The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 3

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ATURDAY, JULY 23, 7 ~Walter Hiers Theodore Roberts > the picture drama which opened today at the Liberty. the moral that money doesn’t everything. It is an interesting revolving about a young so gtri who is almost forced into with a man whom she does Ethel Clayton is the star. CLEMMER Wagner, Re Mrs, Martha Tobey of 1068 East Thomas, wins the $30 cash prize of fered by Manager Wright of the Strand theatre, for the best letter on “Courage.” lows: “My tale of a young woman's | Courageous heart takes us back some “Gartude’ Gimsteaa | me when social castes were more Jacqueline Logan | Plainly defined and adhered to and = when @ man was permitted by law to Fighting Lover” ts a fascinat-| grink himself to death if he so m drama now at the Clem: | chose. Which tells of a wealthy young! «tn 9 largo western city lived a mp who bet his pal $10,000 that he| girl, beautiful both mentally and find a sweetheart for him in 30) pnvsically, only daughter of respect How he falls tn love with one | oq wealthy parents—a girl who was trio he selects to vamp his! pampered and petted and sheltered brings about a complicated | trom every conceivable hardship. Of} such a one we do not expect courage in any large degree. “The city boasted a good college and to this our girl went. eee Mrs, Tobey's letter fol- | (Assdciated Producers) Wiliam ¥. Mong te De La Motte at "Mall ~Heiea Jerome Eday B. Kyne ts the author of n Dollar Raise.” It is a great interest drama depicting the an elderly bookkeeper for the teno pher in the same office. Ten Dollar Raise” is now at MINTER GARDEN success, “The Servant in the in screen form, is showing Winter Garden. The subject of the play deals with the pily characteristics of a bishop of Church of England. eee STRAND “THE LOST ROMANCE” romance of a young explorer) & pretty little librarian is told in Lost Romance,” the feature at the Strand. It is a screen of the popular story by Ed- OLISEUM Sepae GIRL IN THE TAXI” and Mrs. Carter De Haven, the ‘known comedy team, are at the) uné in the First National film Girt in the Taxi” The story | of a disinherited mollycoddie, | eventually comes to his senses. ee COLONIAL || _—___—_——__& | “THE SONG OF THE SOUL” j (Golawyn) -Bices All man’s eternal willingness to! ce all for the sake of love, fur-| the old but always interesting | of “The Song of the Soul,” the e starring Vivian Martin at the) mod “THE BATTLIN’ KID” (De Lass) HiIl Patton Carolyn Wagnor | Seve Clemente | Ed Burns JHlow three men buck each other in | ia face to be elected sheriff of a small ; mn town is dramatically plc- r in “The Battlin’ Kid,” the r n attraction now showing at the | One of the candidates is in the leader of an outlaw gang. a ity os WEIGHAN TO APPEAR | ti ~ IN COHAN SUCCESS) ae Meighan will enjoy a brief after the completion of “Cappy at Paramount's Eastern stu Before resuming his transconti commuting, He is scheduled begin work at the Paramount etu- “In an eastern city lived a young Man about the same age, of good parentage. He entered an eastern college, but thru bad association be | came addicted to drink and in his second year failed at school, spair his father sent him West to college, telling him it was his last oppertunity to make good, “To makea long story short—Fute Dulls the strings and we dance.’ The boy and the girl met at college, dane- ed and fell madly tn love. The girl's father, having definite ideas for his daughter's future, also having al ready selected an aristocratic young man for her husband, frowned upon this college romance. He finally for- bade the college boy entrance to their home. The boy, discouraged and lonely, continued his high life in the West and’ flunked ti his studies, which led to an estrange- ment with his family. “Secretly the girl saw him and secured thru friends a position for him and encouraged him to make good, if not in one way, some other Sobered by this great love the boy | settled down. “When the girl learned that she) was to go abroad for two years, and return to marry her father’s choice, she rebelled and ran away and mar. ried her own choice. As a result, ber father forbade her to ever enter her home again unless she gave up ‘that rake,’ as he termed her newly acquired husband. Furthermore, with the scheming of the rejected ( BETSY IN THE In de) ‘Story of a Woman’s Sacrifice Wins First Prize in Contest, | suitor, they saw to it that her hus jband lost one positiqn a another The boy wrote Has! to his father, ex | plaining, but to no avail. He swat lowed his pride and went to his father-in-law asking for a chance to | make good; but was briefly told that the only way he could make good in | his eyes was to return his daughter clety and get out of the country. “Returning to the tiny apartment which finances compelled them to oc cupy, he, completely discouraged, | feeling that he had done the girl a | great wrong, urged her to go home | When she discovered why he had | done it, she beeame more embittered than ever and said she would never ko home, She would go and earn 2 and butter first. She sold othes and jewelry, telling her husband that she had a little money |of her own. One by one her friends | dropped her and ahe was no longer | invited to litte ‘affairs’ she had al ways attended. “One day she secured employment in an exclusive Little modiste’s ahop where in the old days she had pur chased many gowns. Here she was compelled to meet her old friends, and offset thelr cold airs with sweet smile. “Then the great blow came. The | the city to @ tiny place in order that some of her salary might be used to moet doctor bills. “I could write pages about this brave little girl whose breeding pre vented the display of noisy sorrow, of her humiliation and her sacrifice she #0 gracefully hid ‘neath her courageous heart.” Mrs. G. M. Yeats of 1947 Harvard jave. N., is the winner of the $15 award (letter printed July 19), and Maxine Finley, whose letter ap. peared July 20, wins $5 for the third best. Contestants are requested to call at The Star office for the prizes any Ume Monday. DIRECTOR The pleasant job of directing |Mary Pickford did not keep Irish- |born, adventuresome William D. |Taylor from war six years ago. Now ' again overseas for peace-time adventuring in Germany. MOVIES NOW . | opening scene of the Oliver Morosco WE SEA 1—William V. Mong and Helen Jerome Eddy, Blue Mouse; 2—Lois Wilson, Strand; 3—Frank Ma 7—Viviean Martin, Colonial; 8—Scene showing Mr. and Mrs, Carter De Haven, Coliseum, Did You Know That Hobart Bosworth played tn the first movey ever made Angeles? Elaie Ferguson will soon leave for @ vacation tn England, France and Italy? Mary Pickford lost a tooth while filming “Little Lord Faun Ueroy”? Two German potice dogs guard the Beverly Hills home of Mary and Doug? in Les to her home and rightful place tn «o-| ovie Quizzes (Conducted in | Associated First Inc) co-operation wit National Picture: | Joan—Jack Holt is married and) (. He says that he | has three children TTLE STAR |\Fox Picture Sure Winner It is a striking commentary on the performance of the New York show-goer that the photoplay which has had the longest run in that city to date is one made from the poems of Wil Carleton, whose “Farm Bal lads” constitute some of the most characteristic idylls of American rural life. | Probably no other American post came #0 clone to the hearts of his readers as did Carleton. His were the life stories of plain folks, Hin | characters were drawn dirett from | \ife—and were people he had met tp his boyhood days on the farm. It was for this reason that our parents and grandparents held him tn such | kreat ewteem, and that his verse has | been so favored by elocutionists of | the last three generations While the great William Fox pro- ction, “Over the Hill,” based on eton’s poems, is still ranning in New York city, the West is fortun- 6-—Carolyr $$$ nts Jack Holt’s Horse Scores Jump Record “Robin Hood,” Jack Holt's fa mous horse, broke the Southern California record for high jumping with a score of 6 feet 6 inches, re cently. The Paramount star has one great hobby—fine horses, and | his equines are often among the | blue ribboners at horse shows. He did not ride Robin Hood tn this event, as it required a lightweight rider—and Jack isn't especially light, PRESIDENT HARDING LIKES FILM PLAYS President Harding, like his prede censor, Woodrow Wilson, is fond of |the “movies,” it has been disclosed. The president spent the week-end with Senator Knox at the latter's | country home, Valley Forge, and wit nemed a private showing there of “Wet Gold,” the Williamson under. | sea picture which Goldwyn is releas. ling. A projection machine was rig: husband fell sick and they were com-| wan f quite agree with you that it | Belled to move out to the edge of| was a wonderful picture and well di is & happy, contented man, and that neither work nor play shall ever be | hig master, His latest picture will be | p, | called “Tall Timbers.” eee Stiver Fox. — May Collins has bobbed hair, Yea, it’s true that she | is only 17, And we guces it's true} that she and Charile are engaged to | be married. th Sundase.—Georgs Loane Tucker wag tho @irector of “The Miracle | 22 rected, Perhaps you have not heard | that Mr. Tucker died on June 20, in eee Ratede.—Etlott Dexter played the lead in “The Squaw Map.” . You are right; he was bern in Houston, Tex. He ts married to Marie Doro, PRODUCER TO SAIL FOR LONDON STUDIO Having finished his latest Para start directors and in that It has been seen in three es already, namely: Los Angeles, and wil oruiand, San Francisco, ite engagement in Seattle | ged up in the Knox mansion for the occasion. t| HELENE CHADWICK IN Metropolitan theatre on ergen RINEHART PICTURE ming, July 31. The offering traveling on the road with its own organization and playing the leading| theatres of the cities of the West! and the lorthwent. EGFELD PICTURE The chorus of the Ziegfeld Frolic} and the prinetpals of “Sally” appear starring Constance Talmadge. Five assistant two musical comedy directors assisted John Emerson in making the scenes, “Good for Nothing,” Claire Adams’ mother and «ts- ter recently arrived in Los An- geles from Winnipeg, Canada. They intend making their home “The Glorious Fool,” Mary Rob- erts Rinehart’s photoplay, in which Helene Chadwick has the leading femining role, is the ninth produc tion she has played in for Goldwyn. Her first picture was “Heartscase,” jin which she played opposite Tom Moore. Sai OE mee ENJOYING VACATION Cecil De Mille and Theodore Kos. loff are cruising off the coast of Lower California, near the Quadala fara island, for swordfish ands wild boar by way of diversion from their motion picture duties They are “The Brown Derby.” Title of comedy being made at Aqueduct race track. yo, Clemmer; 4—Clyde Fillmore and Ethel Clayton, Liberty; 5—Claire Anderson, Winter Garden; Gertrude Olmstead. She won a Chicago Elks’ beauty contest and is being starred in Universal pictures. Gertrude is playing opposite Frank Mayo wn “The Fighting Lov- er,” the feature film attrac- tion now at the Clemmer. Shirley Mason is Mra, Bernard ‘Durning in private life. She has hair. with her. bobbed mount picture, “Peter Ibbetson,” co starring Elele Ferguson and Wal lace Reid, George Fitzmaurice will sail on the Aquitania July 26 for England, where he will’ produce “Three Live Ghosts” in the Para. moupt studio in London. Mr, Fitz | maurice will be accompanied by Oulda Bergere (Mra. Fitzmaurice) | who will do the continuity on the| picture. j|ARBUCKLE COMPANY | OFF FOR CHICAGO | A trip half-way across the conti. | | nent just for “local color” will be the record net Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle | in his newest Paramount picture, | “Via Fast Freight." The company, under the leadership of James Cruze, | director, will go to Chicago for a number of the big scehes, including the company will journey back to | Hollywood to make the interior | scenes, “LOVETIME” TITLE OF | SHIRLEY MASON PLAY | Lovetime, that deliroun period of life when everything worth while may be said to start, has been util. | ized as the basis of a new film story bearing that title, from the pen of Hubert Le Due. It is to be pre sented shortly by Fox with Shirley Mason .as its star, /ENTIRE VILLAGE BUILT FOR PICTURE An entire village street, over a block tn length, was const#ucted at| the Brunton studio, Hollywood, for an e¢ Marsh's produe tion Kid,” adapted from the novel ary Carey” by Kate Langley Bosher. Promoters of a rodco in Bue- nos Aires, Argentina, desire to | get William 8S. Hart to make a personal appearance. It tx not expected, however, that he will | accept, as he has presumably retired from theatricals. 2S IN FILM The Natches 1 force assisted lin a “bank robbery” in the Missis- |sippi city. Meantime, the cameras | | were cranking on what will be the | POLICE FORC | Production “Slippy McGee,” in which | Wheeler Oakman stars. |DORIS KENYON LEADS | WITH CONWAY TEARLE | In the picture which he has just | started at the Selznick studios in| |Fort Lee, N. J., Conway Tearle's Betsy Ann Hisle, the beartiful little 4-year-old daughter |\eading woman will be Doris Ken of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hisle of 6273 19th ave. Betsy has just returned with her yother from California, where she made her debut in the movie in “The Poverty of Ric 4m Hollywood, about August 1, on Prince There Was,” George M ‘s successful romantic comedy. WB girent, (ort John Bowers and Leatrice Jo Those who have witnes ture for the Seattle tot, ”@ She played a prominent part new Goldwyn picture in which y are featured, ed the picture predict a great fu- lyon, The name under which the new | pleture is being filmed is “Shadows | of the Sea.” Migs Kenyon has gained wide popu: | larity as a star on both the stage| and the screen. « . Wanda Hawley completes “Her Face Value.” And just LDIRECTION JENSEN JERSE The beautiful and popular star ETHEL LAYTON is here now with her latest picture—a play of luxury and society, and the things underneath! “SHAM” There’s comedy, too!—when you see this pretty girl leading a limousine life on a trolley car income, and dodging the ever-present creditor, you'll roar with laughter, The cast includes THEODORE ROBERTS, WALTER HIERS and SYLVIA ASHTON. * * * * * * —something that’s too good to miss! “Jungie Dancers” First showing of the famous Paramount- Vandenbergh Exploration pictures—the strang- est, most fascinating and amazing things civil- ized man has ever seen! Salary Raise : Contest Winners Winners in the “Ten Dollar Raise™ contest are as follows: Mrs. R Ia Whitman, Edmonds, Wastf, $25; Mra, Leona Wildemere, 1017 First svt. $10; Mrs. Margaret Overly, 2614 12th ave. W., $5; Mrs, Herbert Thompson, 1412 Synmit ave, and Mra Jessie G, Sharman, $2.50 each; Mra, BL We Bethel, 2160 43rd ave N., Mra D, B’ Kesner, 2641 14th ave. W. Mra EL F. Wright, 217 10th ave N., Mra, Wm. M. Hartford, 1414 Seneca st, and Mrs. D. W. McFadden, 618 Fourth st, Bremerton, Wash, $1 each. Prize winners are requested to call at The Star office any time Monday, Letters submitted by Mra. Whit- man, Mrs. Wildemere and Mrs. Overe ly have been printed during the last week. ACTRESS WADES DEEP IN MUD Priscifa Dean is wading in mud | to her knees to give “Conflict,” her forthcoming film, absolute realism, Under the directign of Stuart Paten, ~ the company is at work on the Gam adian street at Universal City. There — scenes #re being made tb match Up with the long shots which are t be filmed in the Canadian woods when the logdrive starts within @ few days. HENRY WALTHALL Henry B. Walthall has been @nm gaged for the leading male role in “Flower of the North,” the Vita» graph special production based on the novel of the same name by | James Oliver Curwood. a ad MEIGHAN IN COHAN PLAY Thomas Meighan will next appear in “A Prince There Was,” a screen version of the recent George M. Cohan stage success. Tom Forman is Meighan’s director. A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

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