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TURN OF THE REELJudge Things Not by Their Faults but by the GoodThey Contain.BY JAMES WARREN CURRIE |—At the Studebaker—“THE COWARD”POLLY MORANhis son Frank, only to discover that the boy is a coward, is the nucleus of action. How The Coward” redeems himself, proving the blood of his doughty Southern ancestors. Is the storj. Mr. Keenan’s part is largely a study in facial expressions, while Charles Ray deservesto be featured for his interpretation of the son. He plays a difficult role in a natural unaffectedmanner, avoiding the nysteria of action so often seen in film melodrama.a word as to the Fov .amily. Father and the seven children havecontributed to a really entertaining comedy in which a number of extraordinary scenic effects have been achieved. Among these is anexciting wreck of a trolley car andautomobile.© * eBurr McIntosh, now being featured in George Randolph Chester’s Wallingford” films, has had oneScenario «ud Production by Mr. InceTHE CASTCol. Jefferson Beverly Winslow....... ............ Frank KeenanFrank Winslow................Charles RayMrs. Winslow ............Gertrude ClaireAmv ......................Margaret GibsonA Negro Servant..............Nick CogieyA Confederate Commander....................................Charles K. French“OLD HEIDELBERG”Written and Produced by John UuierNon. Supervised by DavidW. GriffithKarl ..........................Wallace WeldKathie ........................Dorothy GishDr. Juttner................Karl Fornes, .lr.Lutz ....................Eric Von StroheimKarl Bilz...................Raymond Wells\on Wendell.............J. M. McDermott \KeMerman ...................James Gibson ;The program offered by the Grif- jfith-Ince-Sennett Triangle at the j Studebaker for the current weekis replete with laughs and thrills. The laughs are produced by another Raymond Hitchcock film, ycleptStolen Magic,” reinforced by a second comedy offering in which Eddie Foy and his entire family are featured.More than half the Studebaker entertainment is war—not the mov-ing-picture war to which we have been accustomed, but a new Griffith variety of mimic war—hence the thrills. One can farily smell the pungent powder smoke in “Old Heidelberg,” an Old World romantic drama, and in The Coward,” a story of our own civil war. The first named offering, written and produced by John Emerson, features Dorothy Gish with Wallace Reid, the young man whose ability as a film star first came to light in The Birth of a Nation.” The Coward” is the work of Mr. Ince throughout, with Frank Keenan in the title role.The foregoing facts are to be gleaned from a perusal of the program, but the films themselves place a different emphasis on the importance of the various characters. Young Mr. Reid assumes the burden action as Prince Karl in the Old Heidelberg” picture and does it very well. He is a good-looking young fellow with an expressive face. While Miss Gish is demure and charming as Kathie, Karl’s sweetheart, it seems a pitythat she hasn’t more to do.© * 0The Coward” is the piece de resistance of the three-nour performance, and Mr. Keenan as Colonel Jefferson Beverly Winslow, veteran of the Mexican War, whose pride in his family name centers aroundaAAzasn*HE plays the part of a Circus Queen with Eddie Foy in “A Favorite Fool’* at the Studebaker.Sof the most diversified careers of anjr actor in the movies” or on the speaking stage. He has been actor, author, photographer, editor, publisher, lecturer and coal mine operator. He was a classmate at Princeton of John Harlan of Chicago, Senator Poinerene of Ohio and a number of other prominent men in our national life.• o ©Animated portraits of William Randolph Hearst and William N. Sel g are shown in a recently released issue of the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial. The picture records a recent record long-distance telephone conversation between Chicago and San Francisco. Mr. Hearst is shown seated in his Summer home, and Mr. Selig with a receiver to his ear in his Chicago office.Labor Delegates toVisit San FranciscoDelegates to the American Federation of Labor convention, which opens in San Francisco November 6,will leave Chicago on a special train on the Burlington Road October 27. The early date was selected to permit all delegates to the various departments, which meet a week earlier, to reach the coast city. A second train probably will be necessaryto accommodate the Eastern and Southern delegates who will attend only the American Federation of Labor convention.lt;s1icrt(I£iMeanest Thief’Stealsc3Crepe From DoorSome time Saturday night come one stole the crepe from the front door of John Swasek’s home, 845 North Ashland avenue. Swasek’s wife died Saturday. It’s the meanest theft I ever heard of,” said Sergeant Nnsheim of the West Chicago Avenue Station. I suppose somebody stole it to hang on the door of a saloon.”Hourly limited trains to Milwaukee via Chicago Milwaukee Electric R. R. New steel cars. New running time, 1 hour and55 minutes. Take elevated to Evanston.—Advertisement.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Mon, Oct 11, 1915
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