Stars of the Screen

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12645, 31 May 1919, Page 3

Stars of the Screen

ar.d Locust Avfmis, Brooklyn, New York. Olga Petrova can be addressed cither 125, West Fortieth Street, New York, or First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, G, West Fortyeighth Street, New York. Jko Marsh was not married twelve months £go. Have not seen sufficient of "The House of Hate," to pick tho identity of the Terror. Noma Taliiadge was born in l£t)7 Have no record as to the year of Madge Kennery’s birth, but will make further inquiries. If you do not .hear from tho three ladies mentioned by this week's mail, write again, and I will supply the addresses. The name billed was simply Charlotte. I am unable to ascertain anything furtner. Katherine and Jane Lee are sisters. Will endeavour to secure additional information next week. “ Hulda irem Holland ' was first produced about two years ago. You certainly ere a consistent supporter of movies. Mr IV. Sutton, who has watched over affairs at Liberty since it was pnened, will shortly o-'dtpv the managerial chair'at Crystal Palace. .“■Hearts in Exile.” the picture which sot Clara Kimball Young in the first rank of screen artists, and which was shown in Christchurch some two years ago, wi’l bo rescreened nest week. The Movie Man is now able to state that “ The Batter ’Ola/’ a filra’versipn of Boirnsfathcr’s play of the same name, and which has proved one of the best drawing pi.' tures of the year, will, he screened ip Christchurch early next month, at two theatres, one of them being the Oraud. The other baa not ■yet bean decided upon. For some time past organisation of moving picture interests in New South Wales"has been proceeding with a view to securing the exemption of 3d and 6d tickets "to picture shows from the incidence of the entertainments tax. A nation-wide campaign to this end is about to bo undertaken by the Federated Picture Theatres’ Association, and delegates from " that body will shortly visit Victoria and get in touch with the trade there. Virginia Pearson is now at the head of her own producing company. It is announced that two more Charlie Chaplin comedies arc finished. Ralph luce has returned to Vitagraph after two years as an independent producer. Grace Cnnar-d, who appeared in “The Broken Coin/' “ Peg of the. Ring,’’ and other popular serials, with Francis Ford, i;as r .named -.his class of work in a ph'. to -ito’;: o now being made for the Great Vesurii Producing Company. Elmo Lincoln is the male lead. Irene Ca-.tle, recently returned to the United States from a trip to England, has been engaged by- the Famous Players-La-sdty _to appear on the screen in an adaptation of Robert W. Chambers’s popular story, “ The Firing ■Line.’’ There is to be more of Boston Blackie, tho hero of tho Metro picture, “ Boston Dlackie’s Little Pal,” recently screened at tho Grand. The polite burglar is tho creation of Mr Jack Boyle, and two of his stories, “Boston Blnckie’sMary” and “ Fred the Count,” will, it is said, bo blended for scenario purposes in the making of another photo-play. Bert Lytcll will continue the role of Blackie, vdth Alice Ldio-as .kadis#.

she treads a new and promising path to glory.” Harry Pilcher, her, favourite dancing partner, is also seen in the play. t Motion pictures are to play a nrominent part in a campaign to help European women in their reconstruction problems and to aid. in revitalising Europe, undertaken by the better film committee of the National Council of Women, representing ten million American women. A foreign film unit, selected from the committee, and representing four large national women’s organisations, will leave New York for France about June 1- "hey will later go to Italy, to Russia and probably other countries, the itinerary ending at Christiania, Norway, in October. Bessie Barriscale has planned a trip around the world at the complotipn of her present contract. Not alone will I Miss Barriscale traverse the Manet, however. With her win her husband, Howard Hickman, and their little son. Previous to starting, Miss . Barriscale and Howard Hickman are to produce a picture with their own money and in just the way they chooso. This picture Mr Hickman will carry around with him and exhibit in the various cities visited. They expect also to produce pictures at various points during their travels. ihe United Artists’ Corporation, composed of Maty Piekford, Dougias Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and i>. \V. Griffith, has iormv.iated plans to build a chain of Aaieiicau-siyle theatres through all of the Allied and neutral' countries of 10u!. v e lor the production ul Araerican-ir. ,ae motion pictures. Work on the construction of the chain of playhouses, it was declared, will be begun within the next few months, the first of the new theatres will be constructed in London, where the corporation has already opened general ■ offices for the distribution of films. In succession, new theatres will be built in Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Lisbon and Madrid, and later it is planned to branch out to Petrograd and Brussels- According to the plans made public the corporation proposes to display their productions in these theatres, accompanied bv American trim in mgs. An organisation has been formed in London to enter upon an extensive industrial screen propaganda campaicn, ; with a view to countering the activities ; of German and American commercial groups, who are booming national - trade by appealing direct, to kmoma audiences, the British company is i known as the Industrial Publicity Ser- ; vice, and has issued a circular dealing with the objects it seeks to achieve and the position as it affects British manufacturers. The circular states that although 500,000.000 persons yearlv patronise, picture houses in Great Britain, over 90 per cent of the films shown arc of foreign origin-_ There are millions ot our boys and girls who are forming their conceptions of life and conduct in accordance with what is shown to theiri at the picture theatre. If British ideas and ideals and standards are to be preserved, the kinema film should have a national character just as much as our 'litei/Muks «id ftUJUffliiaaJiaa.