The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1919, Page 4

Now Showing Here—the Mightiest Actor in the World THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1919. Plenty of Gun-Play in Western Thrillers at Local Movie Houses \ | | Wallace on the Wurlitzer Home of 100%, Pictures Pathe News DIRECTION JENSEN & VON HERBERG Thousands Yesterday Enjoyed the Big Six-Act Super- ‘Special Now Here WILLIAM 4 FARNUM, —in— “WOLVES OF THE NIGHT” A powerful seven-act drama dealing with high fi- ‘nance—laid on two continents—so absorbing that it drives away all the troubles of life while it is before you : 3 : Pretty little Vola Vale, who used to be Bill Big Bill Russell are shown here in a scene from “Six Feet Fou Western picture, which ks being shown at the Liberty Monday Review ———% STRAND | ‘The magnificent panorama | rugged mountains and deep canyons : : : AS CHARMING AS A GREAT BOOK for “Told in forma the background ; _ with the added value of being a living, breathing thing * SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA * * * Artists Under Reginald Dunn, in Concerts Afternoon and GOOD NEW BILL AT THE MOORE Morton Supplies an Added . Pinch of Pepper | The new Orpheum bill at the Moore | theatre can justly be termed a top | notch show from the opening act to the closing one. James J. Morton, a very old friend | Uons, make sketch. | Rexo is a wonder on roller skates The “Three Kings of Harmony © ‘singers of ability and comedians as well. The tenor solo by one of the \ tro is the best offering in the act. | “Seymour's Happy Family” con- | sists of @ dozen Or so small dows, | Which do a routine of clever tricks jalong with a little acting, comedy and music Miller and Rainey are a pair of ee centric funmakers, whose repertoire includes #inging, dancing, music and considerable comedy talk. Swift and La Mont have a cron» fire talking act, in which the char acter comedy talk of the “wop” is the feature, along with singing. eee WILKES Jane Darwell scored heavily in the | lead of “De Luxe Annie,” the myer tery play that opened at the Wilkes Good acting and clever lines this a charming comedy CLEMMER — Nasimove Hrat”) News Pietortals, | COLISEUM —— William Farnum | “Welves of the Night") Larry | | emen comedy; Collscam New STHAND—Robert Warwick in ° in the Mille”; Happy Animated, “Where Are T” Mrmed Weekly | MISSION —Tom Mix im Kiding Komance”; Hareld tierd comedy; Outing-Cheeter teente REX-—Dnid Markey tm “The Core of Bre” COLONIAL—-Fart Meteaife in “The Rattior”; Raby Marie Osborne in “Baby Marie's Roundup,” CLASS Ait. Irving Lyons’ Mail.” | LITTLE—Charlie Chaplin in “Sun- ia “The * } | —e Lota of romance and lots of action} are the two main features of “Six Feet Four,” the sereen version ot) Jackson Gregory's popular novel The picture han many scenic flashes of great attraction and an abundance | of the right kind of atmosphere. But} the development of the story itself is exceptiong!. It opens with a “stick up” in @ small hotel one rainy night and with this event begins a series of depredations, all emanating from the headquarters of w crooked sher iff. Buck Thornton (played by Wil-| Yam Russell) falls in love with Wink fred Waverly, a young Eastern girl, who visiting her father in the} the Hille’ at the Strand this week To those who have read Marah Ryan's famous novel in treat to on. T it in in deed characters in o wee the story concerns sacrifice of Jack Stuart, who keeps! & promiae fnade to his dying mother by marrying a girl his younger brother, Charles, has wronged. He takes her up into the mountains of Montana anor Indians, Here he meets Rachel Hardy and they fall in love at firwt aight Only after Ja cuned of theft, ha of his accusers by from impending mas to claim happin “Told in the Ht ie & great deal) better than the average Western pic tures, | Robert Warwick is the featured player and he ts supported by an un-| usually etrong cast, including Ann Little, Tom Forman, Wanda Hawley Monte Blue and Elleen Percy Under the skillful direction of 8. K. | Wineland, the Strand orchestra plays the Offenbach overture “Orphy and “Dear Old Pal of Mine” Lieut. Gite F k, wrongful raved the lives uing them acre, ia he able ar re by MISSION | “Rough Riding Romance,” at the! on, features the daring stunts | Tom Mix, the popular cowboy | Mix lassoes train and| abdard; rides his galloping | horse up and down a steep stairway pte and up a fire escape to rescue a love: | FEET FOUR” West. Knowing the girl likes Buck,| jy princess of Seattle Orpheum audiences, ap | theatre Sunday Mies Darwell had | pears in every act, or rather before | but a few days to prepare for the jevery act. He announces each act, | lead, which was to have been played the crooks, thru clever scheming, fasten their crimes upon Buck During a country dance, Buck The pk around M fugitive Balkan t of tx’ the efforts king jeture centers rescue nd a a giving a brief description of the/| by Jane Morgan, the company’s lead- jaction which is to follow. Morton, | as a comedian, is far above the aver age and his comedy is unique Albertina Rasch, she with the nimble toes, is ably abetted by four | younger dancers and two musicians in making the headliner an excep tional act. A Chinese dance by Miss Rasch was one of her best Kharum, described by Morton ax a real Persian, owning two Persian rugs in his own name, is a pianist Kharum doesn't smile, but he does play. He answered |elght curtain calls Sunday. A skit, labeled “Sweeties,” dwelt on theqdifficulties of a fair, young thing, who became engaged to a number of American officers before they left for France and of her ul timate problem of becoming released No Advance in Prices. finally does, but what a job Harry Norwood and Alpha two old-tim mix patter and to the extreme delight of the audience, while Comfort and King furnish some excellent blackface comedy The Melinotte duo and their do “Tip” furnish an acrobatic and ani mal act that is absolutely different from anything of its kind. * VY'S ORPHEUM evy's Orpheum patrons are hav real treat at the popular Third nue this week Boy! of the best comedies presented mer Folly company. The fon of the play takes place outside the main entrance of Wilson tros.’ big circus, Lew White and | Ert C. Hunt, the two comedians, do a bit of everything, from bally-hoo- jing to taming lions, They ev peanuts Harry id, a new n | plays the role of the circus m vila Bob Sandberg Blanche hing and Pauline Arthur take an active y as laundering.|part in the circus. Mins elease lean suits, coats, |outdoes the rest of the “stunt” per Mats, silks, laces, gloves, shoes, | formers, however, by a slide for life Tem, draperies, rugs, men's |from the picture machine booth, high thing that be dlover the heads of the to soap and water [the stage 7 Place a gallon or more | “A Garden of Tol “1 Found ie in a dishpan. or Among the Roses” and “Josie of ) Yan put in the things to be clean-! Joliet" are among the leading mu and wash them with Solvite | sical numbers Shortly everything domes out} A n episode of “The |} oking like new Mystery Houdini's serial, P -MNothing fades, shrinks wrin- | screen offering. 7%. No pressing needed. Do not! ° * tempt to dry clean without Sol-|PAUACE HIP *i6 soap. This gasoline soap is} “When We Grow Up" is the title Dios secret of all dry cleanir of a novelty playlet that is one of A package of Soivite thé features of the new bill at . ing directions for home dry | Palace Hip. It in presented by Eddie aning costs but few at| Tanner and the Palmer Sisters, and ey Srug, grocer: department | shows how the dreams and ambitions are, Dry clean away from flame |of childhood days undergo extraor “Out of doors. |dinary and unexpected transforma Hall s song Positively Ends Friday Night musical by the Midsum en A MONEY SNE ten We five to @ry cleaning De just as ex you can dry qui clothes r would of gaso- ash boiler, | ¥. Master is the or soap con- or some seven or after they returned from battle. She | ing lady. cold. | Thruout the play Miss Darwell is the central figure, with Alexie Luce, as “Jimmy,” running her a clone second. The movement of the play is fast and keeps the audience keyed up until the final act. ‘To tell how “Annie” ends her caree a crook would be to spoil the entertainment for Wilkes’ patrons ‘The story centers around “De Luxe Annie,” who, with Jimmy, her side partner, work @ graft confidence | ame by pretending to sell books to wealthy men of small means. Then, just at the opportune moment, Jimmy appears on the scene an a | private detective and forgets all about the situation if the victim mes thru with a mere $5,000 or #0, How Ani and Jimmy try their skin game on old men Monroe in a small Connecticut town and Annie and Jimmy make their getaway and | their final capture ia th climax of |the action. Howard Fussell Monroe, is fine And brings laugh with hix interpretation Annie and Jimmy are tracke Kendall, a famous detective turns out to be-—but why spoil it? Miss Morgan is ill with a z as a big “Atta | PLAYING “THE sell | Personally Pictured Mau a ig A COMEDY aw PAT TTT Try | ¥ shows Winifred the rowel of a spur he picked up in the cabin just after she was robbed, and together they trace the crimes to the sheriff and|an “Outing Chester ic.” a Harold his gang Lioya and musical sel An added attraction on the bill this| tions on the Hope Jones Wurlitzer, week in the Sennett comedy, “Come| by Ernest P, Russell Out of the Kitchen,” in which Louise . Fazenda is the shining light ee | princess from ators. The reat of the pre a band of conspir- comedy, by . “MMER Nazimova is giving a wonderful performance at the Clemmer | week In the screen version of Maud | Fulton's stage play, “The Brat.” The story narrates the whimal romance of “The Brat |child of the charity institu drifts into the chorus of a cheap mu- sical show, is insulted and then haled into night court trumped up charge. There an author who is seat ed on the bench with the judge sees in her just the “type” he has been | seeking as the heroine of a new novel The is to write e leaves| Th | its | COLISEUM “Wolves of the Night” at the Coliseum thin week, is a real Bill Farnum picture, which means a pic ture rich in romance and stirring action, No more breathless and ex citing moments have been exper 4 in motion picture plays than imprisonment of the hero in a mine by explosion, his subsequent escape and his terrific fight with three conspirators who have wrested his fortune from him during his ab. e in a foreign country er his marriage for Chile to investigate some copper ; This mines. An attempt on his life is|bis w made and his wife is told he is dead He returns home several years later to find his wife married to the man responsible for his mishap. Farnum is seen in his very best in one of thone rugged outdoor char acters in which he excels. Low! Lovely plays the feminine lead and the late Lamar Johns plays 4 on a » author of cour: thy flar soon showa that and slangy takes her to his home. rouses the anger of But “the brat th her rough {fs & woman, “SYRUP OF FIGS” Se ‘CHILD'S LAXATIVE The big Coliseuin orchestra, under | the direction of Reginald Dunn, plays | ee At INS SEM B | Look vedication,” by Dunn and Herbert's | “Air de Ballet | The Coliseum complete t eee REX interior she role tongue! from stomach, and bowels at poisons tures and live! a comedy | “The Curse of Eve," showing at the Rex this week, is something new | jand original in the line of a photo play story. The action of the picture is told in a prologue and six parts The prologue embraces two scenes | visualizing the creation of the dry | land; the beginning of v the | reation of Adam and the temp: | tation; the “fall, and the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, The pur pose of the prologue is to refresh the | memor of those who do not read heir Bib often enough to remem ber the heritage of § . | This done, the story takes the hurdle to modern times « lwith the love of John Eva Stanley. | Enid Markey and Edwin Coxen play he leading roles tation long id begins | Hilbert and] Accept “California” only-look for the n on the package, then your child is having Paris of | most harmless laxative or physic for guillotine days, H. 1B. Irving is the] the little stomach, liver and! bowels. featured player, The theme deals | Children its delicious fruity jwith the near-tragedy that is caused | taste, Full directions for child's dove lby the remarkable resemblance be n hh bottle Give it without fear tween a respected citizen and the} Mother! You must say “Califor: most notorious criminal in France, | gia,” syrup of Figs me Cadifornia you are sure The the best and fons’ Class A is showing ‘ Mail,” a story of the The Ly young | am includes | this | Da | | Charles hero is quick | WITH with tenderness and warm sympathy She sav the author's brother from | dingrace and in novelist to r ize that he loves her and not the wealthy girl he intended to marr Especially npany this photoy morous way they express “The Brat’s” whimsical philosophy Bryant Nazimova i gives a clever interpreta or the of sub-titles ac In a hu clever 18 on the band of the cast is uth and good. Guterson’s orchestra renders “Sec: | Rhapsody” by Liszt, and F.| st, famous cello soloift, plays Popper's “Mazurka.” | LITTLE Charl comedy This tim He plays Chaplin's millio ide,” is back at the a young again Litue farm unny Charlie is part of Remove | !n¢ in love with his boss’ daughter |'Their little romance progresses nice }1y until the arrival in the village of a jelty dude, The city chap tries to jcop Charlie's girl—he pretty tart, but Charlie finds a way | rood | to show him up. | Probably the funniest jie pulls off during th stunt Char: | picture is RHEUMATIC PAINS Quickly Eased By Penetrating Ham: | lin's Wizard Oil A sate tion ism, and harmle to rel the pains of lation, Lame Back Hamlin’s Wizard trate drive stiff ss prepa Rhev and 1 on it sorene hing joints ov inbagy pene= 8, s quickly limbers up muscles. 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COLONIAL | he Battler” is a fight picture, Jack may have had an/|purely and simply, Earle Metcalfe is time putting Jess Willard out of | fine as Jim Fortune, and Harry the fing at Toledo, but Jim Fortune,| Brown is equally good as Hart. Vir- the in “The Battler,” at the | ginia Hammond plays the wife. Colonial this week, has no such cinch| Little Marie Osborne is on the with Dunean Hart, the amateur|same bill in a clever kid comedy boxer, whom he fights at the private |called “Baby Marie’s” Roundup." bout staged by Hart for his friend — entertainment | Hart cruelly mistreated his|ished her second comedy since the wife without any cause, At the ring-|death of her husband. It's “A Sis- side, just as the bout 1s to commence, | terly Scheme.” Dempsey hero Mrs. Sidney Drew has just fin- THIS WEEK The Greatest of All Stars NAZIMOVA In a Screen Version of Maude Fulton’s Celebrated Stage Success GUTERSON FAMOL ORCHESTRA TEA FOR THREE With Mary Pickford AT HOME CELLO SOLO Played by F. LHOEST