What the Movies are Doing.

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 876, 20 April 1917, Page 7

What the Movies are Doing.

Svejrybody's—" The Female of the Species." ITVOROTHY Dalton is a siren of the most delightful kind, and in this play exerts her charms on Howard Hickman.. The plot is a new one, departing from all the stock methods of the "vampne" play. Its culmination is where the young wife, after issuing an open challenge to beautiful Dorothy, who is in possession of the husband, pioceeds to "vamp'" her own husband a,way from the adventuress. The plot is full of strong situations. This striking film will be screened only at Everybody's, commencing with Satui day's new programme. 3. ..■»,■• . .» a Chapter IX. of " Gloria's Romance." "The Shadow of Scandal" upholds the producer's contention that as the story of "Gloria's Romance" marches on it increases in interest and gatheis ?ower. This episode is full of thrills, his fine Billie Burke drama is proving a. continual source of attraction at Everybody's. 1 The Empress—"The Rise of Susan." Clara Kimball Young makes one more sensational appearance before a grateful picture, public in this great drama, which is known from one end of 7 the ■ United States to the other on account of its pathetically dramatic wedding scene. In this, Susan, tortured and distraught by the falseness of her position, rushes in before the fashionable assemblage of guests and confesses that she is no countess, but only a shop girl. The grim, but moving tragedy of the plot lies in her misjudgment of her lover, whom she leaves without a word. The setting is beautiful, and the dresses which Miss Young wears, both as the model in the fashionable modiste's, and later as the pseudo countess. are marvels of fashion creations. * * ■ . ■ * * "The Rise of Susan" starts at the Empress this Saturday. * ' ' *":■."■.* ':■*.' King's—Revival of 'The Commos Law' The King's management has been besieged by requests to give a second run to "The Common Law," and the great drama will be screened for three nights. Nothing in the way of recommendation of this "picture of the year" need be said. "Arsene Lupin," a; splendid London, Film Company's production, will follow "The Common Law." It features Gerald Ames, of "Prisoner of Zenda" fame, arid is the story of a sensationally brilliant master cracksman. The ingenuity of some of his devices is almost incredible, and the plot is quite original with a pretty and pathetic love story interwoven through it. Queen's Theatre—"Witchcraft." The popular Cuba-street theatre has a special red-letter attraction in store for the new programme commencing this Saturday. This is a fine five-reel -Jesse Lasky feature, entitled "Witchcraft," which comes with the hall-mark of success written largely upon it. "Witchcraft" is the picture-story which won the prize against all-comers in the contest held at Columbia University, one of Uncle Sam's big scholastic institutions. Fannie Ward heads the caste. A choice programme of supporting films, willalso be screened.