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* DAYS PROGRAMS rine oR “Hrewster’a Millions.” CLEMMER—Viola Dana tn “Cinder- ella’. Twin.” COLISEUM—Constance Talmadge in “Mamma's Affair, STRAND—Thomas Meighan in “The Frontier of the Sta: | COLONIAL—Frank Mayo in “Tiger | REX—"While New York Sleeps,” | meladrame. | WINTER GARDEN—Willlam Paver. oh nal) | ance Talmadge | Effie Shannon George Lecuere Kenneth Marion erin mry Marchant . Hamon “ ‘AMMA’S AFFAIR,” the plo ture play in which pretty Con | Stance Talmadge ts now appearing at] the Coliseum, ix a much more serious ‘play than anything Constance has Previously appeared in. The theme Bas to do indirectly with physco- 1-—ihomas Meighan, at Ure and an excellent lesson for those who think they are sick and) im their selfishness, which is tech Mically called neurasthenta, sap the Strength of the well, is to be found in| EDITED BY DAISY HENRY beeen = a eps eee oe enema Strand. —Constance j this picture. | Mias Talmadge plays the role of a young girl so completely dominated by her mother that she has never had a thought that was wholly her own. Her mother, a hypochondriac, has sapped the girl's life and soul, all the while condoning her ows utter Selfishness in the name of mother) CLEMMER *GINDERELLA’S TWIN” tro) ‘Connie Mcciil SPreatice Rive Lay” Viola Dana | Wallace MeDonaid Ruth Stonehouse cil Foster * Connie McGill dreams in her scul lery of a man whose photograph she Thas seen in a magazine. Suddenly | her Prince Charming ts brought into 1 same house where she works. er, she geta the chance to meet | him by becoming an unwitting tool) gang of crooks intent on jewels. | the original Cinderella, she | Jeaves a slipper in her hurried flight, | ‘and this slipper, which bolds the key | fo the safe, becomes the crux of the | Bitustion and the open sesame to the | of her Prince Charming. | | This all happens in “Cinderella's | ‘Wwin,” the photoplay in which Viola | ig starring at the Clemmer. } STRAND | (Paramount) .. Thomas Meighan °F Alphons Ethier | . Edward Bite in the role of ‘Buck Lestie, an East Side gangster, de featured in “The Frontier of tho/ * the new photopiay attraction | The opening scene shows Buck a detective by climbing onto roof of a tenement. Here he! upon Hilda. She is a pretty} crippte, who has never been ‘on the streets and who knows no ‘The novelty of a man on the top is a big event in her color- Jess life, and she gladly hides him Dehind the chimney. When the de- fective arrives, Hilda denies having seen nihisd 1—C. Gardner Sullivan, Just as it was Inevitable that the | ‘anyone. nickelodeon should be supplanted by balines | the million-dollar theatre housing the oid Buck na he nacre ors pictorial creation of today, so wan it inevitable that the big producer, the man behind the film, should come in to his own. LIBERT Y | Thomas H. Ince, D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett were the first to |establish the importance of the di SBREWSTER'S MILLIONS” [rector and producer. ‘These. three eueat “ «| Titans of the films joined forces ih preter «++ <- settee Roos clerk |1915 and formed the Triangle Film --++: Bred Huntley | company, They were the first to put Ingraham. ..........-James Corrigsa | out pictures with their own stamps e Barr McCutcheon’s wilar | On thern that let the world know who “Brewster's Millions,” in} was the real power behind the/ m form, with Fatty Arbuckle | screen, as well as who wore the even- featured, ix now at the Liberty. This | !ne clothes with euch sang froid in| fs the second big feature comedy | ree! two | “Patty” bas appeared in and ts said Triangle foreshadowed the day to be even better than “The Life of | When the producer would “arrive” the Party,” which was shown here/n the billboards to collect some recently. Feat share of credit that had always ‘The story concerns the adventures | Mightfully been his, and it is the same | of Monte Brewster, who is given a| Thomas H. Ince of those three-cor-| fortune of two million doliars by his | néred days who stands out as the Grandfather Brewster. Later, his | dominant figure in the newly formed other grandfather offers him a ten | Associated Producers’ alliance, | million dollar interest in his ice busi-| This most recent affiliation of big mess, provided he is absolutely pen- producers is without doubt the most fineas at the end of a year. | important one made tn the history of Monte’s difficulties in spending the | Pictu The Aswoctated Producers two million within the year's time| re seven of the biggest, most ag furnish an abundance of clever com-| &Tessive figures in the photoplay edy tection, world. And they are out to make . good pictures in the manner they choose, taking whatsoever time is ip on | | COLONIAL “TIGER TRUE” (Universal) HOW TIME DOES FLY How time brings changes! Did you know that leas than ten years pric nx May? | ago D. W. Griffith did Hall Caine’s 1 |great story, “The Christian,” into a vf Walter Lome | one reel picture entitled “To Save -pr1Bleanor Hancock | ter goul,” and that Mary Pickford Frank Mayo may always be de-| played lead in it? Mahlon Hamilton, | pended upon for a good, stiff fight | featured star of the new Rockett spe- ‘in his pictures, and those who go to|cial, “The Truant Husband,” says he seo ‘Tiger True,” his latest photo. |##w the picture and that it was much | play, which opened today at the|better than many of the highly Colonial, will not be disappointed. | touted productions of these latter ‘There are three fights in this picture days. —one with a mob, another with| n Walter Long, one ot the beet known | GOLDWYN COMPLETES heavies on the screen, and the third NEW PRODUCTION with Al Kaufman, at one time prom- han yng nat “Don't Neglect Your Wife,” Ger- peieer Tree” is'from the pen ° |trude Atherton’s first original screen the popular novelist, Max Brand. | story, jy one of the four Goldwyn pictures that will soon be released . | lege wapmmae — 4 It is an intensely dramatic story of | REX domestic relations in early San = Fige > hese | Francisco days. which reaches its “WHILE NEW YORK SLEEP hopeful conclusion in New York’s| (Universal) notorious “Five Points” section, It} hg wan diredted by Wallace Worsley, | fate la the man who wielded the mes en |phone on “The Penalty.” In te “While New Yorls Sleeps,” the pho-|cast are Mabel Julienne Scott, toplay at the Rex this week, has a/| Lewis 8, Stone, Charles Clary, R. D. most unusual plot. It is melodra-|Maclean, Arthur Hoyt, Kate Les | ic from beginning to end, and the|ter, Darrell Foss and others. story embraces three distinct classes | ae of people in New York city—the| The beautiful Agnes Ayres has upper middle and lower classes, |the biggest part in her career in| Tho not billea as the featured|the gorgeously mounted “Forbidden | player, the wonderful acting of Mare|Fruit,” in which fecil B. DeMille McDermott makes him stand out|has outdone his previous elaborate! A Wife Mare MacDermott larry Bothern 4—Allan Dwan. 5—J. Parker Read, Jr. | the camera only two years. Migrat-| CUssiteaet Meer «ast TR, 2—Thomas H. Ince. 6—Mack Sennett. 7—Ma noted author. —Maurice Tourneur, shall Neilan, Recessary, paring no expense, un-| merits In regard to cast, direction! hampered by “program” require. ments, irked not at all by orders from the “home office. There will be no wiring from New York “to tear out that last scene and give ‘em a’ happi er ending”; no one suggesting that the locale be switched from India to New Rochelle for practically no rea son, These seven men are bound to do the pictures they choome in the manner they choowe. With Thomas Ince in the newly established’ organization are Mack Sennett, Maurice Tourneur, Allan Dwan, Marshal) Neilan, George Loan Tucker and J. Parker Read, jr. | Every picture made by one of the “nelect seven” must stand on its own and story. The “name” of the pro ducer will not sell the picture; its plete worth will, The idea is to put out pictures personally directed or supervised by the big men behind the wes of the past—men who are too senaible to guarantee any thing not worthy of their stamp of approval C. Gardner sv who recently returned from @ trip around the world, has joined ; jucers and will ely Ince that created and visualized “Behind the would no more think of cheap. ing back of suce Door ening hig name by stan a cheap film than would arneur who gave the screen “Prunella” and “Woman.” Neilan and Dwan have worked to the fore slowly, gradually arrt Do you suppose either will risk hie name on a Sennett, the king of broad comedy, is going to take care that hie snick er standard te 1 4 in the least. As y producers, the Tucker of Miracle Man,” and Read, of “Sex” and other Glaum euc Cone are bound to be alous in their care of putation tiof standards ‘These, then, are the men who are going to make your pictures. Their MARGARET LIVINGSTON | SHINES IN INCE DRAMA Picture fans in quest of new per sonalities will find much to interest them in “Lying Lipa,” Thomas IL Ince’s second production for Asse elated Producers, Among at brand new lum! naries is vivacious Margaret Ltving- ston, a recent Ince “discovery,” who, in the role of Lelia, as vampish a little flirt as any roue would care to meet, firmly established herself, it is said, as one of the most charming entrants in this year’s crop of film | creed is an excellent forecast of what debutantes. | 1s to come Miss Livingston has been before | ‘ . CAREY IS JINXED Harry Carey's “jinx” is still on the job. Shortly after recovering from his recent severe iliness he let his ranch house burn up, or down, as the case may be. The damage, approximately $6,000, was slight, but the | reve S ing to California from her home in} Salt Lake City, she was engaged for “pits” by one or two independent producers, A small part in an Enid Bennett production attracted the in. terest of Thomas H. Ince. He in structed that she be given a full op. portanity and But her work tn “Lying Lips” ts | sent: the sufficient evidence of how well she! chiefs. grasped “Old Man Chance” and en-| and tered the portals of Fame! | Fue. is, aceording to Carey, “the Tom MOORE IN. . nlagensies sonnei the oh DPULAR COMEDY 1. Oi WEBER PICTURE el ization of the} SOON TO BE RELEASED picturization of the r. Barnes of New! Lois Weber annour that her York,” written by Archibald Clav-|jatest photoplay, “What Do Men ering Gunter. The star, as Mr.| Want?” will be released for exhibl. Barnes, has a role different from! ton on ebruary 27. “What Do Men any in which he has hitherto been | want?” is the second Weber picture neen. As a genial New Yorker,| made for distribution thru Fa Moore finds himself catapulted into Players-Lasky. In her play a Corsican vendetta which forever | we ntrives to answer the question threatens to turn into tragedy, but] which the title of her picture sug the Tom Moore nonchalant humor | gests, ‘The millions of women who averts the tears, with a gale of| have asked the same question will be laughter. In the at with Mr. | interested in Miss Weber's play, for Moore are beautiful Naomi Child-| purely personal reasons. Men proba- ers, Anna Labr, Sidney Ainsworth, | bly will go to see it In order to learn Otto Hoffman and others. |what it is that women think they | want star by famous Indian several hundred mash notes, a costly collection of Navajo Tom ring vehicle is lamous novel, * Maclean, the Ini amusing rural hia latest Paramount Lila Lee will be the leading wo man for Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle in his forthcoming Paramount pie ture, “Three Miles Out.” Dou star, has a most in “Chickens,” ———_——— pleture, Estelle Taylor is featured in the Fox movie from the Hdward Knob-| May Allison is starred in. “The Mare ae oe taimadge, in “Mamma's Affair,” Coliseum. McDonald, Clemmer. 6—“Fatty” Arbuckle, as he appears in scene from “Brewster's Millions,” Liberty. An, peer of screen “Civiliza dubious pfay? from the rest of the cast, | productions, lock play, “Blind Wives,” riage of William Ashe.” | % | Movie Quizzes} tonducted in Co-operation With National Victures.) Eva Novak iy not born in Miasourl ywood bivd., Los % K married Addrenms, 6 Angeles, ( . 8—F rank Mayo, starring at Colonial. Owen 4 —— * GOOD NEWS | Word has just been received by The Star motion picture | editor that Mabel Normand | has again signed with Mack Sennett, Miss Normand’s first starring vehicle under the now Sennett banner — will “Molly-0." | we] ATHRYN PERRY F OWEN MOORE DRAMA Jence,” with | will soon be of Conve the star ‘A Dive Moc shown on the screen by Selznick Pic Miss Dell—William Farnum ts married to Olive White and has a «mall adopted daughter. He was born in Horton in 1976, Harrison Ford has signed up with Joseph henck, to play lead opposite both orma and Constance Tallmade, for year. le is about 28, and if you addres your le Talmadge wtudion, 318 I New York, he will receive them. o- M on | N en M . au Bennie—Liltian Gish tn not mar. ried. She in about 24 and i at pres ent resting. Dorothy i about 22. The giris are both living at the Sa voy hotel, New York. Corinne Grif. fith In married to Webster Campbell. Her real name is Corinne Scott. ee lay M fi w w LD. wyle at od to pted on they hav Milton Sills lives at Hollywood, Cal, He's mar Gladys Wynne, who was the speaking stage, and ne kiddie, a little girl of § ee Tom's Admirer—Tom Mix's ad. me in S841 Carlton way, Holly wood, He's In hia Inte 208, and was 16 Ar is ! i | | i } Constance Talmadge ig 21. EAith M. §—Charies Ray Produc ne, 615 Wright & Callender build. ing, Lom Angeles, Cal, Universal. wel Production, Cal | | wi | The eee became a chicken, and! si | finally « movie actor, with Viola| actor Dana in “Home Stuff.” tures | “White and Unmarried,” pri of “Florodora.” IN G fact that it ls her firkt individual star vehicle, born on @ ranch near E) Paso, Tex.) WILL ROG! IRVIN COBB STORY on Cobb's Universal City, | same title. | an opportunity Kathryn Perry will be Mr ‘oore's leading lady, with Nita Nal . the Winter Garden “vamp,” prom-| inent in the supporting company, | EW LEADING LADY FOR THOMAS MEIGHAN | Jacqueline Logan has been en. 1 as leading woman for Thomas leighan in his newest picture, now in pro- uction in Hollywood. Miss Logan |has had extended stage experience, nd among other things sang the| a donna role in @ recent revival LARIA SWANSON YN STORY | Gloria Swanson wit! make her stel r debut in Elinor Glyn’s “The Great | foment,” the production now being Imed under the direction of Sam cod. Miss Swanson is looking for-| ard with interest to this picture and | naturally enthusiastic over the| | ERS IN Will Rogers’ new stellar vehicle Ul be “Boys Will Be Boys,” based the dramatization of Irvin s. famous short story of the It gives the cowboy star r the richest com-| dy acting that has fallen to his lot} nee becoming @ motion picture | A black cat figures in Max Lin- Raymond MeKee is leading man! der's new comedy, “Seven Years Bad with Shirley Mason in ‘Wing Toy.” | Every Day « Good 1" ig A big com- edy from the stage play of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon —it has more laughs than “The Life of the Party!” LOVE DAVIS on the Wurlitzer of many rare trophies pre-| | comedy | Luck.” Scene from “While New York Sleeps,” Rex. i ‘shes -Viola Dana and Wallacé Neilan Protege A .. } Heads Big Drive Wesley “Freckles” Barry, Mar shail Nejlan's popular boy star, left Los Angeles last Sunday on the longest trip he has ever made. In behalf of the Hoover cam= |paign for the starving children of Europe, Wesley is now en route }to New Orleans to head a drive of 26,000 school children from Louisiana and Mississippi. Casrys ing with him, Wesley has & mes 7 the role of “Youth” in “Experience,” | sage of good wishes from the peo the massive production on which| ple of Los Angeles and work has begun at the Long Island by Mayor Snyder of that city, t@ studiox, under the Girection of the people of the South, where George Fitzmaurice “Frecklex” will appear. ee One of the big features plammed Sir Gilbert Parker is working at| during Wesley's appearance in New the Lasky studio with George Mel- Orleans wil] be the dedication of @ — ford in directing “The Money|day at the nationally famous Tacs Master,” his own story, written at/track, to the drive, to be the studio, Alice Hollister plays'as Marshal! Neilan day. One the leading feminine role opposite | the big events on this day will James Kirkwood. ja Wesley Barry handicap in . |the youngster will act as Following “Sham,” which Ethel | = Faslor wit direct nes in a. phot LIBERTY NEWS SHOWS AUTO SMAS play adapted from a story by Commo & Von Herberg Hamilton. starting Saturday at the Mrs. James Rennie, otherwise! wii; show! Cowen Park gitney known as Dorothy Gish, furnishes 4! smash-up on Eastlake ave; Ue lot of comedy in a burlesque mys|w women's league girls tery picture called “The Ghost 1 posters for their first attraction a8, the Garret.” | Meany Hall; departure of solid t lload of canned salmon for # Crane Wilbur, one-time movie fa-|Bast; high breakers over vorite, is now in vaudeville, appear-| Point caused by heavy storm ing in a sketch entitled, “So This is| Midget couple, Major and Mrs, Paris.” |G. W. Winner, celebrating |26th wedding anniversary. cighbors” is the title of a Buster} Bo Keaton comedy which will be on the! “Black Beauty,” Vitagraph's ple program at the Clemmer, beginning | ture, was acclaimed to be one of Saturday. best features ever produced by @ . |select New York audience at Claire Windsor, whom Lois Weber | Astor hotel, where Albert E. Smith will feature in a series of pictures, gave a showing of the picture, is a Seattle girl. ———— William DeMille ts making clure Patter The three local winners in the J, Parker Read, Jr., Seattle Star $5,000 Scenario contest will be announced some time this month. Richard Barthelmess has return ed to the Paramount banner to play Jensen eee eee Thomas Holding, who appears with|ress at the Lasky studio on ‘sie Ferguson in “Saered and Pro-|original story by Edward Kx e Love,” was born at Greenwich,|noted British dramatist, England. “The Lost Romance.” yy) rR 100% Courtesy, Music, Pictures CHESTER COMEDY “Beat It” Some more of the doings of that smart monkey and his pals! CHESTER OUTING SCENIC “Crowning King Blizzard” Jensen and Von Herberg News He has to squander a million in a year!. Easy? Try it some time! Meanwhile, come and roll in laughter while Fatty rolls in wealth. A whale of a star in a whale of a comedy!

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