The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 3

DATURDAY, OCTOBER TODAY’S PROGRAMS SCREEN COLISEUM — Kenneth Miriam Cooper in Marian “The Mrokeo LIBERTY—Jackto Coogan ta “Curcus! Days, BLUR MousE—c Artiss Alice Joyeo in “The Green Goddess, STRAND—John Bowers and Katelle lor in “Desire.” COLUMBIA—Warrea Kerrigan, Anna x je in “She ¢ jew"; Sunday, Charles in “The Girl I Loved. winhen oaRbn riers"; Sunday, Willlam Russeli in “Mixed Faces.” STAGE ORPHEUM—Willlam Seabury; Sun- day, Trixge Friganse beading vaude- ville bill METROPOLITAN—sunaay, “Ilossom Time.” 1G—Will King and company (® joney movners."” PANTAGES—Variety yandeville bill PALACE HIP—Vandeville and photo- play, “Backbone,” LIBERTY ACKIE COOGAN’S “Circus Days” Here; Airplane Romance at Coliseum; Strand Features Society Drama; “Green Goddess” on Second W AT LE STAR e¢. “Thundering Dawn” Also Held Over; Charles Ray at Colonial; Winter Garden Shows “Mixed Faces”; Palace Hip Has “Backbone.” | 2. | 1—Miriam Cooper, Coliseum, Columbia. us ee “Cireus Days,” the Jackie Coogan pleture with its huge cirous and its elaborate scenes, Including an army of circus performers, horses ,train- ed doga clowns, freaks, elephants, camels, and beasts of field and for- * est, opened Saturday at the Liberty theater with the big theater packed —with mostly kiddies. “Circus: Days,” is an adaption of James) Otis’ celebrated story of “Toby ‘Ty- sler, or Ten Weeks With a Circus,” ahd in {t Jacklo has the very best and most delightful part he has ever taken. es. f COLISEUM sin film version of “The Broken Wing,” one of the most successful Broadway stage plays of recent Years, was having its first show- ings at the Coliseum Saturday. A story full of romantic and thrilling adventure and the atmosphere of California and Mexico ts offered in the picture in which Kenneth Har- lan, Mirlam Cooper and Miss du- Pont are featured. eee :—_—_—______——___—~ | SPRAND I - Thrilling action and strong drama fs promised in The Strand’s now attraction, “Desire,” which opened {ts local engagement Saturday. It fs described as “a thrilling drama of social whirl,” smd was produced on a lavish scale with a big star- ring ‘cast. The most important characters are portrayed by John Bowers, Marguerite do LaMotte, David Butler, Estelle Taylor, Wal- ter Long and Ralph Lewis. eee PALACE HIP = x | | ————— il As a/screen feature on the new program at the Palace Hip, “Back- bone,” a strong story of northern New England, with Edith Roberts and Alfred Lunt in the featured roles, had its first showing here Saturday. ee 4\[ co le Rta Sosa || BLUE MOUSE | “The Green Goddess,” one of the| season's greatest achievements in| = 5 motion picture production, ts now| PJOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.——“The on the second week of showing at} Extra Girl," Mack Sennett's the Blue Mouse theater, having al-|iatest feature, ts a parody on “Hol ready finished one highly succsssfut |tywood” (the ploture, also the place.) week. George Arliss {# tho star of) 11 it Mabel Normand {s a alap- the big picture and Alice Joyco| .,7n Mt Mabel X plays opposite him. In 7 Ki thelr sup | . - port are David Powell, Harry T.| And F. Richard Jones, with a Morey, Jetta Gouda! and peveral | fWifteee of direction and interest of . movement, achieves that true tech- other prominent screen players. ‘nique of the motion picture of which the only other masters are Charles Chaplin and one or two directors of serials and comedies. It you can conceive of a parody on a satire, “The Extra Girl" ts it. | LUMBIA Carl Laemmio's big production of “Thundering Dawn,” the romantio|°") 2008 | , js not your painful burlesque of drama gf the tropics, has started) |. brandhce ca on the second week of its engage-| Oye tyde specialized in by Ben Tur ¢ Columbia. A mixture ma {s offered in the picture and| Proves to be merely the ridiculous the excellent playing of tho fea |parellel of come popular feature plo tured members of the cast—Warren/ ture, Winnlfred Bryson and| na Q. Nilsson, is another good) red Negba EXTRA GIRL” fs not set feature. | out as a parody; {t ts pre jsented in serious vein; but tts ——$$<$ <<< humor crops out unexpectedly fol- WINTER GARDEN | |lowing such a title as “Holtywood— beets oMidietammaae Sa 5 Fe Day,” with an exquisitely ex- *Viillam Duncan and Edith John-|“sserated bit of {impressionistic son were being seen for the Inst | babel. Also in tho scenes of the times at the Winter Garden Sat-|screen test tn which the soulful lit- urday in the thrilling Western pic | tle Mabel Normand in demuro hoop: ture “Smashing Barriers.” “Mixed |Skirts "and pantalets unwittingly Faces,” in which William Russell in| makes of herself @ first-rate come- starred, was announced as tho at. |dienna traction to open Sunday ot that| And Mabel, with the eyes of n theater, | Madonna and the mouth of a mis- |chievous shedevil, can do things % ——% | with your emotions that Mary Pick- f COLONIAL _ ||ford nor Mao Marsh nor Lillian a |Gtoh could do any better. Then she The final showing of Norma Tal-|Quickly dams the bursting tear, madge's picture, “She Loves and|strangles the pregnant sob with a Charles |¥o custard pte, yo slapstick, or yo other Keystone dodges. were IM | ier” offered Saturday night. Ray tn “The Girl I Loved,” a pic- turization of . James Whitcomb Riley's biographio poem, was sched- uled to open, showing at the Colo- nial Sunday. ‘ACK SENNETT, {t ts now ap- parent (stacking "The Extra on top of “Molly.O” and “Tho tn, Bull Montana and Max Linder} Lies,” at tf Colonial, was to be | deft application of the principal of Mabel Normand |Crossroads of New York’) tw the master mslodramatlat of the movies. There 1s no one who can approach his lusty combination of molo and comedy. Like his other features, “The Ex- tra Girl" 1s an examplo of the dom!- nance of incident over plot. Sen- nett has got a good enough plot favch as it fs) and he's going to |NAVY BAND GIVES | COLUMBIA CONCERT | The navy band of the U. 8. 8 | Idaho ts colob: | giving two concerts today at the Co- lumbla theater in cooperation with the Navy lefguo. The big navy band was scheduled to appear, at the the ater today at 2:10 and 7:40 p. m. Commander Woods will also ap- pear at the Columbia and give a short talk on the United States navy jof today, In addition, special motion |plctures of navy life will be shown. |CRUZE COMPLETES “TO THE LADIES” Final scenes have just been tak in James Cruze’s latest Paramot production, "To the Ladies," « pic ture vernion of the well-known Kauf n |story of satire and comedy telling |how a clerk ina plano factory landed Jan executive position thru the help | of his wife. | ‘The featured players are Edward Horton, who had the role of Rug- gles in “Ruggles of Red Gap," an- jother James Cruze production; Theo- |dore Roberts, Helen Jerome Eddy and Louise Dresser, Others in the cast include Z. Wall Covington, Pa- | tricla Palmer, Arthur Hoyt and Jack Ganiner stick to {t. More power to him; the heetio struggle for “different” plots is ono of tho things the matter with most movies. What in said of Sennett must be divided with F. Richard Jones, whe is the active directorial mind in lthese pictures. It is impossible for an outsider to properly say how much of the credit fs the producer's and how much is the director's in this particular case. Anyhow “The Extra Giri" is the best thing Mabel or Jones or Sen- nett has done collectively or indj- vidually, IN FAVOR That Renee Adoree is being unani ating Navy Day by! mously elected to stardom as a re | jwult of her characterization in Re | inald Barker's The Eternal Struggle” is evi dent from the glowing _ tributes won by her per- formance from critics and fans all over the coun- try. Louls B, Mayer, who pro duced the pfture for Metro release, ily receipt magazine reviews lauding the plo tlre for Its beauty pointing to Miss and realism, and man-Connolly stage comedy. It is @| Adoreo’s work as the outstanding | timed by Paramount | . 3 attraction of tho film. HALLOWEEN HIGH JINX | Wednesday night, October 31, at | 11.0’clock—then the fun begins. The | Halloween High Jinx at the Liberty theater will swing into full sway | Besides an apple-bobbing contest, a |20-minute minstrel show, songs, dancing, a musical special by Oliver G. Wallace, a prize contest for the best. costume and comedy pictures, | there will be many other fun-provid. | Ing stunts on the program, which are being kept for surprives. An unusual honor has been ten- dered Wesley “Freckles” Barry, the Warner Brothers’ star, by the Roose- | velt Newsboys’ association of Massa- chusetts, by placing him on the na- tional honorary committee for their campaign in which every newsboy will contribute a penny to build a statue of Laddie Boy for presenta- tion to Mrs. Warren Harding, widow of the late President Harding, Bar- ry’s starring yehiclo {s “George Washington, Jr.," 0 film version of Georgo M. Cohan’s play. | mected with E co-operated wt officials in reproducing the prison ward of that institution at Long Island studio for scenes in “Big Brother,” which Allan Dwan is producing. evue hospital “Big Brother,” character back screen. | In the cast of there are five whose careers date | early days of Charles Hammond, Willi | Hardy Tucker, Hugh Edward Elkas. ° to the They &r m Black Wynn and Marjorle Daw taken the pe of Estelle Taylor in the cast “The Call of the Canyon,” Zane Grey production now. being pl of | completed her work in another pro- duction just in time to take Miss |Taylor’s place after she had been |Canyon near Flagstaff, Arizona. eee | An attempt is being made to. pro. | duce juvenile pictures which will in- directly be of material aid in boosting |the good work of Boy Scouts and | similar organizations. It is perhaps |tho first serious attempt along this } line, } The endeavor consists-of a series of six comedies to be known as Juve- Educational. First of these to be re- leased is “Yankeo Spirit,” with Ben- ing role. . “Lilles of the Field” will be Corinne Griffith's first starring vehicle for First National. It is a screen ver- sion of the stage play. eee Russell Simpson. and Charlie Mur- ray are newest additions to Clarence Badger’s company interpreting “The Swamp Angel.” New York police and doctors con-| have} th Paramount studio|to the} was the actors| li Miss Daw} | taken 111 on location at Oak Creek} nile Comedies, ‘to be distributed by | nie Alexander, boy-actor, in the lead- | | | Rollin Sturgeon, who has directed all sorts of living things from mice elephants, had his first ex nee recently directing a fly. It scene where Glenn Hunter up in the morning after on in “West of the Water Several flies were tried © could be found that haé interest in Hunter’s nose to long enough to be photo- phed. The property wen spent all mornin, thering up stray flies around the studio. rie wakes gradua ‘ew York," Cosmopoll- new starrin€ vehicle for Marion | Davies, after a three months’ run on Broadway, will be given. its nation: wide release by Goldwyn Cosmoppll- tan on November 4. PICTURES OF HORSE RACE Authentic and complete pictures of the recent $100,000 international horse race between, the American Zev and Papyrus, the famous Eng- lish Derby winner, are now. being Presented as u special attraction at the Coliseum theater. The Blue Mouse is also showing Pictures of the big race. LITTLE MURIEL HAS A BIRTHDAY Muriel Frafices Dana, the lit tle girl from Seattle, who has been making a big name for her- self in the movie world, cele brated her sixth birthday the other day on the Warner stage in Hollywood. Bill Seiter, her d- rector in the big picture, “Dad- dies,” in which the little star has a prominent part, staged a sure prise party, and they had “cake n’everything.” Mae Marsh «and Harry Myers were on hand to help Bill with his little party. Always the Best NOW HERE— An all-circus enter- tainment program —all the thrills and interest of the tent- shows— ‘e000 for The Liberty: Guest Liberty News Washington Apples Loading for European Shipment, Howe Company, in Seattle, Making Hair Goods. George Pocock Builds World's Best Racing Boats. Seattle Youngsters Preparo for x Main 0012. wi you instant t at 'The Coll- Liberty or Strand The airplane romance— “The Broken Win with Kenneth Harlan EXCLUSIVE! ‘The only complete and motion picture tai $100,000 INTER? RACE between auth ONAL, HC nen en of the famé On WHAT DO YOU DESIRE? NOW PLAYING— This girl wants to break her engagement _one minute before the marriage ceremony! | = A First National attraction, with RUSSELL SIMP- Added Fun— “POODLES” highest salaried slown of stage or ureus, in his first motion picturé— “Front!” A Tuxedo Comedy 4 ° a HANNAFORD ON, CLAIRE McDOWELL, CESARE GRAVINI and PEACHES JACKSON Acrobats, clowns, freaks, elephants, jugglers, magicians, tumblers, roaring lions-—“‘a mammoth aggregation of all the marvels of the ages!” ALLACE at the URLITZER fleetest of American horses, and PAPYRUS winner of the English Derby! COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA will play the following one-hour concert, Sunday, at 12:30 o'clock: Overture—"Tannhauser" . : a Dxcerpts from “Tho Nut-cracker Suite! “Overture Miniature” Danse Arabo" Danse Chinoiae” (a) “Danse de Merlitons’’ “Love Sends a Little Gift of Rose see Wagner ‘echaikowsky Openshaw Horbert bare + Zameentk y Marietta” .. Herbert STEARNS, Conductor lection from "Naughty OSBORNE PUTNAM The marital drama with a-terrifie force— DESIRE with EstelleeTay!or, John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, David Butler, Edward Connelly, Walter Long, Chester Conklin and Ralph Lew: é STRAND ORCHESTRA under WINELAND fron b TAL: TRAND TRIO Singing « Medley Popular Song: fa tiie Strauss