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o SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1919. i Unique Advertising Helps, Young Fellows Make Good Selling Soap } Riding high in the public favor — the joyous light comedy of the promotion game—how to make millions out of nothing— \ capital cast’ in- cludes Bryant Washburn, Lois Wilson, Walter Hiers. Photoplays That Prove the Val ue of the Motion Pleture Art All the Thrills of a Superb, Nationally-read Book Are Here— ‘DESERT GOLD Written and personally supervised by ZANE GREY Tonight and Tuesday only— TOT IIE T PAYS TO ADVERTISE” A hen advertises and a duck doesn’t. That's why you eat hen eggs instead of duck eggs. Symphony Orchestra artists under Reginald Dunn, and “Nea- 31 playing “Semiramide” politan Nights.” —— a Russian Economic Union Refuses to Side in With Bolshevik Rule The © great monu that has Viadimir mintroft, Jand acting president FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 in n with don of Co rors shall at its pure! mercial aspect and thr power to nan stabilize Russia may © one side ng the fall Kerensky alike under | m and the Ke eadere sid make Sepor sland want ut intimated that Loe be settled rad | He taken verry don a denied that b the contro the Lon-| t effect h directors’ fp the Centrosluz political for 1 be one of the issues of the directors’ meeting POLICEMAN POISONED poisoned ‘Thursday utting his hand while pre | | t mig intil Friday Night Only—Daily at 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 A triumphant seven-act screen drama, sumptuously produced— will be-| lice Capt Frank Willard, tion, was ing by paring lard was rab for dinner. Capt, Wil compelled to give up hie! and go to his home, at ABETH NELSON DIES funeral of of her daugh-| 4 Orca Mrs! me For 8 being made had lived tr o'Conne M Ge nday reetown Noted producer of —— “EYES of YOUTH” With beautiful Clara. Kimbal) Young and five leading men—all big acting parts. The crystal-gazing into the future of a young girl furnishes a startling and un- usual story. the splendid film ver-, sion of the Richard’ Harding Davis story— “SOLDIERS FORTUNE” AFTERNOONS NIGHTS, Floor icony Lower E Upper Baleony Children + 466 Loge Seat All Prices Plus Ta Lower Floor Balcony Children ...+ Loge Seats . Strand Orchestra, playing the Wallace song hits. LC Bryant Washburn tells Lois Wilson and Julia Faye that t pays to advertise.” Scene from play at the Coliseum. | Br Washburn is the at} then and there Ambrose and Rodney | tt Pays to Adver-|be ome trie as Ee The funniest scenes in the story This picture ts fairly bubbling when Kadney and Ambrose having been told by his} 1 to go to work) start @ soap con nituations a# the biti snful advertising sloga n Soap, Unlucky for Dirt," manner in which the young men make “1 in their enterprise with really practically no capital back of them, make a splendid screen | mtory | Then there is the Mr. Waaht: Tox Wa ant star the Coliseum in * Une over with original humor (the a ter The ntory opens with Rodney Mar Un's last days in college, During ° presentation of a musleal com edy that comes to town, Rodney ta forced to make the acquaintance of Ambrose Peale, the agent, for the simple reason that he has gotten © the hands of the by one’ of the members of the and the pres centr show Ambrose (for a cash conaide smooths the matter over nat police usual romance ra is happily © Hetrs Ambrowe cant an a retund| or an Tontay Reviews Byes Youth” was « popular play and on the screen it is equally as good Am the story goes: The heroine’#) father becomes bankrupt. She must lecide whether to mtay at home with her family, wed a certain rich man gO on the stage, or marry a poor | | lover as originally she intended. traveling fakir provides ntal ba She loaks into tt and seca that if will become TODAY'S PROGRAMS COLISEUM — Bryant Washbern im “It Pays to Advertion”; Coliseum cLeMMEn Madge the Wrong Kennedy in Door”; Hareid Pictorial Keview ; weational Wenkly Kimball Young tm hb”) Mrand Weekly ford in “The Hood- Chrtetie comedy; Mutt and Animated an COLONIAL—Marey Carey in “The Fe Rider of the Law”; Prisma Cet ored Vietures, “The Grand Can yom MISKION—Edith Sterting in “The lew.” | | i he In tays at home she rded drudge looks again parties the rich snrew | 1 ween that if ahe man she will be She looks a third time and sees f whe goes to the stage it will) nake her happy | he jes to wed the youth she She doexy't look in the ball to see how that will turn out. Happiness is taken for granted Bach of the different courres re Yealed in'the gazing ball ts pictured eladomtely. The cast ts fine. that ot m 58 A-—Derothy Phillips te | my So de 7. *| STRAND YLARA KIMBALL YOUNG, who has returned to the screen after ar’s absence, in proving a great raction at the @tand tn “Eyes of | . € A year hasn't made much differ. | ence ta Miss Young ting. Surprises follow in sion thru autck the five parts of Madge Kennedy's newent picture, “Thru the Wrong Door,” which the attrac tion at the Clemmer this week A romantic rich gtrl goes with her father te land of sage brush on the still hunt for a romantic weat hero, but to confers that search is fruitless When m dec fat of at Or in her @ It's jonal She's a bit steuter, but rn Those who liked her pre no fault go find with ern has ahe t led that aband, a der com: | has in| ace idler. t monp store for her On her way accidentally house. UESDAY NIGHT ONLY The thrilling Western story with magnificent scenery, a real cast and something new in screen excitement— to viett a friend she gete into the wrong It has been storming and her feet are drenching wet. She encount lers a young weasterner who tells her |to make herself at home, which she doen | During thetr vieit she learns that the young chap has been swindled, and by her own father The scenes which follow show how Madge's father and fiancee try to [prove the westerner as an un- scrupulous rascal. But {it doesn't work and the little heroine informs dad that she has decided to throw lin her lot with thé westerner John Bowers is again Miss Ken-| nedy's leading man. REX A comedy romance, with accent on the comedy, in “The Hoodlum," Pickford’ production at the Rex this Amy Burke and overburdened with luxury as a grand the millionaire, Alex.| TODAY—TUESDAY THEN GONE! |for “THE i CLAW’ in which the heroine rides a horse down an almost perpendicular mountain side and is swung across a_ 1,000- foot gorge on a derrick. * Russell on the W The Ace of Western Drama HARRY CAREY —IN— “THE RIDER | OF THE LAW” BARGAIN MATIN a until 30 i. m, t Sat, Sun, and 13c | ADMI Adults 22¢ Child Plus Tax | jt Mary |‘ own ranch felony jites as You remember the love sandstorm, the death of Rojas in the crater, the sav- ing of the ranch—all Wallace on the Wur- litzer, playing “Old Liberty Pictorial Re- view. Anne Brown, vo calist. ander Guthrie, Miss Pickford’s sta- ton in life suddenly switches to that | the tenements, where she is tem- porarily located with her father, while he writes books on sociology Acquiring the knack of becoming a rowdy comes enay for Mary. In few weeks she has developed a Bowery walk of acute swagger, assortment of clothing which makes the Creighen street Id with envy ng that would tutor weep. make her Fifth Among Amy's acquaintances tn the | tenements is Dish Lowry, a little chap with snaggle teeth and ingrown | manners, and Peter Cooper, an old man who serves as the connecting that bri the Burke family er in one happy assembly «Pi sweet and prett Amy the millionaire’s grandchild, of the funny little totally eclipses the gtri o: see kford is BI] Burke, pata girl wealth LIBERTY ‘There are two love stories, widely contrasting but strangely inter. woven in Zane Grey's “Desert Gold” at the Liberty, One of them deals with Nell Burton, golden-haired and | blue-eyed, typically American, and Dick Gale, a huge, breezy, whole some fellow, who once “bucked the line” on a college football team, En- tirely contrasting is the other pair 1e beautiful Castilian girl, Mercedes Castenada and an American cavalry fficer of the - border, George orne Villains of all plentiful in the story. Hot on the trail of Nell and Dick and making path somewhat thorny is Rad jford Chase, a smooth villain who cops within the law, while pursuing | Mercedes and her captain are Rojas, } an outlaw and bandit, and a Papago Indian The various roles are splendidty yed by well-known players y auited to their parts. EB. K Lincoln, at one time a crack foot ball player and 8 ardent lover of the outdoors, is happily ¢ ax Dick Gale. Eileen Percy, wit her wealth of golden hair, posses the physical and spiritual qua for the part of Nell Burton, th with the Lluvia d'Oro (shower of old) hair, Margery Wilson with her dark eyes and hair is a striking con trast to Miss Percy and ideally fitted her role of the aristocratic Castilian girl, Edward Coxen is dashing United States captain Walter Long, as the bandit; Frank Lanning, as the Papag@, and Frank Rrownlee, as Chase, are the trio of Inins always an “Desert G modern West COLANTAL Jim Kyneton of the kes the distressing ther Rangere that and hi st friends stealing from the Midas mine, He ts ordered by the division chief of the rangers to arrest the men manful allegiance to duty the arrest and confines the three men in an old gn his A mysterious hand un and the men go Texa, discovery of ore two hack locks the door free. Jim ts doubly accused ing in league with the then for allowing men to escape This, in drief ler of the Law ‘ey plays the first of be. thieves, of ore accused the theme of “The in which Harry leading role at the Colonial are such favor. Joe Harris, Jack and Claire tory was written by the Supporting Carey Gloria Hope Woods, Kingfisher Anderson B. Lane ante, author, an girls | and a knowledge of | | descriptions are of the noted British | 1 | MISSION | Being swung over a deep canyon lan & steam shove! while mounted on |her horse is anly one of the many feats performed by pretty Edith | Sterling, an equestrienne of note | who is appearing in “The Arizona Cat Claw” at the Mission until Tues! day night Rloasom played by most pe girl, He’ Ruggles, the character Miss Sterling, 1s what je would describe as a cow father owns a big ranch and she is the pet of cowboys and ranchers in their district Blossoms prov care of herself when she Jalone across the ptures Zappati been active in st Claw es an ability to take ets out Arizona plains and & greaser, who hi aling cattle Arizona the Miaaion will show Miracle ot Ly Cat | “The but her characterization | GIT,’ HE SAYS; | BANDITS FLEE @ | They Hurl Peevish Threat at Stubborn Victim “millinonalre bandits” re. another setback Saturday |night, when they attempted to rob A. W. Wing, 1831 14th ave. Wing wa walking down Howell st. at 11 when two flashily dressed robbers stepped from an alley and ry Pickford] In her late success “The Hoodlum” ALL WEEK | The ceived jin effeminate voices dared Wing to [throw up his hands } Wing reached for his hip-pocket and told the boys to “git.” They i, with Wing in pursuit. One reing fugitive turned and shouted “You just watt.” One bandit drew a pistol, Wing said wis pearl dainty, and fired in jdirection of Wing. The bandits are said to be about 19 years old, wear silk hgndkerchiefs, spats, wrist eatches and @uther conte. 7 f which handled and the general Wise is the man who laughs at the Pointless jokes of his wife. Have You Ever Blundered Into the Wrong. Apartment at the Witching Hour of Midnight? COME— “THROUGH THE WRONG DOOR MADGE —WITH— KENNEDY ~ALSO— Hit the High C's of Laughter With HAROLD LLOYD —in— “CAPT, KIDD'S GUTERSON’S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA KIL