Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 4

MARION DAVIES LIKES ROLE OF IRISH MAID “I have often been sort of says Marion Davies, star of tle Old New York” which is open- ing at the America t tod “I haven't any p= lar choice when !t comes to playing a princess an hetrees, or just a poor, neglected girl such as Diana was in the first part of “The Young Diana.” But when {t comes to nationalities, give me the Irish! If I am given an Irish role to play I can just be my natural sel An Irish man or an Irish girl is alternately swayed by tears, tenderness and laughter. I think they live life higher and| deeper than most any other race of people. Some ecreen actresses love to portray the fiery, u0Us Latin types 2 I'll admit ti give a chance for ome fine act . but e best to portray laughter loving colleen “That's why I have so enjoyed playing the part of Patricia O'Day in new pictu; “Little Old Coming of Irish ancestry myself, I entered with all my bh {nto the problerhs which beset poor, little Pa tricia upon her advent into this big, strange, unknown A a. What person would ympathize with just a little girl suddenly torn from ber peaceful me in old Ireland and set down in an utterly strange environment in a country far across t sen. or Patricia lost her father and when her brother was buried at sea. How coulg I bh Just about the plight of poor Pat and how I'd feel if I were in her shoes was enough to make me cry. In fact, I can’t see how anyone who interpreted the role could help crying. “T used to shut myself in my @ressing room at Cosmopolitan studios for an hour before it was time for me to go before the cam- « when we were making “Little Old New Y I would think and think about Patricia and how @auntiess and plucky she was. Then when I stepped upon the stage and the violins were softly playing “Kathleen Mavourneen,” “Don't Yeu Hear Me Calling,” or some other plaintive Irish melody it di@n't seem to me that I Was acting at all, for T naturally behaved just I felt Patricia would. loved the fight with the bad Uttle boys even if I did get all dirty and torn and almost got a bdlack I loved the thrill of the big mob scene where poor little “Pat' had to take a public whipping. But she was being punished because whe had tried to do a loyal, helpful thing for the man she loved—just such a thing as only a resourceful, quick-witted Irish girl would thinic of doing. Yes, you may have your fiery Latin types if you want, but for genuine enjoyment, during every minute before the camera, give me a warm-hearted, daring Irish colleen $$$ ————— TUT'S DAUGHTER FORMS FEATURE AT COLUMBIA) The Columbia theater {s presenting for the last times tonight “King "Tut's with Billie Ireland's Follies. oriental piece in whic nies (very | much less phono graphs are in The spec falties are better than ever, and the members of th chrus are cstumed to carry out the oriental idea. Miss Murray takes the part of Tut's daught Tiney Brennan h r about a song um the old cel brity t 1. Jack Quinn play: “Rags n Wes! Barry is or photopla which this ened for peat Walks # Mile Mistingue' $1,000,000 pair of ¢ ing walke. , asked what @ screen role I like best.” “Lit course I cried when | attracts a/ great dea} of attention om her morn-| some time. It deals with the rag- gedness of riches. Freckles Barry Was never better than in this picture which takes him through a serise o> exciting adventures, “GOING UP” RIOT OF LAUGHTER AT RIALTO The laughter that ts roused in an audience from seeing the impossible seemingly performed permeated the Rialto theater last night when ¢ extraordinary picture “Going Up" Was thrown on the screen. Dougias McLean plays the leading role in this film {s an adaptation of the stage success “The Aviator” Robert Sweet | {s author of the wear’s most popular book “Going Up." Sweet whose part is taken by McLean has never even been up in an airplane, but as he says “the poet who wrote the most | beautiful ode to the sunrise never got up before noon.” Circumstances | make it necessary for him to fly however and to fly alone. “Going Up" with McLean ig largely a matter of staying up. He finally descends in a chast)ig.climax. “Going Up” will play today and Christmas. Persons who like the acting of Douglas McLean will like it even better in this picture. Tt ts the best thing he he has produced ‘MIX AS MOLLYCODDLE ROUSES LAUGHTER OF CROWD AT THE IRIS Tom Mix tries to be » “sof! his new William Fox exciter, “Soft Boiled,” at the Iris today and to morrow. amid shrieks of mirth and gasps of breathlessness from a spel! bound audience. How long ‘Tom keeps up his ‘softy’ role can t imagined. Yet while he rortray it, there are laughs galore. Director J. G. Bilythstone, who wrote this story, has selected a endid supporting cast for Mix Billie Dove, as leading lady ,and L. C. Shumway, as the heavy, head it. Others include Joseph Gerard, Tom Wilson, Frank Beal, Jack Curtis, C. H. Mailes, Harry Dun- kinson, and Wilson Hummel. In addition, there are cabaret ecenes at a popular roadhouse which out-did Flo Ziegfeld himself. Billie Dove is bewitching as the “Masked Dancer,” and the chorus of bathing beauties and others who cavort merrily on a “‘come-on’ dance floor add feminine beauty to tense action. | * in At the America for five live gloriously on the screen in of America’s youth. ladies who laid the foundation o: have been told in one of the Marion Davies “In Little Old New York” at America Today Thrills, Heartache, Love and Laughter are all Mingled in the Life of Pat O’Day, Marion Davies’ Greatest Role We can be proud of those handsome gentlemen and fair ees MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923 more time to digest the multituds ,, world happenings. The old order ef herdsmen, for generations saw little change rapidly entering a new era. camp without its radio is becor lass and less frequent. The star Jonesome figure has assumed « ; juvenated appearance. The mono. tony which has driven s0 many {,, sane, no longer exists! Lite ho, taken.on new interest on the deser; i th, be Casper Daily Cribune hich . The Pia ged . Boston ae YOMING (Continuous 1 to 11) NOW PLAYING RALPH LEWIS In the Greatest Picture He Has Ever Made “The Mail Man” THE GUMPS “Uncle Bim’s Gift” 10c——_—40 IRIS A Bishop-Cass Theater TODAY and XMAS DAY TOM MIX —tn— “SOFT BOILED” days, starting today, the brave old days will Flower’ was only a suggestion of her superb artistry in “Little Old New this utterly charming, delightfully thrilling story -York.” Here she is first seen masquerading as Pat O’Day, an Irish lad, in order to inherit a valuable New York estate. Hobnobbing with the Astors, Vanderbits and old time aristocracy of New York, Pat ine adventures and vdrenca gelkre} Harrison Ford, Mahlon Hamilto urtney Food and Charles Kennedy head the huge supporting cast. | Little Old New York” f this nation. Their story, their loves, their trials most remarkable motion pictures of photoplay LONGER LIFE {i POSSIBLE FOR CHILD OF TODAY Cancer Among Diseases To Be Conquered By Science. er FILM OF RUSS OAD FAILURE Won't Sell Outside of Own Country, Says Press Scribe. I bri sol you det anc LONDON, Dec. 24.—A child born has the prospect of 12 more years of life than had one born 25 lary history. The beautiful work of Marion Davies in “When Knighthood ‘Was in is the kind of aikee you can see—and see again. _Also detective films fell far short of ex-| conditions mre said to be almost as Ole no longer asks what has been OUR GANG Pectations. idea! as in California,“but there is going on for the last six months seldom a clear pictuve in the whole when he wanders {nto town for sup- i The character Of the film? Well,|*eliom & plies. He talks of earthquakes, fires, ST the new Russians will like the plot, but the Russian press doubts wheth- trip to Moscew and @ plot against the sovie! lain, and he js finally backed against on the band play fall of the enemies of the soviet. The photography is very bad. The out in the Crimea, where the light murders, crop conditions, t! As to the actors—well, the heroine ©f wool, political news, Idoked like her own grandmother, price late oll USE OF RADIO YOUNG it will be possible to sell the film]and does little to vell the fact. The strikes, etc., with the same familiar- I hardly think it will sell} detective had been told that a real!y ity as the daily news reader—per-' SHERLOCK of Russia. good detectivé’should chew a really| BUFFALO, Wyo., Dec. 24.—| haps more so, because he has had t is all about a secret contract, a be, a live-stricken secretary, a (United Press)—Ole Oleson the sheep- herder, no longer spends his long, lonesome days and nights numbling to his shepherd dog. Radio, a friend of man, has pro- ven a God send to the solitary fig- lures of the desert, watching over their flocks. Along with the ambl- ing covered wagon goes an aerial. When the rider and his faithful friend come to a stop beside a wateré hole for the night, wires go up, and man with his faithful friend rest “at ease” for a metropolitan entertdin- ment, until a late bedtime hour. Big Christmas Tree Dance AT MILLS HAPPY HOUR TONITE Presents For Everybody good: pipe while making his deduo- tions, and the pipe is the bright spot of the film. It is a genulne jm- ported pipe and looks like a pipe all through the film. The diplomats seattered through the film wore what Americans call “hand-me- downs” which were probably made by prison labor in Siberia and which uld cause an American tailor to commit suicide. Taken all in all, it was very bad. |The makers of American and Cer- man films, so popular here, need not worry over this film It has lots of soviet diers, a hero who js a handsome ing soldier, and a heroine. The tive is apparently the chief vi!- and filled full of lead, while | the ‘Internationale’ 1 the popu'ace cheers the down- ‘gest part of the film was turned years ago, Sir William Wheeler, president of the Royal College of urgeons of Ireland stated yesterday Medicine and surgery, he asserted e made greater advances during last 25 years than during the preceding centuries. Sir Wil BY JOHN GRAUDENZ (United Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, (By Mail to United Press).—Russia's first attempt at EAD COLDS ha he liam admitted there was still some great problems to be solved, but said Melt in spoon; inhale vapors; that probably before present students apply freely up nostrils, had reached the zenith of their car. cers, cancer would be under control having taken its place in the ranks of such conquered diseases as dia- betes and smallpox. This optimism as regards cancer offers a contrast to the assertior, made on the previous day by Dr. Childe, president of the British M ical Association, whe asserted that victory over this dread disease was no nearer today than forty years ago. Vicks APORUB 7 17 Million Jare Used Yearly A Nash for Christmas ——— ‘Who's going to win the beautiful Packard coupe at Lioyi''s? North Washington Hall MUSIC BY SPIES HOWLING WOLVES Get Your Breakfast at the Lunch Counter tue COLUMBIA TONIGHT 7 O’CLOCK, 9 O'CLOCK BILLIE IRELAND'S FOLLIES IN “King Tut’s Daughter” A Novelty Revue SOMETHING NEW SOMETHING DIFFERENT SOMETHING YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS SPECIAL COSTUMES AND SCENERY Feature Picture WESLEY BARRY In “RAGS TO RICHES” NEW SHOW AND CONTINUOUS SHOW CHRISTMAS Matinee 2:30, 4:45. Evening 7 and 9 o’clock BILLIE IRELAND’S FOLLIES IN “AS YOU LIKE IT” PRESENTED SO YOU CAN’T HELP BUT LIKE IT Special Numbers, Songs and Dances By HARRY DUNBAR, BUD BROWNEE, LOU NEWMAN THE MISSES TURNER, MURRAY, O’NEILL MAUDINA DUNBAR MRS. BUD BROWNEE JIMMIE BRENNEN, JACK QUINN This Picture in a Class With the Douglas *"Cincis cLean ‘Goiwnc Up’ Directep By Lroyo INGRAHAM LAUGH WITH MacLEAN AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU If Flying Interferes With Your Love-Making Swear Off Flying Success of New York and London Eclipsing the Record Breaking Musical Comedy —Also— MACK SENNET COMEDY, “FLIP FLOPS” KINOGRAM NEWS ae ; TODAY AND nay EIGHT DANCING , 2:40, 4:2 710, 9.20 TOMORROW ore “JACK HOLT in “MAKING A MAN”