the need of a
stenographer.
licmembering Margin et Warner ami her
Matement that she was often fotced to do
typing, Kennedy decided to secure her serv
ices. He nbnncd her and the crhullv nc.
Lcepted Ills offer of evening work. The next
evening Kenneu greeted her coiillall.v, sens,
log Iter embarrassment ami tr.ving to put
her at ease. The woik went easll and
well, and an arrangement of three evenings
a week was agreed upon.
Tonight she was too hnpp.v lo rebel at
the snrdldness or her home surroundings.
In the six months since .Margaret had come
to .New York there had been many days of
bitter discouragement. Only pride and grim
determination goaded her on In her ambi
tion to bo a famous writer. Iler work with
Kennedy came as nn alleviating respite
from the worries of the weekly bills.
Kennedy's pride In his new work knew
no bounds when tin Star complimented him
on his tlrst article, hut Mary's, enthusiasm
was tomevvliat forced. Instead of bringing
them nearer, as she had hoped, the work
was only widening their estrangement.
That it was most unwise for any wife to
depend solely upon her husband for happi
ness, she knew, and yet that Is what she
had clone.
When Kenned 's practice was still lim
ited, the housework, with only one maid,
had taken most of her lime, but now. with
a moro pretentious .ouse and trained serv
ants, work was so organized that there
was little left for her to do.
For Margaret and Kennedy the woik pro
gressed smoothly, but Mary was elistuibed
when she spoke to him about his custom
of taking Miss Warner to the car.
"It seems only an ordinary courtesy,
since sha works so late," was the curt re
sponse. That was all. Kor hours Mary
lay awake brooding over that brief leplv.
She had needlessly humiliated herself.
The evening work was nearlng tin end,
and this thought now was always In the
background of Margaret's mind. While
Kennedy was paying her most generousl,
It was only three evenings a wt k ; be
sides, she was paying several small debts.
A few moiu weeks and tho last article
would lie written.
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PICTURES CONCERNING SPRING ACTIVITIES IN LOCAL THEATRE!
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The Kvkninc. LniitiKi: artist thus .siiKKests the frail pathos of live Coffin,
Austin Adams's play in which N'azimuvii is appearing at the Adelphi. It is in
the actress makes her first-act entrance.
.lust how much it meant to her. how
much she had become dependent upon It.
sin' did not leallze until one evening ill
May she was usheted Into Kennedy".! li
brary for the last night's woik.
lie had not come clown et. and for the
moment she was alone. She felt almost a
personal possession of the things on Ken
nedy's paper-strewn desk.
Kennedy greeted her with brisk foimallly,
and she wondered If the woik that meant so
much (n her had been only a casual Incident
In his busy life. It was hard In keep her
mind on the 1 ped winds "This Is the last
night" that was the thought that ob
sessed her. Kennedy thanked her for the
work and drew out his wallet. Much ns she
needed the money, she always shrank from
his paying her. With an embarrassed
"Thank ou." .Margaret crushed the bills
into her purse
Madame Alia Nazlmov.i has this in common-with
ticcro anil Theodore Itoosevelt
she Is exceedingly quotable and It's ellllle ult
to ipioto her right. Hardly a sentence falls
from her exotic lips that does not bear
either the Mauip of epigram or the savour
of forcible, utterance. She speaks and
thinks quickly anil she has opinions on
almost every subject, from the fall of the
llomnuolfs to Ibsen and the movies.
Not that Mailanie legards these themes
as of iMpial Impoi tanci. In fact, she rather
waved asldo consideration of everything
but the Kiisslan democracy when the Inter
viewer suggested avenues of approach to
tho coveted Interview. "For, ou see," she
went on swiftly. "I was born In Valta, the
Crimea, not far from the plate where the
Czar makes his summer home, the spot
whero he Is going to cultivate his dowers.
It Is strange, hut lie seems to think that he
has a light to love ltowers. MIMuken man !"
Tin actress' Irony was all the more pro
found, for the quietude of tier tone and her
manner did not hold naif the ehenienco
that she later poured out on otliei tople-s.
It has been several .veins since Nazlmova
returned to ttie land of her birth. Now
she thinks she will never go luck again.
"It would not be llko a visit home any
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As K'enneih walked with her to the car
he drew something fm'ii her of her life at
the hoarding house. A car was waiting
and Margaret was nlmo-t relieved that the
parting was so abrupt It was easier that
way. Tiiseelngly. she took the flist empty
seat next to that occupied by Jimmy Dale.
"I am not a cheap skate like your friend,"
was his tormenting reni.uk. "1 will blow
ou to a- taxi."
Kennedy had turned to glance hack at
the letreatlng car. lie saw Margaret hur
riedly getting off so as to avoid n man who
sprang out after her. Kennedy huirled up
and. with a swift, linn grip on his collar,
sent the astonished fellow staggering
against a lamp post Thoroughly ceiwed.
Jimmy Hale slunk off
Margaiot. fearing the boarding house
gossip, ri'tused to permit Kennedy to send
her home In a taxi, lie followed her Into
ROMANOFFS IBSEN MOVIES
more." was her way of putting It. "It
would be just like jt nip lo a strange, new
country. Ahcudy what am I? A bough
cut from the parent tre'e. or, If you like, n
transplanted tice myself. I wasn't brought
up In Russia; oh. no! My girlhood was
spent In Switzerland There' I learned CJei
niriii and French. Then I went to llussla.
Then this country. Two tiaiisplantlngs.
Hcigho! I shall stay where I am now."
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iteiiiembering u fotiner Interview granted
the dramatic reporter while she was play
ing Million Craig Wentvvorth's "War
Iliieles" at Keith's, ho asked Nazlmova If
she was still it pacifist. "Yes," was the
unexpected answer. "For we sue all
jiacitlsts at heart. Not that we are craven
or afraid : but who really wants war, vviih.es
for It'.' War for war's sake. I'm certain, is
an Impossible wish." The murmured name
of Hohcnzollern evoked only a cryptic smllo.
The conversation (for Nazlmova Inter
views are conversations, and not mono
logue".) turned to Mndame's (list appearance
in Philadelphia as the maid. Kegina, In
"iihosts" Tho suggestion was udvaiiceel
that she might do it again for the younger
generation. Hut she explained that the
lolo, u shoit line, would have Interest only
for the thi-atrlcally "wise" few. "I'd pre
fer to train some youni; girl In tho part,"
was her novel wish,
"Ah. Oilenlel'f! What an actoi! (Otlenlcff
was the gieat Itusslau who came to
America In "OIioMh" with her.i A genius,
nothing less! He was, or rather Is. since
hn's now acting In llussla, n short man.
You think that militates against success?
Not n bit. for Orlenleff was a portrayer of
chaiacter. Ills forte was neurotic people,
undeveloped people, llko Oswald In 'Ghosts.'
Ills 'Michael Kramer' was another Instance.
Hut don't think lie couldn't do other things.
I've seen him give a performance of 'Ham
let' that was magnificent." From that
speech to a reversion to Ibsen seemed most
natural. Madame confessed that she didn't
like to play Nora, and she didn't caro for
"Little Kyolf." Hedda and Hilda Wangel
weie her favorites.
And then (they wouldn't be kept down)
came the movies, and. to the Interviewer,
tho most trenchant part of his Interesting
half hour with the actress. Nazlmova sat
up In her chair, drew her blue robe about
her slender figure and. speaking with grow
ing conviction, gave her opinion of tho art
of silent and plastic picture. As she reached
her climax her eyes dilated Into brilliant
Jets of fire, and her thin, scarlet lips moved
with such rapidity that one had to sit
tight and listen with both ears.
"There are Just two Important things to
be said about the movies; one for, one
against Tho bad part (and oh how dread
fully had It Is!) Is the way they are done
Not only the lack of continuity, the photo
graphing of the Indoor scenes apart from
the contiguous outdoor .ones. That Is
wretched, But the criminal, the horrible
waste of time and money. Kspeclally time.
Consider the theatre. You come to your
dressing room fit n given hour. You make
up. alone. You dedicate that time between
your arrival and tho rising of the curtain
to getting yourself Into, he part you're
playing not consciously. You Just shed
Alia Nazlmova naturally as you put the
lines In your face and the powder on your
cheeks and you become Eve Coflln or Hedda
or Nora. And you store up nervous energy.
When you go on the Btage at a given time
you put forth that energy, naturally, effi
ciently, productively. In the movies you
go to the studio and make up. Then you
sit witli, your nerve force all bottled up
Inside you, and you wait and wait one,
two, three hours. Usually the director Is
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this scanty swimmini; costume that
the next car and they found scats together,
getlwr
Absorbed, neither of them noticed an
auxluus stirring among the passengers.
They weio going dowrr a steep grado, the
iiiotoriiiair frantically woiklng his brake
tr.ving lo check the Increasing sliced. Then
a terrific lurch as the cable broke and the
car shot down the hill
Kennedy, realizing the hopelessness of
escape, drawing Margaret within his arms,
walled fortho final clash. Hlaek delirium
followed, and when he finally crawled from
the wreckage he dragged Margaret with
him. She was unconscious
Straining over her with an anguished
".Margaret! .Margaret!" In a blinded (lash
i mi mi the realization of how much she
meant to him. He knew that ho loved her.
(To be continued next Saturday)
Then you force yourself into the attitude
demanded of you, like a one-night stand, In
stead of growing Into It. It Is ghastly!
"Hut there Is the other side. What I have
porttnyed to people this afternoon Is gone
foiever- I cannot cancel half it line of
what 1 spoke or the manner in which I
spoke It There, you see, tho movies are a
tiemendous aid. They arc like a good
friend, criticising, helping, showing faults
so plainly that you can never commit them
again. It Is not the reheat sals that are
of assistance. No, my friend. It Is tho re
takes. To bo sure, you know you will never
do anything perfectly that is tho non
sense, the bull but you can say, 'Now, that
was not as bad he before.' So It goes."
Madamo plllrms David Orilllth's supiem
acy. "Sec all the movies you can," she de
claims. "Then what do you remember?
Why, 'Tho Ulrth of a Nation.' Not 'Intol
erance.' 1 In tried to do too much there.
Besides, he did not have tho story. Hut
Tlio lllrth' so simple, so touching, so
magically human and moving!"
Nnzlmova's great screen admiration Is
Mao Marsh. And to thoso who have studied
facial play and the methods of the little
American girl and the itusslau woman this
will not bo surprising. Ii. D.
GAINSHIS STARDOM
THROUGH VILLAINY
Bryant "Skinner" Washburn, at
Arcadia Next Week, Was
First a Malefactor
Itislng rapidly In the five years he has
spent with Kssanay, llryant Washburn has,
at tho age of twenty-six years, not only
established himself as n him favorite of
Importance, but as an actor of merit. Ho
conies to tho Arcadia next week In "Skin
ner's nubble,"
Peculiarly enough for a young man
it was not his performance In romantic
leads which sent him up to tho high rank
of photoplay stars, but rather the Intense
enthusiasm which hacked up his unusual
talent talent of such power that It won
for him a reputation In tho least ideal of
parts. For It was .as a weakling villain
that Mr. Washburn first demonstrated tho
ability that the whole cinema world now
knows ho possesses.
Now having played every conceivable
part In heavies, straight leads and charac
ters, his cleverness is apparent. Hut It
must not be overlooked, In urging wide ap
preciation of his work, that ho had estab
lished himself as a star before playing any.
thing but parts which won no sympathy
from any group of spectators.
Perhaps another reason for his success
lies In the fact that he Is one handsome star
who does not fear to obscuro his natural
appearance behind a character make-up.
With Washburn the aim Is perfect por
trayal of the part, whatever It Is, and not
mere posing before the camera. He realizes
that the fleeting fame of the matinees Idol
Is short lived, compared to the lasting exist,
ence of art.
"'Do not take up the stage or Dim not
ing," 'ho advises boys and young men, "un
less you possess an overpowering' desire for
that kind of work.
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met Geoi'Kc M. Cohan, likewise a slave of the lens at that time. lie
was appearing in "Broadway Jones."
CLEANER-FILM CONTEST
IS STARTED BY TRIANGLE
Prizes for Operators Who Return Celluloid in Good Con
dition Are Offered by Local Office
of Corporation
Vine sliect between Twelfth and Itroad
presents' a busy seeno every night after the
movies close their doors. In all the largo
film distributing olllces big forces of men'
and women ui at work examining with
minute caro the pictures which have just
been shown on tlio screens, and which the
next day will be sent out to other picture
hoiis-es. p'ew people- realize tho amount of
work which Is elone on every film after It
has once been shown.
livery one knows how aggravating It Is
lo see a motion picture stop III tho middle
of a thrilling scene and then start up again.
The Interest, which may lie at the highest
tension, Is broken. It haul to feel much
enthusiasm over the ri'M. of the Hint.
Few people leallze the tremendous ad
vance which Is being made In tho motion
plain o Industry, In examining Hints after
they have unco been run off In a picture
house. Wo nil lemcniher how hi tho old
days two or thren times n night a slide
would be Hashed on the scieen reading
".lul a. moment, please." It Is very seldom
that we see that sllele nowadays.
Today, after a plctuto has been shown,
tho re-els are returned to the exchange,
where n, big corps of examiners goes over
ovcry Inch of tho film to see that It is In
perfect condition. Theio are a hundred and
one ways In which the delicate cellulohl
can bo damaged so that when it is shown
the following day It does not seem to be ns
gooei as when it was exhibited previously.
I'reipreiitly the mm breaks and has to be
patched. The examiners have to see that
all these patches are properly made so
that they will not break. Then again ihe
little sprocket holes on tho sieles of tho film
frecprehtly become broken. Some project
ing machines are not perfe-ct and tho Him
gets scratched, causing a poor picture. Oil
ofti'ir gets Into the film from tho projecting
machine, and when this Is found a reel is
wounel and rewound through absorbent
paper until every speck of oil or dirt has
been removed.
Often we .see scenes of a picture which
look as though they were taken on a wet
day. and this Is known as "lain." A care
ful examination of the film for all theso do
feds and tho remedying of them are what
oday permit us to see perfectly projected
Pictures thrown on the screen
MEDALS FOR MIMES
IT HE Evening Ledger recently printed a list of the plays pre--1-
sented in Philadelphia during the season of 191C-17. By way
of variety and solely with the wish of casting a retrospectively
interesting light on the dramatic, year, the following digest, of
good acting is offered. From some of the plays produced here
have been selected actors or actresses whose impersonations seemed
to the writer to be the best in the individual company. It must
be emphasized that the selections , represent but one personal
opinion. Stars were not invariably chosen :
"Common Clay," Henry Steplienson.
"Seven Chances,"' Frank Craven.
"Henry VIII," Edith Wynne Matthison.
"Ziegfeld Follies," Sam B. Hardy.
"The Doctor's Dilemma," Vinton Freedley.
"Experience," Ernest Glendinning.
"Very Good Eddie," Ernest Truex.
"Getting Married," Henrietta Crosman.
"Mother Carey's Chickens," Clark Silvernail.
" 'Ception Shoals," Henry Harmon.
"The Girl From Brazil," George Hassell.
"So Long Letty," Sidney Grant. ( '
"A Lady's Name," W. Graham Browne.
"Rio Grande," Frank Campeau.
"Little Lady in Blue," George Giddens.
"Erstwhile Susan," Mrs. Fiske.
"The Professor's Love Story," George Arliss. :
"Major Pendennis," John Drew
"Treasure Island," Charles Hopkins, as Pew.
'The Country Cousin," Eugene O'Brien.
Tho following seemed to the dramatic editor the most im
portant contributions to the acting list of the movies :
The Birth 0f a Nation," Hertry B. Walthall.
Intolerance," Robert Harron.
"Womanhood," Alice Joyce.
oaM Woman'" Raymond Hatton. ,
vyuu,uoii, xiowarct Hickman.
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To Insure an even higher standard of
efllclency ami to preset vo tho reputation
which thnt company now haso f producing
perfect photogiaphy, the TilatiRle Dis
tributing Corporation has Just olfeied to th
operators) irr tho Philadelphia territory
prizes for the film returned In tlio. best
condition, m that the public may be as
sured when It sees Triangle pictures ad
vertised, that the photoplays will be per
fect from a photographic standpoint.
Tho local .Motion Picture Operators'
I'iiIoii Is co-operating with Heibcrt W.
liven, manager of the Triangle Distribut
ing Ooiporation of Philadelphia, to bring
about this desired refult. and eveiy operator
Is trying hard to win some of these urlies.
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WILLfAM S. HART
HERE ON TUESDAY .ii
luce Star Plans Day Stop-off in Phila
delphia Next Week
Take your six-shooter, lor if mi haven't ,
one. your Fourth of duly cap-pistol), to
the West Philadelphia station of the l'enti- '
sylvanla P.allroad at noon next TueseUy; '
for the, good-bad gunman of filmland is '
coming Into Philadelphia then. Of count
,ou know wo mean William S ll.irt. The '
famous star of Kay-IJee-Trlangle movies
has been making a transcontinental tour-
and, the press agent says, has been re
ceived with acclaim or something like that
all the way from l.os Angeles to the East.
It Is presumed that Mr. Hart's journey
Is primarily concerned with details of'fhs
contract ho recently signed with Thomas
II. Inco. His stay .In Philadelphia will be
ol but a day's duration, since he plans to
Icavn tho city Wednesday for New York
City. While hero he will meet prominent .
pi'ople, nnd will probably he tho honor' '
guest at a dinner given by the Triangle
Film Corporation. Mr. Hurt Is accom-.
panled by a cameraman.
Hart's rlso In cinema, elides has been
unusual, hut. well deserved. Only three
years ago, ho quit tho legitimate staee,.
his last rolo before tho footlights being
Old Tulllver In tho "Tho Trail of (ho Lone
some Pine." with Chaiiotto Walker.
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