The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 3

TODAY'S PROGRAMS LIBERTY—Chartes Ray in “The Vi- lage New | CLEMMER—Viclet Heming in “The Cont.” COLISEUM—“Thieves of the Night.” STRAND—Fannie Hurst's “Mumer- aque REX—Themas Meighan in “The Prince Chap. COLONIA L—Redert Warwick in “New York, City of Masks.” OAK—Ceocil DeMille’s “Don't Change Your Husband” begins Sunday [ STRAND a “HUMORESQUE” (Paramount) Vera @ Deore Da Robby < Miriam Pattista Minnie Ginsverg Pay CMORRER BE,” a story of uni Versal understanding and ap Peal, treating of a theme that knows othing of the narrowness of creed EYor. race, language or social strata i be the feature attraction at the rand beginning today It is Fannie Hurst's beautiful story of the New York Ghetto, written with the colorful effect that only Fannie Hurst knows so well, and Which was read by millions when it Fan in the Cosmopolitan magazine “Humoresque” is described as a Picture that will never be forgotten, Because mother love is forever living eee CLEMMER sEMMER | “THE COST” (Paramount) Pauline Gardner . Violet Heming Col, irdner Edwin Mordant Mra Gardner Mre. Jane Jenni Raiph Kell. Violet Heming, late star of the stage play, “Three Faces East,” and im the Paramount production, “Every is the featured player in ." & picturization of David. Graham Phillips’ novel of the same mame.“ Tt is a story of college and political life, with Mixs Heming appearing as uline Gardner, who despite the| % Opposition of her mother and father marries John Dumont while she is still in boarding school. Paul- ine later regrets her hasty marriage. eee LIBERTY 4 “A VILLAGE SLEUTH” (Paramount) Wilttam Wells Pinky Wagn' David Keene Dr. Roberts , _ Those who see Charlie Ray in “The Village Sleuth,” his new picture, @pening at the Liberty today, will | Marvel at the versatility displayed by ‘this clever chap. Charlie has always Been connected with country boy | Foles, and that’s what he starts out be in “The Village Sleuth.” He @ mania for running down clues his disguises are the envy of town police force. But one day iy Wells, as they caf him, actu- does become implicated in a mys- that savors of the real thing. then folks sit up and take no Chart Winifred W a Dick Rush - Donald MacDonald FRESHERES COLISEUM ES OF THE NIGHT” (Paramount) jestone......... Janice Wilson ik Canaitia. .. Jack Gilbert d Huddleston Spottiswood Aitken < seaeeeeesessWealey Barry R. L. Stevenson's popular story, “The Pavilion on the Links,” has been transformed into a film play,| and under the title, “Thieves of the/| Night,” opens today at the Coliseum. | As in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”| ané “Treasure Island.” Stevenson! draws his characters with startling realiam and surrounds them with a web of intrigue which is unfolded in & series of exciting events. An Ital- | 5—Scene from “Thie | film hero, and the present is the re cs 2. 1—Scene from “The Cost,” Clemmer; 8 of the Night, Comedian Is Sued for $404,338.22 M i i2Z LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4.—Larry ovie l cs Semon, film comedian, was named as defendant in a suit for $404,338.22| (Conducted tn Co-operation With filed In the federal court here yester: | 44s0ctated Firat National Pictures) day by the Vitagraph company. Dam-| J. M. Jones.—-You ask us to tell Ages are sought because of Semon’s | YOu how to spell the name of the ac alleged failure to carry out hig con-| ‘ress who is advertised as “The Cam tract for 12 pictures a year, and |? Girl.” We presume you mean De alleged expensive methods used by Cassinelli, No: she does not the actor in an attempt to force the | h#il from Spain. She was born in company to release him from the New York city. contract | 2 Semon is paid $2,500 weekly, the/ complaint said Lexington Fritai Brunette are one and the same Actress. She may be reached at the Hollywood hotel, Hollywood, Cal, eee Farnum Fan.—You win, William and Dustin Farnum are brothe: | not cousins. HART SENDS SADDLE TO YOUNG ADMIRER WASHINGTON. — A handsome saddle bearing the inscription, “To Gordon Grayson from Bill Hart,” has been recelved by the @yearcld son of the president's physician from the “movie” actor. Hart is the boy's Statistician.—The Capitol |in New York city jin New o¥rk city Movette —We Monroe Salisbury ever appeared on the concert stage. However, in his — — cartier career he did study both mu - i [nlc and art. It is true he supported Vacation Time on the stage the late Richard Mans This ts the time of year when the | Held. motion picture stars leave the stu dios and seek the open country for a welhearned rest. * Re, Thomas salled August 11 for | pa i AOE ag ne Ee 2 . accom: Tir r - cor nf Stee ogy by dott ee | Francie X. Bushman’s name stands Eugene O'Brien and his mother are | fF Xavier. We are unable to ancer resting at Bar Harbor and Poland | ‘in whether or not he is going to pi nal |return to the screen. Owen Moore is in Europe and ex-| rie pects to remain there several weeks. | Conway Tearle is spending his brief vacation fro mthe silver sheet trying to catch fish in the moun . theatre never heard sult of @ story appearing in a paper telling of the youngster’ admiration. , eee Mrs. Jackson.—Jack Dean is Fan | Sle Ward's husband. . Clerk.—Florence Vidor is 25 years old. She has an oltve complexion, brown hair and eyes. Charlotte Walker is Eugene Walter's wife. Florence Brunette and | that} tains. | David Powell weighs 169 pounds. At ways send your manuscripts direct to fan secret society, whose emblem of tragedy is a white circle, forms the main theme of the plot. . ee “THE PRINCE CHAP” (Paramount) Thomas Char Kathlyn Williams ene Lila Lee mn ‘Wm. Peyton. mn. “ The indiscretion of smal! children Often causes embarrassment to their parents and others. In “The Prince Chap.” opening at the Rex today, the innocent words of a little girl cause What appears at the time to be a tragedy of the heart, but which later turns out for the best “The Prince Chap” is Thomas Meighan’s first starring vehicle. me COLONIAL y: reer ors 7 MASK: ommy Trotter Robert Warwick | Misa Einsdaic } 4 x McFadden Edward Johnson “New York, City of Masks,” is the photoplay in which Robert Warwick eomes to the Colonial today. | The story deals with a romantic group of foreign noblemen and Ihdies | who dre working in New York in humble occupations and concealing | their identities. Warwick is a noble-! “man-chauffeur in love with another | member of the camouflaged group. Their happiness is threatened by the wnderhand methods of a certain rich young bounder, but everything re suits happily. (Paramount) James Denby Porter... Elliott Dexter Talia Porter, his wife....Gloria Swanson “Don't Change Your Husband,” the Cecil De Mille picture which opens at the Oak theatre Sunday, is a new| fersion of the familiar trouble—a bvely romantic young wife, a hus. 14 immersed in business and neg ul of his wife, and a debonair ing architect. The wife leaves her husband under the spell of the new comer’s romantic promises and lives to fepent and return to the husband ghe 60 foolishly deserted. Wiliam Faversham is remaining on his Long Island estate so am to) th? scenario editor of each company, be near New York while he is re |#nd if you want to make doubly sure heafeiug fir the new py |of its safety, reginter it. Zena Keefe in spending the sum- mer at her seashore cottage, Bay side, L. I. Martha Mansfield, playing in Setz- | nick Pictures, says Broadway breezes | are cooling enough for her, and is ing in the city | Wallace Reid recently paid $1,000 |for @ thorobred dog for his young son, Wallace, jr. Rabe Ruth, the de luxe hard hitter, will shortly make his screen debut in “Headin’ Home.” How Marshall Neilan Tried to Beat the Recent Gas Shortage Daddy Neilan and Marshall Neilan, Jr. “Ahannn-,” exclaimed Daddy Net lan. “Here's my chance to beat the Gas situation.” But, judging from his expression | the thing did not work out, the ques tion concerning Itself as to whether Daddy's legs were too long or the |wheels of the trycyele too small This, by the way, is the first pic ture ever published of Marshalls senior and junior toget! HF recent gasoline shortage in Los Angeles caused many de termined persons to look for new and old media for transportation. when Marshall Nei found his tank as 18th nend. One morning, lan, the produce dry as the effect of the ment on most of us, he suddenly spied Marshal, jr, nonchalantly riding about on hig tricycle, ae |Ray Gives Up His | Vacation to Devote | Time to Production | Charles Ray's third Independent | [picture for release thru First Na-| onal will be an original story by | Fred Stowers entitled “Nineteen and Phyllis,’ Production hag already be | fun with an excellent supporting | cast. which Includes Clara Horton. | Frank Norcross, George Nicholls and) Lincotn Stedman. Joseph de Granse, who recently directed Mr. Ray’ Forty: Five Minutes From Broad-| |way.” will again preside over the} megaphone, The star had intended | taking @ vacation prior to the film-| Ing of “Nineteen and Phyllis,” as he | has long cherished a desire to accept jmany Invitations to visit New York, | but he has smothered his own wiahes In order to give @ liberal time a} lowance to the new production. tay's firet independent release is ‘Forty Five Minutes From Broad way” and his second is “Peaceful Valley.” both of which have been completed. | |DAVID POWELL MAKES | A WISE SUGGESTION The problem of fulfilling the re- quests for photographs that reach prominent film players daily from fans all over the country has become & serious one in these dayw of the high cost of everything. The pie tures which you ask of your favorite film star in return for a 2-cent stamp Cont a lot of money. They are made! by the beat photographers and hand. | somely finished, David Powell sug: | gests a remedy | “Let every movie actor and actress | send a certain number of their photo: | srapbs to a fikn clearing house,” | sys Mr. Powell. “Then everyone} who wants one of the pictures can write there and get it on payment| of 25 cents, Let the money secured in this way go to the Actors’ Fund.” MYRTLE MAKES LUCKY INVESTMENT | Myrtle Stedman, the popular! |screen artist who plays an tmport ant part in the Dial Film company's latest allwtar feature, “The Tiger's | | Coat,” has joined the fast increasing | |bedy of off plutocrats, Several| months ago a friend persuaded her | |to buy an eighth Interest in a more! or lens uncertain of] company, which had been drilling for over a year [near Ranger, Texas, without bring ing its stockholders a cent in divi Jends. This week Myrtle received word that the company had brought in « well, flowing 1,700 barrety a day She has already placed her order for | a Rolls-Royce. Francis X. Bushman and Reverly | Bayne will picturize “The Master Thief,” the Morosco stage play, in| whichethey have been successfully touring the country. PALACEHIP | THEATRE CONTINUOUS DAILY | t°!! Direction of Ackerman & Harris Tonight, Last Times, ZELAYA Tomorrow, Mon., Tues., Wed. A Clever New Show of “The Telephone ‘ETT “Abe Kabibble” Morris and Greeley the See Siegel and Irving Stenard Duo Promier _ Musical Exponents _ Octavo |} Feature Photoplay |i FRANK MAYO | —In— “The Girl in No. 29” Admission, Afternoons 20¢ | Children ...... .. sos Be | Sundays, Eves and mliters Children’... —Vera Gordon at the Strand; 8—Charles Ray and Winnifred Westover at the Liberty; Coliseum; 6—Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee at the Rez. 4—Lois Wilson and A Good Bad Man Here's one film player who in thinking seriously of going on wtrike for a different type of role because the movies have gotten him “in bad” with the public, He is Holmes EB. Herbert, who played one of the leading parts in “The Right to Love” at the Strand this week. “They are forever casting me as the disagreeable husband,” pro- tests Mr. Herbert, “and I'm not that at all. In gBlack and White,’ with Dorothy Balton, I was the over-suspicious spouse who drives his wife out of the house, And in “The Right to Love’ I’m another kind of married cad.” SHOW MRS. CHAPLIN’S LATEST PHOTOPLAY Mildred Harris Chaplin was pres. ent at a previous showing of her latest starring vehicle, “The Woman in His House,” at the Republic the atre in New York city |day. Mrs, Chaplin admitted the title was of her own selection, Prior to |the showing she entertained at a |luncheon at the Hotel Astor mem bers of Associated First National Pic tures, which releases her productions. | ropresentatives of other producing Nellan's| concerns and members of the press. | The picture was declared to be Mra, Chaplin's best screen achievement. clure Pafter “Man, Woman and Marriage,” in which Dorothy Phillips is featured, | has been completed. Alan Holabur, Dorothy's husband, directed the ple ture, . Catherine Calvert has placed her | signature ona three year contract to appear on the screen exclus' Vitagraph. Her initial pletu be “Dead Men Tell No Tales.” eee Roscoe Arbuckle was born in Kan-| san in 1887, He got his firet start in the movies as an extra man at $3 per day. eee “Cinderella's Twin.” an original story by Luther Reed, will be Viola Dana's next starring vehicle eee “The Rranded Woman” jorma Talmadge picture, ose is a late Mrs. Sidney will direct Alice Joyce in “Cousin Kate.” WANT WESLEY IN FRECKLE CONTEST Westey Barry, Marshall freckie-faced star, has just received an invitation to be the honorary Kuest in a freckles contest to be held as one of the big attractions in an ROCKLIFFE FELLOWES athietic meet at Jersey City, No J, Rookliffe Fellows, who plays oppo- next month. The contest will involve | site Elaine Hammerstein in all frecklefaced girls and boys in| Point of View,” and who has hard the states of New Jersey and New limportant roles in other Selznick York, and it is expected that there! productions, is the husband of Lu Will be 5,000 participants. Prizes of |cille Watsan, one of the best known every description are being arranged | portrayers of society women on the! for New York stage. Aclue! A clue! And Nick Car- ter Wells on the trail! the other! on = Robert Warwick, Colonial; \Blighted Love Is His Film Specialty He is a young man, tolerably rich and quite handsome. Yet he claims have been disappointed in love more times than any other youth in America. His name is Casson Fer- gunon and every few weeks he is turned down by some sad-eyed young woman and his heart blighted. Yet he i# smilingly cheerful withal. You see, it all happens on the mo tion picture screen, young Mr. Fer- guson belhg one of those movie peo- ple who seem particularly qualified | by nature to play disappointed lover The last time he did it was in| “The Prince Chap,” William De Mille’s production, the Strand today. For four reels Mr, Ferguson seems | to have an excellent chance for the| hand of lovely Lila Lee, who plays [the Reroine, but in the final scene along @omes Thomas Meighan and ries off the maiden. ‘ i t's tough luck,” admitted Mr.! | Ferguson recently, “but I'm getting resigned to it now. And perhaps it’s | some consolation to know that in life I don't fare nearly so roles. real badly.” HAROLD MACGRAT | ON FISHING TRIP Harold MacGrath, who has had More novels screened than any other author, is spending a month at Cape Vincent, New York, fishing for fish In spare moments, when the bass are not biting, he works on a novel which the Mayflower Photoplay cor- poration plans to film. This will be MacGrath's 30th book to reach the | screen which opens at) | Gloria Swanson, Oak, BORROW FURNITURE FOR ENGLISH PLAY ‘The furniture used in some of the scenes in Katherine MacDonald's newest picture, “The Second Lateh- key.” now in production, was “The |and ideas in the St. Lawrence river, | tained from the homes of z English people now residing in Log Angeles. The scenes of the story laid in England, and in order to tain the proper realism Director win Carewe insisted that English furniture be used. “i Bes tte mee emt eens