The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1920, Page 3

This playhouse has been fortunate in ob- taining, for showing Saturday, the sensa- tional 8-act masterpiece— If you want a new sort of thrill and something to remember and talk about for six months to come, see this one. a8 ——— may eID COM SCUMINBER TW a | Home of 100 er Cent Pictires i Just Till Friday Night Son eas sil Va day night only to see one of the most origi- nal and refreshing of all comedies with thrills— | RUPERT | HUGHES’ It has the careful presentation that First National | al- ways gives its pic- tures. vamping. Connie does all the matri- monial game-hunting and the consequences are novel and humor- ous. “SCRATCH MY & A Ck” Together with MACK SENNETT’S “Fresh From the City” A farce with all the favorites Pathe News Frances Drager, Violinist Hayden, Hall & Snyder in a song prologue is the feature Paramount Magazine Natural Color Scenic “Penny Wise” TODAY'S PROGRAMS ST RAN D—Marshall Nelian'’s “Ge end Gee It” CLEMMER—Geerges Carpentier in “The Wender Man.” “The Perfect Woman,” LINERTY—Napert Hughes’ “Horateh Cd Back.” REA—Wi Deomend im “The Bread- REX “BIN” Desmond, who is playing the star role in “The Broadway Cowboy,” showing at the Ret this week, sure does show in the picture that he can be a regular Western cowboy when he wants to, He has the role of Burke Randolph, ‘an actor, in the play, who meets and falls in love with Betty Jordan, whom he met in New York where he was acting and she Was attending school, Boon after, tho, to her home tn Montana, and Burke has to go with his road show. when the sheriff of Winslow county, where Betty lived, and who was in love with Betty, heard that she cared more for Burke than for him, he is. sued warrants for the actor's arrest. Adventures piled high for Burke, but he pulled thru them all and final ly won the “only girl.” eee CLEMMER “The Wonder Man," with famous |Georges Carpentier in the leading at the Clemmer this week. has the role of Henrl| mmber of the French) . In this picture, who is sent to Washington to round up & gang of crooks who have stolen some bonds from his government. Stoner and they both grow to like each other very much. One of the thieves whom D'Alour is after ts his rival for Dorothy's hand. Later, when he has all the evidence he wants, he gets the men he is after and wins Dorothy. eee COLISEUM Mary Burke was a pretty and cap tivating young miss who all her life had always gotten what she wanted by & process all her own—‘vamp- ing.” When Mary heard James Stan- hope, who was a woman hater and ® junior partner [na large shipyard. give a mpeech before the members of Working Girl's club, to which sl belonged, she determined “to wet” him, ‘The first step was to get a job at his office, but she ts turned down be. cause she is too pretty, and her “vamping” didn’t do her any good. She then went home and made up ro she looked altogether different, ap plied for @ job and got it as his sec retary, at his home. Later, however, Jim finds out her deception, but Mary Is out to win him, it being leap year and all. In the end she succeeded and reforms the “womanhater.” has the role Constance Talmadge of Mary Burke tn this play, “The Perfect Woman,” showing at the Coliseum this week. eee LIBERTY T. Roy Barnes, the noted come- dian with the big smile is prov. ing to be a favorite with Seattie | movie goers by the crowds which are daily packing the Liberty to see him in his latest comedy, the famous Ra- pert Hughes’ play, “Scratch My Back.” Helene Chadwick and Lioyd Whit lock assist Barnes in this picture, Roy Barnes has the role of Val Romney, “who always does what he wants to do.” Sometimes this gets him into a lot of trouble and ao he expected something would befall him, when, at an opera, he scratched @ lady's bac No, he didn't do this out of fun. The lady's shoulders were twitching and he knew that she/| was suffering from an itching back. He knew how it felt, too, when your back itched. He had been thru the same experience before, It was, you see, purely out of pity that he scratched her back. It did get him into some trouble, and the experiences he had were enough to satisfy him for a long jtime after, STRAND “Go and Get It,” the famous Mar shall Neilan newspaper play, is still continuing to draw large audiences at the Strand, where it is showing Betty goes back | Later they meet in Montana, but} “The Broadway Cowboy,” With William Desmond, Is Rex Feature jrole, ts the pleasing play showing } William Desmond is the star in this play, “The Broadway theatre. mond is assisted in the play b Delmar. reporter on the O'Neill paper and he & great friend of Helen Al len, & new reporter on the paper. Once Kirk gets a “scoop,” but thru the tricks of Gordon is prevented from putting out an extra Later Kirk gots a big story for his paper which the other paper didn't have. ‘This wins him promotion and the girl he loves, Helen Allen but who, in reality, was Katherine O'Neil, the owner of the paper. The lady who posed as Mis#/ O'Nedl was ber wecretary. eee COLONIAL “Nothing But Lies,” with Taylor ing a decided hit at the Colonial since It began showing yesterday, Taylor has the part of George| Cross, who, in order to keep & friend of his from getting into trouble, has to lie, His friend had sent some Bolshe vik propaganda to @ newspaper tn- stead of the advertising copy which should have gona Crosa, not wanting his friend to get in trouble, takes all the blame and tefs a bushel or more of lies, tea After much @xcitemént the play ends with fairnens to all sides, Seena Owen t# vacationing at one of the California beaches. She is surf fishing, hiking, playing golf, motoring and otherwise enjoying a Perfect rest. bug Boldt'’s apple pie in Aay. “Gp good TONIGHT AND FRIDAY— LAST TIMES Georges Carpentier “THE until Friday night. The story tells of two rival news Papers and a man known as “Shut- the-door” Gordon, a spiracy with the owner of its rival to 80 neglect the paper that it can be | boughten cheaply. | When Katherine O’Nefl comes to take control of her paper after a long absence, she having left the care of the paper with Gordon, business then | starts to increase, | Kirk Connelly is a very ambitiow Friday will bring the last showings of this high-geared comedy of laughs and action— “A Broadway Cowboy” With William Desmond at his best Jack Dempsey chapter of : ‘Daredevil Jack’ tyember of the staff of one paper, who is in a con: | CLEMMER MUSIC y For New Styles and Pretty Arms | (Beauty Notes) | Women are fast learning the value lof the use of delatone for removing or fuzz from face, neck or arms. paste is made with some powdered jelatone and water and spread on the hairy surface, 0 or three minutes it is rubbed off, the skin washed and every bit of hair has dis- |appeared. No fallure will result if you are careful to buy genuine dela tone and mix fresh as wanted easy t to, prjeortione low ahe a tall, oftrective, men. lly alert and in entilet In the Good-bye || Become Slender and Stay So | ba snd scsi asisoniig 7 redwood | inaeeing “KK! Hh On ale, Ame of tat Ea ae haa better health. Why met you? | {) eelf-treatment. In Washington he meets Dorothy| Cowboy,” being shown for the first time in Seattle at the Rex Above is a scene from the stirring picture. Des- y Betty Francisco and Thomas | STRAND NEWS FEATURES |VIEWS OF MT. RAINIER The Strand News Service this week | contains the pictures recently taken | 1m an airplane Might over Mt. Rainier and the surrounding country. Bome whom he sup; was! wonderful views, heretofore unobtain- able, are accurately shown. | | | Holmes in the leading role, ts goor-| ES TODAY AND FRIDAY or THIS DOUBLE BILL —AND— ‘I “Fighting Pals” | WESTERN DRAMA CONCERT ORCHESTRA VAL HUBER, 221-Third Ave ‘COR. .UNINERSITY BUNIONS! Pain Stops Instantly— Hump Vanishes TRY IT AT MY RISK New, marvelous way to treat bun- jons. Stops pain almost instantly— the ugly 4 tired, swollen, ‘burning condition You tector, no leathe it ‘ masz fesse when es Searen Keep tine "ade send oh ae ea § d. Uart Brigtaia, Lae. DD-84, Station F, New York ‘Black Beauty,’ Famous Story, Being Filmed| “Black Beauty,” the famous classic | | known to readers in every language | | all over the world, is being filmed by | ment made this week by Albert 1. | Smith, president of that company. Every effort is being made to have Anna Sewell's appealing story made into a special production of a caliber | that will make it occupy an outstand jing position among the big special film offerings of the coming season. A period of about four weeks was occupied with the animal continuity | with which the pleture opens and clones—Black Beauty's life story as told by himself. In the midst of this autoblography of a horse, the simple, homely characters of the English countryside desribed in the book are introduced, and their activities as well as those of Black Beauty among them, will form the film tale. | WILL BE NEW | TYPE OF PICTURE | It fm believed that thin picture will | prove something entirely original in | the annals of film production. Surely | no story of this type has ever been filmed anywhere, and shotild meet the constantly tnerensing demand for | “something new.” The entire Went was scoured for the proper types of horses. The suc | cenn of the picture rests more on the | proper selection of the animals than | on thone of the human actors, as any lof the millions who have read the | book would say. Black Beauty must | be filmed at three different stages in | his career. Therefore, a small colt, a yearling, and a 4year-old—all blooded animals—had to be obtained lto carry the parts. All are beautiful | animais, and the grown horse ts one well calculated to play the role and win the sympathy necessary to its successful portrayal SUCH A PICTURE RARELY FILMED It is rare that such a heart-intereat | story is available for the screen. "Black Beauty” will be filmed in the simple narrative style that made it #0 human tn type. The simple drama of its homely ¢ the big mom “Black Beauty” ts being reproduced | it Is designed to be a picture that all memory, as doen the book. Well known players appear in the special east, and each player was selected | |for particular fitness for the role. | | ‘This in itwelf consumed a great deal | of time preliminary to the filming, as | jthe roles and the types required are | of the mont exacting order. | George Randolph Chester, famous | }as an author, has been busy for sev-/ eral months preparing the sereen | version of “Black Beauty,” in col-} lnboration with Mra. Chester, Mr.| and Mra. Chester are regarded as su-| | per-epeciniists in this particular di- vision of literary work. melodrama, love and laughs—First National's big production, here un- til Friday night, of— Marshall Neilan’s Peg? The plot of which solves a series of baffling mur- der mysteries with the aid of airplanes and ex- press trains. —- PARAMOUNT TRIO PRIZMA SCENIC STRAND NEWS BURTON HOLMES MUTT AND JEFF will love and one that will live in’]) | It’s the last word in | 1 | ll Wi | f Satisfactery Terms Always | me GROTE~RANKIN ee PINE ST. we FUT AB, a = =| OTTO F. KEGEL, Preatéent' Vitagraph, according to an announce. |f) Twenty-Three Hardwood Kitchen Tables Are on Sale Friday at / $5.95 Each Substantial- bles in the | nat ura | ; wood. —These can be finished to match the wood- work of the kitchen. Will be on sale Friday at the very special price, each $5.95. ae There are only twenty-three of these Tables available at the prices quoted. 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