The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1920, Page 3

™ VA (THEATRE| NO EVERY MARSHALL NEILAN pla is a big one—a sensation. JLo k at “Daddy Long Legs,” “In Old Yentucky,” “Don’t Ever Marry,” “The Hiver’s End.” Satarday this playhoug arshall Neilanfof all— bigges Only a few more chances to see this sensationally beau- tiful photo drama life and advegture on the high seag, of a gun-runner cafry- ing contraband my- f nitions to a South American port fof revolutionary pur- . poses. All fast ac- B.tion. oy ; STRAND NEWS “HOBO” GORDON IN SONGS BURTON HOLMES PRIZMA SCENIC will show the Just til Frida y night, so you haven't much time to lose. First National’s classiest comedy pre- sentation of the sea- | MACK SENNETT’S HE MPATIENT PATIENT HEN-PECKED .HERO “MARRIED LIFE” (Not a war picture) Bacts Paramount Trio “Memories” —Prizma Here You Are, Youngsters --- Read and Wait There's socething big coming off! The Star is going to have a chil | | |dren'x party, and there's going to be | the finest and most thrilling stunts ever performed by movie people known to kiddies and grown-ups all | Here is our plan: | over the world. Through the courtesy of Manager Ralph Ruffner, of the Strand theatre, The Star is going to invite all the children of Seattle to witness & spec: | of Marshall film master It,” the most story ever tacular performance Neilan's tremendous plece, “Go and Get astounding newspaper written, ‘The story is a peck behind the cur tains showing some of the thrills) and romance in the making of a great daily paper. The city editor said to the young reporter: “Three nighta ago, Dr, Ord, the famous surgeon, was found dead in his laboratory with his back broken and not a mark on his body. The next [night the district attorney suffered a similar fate, Last night the same thing happened to one of the most prominent judges in the country. The city is paniostricken, Thou jmnds of people are fleecing, We must have that story, Go and get it Then the young man started out, and boy! the things he went through along perilous ways and paths fraught with danger, fighting, strug sling, battling, with air, water, man and beast he pursued the story and he got it! Talk about stunts and |thrilis, wait until you see this won |derful picture, for it is just that. The entertainment is going to be given free to all kiddies under 14 yearn of age, save for one penny jwhich Uncle Sam must have for war tax, Tomorrow The Star will tell you imore about the show and where to find the coupon which will admit jyou to the party, Watch for it, to mee |FAMOUS NEILAN PLAY |COMES TO STRAND SOON | One of the film sensations of the year, Marshall Nellan’s “Go and |Get It." opens soon at the Strand. . it will be recalled, was re “In Old Kentucky” jer Marry,” and in “Go and Get It,” backed up by the mag THE SEATTLE STAR “Under Crimson Skies,” Play of Adventure, Features Strand Bill Adventure is the principal factor in “Under Crimson Skies,” a thrilling play of the sea, which is playing at the Strand this week. A Latin-American revolutionary battle, a mutiny on the high seas and a terrific night storm on the Pa- cific are among the exciting occurrences in the picture. STRAND Yank Barstow, master of the Southern Crom, and who, when that vemvel had arrived in a South Amer joan port with the supposed cargo of pianos it had brought there, was \nificent First National scale of pro-| convicted of manslaughter because out offering. duction, he presents another knock. | be had killed a man It's the story of rival | against him at sea, cow ho mutinied easily have newspaper concerns and unearths.a| shown up Clayton the owner of the cargo of pianos, which, when way out at sea, Barstow had found to be am- munition, and when he threatened rf sub | to put Clayton in irons the crew to rival|mutinied against him and he was forced to shoot the ringleader. But Barstow didn't tell of Clay. it at Boldt’s."—/ton's real business, not a merchant. ‘UM Tonight and Fri- day, then gone for- ever —a_ brilliant actress in the role of a disillusioned wife— ETHEL CLAYTON (sein q LOVE’ In love with love’ she runs away and\ marries a knave. Then, when the REAL man enters ‘her life— Come and see if you agree with what she dtes! MALOTTE ON THE WURLITZER — Sunshine Comedy SYLVIA FILBERT Singing “My Hero” Coliseum’s News Service |ehild living and Burton, but a gun runner. He kept silent, all because of Clayton's wife and baby daughter, and he went to prison for something for which he really wasn't to blame. Later Barstow escapes from prison, becomes the leader of a band of beachcombers and when the revolu- tion, which Clayton's firearms were for, comes on, he saves the members of the American consulate and then regains his Uberty and reputation. This thrilling story is being told on the screen in “Under Crimson Skies.” at the Strand. eee Robert Clifford, a young and en terpriing member of the New York detective force, sees hin every move and ambition blocked by a superior on the force who is a crook. When Cliffora in given the case of running down Mary Regan, a no torious member of a New York band of master crooks, he sees a chance to get this superior officer fired from the force and try out one of his ideas—that before @ crook should be sent to jail for a crime he commits, the good should be awakened and at tempts should be made to reform him. He tries out his theories and af ter many disappointments and fail- ures, he succeeds, in that the crooked superior officer of the force is fired and Mary Regan ts reformed This story in being told on the screen at the Clemmer this week under the Ute of “Partners of the Night.” eee COLISEUM Ethel Clayton is truly, "A Lady mm Love," in the play of that name at the Coliseum this week in which she ls the star. Miss Clayton has the role of Bar- bara, the heroine, who elépes from the convent school she is attending, with Burton Sedgewick, the rascally younger brother of her guardian, George Sedgewick. Soon she learns that Burton has another wife and fearing ar fraudulent been in- rest because of some schemes in which he has volved, flees the country. Barbara then goes to live with her guardian and his wife Clara, who has a secret admirer in Gilbert Rhodes, an accomplice in Burton's crooked schemes, Barbara then finds herself in love again, with an upright young lawyer, named Brent. When Barbara finds that Clara intends to run away with Rhodes, she follows her to Rhodes’ rooms, discovers Burton hiding there and brings matters to a smashing climax, eee LIBERTY In “Married Life,” Mack Sennett's latest comedy special playing at the Liberty this week, comical Ben Tur pin poses as a football player, who gets hurt in the last notch of a tight kame and is substituted by James Finlayson who wins a last minute victory, After the game, when Phyllis, the college belle, finds that Charlie, her fiance, had been against his own team, she breaks her engagement and becomes engaged to James. Married life is sweet for Phyllis and James until Phyllis writes @ play and prepares to present it. James is opposed to the play and threatens divorce. Finally the play 1s given and Ben is hurt in the play. When he is went to the hospital he is given so much gas that he rises and floats around the hospital. Later a fight in an airplane way alove the clouds is staged, In the end Phyllis and James are reconciled. eee REX In Douglas Fairbank’s latest play, “The Mollycoddle,” the attraction at the Rex this week, one of the most | TODAY'S PROGRAMS LIBERTY—Mack Seanett’s comedy, , “Marvied Life.” CLEMME K—tevey Grott's novel, } ear? i te Page { COLsanUn — Bihet ia “A in Lo wonderful transformations ever seen occurs, Douglas has the role of Richard Marshall, an American, who, unfor- tunately, has been raised in Eng land from an early age and who has the typical English | jacquired all | characteriayon, While trayeling In Spain he meets a party of Americans and one mem. ber of the party, Virginia Hale, is expecially interested in him and wants him to be a real American and not a fastidious Englishman. Whengthe party is ready to sail for America, all want to bring him along except the host, who ts bring ing them to America on his own meamers Three boy members of the party then secretly take Marshall on the boat. When they finally arrtve tn Amer- ica the transformation is becoming evident and when Marshall rescues @ beauty in distress, outwits a villian |and does many other chivalrous and |daring deeds the transformation of Marshall from a “Mollycoddie” Eng: lishman into @ real American is com- plete, COLONIAL Way up in the Canadian woods lived Marcene with a woman whom she thought was her aunt, but who in reality was a rejected suifor of Marcene's father and who had stolen Mareene in revenge. One day Darrell Thorne, a young composer, came to the part of Canada where Marcene lived for inspiration for a symphony. He met Marcene and fell in love with her. He then goes back to the states to publish his xymphony and later when he comes back for Marcene he finds that she and her little child are dead After many years of wandering he meets Marcene's sister and mar. ries her. Later he returns to the seene of his first romance and finds that Marcene had turned up alive with her baby girl. He asks her forgiveness and his wife says she will give him up for her sister's happiness, but it is too late for the little broken butterfly, and instead of happiness, death stalked in, This play, “The Broken Butterfly.” is playing at the Colonial until Fri- | day night. The greatest balloon factory in the United States is at Akron, 0. 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There ure no dull “Scratch My Back," the action be. |ginning with the first title-flash and never lagging un instant until the |final “fadeout.” But wit is more to the point, the comedy in different. It's a humorous story with a dis | tnet plot. ‘The fun all starts when Val Rom- ney (Barnes) leans over and scratches the twitching back of a lovely girl at the opera. Val has a reputation for always doing just what he wants to and as he had suffered tortures at & previous society affair, when [hie back itched and couldn't be |weratched, he feels that he is doing j@ real act of charity. The girl, it |develops, in in deep trouble, the vio- |um of a blackmailing dancing ma» ter. Of course she thinks that any man with the initiative Val displays would be a loyal champion to a dam ‘nel in distress, 80 sho slips him a note and asks him to call, He does, and the circumstances that arise | through his interference are some of the funniest ever screened. DOUG AND JACK BOX AT THE LIBERTY THIS WEEK One of the interesting features of the latest Pathe News now on at The Liberty, & snappy boxing match between champion Jack Demp- sey and Douglas Fairbanks, recently held in New York Ci TONIGHT and FRIDAY— ROY SCOP’S 6 LIBORIUS HAUPTMAN, Di Concerts Afternoon and Evening CONCERT ORCHESTRA Be Here Soon moments in| Satisfactery Terms Always THE GROTE-RANKIN GOf OFTO F KEGEL, President Tennessee Red Cedar Chests Special $36.90 Your valuable apparel if kept in one of these fine aromatic red cedar Chests will be safe from dust and destructive moths. These beau- tifully finished chests are 42 inches long, 20 inches high and 20 inches deep, made with in- terlocked corners, brass lock and hinges; priced very special, each $36.90. 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