The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 30, 1919, Page 4

Charlie Chaplin Comes to Liberty as DF Pcuctie s ARs, —. AAD He HAS “TS “WAIT On TASLO “The sean on NTE. - PROPRIETSR he one. BRIGHT “SPT mt ths FE WAS EDNA “Tee MiMACe BEUWH “Sunnyside,” his latest gloom-chaser which is doughboy in “Shoulder Arms,” which Charlie Chaplin Keeps Crowds in Uproar With Rural Comedy Charlie Chaplin is a backwoods Ro dow frame with her. The others have |meo in his latest comedy, which t#| invaded the village church. The con playing to capacity houses at the Lib- | gregation comes rushing out erty this week. “Sunnyside” is the; Chaplin dashes in the church to the title of the picture. The scene is & rescue. He reappears on the back of backwoods village of that Chaplin is a man-ofallwork in a/ village and throws him off a bridge. rural hotel. The opening scene is landing Rin on his head amid the early Sunday morn. daisies. | The picture ts made up largely of | Tis Vision Instead of seeing stars, ho has from ofa this piet great are, . We are grinders 1se2 URTH AVE. |true and tried effects, chief among | which is the kick in the seat of the | vision in which he dances merrt!: | pants, always comic, The picture has | with a bevy of wood sprites. Hoe sits an exceptionally well down on « cactus, in the midst of |story, with a romance of love and) the dance, and fails off the bridge in & happy ending—quite unusual im} his effort to kiss the wood aprite comedies. queen. / Driving Cows | He dreams the fairies are lifting him up with ropes of roses, Then he wakes. He in being lifted to the are doipg the lifting, not with strings of flowers, but with a sake thru the seat of his trousers. His Rival ‘Tho last two reels record his court- | with a stout woman, upsetting her in | the middie of the read, he wakes up ‘to find that his eows are nowhere in | sight. ship of a village belle (Edna Purvi Chaplin runs ‘‘ldly about looking / ance). He bas a rival in the person for them. One cow jumps thru ajof a city chap. Charlie seems cut window of a house, taking the win- ‘out. He looks thru the parlor win ZANE GREY’S 1918 prices. 1890. Finest action story—written by a man who knows his Ari- zona, New Mexico and Texas as does no other living author, and put forth as a 6-part picture with an ideal actor in the name part Barnyard. Romeo in crowds at the Liberty this week. Edna Purviance is once again Chaplin's leading lady. - THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1919. woop HYMPAS Daice Him INTS ALL Fort Hoon if 7 | TODAYS PROGRAMS | | LIBERTY—Chartic Chaptin in “Han- | nyide”; Fannie Ward Nard Lack,” Christie comedy: Prisms Colored Pletares COLISKUM—William Farnam te | “The Lone Star “The || Detective” cumedy; Coliseum x name 4 longhorn, which rushes thru the) tor in “A Daughter of the Wolf Marokt Lieyd comedy, Meray Pie- | | | COLONIAL—Tem Mix im “Fighting | fer Geld”; “Gee Whis.” comedy) | News Prictariate, | | CLARA A—Corinne Orit in “The | | Gtrt Problem.” 1} | | eee Ouhiet ee bridge all right. But the villagers} dow, sees hia city rival making love to his girl In desolation he pulls apart the Gaisies he has brought to give her. This brings in the touch Of pathos which ts a familiar feature of all comedies made by Chaplin. But our hero’s fortunes are not #0 | out of joint aa he tmagined. The girl sticks up her nose at the city | |chap. He goes away, and the tale of love ends joyfully for Charlie, the backwoods Hoteo. | eee CLEMMER Quiet comedy alternates with dra matic thrills in Tom Moore's newest | picture, “One of the Finest,” playing }at the Clemmer. The comedy-drama | shows the likable star in the role of | traffic policeman whose home life [has quite as much to do with the unique plot as his adventures while |occurs yrhen he stops the limousine lof a society girl (Seena Owen) and lreprimands her for allowing her |chauffeur to exceed the park speed mit. The irl receives the rebuke in haughty silence and later has the officer reduced in rank. 1 A series of eventa brings into the girl's home as a clothes man. He in sent there to | guard her sister's wedding presenta. Here Larry wins favor in the eyes of the girl by capturing a thief There is a cute little girt— “Peaches” Jackson—who takes part lin the scenes shown in Larry's home She is the daughter of a man Larry has arrested, and he takea the child into his home, where his mother Larry gives her the best of care. The scenes | between Peaches and Larry furnish a good share of the comedy thruout the picture A special attraction at the Clem | mer this week is “Ukulele” Hugha, a clever ukulele player. Hughs made la big hit during the Sunday per. formances, hix ragtime numbers be- ing expecially good. eee | COLISEUM “The Lone Star Ranger.” at th | Coliseum this week, is a splendid pic ture. William Farnum is an ideal Texas ranger, and the photography is fine. It was filmed in the South wert—a section where the clearness of the atmoaphere made perfect pho. tography possible and .gave the fin ishing touches to the screen verston of this Zane Grey story “Steele"—William = Farnum—is Texas ranger has sworn avenge the death of his friend, Ni captain of the rangers, shot from the ambush by one of a notorious band of cattle thieves. e thruout the border country as a fear less man and “lightning draw.” a who on the Chartic appears as a barnyard Homeo, and | te |} | Bryant Washburn at the Strand| | this week In “Putting It Over” ius | | trates this fact. | | Arriving there, he gets a job as a on duty. Most stirring of the latter! to} “Sunnyside” FAIRY “Biss | bers of the rustlers gang—chief among them being Jeff Lawson and | Bully Brome. ‘There are many exciting scenes in which Steele outwits the outlaws who | | try a series of underhanded tricks to | trap him. ‘There is also a pretty gtr! Involved. She is Ray Longstreth, daughter of one of the rustiers, However, when Steele rounds up the gang after a desperate pistol fight Ray's father, | who it turns out was an unwilling | participant in the crimes, is given) another chance. His work accernplished, Steele lenveon Fairfield with Ray as his bride. ‘The dill Includes @ lively little com edy in which Eleanor Fields appears | an a detective. She is sent to a bath-| house to try to unravel s thieving| mystery. The thief proves to be the bathhouse proprietor, and Eleanor catehes him red-handed. eee STRAND Many people entertain the idea that because a boy lives in the coun try he i @ little behind the city chap in the matter of intelligence. He may be a little green, but he's not slow, and if you'll just give him two or three weeks in the city It's more than likely he'll prove the cleverest | man in town, He plays the role of Buddy, a| young rubg practical joker, whe goes to the city to make his way in life. | soda clerk in one of a large chain of | jstores. At the Drug Clerks’ ball he | meets the girl of his dreams. To make an impression he tells her he | maken $50 a week. But his landlady’s daughter gets! jealous when she hears of his new | Jove. The landlady locks Buddy out of his room and tells him he can't} come in until he pays his rent. To) further add to his misery, he is sud- |denly “laid off" by his boss. | Hut our hero is equal to the #itun |tion, He conceives a pian to gain ers, pute his plan thru, and gets a} | good contract and $50 in advance for | his services. Then the wedding bells ring for Buddy and his sweetheart | (Shirley Mason). The Burton Holmes Travelogue | and a James Montgomery Flagg comedy complete the bill. cee MISSION Lila Lee steps from comedy into drama in her new photoplay,. “A Daughter of the Wolf,” which is now | playing at the Mission. | Mins Lee ix presented in the role of the motherless daughter of “Wolf” Ainsworth, leader of a band of amug glers. On her first trip to the city |across the border she falls in love with a young man whom her father |and his accomplices suspect as being & revenue officer. | How she later raves him from death at thelr hands and then wit neawes the slaying of her own father in a fight with the revenue officers is | well told and affords the little star a |xplendid opportunity for emotional acting Elliott Dexter gives a clean-cut per. | formance young revenue offi | cor A. Geldart is im | pr rather thankless role f” Ainsworth is a Harold Lioyd comedy and Bray Pictographs on the same program . | COLONIAL Tom Mix is starring in the new | show, “Fighting for Gold,” at the Co- All Aboard! Tonight or To- morrow for the Big Fun Show In which Charlie is valet to fowls, cows and pigs; head waiter at a hotel and sadly bested in love by creases in his rival’s pants! HIS’ THIRD MILLION DOLLAR COMEDY Crowds Are Seeing This Comedy and the Accompanying Dramatic Feature. FANNIE , “THIEVES”’ in WARD Performances Start Daily at 11 A. M. demonstrates that he can ride up and| REX |erooks in order to aid a down at any angie, that he can rope} reg re ing to gaat — Bins Lip} was oo Oe ~ rather oi story woven arou: ine Vireo men at one time and break UP/ the ring fights of the ex-cowboy, Jess| Willard is “some actor, ® plot against him. He proves, too, | witard, will receive a pleasant sur-|are plenty of closeu; that Teddy Sampson, his leading | prise at the Rex this week in wit-| wonderful lady, is much safer in his arms than | nessing “The Challenge of Chance.” | “champ” she is riding dione in @ runaway| This photoplay is a corking good|nity to show every lover of boxing wagon. This scene furnishes a real Western drama with real acting and thrill. The cowboy, riding at great| thrills enough for a dosen such pilc- speed, overtakes the runaway and | tures. the girl jumps from*the wagon into his arma while he is still on horse plain: | good winter business for his employ. | Challenge of. Chance THIS 7-REEL KNOCKOUT WESTERN THRILLER SERVED TO GET JESS IN SHAPE — HARD AS A ROCK, FAST AS A. TWO- YEAR-OLD—SEE HIM AS HE IS RIGHT NOW— TODAY. 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