Ann Pennington Comes Back to Screen (1917) 🇺🇸

Popular Ziegfeld “Follies” star will again appear in “The Boy Scout,” Famous Players-Paramount Picture.

Ann Pennington, the popular little Ziegfeld “Follies” star, who created such a sensation on the screen when she made her motion picture debut in the Famous Players-Paramount picture, Susie Snowflake, has returned from a long tour upon the stage and will again star upon the screen under the auspices of the Famous Players. The return of Miss Pennington to the Famous Players studio after an absence of several months will undoubtedly meet with the popular approval of the public, for in the brief space when she flitted upon the screen last year she won popularity and achieved success.

The production upon which Miss Pennington will at once begin work is The Boy Scout, a patriotic picture written especially for her. It will show the little screen star in an entirely different light upon the screen and will at the same time strike a timely note.

Ann Pennington is a native of Camden, N. J. She won a reputation as a dancer and actress in the little amateur shows in which she took part in her native city. Her fame soon spread across the river to Philadelphia and she was invited to participate in several amateur performances in the Quaker City. Then she began to study stage dancing and later joined the Red Widow company. After touring all over the country in The Red Widow, Miss Pennington appeared in several other shows before her striking beauty and remarkable dancing ability attracted the notice of Mr. Ziegfeld and she was added to the stellar forces of the “Follies.”

The date of release for The Boy Scout has not yet been set, but work upon the production will begin at the Famous Players studio within a short time.

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At Leading Picture Theaters

Programs for the week of April 15 in New York’s best motion picture houses.

“Sleeping Fires” at the Strand.

The principal photo-dramatic feature at the Strand theater for the week of April 15 was Sleeping Fires, in which Pauline Frederick was the star. It is a combination of a thrilling detective story plot, with a romantic love theme. A second film adaptation of the famous O. Henry story series, Friends at San Rosario, was also shown. Other features were A Spring Ideal, one of Paula Blackton’s country life stories; interesting educational studies, and the Strand Topical Review.

Rosa Lind, Nann Lit Koster and Grace Hoffman were the soloists.

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“Told at Twilight” at the Rialto.

Baby Marie Osborne in “Told at Twilight” was one of the features at the Rialto. There is an unconscious charm about the performances of this five-year-old Pathé star which sets her quite apart from the usual child actress. With a droll little colored boy [Leon Pardue] for a playmate she frolics through the plot of the picture as naturally as if there were no camera in sight. Charlie Chaplin in The Cure, his latest bit of expert clowning, was shown Monday afternoon and all week thereafter. The pictures of the Salisbury expedition to the Spanish Main showed Rex Beach and his fellow explorers capturing monster crocodiles in Colombia, besides views of ant eaters and other strange Central American fauna. The always interesting topical digest completed the program. The soloist was Mlle. Androva.

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“The Deemster” at the Broadway.

A picture version of Hall Caine’s famous novel, The Deemster, opened an engagement at the Broadway theater, April 15. The Arrow Film Company’s production of the film version is excellent in every way.

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Eighty-first Street Theater Bill.

At the Eighty-first Street theater Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Mothers of France was the feature for the entire week.

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King Baggot Closing Tour.

Charles H. Greene, the veteran manager and screen director, has just returned from a ten weeks’ trip through Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, where he has been directing the personal appearance tour of King Baggot through those States, and reports great business for his star and says in many towns King Baggot was received with ovations by the mayors and public officials, and banqueted by clubs and societies, making it a grand triumphal tour.

King Baggot will close his tour on April 22 and return to New York to organize his own company, Mr. Greene, his manager, coming here in advance to attend to the preliminary work.

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Marguerite Clayton in Black Cat Series.

The General Film Company announces that Marguerite Clayton, the Essanay star, is to be featured in the forthcoming Black Cat Features, the series based on stories in the Black Cat Magazine, which is being distributed by the General Film Company. Miss Clayton, who has become very popular with picture fans through her work in “Is Marriage Sacred?” series, in which she was featured, will play a boarding house slavey in Pass the Hash, Ann, the coming Black Cat Feature, and she is said to have the best character she has ever portrayed in this picture.

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Elliott Dexter Mary Pickford’s Leading Man.

Appearing opposite Mary Pickford in her latest picture, to be released by Artcraft Pictures on May 14, is Elliott Dexter, the well known leading man whose many characterizations in Paramount Pictures have made him a favorite among screen patrons. Mr. Dexter has appeared in many successes under the Famous Players, Lasky and Morosco-Pallas trade marks. In Miss Pickford’s new Artcraft subject, A Romance of the Redwoods, he plays what he considers his greatest part, that of a bad man of the West.

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Cast for “Today” Engaged.

Harry Rapf has engaged, for the support of Florence Reed in the new film feature Today, a cast of real stars, including Frank Mills, Gus Weinberg, Leonore Harris, Alice Gale and Kate Leslie [Kate Lester?]. Mr. Weinberg and Miss Gale are of the original cast, and work is now going forward under the personal direction of Ralph Ince. With the star, producer and director of such high standard, Today should prove one of the masterpieces of the screen.

Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917