The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 3

\ | LIBERTY -—--——-® TODAY'S PROGRAMS Marshall Neilan’s “Go and Carpentier tn Clemmer Georges “The Wonder Man Coliseum —Con: Talmadge tn Mughes’ “Borate Desmond tm “The Mayo td “The Red i STRAND || a. | “GO AND GET IT (First National) Kirk connetiy Pat O'Maney | Dinty., Wesley Barry | MOUS Wesley Barry has a prominent role in “Go and Get It.” the famous newspaper play Which comes to the Strand today The play is of two rival newspa-| Pers who are both trying to scoop! ch other on all stories: | “Shut-the-Door" Gordon ts in a con: | spiracy with the owner of a news| paper (which is the rival of the one/ owned by Katherine O'Neil) to crip ple the O'Neil paper so that it can be purchased cheaply Helen Allen, thru friendship with Katherine ©'Neil, gets a job on the O'Neil newspaper, where she makes friends with Kirk Connelly, a young and ambitious reporter Shortly after Connelly gets a “scoop.” but is prevented from pu ting out an extra because of the tricks of Gordon. Later a big story comes up anal Connelly is told to “go and get the story,” and with the help of Helen Allen he gets the story, only after Many thrilling adventures. P eee = CLEMMER “THE WONDER MAN” (Robertson-Cole) Renrt a’ Alour Georges Carpentior Dorothy Stoner : ¥ Binney “The Wonder Man,” with Georges Carpentier playing the leading role, omes to the Clemmer today, and is id to be one of the best bills shown | there this year. The noted French pugilist ts said} to be at his best in this play and his| acting is declared to be first class altho this is his debut as an actor “The Wonder Man” deals with American society life, and Mx Car pentier gives an interpretation of a French secret service man at work in the very heart of Washington's dip- Yomatic and fashionable circles. How Carpentier solves the riddle Which is the basis of the plot is told fm this fact action story of mystery and love. Petite, pretty Faire Binney is the Jeading lady with Carpentier. ee A “SCRATCH MY BACK > Wvidwys) (Yar Romney..... T. Roy Barnes Loton... ldeyd T. Whitlock | “Seratch My Back” is the name of | the humorous play showing at the Liberty beginning today. | ‘This play deals with Val Romney, 10 sees a lady at the op who is g@uffering from an itching back. Val then scratches her back when the lights go out and after the play he ives a note from the lady asking Bim to come and see her. Val thinks she is a flirt, but goes to her house, just the same, and finds that she is in distress. She tells him of an escapade be fore she was married, how she had fun away from the convent she was! attending to go on the stage, and how at the present the man she} went on the stage with had threat-/| ened to show pictures of her, when} fn actress, to her husband. Val helps her to get the pictures Back, and after going thru many| thrilling acts finds out that her hus band had known of the matter all the} time and had thought nothing of it. | T co COLISEUM) © : PERF! CT 7 WoMAN™ | (First National) Mary Burke Constance Talmadge James Stanhope Charlies Meredith Constance Talmadge is at all of her old vamping tricks at the Coll geum in “The Perfect Woman,” Which begins its showing at that the | atre today. Connie has the role of Mary | “Burke in the play, who is at the head | of her profession, vamping. When she hears Jim Stanhope, who is a set woman-hater, give a speech at the Working Girls’ club| she falls In love with him at sight and so she tries to get a job at the plant owned by Jim's father and where he is employed as Junior part Mer. She is turned down because she fs too pretty, so she makes up #0 that she isn't at all pretty looking nd | gets a job at the home of Jim, as gecretary to his mother. As Jim is against the Bolsheviks and as there are a lot in the vicini many attempts are made to “get” him. One hight when the Bolshies come | to the Stanhope home to plant a| bomb all the members of the house- | hold are routed out of bed in their nightrobes. Then Jim sees how pret ty Mary really is, and gives her a week's notice of her dismissal In the next few days he is continu. | ally vamped by Mary, and in the end he gives in to her, after she saves him from death by the Bolsheviks. * | a “A BROADWAY COWBOY” (Pathe) William Desmond | y Francisco Burke Randott, Betty Jordan “A Broadway Cowboy,” featuring William Desmond, is the headline at-| traction at the Rex for the coming week, beginning t Desmond p! art of Burke | Randolf, a Br actor, who In| traveling with a theatrical company in Montana at the time of the story 5 His sweetheart, Betty Jor whom he had met while she was at board.| ing school in w York, lived in| Montana. ‘This picture ts being shown for the | SPF ume in Seattle, Pahe was attending, to | | 9:30 Monday 1—Georges Carpentier in scene Liberty. 4—Agnes Ayres at Winner of Sales Girl Contest to Be Host of Miriam Miriam © ssing oper is having built om at the New Y ph studio to house the win. Sale: t, who will acter lw be her ka’ directic film under the This beauty ¢ d by the May corporation fn engagement of R. A. W teat was ¢ flower Photopl 50 different ci were eligible. ~ —— | COLONIAL | * ~~ : only salesgiris “THE RED LANE” (Universal) Norman Aldrt Frank Mayo Marie Beaulieu Lilian Heh n “The Red Lane,” the drama of the Canadian woods, which comes to! the Colonial today, famous Frank Mayo hag a that of Nor man Aldrich T who r a young story tells of Marie Beat urns from the convent, which her father's home, to find it a barroom and the meeting place of a band of smug. giers. She learns that her father, Vetal, haa pr ed her in marriage to Dave Rol, the chief of the band of law-evaders Marie then flees from her home and is rescued by Aldrich, the young ustoms officer, who is arrayed Against the lawless element. He sees that Marte is cared for by a good fam- fly, and he soon realizes that he is tm ove with her. A short time later Marie is kidnaped by her father, who makes attempts to marry her to Rol by force. Aldrich halts the plot In auick time, but his foes are angry and he is soon accused of the murder of Mari father, who was found dead in the woods, but by an In genious turn of events he is prover innocent, Is victorious over his ene mies, and paves the way to happiness n his romantic love affair iva Wesley “Freckles” Who freckle fre the sald girls n't love a ertainly not Barry » has the Jest phiz in America one « on the made best known if he ever did, he’s here sant act of taking it back by the way, is playing a Marshall Netlan's Jat and Get It, Strand toda engagement, and te which The Star, thru the courtesy of Manager Ralph Ruffner of the Strand theatre, is going to bring every boy and girl in Seattle who fiver sereen. shown star r success, comes to the week or more e in “Go for a |is under 14 to see at exactly 9:30 Mon morning. All the youngsters have to do ts| to elip out the coupon below and |present it at the rand between and 9:30 Monday morning with , which Uncle Sam says he e for war tax. mber, Wes Barry, the freckledest faced kid in the world, Is going to be in the play, so you imply have to come, youngsters Let's see you all there at exactly morning. The doors will open at 9:14, : ustoms officer. | eu,| which the CHAPLIN’ LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Mil- | Seer dred Harria Chaplin is the latest | ford, Fairbanks and Chaplin—to get to file for a divorce. into the divorce court After their want the noted come-|divorces, Mary and “Doug” married Jian to dispose of his pr y.| It was rumored a few days ago the sult ta d.\the Chaplin case would be settled ember of t yut urt What action will take! Wesley Barry, the Most Prominent Kid in World, Will Be Seen by All Youngsters Who Attend Star’s ey | from “The Strand in \Mildred Says She! Wants a Divorce But Does She? MUL DEED Here You Are, Kids—“Go and Get It” THE SEATTLE STAR’S Big Special Show for Children Under Fourteen STRAND THEATRE MARSHALL Clip this Coupon and present at Tox Office with 1 pent for war tax Wonder Man,’ 70 and nd Get It.” at the Clemmer, 2~ 5—W illiam Desmond in sce Wipanily Tearle a Boxer? We Never a sparring partner at the cham; n's |New York traming quarters. | way ts playing the leading role in an R. A. Walsh production for the May iG but manages to steal away twice a week for a bout with Jack In the old days, while in B a ne. |Tearle was a pre al boxer, but J until recently a dark secret. ovie Quizzes} lower ha | band is Joseph M. Schenck and he is Pronident af the company her pictures. Norma's most recent MARVOS | n Tokyo, Japan. Bill Hart haa | m the screen » wel Carmen had the lead. Mary Pick-| place now fs uncertain. Barry and Some of His Lady Friends Clip This Out and “Go and Get It” Years of Age Monday Morning, Aug. 16, 9:80 Feature Attraction: YEILAN’S NEW FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE “GO AND GET IT” that’s all a Constance Talmadge at the Coliseum in Thought He Was! Conway Tearle, according to the| press agent's announce has! | been taken on by Jack Dempsey ns kept this fact} producing | picture in * orma is | 23 and Consta: allie, who |i# the midd appeared in minor roles with Norma and Com Sesnue Hayakawa was} ‘The Perfect Woman, ne from “ “A Broadway ( Cow boy,’ 4 showing at the Rex. 6—Fr lr red’s so Tall He Puts Down His Height in Yards Stunts, Not Even “Would you mind if we Just put it| down th yards, not feet?” querrica| th M wenn paaae wet eemeoorsnlin the Movi es an interviewer at the Goldwyn studio| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14—The asked him how tall he waa, Ae Mr.|@viation world in calling “thumbs re wae chosen to play the part|20WN” on stunt flying of Goliath in Booth Tarkington’s| AToused by tragic death of Edgar's Sunday Courtship,” because | Lieut. Omer ckiear, most daring he was the tallest man to be found |f dare his ‘pilot, Lieut }in California, it is to be believed that | Milton Elliott, rece while he spoke only the truth when he « stunts for the movies, the | &nnouneed that he waa two and four. | Ore conserv e element in flying ope yards in height. |circtes are realizing that “stunt fly- ing” of the sort in which Locklear met his death has done more to r LATEST PATHE NEWS — [itt his cost IS LIBERTY FEATURE ** ° The latest Pathe News, now a part ne of the Liberty program, nearly 'a hundred feet of the first off * of aviation than and > of contains commercial ng in sly handicapped by jeaths 4 pretes me frome the lad & ¢ tte 2 m reckless hazards, expo: glad w have y re Eastern Europe. |sane fiying laws contend. Write to Us Whenever you have &) The Bolshevik-Polish confiict in and | aireaay titan: slldea bas question about actors or pictures.|around Warsaw la interestingly plc ay arge cities have Soa aS wit: teh te sammie. fans arna interestingly DIC! nossed laws ing it Thomas Meighan ts He ts mare | wernnrnrrrnnrrwrrnrnmnnnnrnees_ | 1 over Dury nections, 1 to Frances Ring f the |ing feminine role opposite Willlam |e eri rin at per at rethas j three Ring sisters, Charles More Farnum in “A Tale of Two Cities.” |) 41, “hm ebaingpe a fe married to Melba & ns: Wanda! riilian Gish was the girl in “The |sonmoiee nnae oie re | Hawley iw 26 years old ix $ fering similar legisiation as ” Bee ne | Greatest Question.” Herbert Heyes | ine result of the increasing number | E rma is only one of the ang anna Q Nilsson had the leading " ~- anaes three Talmadge sisters, Her hur! f fatalities from the falling of stunt roles in Rex Beach's Sunset.” tonducted in Ci Assoctated First “Heart of the planes tn rowds The death of Locklear haw brought operation With the situation most foretbly to atte National Pictures.) (tion Atte poor, ob- m9 nc autor to the world’s greatest flyer, and amassing a fortune of $100,000 in a few years, Locklear was killed while perform- ure | ‘The teading dancer and the ent chorus of one of New York's most conaful revues were engaged by Vitagraph for several seenes in “The ing one of the most daring feats yet Prey.” the forthcoming Alice Joyce ted by aviators Special production, His cameramen had become so It is original, unique, gorgeous- ly different! It is one long shout of laughter except where the drama of it grips you with its exciting denouements. It tells you just when to seratch a pretty girl’s left shoul- der—if you don’t know her— and when not to. MACK SENNETT'S “FRESH FROM THE CITY” PATHE NEWS " 3-——Helene Chadwick in scene from “Scratch My Back,” at 6—. Frank Mayo at the Colonial in “The Red Lane.” [No More Airship | par ecg “ook |fell to death. tan “SCRATCH Cast for Chas. © Ray’s New Play Old Sea Salts For the first time in 50 years the captain of the good ship En: klewood, plying between Harlem and Edgewater, N. J., delayed his sailing time for five minutes re ntly in order for Elaine Ham- The femipine roles for “45 cela gently in order for Miaine Ham || From Broadway,” Chartes Ray’s ink nerstein, the Selznick star, to || make the trip to the Selznick || Y%! independent production toe FiaR Fort Lee studio, where she is || National, have been causing Josephs putting the finishing touches to ||de Grasse, Ray's director, @ lot of | her forthcoming production, “The || anxiety, but at last troubles : Daughter of Eve. | been solved, and the completed | for the film version of George M. C han'’s famous stage play beg been announced. Dorothy formerly with the Sennett B | beauties, was picked for the part @ the beautiful and appealing inured to the death-defying actions of the took a chance” that they continued to turn the cranks while Locklear plunged | “man who always 2,000 feet, not knowing that he was) from a large number of anxious hurtling to his death. plicants. Before startling the world with! Miss Devore succeeds Ann his stunt of changing planes in the) who holds the record for tir. Locklear worked In a small £4-/ more leads with Mr. Ray than rage in Fort Worth, Tex., for a few | other young lady of the films. rsa week. At that time he and) Mr. Ray playing the part of Eliott, who had been his chum since | Burns, the small town pugilist, boyhood, were known to their! rest of the cast is as follows: D as reckless motorcycle | yeDonald impersonating Tom | nett, Harry Myers as the By a curious cotneidence, the scene | Krohman, Eugenie Besseter as in which Locklear was killed was| Dean, Hazel Howell as pretty ne in which the “Skywayman,”| Dora Dean, May Foster as @ character in the play he was filming, | ciently tearful Mrs. Purdy and After mounting 8,000 | }am Courtright as the unctious Ai feet in the alr, torches were lit on! Donald McDonald, William © the plane, which made {t appear that | right and Harry Myers have it was on fire. Locklear volplaned | with Ray before, but all the from §,000 to 2,000 feet and entered | are new to the cast. In fact, & nose spin. He never straightened | Resserer, Miss Devore, Miss out, Aviators who saw the accident! and Miss Foster had never met ay that the pilot must have been| Ray before. blinded by the lights on his plane, | ably did not realize he was/ so close to the ground. med. prot Look for another week of hilarious good time! This Theatre Is Now Offering Famous Story ¥ BACK