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HE front cover of this issue is embellished by the latest portrait of beautiful Anita Stewart. Take another look at it. Very soon you will have the pleasure of seeing this talented actress in her new film triumph, "A Midnight Romance," which is now being made in Los Angeles by the Anita Stewart Productions, Inc. Inside information has it that this picture will be a tremendous hit, and, with Miss Stewart featured, will draw immense crowds. It is predicted that it will pass in popularity "Virtuous Wives," which broke all house records, and also "Such a Little Queen," in which she was so perfectly cast, being such a little queen herself. Incidentally, as a queen, she is some little ruler over filmland and some popular. Do you know that she gets on an average of 60,000 letters a week from admiring patrons and that she employs a staff of twenty-five girls to attend to her correspondence?

We tried to get Mr. H. J. Shepard, owner of the wonderful picture "Mickey," to tell us something about himself, because we knew our readers would be curious to learn something about the man who gave this picture to the public. Here was his answer: "There is nothing to tell about myself except in connection with the exploitation of 'Mickey,' and that 'Mickey' is the forerunner for a number of other unique ideas in the promotion of motion pictures." Well, maybe he can be persuaded to loosen up bye and bye.

Meanwhile we'll wait with ill-concealed impatience for the new "unique" ideas which he has promised to motion picture lovers. If they're half as good as "Mickey" we'll be satisfied. Oh, yes, he did give us his portrait, which we print here.

Mary Pickford is to appear soon in "Daddy Long Legs."

The new Winter Garden show, "Monte Christo, Jr.," opened in New York the other night with four tremendous song successes. They are:

"Who Played Poker with Pocahontas?"

"What Happened to Fiji."

"When I'm Down in Dixie I'm Up in Heaven."

"When You See Another Sweetie Hanging Around."

Of all war pictures we think that "The Heart of Humanity" is the best and advise you to see it. It is all the other war films rolled into one and yet it is entirely difrent from any of them. It depicts the love of a mother who gave five sons to the war and shows what happens to the five boys who offered all to their country.

It takes you right out of your seats and lands you in the trenches! Each reel makes your head reel. Its phenomenal run at the Broadway Theatre in New York has had to be twice extended to meet the popular demand. It is showing in four Chicago theatres, a contemporaneous run hitherto unknown, also in Washington, Baltimore, Toledo, Cleveland, Minneapolis, etc.

It's a splendid setting for that gem of an actress, Dorothy Phillips.

"The False Faces" is the new absorbing picture presented by Thos. H. Ince, and featuring that capable and popular actor, Henry Walthall. To tell you that the story is by Louis Joseph Vance is taking all of your time that is necessary. Vance, Ince and Walthall is a combination that will get you out of your home on the stormiest night. It is full of adventure, suspense, and thrills, with romance and intrigue running all through.

If you can't hold your breath for an hour and a half you had better not see it.

It makes no difference whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Presbyterian, as long as you are an American you'll enjoy "The Fighting Roosevelts." It's a great picture about a great family, and is not only thrilling and entertaining but instructive, because it is history.

Nearly 40,000,000 signatures of moving picture patrons went to Washington on the protest against the 5 per cent film rental tax provision in the coming revenue bill. That's a pretty fair proportion of a population of a little over 100,000,000, isn't it? Shows how popular motion pictures are in this country.

Bee Palmer has steadily grown in popular favor with the sun-dodgers until she has been called the Queen of Jazz. As such, however, she is one ruler who would never be admitted to a peace conference. She'd bust up the show. As a "shimmy" artist she would make a lot of motions that couldn't be seconded, that's a cinch. Someone would rise to a point or order, Bee would say. "I'll take the same," and the war would be on again.