PICTURE NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 6

PICTURE NEWS.

PAHS OF INTEREST. It is quite likoly that John Gunncrson, millionaire shoe manufacturer of Milwaukee, and husband of Anna Q. Nilsson, the screen star, has made himself a pair of seven-league boots so that lie can negotiate the lengthy leap from the shoe business to the movies. However, .by some means or other, this manufacturer has become a picture man . He has been taken under the guiding wing of Thomas H. Ince who will teach him the business from the bottom to the top. To show you that Gunnerson is serious in starting from the ground his first duties will be as “script clerk.” He will carefully chalk the action in scenes taken by Ince’s directors. Miss Nilsson will next be seen in “Broadway After Dark,” a Master Picture. * * * * The cast has been completed for “The Breath of Scandal,”" a forthcoming Master pictuijp. It includes Betty Blythe, Lou Tellegen, Patsy lluth Miller, Forrest Stanley, Phylis Haver, Jack Mulhall, Myrtle Stedman, Frank Leigh and Charles Clary. “The Breath of Scandal,” is an adaption of the Edwin Balmer Novel. It is a Gansiei production.

* * * * There is no finer actor on the screen .to-day than Percy Marmont, if a mastery of the elements that make for real, artistic and graphic character delineation is a criterion. Mr Marmont has a brilliant stage appearance as a background for his screen success. In England he played with such noted actors as Sir Herbert Tree, Sir George Alexander and Cyril Maude. In America, he was under the management of David Belasco and Charles Froliam, appearing with Barrymoie and Anne Murdock. His greatest screen characterisations of recent years are his wonderfully sympathetic portrayal of “Mark Sabre” in “If Winter Comes,” and as Captain Harry Westmore in “The Midnight Alarm.” * * * * Fourteen outstanding thrills are reported in “The Midnight Alarm,” the special Master Picture. These thrills are so interwoven with bits of romance and pathos and intrigue as to maintain the interest of the spectator at a high point throughout. A spectacular fire scene, a train crash, a near-wreck qf a train at a draw-bridge, and rescue \ of the heroine from a vault in a burning building are just a few of the thrilling moments in this tremendous screen drama. * * * * Tom Moore with his gay smile; and irresistible manner is up to all sorts of mischief, in “Marriage Morals,” He is a rich young spendthrift who is full of good intentions, which unfortunately get no "further than being intentions. He sees a beautiful girl working in a beauty parlour and offers her marriage, and promises to reform if she becomes his wife. Do you think Tom Moore could reform on such short notice and become a worthy and respected memef of the community? See what happens in “Marriage Morals.” * * * * A screen critic writing of the Master Picture, “His Wife’s Husband,” says: “If you are fond of thrills, not ordinary thrills, but the shivery sort that start from the soles of your feet and wiggle an icy trail up your hack, youTl like “His Wife’s Husband,” and best part of it is that you will not he able to leave the theatre until it’s over—the thing is so gripping. The denouement comes with an abrupt flash, logical and spectacular in the extreme.” • • * * Miss Novak has gained her fame in pictures of great outdoors, fend yeft she is absolutely feminine. She has been the foil, the simply contrasting type to the “he-man” characters of such actors as William S. Hart, Charle's Ray, Lewis Stone, Hobart Bosworth, Tom Moore and other twofisted individuals. To-day she heads her own company. Her first Master ! Picture is a gripping drama of the Yukon, entitled “Belle of Alaska.”

Irene Rich arrived' in New York fijom England and left immediately for California to start work on her next feature for Warner Brothers. Miss Rich has been in England for ten weeks. She was loaned by Warners for a British production, “What the Butler Saw.” While in New York Miss Rich saw a screening of “Beau Brummel,” the latest Master Picture in which she appeared before going abroad. The star was loud in her praise of the treatment she received while in England.