The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 9

@ SECOND SECTION NEW PHOTOPLAYS ARE OF UNUSUAL MERIT USIEMEN Mie Seattle Star TOMOBIL BATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 19) PAGES 9 TO 16 She’s a Vampire 4 aeaieeneail You first became acquainted with Winifred Br “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” duction, “The Law Forbids,” day. mise yson as the charming Fleur de Lys in She's a vamp in the new Universal photoplay pro- which went on view at the Columbia for the first time to- Baby Peggy, Robert Ellis and Elinor Faire are the trio that Winifred makes Watching the Screen BY DAISY HENRY W. GRIFFITH has accepted an invitation from an Ital- e ian syndicate of bankers to go to Rome for the pur- Making Halted pose of conferring on the production of a ies of pictures; en Turpin, who was held to be to be made there. The syndicate is headed by Comm. | impervious to any kind of eye strain, Andrea Sereo, member of the mayor's cabinet, of Rome. pit poled er rediiedpi aire Turpin Snow Blind; Film “J | CR rok soms” is back agai *harles yg y-| Universal City, has made an offer| peasantry and delighted my own decadent soul. i A ali 2 ‘ s n fs positively the only| “Broken Blossoms” is back again. Charles Ray and Har y |p 'y g) ) The action has approval of the Italian govexnment,. | Ray | "Freeh player that has never known|old Lloyd stars of other features. of a million dollar contract for Jack | er eae cause the artist within him will not ebance in ne Yla “kleig eye.” | cee | plays ever produced and one of the|Dempscy’s. services in pictures, | EJIS monocle, his haircut, his|let that picture go out until as FAA Batement tered by represen: |later made 4 number of Incs fea-|” put the Mack Sennett company | BLUE MOUSE |¥ery few which does not adhere to| tn anawer to a query based on th bracetet—all symbols to Amer-|nearly as is possible, it approxi tatives of the syndica jtures depicting various country boy| making “Yukon Jake.” starrin, ‘ x | ais m apnea gi : Awe pista She" pg h 0 lement of them|mates the thing he was dreaming . ‘ icting various co " , J jarring the N GISH’S popularity 1s as| tho, “they lived happily ever after"| rumor that Jack Kearns, manager of |{°2 of the worst element o} A } “We feel the activity of Mr. Grif-| roles, He became famous and left | comedian, was forced. to return to pa ae aa tathe Shades, | endl the champion, had received auch an {Wicked foreign dukes and things! Jabout when he was directing it, th tet Italy will do much toward! ince to go in for himself, Just |the studio from location at Truckee ith the added advantage of having| Griffith adapted this story to the| offer, Carl Laemmlo in. Universal | His click and bow—the confounded «Vin Strohelim. knew. wet Teatoring the picture-making indus-!ine other day telegraph dispatches | California, whither director Del Lord | With the a cglily screen from Thomas Burke's famous| cuy |militarist! And the way he had of|Nerris was aiming at when he Oy in Italy to ite full heaith and Braces ioe t ancy Ach ar had taken his staff to. make the |#TOWn with each are eralea: tre mi | Limetiouse Night's wtory,-"The Chink |, its nn Solos looking with vellod eyes from which | wrote “McTeague.” He knew what ” info ed i na y hac joBcd +7 v ter “s ‘eputatior a aveled ‘ot amenouse 5 * mild 6 ” fer to De sey v1 Ps yt 7 prosperity. : syisee te. et Briow. acehée. Hee reputation has” tray try, {and the Child.” Like many other|, “Offer to Dempsey correct. Think arrows of understanding would dart| von’ Strohelm was atriving for wheal wes down his Hollywood studion and was |"D2W scenes. yjookat to coast, country to country, ffith productions, it is the sort of |Diesest bet in pictures today. Offer |4, prick “Victorian hides contemptu-|he directed “Greed.” He made tiie This is the first time an (asain back with Ince. . There are| .A# an lnvincible arm of the Royal as tho result of her splendid. imper Cirittith productions, it is the sort of sent to manager, New York. Kearns Pisin thea yaar Kiederaeet Reais te American artist ever has been |many stars doing the samo thing.| na the ‘showy wastes at Trickeo |*onations in the living ‘Get wighe|ngagements “and: still retains “iis| "item mie he will: Weave "Monday for | iano decent woman eafe on the|made to satiety both artiete a . VW. Griffith brought forth. She} ‘ s anc eins "5! Los Angele discuss propos aa bs : rr 5 i ta vaee Levene te be OD help ee ss aiebietlirt a eat ne ingest iioarea th, “intolerance” the | Popularity. jLos Ang valcke uss proposition.” | same lot with him! anen t tatked to. him he nad te : help America, and especial: | and was obliged to return to his Hol- |“ rapa: fe | cee Fy P 5 | How he ravaged our native |down from 42 reels tc 26. He said * clreum: r other at the cradle. This was fol y A “ LOLA | low he ravaged wx stances Amer'can | G y its youth, If the time ever|tywood home with the famous eye« praise Fox pap er 2: Bak peddle HEILIG Wiis Ler gaat ag mea: | optimism with bis carryings-on, | it seemed impossible then to take wen, Fer business men comes when it generally accepts the! swathed in bandages: ltons, including “Hearts of the| In a typical Richard Harding Da-| Until the offer 1s accepted no an-| overturning our idol of virtue {cut another inch. Tut having eut 8 country’s hndatiriey eeeanize | unhappy ending in its motion pleture = Weavia. “Broken Blossoms,” “Way |¥is story, replete with thrills and|nouncement Is made as to how Mr! OvertWening toe, encased in a [it in half once ne hoped that he he oe $ my ngrrs4 entertainment. The happy ending ee ‘and “Orphans of the|!aughter, and supported by abril demmie intends to ns st | varnished boot. How we [could nerve himself to do it again. omies, in pletures will not be popular unti E , . Including such names as al § : f 1 agonirin, rt of the first ‘time an soateang ies beset rans saris reer Storm.” M i h oy screen atories have. been dis-| s tirmed in our. seats to ste the The agonizing part of th ht for that purpose j{t Bas become part of the, national ” Grities the country over are unani-| Theodore — Rot TASTY; Make, | COBB 2 hove st e* | statue toppling and to realize business is that von Stroheim ae an perpote, Ameen Ane tbat: meas hte mous in declaring her acting in "The in a egal ber pec ag hte op that it was very loosely attached knee many of re ssi Le ple bogged down, listless, hopeless 4 | -* ¥. Marion Crawford's | Douglas. Fairbanks, Jr, is ma ith. which are truest to Norris the 0 DEFINITE plans have been | cynical, a people decadent.” TS T DAY White Sister,” ¥. Marion eee truest [His bow. to Beatle picture: jovers at s . Go novelist, truest to von Strohe' made regarding the nature of| a. on story, which is having Its Northwest | 0 rim nspire | #06: ogursey: he got his 1n/ ihe dinector, truest. to’ life teat iS the story, but the ryndicate wishes | ‘This is the considered comment What do you think of Doug | premier at the Blue eyes ction, | _ The picture play is n Steps | the heap anak ids got picked | win “have to come’ out «eo something atter the manner of Grit. | Jesso L. Lasky pred Fairbanks, Jr. as a motion pic: | than in any previous production. | 1 It is the a real ® ° Up: and brushed off and set back |: smeared over with stmethinl ith'’s “America.” of Famous Pla in charge | ture actor? Do you think ho Manager John Hamrick is American boy, the son of a capitalist aintin Ss on: the pedestal. “Buti we:naver felt) > oe sna. aticky? to: eet them i bine of production led in the indus | should emulate his famous dad | his patrons an elaborate presonta:) 7 Ot! fy) | ten aaa ete that’ von Strohelm’s punishment |). the | censors . ERE is a contrast involving un oracle. It is Lasky’s bust- | and become an athletic hero, or |, tion of “The Ve eae |Turkey, and there becomes Involved} And now a picture inspired by! was quite strong enough for his{ Agee of the sereen’s greatest pro- se public trends so that { is there some other type you |in a political plot. The action moves | paintings. crimes. And as we issued from the | 77... " ducers, which 19 iatrating te S retlectacs asthe: Cirin think him best fitted to lag? COLUMBI | fast | We've had pictures from books, {theater with snorts and outraged | \/ON STROHEIM haa res peruse: é TH om play that deals with the crary Digests ‘Topics ai a 4 |tossings of the head, the memory," | #8¢ and ¢ Po fe aes product. Manager McKee, of the Hei A problem play ay, | taterary Digest Topics of the| pictures: and plays, pictures from | he milo every time he games tte Von Stroheim’s big pro- | om te lig, und ‘The Star are offering a | relations of a brilliant young play. | pay," a Century comedy, Interna-|magazine stories, " pictures from |°f those velled and cynical. ¢ °5 | into a mirror at the image of the eee reel” Wiltch ta more | 667 WILL not come In my day—||'$10 gold-plevo for the. best letter t, hit wife and a fascinallie | tlonal News, Leon Greenman's Mol-|history, but it remained for John {Continued to PORE us Mabioaeeney: | adaiing that decorates his dramatic than it is spectacular, | this approbation of the unhappy|| on Doug, Jr. Thero are other and revolve pout a «¢ ody Makers in concert and the |P. MeCarthy to produce “Out of the | brow. In his uth as cade t he Law h as cadet and o be cut from 42 reels | ending,” he predicts, “If and prizes, 100. ed ibe d big | Deatance of the popular tenor, Bus-| Dust," an epic of the last frontier, 4 hed those who still believe that /subaitern he fought seven duelac : ae Z ee nai length (which | {t does, Ame and all it has stood The rules are simple: See the | Forbids,”’ Peggy's Legetie Por a Lorenzo, complete the new bill. | inspired by the famous Western oils | rich von Stroheim is just ®/with swords—according to the code ) a bene ive to 9 Feels), while | for will be utterly changed. picture, “Stephen Steps Out,” in | Univernel Opens Rb) 8 he? pot Frederick Remington jslick villain, doing on the screen |in vogue in Middle Europe among 4 Fauigl Doug Fairbanks pro- “We would then be like thoxe coun-|| which Doug Is now starring at | lumbia t Saturday, aoe | COLONIAL | And that brings out another |/the dirty tricks, he would like tolstudents, officers and gentlemen duet ne ‘The Thiet of Bagdad tries which today cry out for our|| the Hellig, then write a letter Robert Ells, uh rape hed fa. |. Charles Ray portrays a small town |thought, that artists of the future, |do off of it—if he had the chance— ‘The doctor who sewed up his face wld gs T i of the most |help, for the reviving touch of our|| on the subject mentioned above |. tinction See ad plage thesis Tit Offertnge Tt'ls contigo 2 Wt: finstend of working in oll, will ex-/T have a little problem to\propose.”” latter the encounter. that eft 4am E Wis 90 cirefully pi rsqre, | CCTeY and optimism and mall it to the Douglas Fair. |) VOrite (eee ior nite piays the |lonjer for nc two dee, (othe Co-|press thelr genius thru the medium) Suppose this debased person scar was kind enough to make < 2 500. feet reed planned only ———_—— banks, Jr., Contest Editor, Seat. |,!ne role, and are eh rade Bey jlonial for a Sys days’ engagement, | of the cinema, had a chance to make a lot of | clumsy job of it—so the young i : to be eliminated = Bip part of his wife. nnifred ginning Sunday Not altogether a “Western” pic ey by maki lot of pic- Fs tle Star ep your letter with. ||? y ou ol fe }2 a ple money by making a fot of pic: {blood could proudly wear the es MIX TEACHES. TONY. | || fooler, resp your CO eee tour de | at managing editor of the Citizen, ture such as “The Covered Wagen,”| tures; Belg purty a material |Pl0%* could proudly wear the, clas ; 6 : ; ., |/rhundering Dawn," anc Ir one of the. two daily newspapers in| and yet by no means a “drawing-| ist, and a perverted one at that, “pha ck: Kika RE ee | ec ts 2 safe bet Mary a8 on TO USE SNOWSHOES oh ant ch Fit iood follow: Lys of “The Hunchback of Notre) ihe tittle town of Citrona, Cal, he| room" production, “Out of the Dust” hae cui he do? Make a lot vie Soran bine aes ‘i and when “The Thies of Bay Tort Mix Is’ teaehinie’ tie’ ternous ae P §0) Dame," portrays the rolo of the 4¢-) hing one of the best roles in his en-|\e making new box office records | ctures and thake a lot of | pos ‘3 + daa” s Second prize-—Season pass, good ywright be of pictur a lot of {posite se: id the director with a film production twas bo cov + ovel trick for. his ass, O00 | tress with whom tl aywright be-|\ire screen carcer story is a just as Cruze's famous production | 4 , Sete. teas being | cowper ‘ony, a novel trick f for any pletare shown at the |)‘ child who th . {3 Honeys OK, CourEe {a grin, “Women, They are back Spe Bhe is not only one of | just started picture, “The Trouble| sitet comes infatuated Nn perfect blend of drama and humor, | qjq, in its showings thruout the East. | But he isn't. He isn’t following{of every foolish prank hich @ i 2 chnema’s treatest sta ; welt y the Has a || Heil. becomes the center of the marital) being from the pen of Rob Wagner Robert McKim, Moore, child}. Bul. he Is ichige pd al ad ad bike a eee at stars, b Shooter,” written by the Hattons and Rober child . | she te a business woman’ Fy aw being dicted J by Jack Conway || { Third prize—Bix loge seats, problems that arise is Baby Peggy. | famous Saturday Evening Post au-lartist and Russell Simpson are {YOU formula at all. For von Stor-|young man plays, Women are sup: mn and iow being directed by Jacl “ “4 é oe ai aitae . * sels ist anc r i: aon *|8 hell ould— ‘act 5 e vos knotes the motion picture gam. tthe Willlam Fox West Coast stu | Fourth prize—Vour loge seats, the adorable young star who won the | thor, imong the well Known character art.|2elm could—in fact he is being |posed to be th advocate of peace. from A Cs game jaf th vwood. This story deals| | Fifth prizo—-Two loge seats, \hiéarts of her in “The | Se ista with important roles in the pro.|UTE°d, by his producers to—mako a It is not true. For what sre duels i know Uttle of the REAL Phi it the bebe hia y man for|f The contest tw now on |parling of New York 100T GIBSON, IN peed lot of money by making a lot of /fought? For what is war wagel } a Crete Balok s iS lant, -whone Job st | An added. feature is tne satan “RIDE FOR YOUR I % he AKae pletures, Van | stiohelm is aia alA Sorta, Woman. : a Neldentaliy, it ig q a. ¥* LUCKY BOYS! tet of the new ather Push:| root Gibson, Universal West ary by Goldwyn only when he| “If there were no women yal g often the un e that and cables are Kept | Y i chaptet aes ; ett! | BUDDY GOT AN E 1 . aor te 1d be N portion of 1 Pstbpisy he un real a Beda Florence Vidor hus three leading lor” series cn star, whohas abandoned the | BUDDY GOT AN EARLY START |is octually shooting a pleture, It | would be impossible. And as long PREM DIUURION ps cca | ene Tecan Bhoote®) te cod. |menein her latest: Vitagraph produc eee straight Western of late, comes| Buddy Messinger, the rotund little | Would please Goldwyn's to have him |as there are women there will be 2 oo. Halted to PIAETH MR trentharoun anew |tion, “Borrowed Hushanda.* WINTER GARDEN back with a whirlwind film of Cali. |Star of Century Comedies and featur. |shooting the year around j NE by one the atar: rsouint to’ perform duty, Jt is|lucky chaps are Rockliffe Fello Lillian Gish, Richard Bartheimess|furnia’s gold rush days in his new. (ed player in many Univer produc. Instead he has made one picture; Now I daresay all the women branched out with the, a tae thas horse bo able to|Zarle Willams and Robert Gordon. | and Donald Crisp are the three lead lest picture, “Ride for Your Lite,” |tions, started his motion picture ca.|in the last year, "Greod,” He has |fana will be down on us. I eoally Prtiction competion a qe oT | waits owahibes.” Ye Berta this| -—- —-_———— ing players in “Broken Bloxsome."|which has been booked for an early |reer in a baby carri At the ex-/now been engaged for months in {can't see how the ‘press agent can 580° are rety Meg te TeatF| insportane detalt Mr, ‘Mist a6 ylenaelt| Cecil” 2, Do Mille’s next ploture|the . W.. Griffith. ploture which showing at. the Hellle tremely tender age of 25 weeks he|the painful and unprofitable labor jantipropagandize this slip, Perhaps ‘hort 1 urning to th ite Praheabate Rs shat eek ng er ¢ era followitix “Triumph,” will be a screen | will show at the Winter Garden for] As the title indicates, it offer | was engaged to play the role of ajof cutting this picture, In other |the women wilt not be down on us May ana lane ee, | sith 4 f pee if he All ‘ts | vdeas on of Margaretta Tuttlo’s story, |four days, beginning Sunday. This|plenty of hard riding for the cow. | neglected baby in ene of the early | words he has been working for jat all It's hard to tell—about Give him his tirpt walkin ‘or himself, he 4 dm fat ¥ sey 1 photo: |boy st ' California productions. months for nothin Why? Be. ! women: 8 first real gyi Wieat of Clay.” Is one of the most unusual photo-|boy star $ y? . as fee, No motion picture actress appearing before the camera has kept alive a finer flame than Lillian Gish, a flame that ness equalled only by the constant admiration of thousands. Often referred to as “the Bernhardt of the screen,” Miss sh upholds this tribute by her fine acting in F. Marion Crawford's “The White Sister,” showing at the Blue Mouse. Lively Comedy and Pathos Predominate IGHLY interesting and entertaining are the picture scheduled for the coming week at Seattle’s motion picture theaters. Critics the country over are unanimous in declaring “The White Sister” one of the best photoplays of the year. Its star Lillian Gish. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who is following his dad’s footsteps, makes his debut in a Paramount feature, “Stephen Steps Out Domestic problem forms the plot of “The Law Forbid,” acted by an all-star cast of University favorites, including Baby Peggy. has learned to burn always. more brightly, and with a sure- Who could better play dad to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., than this lovable old gentleman? Paramount producers knew what they were doing when they cast Theodore Roberts ¥ Stephen Harlow, Sr., in young Doug's first starring vehicle, a Richard Harding Davis story, “Stephen Steps Qut,” which opened Friday at the Heilig. There are other favor- That Villain—Fric! BY DON RYAN HEN I accepted an invitation the other night to the | bungalow of Erich von Stroheim, I knew pretty well what sort of a person I was going to meet. For many seasons corporation, | past I had enjoyed watching this polished villain performing ident, Carl Laemmie, in| those subtleties of seduction which outraged the sturdy Dempse iy Gets Million Dollar M ovie Offer Pic Universal res thru its pr