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MISS BARRISCALE HIT /VS JEALOUS WIFEr 1lt;$★$lt;*★lt;?lt;§★lt;•‘GREEN SWAMP’ ISA DOMESTIC TRAGEDYTriangie Bill Coming to Stude-baker Contains a Comedy, Featuring Sam Bernard; Es-sanay Play at the Ziegfeld.BY JUANITA GRAY.IX LOOKING over the advance notices of those who please the public, motographically speaking, it appears the Triangle magnates are going to have a good triple attraction at the Studebaker next week, beginning Monday. They’ll have Bessie Barriscale — and everybody who goes to plays, heard or unheard, in Chicago knows her. (She is Mrs. Howard Hickman in private life.) Her vehicle is “The Green Swamp,” which exposes a lot ofsocietv intrigue. Miss Barriscale, after many stage successes, appeared before the motion picture camera for the first time as Juanita when Jessie Lasky filmed “The Rose of the Rancho,” a Belasco stage production famed for a long run.* * *WIFE IS JEALOUS.|N “THE GREEN SWAMP” MissBarriscale plays the wife of a physician who works arduously for his profession and thinks of little else. His attentions to his fascinating female patients are of a purely professional nature, but they don't look favorable to his wife and she becomes jealous. And then, to aggravate matters, the doctor-hus-band, who is Bruce McRae, mysteriously disappears. “An intrigue,” cries the wife, but when she finds it is illness caused by overwork that calls him away her love and faith return.It isn’t often that an attempt is made to overturn economic theories, but that is just what is done in the second of the Triangle offerings, “The Price of Power,” featuring Or-rin Johnson. The inversion is accomplished by evolving a poor workingman— insignificant member ofthe proletariat—into a capitalist cotton miller. He pays a fearful price for his power and position— the loss of his mind. It is in the demented stage of the laborer-eapi-talist’s life that Johnson is said to do the best acting ever accredited to his account. D. W. Griffiths has produced this unusual silent drama. It should be worth seeing.,FINE SCENIC EFFECTS.OFTEN the lens and the sensitivefilm, combined with well-endowed studios and the great out-of-doors, get more out of a play than can the best equipped and ablest “legitimate” company. This is what the sponsors for “The Misleading Lady” claim has been achieved in the Essanay version, which comes to the Ziegfeld today.The play, which a short time ago appeared here as a stage success,* is a romance of modern society through which the primitive, savage soul of man is illy disguised. Brute force and mother love combine for peace and happiness. Henry B. Walthall and Edna Mayo lead an able cast.Bickel and Watson—and they are always funny—are the principal laugh inciters of “Keep Moving,” a George Kleine production. Molly McIntyre in “Her Great Hour” completes the Ziegfeld program.* * *MIRROR GETS SOUTHARD.ANOTHER addition to the Mirror Films, Inc., is Bennett Southard, who will assume big parts in that company’s releases. He deserted the stage for the screen%JESSIE BARRISCALE, who stars in new Trian-fjle film.some time ago, and was last with the Equitable. The Mirror organization also has added Lawrence Marston and his assistant, Argyle Campbell to its directing staff. They will make the first picture in which Nat Goodwin appears for thatcompany.* * *SUCCESS OF WRITER.| GUESS everybody who has eyes and is not profoundly illiterate has “had a whirl” at scenario writing, yet it is pathetic to know how few have ever had a manuscript accepted. Occasionally one hears of the start of the successful ones. Mrs. Beta Breuil of New York is one of those who have succeeded.At thirty she found herself on her own resources and turned to ■the moving-picture field for an income. She rose rapidly, and, from heading the scenario department of the Vitagraph Company of America she has recently been engaged by the Mirror Films, Inc., for special work.on big feature releases.Undoubtedly her success has been aided and abetted by her travel experiences. Mrs. Breuil has crossedthe Sahara desert on a camel and has sledded across Northern Europe in Winter.♦ . * *SAM BERNARD HERE.CAM BERNARD is the funmaker ^ in the last of the Triangle bill— a Keystone comedy entitled “The Great Pearl Tangle.”The plot has to do with amusing incidents arising from an interchange of spurious and genuine gems. When the police make a few arrests, everything is straightened out.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 08, 1916
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