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

SATURDAY, DECHANER 4, 1920, | TODAY'S PROGRAMS | Lanerry Wallace Reid in “Always Partor, All-star | COLISEUM — The “Conrad in Quest Redroom and | “ ta Meighan Ee Youth. The | REX—Tom Mix in “Desert Love.” | WINTER GARDEN —Ots Skinner tm | “Kimuet, * then takes raven ssemn E oyie Quizzes ar " (Conducted in Cooperation With) i CLEMMER ‘Associated First National Pic- oT tures, Ine.) “PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH" L. E. K.--Laurette Taylor has only played in legitimate plays, and has spd oe Pugene Pallett not yet broken into the movies | Jeffrey Hawwood haries MH. West Edna.-—Norma Talmadge ten't rest ing. Far from it has returned Can a man with th Egle be devilish? name of F to New York after taking scenes in tion, and one th ae by sod — vn her age oe herself before she married one. Also {01° dooan't pet mach cme to here “nf one that answ in startling “FS mange eel tee, ad and the Talmadge girls are kept par fashion not long after the wedding) iowarty busy | march. ‘s endeavor to be a der to please his viva. cious little wife bringy about a string of amusing and complicating situa tions is told in the screen version of “C."—Your vorably conat ers-Lasky Corpo New York gtaphs of daughter may be fa 1 by Famous Play. | tion, 485 Fifth ave., Forward snapshot photo- your daughter, as a re 8. W. Bell and Mark Swan's stage | SOE" 0 : farce, which opened today at the) jour, Picture is useless in determin: | Clemmer. ing the possibilities of herefilm ap-| pearance. If necessary to go to a| photographer, insist that the pictures | jbe instantaneous exposures and in- | }struct him aguinst retouching. En- | ——8 | close brief history of any dramatic | experience or training she haa had. | Such a system may get her an on. gagement, altho it & very uncertain The photoplay ts presented with an all-star cast. QUEST OF HIS YouTH” jas all motion picture producers are (Paramount) flooded with applications for post (Capt. Conrad Warrener.... Thon Moighan tions. The surest way in to arrange (Kite adatio piarearet Loomis for your daughter to viait New York v2 Ruth Kenic | OF 108 Angeles and go to the studios _— <. each morning fot work as an “extra” iy | Kathtyn Williams, Marguret Loo-| or for the day. if she has the ability mis and Ruth Renick, all popular|4md appearance necessary a few actreases, the latter well known in| weeks of extra work may attract wu. this city for her splendid work as ajficient attention to bring regular member of Wilkes players. fre | work, and f; that point upward is important in the life of | ® matter of luck and abitity, ‘Thomas Meighan in “Conrad in ee ‘Quest of His Youth,” at the Coll /seumn. 4 Gonrad, tn the midst of city life, | Toda: Yearns for the ol scenes and com.| y anionships of youth. He goes back| For the first time Seattle photo-| i to his old home in search of the! play goers were permitted today to} thrills and joys of his boyhood days, | smoke while watching @ screen per-| where his search for sweethearts of | formance. the youthful day®send him on a wild) ‘The occasion was the opening of 7 chase to Italy and a trip to England,| the Winter Garden, Third ave. and where he finally finds “the girl.” | Pike st, the new house of James Q. AD ee. en toom are air-upholstered. Loge | Theatre Co, of which he is preal- TRAND | |“ 4 a The play is “Kismet,” starring 7h 9g RE ype aad Otis Skinner. “THE LOVE LAWYER } On the mexzaine floor are trol '*Gallor* Burke | slass-enclosed lounging rooms, hand-} ' Joni Jocelyn Wray * Jocelyn Wray dack Ronedale somely furnished, one for men, the other for women. In the men’s | room patrons may observe the show | jand smoke. In the women’s room| The role of a man who asked only | Patrons may see the show and con-} half a chance to make good is por-| Verse without annoying others. trayed by Mahion Hamilton in “The| The house is the last word in con- Love Lawyer,” the photoplay now at/| *truction and furnishing. The door-| the Strand. Hamilton was chosen for | mats are made of sole leather. Seats | 1 { Mahion Famfiton ). Mary McAltater Lillian Rich Sydney Ainsworth this difficult role because ot #plendid|!n the main first floor observation | appearance and his ability to play|Toom are air-upholstered. Loge character roles as well, chairs are spacious, upholst In some parts of the story he ts| Wicker. geen as a hardlooking Barbary| Carpenters, decorators, carpet lay Coast prize fighter, and then again| ¢r# and others finished work at as a refined and handsome young|145 p, m. The house opened at 2 lawyer Edwin F. James is manager Hamilton will be remembered here -—— ——— LOTS OF ACTION AT | «} for his splendid work in “Farth-| bound,” the Basil King drama, shown | Pe rere recent } GOLDWYN STUDIOS) eee | The Goldwyn studios are humming | ; —— ————-8} with vity. Four companies are| * | COEO IAL well into the making of four new pic- | atin ks f a 5q| tures and three others have just be Z “FELIX O'DAY" — (Pathe) | On Monday last Frank Lioyd be Yoltx O'Dey. gan the photographing of Gouver Lady Ba Day neur M tis’ original scenario, “The se. Water Lily,” a tale of the Boxer re ee beliion, 1 Victor Schertzinger a! The howl of the “banshee” presages| day or two previously “shot” the| { luck. This superstitious be-| first of the interiors of Tom Moc lief in old Ireland has been deftly | new stellar icle, a picturization of woven into the story, “Felix O'Day,” | Archibald Clavering Gunter’s famous the screen attraction at the Colonial, | old nov Barnes of New York,” 4 Felix O'Day, the screen hero, and|the literary ‘Bensation of the early & also the » of the bor me and later a celebrated stag name by F. He 4 after the inson Sm: w banshee” has made its cal 1—Thomas Meighan, star of “Conrad in Quest of His Youth,” Coliseum; 2— }: THE the Liberty; 6—Scene from Desert Love,” Rex. Louise Glaum, Eager F or Prize Photoplays, Sends “Best Wishes”? vu s.ie‘s: uu 0m Te, <n Louise Glaum, starring for J. Parker Read, jr. leading motion picture producer who thru The Seattle Star is offering $5,000 in prizes for the best three scenarios written around her, fully expects this national contest to provide her with the best vehi has ever Reports of the contest’ progress in have particularly enthused both J, Parker Read, jr, and Miss Giaum. The Star* today receivea from Louise ¢ dressed to all Seattle contestants, convey um the following’ letter, ad the few hints in preparing scenarios for the big prize money Readvher letter—and then write and send to the Scenario Contest} Editor of The ttle Star the most dramatic story you know, actual or Every ving it around Miss Glaum as the central figure. an imaginary, we one has an equal chance, @ good one, CULVER CITY, California, November 29, 1920. My Dear Contestants: Though I may not be able to meet you all, person- : ally, I am gtad of the privilege of being able to “talk” : to you thru the medium of the columns of The Seattle : Star, and shall take advantage of it to extend to : : every one of you my very best wishes, and a little : word of encouragement to those of you who may bea : bit timid in submitting a scenario or story, feeling : that the product of the college graduate or even pro- : fessional scenario writer might submerge your efforts. temember, it is not the technical form in which a: scenario is submitted that counts, but rather the rudi- : ments of the story—plots, climaxes, situations. Your : : power of suggesting the picturization of your story : may be more ably expressed, and the theme of your scenario more full of human interest, than that of one ige is greater. : whose technical knowle: that misfortune was about to fa , " MOVIE STAR IN Forget that a scenario is anything but a story. Let c » King Dg boos griton dean : your “bump of originality” have full sway, but make ee oe Sees ge | BASEBALL GAME| : your characters human, or true to life, and k@ep them 4 — % Pid pre ' a thease . | : ona plane of mortals. In each one of you may lie a : | REX | | ture ‘company, bended b owand : streak of the writing genius that needs but concentra- : & | Hickman, with Claire Adams and tion and determined effort to divulge. : “DESERT LOVE’ Robert McKim as star mascots, and| ; I look forward to the culmination of the contest : ‘ ies Sesion, 39:-0 PEA AR, |. Noe kaa Well Bene 2 bore and the pleasure of personally meeting the winner. : , Barbara Remington. .Francelia at the regular Pacifie Const. ? Maybe, dear reader-contestant, it will be you. 3 Bee whe. ere Rere*| league diamond, Washington park Sincerely, : a has been postponed until Sunday i 5 Tom Mix’s latest De: | picture, “Desert| cember 5. Important scenes to be| Love,” is the chief attraction at the| ta on the Hampton film, Rex. This new picture features the| Was a King in Egypt,” cat popular star in one of his usual! postponement thrilling roles. A nicknamed is elected Buck Marston, mole taht ts| COMEDIES FEATURE ANIMAL PERFORMERS in an Arizona border county. Buck is called upon to round up the a fang of cattle rustiers who, under the leadership of Wolf Kenyon, ter ror’ the little village. Needless to say, he performs the and jn true Western style. ‘The picture too. In six-reel Chester cor | which have been relé ational, it is claimed th ord has been made for th: actually playing parte.| given the sobriquet of the | is featured in all of the while other animals intro t a new ree: | variety of | mat, animals Nook y Humanzee pictures, includes a romance, included horses, dogs, , VERA IS SURE SOME M AID duced have chickens, ducks, and To afford variet the cata, lions, tigers, mules, Vera Steadman, in two reel Christie has Just set a new mark in a goats, & poleeat and a! comedies, for motion picture swimmers contest at Balboa Beach, Cal,, w did 220 yards in three minute and ten seconds, She already held the title of the best diver among the motion picture colony. terrapin. y in future releases, Chester studios have | purchased a large number of animals from a circus which is wintering in Los Angele: SEATTLE STAR star's well wishes and a| | inine Kathleen Kirkham and Eugene Pallette, Clemmer; 3 \Prcture Patter | Famous Players hag started work jon their film version of the Arthur | w Sehnitzler play, “The Affairs of An be jbe titled “Hellboy 13,” on eee | | will be released by First National Montague Glass is writing an or! yout ganuere ge a | ee iginal movie scenario for Metro. He's ve | Philip D, suthor of “Potash and Perlmutter o be starred in 1,000 feet In length, were used in e filming “Outside the Law,” in which Bdith Roberts is to be marred in| Priscila, Dean, Lon Chaney and | corporation * Wheeler Oakm take the leading |"Three at a Tabi re if | In France, toot A rafiroad serial has just been completed by a Pari» fan fi company Ite title, tran lated into English, is “ltose of the x Rail” one Patho News weekly celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding this week. eee it is announced, al figure of a serial An arch crimin will be the cent called “Fantomas eee | “A Beggar in Purple,” by Andrew Sontar, has been made into a movie by Edgar Lewis. see Beatrice Burnham appears oppo | |aite Karle Willams in “Diamonds | Adrift.” { | eee } “The Honorable Gentleman,” story |by Archmond Abdullah, has been |made into a movie titled “Pagan | Love.” | Post | Universal Actor Gets Stage Offer Lon Ctmney, the brilliant charac: ter actor, who is the outstanding fig- ure in “The Penalty,” which hag just | been released on Broadway, in New | York, may desert the screen to ap-| pear on the stage in a dramatization of “Outside the Law,” an underworld story written by ‘Ted Hrowning | Chaney's care@r of recent months has been a werics of successes, His | haracterization of tho repellant Frog.” in “The Miracle Man”; the | unscrupulous Ricardo, in “Victory”; the a9 ruler of the underworld, | in “Tho Penalty,” has created for) }him an enviable niche pec r to | himself. | He has the role of “Black Mike,” & San Francisco gangster, in the | werben version of “Outside the Law,” which hays just been produced b | Universal, with Priscilla Dean in the leading feminine role. Attracted both by the theme and the remarkable impersonations of Chaney, representatives of theatrical interests, who days watched the filming of scenes | from “Outside the Law," at Univer | sal City, requested Ted Browning to dramatize the story for them. SEENA LIKES PART IN NEW PICTURE| Seena Owen, popular Los Angeles! film star, who has the principal fem-| role in “Resurrection Cove, now being filmed at the Cosmopoll tan studios, New York elty, under the direction of Robert Vignola, ts in the midst of an orgy of shopping, prior to her departure for the Ba hama islands, where many of the principal scenes will be shot. “It is one of the finest parts I have ever played,” Miss Owen said, In letters to her friends here, “To say that I am delighted is putting it mildly indeed.” TOURNEUR FILM RELEASED IN EAST “The Last of the Mohicans,” Maurice Tourneur's initial Asso- clated Produ film, has had its final run, and is now en route for release. This great Cooper story | in film form has everything for all ages to enjoy—thrills, love, spectae. ular events and beautiful outdoor scenes—which always make a Tour neur picture notable. This one is especially appealing to young Amer. jcans and Boy Scouts. “ALL-STAR CAST” Robert Brunton’s latest Pathe Spe. cial, “The Devil to Pay.” adapted from the well known mystery novel | by Frances Nimmo Greeno, is a pow: erful mystery-drama, based on one of the most amazing selentific discoy eries of the decade, ‘The cast ix made up almost entirely of established stars of the screen and stag lud ing Roy Stewart, Fritzl Brunette, Joseph J. Dowling, Robert MeKim nd George Fisher, Ernest C. Warde ted the production and the adap. al tation i# by Jack Cunningham Herbert Rawlinson is to appear op: posite Ania Stewart in “The Tor: nado,” CHRISTIE GIRL WITH rec Virginia Lee ts of Beatrice » Clark ves” for the remembered as ard Chandler Christy ‘¢ come the screen. “OUTSIDE THE LAWS” Junt 18 *. This footage must be r between 6 which will compose the cream of the work of the pl WB eaytii iy hii Mahlon Hamilton in MARGUERITE CLARK playing the rol Harlon, in th production of filma, Miss Lee will “the ideal How Marguer rambled film who has in “Scrambled Wives" rolls of flim,, each about au 8,000 f ed | ers’ 000 and yers Where the Ir He poses as himself —and they arrest him! He is kidnaped—shang- haied—his name, his girl and his millions stolen by a rascally double—then he es- capes! NOW PLAYING WITH MARGARET LOOMIS LOVE on the Wurlitzer “King Cotton” .........Sousa “Carry Me Back.to Old rginia” Vv “Spring, Bes ‘Dear Little Boy of Mine”. . ..-Ernest Ball “Poet and Peasant”.....Suppe Concert 12:30 Sunday “The Love Lawyer,” Strand; 4—Scene from “Feliz O'Day,” More sonal effe than $26,000 was realized at ta of OW motion picture Paris on Sept sisted of furs and automobiles. stars bought friend. Miss keepsakes of their dead consideranio prominence EX-ARMY OFFICER TO | “SHOOT” AIR PICTURES tenant in the air se placed in charge of t raphers of the air pictures depart: | nt of the World Motion Picture | Dear structor in the photographie observ department Many interesting pictures taken from | title of Bert Lytell’ urplanes are promised by the World organization, ERWY PRETTY BRUNET y IS NOW A BLONDE | Virginia Valli will be seen ag Lady © Al in the Famous the » of the per Thomas, the star, who died in 10. The sale con- Thomae jewelry, Prominent present and were ed Miss Vallis brunet in her recent pictures with George Walsh will marvel at blonde hair as Lady Alica Sh, Sh) It's a wig ELAINE GIV A PARTY A real birthday party was staged last week at the Selznick Fort studios when Elaine Hammel wns hostess to about 20 girls appeared in several sce! Mar starring vehic! Riblet, former first leu as been pilot photog n in He was formerly of the air service. | “A Message From Mars” is next movie, cast includes Maud Milton and Currier. Knows It Sees Good Shows (TOUJOURS DE L'AUDACE”) ' C CParamount CPiclure You know Wallace Reid—all ac- tion—alive with surprises and fun —and thrills for ten pictures! Chester Screenic’ “SEA PLANETS” Chaplin Comedy PATHE NEWS