Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1922, Page 2

e iy g LN WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1922 SR £ NEWS OF THE THEATRES T LT LT “AT THE STAGE DOOR” AT ELKO THEATER TONIGHT A gripping story of theater life di- xected and written by William Christy Cabaune, noted screen producer, will have its final presentations today’ at the Elko theater. It is called “‘At the Stage Door” and is distributed by RB-C pictures. As the name indicates, “At the Stage Door” is a productioi that reveals intimate glimpses of life behind the curtain of the theater, aid bas chiefly to-do witn tne.experienceés of a young and beautiful country-bred girl, who goes to.New York after a disappointment in love and gets a job in tne chorus. Mr, -Cabanne nas treated his subject irom a new aud interesting angle. “ONE GLORIOUS DAY” AT GRAND THEATER TONIGHT From the time “One Glorious Day” was started at the California studio of Famous Players-Lasky, curiousty even among the studio fotk was mani- fested. Who and what was “EKI” Why did James Cruze, the director, work so.much behind “‘closed doors” and on dark stages with velvet cur- tans? Why was John Fox, who play- ed “Ek,” made up so weirdly? What was it all about, anyway? And Will Rogers, playing the leading role, Lila Lee, the leading woman, Alan Hale, the vallain, the authors, Waiter Woods and’ A. B. Baringer—all pteserved mysterious silence. “All I can say is,” remarked Will Rogers, “I'm playing a professor of psychology. or something and I'm love with Miss Lee in. the picture.| They won’t let me chew gum, but T bave to swoke and it makes me sick— that’s all I can tell you about it.” And now the public has an oppor- tunity to discover for themselves the cret of “One ‘Glorious Day” for the picture i showing for the last time at the Grand tonight. i Pathe News, containing many inter- esting scenes including first pictures of the new pope, Pius XI, and a com- edy complete the program. “LIVE WIRES,” AT THE REX LAST TIME THIS EVENING tdna Murphy and Johnuie Walk- er ar¢ a clever pair. They are tne new William Fox stars and appear- ed yesterday at the Kex theater in their first picture, ‘“Live Wires.” Both have appealing personalities. 1t 1took Miss Murphy jusi u venr to reach, stardom. And .according to_all reports she did it by ueser work. She walked to a studio and was given a_small part. was educating herself to take ‘up commercial advertising at toe time. Later she went to tne Fox studios 16’ take a minor role in the bix Fux picture “Over the Hill”’ Sne her . part weem . bigger than George-Walsh ssnwner,at wo! asked her to play’the leading femi~iue yole in “Dynamite Allen,” also a Fox production.. Then more-cicvel work -—and stardom. Johnnie Walker, had tne big role in ““Over tne Hill,” ~whicit such a_ sensation in New Yo 2 other cities. Mr. Fox liked tne work of both so wel] that he felt he woull be doing the public a .ervics by star- “1ng them. “Live Wires” is a lively js a small town story o and a girl, sweethearis, and fas .ive'y nd- venture as well as delightful romance. BEBE DANIELS COMING IN “NANCY FROM NOWHER®L" Bebe Daniels, popular Realart star will be seen here tomorrow in “Nancy From Nowhere,” at the Grand thea- ter. It is a story by Grace Drew and Kathrene Pinkerton, and presents Miss Danials in the role of a wistful little nobody, rather than the mis-| hoyden which she usually T T {|by Lewis Allen Browne (T AT T T IV LT D T T LTI L “TWO MINUTES TO GO, REX THURSDAY, FRIDAY Starring on a football team, study-| ing seriously and peddling mitk'in the early hours of the morning [to’ pay college expenses constiiute ‘a stiff prut gram for any student to ufidertahe. [Chet Burnett found that he had to give up one of these activities, and £0 he quit the team, thereby earning the scorn of some of his classmiaté: and of his sweetheart. Charles Ray portrays-the role of Chet Burnett in his latets starring hicle, “Two- Minutes To'Go,” tus. First National attraction which comes to the Rex theater ‘on Thursday for an engagement of two days. . Of course, Chester’s sweetheart and his best friends did not know the rea- son for hig, quiting the team. His father’s finangial difficulties coni~ pelled Chet to pay his own college expenses, and he secretly gat a job driving u milk wagon, If Chet hadn’t been ashamed of hisjob and. predics- ment, he would not have earned the scorn of his fellows. But a great day came for both Chet and his father. It was the day of the annual gridiron contest with tne college’s greatest rival for football honors. And Chet ed the day. Mary Anderson (‘‘Sunshine Mary™'y is seen as Charlie Ray’s leading lady. Other important members of the cast are Lionel Belmore, Lincoln Stedman, Trueman Van Dyke, Gus Leonar, Tom Wilson, Bert Woodruff, Francois Dumas ‘and. Phillip Dunham. “Two Minutes to Go” is a story of college life by Richard Andre. LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS AND HAROLD LLOYD, GRAND Harold Lloyd, if ne 1s'to be judged by his behavior_in *Never, Weaken” vlaces small value on his “unalienable rights” of life and liberty in the pur- suit of happiness—for others. Perhaps Harold has a happy time shimmying on an iron girder 12 stor- lies above an asphalt pavement. Per- { haps it gives him the plues if the sun | sets on a day in which he does not fro- lic ab /1t on an skyscraper iton frame- {work as nonchalantly as a- hungry | goat on a tin can dump! Perhaps he has 99 times she nine livesiof.a cat, and a iife, more or less, i3 nothing to be sneezed at! I T 'ny rate, he risks life and liberty in the pursuit of thrills and laugus lin his newest Associated Exhibitors |comedy, which has been aptly titled “Never Weaken.” The Grdnd theater will present it Saturday, Sunday and | Monday in the belief that it is Lloyd’s greatest to date, for-it notlonlty con- ‘tains s full measure of laughs, but the biggest aggregation of heari- quickéning .thrills that = were cver packed into three’reels. : “WHY ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE?” e A'}'.THE'ELKO THURSDAY Flaine 'Hammerstein in her latest: Selznick picture, “Why Announce Your Marriage?”’’is announced as the photoplay feature at the . Eiko for ‘Thursday ‘and Friday. The story 1s Jand - Alan Crosland #3¢ was Wwritten‘specially as a starring vehicle for Miss Hammes- stein. ‘Alan Crosland also’directed. hy Announee Your*Marriage?” is a serio-comedy- which deals with the ultra-modern method of separate- |ly wmaintained esteblishments by the contracting parties in marriage. Of | course -the practice of secretly wed- |ding and-living apart is not yet general practice and it is this fact alone which makes the nature of the story novel and therefore. of good photopley material. The novelty of the subject matter and the humorous manner’ in which the story unfolds makes this one of the most absorbing of the many fine photoplays in which Miss Hammerstein has appeared. She plays the part of the bride, ably supported by Niles Welch as the hus- band. [‘somé drawers The IIA _RUM nWilliam ]‘\u('HuI‘g and Edwin Balmer SYNOPSIS CHAPTER IL—Wealthy sand highl ‘placed in the Chicago’ business world, enjanmin Corvet is something of a're- Cluse and a mystery to his associates. After a stormy interview with his part- ner, Henry Spearman, Corvet seeks Con- stance” Sherrill, daughter of his other business partner, Lawrence Sherrill, and secures fram her a promise not to MArcy Spearman. He then disappears. Sherriil lenrns Corvet has_written to a_certain Alan Conrad, in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and exhibited strange agitation over the matter. 4 CHAPTER I1—Corvet's letter summons Conrad, a youth .of unknown parentagey to Chicago. CHAPTER 1IL—From a statement of Sherrill it seems probable Conrad is Cor- vet's illegit on, Corvet has decded his house and its contents to Alan. (Continued from last issue) CHAPTER V An Encounter. Alan, standing In" the ‘darkness. of the hall, felt in his pocket for hix matehes and. struck one on’ the box. The light showed the hall‘in front of him, reaching back into some vague, distant darkness, and gréat rooms with wide portiered doorways giping on both sides. He turned into the room upon his right, glanced to see that the shades were drawn on the windows toward: the street, then found the switch ahd turned on the electric light. Alan had the feeling wh so often comes to.one in an unfamiliar and vacant house that there was some one in the house with him. He. listened and seemed to hear another sound in the upper hall, a footstep. He went out qulckly to-the fool of the stairs and looked up them. r “Is apy one here?’ he called. any one here?” His voice brought no response, He went half way up the curve of the wide Stairway and called’ again, and ls- tened ;- then he fought down the feeling he ‘bad had; Sherrill had said there would be no one in the house, and Alan was certaln there was no one. So he went buck'to thé room where he had Jeft the light, w/The. center of this room, like the room ‘nest- to it, was-o¢cupied by a library table-desk, -He pulled open in it; one or two’ had blueprints and technical drawings in them; the others had only the miscel- lany which saccumulates in a room much used. There were drawers also under. the hookcases all around the room; they appcared,. when Allan opened some of them, to contain pam- phlets of various societies, and the geientific correspondence of which Sherrill had told him, Alan felt that seelng these things was bringing his father closer to him; they gave him a little of the feeling he had been nnable to get when he looked 'at his father's pleture. He could realize better now the lonely, restless man. pur “Is @rs of 1@ ¢ablnet oo had been forced, and very recently; for the scars and . the splinters of wood were. elean and fresh. These drawers und the draw- ers in the lower part of! the desk either were empty, or'the papers in them had been disarranged and tum- bled in confusion, as though some one had examined them hastily and tossed them back. ‘To Alan, thé* marks of violence and roughness ‘Wére unmis- takably the work of the man with the | big, hands who had'left’ marks upon ‘the' top of ‘the chest of drawers; and | the fceling that he had been in the R L L Copyriqht by Edwin Balmer w— .20~ ® gome “ghost he eould Tot Kill, taking up for distraction one subject of study | after another. exhausting each in turn until he could no longer make it en- gross him, and then . ebsorbing him- self in the nest. On the top of a chest of high dray- ers In - cornersnear the dressing table were some papers. Alan went over to look at them; they were invi- tations, notlces of concerts and. of | plays twenty years old—the mail, probably. of the morning when Corvet’s wife had gone away, left where her maid or she herself had laid them, and only picked up and put back there at the thines sinces when the room was dusted. AS Alan touched themy he saw that his. fingers left marks in the dust on_the smooth top of the chest; he noticed that some one else had touched the thinks 2 of the same sorf as he ha . The freshness of these other marks star tled him hey had been made within a day s0. They could not haye been made by Sherrill, for Alan had noticed .that Sherrill's. hands were slender and delicately formed; Cor- vet, too, was not a large man; Al own hand was of good size and po erful, but when he put his fingers over the marks the other map had made, he found.that the other hand. must haye been larger and more powerful than his own. _ Had it been Corvet's serv- ant? It might have been, though the marks seemed too fresh for that; for | the servant, Sherrill had said, had left the Corvet’s disappearance was discovered. This proof that some one had been prying about in'the house hefore him- self anit since Corvet had gone, star- tled Alan andt apgered him. Who had been searching’ in Benjamin Corvet's —in Alan’s house? He pushed the drawers - shut ¢ hastily and hurried across the halk:to the room.opposite. In this room—plainly Benjamin Cor- vel's bedroom-—were no signs. of in- truision; He t0, the. door of the room ¢or hit.: turned on the light, oked fn: Tt was u smaller 'room’ {han{ -the - others’ and contained - rolltop desk and acabis cug elosed, and the drawers of -the cabinet were shut and appurently undisturbed. He tried thej coversp the desk, but It ap- peared ito. be ‘fncke(l; after looking around vainly: for - a_key, he tried again, exerting a- little mare force, and this time the top. went up easily, tearing away ghe metal . plate into which. the claws, of the_ lock clasped and the two' long: screws which had held it. He examined the lock, sur- prised, and saw that.the screws must have been merely set into the holes: sears showed wliere a chisel or seme metal implement had been thrust in under the top to force: it up. The plgeonholes and little drawers in the | upper part of the desk, as he swittly | opened them, he found entirely empty. He hur to the cabin th | which appeared connected fn any way house very recently was stronger than ever. Alan ran out into the hall and lis- tened; he heard no sound ; but‘pe went back to the little room more excited than before. ‘¥For what had the other man been searching? For the same things which Alan. was looking for? And had the other man got them? Who might the other be, and what might be his connection with Benja- min Corvét? Alan had no doubt that everything of Importancé must have heen taken away, but he would make sure of that. He took some of the pa- pers from the drawers and began to examine them; after nearly an hour of this, he had found only one articla with what Sherrill had toid him or with Alan himself. Tn ond 7 the little drdwers of the desk he found several books, much- worn as though from belng carried in a pocket, and one of | these contained a serles of entries | stretching over several years These listed an amount—S$130—opuosite a se- ries of dates with only ‘the year and the month given, ami there. wus an entry for every second mazth. _ Alon folt his fincers trembling as.he Somewhere Within the 'House, Unmis. takably .on the Floor Below. Him, a Door Had Slammed. ¥ turned the pages of the little book and found at the end of the list a blank, and below, in the same hand but in -writing which had changed slightly with the passage of years,.an- other date and the confirming entry of $1,500. Alan looked through the little book again and put it in his pocket. It was, beyond doubt, his fathers memorandum of the sums sent to Blue Rapids for Alan; it told him that here he had been in’his father's thoughts. He grew warm at the thought as he began putting the other things back into the drawers. (Continued in Next lssue) ... SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONEER GRAND 4 TONGHT T0) & 28c—7:30-9:00_REBATE TICKETS ARE GOOD _ ASUN-BURSTOFJOY! ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT £ BIGGEST NOVELTY IN PICTURES: iy —WITH— WILL ROGERS & LILA LEE The talé of a bashful bachelo: whom fate helped to live ONE DAY exactly as he wished. A Love Stery built on a rousing idea never screened be- fore, filled with amazing mechanical marvels and laughs to last a week. 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