Pullman herald. [volume], March 18, 1921, Second Section, Page 3, Image 11

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AT THE MOVIES
LIBERT- PROGRAM
Saturday and Sunday, March 19-20
Tom Mix in "Prairie Trails";
episode 11 of "Bride Thirteen":
"Home Brew," Mutt and Jeff
comedy.
Monday, March 21—"Girls Don't
Gamble episode No. Bof "The
Phantom Foe"; Movie Chats.
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22
--23 —"Poor Girl, Rich Girl."
comedy drama; comedy, "Tea
Time"; Fox News.
Thursday and Friday, March 24-2.".
Ben Turpln in "Married
Life"; Toonervllle comedy, "The
Skipper's Treasure Garden."
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"PRAIRIE TRAILS"
Compared with "Prairie Trails."
the new Fox production in which
Tom Mx opens an engagement at
the Liberty theatre, March 19-20,
most western motion pictures are
"parlor stuff." Here is a story
crammed with action and thrills,
with a leading actor capable of all
the hair-raising stunts that the
scenario calls for.
Tom Mix is a marvel on horse
back, but it is a remarkable fact
that many of his most startling feats
are independent of his skill in horse
manship. Witness his great leap
over a cliff in "Prairie Trails." The
cliff is at least 40 feet high. Three
men are struggling at the bottom.
Tom Mix, instead of merely jump
ing off the cliff or climbing down its
ace —which would give the men
time to prepare for him—actually
dives head first, landing in the
shelving sand and leaping tip in time
to rout his adversaries by the sheer
shock of surprise. And this is not
the most daring exploit in the pic
ture.
All who love good, stirring stories
of outdoor life should sec "Prairie
Trails.' No more wholesome excite
ment could be prescribed than this
thrilling drama of the great West.
There are more than stunts in the
picture. There is a rattling good!
story, from the novel by James B. ;
Hendryx, author of "The Texan," in
which Mix appeared only recently -,
with great success. "Prairie Trails"
continues the adventures of Tex
Benton, "The Texan."
"LURE OF YOUTH"
The regeneration of a man's char
acter through a woman's sacrifice
is the basis of this compelling pic
ture. Florentine Fair is a famous
actress jaded of the footlights, who
goes to recuperate in a stagnant lit
tle town, at the suggestion of Morton
Mortimer, a rich admirer bent on be
coming her lover. She enters a drug
store to purchase rouge and is spoken
to in French by the clerk at the
counter. Pleasantly surprised at the
unexpected circumstance, Florentine
invites the young man to her home,
and Roger Dent arrives, bringing a
play he has written. Its reading
first bores and then interests her.
Roger becomes her protege and is
brought to New York where he pro
gresses. Mortimer, angered, accuses
Florentine of playing with the fires
of genius, and blackens her character
in the eyes of Roger's parents. They
enter her apartment and accuse her
of being an adventuress leading their
boy astray. Roger refuses to return
home. Then, quite suddenly, he vol
untarily comes back embittered at
the destruction of his youthful illu
sions. What changes his decision
and threatens to break his career, re
sults in a tremendous situation in
this fascinating drama of love and
ambition from the pen of Luther
Reed, which is enacted by an all
star cast. This picture will be shown
-t the Grand theatre, March 22-23.
"GODLESS MEN"
There is the twang of the sea, the
thrill of human combat with the ele
ments and the drama of red-blooded
sailors in "Godless men," the Regi
nald Barker production a Goldwyn
offering.
This photoplay is a film adaption
of the Ben Ames Williams story
"Black Pawl," which appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post. The action
centers about a brutal old sea-dog |
w ho has been called "Black Pawl."
K e rules his ship Deborah with fear,
the most mutinous character aboard
being his own son, Red Pawl. He had
taken his boy at tender age on a voy
age only to return and find the moth
er with the little daughter had eloped
wlth another man. From that mo
ment he denied the existence of God
and taught his son the gospel of hate.
On an Island a missionary, Samuel
p °°r. had attended a dying woman
*h« Pleaded with him to get her
daughter back to civilization on the
,lrst boat. Black Pawl discovers that
' he girl Is his own daughter and in
) er defense shoots his son. Red
Pawl. This thrilling picture comes
«>. the Grand theatre, March 24-25.
GRAND PROGRAM
Saturday, March 19—Pauline Fred
erick in "The Roads of Destiny."
Sunday and Monday, March 20-21—
Bebe Daniels in "You Never Can
Tell."
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22
--23"Lure of Youth," with an
all-star cast.
Thursday and Friday, March 24-25
—"Godless .Men." a Reginald
Barder production.
"THE ROADS OF DESTINY"
"Nothing that within you lies can .
change the plan of which you are
a tiny part. Choose any road; go
east, go west, or north or south and
meet the thing from which you ran
away.' That is the substance of
'Roads of Destiny," one of O. Hen
ry's masterpieces of short fiction, a
screen adaptation of which will come!
to the Grand theatre March 19 .
Rose Merritt, played by Pauline j
Frederick, finds death and disillu
sion wherever she turns. The genius
of O. Henry found a means to show
that no matter what she did or where
she went, Rose Merritt could not
escape the tell clutch of Destiny. In I
the four episodes of the film she is j
four different persons — though but!
one and the same essentially—a
croupier at a roulette wheel in an
Alaskan gambling den: a courted so
ciety favorite on fashionable Long
island, and her own self, a girl who j
has been betrayed and deserted by
her lover. In each incarnation Des
tiny mates out to her the same fate,
but her tragic doom clears tor oth
ers the pathway to happiness and
the picture ends on a note of satisfac
tlo and calm after the three thunder
claps of emotion.
"YOU NEVER CAN TELL"
Styles eight months in advance.
That was the problem facing
Realart costumers in arranging the;
big fashion show scone of "You
Never Can Tell," the initial Bebe
Daniels starring vehicle which is
to be shown at the Grand theatre, j
March 20-21.
For it would be some months af
ter taking before the picture's re
lease. And the styles must be novel
to attract the feminine playgoer,
who. no matter how modest her own j
wardrobe, more and more demands
the last and the latest modes in pier |
tures.
"You Never Can Tell" was seen-1
arlzed by Tom Geraghty and Hel
mar Bergman from the two Satur
day Evening Post stories by Grace
Lovell Bryan. Miss Daniels appears
as a beautiful check room girl whose
desire for beautiful clothes almost
leads her into trouble —from which
she is saved by a "Prince Charming"
whom she thinks a taxi driver but
who proves something quite differ
ent. .Tack Mulhall is her leading
man while Chester Franklin directed
the production.
"MARRIED LIFE"
Can a picture be funny and thrill
ing at the same time? Nine people
out of every ten will reply "no" and
in the majority of cases thy are right
for it is the most difficult task in
the making of motion pictures to in
ject a thrill in a purely comedy
story —particularly is this true when
that comedy is a broad travesty on
some serious subject.
But in "Married Life," the new
Mack Sennett five-reel super comedy
distributed through the Associated
First National Pictures, Inc., due at
the Liberty, March 24-25, this mas
ter of mirth making has attained the
almost impossible. In this purely
farcical offering he has injected one
thrill after another and to make this
feat doubly marvelous, the thrills
and .comedy are so closely inter
twined that the shivers up the spine
are immediately dispelled by the
laugh that follows.
Ben Turpin, he of the contrary
eyes—leads the Sennett fun makers
in the intermingling of laughs and
thrills. As Rodney St. Clair, the
dashing hero, he first turns the trick
in one of the most realistic football
scrimmages the screen has produced
In a long time. This performance he
repeats later on in the hospital,
where he is inflated with gas and
floats out of the window and still
later when he and Jimmy Finlayson
battle on the wings of an aeroplane
many thousand feet above the sur
face of the earth. Then to cap the
climax he gives the auditor the su
preme laugh thrill of the evening
at the very tail end of the story.
"THE SKIPPER'S TREASURE
GARDEN"
Nothing is more potent than the
:lure of hidden treasure.
Could coal mine owners convince
i the public that there was treasure
; hidden away in the dark recesses of
the coal veins, the fuel would be dug
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THE PULLMAN HERALD
If you want to make
your Mother-in-Law
Weep with Joy!
TAKE HER TO SEE
BEN TURPIN
as Rodney St. Clair
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In the Mastodonic Laugh Tornado of the Age
MARRIED LIFE
MACK SENNETT'S
Five Reel Super-Comedy
£ AAA Feet of Laughs, Thrills and Joy!
%3 j\J\J\J an the Famous Sennett Kings and
Queens of Mirth, including
Phyllis Haver, Ford Sterling, James Finlayson, Chas. Murray
Louise Fazenda, Kalla Pasha, Charles
Conklin and John Henry
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Thursday and Friday, Mar. 24-25
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