Loader photoplay house in this city, ami previously managed vaudeville anil legitimate theaters in Ilichmond. Norfolk. Lynchburg. Newport News, Augusta. Ga.: Knoxville. Tenn.. and Savannah lie made the Strand at Richmond one of the most auci essftil photoplay houses in the south -Mr Sheild is a native of Uicitmond and has keen connected with various hr.inches of the amusement business for thirty years.t’yrtl Maude, Violet Iteming and IJa-vid Bispham ar featured in Winning His Wife.” Hie second of the SniE'1 Women's Belief series made to obtain funds for the upkeep of the theater at the Deharkation Hospital. No. New York. Many state players of note are appcarim. in this series who. hut for the cause, would not appear in the movies, it is said.Charles Watson of the Novagraph an I Company has just completed for theFilmograms.Rathe Review a series of slow lion base hall studies. which John J Me.i traw of the Giants lias declared the most remarkable and revealing diamond disclosures evet taken.'Gladys Brockwcil's picture. The Sneak, is a thrilling gypsy story.Madlaine Traverse's new picture. Rose of the West. is the stoty of a Fronch-Canadian mother who detests her hrutal husband and kills the man in whom Ip- had sold her daughter. Its romance- is developed in her love for an officer of the royal northwest mounted police.Alma Ruben's new I’athe picture. Paradise Annie. is a story of domestic life done in a sympathetic fashion. It is said to contain a big theme.st - The Talc-Harvard regatta is made s- I to do duty as a scene in George ia, ! Walsh's picture, The Winning I Stroke. Ten camera men were used I to get it.The Undercurrent. featuring Guy Kmpey. which was to have been released in July. is. it is now announced, to Ip- withheld until August. Florence Evelyn Martin is co-dtarred with Kmpey in it.Monroe Salisbury is to be filmed In Sundown Trail.” a story of tlm west tbat was written ly .1. G. Hawks, author of Flare-Fp Sal and some of liarta pictures.June Caprice and Creighton Hale are to be pictured in a photoplay of R G. Wodehouse's magazine story. A Damsel in Distress,' by Capellan, Productions, Inc.Tip Universal press agent is pulling tin- sawdust out of the movie doil by telling that the handsome Rarian. Carrara. Rontelic and black- Belgian marbles used in the photoplay spectacles are nothing but slabs of beav-erboard cleverly painted. Scenic di- ' rector Van Aigtyne says. Art loses! nothing when it is cineerely imi- !tated.'Rex Beach and Samuel tToldwvn j have announced as the first seven pro- i ductions to be made by Eminent Au- I t hors' Rietures. The Cup of Fury. by i Rupert Hughes; Perch of the Devil. t by Gertrude Atherton; Partners of j the Night. by I.erov Scott; The Amazing Interlude. by Mary Rob- 1 erts Khlnehart. The Street Called Straight ' by Basil King; The Wild Goose. by Gouverneur Morris, and The Girl irom Outside (the first release!. by Rex Beach. The stories all are familiar to readers of first-class fiction.AMUSEMENTS.I The governors of thirty-four states - have given Charles Patlie testimonials ' of appreciation of his news cinema and its splendid service during the i war. North, south, east and west unite in paying the tribute.Violet Mersereau's five-reel picture, i Love Wins. is the story of a girl ; who insisted upon marrying her soldier lover, who had been wounded ir ; the war and offered to free her. It is an after-th'-war romance.Alice Brady is to star in Realart pictures productions, making eight pictures, beginning with Sinners' liy Owen Davis, who wrote Forever After. in which* Miss Brady is now-starring on the speaking stage.William S. Campbell, directing animal comedies at Fniversal City, it is said, has discovered that Joe Martin, his orang-outang star, tloes better dramatic work when an orchestra renders subtle lyrics within hearing, but out of sight.James I.. Crane, who has an important role in Ale c Brady's picture. His Bridal Night. is a son of Dr. Frank Crane, the noted divine whose tame has become nation-wide as a result of Ii1s philosophical preachments from the pulpit and his literary contribut ions.Mary Miles Mlnter is to be starred by Realart in a photoplay made from the Anne hooks. classics of American girlhood, by I.. M. Montgomery.! Anne of Green Gables will be the' title. It will cover tiie events related in the entire series.Next week Dorothy Gish, the little disturber of n. W. Griffith's Hearts of the World. ill her latest Independent success. Nugget Nell. will he the feature at Loew s Palace Theater. The last three days of the week. Vivian! Martin will he pictured in Louisiana.A new schedule has been put into effect at Crandall's -Metropolitan Theater whereby the daily exhibitions begin at 10:30 a.m.. instead of at 11 o'clock, as formerly, and run contin-i ously until 11 p.m. This new arrangement permits the rendition of the special overture by the Metropolitan orchestra of twenty-five three times daily.The Better Wife. the Clara Kimball Young picture which is to be re-bused Hits month, is described as the story of an American girl's romance in England. Differently told, it is the story of the experience of an American girl who married a titled widower. whose love for his first wife w a,s so great that lie neglected the second.Corbin Sheild. who haa become asso-'•ate.J with the Moore theaters as-a .. tec .All. mnjiagoj- ..f tt.eWeelNEW NA\TODAY AND TOWILLIAM DESMOND irTUESDAY RUPERT JULIAN in THE KIKE WEDNESDAY—ALBERT ItAY in WORDS A THURSDAY—MAE ALLISON in UASTLKS R FRIDAY—MARIE OSBORNE in THE L1TT1.I SATURDAY—At. L STAB. ALL-COMEDY NICETRUXTON TSSEStf?VIOLA I ‘FALSE EVIEXT IDFATTY ARI '“HIS WEDDI!' —I YRIC ~MAY ALLISON in “PEGGYromrilr of hfil Also Fatty Arbiuv Maiin*‘f* only— Tho j»i*rnnd «*pi**wlf of Thf* *AMERICAN1ST STREET_____ TODAY—Open IVIRGINIA PEARSON in “THITOMORROW—DOROTHY DALTON in LADY I TUESDAY—DUSTIN l-'AIINUM lit A GENTLE? 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