The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1920, Page 3

| TODAY'S PROGRAMS LIBERTY—Fthel Clayton in “The ‘Thirteenth Commandment,” CLEMMER—Nasimova in “Stronger ‘Than Death. COLISKUM—Mary Pickford tn “Pol- lyanna”; extended run. | STRAND — Marion -Davies im “The | | Cinema Murder.” | BEX — Dorothy Flame the ¥ 4 COLONTAI “Trask ‘Keenan in “The False Code.” CLASS A—Charies Ray in “The Clod- hopper,” Sunday, Dalia in “The SQITORIES about young married lite are always interesting. Rupert | Hughes’ “The Thirteenth Command- Ment” created quite a stir when it ran serially in a popular’ magazine| and later as a novel. Now it has| » deen adapted to the screen and will be shown at the Liberty for a week beginning today Ethel Clayton is starred. She plays | Daphne Kip, the pampered daughter ‘of a Middle Western merchant. She fs engaged to Clay Wimborn, a young New Yorker, whom she sup- pases to be quite wealthy, but a trip | to the metropolis shows her that he ds really poor and is making tremen- dous sacrifices in order to satisfy her ‘whims. Other dramatic developments con- ‘vince her of the injustice of the at- | titude of the pretty woman who de- mands a heavy financial tribute from her husband for simply being idle and extravagant. She pursues an in- dependent career and, when ‘her fiance is ready to wed her, goes to him on a “50-50” basis. 4 eee ‘CLEMMER | | “STRONGER THAN DEATH” (Metre) Bigrid Fersen | Major Boucte: Col, Boucteauit aries W. irs, Houcicault -Margaret McWade Pancing is emphasized strongly in ‘Stronger Than Death,” Nazimova's test picture, which opens today at Clemmer. Th¢ great Russian star "appears as Sigrid Fersen, a favorite dancer of the London and Paris mu- sic halls. She performs a dance on the steps of a Hindu temple, which is one of the big moments of the/ story. ‘The setting of “Stronger Than Death” is in India. Many of the scenes take place on the steps of the ruined Brahmin temple where Sigrid danees to hold the fantastic Hindus in awe and delay their threatened cre of the English village. ee E 1—Nazimova, as she appears in play at Clemmer; —Mary Pickford and Herbert THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920. Prior, at the Coliseum; 8—Frank Colonial; 4—Ethel Clayton, in Rupert Hughes story at Liberty; 5—Dorothy Dalton, in scene from “Flame of the Yukon”—RKex; 6—Marion Davies, starring at the Strani ovie Quizzes] Q Please tell me something about | Gladys George, who is Charlie Ray’s| leading woman at the Liberty this| week. Has she been in the movies | long? A. “Red Hot Dollars” marks Miss! George's debut discovered by Thomas Ince | |x was when she was playing in “The Bet-| ter ‘Ole” in a Los Angeles theatre, He sent for her, gave her a test, and immediately put her under a appearance on the stage at the age of three, Marion Davies -Pegsy Parr alle Jensen Nigel Barrie <W. Seott Moore -Anders Randoif A play within a picture is a noyel feature of the new Marion Davies|4ddress? production, “The Cinema Murder,” which opens at the Strand today. The heroine is an actress who is starred by an unscrupulous financier in a new play in a theatre which he has seonstructed especially to display her italents and beauty. ‘The details of the performance are shown on- the screen faithfully, even the fashionably-clad audience, the ‘Properties behind the scenes and the jong-time contract. Miss George comes from an old and famous the- atrical family. She made her initia!| Q Who was Marguerite Clark's leading man in “A Widow by Prox, ‘ A. igel Barrie. Q What is Douglas Maclean's A. Thomas City, Cal Ince Studio, Culver} EUGENIE FORDE IN. “THE BETTER HALF” Eugenie Forde, mother of Victoria Forde (Mrs, Tom Mix), who was prominent on the legitimate stage —Chartie Ray at the Little, Goldwyn Screens “Dangerous Days” Mary Roberts Rinehart has jumped before gaining fame on the screen, has just finished playing the role of the mother in Priscilla Dean's fea- jumped from Pittsburg to Los An- geles to be present at the editing | * | cute Pater Joseph Dowling, who played the Patriarch in “The Miracle Man,” Is one of the leading play- ers in Frank Keenan's “The False Code,” which opens today at the Coloni: . William Farnum, whose Fox suc tions, is now en route from New York to California. . “Jenny” is the title of a new Olive Thomas feature. eee SOONEB OR LATER THEY ALL FALL ‘The she has previously an- pounced, she would never go 1: o movies, Laurette Taylor Inst succumbed to the lure of jent drama. She recently signed with David Warwick Griffith. Full particulars concerning Mise Taylor'n movie debut have not yet been announced. | | | tt on “Alias Whispering White.” ‘The next Montgomery and Rock | comedy will be entitled “Knights land Knighties.” eee Jack Richardson, featured in many special productions, is playing cesses number more than 30 produc: | Harry Carey will soon begin work | the| 'x— | Society Girls : Pose for Movies * RE than a score of attractive young students from a leading | California art school were summon |to Universal City a few days ago lend atmosph o the production of “Burnt Win a story of an ‘tint {and his model, now being produced at the world’s film capital, with Frank Mayo and Josephine Hil in Ithe featured roles, and with Christy Cabanne as directo } t one of these girls ever before had appeared on a stage or in front | |of a motion picture camera, Several lof them are prominent in the social | jcireles of Southern California, lever, they all knew how to sketch, |how to use a brush and paiette, and how to wear an artist's smock. And as this was'all they were required to do in the art class scene, they per formed their task admirably, “Burnt Wings" is from the pen of | | Bayard Veiiler, author of “The | Thirteenth Chair” and “Within the | Law,” and was formerly used by his wife, Margaget Wychely, as a star |ring vehicle on the stage, under the | |name, “The Primrose Path.” How. | THEL CLAYTON Discovers Fiance’s Wealth a Myth; Nazimova’s Weird Oriental Dancing Fascinates Hindus; Unscrupulous Theatrical Manager Backs Marion Davies; Mary Pickford Makes Everybody Glad; Frank Keenan Is Victim of Insurance Pirates; Dorothy Dalton Spurns Love of Dance Hall Owner for Stranger—All This Excitement Happens in the Movies at the Downtown Theatres Beginning Today. Ae andl ~ Ne icclisaitnceen Signs observed by the edi- || | tor of Literary Digest “Topic | various motion picture houses: || | “Watch Your Wife.” Every || ¢. night this week, “Mother, 1 Need You.” For three days, begmnning Novem- ber 30th, “Geraldine Farrar, support- ed for the first time by her husband.” “Her Wedding Night.” Every night this week, TO RELEASE GRIFFITH FEATURE THIS MONTH | «Rainbow Isic” th the tentative W. Griffith's second | | production for the First National | Exhibitors’ cirenit, to be released | during this month, This is the pro- duction on which Mr, Griffith wa at work last December when his | party experienced a harrowing trip from Miami, Florida, to the B: | hama Islands, where the final scen eoured, | * prominent players who will appear in this latest of the Grif. | fith features are Claring Seymour, | | Richard Barthelmess, — Creighton | | Hale, Anders Randolph, Kate Bruce, Porter Strong, Herbert Sutch, Flor- | jence Short and Walter James. Keenan, starred at the | |name of D, AGGIE HERRING Aggie Herring, who will appear in the Goldwyn picture, “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” sup- porting Jack Pickford, was on he | stage more than 20 years and claims she has played in everything from! |*Uncle Tom's Cabin” DOWN! for of Joseph Latham, who acted for | re four years in the company of BE. H. jothern, will be seen in Constance | to inney’s next picture for Realart. | (CUIF | | writers for the movies. Among them are Anita Lods, Jeanie Macpherson, Frances nario for the movie, just completed, Finn.” scenario for “Joan “The Woman God Forgot” and the on the stage and in the movies for “TOOTHLESS” EXTRA ‘DEMANDS MORE Casting directors have their rows, too. Miss Jessie Hallett, ing director at Morosco Studio, Mary Miles Minter, the young art star, is being filmed in ® Ria picture, tells this poignant tale. | was engaging an extra person of fi Female Persuasion for @ scene, and asked the dame to her false teeth. . “Not for just the indignant® extra “You'll have to pay me $10.08 er take my teeth out.” Miss finally coaxed the irate one to” cept the regular sum for her less appearance in the scene, but | woran warned her not to tell |other director. “I don’t care tablish no precedent for taking my teeth for no such stingy she confided. “Us extras has to up for our rights.” CONSTANCE A DAN Miss Constance Binney is to ja chance to do a, little dancing: her next Realart picture, now filmed in Chicago, where she ring in her stage play, “39 Miss Binney was @ ncer before she took any ts on the stage or did any work, she is particularly in this new role, which gives chance to revive her first’aind loved art, and also to wear mi pretty clothes than fell to her in her last picture, “ Susan.” Girls sirls Write Best Movies | xc) Anita Loos. She is among the brightest of movie scenario writers. She has done most of the recent pictures for Constance and Norma Talmadge. They are taking first among the RLS! place scenario Marion and Julia Craw- rd. Miss Crawford prepared the sce- Mark Twalu's “Huckleberry Macpherson wrote the the Woman,” Jeanie “The Americano,” “His “Reaching for cent “Male and Female.” Miss Macpherson was barn in Bos- n and educated in Paris. She acted Miss Loos was married John Emerson. He, also, is nario writer. Their recent for Norma and Constance ture, “The Beautiful Beggar,” and|and cutting of her first picture for was immediately re-engaged to sup-{ Eminent Authors made from her lat- port another Universal star, Mary/|est and most popular book, “Dan- MacLaren, Miss Forde will play thée|gerous Days.” {lhe Goldwyn studio role of a New England spinster in| people are very much elated over the new production, which will be|the production Reginald Barker has called “The Better Half.” made for “Dangerous Days” and! Rex Beach's “Going Some," has a ————— | say that he has even surpassed | French bulldog which he has trained) CHARACTER ACTRESS | himself. Among his recent pictures|to do almost everything but talk, R DIES IN NEW YORK |Sutsise® and. "tame of the Des-| ane nd “Flame of the Des-| Willard Louis, supporting Pauline Mra. Carolyne Lee, who appeared| ert” for ( fine Farrar. | Frederick in “Roads of Destiny,” ts The hundreds of people who have! nore in the role of “Mary Barry” a| With Mrs. Rinehart’s arrival in|@ splendid cook and raises his own not been able to get into the Coll-| snort time ago at the Strand with California, the number of Eminent | rabbits, squabs, pheasants, chickens | seum this week to see Mary Pickford| Mary Miles Minter in “Anne of| Authors on the Coast is raised to|and frogs | in “Pollyanna” will be delighted to| Green Gables,” died a few days ago|three. Gertrude Atherton went learn that the manageemnt has de-|in New York City. Mrs, Lee was! West to spend the winter and co-| tided to hold the picture over a few) 62 years old and one of the most! operate on her productions, the first days longer. popular character women on the “Pollyanna” is a story of unusual of which ts “Tower of Ivory” di tg cose” eres Pier rected by William Parke ford as the little “glad girl” takes her place in the hearts of the mem- bers of all families. And the story itself, besides including a generous amount of pathos and humor, is filled with good, wholésome philosophy. “Pollyanna” is well worth seeing. eee el haaaniedaa COLONIAL | [IE FALSE CODE” (Pathe) “heavy” in the new Vitagraph seria! | in which William Duncan is star ring. Concert—12 30 Sunday . . | Cullen Landis, the youthful Gold-| “POLLYANNA” wyn star, who will next appear in (United Artists) Mary Pickford J, Wharton James Katherine Griffith Wm. Coutleigh Herbert Prior Helen Jerome Eddy Where the Public Knows It Sees Good Shows x Well, sir, it’s proved a winner all day today! Shows how one girl knocked the H. out of the H. C. L. A picture of tremendous interest to all women. Also to all men, because it’s the ‘life that you and your neighbors and their neighbors live—a sensa- tional insight into how families get along and don’t get along. eee “The Woman's Game" is the name} of Elaine Hammerstein's new play. | KATHLEEN HAS TRAY, BUT NO USE FOR IT) Kathleen Clifford is wondering | what to do with a cocktail tray or- dered over two years ago, which was ) delivered yesterday, inasmuch as the | 8 | seductive appetizer has now gone out | lof fashion. The tray is the work| of @ naturalist. It is inlaid with a) collection of rare butterflies from all! Jover the world, Delay in the ship- ments of foreign butterflies, was due |to the “late unpleasantness” over seas, Douglas Fairbanks, like the hetptat | | soul he is, suggested Miss Clifford donate her tray to the Salvation| Army on which to serve hot waffles. ALICE AND HER HATS Miss Alice Brady had a fine time last week, back In New York after | two months in Boston, an experience that goes hard with any dyed-in-the- | wool New Yorker. ‘To be sure, the | |actress played eight performances in | Brooklyn, spent a day at the pho-| | tographer’s, and bought clothes for | |her spring wear. But aside from | those few duties she had almost un-| interrupted leisure, and got in sev-| eral picture shows, one matinee, half | a dozen parties, a family reunion, | and more than a glimpse of home-| |sweet-home. Incidentally she got! nine new hats, which she figures will | last till she gets to New York again in March, Yep, He Got a Black Eye—but You } | Ought to Have Seen the Other Dog! | .-Frank Keenan fohn Benton. . 4 -Myles McCarthy Henry Vance. Mrs. Kate Corbaley, author of Frank Keenan's latest starring ve- hicle, “The False Code,” at the Colo- jal til! Tuesday night, has woven hier story around a gang of insurance pirates. The kind who take old ves. sels, rebuild them with inadequate machinery and then bribe the port in- spector to pass them as seaworthy. Loaded with a heavily insured cargo, they are sent out to sink in mid ovean and the pirates cram their pockets with their ill-gotten insur ance money. Frank Keenan is innocently drawn into such a plot in “The False Code,” "caught, and sentenced to serve 12 | years in prison. ——_—_—_ REX “THE FLAME OF THE YUKON" (Triangle) Dorothy Dalton +Kenneth Harlan | ROWLAND LE Rowland Lee, who plays the part | |of Graham Spencer in the Goldwyn | | Picture, “Dangerous Days,” from | |the pen of Mary Roberts Rinehart, | Jis the son of Marie Nelson Lee, who published the first paper in the United States managed and ed- ited by women alone. LILLIAN LANGDON Lillian Langdon, playing Goldwyn pictur “Going written by is rel | Ge neral Zebu ered Pike's Peak, “The 13th Commandment’ t’s by Rupert Hughes—the cast includes Monte Blue, Anna Q. Nilsson and Irving Cummings “The Fiame”.. ‘The Stranger ‘The dramo. and tragedy of the rush for gold in Alaska is depicted in “The ' Flame of the Yukon,” in which Dor- | othy Dalton is featured at the Rex | beginning today. Miss Dalton pla known to all the miners as Flame.” Black Jack Hovey, owne of the biggest dance hall in the} North, is in love with the girl, but she spurns him for a young stranger who arrives in the North with a Of gold-seckers, dance hall ~ ade *, & & BB Hh Liberty Pictorial Review—excerpts from leading news weeklies. in the} Some, ted to| p her pet bulldog tt adv y, and “Zip pileen Moore, screen star, has impressed must always growl “10" before bitin; usually follows the admonition. the adversary didn’t walt for these laudable preliminaries and ip” fetched home a black eye. But—"G-rrrer, you ought to have seen the other fellow!” | | | 1 ike, who Fe