The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 8

TODAY'S PROGRAMS arlie Hay in “An Old in “Ooee- to | STRAND Ove Wom COLONT Mu | | “To Please Dustin Farnam in” Irom Strain,” It y ooking for a thrill the Rex and w Dead } Th this plete roses his path To the heroine vert) he gives the alternative of burr Jing to death or doing is Hu there ls one bay who isn’t afraid of the wi anton Jand when the latter ip in midocean t dead men on him and makes bis getaway by clinging to a bit of driftwood and | then swimming to itunes the pic n Tell No ‘Tal ® a wicked looking villain in yone who with fear (Catherine Cab WERE YOU IN THAT BIG LINE YESTERDAY? IF YOU DID GET IN TO SEE THIS WEEK’S SHOW—WE KNOW YOU WERE SATIS sD THAT “TO PLEASE ONE WOMAN” IS ABOUT THE BEST PARAMOUNT PICTURE YET MADE. AND WE FEEL THAT YOU ALSO ENJOYED THE BIG | aay, Cody, REAL ARTISTS | onally at the Clemmer (MISCHA GLUSCHKIN, Conductor) trembling an he w young ked & sete fire to the ever an abandoned boat hi England and the girt The pictures of the burning shir « the the lifeboats up- are fine Calvert Jin which he make way back to | nengern and sink Catherine jto look at |while Percy Marmont and Frank Seyffertits | prove most capat | Bobby Vernon breeses hy Eat a Bite of Pie,” a lively comedy eee is very lovely Spanish costu as the b aa the crue in her fe wa | CLEMMER n the role of artint nterested | in the lovemak entral figure of Yours, cant arriea Mr. Cody bh almmowt The entire story }thru a new | affair whi results In orange t ve some and wed eA ARIE Epa. <TR NN THE SEATTLE STAR “Dead Men Tell No Tales” at Rex Is. Real Melodramatic Thriller | Scene from “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” the photoplay at) the Rez, which is now playing a second week's engagement. | How to Put Comedy . Relief Into Scenarios BY JOKEPH F. POLAND Sc io Contest enario ntes' | (On the Staff of J. Parker Read, | 4 MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1926, 5 “The Skipper’s Narrow Escapey A Toonerville Trolley Come of Hicks, Home Brew 40 Hilarity! Malotte on the Wurlitzer COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA ARTHUR KAY Conductor 34 Artists, Playing Suppe’s “Light Cavalry” Coming. “DINTY* Wes Barry ay > an that way necessary, the sen} known motion pleture star, in al It can't be done in an hour or! two. But it ten’t hard as you Imight expect, muy those who have | become ur you can “BARGAIN DAY” FOR COLONIAL PATRON Manager Danz, of the Colo has decided to inaugu Bargain Monday,” which will | that admiasion prices will be red t 40 per cent on that day. The show will be given in ite @@ tirety, as on other days, the on difference being that music will provided by the Wurlitzer organ fi Hees re-write briefer as . arted It you haven't +t t lay—based, perhaps, on you know some pisode ef your own life and begin it now. | You have as goed s chance 4! Young Men's Republican club will anyone to win ene of the big prizes | ,, adAreaned Phursday D008 ty Sot! $2,500 for the best, and $1,400 and | 7. Henderson, of Tacoma, former as that photo. scenario experts rome char. | atre, Young Republicans to Hear Henderson acter or dramatic sit down abou week AS WELL AS BEING IMPRESSED BY The picture abounds with b ful women and unusually p AND THE SWEET SINGING OF CATHERINE PIELOW, CONTRALTO WALTER BEATON, BARITONE MASTER MAX SHIFRIN, TENOR AND THE ACTING OF FRANCES MARY BEATON TELL YOUR FRIENDS! NEW DE HAVEN COMEDY |“BRIDE’S PLAY” 1S UNDER WAY BEING FILMED ‘The casting has been completed | ling bells. A loving pursues Lew to a point where willing to become his mother ir to be pear him. It's quite a delight ful Jam and shows what a danger sort of vamp jous little chap Cupid is Jabundance of talent as an ~ | for nor Fair, winsome and lovely ! Betty Blythe gives a delightful pert: as the loving vamp ra is the ng girl who almost corrals Lew nance yoots,” a brindle pup, aisplays an “actor.” He t alded by “Julius.” a precoctons mouse that has an eye for hoslery and powder puffs The et of the Clemmer bill is good LIBERTY The story of an old-fashioned young man, who furnishes a home & young woman he expects to snarry, before he asks her, is told in “An Old Fashioned Boy,” the pictur @t the Liberty this week. In apite dr, Author of the Screen Adapts then of “A Thowand to One” and Other Hobart Bosworth Vehicles.) “How shall I indicate comedy in & question asked by sev- contestants for the J, Parker Sr-Beattle Star $5§,000 prise now under way, It shows that contestants are thinking; | that they are earnegtly going after the prize money and the fame that relief?” eral Read, foenarte contest, | will reward the winner Let us take opin of “A At the mine, Newlands (the hero) fetermined to himself works hard, and ix soon made mana ger of the urruly crew of miners When the men threaten to break loose, Newlands shows no fear of them, but faces their leaders boldly. ‘Get back to work,’ he cries, ‘or I'll let daylight thru your thick skulls,’ for instance, the syn Thousand to One. regenerate Marion Davies and her company/of the fact that our young hero get#/ This amuses some of the miners, Gor the production of “The Girt in| nave returned to New York from|the worst of it all the way thru thelone of whom calls to the chief trou the Taxi,” Anthony Mars’ successful Btage comedy, which is the second J ‘Of a series of plays starring Mr. and/ Play” in the Eastern studios of In- ‘Mra. Carter De Haven. port the De Havens in this First National attraction, which is being - at the Charles Chaplin ding scenes of “Bride's Play,” whic Davies Company to make the wed bam, assisted by George Crone. King Baggot and Miss Grace Cunard head the compan: which appeared in Hearst's Maga- zine. The story, directed by George fecently at Pompton Lake. N. Y., for|a terrific punch, which in reactfe the forthc.ming picture, “The Fight-/ with the revival of the old Irish er,” starring Conway Tearle. Albert legend, as told by “Bride's Play” ana Payson Terhune wrote the story. enacted by Miss Davies. CHARLES RAY AN OLD FASHIONED NOW PLAYING—THE Love Davis The Girl From Dixle on the Wurlitzer TITLE ABOVE Mack Sennett Comedy— “Fiekle Fancy” TELLS THE STORY! Bruce Scenic Pathe News | ternational Filmes. The e¢ntirt studio} to live in Many prominent players will suD-| will be turned over next week to the} Without her consent. pF Bl tor Char it, now leased to the De Havens is said to be a most untieual fantasy Under the direction of Lioyd IngtT®/ trom the pen of Donn Byrne, andjhis new | love. plenuful. Womantike, Betty Graves refuses house that was bullt And she loses no time in breaking her engagement. To make things more exasperating bert friend's wife runs away and leaves ber children in ly furnished home. dors hin best to “mother” kiddies He makes @ lot and they all get wick, The Chart the thr of taffy | C. Terwilliger as his initial produe-|qoctor, who ie Betty's futher, is A big hunting ‘odge eet was built | tion for Cosmopolitan features, has | catied Betty comes with him, and ‘Sito help Charlle (whom he favors, the doctor quarantines the home. Retty will have nothing to do with Charlie until the father and mother of the children arrive and begin roasting Chartie for allowing their little angels to get sick; then she feels sorry for him and goes to his reacue. The final fadeout registers much happiness for all concerned Ethel Shannon is Charlie's new leading woman . COLISEUM Hobart Bosworth's latest starring vehicle, “His Own Law,” is a strong dramatic photoplay MecNeir, a wealthy gineer, to relieve his mind, and to relax, goes on a “spree” after each job, On one of these “sprees” he meets Jean, a young Frenchman, who ts an engineer, MeNeir takes a liking to him, and when McNeir goes back to work, he takes Jean with him. The two become great pals Jean meets asgiri. They fall in Then Jean is summoned home to France to go to war, The young pair plan to wed, but the only per son who can marry them in away. So Jean has to | MeNeir promises to look after Sybil Then the inevitable happens Jean returns from war and, believing he has been double-crossed, demands an explanation An intense «ituation, contracting en- a justice, ane ALL WEEK A SATIRICAL STORY OF SOCIETY AND STUDIO LIFE, AND AN ARTIST'S LOVES Lew Cody The Great Love- Maker of the Screen erie “Occasionally Yours” Clemmer Music Libortus Hauptman Director Concerta Afternoon and Evening Xylophone Solos Played by Charles Fisher eee sirt ts forced to choone between the father of her child and her husband, brings the picture to a surprising elimax. Bosworth plays MeNeir eee STRAND N The Lee matrimonial bark in on the rocks, chiefly because the fool ish husband haw always maintained & false financial positiongto provide luxuries for his wife, and is now facing bankruptcy or subterfuge that will put him tn the penitentiary, In & stormy scene Mra. Lee telle him that he is too .honest to be rich enough to suit her, and he tella her he has sold the house they are in, and left only a seaside mansion at Seagirt. That he may keep his pit iful share of her kisses, he submits to her demands and plans crime. This is only the beginning of the abvorbing plot of Loin Weber’s pro duction, “To Please One Wornan,” which is now showing at the Strand. Mins Weber has developed this story to a sou! touching climax, in | which four separate tragedies, rippl from the activities of a selfish w their reality. Claire Windsor, Mona Lim, Edith Keesler, Edward Burna ends with great dramatic ing players. . COLONIAL A photoplay From Now On,” starring George Walsh at the Colonial, Dave Hen reon, finding that Booky jand Martin Tydeman have robbed |him, deliberately burgtarizes the lat | ter hom knowing that the man in compelled to keep at hand large sums in ready, cash because of hin |shady trmnaactions. Dieon their loas,and suspecting Her the eon capture and torture In an effort to get him to cones. v A jbut later he is recaptured, “framed a sent to prison for a term of | yearn. However, Henderson has |auceeeded in hiding the money in a dove cote From the moment of his release Henderson is shadowed day and night by both the men of the under world and the police, in efforta to discover the whereabouts of the money A friend whom he trusts comes thru and helps restore in Hon. derson his faith in mankind, Not until the very last scene does the action let up. A Mutt and Jeff comedy adds fun to the program. —. BA NO ORCHESTRA MUSIC BY OUR ORGANISTS ON THR WURL PRICES REDUCED FOR MONDAYS ONLY MATINEE EVENING an who cannot be pleased, corne to! Howard | Gay and L. C. Sumway are the lead-| alive with action in} Sharvan | clever ruse enables him to escape, | RGAIN DAY EVERY ‘MONDAY Conditions The J. Parker Ready jr-Seat- Ue Star scenario competition is for three prizes ageregating $5,000, The first award is ouch sum of $2,500, with $1,500 and $1,000 renpectively, to be awarded to the second and third prize stories suitable for produc thon fn motion picture form. In event of » tie rach of the tying contestants shall reecive the full amount of the prize for which they are Urd. The contest is open to all, You may write your Kens in any form. All «cenarios will be considered from the basic stand point of quality of idea—not of form. Tho contest closes January 1, 1921. All scenarios must be sent to the Scenario Contest Editor, Seat Ue Star. | } j California, and will finish “Pride’s| "ry, the humorous situations are|piebreeder, “Look out, Harry, be'l!| crack the tvory’* ‘This briefty indicates comedy | retief as sketched in the rough at- | moxphere of a mine in the. Sierras. Notice, too, that here we have used | the exact words, since it is the film | titles, and not the action, that will | furnish the comedy, | If the comedy came from New-| lands taking two ef the miners and} ctacking their heeds together, we) would NOT TELL, WHAT: HE SAID while deing this, bat would merely STATE WHAT HE DID. When your story is developed in your mind or from your notes write your synopsis, detailing your action from the start of the story to the end, or climax and denove- ment. This done, take your pencil and £0 over what you have written, and you will be surprised to see just how much you can condense it—the | number of words you can cross out, the amount of conversation you ean | ee |f than you ever before saw in | one picture! | CHRISTIE COMEDY “Eat a Bite of Pie” BUT SPLENDID MTUSIO ITZER GEORGE WALSH -IN— “FROM NOW ON” | yon Fate anette nn rege | sistant attorney general of the state. to sult the personality and film!) 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