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BELL (TWO-GUN) HART
' MAGNET AMONG MEN
"The Aryan" a Sentimental,
Courtly Child, With Keen
Dramatic Intelligence
Tho only way to meet William S. Hart
la to fpeml elKht or ten yearn of your life
meeting n hundred nr rn ordinary actor
Then, and then alone, you realize the differ
ence. For Hart id that anomaly In Htase
Und a. man wh'i retains both hla histrionic
tUIll and hla Kenulno maecullnlty. All tills
coupled with a quiet dlmilty. a virlln nut
unostentatious assurance that lrave their
tnark on the lenst easily Impressed. Ho
Is never unapproachable.
Durlnir tho week I talked with the Tri
angle actor-director at some lensth. It wa
a talk full of human virtues and emptied
of personal vanity. "Tho film fana are
craiy. simply mad." he said, with an optic
twinkle that didn't shield his belief In what
ho said concisely, but kindly. "Tho pic
tures have taken a hold on them with which
nothing else la comparahle. I dliln t real
Ua It till we started Kast. Our train wasn t
supposed to stop till wo reached Kansas
City. The first time wo were 'held up wo
didn't understand what the people were
driving at; I give you my word wo were
that Innocent. In s-.me places """'
only had the regular police force acme on
the streets to restrain the mobs, but called
out tho reserves. In one town, a rouic
' one. I was received by a priest belted with
,-uns about the waist. In another a mother
ran forward to me. holding up a "I "" '
crying: This little girl prays for you ever
rdghti Bill!' I have made moro rpceches
?hn any political tamper." I shaken
moro hands than I Imagined ex Is ted. If
had the least sort of a swelled nut It would
b all off with me. But. honest y. I lk
fh, smallest kind of personal pride In such
achievements. It I. the Pictures t hem
..Ives. I Just happen to bo doing the west
ern stuff tnat ha. caught on Folks identify
m? with them. But It la the pictures that
count, .
If I have an Ideal In the business. It Is
to acquaint spectators with the -";
of the wild mining and cowboy towns of
the West as they were In the ear y das.
I never did a strictly nonwestern fi m.
ihough 'Between Men.' with Its dr;
was in approach to that sort of thing.
I have always wanted to prove to ramie
fam that I could do something beside the
gunVrawlng and clgarette-rolllng 80 has
tr Inee wanted me 10. But every time
the' theme I. broached, the distributing
agencies set up a yell"
Mr. Hart (though he P"' B' '"
mighty good company He tells aftorj
-better than Hhauncey Depew. with al an
actors cleverness and none of an actors
atltudlnl.ng. He amok.. .real ch.ars. and
drinks a glass or two of real wine ana
once In a while he swears, not vlolentlj . but
In n gentle, booming tone that takes away
U "he sting of profanity and makes a curse
sound like a thunderous blessing.
He Is frankly sentimental, especiauy
about animals and children. Of prime Im
portance to him In his pony, which he got
from rome of the Indiana who came to
Incevllle n coup'e t years Lgo. He gave
the writer some, unusual sidelights on the
chances that Y.e nnd his company take
nhlle "shooting." Every day. he says, some
one In the cast goes to the hospital, but
he has had rare luck The only times
he was painfully Injured were during the
filming of "Hell's Hinges" and "The Two
run Man." It' the Ilrst naried he broke
two ribs when hla mount rolled down a
rand hank. In the latter he crushed his
. knee when he rode through the big window
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, The final Impression Bill leaves on you
X one of complete capability and an un
attolled, child-like, gentle, strong nature.
fJUeptlcal fans, who disassociate what actors
do from what they are may be assured of
this' He Is a regular person. In addition
to belnr a talented proaucer ana piayer.
FOX, THE MAN WHO FORGETS
TO SLEEP, AND WHY HE DOES
Films, Films the Sole Central Concern
Producer Who Has Popularized Theda
Bara and Others
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From this pictorial mclnncc, tho mscernwp; may pick out film nnd
stage folk. Robert Warwick finds silent companionship in his Great
Pane ns he looks over the script of "The Silent Mnster," the Arcndia's
first-half-of-the-week bill, in prospect. Captain Nemo nnd his submersi
ble crew pose nt;ainst the skyline for a striking scene in "Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea, ' at the Forrest still. Willinm Fox, head
of the corporation responsible for Theda Dara's new film, at tho Vic
toria the first half of next week, sprays his rose bushes, assisted by his
daughters. Dcholcl, also, the Metro studio, in which Olgn Petrova's
latest vehicle, "The Soul of a Magdalene," another Victoria offering,
was "shot." And last hut not less interesting, the fce-rocious lion nnd
his master who will thrill Keith patrons with a new act in which
movies and melodrama are dovetailed.
A SMILE develops congenial char
acter. The physical always re
flects the mental. You force a smile
and gradually your inner emotions,
out of sympathy, correspond with
your effort you then derive the
happy results. Making a practice of
this, you will be smiling all the
tiroes consequently, your disposition
Is bound to develop into the sun
shine variety. I think Milton based
II. mint.Hnn "Vnnth smiles with-
lout Teason," on this theory. Doug-
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"NEGLECTED WIFE" ,
IN SECOND EPISODE
Further Adventures of Mabel
Herbert Urncr's Domestic Hero
ine, as Pictured by Pathc
7Vic I'rrrriling Ciaplrr.
Horace Kinneilu. a ;.rotiitirnt lairyrr. It
iiiitinp au'nj from hit setllril itnKl,"
it loyal irle, Mary. Ilu mnkrt ni runny
debarring Doylr, an unscrupulous at-
.urnej, on n chatge loilgcd by Margaret
H'onier, a struggling writer. Margaret 1
employed by Kennedy to helu write a series
of nctrtpaper articles. On the last erening,
they are caught in an accident and Kennedy
realises he loves her.
CII.WTHH II "Weakening."
(Copyright, , by Mabel Herbert I'rner 1
Hy JOSEPH DUNN
In the narrow hallroom, Margaret faced
her disheveled Image In the mirror Her
pallor was emphasized hy her loofened hair
and the black streak on her fjreheail
Still unnerved, sho dropped on tho lied,
her confused tnlnd trying to bring order
out of the 'hlefs events of the pant
hour. She . :lt the encircling strength
of Kennedy',- -ms nu he held hor A hot
flush dyed her pallor when she glanced at
the folded slip she was nervously creasing I
Her purse lost In the wreckage. Kennedy
had Insisted on her taking this check Only
her urgtnt need had made her finally con
se'.t to the loan, for It was only as a loan
that she would accept It.
Too excited to sleep, she knelt by the win
dow until long after midnight. Kor mopths
she had been terrified hy the thought that
no one In the great city carod, but now, for
the moment, her desolation had fallen from
her. The throbblns consciousness of Ken
nedy's nearness, the refuge of his strength.
were still with her.
Kennedy, hurrying home, was relieved
that his wife was not watting up for him.
for Just now he shrank from the thought
of being questioned.
The sense of Margaret's nearness, the
pulsating moments he held her In his arms.
shattered the quiet conservatism of his
life.
Mary w" nnt asleep. Hating herself for
her suspicions, she tried to banish them
In sleep. Was she becoming a shrewish,
jealous wife? For some time there had
been a subtle witnarawai in ms attitude,
He was becoming dally more absorbed
and absent-minded. She tried to attribute
them to his work, but there was always
the lurking fear that It was something
more.
In spite of her almost- sleepless night,
Mary was at the breakfast table, dressed
for a week-end trip to their houseboat,
when Kennedy came down. It was with
Increasing misgivings that Mary clung to
her husband as she told him good-by. Shs
knew there would be no rest In this trip
alone.
At the houseboat, time hung heavy on
her hands. It was the first tlm that Mary
had ever come down alone. Always Horace
had been with her. But now that he was
coming only for the week-ends, the place
seemed to have taken on a dreary empti
ness. It wa with rea pleasure, thal.'sbe
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greeted Frank Norwood, the enrrgetlr edi
tor of ninclcwall's Magazine, nn old friend
of the, KrnncilH, on one of nr Infrequent
oxcursloiw from the houseboat Ho was
vacationing at tho nivcr Hank li
As they strolled to tho houseboat, Nor
wood dlMHs!el hiH work. He had ;i couple
of manuscripts
"It's n pretty poor lot." Norwood lit a
cigarette "All sleep producers, except 0110
-the ono you havo there. It's a corking
ntnrj. 'HIji Wifo nnd tho Othor Woman.'
hy Margaret Warner"
Mary recognized the name a that of the
girl who helped Horace with his articles
Slip oliinteered to read the story, and
Norwood gavn his eager consent
Thnt morning at breakfast Margaret was
subjected to a bombardment of curious
esiions SI10 as saved Hip einliarra!"'-
ent of explanations ny a telephone call,
was ornt- To his solicitation an tp
afteteffects of the shock, fhe assured
she lijtil quite 'recovered Sh gave n
faltering consent to till InUlatlon to dine
with him that ocnlng when he explained
that Mrn Kennedy was out of town.
From the bottom of her trunk she dragged
out hrr one evening gown, n simple, girlish
dress, an evening frock of a small western
town. Holtlng her door, she heated an Iron
over the gan Jet. n forbidden privilege, and
pressed out the crushed flounces.
Promptly nt seven n taxi Mopped before
the boarding house. Mrs. Devlin ushered
Kennedy Into the parlor. A few minutes
later Margaret appeared, embarrassed and
dlflldent. He tried to put1 hor at her ease ns
ho hurried her out to avoid the curious
hoarders.
She seemed In a daze until she found her
self at u table with Kennedy ordering an
appetizing dinner.
It was Margaret's first glimpse of a smart
Now York restaurant, and she caught her
breath at the brilliancy of the scene. It
was all wonderful to her, nnd she leaned
forward Impulsively.
"I'm going to weave nil this Into a story."
A cry of wnrnlng! A shriek of horror!
Margaret started up. almost paralyzed, as
a heavy urn from the balcony crashed to
tho floor Just back of Kennedy's chair. The
whole room was in an uproar.
Kennedy, not wanting to subject Margaret
Combine the smile with Napole
onic determination, and success
should not be very distant. Douglas
Fairbanks.
to further publicity, paid the check, waved
aside the profuso apologies of tho manage
ment nnd hurried her out.
"Of course. It fell." he reassured her.
"No one would have set It off. I haven't
any enemies hitter enough for that." '.
"Kdgar Doyle." suggested Margaret,
tenseb. But Kennedy dismissed the subject.
When a little later Kennedy left her t
the hoard ng hnue door, ho held her hand
In a lingering clasp.
"I hope our next evening will be without
any perilous adventure."
At the breakfast table the next morning
nn envelope lay by Margaret's plate. In
side was this message'
"Any woman alone In New York had
better he careful. She cannot run
around with a married man and not
get found out."
Who could have wr.tten It? What had
been the motive? Her one Impulse was
to take the note .to Kennedy. She shrank
from going to his ofllce. I'rgcd on hy her
apprehension. In less than half an hour
she stood at the entrance of tho towering
trust building tn which he had his ofTice.
When, after a moment. Margaret was ush
ered In, she gave him the note with a
tremulous- "It came this morning." Sho
saw h.s lip tighten nnd an angry flush
darken hl face as he read it. Ho took out
n similar rheet. holding them side hy side
for her comparison. It was the same paper.
the same blundering type:
"For a leading member of the bar.
your friendship with a certain young
womnn Is most surprising."
This is the story 0 the second episode nf
"The eglerted Wife." the I'athe serial,
featuring I?uth Roland.
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THIS Is the story of William Fox. the
man Who Forgets tn Sleep. His produc
tion of "Heart and Soul." with Theda Hara,
s at the Victoria the first hair or next
week
It Is the story of the man who sees 10.000
feet of film a day. more than twenty-five
miles of It In a week.
It is the story of the man with his
summer capital at Woodmere, I.. I., who
had a projection room and a screen built
back of his home for his three hardest
critics
It l the story of the man who works
from 3 In the morning until 1, 2 or 3 the
next morning.
It Is the story of the man who super
vises personally every tmportnnt detail con
nected with the ramifications of one of the
greatest film corporations In the motion
picture Industry.
It Is the story of The Man Who Forgets
to Sleep.
Th hot rain blew In thin sheets across
the bespattered shadows which the trees
threw out upon the boulevard at Woodmere,
I.. 1 An automohlle scurried out of the
Jam of cars at the corner of Pond lane
and drew up before a house whose Ivy cov
ering dripped In the shower. The rain
coated figure, the Man Who Forgets to
Sleep, darted from the machine, a cigar in
one hand, a scenario in the other.
Behind ran tho chauffeur, several flat tip
receptacles grasped tightly In his aims. Th
chauffeur hurried along the gravel path to
the rear of the house. He stopped In front
of a one-room building raised six or eight
feet above the ground. This is William
Fox's summer projection room. The Iron
doors swung back and a man stood sil
houetted ngainst the piercing light from
two glowing carbons.
"Films come?" he asked.
The chauffeur began handing up the tins.
"Mr. Fox Raid to get the machine readv
to print at 11. If the weather clears at
all. Twenty minute- yet. We made that
10:13 appointment out here, all right. Mr.
Fox Is going to have another conference
at the Forty-aixth street office at 1:15. so
I guess it's 3 a. m. before he'll call It a
aay.
This Is the passion fcr work of the Man
Who Forgets to Sleep
Fox is his severest critic, hut associated
with him In this hom process of construc
tive destruction ar three other persons,
critics all This ttlumvlratn consists of
rs. i-ox and the two yruthful aids In the
black-eyed daughters. Mona and Helle
The three are very pointed In their re
marks about the film. The unfailing cigar
with Mr. Fox says nothing, of court-e. but
Its movements are decidedly expressive.
When affairs .In the office' are so pressing
that they pievent ths Man Who Forgets tn
Sleep from seeing tli films at an hour
when four-fifths of the metropolis Is slum
bering, the reels are shot out to Woodmere
to be run off at the first opportunity Often
the criticism in the Forty-sixth street pro
jection room Is merely antecedent to the
harsher Julgmcnt of those on the Woodmrro
' projection lawn." In the former, Mr. Fox
with hands clasped tilways about a drawn-
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whirring incessantly against the click-click
of the movie mnchln Ksuen hurried sugges
tions ior cnances , stenographer and
a film-cutter, heiidlnr; over tin small table
with the green-cappeil lamp the only plet-e
of furniture In the sanctum besides the big,
comfortable wicker chn'rs Jot them down.
In Woodmere distance seems to make the
criticism harsher. Here Mrs. Fox and ths
children, the trio of stern lay reviewers,
do the appraising while the master pro
ducer takes mental notations
Mr. Fox says, "If my family i pleased,
I am.' because I know the public will be "
This terse sentence, summing up the Fox
Idea of "fireside" criticism. Is characteristic
of the Man Who Forgets to sleep, foncise
ness In speech, the demand of brevity in
others and a constant appreciation of the
time-saving truth that n straight line is the
shortest distance between two points, close
together nr wide apart, enable him to do
inucn in nine time, tie nas to. or a day
and half the night would he too short to
accomplish business necessities
At 9 o'clock ho leacs his Wnmlmere
home
At, 11 o'clock he has gone nter -very
financial reprrt and hox-offlcc sheet of his
twenty-odd tnollon picture and audevll1e
houses through' ut the country
By 12 o'clock he has rilsni.ssed the
scenario writer and the stenographer, with
whom he has been working in his private
nfllces over a script to he whipped Into
shape for a new photoplay.
The next half hou-- Is lunchtlme. Sand
wiches from a Broadway restaurant suf
flee, and frequently In the bustle of an ex
tracrdinarliy heavy day the samovar In the
ofllce has furnished the only noonday
nourishment.
My 2 o'clock .Mr Fot knows even- Im
portant comment made by any newspaper
In the United States dealing with anvthlnc
turned out by his orfanlzntlon
Ily fi o'clock he hai seen E000 fct or film
and mentally blue-penciled every part which
he bclleea renntrp i-hnncinc-
At night comes the conference with the
contract man, with the casting director,
with ha'f a dozen department heads. And
after those consultations follow 4nnn or
S0OO more fent of film This dallx total of
two miles of film must be viewed It Is
the commodity In which William Fox deals,
and he Is Jealous of his product
Out in Wocdmere. In a tew odd moments
before hreakfast or on a Sundav oi holl
day. Mr. Fox goes bug hunting and killing
among his roue bushes and tn his garden,
or thinws a twelve-pound me-lulne ball
about
If he Is not busy with one of tbee thfngi
ho 1 lying In H hammock, with the In
""lable scenario and cigar, or is seated
beneath a great Japanese runshade. with
another script nnd another -lgar
In a particularly Jcyo-j and especially
deal day ho will be as merry as a bov as
lie drives out a one-base hit to a group of
friends in short right field.
xx-uT,.hr ,s on,v 'h'rty-seven. Is this Man
who I-orgets to Sleep,
WARWICK DELVES
IN FRENCH HISTORY
Star of "The Silent Master" Dis
courses on Socialism in
a Past Century
This unique photograph discloses probably the three most famous Individual stars In motion pictures. They
consented to ive a triple dental display for the cameraman on the occasion of a party at which the youn& lady
was hostess, the clean-shaven young rasn honor guest, and the mustachioed one among those present In Cali
fornia. Frizes are not offered for Matlf ying tiiej.tw, ,
'1, , 45'' m... til
ut the lady will be at the Palace next week.
Robert Warwick has made several Inter
esting discoveries regarding the historical
character from whom the principal person
In his Sclznlck picture, "The Silent Master."
to he presented at the Arcadia the first half
of next week, derived his unique ideas and
his nnmo.
In "The Silent Master" a marquis adopts
the name of Valetin Simon and establishes
a "Court of St. Simon." where wealthy op
pressors of the poor are punished In a sum
mary If entirely Illegal manner. They are
men who cannot be reached by ths law, and
aro thus forced to atone for their misdeeds.
In reading the K. Phillips Oppenhelm story
Mr Warwick was Impressed with the f.i.
Ing that he had encout.tered the name of Ht
Simon before, and de'.vlne Into the French
section of his private library ha found hl
man.
"Mr. Oppenhelm." he says, "apparently
adopted for his character many of the at
tributes of the somewhat Quixotic founder
m pi.iiui ousinem, wno coasted the eltbo.
rate name of Clauie Henri de Rouvrev
Comte de 8ilnt-Slmon. This personage was
born about the middle of the eighteenth
century, and It Is Interestlnc to note that he
first appears In history as one of the many
Frenchmen who came to America to aialtt
the colonists In their struggle italnat Great
Britain. l
The Count was wealthy, but believed
thst ha had some rr.x l..V , ..-""Xea
7 : - .i.wn in we, For
,many yeara he had no definite Idea what it
. C. ii miructlona to
wake hlra every mornlnr with the word.
'Remember, Monsieur le Comte. that you
have great thins to do One of his Ides,
scoffed at In those day. a. TtatonarV. wm
a canal oonn.etlnr the Atlantic an! Paeiflo
oceans. So far as I can U.rn. he was thi
lint man u thtr of .uch a thin Th!
Count married unwisely and unhanpi y .
in ome manner not clear hi wlf. mVn.t.2
to al alt hU money," managed
NEW F P. EXCHANGE
MODEL OF ITS SORT
Handsome Offices Provide
Strange Contrast With Tiny
Buildings of Past Years
The recent opening of the now offices
of the Famous Players Exchange, at 1218--1
Vine street, gives an Idea of how
sumptuous and efficient will be the ex
changes of the future. There Is no doubt
that William, K. Smith, president of the
ramous Players Exchange, has erected the
most modern buildings of this sort in this
country. Recent visits from film men tes
tlfy to jthls fact.
It seems remarkable that only three
years ago the majority of the film ex
changes, which distribute the finished prod
uct of the producers, did business In one
mtle room In any kind of slipshod manner.
Some Idea of the tremendous growth of the
motlon-plcture Industry can be gathered
Kfmnt.he,faCt that lhr" J'"" a 4"8
te of h'a,;er,8nchan(e occupied quar
new f..B.?0U' J000 B(Juare f"et. while! the
sQuarofeVt. R noor ,pace of "00l
clh B'v" the film business Is. of
growing e" ,.he publicity of an ever
w l"g for,m of avrt!slnij, u can b
bu.in!."i0o aulhory. however, that this
. . ?. la by no means of the "get-rlch-JSdnU'SS.11'
pbw salaries of .U?.
manyunes. produeera hv been Inflated
llamWrnWh '""""nt ' men like Wll
DosmihTii!i.m "' .1"" of ,n nrsi t0 th
the w !!M ?f the -lleJ Mature films.
ti?'1' ,ncre"e1 by leaps and bound
Today it on a fairly steady basis, but
It Is with all infant Industries, bt
0h2"p!ln ta!5e ' tor aome years ll
fhw ,fr,,on l Smith (a a man of re
acim.nP"a2nam Thouh hl business
wwT." "n" of.lutle to the ex
their n',.,nIlm0U.nt. "OW occupy
their present high place In the territory
an J!?!". 1ul 1w mct Smith's first
MhiiK. tMtl.uFht w" forervlce tp the
lpprea one wits this feature..
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