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Again Miss Bennett has been en- trusted with a role replete with heart Interest, that of a woman who suf- fers In silence. For Mollie Vaughn MATINEE IDOL was proud of her family's name and MUOWIIG reputation and she strives silently not only to bear the burdens of her way- ward sister but to protect the Inno- cent child, the son whom the ruthless IN STRAND LEAD mayor would not acknowledge as his LILLI GISH own. Miss Bennett’s Interpretation of Mollie is one of love and loyalty and Thurston Hall Leading Man With faith. Indeed it Is her unshaken be- “A Romance of Happy Valley” lief in prayer that wins for her not only happiness, but which also re- Name of Her Second Picture Priscilla Dean; Other Film forms the reformer and wins for the town of Filbert a clean administration under the banner of prohibition. \/ "The Exquisite Thief," Priscilla Comedy again appears as a happy Dean's latest Universal Special At- attendant to the playing of Miss Ril- which will be shown traction. today Ilan Gish in her newest role, that of \ at the Strand Theatre, presents as Emmy WlicCcn Pays For Gown by a in "A Romance of Hap- leading man one of the foremost mat- Incli. country girl second inee idols of the stage. Things are getting to a pretty pass py Valley” David W. Griffith's He is Thurston Hall, who formerly when a motion picture star has to pay Artcraft production, which will be In of Lillian Rus- her dressmaker the measure. It’s appeared support by shown at the Royal Theatre today sell (in "Wildfire", Marguerite Clark, like we're paying for cabbage by the Amelia Bingham and Charlotte Walk- pound and steak by the ounce, but and tomorrow. er. Perhaps most theatregoers will Emmy Wehlen's latest afternoon tea Miss Gish’s efforts in comedy in in Gen- Favor remember him as “Ben Hur" gown, which she wears In “A "The Great Dove" were rewarded by eral Lew Wallace's record-break- To a Friend,” was paid for by the general applause from the critics. Un- play of that name. Mr. Hall's last ap- inch. direction she has on the stage were In "Love "Thread Is getting so expensive. der Mr. Griffith’s MADGE pearances charac- o' Mike” and “Have a Heart” Miss Wehlen,” said the seamstress to created a new and delightful as Jennie Tirhber- J. Gordon Edwards persuaded Mr. the Metro star, "that we're forced to ter, and her part KENNEDY new is even Hall to desert the stago for pictures, raise our lake in the production in prices." I htm In the part of Marc An- Miss Wehlen was In- more sparkling. casting "Well, then,” of as the v child tony In Theda Bara's “Cleopatra.” The clined to laugh, "how do you arrive She appears only the? likeable farmer in the Ohio through former matinee idol admits frankly at your price?” an idle, a man who neglects Door" that he prefers acting on the stage "By the inch,” was the reply, "by Valley country, Wrong attends most-in- but that the advantages of home life the sewing-machine inch—three cents his little fields but to his He wishes Ooldwyn Pictures afforded by motion pictures more than for every Inch of sewing on the out- dustriously sleep. as her mother reconcile him to leaving his first love. lit.” his daughter to dress I to rural styles of “The Mayor of Filbert.” "If that’s the case,” surmised Em- did. To be confined at Dltmaa will As m her last picture, "Leave It same Today and tomorrow the and just- to a past, and at the 1 has a chance Belle Bennett, pretty my, who is partial fancy things, generation show to Susan,” Miss Kennedy who has won oneself to attract the in- two extraordinary feature pho- ly popular Triangle star, "we’ll soon have to resort to feed time array {to show her' early Western training, on both John Rogan Jr. is a of Madge majestic fame as an emotional actress bags." terest of young toplays consisting popular I and to disclose- her native love of ad- Counihan & Shannon, Props. femin- ingenu- the stage and the screen, is the And not the way the horses wear supreme task for her girlish Kennedy in “Through the Wring venture for its own sake. In the ine lead in “The Mayor of Filbert,” to them. ity. Door,” a picture full df adventure, course of the story, she is compelled he shown at the Strand today. _ mystery and romance, also the noted j to descend an abandoned mine, be screen star. Hale Hamilton, in Me- ) chased up a tree by a supposedly tro’s latest comedy drama, "In His tamo bear (which couldn't see the Last Times Brother’s Place.” joke and decided that Miss Kennedy Today, | In Madge Kennedy’s newest. Gold- was legitimate prey) and finally to wyn picture, “Through the Wrong permit herself to be blovyn by a wind 8 P. M. Door,” a picturization of the novel by j and rainstorm through the wrong Matinee 2:30, Evening Jesse I-ynch Williams, published as door into the wrong house and there a serial in Collier’s Weekly, the popu. I meet a man whom she at first TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF iar Goldwyn star is given many op- | thought was the wrong man. As the portunities to display her many and story shifts from the West back to varied talents under the most unus- j the elaborate homes of Fifth avenue The World's Greatest Story Play ual circumstances. The picture, | in New York, Miss Kennedy finds which comes to the Ditmas theatre herself at home in the luxurious MARVIN MANAGEMENT beginning today tells the adventures surroundings which wealth and posi- DITMA of a rich man's daughter on her long tion afford, and her radiant beauty and lonely search for the man she and lovable personality find a back- S] knew was waiting for her some- ground for the adequate expression Today and Tomorrow where. of her incomparable charma “THE GREAT STARS "Willard Fizz (le)—Bevo and TWO GREAT FEATURES WITH TWO sparkling H20 (half and half). "Flivver Cocktail—Gasoline with a POPULAR raspberry. "Prohibition Cocktail—Aqua pura, OE 9 9 cent, a wicked dash SHEPHERD per pure, with of lemon. i Coeakika—Coke with 8 few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia." King Baggot Shows Skill with Pistol King- Baggot’s skill as a sharp- shooter is demonstrated in the Screen THE HILLS” Classics, Inc., super-feature, "The Kennedy Adelaide Thurston in Man Who Stayed at Home,” which is MILLIONS OP PEOPLE HAVE READ THE BOOK Madge IN Appears scheduled for release in September. In this brilliant picturization by PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THE PLAY “What’s Your Game?” June Mathis of Lechmere Worrall MILLIONS OF and J. E. Harold Terry’s stage suc- cess of two continents, Mr. Baggot "What's Tour THE PHOTOPLY IS A MASTERFUL VISUALIZATIO OF Game?’’ Perhaps heads an all-star cast. He has the this title does not seem like sweet.1 role of Christopher Brent, who is in Door” : flower-like Adelaide Thurston and the BOTH. A DELIGHTFUL STORY OF THE OZARKS The the employ of the United States sec- THEM Wrong I plays with which she has been most ret service. “Through The of An associated. But a. Story frequently like A Modem Drama of Romance, Adventure and Mystery. In producing the picture, which younger Mrs. Adelaide scorns' Adults Children 15c. Flske, has been directed by Herbert Blache, ®*at- 25c; most Goldwyn Picture to accept rigid limitations in her DDir'FC* Accidental Madge Kennedy’s captivating King Baggot actually "hit the bull’s Honeymoon. choice of plays. Therefore she loves r Klv-L^! Eve. 50o Instantly, piercing the target 25, 35, the part of Laura Fordham, which eye” V aimed at. The player has practiced ALSO she portrays and will introduce to her much on the rifle range, and he many beloved and loyal admirers at never a shooting gallery with- NOTED SCREEN STAR the Majestic theatre tomorrow, mat- passes THE out his to the inee and night. putting markmanship 23 | he was able to Tomorrow As the heroine of "What's Tour test. Consequently August the necessary “pep" into the Game?” which, by the way, is the put scene. MATINEE AND NIGHT latest Joint work of those two most shooting successful authors, Sidney Toler and Viola Dana Sunklsscd Marion Shorf, Miss Thurston not only] Among other things, Viola Dana Hamilton exhibits the magnetic sweetness acquired a lovely coat of tan during Hale which on has endeared her to past audi- the four days she was location at IN ences, but brilliant mental qualities Long Beach for the bathing scenes in as well. It Is her fascinating and ra- “Please Get Married,the Morosco pier-like quality of wit which enables comedy she is doing for Screen Clas- her to parry the thrusts of the subtle sics. Inc. Miss Dana found it neces- and dangerous enemies who are seek sary to take all her evening gowns to ing to destroy her happiness and. the modiste and have chiffon (or eventually to disarm them. whatever you call it) inserted at the BROTHER’S PLACE” ‘‘Monicas l ie.” proper places. “HIS ''Manless Isle” is the new bur-, Nome-Man’s Land. lesque that will bo at An Metro Comedy Drama produced the] Rex Beach, who is at the Goldyyn Extraordinary Majestic theatre next after- Monday ] studio in California cooperating in MYSTERY noon and night. It will be OF LOVE AND presented the dt his was walk- by the Girls with the ever! screening plays, Libe-rty down the street in Los Angeles the popular Irish comedian Jack ing Con-j other day when he "bumped into” a 2 P. M. 1 lc 1 way, heading the cast. There are Matinee, man he knew in his Alaska days. They two acts and ten scenes. Mr. Con- j exchanged greetings and the miner way wrote the piece and is surrounded was much interested when he heard a that embraces many of and 25c by company on 11c was the studio 6:30-8:45 burlesque's most Beach at working YOUR GAME’ g popular players,' ‘WHAT’S Evenings his and others of the Eminent among them Miss Monica plays Redmond, | idea Miss Helen Stuart, Miss Marcia Authors Pictures. Suddenly an and "Come with BY SIDNEY TOLER AND MARION SHORT Payne, James J. Collins, George struck Beach he,said: A.] I need Suits and the Runaway Four, vaude-| me to the studio. your opinion on The miner pooh- vllle specialties are something." introduced] he could have throughout the two acts and a large poohed the idea that MATINEE I NIGHT PRICES an value in to chorus of attractive girls will appear opinion of any regard Beach insisted Seats Now in a long program of spirite'd musical making a picture, but 25c, 50c and 75c I 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 into his numbers. and dragged him car. A Few at A Few At The man was interested in every- $1.00 | $1.50 Selling f_ thing he saw, but finally he stopped x iini I/Kuucr stock-still and his eyes fairly popped out of his head. “Why—why," he Next Monday Aug. 25th Theda Bara Hits at Self In Film stammered, "I’ll b^-if it ain’t." The spectacle of a woman walking! “Ain’t what?” interrupted Beach. STRAND& SHANNON up to herself and laying her hands' "Nome, he managed to gasp out— COUNIHAN threateningly upon herself while she, "The Nome that used to be; the one “LIBERTY GIRLS” gazes into her own face, has been! that was there when I first went up achieved In motion pictures. It is to make my stake a man’s land!” done by Theda Bara In a forthcoming Beach laughed, then said: “Well, with Jack Conway and Tomorrow Fox production, “Da Belle Busse,” you’ve given your opinion. I thought Today which contains most re- I'm probably the It was right in every detail, but And a Brilliant Out-burst of Talent Tomorrow markable “double" scene ever at- glad to have your memory agree with Continuous tempted. mine." The street, in case the eye of Doubles with which the public has any Alaskan may fall upon this story BEAUTIFUL DAZZLING become familiar have shown two pro- and want to see it, is in "The Girl “MANIJESS ISLE” jections of the one person on the from outside." which will be released same close film, the figures coming soon by Goldwyn. A Musical Burlesque in two acts and ten scenes together—but always there has been Send in Your Scripts! some "white space" between. Through There Is such a thing as getting too of a new development In the making much publicity, says Florence L. and most gorgeous costumed Oft double exposure, MiS3 Bara, of however,; Strauss of the scenario department MDantiest chorus on *U on the actually places her hands the Goldwyn company, and the Emi- any stage image of herself taken in the first nent Authors Pictures have had too Dean exposure. Then, the second exposure much. At least since the news of Priscilla Matinee 75c, 50c and 25c. being a portrayal of the wicked sis- their organization with Rex Beach as PplfpC In Her Photo Drama face '* ■ V. L. v3 Thrilling ter menacing the good, tho two president and Samuel Goldwyn as Evening $1.00, 75c, 50c and 25c each other at close range while the chairman of the board has gone out. former pours out her wrath and there has been a marked falling off hatred. in the number of books sent to tlje May AUlson as Cocktail Mixer Goldwyn office by publishers and their May Allison, beautiful Screen Clas- agents. Time was when the books sics, Inc., star, has been worrying re- and the plays submitted for possible THIEF” over the outlook. were so the “THE cently prohibition picture plays many that EXQUISITE In her forthcoming production of readers could not. keep up with them. ___ "Fair and Warmer,” Ayery Hop- Now the readers have ample time to mmy/vr#DTs wood’s hilarious farce. May has to finish them all and that is a distress- concoct a number of fancy drinks for ing condition. The Eminent Au- in herself and Eugene Pallette in the thors Pictures will produce the works touch with famous cocktail scene, so she asked of the writers forming it-—but the all her friends to get up a thirst ai

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