The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1920, Page 3

Gy) cat Par he er hw hed First National is presenting here this week a story that has one veal thrill to about every ten laughs— ‘CONSTANCE TALMADGE In “THE Perfect Woman’ And the woman still pursued him! You'll see 1920 styles in vamping when you see this comedy. * * MALOTTE on the WURLITZER Paramount Magazine * GEORGE BEBAN’S BOY WANTS TO BE BUILDER George Beban's talented little 5- year-old son, “Bob White” Beban. has one great ambition. He craves to be a real honest.to-.goodness car- | penter, wear overalls and be able to| hamnter ‘ and saw from morn till | might. During the filming of “One | (Man in a Million,” George Beban's 4 photoplay, little “Bob White,” Plays an important role in the ® ‘picture, used all his spare time in ) ‘@eeking boards to nail down or saw Upon. In view of the charm of a Bammer and pocketful of nails on the Uttle fellow, the studio carpen. ters held a meeting at which all studio players, including Mr. Beban, were present. The chairman of the tarpenters’ jocal made an ‘address in behalf of “Bob White,” concluding by giving him a union card and tell- tng him that from then on he was “fellow worker.” Now “Bob White’ Pas a regular job to fall back ypon & Papa Beban cancels him from his making. “Gee, but I love Boldt’s French try "Adv. Beautiful Colored Scenic 1,000 POUNDS OF HARMONY Stammerers, Attention Are you subject to stammer. ing? Martha Mansfield, formerly a Ziegfeld Follies’ girl, knows of a friend who stammered and got rid of her trouble by striking her hand against a table, or her knee pronouncing the word at the same time. Mins Mansfield also claims that her friend discovered that by reading aloudwith every tick of the clock @ smooth, running ut terance coukd be develeped. She is appearing opposite Eugene O'Brien in the forthcoming Selz- nick pleture, “The Wonderful Chance.” , Doris Kenyon, thd charming star of many pleasing photoplays, is now scoring a triumph in “The Harvest Moon,” after the story by Augustus Thomas. Miss Kenyon, not content with only being an actress, is an au thoress of no little note, she having recently completed her third book of verses, which will be published in the fal. TODAY'S PROGRAMS Strand—Marshall Nellan's “Go and Get it Carpe Coliseum: nee Talmadge tn a. Liberty=-Rupert Hughes “Herateh mm “The Frank Mayo tn “The Ted | STRAND | | "Go and Get It," the wonderful newspaper play at the Strand this | week, it a play which porays how | la newspaper is run. | The play is of a man known as} | oshue thedoor Gordon,” who is in a conspiracy with the owner of a news: paper, which ts the rival of the one owned by Katherine O'Neil, to erip |ple the O'Nell newspaper so that it joan be bought cheap. | Helen Aten and Kirk Connelly are two reporters on the O'Nell newspa per and are great friends Once when they get @ scoop on a story Gordon wrecks the O'Neil newspaper's press so they cahnot get an extra out. | Later a big story comes up, three | prominent men are found dead, each with a broken back, on three succes: | sive nights. The city editor tells| Connelly to get the story. He then | goes out and tries to get it and fina} ly is successful and, with the help of Helen Allen, gets one of the greatent | scoops on record, only after many | amazing experiences, He then wins | promotion and a bride, eee | COLISEUM Constance Talmadge sure docs | show can “vamp” tn her latest play, “The Perfect Woman. is drawing many to the Coliseum | this week. | | Constance has the role of Mary | Blake, a firstclass “vamp,” and} who is a member of the Working | | Girls’ club. One night Jim Stanhope, a very rich young man who is a junior partner in a shipyard and who ts & woman hater, talks to the mem bers of the club on a character analysis system he has put in use at his shipyard to test the charac ter and fitness for positions, He also gives them a talk on the Bolsheviks, saying they should be deported Mary falla in love with Jim at sight and determines to get a job at his office. She is turned down because she couldn't pase the character analyn principally on account of her |dDeauty. She then goes home and makes up #0 she inn't so pretty | and later gets a job as Jim's see retary, at his home At night, tho, Mary took off her | dimguise. And once, at night, when the Bolsheviks raided the Stanhope home, because Jim had been saying | sdme not nice thingn about them, | Jim sees how pretty Mary really is, when all the members of the household come downstairs tn their night robes. Ho then gives her @ week's notice of her dismissal, but all that week Mary tries to win Jim |to her by the “vamping” process, land she finally does ty saving Jim| jane night later from the Bolsheviks } ee of all who appy) LIBERTY Val Romney had the distinction | of being a man who “always did what he wanted to." Thin, at times, got him into a lot ef trouble. One night at an opera there was) }a lady sitting in front of him with 1 beautiful back and he saw her shoulder bindes slightly twitching. Be understood what this meant at! once—she was suffering from the same thing that he suffered a Now Showing—the biggest hit in months— Marshall Neilan’s Latest First National super-production— ET I It’s amazing and fascinating—shows how a news- paper man ferrets out a whole chain of crimes—big sensations are crowded into it. Prizma Colored Scenic—“Magic Clay” Burton Holmes Mutt and Jeff | Agnes Ayres and Patrick O'Malley, as they appear in “Go and Get It,” the interesting newspaper production featuring the Strand pro, ics to be ont by screened. while ago, her back itched, and cireumstances did not permit her to scratch it, so Val stooped over and scratched her back! He was positive this would et him Into trouble and he waa not! surprised when she slipped him a| It said for him to go to her note. house at 10 the next morning. She told him of an escapade of hers when young—how she had run away |rhe was on the stage with bad now the stage and how the man threatened to show pictures of her when an actrem to her husband, and she did’ not want her husband to know of her escapade, Val agreed to help her out and so they went to the man’s house and Val paying had the money the man raid they would have to pay. After | that the had many experiences they find her hushand had known of matter all of the time and thought nothing of I. This story, “Seratch My Back,” is being shown on the screen at the Liberty this week. eee CLEMMER | Henri D'Alour was a member of the French secret service and he was nent to Washington to discover the thieves who robbed the French gov- ernment of some valuable bonds. He trails them to a famous Wash ingtSn home and finds that they had figured in many robberies there. He waits a while, however, before arrest. ing them, TY Alour’s actions seem surpicioun to The members of the home in Washington which he frequents, and an the Washington police are also looking for the same thieves he is looking for, once he is nearly ar rented. ‘The man whom he has spotted ar one of the thieves is also the rival for the hand of the girl he had met and fallen in love with at the Wash- ington home. Later, after many thrilling experi- “What delicate got the pictures without | ram this week. The play is declared by crit- the most realistic newspaper pictures ever ences, he rounds up the thieves and is acquitted of all suspicion by the members of the Washington house hold and wins the girl he loves. Georges Carpentier, the famous French pugilist, is starring in this play, “The Wonder Man,” which is showing at the Clemmer this week. A eee COLONIAL Lane,” with Frank Mayo and Lillian Rich tn the star roles, is | pleasing many at the Colonial, where it is showing until Tuesday night. ‘The play is of Marie Beaulieu, who, of returning from the convent school she had been attending to her home on the Canadian border, finds that it In the meeting place of a band of smugglers, and she also finds out that her father intends to give her in marriage to Dave Rol, the leader of the smugglers. She runs away and ts rescued by Norman Aldrich, « young customs of. ficer, who sees that she is cared for by a respectable family. Later Rot kidnaps Marie and then Aldrich goes and saves her. Soon after, Marie's father ts found dead, and Aldrich ts accused of the crime, but Aldrich proves himself in nocent, breaks up the smugglers’ traMec and wins happiness for him. self and Marie, the girl he loves. cee REX ‘Burke Rangotph wasan actor, and while touring the Weet tn an act of his, entitled, “A Western Town,” he tont all of his clothes except his stage cowboy costume, and he was com pelled to wear it on the street. His principal object In playing out Went was because Betty Jordan, the girl whom he fell In love with in New York, live out there near Winslow, Montana. . ‘The sheriff of Winslow county was in love with Retty, and when he heard of her love for the actor he isuued a warrant for his arrest. Only having his cowboy costume to wear came in handy then, because he carried @ gun around with him in this costume, and for a while avoided arrest. Later he was ar rested, but after many thrilling ad ventures ho escapes and wins Betty from the sheriff. WILL ROGERS IS THE FRIEND OF ALL DOGS Will Rogers is out as a rival to the Bidea-Wee. Ho admits, himeelf, that he has started a home for poor dogs on hin place near Los Angeles. ‘The beginning of it was while he wax out on location in his next Goldwyn Ba es Here’s as mean a villain as ever blackened a screen! Also a pretty woman, married, but not to the hand- some hero, who protects her from the villain—6 acts of hot comedy. MY RUPERT Now here— “SCRATCH BACK” y HUGHES MACK SENNETT COMEDY “Fresh From the City” PATHE NEWS t picture, “Honest Hutch.” It was nec: exsary to have a number of ill-fed dogs in the picture, and they were secured from the locat pound. On the last day at location, the property man was about to send the dogs back to the pound, when Rogers stopped him, He “allowed as how” he had grown fond of the dogs and had decided to take all niné of them home with him. And now those dogs won't be of any service in pictures, ‘even, becanse they have been so well fed that they are growing fat and sleek. The Chinese regards the peach as the most healthful of fruits. LAST TIMES MONDAY and TUESDAY FRANK MAYO “THE RED LANE” A Drama of the North Woods Other Subjects CONCERT ORCHESTRA VAL HUBER, Conductor ‘Seattle Kids Had aGrand Time at Party Did Seattle t | and come to The Star's party at the youngeters turn ou Strand this morning? | Ruffner, of the Strand person who'll |\ Manager theatre, is one say they did, and that they turned out in full force, too, | Millions of them were there, there | |neemed—a good figure in the thou- |sands there were, | | Somehow or the other they all |managed to get in the Strand and |they enjoyed one of the best trents of the ye the wonderful newrpa |per play, “Go and Get It.” And way they did enjoy every moment of that play, the thrilling adventures of the daring reporter | and how he unearthed @ great my» tery, whfch had baffied the police.| The only thing the matter with |the show, thewe Seattle kids will tell | you, was that It was altogether too ‘short. So interesting was the play,! |they’ll may, that they could have |mpent all day seeing it Some of the parents accompanied the youngsters and they also thought | it as one dandy play. ©." was the remark of all,! “wouldn't it be swell if The Star |would give,a party like this every day.” agree with them, {t sure would, We saw that show our- selves, and it sure was, without! |doubt, one ewell play. Guy Empey Says His First Play, “Oil,” Will Be A-1 In announcing the organization of Guy Empey Productions, Inc., of which he is president, the star-pro- ducer disclosed the news that his company will make a series of com edy-dramas of American life, of which the first is “Qi.” “This ple ture,” says Mr. Emphy, “typifies to |my mind the type of photoplay which audiences everywhere are most de sirous of seeing. In the first place, it is @ story of the lives of Amer- icans—even as you and I—portray ing them in their business adventures and in the romance of their every: day life, “Our first pleture, ‘O11,’ {ustrates our program, In the first place, tt tells the story of the greatest ro mance in American history since the gold rush of 1849 and, as a matter of fact, the forty-niners pale into colorless insignificance before the vivid rush of events in the various recent oll booms. There is no doubt but that there are more investors in ol] companies than in any other individual industry and while it is true that @ great majorty of these investors have plunged unwisely, It is just as true that milliong upon milfions in our population are vitally interested in the various aspects of the oll industry. In this connection I can safely say that ‘Oil' will reveal to the American public tho inside machinations of the vultures that Prey upon the would-be investor, and at the same time the picture will also show the legitimate methods of oll production and the manner in which actual fortunes have been made— and sometimes lost, legitimately—at the oll fields. This week, Jack Dempsey in the final episode of “Daredevil dack,” and this feature film— flrst time in Seattlo— William Desmond ALL WEEK GEORGES CARPENTIER The Idol of France, World War Hero, ropean avyweight Champion. Gentleman! —IN— “The Wonder Man” An Absorbing Drama of American Society CLEMMER MUSIC Liborius Hauptman, Director. CORINNE GRIFFITH TO PLAY DUAL ROLE Corinne Griffith goes to two ex tremens in the matter of dress in “The Broadway Bubble,” her new Many Airplane Scenes Are in “Trumpet Island” | Some of the most remarkable ain Vitagraph production dealing with| Plane scenes ever made by « motiog theatrical life, which is nearing com-| picture camera are shown ia 7 pletion. Miss Griffith, famous for|‘“Trumpet Island,” the Tom Terrias her beautiful gowns and her grace! production which will be presented | in wearing them, dresses in a strik-|by Vitagraph in September, The ing manner as @ society woman who) pictures show an airplane fighting would be an actress, and in the|the elements during a severe elee plajnest manner porsible as Wer poor| trical storm and its final winter, Miss Griffith playa both|on Trumpet Island. There is noma roles. lture faking. Satisfactery Terms Always re GROTE-RANKIN OTTO F. 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