Pullman herald. [volume], December 17, 1920, Second Section, Page 2, Image 10

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Page Two
AT THE MOVIES
GRAND PROGRAM
Saturday, Nov. IS—Rupert Hughes'
famous Story, "Scratch My
Back."
Sunday and .Monday, Dec. 19-20
Alice Brady in "The New York
Idea."
Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 21-22
—Frank Mayo in "The Marriage
Pit" and that animal serial,
"The Lost City."
Thursday and Friday, Dec. 23-24—
William Farnum in "Wolves of
the Night."
"SCRATCH MY RACK"
Sidney Olcott has been directing
motion picture plays tor a good many
yean and has been up against some
dificult problems but never anything
like the one he encountered in
"Scratch My Back," the new Rupert
Hughes story, a Goldwyn Eminent
Authors' production, which comes to
the ('rand theatre, December 18.
Mr. Olcott had to get several feet of
film showing a cat scratching his
back. It was a puzzler.
Old Tom, the studio cat s was
drafted for the job and didn't like
It. There was no reason why he j
Should scratch at that* time and!
pleading was of no use. All the
tricks that the director, assistant di-,
rector, players, camera man. and '
everyone who saw the operation
could think of were tried unsuccess
fully. Tom wouldn't scratch, They
even put a rubber band around one
of his legs but he just pawed it off.
After that there was a postpone
ment of the scene. It was tried an
other day. Director Olcott told the
camera man to wait all day if it was
necessary adding: "He's got to
scratch sometime."
So the camera man waited for the
Urge to come to Tom and no one had
the heart to figure how long he wait
ed. Finally, however, Tom apparent
ly realized that something was ex
pected of him and thai he might as
well get it over with, so he did his
part like a good actor and the
scratching process was recorded,
"THE MARRIAGE PIT"
To those familiar with the finan
cial history of America the words
"Black Friday" have an ominous
meaning. Black Friday refers to Sep
tember 24, 1869, when reckless spec
ulation in gold on the New York
slock exchange plunged the entire
nation into a sudden and terrible
period of financial panic and ruin.
Four years later, a similar panic
launched itself on a Friday in the
same month. |
So when the unscrupulous stock
gamblers who are Frank Mayo's en
emies threaten that "Black Friday"
will be repeated for him in "The
Marriage Pit." which will be the at
traction at the Grand theatre De
cember 21-22, their threat has dire
Import.
Their raid on Mayo, a live young
financial power who "made" him
self, takes the form of "bearing,'' or
depressing prices, on a stock in
which he is heavily invested. Aware
of this, Mayo calls the bluff by pur
chasing every share of stock they
put on the market and turns the raid
on his personal fortune to a com
plete cleanup of thousands of dollars.
While the Wall Street scenes in
"The Mariage Pit" are accurate and
Interesting, they are purely inciden
tal to Frederick [sham's story, the
romance of a business man—a
theme seldom treated in motion pic
tures.
"SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT"
"Something to Think About" rep
resents a new departure in the type
of role portrayed, by Miss Swanson. j
As Ruth Anderson, the talented
actress has abundant opportunity to
display her abilities. The role car
ries Miss Swanson through the en
tire emotional gamut and it is con
fidentially expected that this produc
tion will earn for her an additional
host of admirers when the picture is
shown at the Liberty theatre Decem
ber 18-19.
The idea of right thinking fur
nishes the basic idea for the story.
in the early scenes the quaint rural
characteristics of Luke Anderson, a
blacksmith, and his daughter, Ruth,
have a rollicking humor that is cap
tivatingly presented. When th.
daughter, already engaged to a rich
young man of the neighborhood,
elopes with Jim Dirk, a handsome
newcomer, the clouds of tragedy
gather quickly.
Then a series of swift climaxes de
velop in rapid succession until will
power bring with It the restoration
of the heroine's happiness through
the instrumentality of her little boy.
Buy rsif winter po'.ucc? from
Imthie by the sac'r or wa.on lur.d.
LIBERTY PROGRAM
Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 18-18 —
Gloria Swanson in "Something
to Think About." Mutt and
Jell comedy, "In Wrong."
.Monday, Dec. 20— Robert Warwick
in "The City of Masks." Chap
ter 10 of "Lightning Bryce."
Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 21-22
—Geo. Welch in "From Now
On." Western drama, "Cin
ders." Fox News.
Thursday and Friday, Dec. 23-24 —
-.-. Tom Mix in "The Untamed."
Comedy, "Love and Gasoline."
Fox News.
! "THK CITY OF MASKS'*
Tin' film attraction at the Liberty
theatre on December 20 will be "The
City of Masks," adapted from George
Hair .McCutcheon's novel of the
same name and starring Robert War
wick.
Tin' plot is built up around the
novel idea that there are hundreds
of men ami women in New York con
cealing the fact that they are of no
ble birth by occupying humble posi
tions as chauffeurs, governesses and
the like. Once a week they meet at
a certain house and assume their
rightful identities for the evening.
Robert Warwick, as Tommy Trotter,
chauffeur to the wealthy Mr. Car
penter, is really an English lord in
disguise. He is in love with a Miss
Emsdale, who is not really the gov
erness she pretends to be. but a no
blewoman. Their romance is threat
ened by the bounder son of a nor
t veau-rich New York family, and only
after several adventures, including
la setto with big city politics, are
j their efforts ended happily.
"PROM NOW OX"
A photoplay alive with action is
"From Now On," the William Fox
feature which comes to the Liberty
treatre December 21-22.
The picture tells the story of the
| duping of a young man who has just
come into a fortune and of his ef
forts to regain the money out of
j which he has been swindled. Dave
Henderson, finding that Booky
Sharvan and Marl Tydeman have
robbed him, deliberately burglarizes
the hitter's home, knowing that the
man is compelled to keep at hand
large sums in ready cash because
Of his shady transactions. Dis
covering their loss and suspecting
Henderson, the men capture and
torture the boy in an effort to get
him to confess. A clever ruse en
ables him to escape, but later he is
recaptured, •framed" and sent to
prison for a term of years. How
ever, Henderson has succeeded la
hiding the money in a dovecote.
From the moment of his release
Henderson is shadowed day and
night by both the men of the under
world and the police, in efforts to
discover the whereabouts of the
money. A friend whom he trusts
condemns him to death through a
bit of traitorous work. Another
whom he trusts comes through and
helps restore in Henderson his faith
in mankind. Not until the very last
scene does this action let up.
"WOLVKS OF THE NIGHT"
Bruce Andrews, a mining engin
eer, having failed to find copper ore
on his land in the Northwest, has
turned his holdings into a sheep!
ranch. Th:s adjoins the bonanza
mine of Edmund Rawn. Burton Mor
timer and Carson.
Rawn has a party of society
friends on a week-end visit at his
hunting lodge. In the party are Isa
bel Holiins, her aunt. Mr. Bradley,
and Mortimer—who is a suitor for
Isabel's hand. Rawn makes a propo
sition that Bruce go to Chill to ex
amine some copper holdings.
Isabel, in the city, refuses Morti
mer. Bruce, carried away by im
pulse, proposes and is accepted. The
couple decide to marry at once.
Rawn persuades Bruce not to take
his wife to Chili, alleging perils.
While Bruce Is in the shaft of the
Chilean mine, a dynamite charge im
prisons him. Believing he has been
killed, the American consul cables
the news to Isabel and Rawn. Later
R baby boy is born to Isabel.
After days In the shaft Bruce digs
himself free, but suffering has un
balanced his mind. He is found
wandering by a native girl, who
muses dim back to physical health,
hut his mind still is clouded.
Bruce regains his reason after five
years He returns to find his home
deserted and his holdings being
worked.
i Rawn, Mortimer and Carson have
i planned to "work" the copper mar-'
. ket, and through the rich mine on
Bruce's property are about to make
millions. Bruce determines to
wreak vengeance. He sees the op
position crowd and they plan by
market manipulation to ruin the cop
per magnates. He returns to the of
fice, locks the men in, and demands
his property.
Isabel enters. Bruce steps for
ward, and husband and wife are re
united. Mortimer goes into another
room and a shot is heard.
This thrilling picture will ,be
shown at the Grand theatre Decem
ber 23-24.
"THE I XTMED"
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A flying leap through a small
paned window to the ground, ten
feet below is one of the hair-raising
stunts performed by Tom Mix, the
Fox daredevil cowboy star, in "The
Untamed," booked for showing at
the Liberty theatre December 23-24.
The novel by Max Brand, from which
the picture was adapted, to the
screen by li. P. Keeler, contains a
wealth of thrilling situations which
lend themselves admirably to Mix's
style of daring.
A most unusual and fascinating
element "underlying the story is the
strange companionship of a man and
two animals—a demoniacal horse
and a devil of a dog—who seem to
have supernatural instincts that
draw them apart from others of their
kind and cause them to seek the
companionship of one another, look
ing always- to the man as their lead
er Much has been made In the story
of this weird trinity of kindred
spirits.
A cast of noted players was se
lected to support Mix. Appealing
■ little Pauline Starke plays opposite
the star as Kate Cumberland, the
Western cattleman's daughter. Geo.
Seigmann. probably the best known
\ portrayal of villain parts on ,the
screen, is the outlaw leader.
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