Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1923, Page 22

\ . tor lin the yas he: Or foc the ro tut lin Pr es Sa FE OR OR EARP RE RSS AAP ELSMST SHAT ILOOP . a ee eee ee a ee PAGE SIX. r Theatricals :-; Vaudeville :-: News of Local Offerings SLAPSTICK COMEDY D FOREVER: LLOYD IN Ni “Why Worry” His Firs! Serious Attempt at Farce. ] | } When a sheik sees a gir! he wants, he takes her! When a ¢ dian sees a gag he wants, he tak ! On that prin ture com the beginning. a lemon meringv People laughed! One con jan did likewise, and another and another and another Critics have pointed ont that only in comedy has the motion pic ture achieved a distinct art. While the rest of the industry seems to be progressing rather s'owly, the Moving picture comedy has devel oped its own pecullarities, tts own Way of telling a story, its own way of putting over its ideas and accom- panying them with jaughs. The trend today ‘s away from the slapstick. Slapstick, with its easily imitated ¢: which are imitated by half a dozen other comics as soon as one displays a new gag! The comedy with a situation t the newest form of film entertain-| Ment. It depends on none of the Olt sidpstick hokum. It tel's a story as well sustained—often bet ter--than the feature and the fun Mea in humorous, lifelike ettuations that are funny bec they are so human and ridiculous Harold Lioyd’s introduction this type of comedy tn “Grandma's Boy” created a sensation among Public and critics who were weary of the set-'em-up-and-knock-’em- @owntype of film. Lioyd has deter mined to keep comedy at this high plane, and in “Why Worry,” his last picture for Hal Roach and his new: est Pathe comedy, he does so, but In a little different manner than in picture, 18e of “Grandma's Boy” and “Safety Last.” “Why Worry” is straight farce Tt can be likened best to the high- elass musical comedy, with its slightly overdrawn plot, yet with the characters kept virtual'y true to life and true to the atmosphere in which they are set. The story is an adventurous affair in which the deceptively quiet-appearing Harold is the storm center of a revolution —a story of South American intrigue such as Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry delighted in. Lloyd crams it with laughable situations, all of which are inextricably a part of the plot, and to keep a sustained pot moving and still maintain a staccato laugh effect is an achievement worthy of any comedian. “Why Worry" comes to the Rialto for an indefinite run starting next Friday. ————__. “MYSTERIOUS WITNESS” HOLDS GOOD LAUGH, COMING TQ WYOMING Anybody who's ever been “stung” in any sense of the word, will get a good laugh out of “The Mysterious Witness,” the Belasco production of Eugene Manlove Rhod urday Evening Post story ef Light” when {t 1s shown at the Wyoming theater next Wednesday and Thursday. Film Booking O! of America are releasing the pro thiittion. In “The Mysterious Witness,” however, the meaning of the word “stung” can be taken literally. And Incidentally, there are to be found sthere the strangest assortment of “deputy constables” ever seen any where! For these particular con stables are a swarm of bees, which wily old ige Hinkle” puts on guard over his prisoner—and defies anyone to get in who ought to get out—and vicé versa! And when you've just about fin ished the good laugh this situation creates, your heart-strings will be clutched by the pathos that follows —and throughout the entire pict you will be gripped by the delicate shading of emotion that is accom plished with masterly simpli There are few peonle who will fail to be deeply moved by this story of the boy, Johnny Brant, who finds work on a W rn rangh, in the hope of saving enough money to buy comforts for his mother; of his struggles, his his successes, his despairs, his arrest for a murder he did not commit. Laugh, pathos. beauty the glory of mother-love— all are depicted here with the hand of an artist, and each stands out in relief against the rest Robert Gordon and Elinor Fair are featured in this moving drama and the supporting cast inclu Nanine Wright. loved “mother” c || Vamp Again on || Silver Screen the screen; J. Wharton James and Jack Connol Ivor McFadden duction, which was Seymour Zeliff. supervised directed pro: by Electric Supply & Construction Company | WIRING AND APPLIANCES Let Us Figure: With You 142 East Midwest Ave. Phone 483-W AYS GONE | EW OGREAM Theda Bara to By ROBERT A. DONALDSON (United Press Staff Correspone t) Los ANGEL Noy. 17 (United Pres Ba ard, back ward, oh, time in flight— nake me a vamp in tonight!” Theda Bara, the vamp of vamps, who made vamping an art pos le for almost any girl to acquire through her masterful and pain on the sereen ne, is coming of just how it wa ®ack. Age, Theda Bara holds make a bit of diff vamp business a get a contr ‘k up tuo much weight Theda has the cc with B. P. Finemar doesn't in this for Principal Pic ing wil! be don: tion of Tod Brown wyn director Put Vamping on Map. Theda is th rl who some years ago put v ng squarely on the map. At that time 8 supposed to have an tian Arab touch in her blood that hot stuff that line went big. few people know that 7 m_Cin- in Monday cinnatl or some such Oriental place, and that Theda Bara isn’t her real name at all, but an acrostic on the words “Arab Death.” The wonderful story of her mystic Oriental past was the by product a fertile publicity man’s brain. She may have been to Egypt since and learned some vamping technique, but in any event, if she has been there it's been since she went out of the spotlight on the silver screen, and not before. to make matters all the homey and give a “just ” atmosphere to the business, the wife of Charles Bgabin, Goldwyn movie director. And Brabin is opposed to her going back into this vamping business for th films. Brabin s last Just more his foot down on the attempt of his wife to break away from the domestic hearth when arrived in Hollywood some months and Theda went k East quite disappointed. Husband in Europe. But Brabin recently sailed for Europe to make “Ben Hur” in Rome for Goldwyn’s. And coinei dent with his sailing, Theda came right out to Hollywood and signed up to vamp for B. P. Fineman. Skeptical critics, several of them women and hence having an eagle eye for details which might not be noted by the male interviewer, went to meet her at the train on rival. And all of them came y enthusiastic and convinced heda stil a few more screen camping before youthful as Picked up shi appeared had not weight, they reported. ever, WORKERS NTION utmost all members night CARR, Secretary. aa eee For results try a Tribune Clesst fled Ad. importance to be voted “THE VIRGINIAN” at AMERICA TUESDAY “When you call me that, smile!” The great American romance has west, in all J romance, d | Vir which starts theater Tuesday was own city of Casper. The original our city. Owen Wister’s great book th reached the screen. At last, the Jrama and magnificence has been a four day run at the America set in our own great state of Wyoming near our locale being only a few miles from at has thrilled millions is now a great living motion picture with Kenneth Harlan as “The Virginian.” Florence Vidor as Molly Woods; Russell Simpson as Trampas; Pat O'Malley Raymond Hatton as Shorty, with other well known stars portraying the other famous characters, Ube Casper Sunday Cribune WYOMING HAS PICTURE TREAT Popular Stars Seen in Dramatic Roles in New Offering. The best photoplay treat of many months offered picture goers by tho Wyoming theater, opened yesterday. It is “Thundering Dawn,” a Univer. sal Super-Jewel, portraying the colorful existence at a remote Jap anese port. J. Warren Kerrigan and Anna Q. Nilsson, popular screen favorites, with a notable supporting cast, enact the story. The play is replete with interest- ing dramatic situations, and enter. taining throughout because of the realistic contrast it offers, showing; life in the civilized world, and the strange half-mad state in the inter. national tropical port. The most impressive scene in the play occurs when the local resort /s crowded with merrymakers. Yellow men and white, black men and brown, and women from many lands, spinning to weird oriental music when a typhoon tears across the port, out of the sea, With it comes a stupendous tidal wave. What the wind fails to level, the water washes away. Standish and Miss ogers are the sole survivors. The vivid flashes of lightning, striking homes and trees which splinter under the shock, and the vicioys destruction of the tidal wave makes “Thundering Dawn" the pic- ture treat of the season. The wind generated for the typhoon was so strenuous, palm trees bent back to the ground, and the gilded palace FEATURE Marshall Neilan’s THE ETERNAL A story of scandal, a play of the man, the woman and the lover. A powerful drama of a love thief. One of the most daring, yet truthful themes that the screen can offer —with— HOBART BOSWORTH CLAIRE WINDSOR BESSIE LOVE —and— RAYMOND GRIFFITH > Shows at: 04,000 10c and 20c —in— “THE GRUBSTAKE” « .A Picture of the Great Outdoors Also Sunshine Comedy “PUPPY LOVE” POPULAR AMERICA ORCHESTRA (Eva Sullivan Directoress) EVERY NIGHT 1—3—5—7 and 9 Bishop-Cass TODAY ONLY NELL SHIPMAN You’re Wrong! i | Bet a dollar you will say she is pretty, wherein you will be all good looks are there. happens to be a “he,” Lionel Ames, feminine impery sonator at the University of Mich. igan. where the merrymakers disported. came down on their heads. Harry Garson produced it. Wini fred Bryson is at her best as the half-caste tropical vampire. Tom Santschi does a heavy, as Gordon Von Brock, the wealthy planter; and Richard Kean plays a new and in teresting character as the resort keeper. Bishop-Cass TODAY AND MONDAY DOUBLE BILL FEATURE COMEDY Rogers. In his latest condensed feature comedy 6 ‘WS PASSIN’ THRU” Two reels of the most de- licious and original com- edy ever produced by Will Rogers. 10c and 40 Goal of Casper Community Chest Fund “Give Once for All, and Enough for All.” —FOR OTHERS— 10c and 20c NELL SHIPMAN FEELS! “THE - GRUBSTAKE” 15, HER MOST VITAL FILM. | Grub-Stake,” her new picture which she stars at only will outlive all else that she has done. | quite forget Nell Shipman as “The Girl from God's Country,” the ve: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1923 Notes of Filmdom satile actressauthor has reason to) will, living her life more vividly ang believe that the character of Faith) vitally than do many flesh anq 1) Dod | Diggs in “The Grub-Stake” is just| peop’ a bit different and more life-like. This is largely because Fait), Miss Shipmen occuples a unique| real, explains the author—a place in the world of motion pictures | whose soul is filled with the for not only does she star in films| purity of a mother, the un of a kind pecu'lar to herse'f, but she| power of the wild creature, 1} writes the stories and co directs| passion of starved love. | them with Bert Van Tuyle. Andjteldom can @ Shadow being , |she declares that in writing “The| screen claim so much that that “The! Grub Stake” the character of Faith| the hearts of an audience. in created itself. The author had no “OTHERS” Nell Shipman feels the Iris today more control over the emotional and impressionable girl than she had over the lives of strangers. Faith simp- ly came into the Story, says Miss Shipman, and moved through it at 7 O'clock COLUMBIA : ==. FOUR DAYS STARTING TODAY, BILLIE IRELAND'S ADAM:“-EVE BY THE FOLLIES OF 1923 oa THE SHOW YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 2 HOURS OF REAL ENTERTAINMENT FEATURING THE FOLLIES BALLET In a Hoffman Spring Dance While no one will ever Matinees 2:30 4:45 Tonight TINNEY and TURNER In a Wifty Song Revue BUD BROWNEE In Song and Patter SEE THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH with THE RAIN STORM FINALE COME EARLY and SEE THE PICTURE WM. DUNCAN in “NO DEFENSE” AVOID THE NIGHT CROWD BY ATTENDING THE MATINEE ARKEON DANCING ACADEMY Casper’s Joy Palace 2—SPECIAL FEATURES—2 Monday Night SPANISH DANCER Through the courtesy of Manager M. H. Todd of the Rialto Theater, the Spanish Dancer will appear at the Arkeon for two performances in a series of Spanish and Gypsy dance interpretations. THE MURRY SISTERS Dancers DeLuxe These daring dances, typical of the quick blood and verve of Spain, will be an exact reproduction of the Spanish dances which Pola Negri, the interna- tional star and dancer presents in “The Spanish Dancer,” the feature picture playing now at the Rialto Theater. The Spanish Dancer Will Appear in Her Series of Dances at the Arkeon at 10 and 11 o’clock Monday Night —Only $25-Spot Dance-$25 Twenty-Five Dollars will be given away Free to the couples standing on the Lucky Spot. A lucky spot dance every third dance Monday night. These spot dances have proven very popular in as much as the lucky couple receives $2.50 each. YOU MAY BE LUCKY MONDAY NIGHT 2—SPECIAL FEATURES—2 MONDAY NIGHT