The Seattle star. [volume], April 06, 1925, Page 13, Image 13

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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1925,
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#“Listen‘to Reason
But Murs. B;n*thbfiwss Has It Her Way in
Picture at Coliseum
Richard PBarthelmess can’t seem to persuade his wi
s Hey, ey stas il e T eot
seum this weekß, 10 (00K at t’“t" 8 hi& ;
learns tn time. v way.. Oh, well, she
Dick Barthelmess is back In cem
edies agaln, and reglsters a person.
al hit in “New Toys,” a domestic
teature-length laugh producer with
just enough pathos in its makeup.
Clifton Webb carries the heavy end
of the farce work and does it ex
cellently.
Mary Hay, Barthelmess' petite
wife. supports him for the first time
and while she i 3 no feature actress,
she does creditable work, tho ap
parently handicapped by lack of ex
perience.
It's a clever little comedy-drama
of carcer-housewifery, with the hon
;fl-“\(o misunderstandings which
Stage Success Now !
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on Liberty Screen
“*Cheaper to Marry,” Samuel Ship- [
man's dramatic suceess from the |
New York stage has been brought to |
the screen, and is proving popular
withh audiences at the Liberty this
week. =
At last a play has been filmed
without a single fundamental change |
in the plot. “Cheaper to Marry”
was screened with unusual fidelity
to the playwriglit's original story. !
Based around a man’s contempt
for conventions, the picture, with its
startling ending., brings out wv.h{
reallsm that “free love™ does not pay. |
The basic story is a powerful one, !
and under the akilled direction of
Mr. Leonard, producer of all Mae
Murray’'s biggest successes, a beau
tiful picturization of ths gay whirl
af rn social life provides the
und for the intense dramatic
On the screen “Cheaper to Marry™
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every couple of billers and cooers in
apartment house nests appreciates,
And Katherine Wilson Is a sort
of lJovable’ villaineas and is really
the leading actress of Richerd's lat.
et
; Jules Jordan and Jaceb Kingabury
give added comedy high lights in
thelr shortlived characterizations of
Hebrew play producers. But it's
really Barthelmess and Clifton
Webb who do the work and put this
pieasing Coliseum attraction over.
Jack Bain is sioging an excellent
solo with the J. & V. syncopators
thig week, and Wineland's big orche
tra presented a highly entetraining
program of Itallan opera numbers,
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{Pola Negri Stars
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in Colonial Picture
i Poia Negri is at her exotic best in
Ellm appealing story of “Lily of the
1 Dust.”™ at the Colonlal until Monday
mehl. She combines all her temper.
?mntnt and art with the universal ap-
Epeal of womanhood in this screen
L adaptation of “The Song of Hongs"
‘by Horman Sudermann.
f Tuesday's attraction is billed as
A "Sundown.,” a great epic draraa,
!surrinc Roy Stewart and HBessie
§Lo\‘t.
t SByd Chaplin, who portrays the
i princlpal rols in “Chariey’s Aunt”
was suggested as the ideal person
’!ror the part by his own brother,
| Charlie Chaplin.
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I‘hsu an excoptionally fine cast, in.
vtclud!ns Paulette Duval, Conrad Na.
i gel, Lewis 8. Stone, Marguerite de
L Motte, Louise Fazenda, Claude
L Gillingwater and Hichard Wayne,
!Tearle Reserve
Broken to Bit
in New Pigt
Movie fans are promixed @ new
Conway earle in “Just a Woman,"
now being directed in Hollywood,
For the firat time In years tho
fadmirvers of this popular star will see
‘tho famous Tearle reserve broken,
In direct contrast to the nighly so.
phisticated, polished and unsmiling
characters which Tearle has always
played, Irving Cummings is directing
him in the role of a particularly un.
sophisticated rlvrl\.
The pieture opens with Tearle as a
clerk In a steel mill, content with his
tiny home, wife and baby, and tho
it carries him to fortune and position
he remains thruout the same smil
_‘luu. simple clerk who is suved from
[bunlnms and soclal pitfalls by his
L wife,
| As Robert' Holton, the siselmill
{clerk, he will be seen living the or
,dlmuuy happy homedife of his claas,
{eallng in his shirt sleoves, playing
with his baby boy-—and dominated by
his wile,
Tearle, nccording to Director Cum.
mings, has a particularly human
Lquality which few plctures have sver
{ touched upon. Cumwings plang to
Il,rmg it out effectively in "Just a
| Woman.” Playing opposite Conway
im this picture Is Claire Windsor, as
|thn young wife
ls e s
gPool Ayres Stock
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in Columbia Film
[t Have you ever heard of a group
of men buying stock 4n & woman?
I Well, that's just exactly what hap
lp.m\:» to Agnes Ayres in “Her Mar.
i ket Value” which la playing at the
| Columbla this week. Of course, all
i\len s unknown to her, altho she is
{Eiven the money and told that it
{was left her by her dead husband,
{who lost all his In the stock mar
i kets. When each of three men try
{to corner the stock, It provides a
| highly sensational atory,
i Miss Ayres is supported by Ed
| ward Earle, Anders Randoff, Hedda
{ Hopper and other well known stars,
! If Max Stauffer, the singing newsa
{boy, can pell papers as well as he
Erau aing, he would be a valuable
'{mlclluun to any newspaper. He de
lights the audiences singing “My
{uut Girl” and other popular songs
‘l-‘mu-m(u Longo made such a hit
ilua! week, playing operatic sclec.
| tione, tht he is offering parts of the
opera “Carmen” this week.
Next week the Columbia will pre
"gmn! “The Last Laugh.” This show,
' which was filmed In Germany, with
o German cast, made a tremendous
L hit in the only two other American
Jcities where it has been aliown,
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| Dog Star Draws
i
| Record Crowds
| at Blue Mouse
§
{| Rin Tin Tin may be justified
i in feeling a bit pleased with himn
1] meif of late
| 80 popular Is the dog sar
| proving in “Thes Lighthouse by
{| the Sea’ at the Blue Mouse this
il week, that that theater was ob-
A lged to give an extra midnight
11 show both Saturday and Sunday
|| nights to accommodate the
bl] crowds that were lined outside,
THE SPATTILED STAR
Puppets of Tragedy
Headlines Say His Son Is Murderer—Scene
From Heilig Photoplay
Ramsey Wallace in a dramatic moment of the picture
“Chalk Marks,” which is being featured at the Heilig, in ad
dition to the program of Junior Advance vaudeville.
“WHAT might have been™ in the
lingering thought in the mind
of the man at the end of the pieture,
*Chalk Marks." now at the Heilig,
Thru his blindness, he wrecks his
cwn posuibllities of happiness, and
those of the woman who loved him,
He reallzes poignantly what ‘he han
missed when he sees his son plight
his troth to his school days aweot.
heart.
A varied and entertaining vaude.
viile bill i 1 on the progeam in sup.
port of the fealure pleture., **The
Five Sweathearts,” the headline act,
is put on by a versatile group that
I received enthuslastically by the
e ee e
LIBERTY —Conrad Nagel in “Cheaper to Marry ™
COLISEUM--Richard Barthelmess in “New Toys”
STRAND--"Salome of the Tenements” with Jetix Goulal
COLUMNBIA —~Agnes Ayres in “Her Market Value
BLUE MOUSE—~fin Tio Tin and Loulse Fazenda fn “The Lighthouse
by the Sea' ¢
WINTER GARDEN ~—Frad Thompson in “That Devil Quemadon ™
CAPITOL "{Thu White Bheep,” with Glenn Tyron and Rianche Me
haffey
HEILIG“ChaIkk Marks" starring Marguerite Bnow, and vaudeville
COLONIAL~~PoIa Negri in “Lily of the Dust”
STATF~Movie and vaudeville,
] ORPHEUM -~ Vauievills, ’“M’“M“s skits “"Room 808"
| PANTAGES <Double headiins vaudaviile and movie
| PALACE MlP—Ackerman-Harris vaudevilie and movie
audiences,
“As You Like 11" n vomedy skit
by George F. Wilson and Addie, con.
vinces that the oldtime vaudeville
favorite has lost nons of his appeal,
The equilibristic performance of
Bento Brothers combines skill and
grace, Harry and Donnabells Pat.
rick are a rarely diverting pair who
offer “Bits of Everything.” a com.
bination of songs, dances and instry.
mental numbers, A comedy juggling
turn by Frank Wilbur and gir! com.
pletes the five acta,
McKea's Arvcadian band plays alx
Anappy numbers, which vary from
Alight opera to popular Jaze
Colman Ow
Film M
ilm Mustache
- Ronald Colman holds the unlgque
dlatinetion of belng the only screen
il«-umnu mun who habituslly wears
o mustache with full approval of
\lhlu fans,
This affirmative hoas been regly
tered by an avalanche of letters,
followihng the announcement, some
time ago, that Colman wias consld.
ering the removal of the character.
istie mustache, which he has worn
pineo he scored hin first screen tri
umph in “The White Hister.”
A careful tally of the malled votes
on the question has resulied in an
overwhelming victory for the mus
Aache, But the writers, almost
without exception, insist that Col
man is the only leading man who
can go wenr a mustache to win thely
approbation. As Tar as all other
sereen players are concerned, the
dally razor is n necessary profession.
| nl ndjunct,
Colman & wearing the much-dis.
cussed mustache in the production
for release soon, “His Hupreme Mo.
ment.” His consideration of remov
al of the hirsute adornment has
been indefinitely tabled.
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Appealing Picture
.
Now at Capitol
An unusual pleture, in that in com
bines hearty, wholesoms humor with
the heights of execlitement and the
appeal of romance, “The ‘White
Bheep,” at the ‘Capitol this week, I
winning favor with grownups and
kids.
Hal Roach, who wrote and directed
the story, has interwoven all the ele
ments of entertainment into the plc
ture, It is melodrama embroidered
with satire aud filled with laughs and
thrills. The play ends with o whirl
wind finish. that shows the whits
sheep usurping all the fighting blood
of the family, saving his father from
a first class lynching at the hands
of u populace grown tired of his
{dominanco of the town's affaira; plc
ures a big fight in a wagon as i
ifloats down n raging river, and, of
course, delivers the girl into his arms
with the blessing of the black sheeg
fumily, who comxider that Toby hw
redecmed himself,
Glenn Tyron and Blanche Mehaf
fey are two stars who have not beer
ibefore the public eve very long, bu
?wlm seemn destined 1o achieve wide.
{spread popularity for their refresh.
i!ng portrayals.
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Jetta Goudal Is
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Scintillating Star
Jetta Goudsl Is a most pleasing
sort of person., Hhe is playing the
role of “"Salome of the Tenements
At the Strand this week in . man.
ner that makes the plcture wortl
Meing.
She bhas a plguant quality, a cer.
tain shrewdness, that distingulshe
her from the general run, and thal
tm- her admirably for the role o
{the keen-witted little daughter o
|the Ghetto, whose soul craves
| beauty.
‘i As for the pleture itself, I hardl
{8 how the tite “Salome” applie
“to the little Jewish girl. The nam
s far-fetched and gives the wrong
{idea of the film. Not having rea
| Yezieraka's book, don't kunow whethe
i!hn same fault is true of the or
iginal story.
’ However, the picture is pleasing
Godfrey Tearle 1s good as the ideal.
‘mlc Manning with an eye to uplift
Pretty Doggy Actor
Rin Tin Tin Carrieg Off Laurels as Star in
Blue Mouse Film
Here's Rin Tin Tin, famous dog star, who is getting by
big with audiences at the Blue Mouse this week. The name
of his latest picture is “The Lighthouse by the Sea.”
ANY pleture in which Rin-Tin-Tin,
the famous Warner dog star, ap
pears, is ulways a delight, but *“The
Lighthouse by the Sea” which is
now at the Blue Mouse, is unusually
entertaining because of Loulse Fa.
zenda, the popular comedienne of the
movies, who plays the leading female
role.
Rin-TinTin and Miss Fazenda are
the pivot around which the whole
exacting photoplay revolves, from
the majestic drama of the sea,
against which the story is set, to
tha bitter struggle between revenue
ofticers and an unscrupulous band of
bootleggers, operating along the
e
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New Vaudeville
Program at State
Five acts of diverting vaudeville
and the photoplay attraction,
“Daughters of the Night' are the
attractive program at the State,
starting Monday for a threeday
run.
The acts dnclude Frank Evers,
who combines class and versatility;
Princess Fawneyes and company,
billed as "Original Americans In
Harmony''; Norman and Landee, the
newlyweds, in & comedy act; Charles
and Ina McAvoy, in ‘“Meeting Sis.
’u-r," and the Latell Brothers, who
‘orm- a singing and dancing act.
| The Rosebud Revue continues to
make itself popular with the audi.
}cnces at the “family theater."
! U ——
The old Jewish characters are won
derfully natural. The lEast Side
scenes are fascinating.
The end is surprisingly sudden,
the climax a bit disappointing. But
to come back to Jetta Goudal, she is
unusyal. She is charming.
coast that Is it up at night by the
lighthouse that thwarts their evil
plans,
“Buster” Collier, Jr.,, Mathew Betz,
Douglas Gerrard and Charles HIN
Mailes support Rin-TinTin and
Louise Fazenda in this screen version
of Owen Davls’ stage success, ““The
Lighthouse by the Sea.”
The pletyre is admirably directed
and mounted, while the absorbing
flow of the story carried the audience
along with it, faster and faster, until
the climax finished the tense, excit,
llm: picture and cverybody dropped
Ibnrk into thelr seats, we.) satisfied
with an evening thoroly enjoyed.
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Fast Action Film
at Winter Garden
For the film fan who craves thrills,
daring stunts and fast action, we
would recommend “That Devil
Quemado,” starring Fred Thompson
at the Winter Garden,
| “Quemado” ig a plcturesque, devil
| ay-care cavalier who will dash into
jevery feminine heart just as he
dashes in and out of the rapid-fire
situations of this thrilling tale,
Gloria Hope, in the leading feminine
trole, is a delightfully fiery and arls.
| tocratic heroine, and the dirgction of
!!hr‘ picture shows a skilled hand,
{which 18 not surprising when it is
’kmwn that Del Andrews, who
whipped *“The Galloping Fish"” znd
“The Hottentot” into shape, was be.
hind the megaphone. :
Nola Luxford, Alan Roscoe, Albert
Priscoe, Byron Douglas, Joseph Bell
and Robert Cantiero are the other
principals in the plcture.
Silver King, Thompson's unusually
intelligent horse, does some very fine
acting, and adds much to the film.
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