I Washington joins in the national drive for bettermotion pictures This week begins the greatest motion for Better Motion Pictures picture season in the history of the screen whole week will be devoted to a drive After seven years ofgatheringway,Paramount- SEPTEMBER 1919 THEfor better pictures in thousands of the better Artcraft has mobilized all,the great geniuses of theatres, big and small, all over America. production; dramatists, directors, artists, tech* What a nation does with its spare time is a nicians; and is equipped with facilities of the mighty good test of the heart of that nation. utmost magnitude to capture from the realm And the verdict of America's whole heart of soaring imagination photoplays that make and think) mind on Paramount-Artcraft leaves no shadow you laugh.and cry.and of doubt as to what sort of screen entertainment As in the America prefers. past the proof is written large in increased showings at more theatres, more fre¬ Based on a record of actual performance quent attendance by more people, and the m«Viny NATIONAL Famous Players-Lasky Corporation now promises of that better theatre in every community the some new and surprising screen achieve¬ magnet that draws the people as surely u the Paramount- ments, beginning this week. moon draws the tides. (Jrtcmft W'E E K Theatres showing this Cal¬ endar - Section in their FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION m newspaper advertisements and house programs are en- operating in this drive for better motion pictures. t all these theatres, all this week.Paramount -Artcrafl Pictures will be shown OFW\T PAT A PF August 31 to Sept. 6.Wallace Reid in "Valley of the Giants" ? ? KJ 1 Mack Sennett Comedy, "The Dentist" MOORE'S GARDEN August 31 to Sept. 6- "The Miracle Man" MOORE'S STRAND AugustB^Lu|mfRkl in"TheMisleadingWidow" Aug. 31.Ch&s. Ray, in "Hay Foot, Straw Foot." Sept 1.Maurice Tourner "The White Heather. Sept. 1.Bryant Washburn, in "Putting it Over." presents Sept. 2.Burton Holmes Travelogue. Sept 2.Charles Ray, in "Hay Foot, Straw Foot" Sept. 2.Flagg Comedy, "Con in Economy." Sept 3.William Farnum, in "The Warrens of Virginia. Sept. 5.Irene Castle, in Line." New Sept 4.Ethel Clayton, in "Men, Women and Money." Liberty "Firing 5.Lila Sept 6.Paramount Artcraft special, "The White Heather." Sept Lee, in "A Daughter of the Wolf." Sept 6.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls." Aug. 31.Eugene O'Brien, in "Fires of Faith." Stanton Sept 5..Sennett Comedy, "Trying to Get Along." Sept. 1. Chas. Ray, in "Hay Foot, Straw Foot." Sept 3.Bray Pictograph. Sept. 2.Bryant Washburn* in "A Very Good Young Man. Sept. 3.All-Star Cast, in "The White Heather." Aug. 31.Irene Castle, in "The Firing Line." New Sept. 4.Enid Bennett, in "The Haunted Bedroom." Sept 1.Bryant Washburn, in "A Very Good Young Man.199 Sept 5.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls." Sept 2.Eugene O'Brien, in "Fires of Faith." Sept 6.Irene Castle, in "The Firing Line." Sept 3.Catherine Calvert in "The Career of Katherine Sept 2.Sennett Comedy, "Hearts and Flowers." Bush." Raphael Sept 5.Bray Pictograph. 4.Cecil B. De Mille "The Woman Thou Sept presents, Sept 1.Burton Holmes Travelogue. Circle Gavest Me." Sept 5.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls." Aug. 31.Cecil B. De Mille presents "The Woman Thou Sept 6.Wallace Reid, in "The Love Burglar.'' Gavest Me." Sept 6.Drew Comedy, "Bunkered." Sept 1.Charles Ray, in "The Busher." Sept 2.Wallace Reid, in "You're Fired." Aug. 31.Irene Castle, in "The Firing Line." Sept 3.Ethel Clayton, in "Men, Women and Money." Sept 1-2.Marian Davies, in "The Dark Star." Truxton Sept 4.William S. Hart, in "Square Deal Sanderson." Sept 3.Catherine Calvert in "The Career of Katherine Sept 5.Robert Warwick, in "Secret Service." Bush." Sept 6.Dorothy Dalton, in "Other Men's Wives." Empire Aug. 31.Sennett Comedy, "Among Those Present" Sept 2.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls." Sept. 2.Bryant Washburn, in "A Very Good Young Man." Sept 2.Sennett Comedy, "Among Those Present.' Sept. 2.Bray Pictograph. Sept 4.Pauline Frederick, in "Sapho." 1.Burton Holmes. Sept 6.Geraldine Farrar, in "Maria Rosa." Olympic Sept. Home Sept 6.Bray Pictograph. Aug. 31.Elsie Ferguson, in "The Avalanche." Sept 1.Burton Holmes.Travelogue. Sept 3.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls." Sept 2.Bryant Washburn, in "A Very Good Young Man.99 Sept 3.Burton Holmes Travelogue. Sept 2.Bray Pictograph. Carolina Sept 5.Geraldine Farrar, in "Maria Rosa." Revere Sept 4.William Farnum, in "The Warrens of Virginia." 99 Sept 1.Marguerite Clark, in "Girls.' Sept 2.Elsie Ferguson, in "The Avalanche.99 Sept 3.Pauline Frederick, in "Sapho." ft Sept 3.Burton Holmes Travelogue. Sept 4.Dorothy Dalton, in "Other Men's Wives. Princess Sept. 5.Geraldine Farrar, in Maria Rosa.' Regent Sept 6.Robert Warwick, in "Secret Service; Sept 1.Catherine Calvert in "The Career of Katherine Sept 1-2.Lillian Gish, in 'The Greatest Thing in Life." Bush." Sept 3.Eugene O'Brien, in "Fires of Faith." Sept 3.Lila Lee, in "Rose of the River." Blue Sept 5.Wallace Reid, in "The Love Burglar." Sept 4-5.-Robert Harron, in "The Girl Who Stayed at Arcade Sept 6.William Farnum, in "The Redemption of David Home." Hyattsville, Md. Corson." Mouse Sept. 6.Henry Walthal, in "False Faces.'W Sept 6.Drew Comedy, "Harold, the Last of the Saxons." LOEW'S COSMOS Sep1-1 to 6.Catherine caivert in "TheCareerofKatherineBush".