The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1920, Page 3

COLISEUM “THE YELLOW TYPHOON” (iret National) ; Merdetrom pee coe a Stow Tohw Mathison. * ..Ward Crane “The Yellow Typhoon Playing x | x * with Anita a double portrayal, _ POMes to the Coliseum today for a Week's stay. In this picture Miss | > Blewart has the roles of Hilda and Bertha Nordstrom, who are twin sis ters. | Ger ANd after squandering his re | os gala him and leads an ad life in Italy and the Ort in the meantime en where she} i ov | By, in company with Karl Ly Meeting of the two sisters and | being engaged in two distin Unes, forms the basia for an “HIGH AND DIZZY" (Pathe) . «Harold Licyd 9 “s Mildred GH AND DIZZY," Harold} Lioyd’s latest comedy success, | at the Clemmer today, por Harold as a young and ambi @octor who, like all beginners profession, has very, very few ast he gets a pationt—a young walks in her sleep, and Harold falls in love with at evening he is invited by a/ mample some of his “near- je drinks s0 much that he ea home intoxicated. | Patient of the afternoon hap- be living in the next room at the same hotel where he Davis Bt night the girl walks in her > when Harold, on arriving @, seen her, he follows her along ° of the building. She then inte Harold's room. ; situation follows when where sho is. Lady 31." starring Emma ‘another Clemmer feature. “LIBERTY ing he almost loses the girl love for his pinto pony he Mary Piekfor: Albert Austin Haroid Pickford comes to the Strand ‘one of the best plays of her , “Suds.” has the role of & worker in a French hand | ary, which is in the slums °| } Goodwin oe B. Amanda has a beautiful ro- mance all planned out of a shirt left ) the by a customer and} sich had never been called for. Th: ner at! mes for the shirt, afd stead of the millionaire she thouht | would prove to be, is only a com- j Amanda gives him ; and buries her head in today for a four days’ : t p this play Carey portrays Pierre ‘a boy of the Northwest, who ta be a minister under his a priest. Unlike followers ‘Profession, he is developed as well as mentally and learning that bis father, igi never, seen, was dying from oot of an outlaw, he went to bedside of his dying parent and he would avenge him. he comes on a girl who is under a tree. While trying to fher they are both caught in an . Neither is hurt, but they “mot see each other until years ‘On meeting the ruMfidn who slayed father Pierre avenges the mur- %) Then another pledge comes—a love pledge of Pierre and Mary, the irl. SBAND unt) Billot Dexter ‘Gloria Swanson Delightful Gloria Swanson comes re today in “Don't Change + sg) ody and Je supported by an allstar cast including Elliot Dex | “ter, Lew Cody and Theodore Roberts “Miss Swanson as Leila, the young of James Porter, is attracted} her home by Schuyler Van Sut-| |, @ debonair globe trotter. She away with Sutphen because her ; never spent any moments th ber—he always thinking f his "Afterward, tho, Leila repents leav- ‘Several Plays SSs SSNS 1—Harold Lloyd, at the Clemmer. 2—“Bill” Hart and Mary Thurman, at the Liberty. 3—Mary Pickford, at the Strand. 4—Anita Stewart, Coliseum. 5—Harry Carey, at Colonial. 6—Gloria Swanson, Rez, * | OMY! OMY! IF WE WERE ONLY THERE! OMY! OMY! Tom Mix, who has been work ing on the William Fox ploturtza on of “The Untamed,” the Max Brand story, which Emmett J Flynn directed out on the edge of the Imperial Valley, Cal, dix covered unexpectedly a “speak eany.” Tt happened that the Mix mpany was working in one of the deserted vineyards, which but a year ago Was worth half a mil lion dollars Two of the huge wine vate which had formerly been used in wine making, were pressed Into service by the Mix company, to be filled with water to get a pumping force. There appears to have been considerable settlings at the bot- tom of the vata, and th absorbed by the water result that whe turned on there was @ veritable shower of wine. sale violation of the 18 ment, t of “pep” and action from the cowboys ‘We'll Say William | “The Broadway Bubble” also a Holds Jury Record | Vitagraph play, will soon be com- pleted. This play deals with theat rical life. Elaine Hammerstein, the Selznick star, will soon be seen in one of her best prodtictions, “The Point of View.” Nearly Ready for Showing Many new pictures will be releas €d by different picture corporations in the near future. | “Prisoners of Love,” a Goldwyn | picture, starring Miss Betty Comp. son, is to be released about Janu ary 1. “The Highest Ridder* {s# another Goldwyn play nearly ready for the screen. Madge Kennedy is the lead ing lady in this play The Universal company has two features ready for release. They are “Blue Streak MeCoy,” starring Harry Carey, and “The Adorable Savage,” with Edith Roberts in the lead. The latter play is a thrilling story of the South Seas. Y “The Husband Hunter,” production, starring Elleen is now ready for showing on a fox Percy the © was plenty nm. fitagraph will have ready tn Sep- . “The Prey,” an Alice Joyce Wiliam Nellia, an extra in the cast | of R A. Walsh's new productions, claims a world’s record for jury ser vice, During the past five years he has served on 69 juries, He aa, | _ “The Thug.” with Ida. Darling helped condemn to death bd Innocent | playing an important role, is an.|%reen heroes and 31 guilty villains, other Selanick picture which is near-| free three virtuous but helpless hero- ly completed. | ines, and preserve the moral integrity Charles Ray will soon be seen tn|o¢ 19 m his initial First National picture, | dicts of “not guilty” to a varied as “Forty-Five Minutes From Broad-|sortment of venomous charges Ms Nelis’ convictions, of course, were en Several plays are also booked by (tireiy a matter of directorial instrue motion picture producers for film- tions. ing within the next year. | Jigned leading men by ver-| ae «| Aorness WRITE ACONGENIAL ROLE teeters en em uve on Conway Tearle plays the role of a|important role in “The Palace of) ilm Masher Henry Arthur Jones, whose plays have been seen thruout the United States, in finishing a new photoplay for Paramount, ,which will be pro duced in the Famous Players Lasky udio in New York as soon as com pleted. eee Zona Keefe, in Selznick picture, re TODAY'S PROGKAMS COLISKUM—Asita Stewart im “The low Typhoo.” CLEMMER—Mareld Loyd ta “High { and # a LIBERTY —William Hart in “fend.” Mary Pickford in “Buda” jerry Carer ta “Ballet | roof, REX—Cleria Swansen im “Don't Nusband.” Change Yo j* einen |Farnum to Appear in New Picture William Farnum, casting aside for ———— cently wrote an drticle on the actinic ray, or “Is your face In tune for the jon pleture camera?” It was pub lished and proved such an interest that Arthur Eldridge, of the versity of Hlinois, wrote another ar ticle explaining in deall just why some persons do not photograph as well aa others, eee Arline Pretty ing feminine role in “The Valley Doubt,” her stage plume” to a newspaper reporter Mise Pretty won the prize in a news paper beauty fontest and to the re porter who came to interview she told him her ditemma of not being able to pick out an appropriate stage name, We think the reporter chose a good one, don't you? For “Arline Pretty” is the star's stage name eee EF. Philitps Oppenheim ta now writ ing a series of stories for Paramount. “La La Luc le” Now Being Filmed, O, La! No story, play or scenario offered the public in years has contained of |such a wealth of comedy material as may be found in “La La Lucille,” the recent Broadway musical comedy sucee: which Lyons and Moran have adapted for screen purposes |and are now producing at Universal City Fred Jackson, who wrote “A Full House,” in the author of “La La Lu cite.” Philip Hurn, who adapted Everything But the Truth” for Ly- Unt-| who plays the lead | “non de: | her, | ja time the Western drama, will be Jecen in “If I Were a King” after the w ly McCarthy In this play Mr. Farnum will characterize Francois Villon, a vaga | bond poet, in which role he is said |to display some of the finest acting that he has ever done. ‘ils por trayal of the poet, in this play, is said to be far superior to his char acterization of Jean Valjean, in Hu “Les Miserables,” acclaimed to e one of his best pictures, Tons Clarke will star with |DOWLING FEATURED Joseph J. Dowling, who won world- wide recognition and fame in the Utle role of “The Miracle Man,” has been engaged by Henjamin B. Hamp: ton to play the part of “Uncle Peter Bines* in “The Spenders." “The Spenders” is an adaptation of the novel of the mume name from the |pen of Harry Leon Wilson, and the |character which Mr. Dowling will |portray on the screen in one*which offers him abundant opportunities to jagain demonstrate his histrionic abilities, ory of the same name by Hunt remarkable! | | | | Curtous—Herbert Standing is prob- | ably the ‘oldest actor on the screen. He in 74 years old. Bobby Kelso, of Minneapolis, who is not yet 3, and |who recently was given a art in | King Vidor's “Jack-Knife Man,” ts |Probably the youngest. The other agen you request are as follows Mary McAllister, 10 years; , mo" 40; Theda Bara, 30; Marg rite Clark, 33, and Frankie Lee, § yearn | Hazel Eyes—Betty Compson play 4 opposite Thomas Meighan in The Miracie Man.” Yes, Mr. Meig |han is married, and his wife ts Fran ces Ring. H 38, wix foet tail and weighs 190 pounda He brown hair atid blue eyes. He was born in Pittsburg, Pa, and his address {s Lasky, Hollywood, Cal | J. A. L=No, Mary Pie&kford is not a native of this country. She, was born in Toronto, Canada, 26 Years ago, She haw golden hair | Jamen—Annette Kellerrhan has left! jthe stage, temporarily at least, to ap-| pear in the films There's no doubt | {about her being a wonderful swim. | some remarkahie underwater feats, if | you visit your theatre when it shows her new picture, “What Women| Love.” | (Conducted tm Co-operation With Associated First National Pictures.) Frederick Vroom, who has recent- ly joined the Goldwyn players, be- lieves staunchly that the best educa tion a person can get is by reading the Bible. Between scenes he can always be found reading the Testa- SSI LER 2 AO WILLARD LOUIS ’LL HAVE A REGULAR CIRCUS SOON Willard Louis, whose 235 pounds and good-natured laughing face are seen now in so many Goldwyn pictures, says that the pampered star who has her press agent write reams about her Pekinese or her Persian cat, “has nothing” on him. In fact, growing boastful, he goes on to say, he has’ more animals and more kinds of antmals than any other motion picture actor. He has had to buy a place near Los Angeles to keep all the live stock he possesses. He has jogs, pigeons, pheasants, frogs, pigs, lambs, hares, cats, horses, cows, goats I've got a few other it's hard to remember he says. abbits Probably specimens ‘em all,” Bailey Courthouse Is Reproduced for Film The fi in London has been built in replica at the Blograph studios in New York for a new film, which needs the ‘amous old Bailey courthouse IN “THE SPENDERS” | mer, ana you will see her perform | courthouse in the play. Ten days were spent on the con- struction of the building, and over 10,000 feet of lumber were used. In order to insure absolute accu: racy in the reproduction of the court: house, the services of Boris Koman were enlisted. In Elaine Hammerstein's new play, “Whispers,” the star reporter on a newspaper is assigned to a scandal story, only to fall in love with and marry the heroine. But that’s in the movies! (Great Problem _ Faces Picture | Industry; Pat | “The most serious menace to . |motion picture industry in the ture will be the lack of saa zation in the writing of scenarios, the writers,” said Mr. Charles . the famous producer in @ fo terview, in Paris. “Our young writers of today @o not sufficiently develop their Their desire seems to be to jout as = many stories as | without due regard to thelr | ties, whether good or poor, | stated Mr. Pathe, e | Mr. Pathe believes that good films | depend more on the stories they depict, than they do on stars. ay “If our young writers would take upon them the questian, the motion pictures in # future will show progress 1 of retrogression,” affirmed Pathe. “The motion picture exhibitors sire is to present good pictures the public, but they cannot, if writers do not write That's the problem of the future, the young writers do net their writing, the plays cannot a high standard,” declared Mr, William Faversham's Selznick ture, was shown to President Wil recently at the White ‘House, and is said to have made quite an pression on him. ! ‘pulse-fecler” in “Marooned Hearts,” a National Picture Theatres produc tion. Queer woman! Miss Eileen Percy, the Captivating: Fox Star, Is Devoted to Tennis EILEEN PERCY This charming girl is Eileen Percy, the beautiful Fox Star, who will make her debut as such very soon in “Her Honor the Mayor,” from the stage success by Arline Van Ness Hines, | When Eileen isn’t working on a film production she can be; found on the tennis courts near her home in Hollywood engaged ina closely contested match, If Kileen is as ve fg her hubby and so she returns to him, who has reformed his ly business ways and has be aa immaculate as the man who} bis wife away.\ when playing tennis a8 she is plain. starring production, “The Husband Hunter.” , hi Miss Percy doesn’t have to hunt husbands. Wouldn't you? | “1 love to eat at Boldt’s."—Aav, He has to feel the pulse of | sion, Zena Keefe at infrequent intervals | which | before she consents to nod her head.| Farrar and which Miss Percy recently completed for Fox her second | Darkened Windows,” a forthcoming | | National Picture Theatres produc is the author of two song# she dedicated to Geraldine | ons and Moran, prepared the screen version for the Universal comedy stare j ‘Those who saw “La La Lucille” on | the latter has|the stage will recall eight or nine sung for talking machine records. | very amusing characters. Among the | augh-creating types in the story are the young newlyweds who are fore- ed to pretend a separation in order | to inherit a fortune; another young couple who come to New York for the first time for their honeymoon; two country lawyers intent on get- ting @ fat feo; an ex-vaudeville jug. gier who cannot forget his old pro: fession; a jealous Italian janitor and his extremely homely wife; an Ama zonian female and her hen-pecked husband, a suspiciove “hotel clerk and many others, each of whom con tributes a fair share to the rapid fire comedy in “La La Lucille.” EXTRAS ARE FORTUNATE IN NEW PHILLIPS PLAY Forty dollars a day to sit at a feast that would make the table of Bek shaper of old look like a bread line! Forty dollars a day to watch beautl- | ful dancers execute the latest steps! Forty dollars a day to view life thru the glow of a thousand jeweled | priwms, That's the good fortune of | the extras who are taking part in Dorothy Phillips’ forthcoming pto-| duction. ‘The play, the title of which has not | been given out, is sald to be one of the best that Dorothy Phillips has | starred in. |THAT MOVIE CAMERA HAS HYPNOTIC POWER, SHOWN | It has been discovered that the} motion picture camera possesses a! wierd power of hypnotic suggestion. | By a new application of the diffused | close-up, it is possible to give to the) eye of the camera a psychic power | not unlike that possessed by the pro-| feasional hypnotist. This discovery was made by Allan} Dwan recently while filming William | Allen White's novel, “In the Heart of a Fool.” Hypnotizing the audience with the eye of the camera promises to be one of the revolutionary developments of |the celluloid art, a ording to the |director. It will enable producers to |swing thelr audiences into the spirit of the photoplay at on and to} intensify their interest as the plot} unfolds, he power of photographic sug. gestion, as applied thru the diffused | up for “In the Heart of a Fool,” | used in only two scenes, In both of thede, the audience’ is made to feel} ull the sensations experienced by a al.,) 5 r40n lowing consciousness. Of ntile | ficials of the Mayflower Photoplay | corporation, presenting the feature, | claim this to be one of the most re-| markable effects ever obtained, We'd say that| — while acting, no one need com- Where the Public You don’t see so many Bill Hart pictures nowadays, but when you do see one it is a big one! That is true of the smashing railroad Western now showing here— BILL HART with Hart as a man’s man, a dashing two-gun fighter and as always, a sin- cere artist. After a two- year absence Bill Hart’s famous Pinto pony returns to the screen in “Sand” ‘A tale of ad- | venture and =| love in the red- blooded West _ of yesteryear. |