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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AXD CHRONICLE. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 2. 102S 9D 'Sacred Mauliam Tragedy, Is Holding, Says Mantle .11 the community are also Mr. G.ilvm says.

In Rochester, alone, IS family gioups are be.ni laken cue of, and many others are being given tempoiaty assistance aiKie jcreen mveniea dv Members Run Moosehaven, 1 QAMEQ THEATER Clinton Av. North, nsar Av. D. RAMON NAVARRO IN "ACROSS TO SINGAPORE" AN IV- Well Written, But Not for Crowd; Shaw Play, Macbeth, ijane Cowl on Gotham Bills Cohan Comedy Community Bill 'Seven Keys to Baldpate' Will Op'n Friday for Eight Performances Rochester Manager Said to Have Number of Advantages Geo. Sidney nd ghairrsTTtU In I SIGNS VAt.F.YtlNO'S HKOTIIFK Alberta Valentino, a brotYicr of! the late Rudolph Valentino, has' signed a contract to appear In the; cur lent Trinity Pictures Corp.

re-; lease of "The China Slaver," which will feature Sojin and Le Heung Wong, a siter of Anna May Wong. Trnity also has an option on his services for four additional pic-1 pictures. 'FLYING ROMEOS" By MRNS MANTI.K TUf.5-WED.-1 MRU'S. JANET GATNOR in "THE STREET ANGEL'' "Seven Keys to Baldpate," a by George M. Cohan which tion, haa already asked Mr.

So-rlero's permission to install the the screen In all of their theaters throughout the United States. This screen also has been given the approval of Mr. Connick of the Wired Radio Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the North American Utilities Corporation. proved a popular success a number i of years ago In New York City, I will be the next offering of the 2 FEATURES ALWAY5 10 TO 20c Rochester Community Players. The play will he presented at the Community Playhouse at Clinton Avenue South and Meigs Street, In TODAY'S GREAT SHOW 'Four Sons' to Come to Strand Pauline Garon "THE DEVIL'S CAGE" TIM McCOY OF THE DARK" NEW YORK, Pec.

l-(Sp-rial) That "Moon and Sixpence" fellow, that ruined socioloRiat who writes at times with a scalpel dripping Ink, Pr. William Somerset Maughamhas written another serious play that happens to be the most holding of recent dramas. This new work Is called "The Sacred Flame," and has to do, not to hide the plot of it from you longer, with a gentle lady mother who deliberately kills her invalid son to gave him from a bitter unhappinesa she sees descending inevitably upon him. It, sounds sordid and distressing and as though It should have been produced by one of those civic ait theaters in which bouI tortures are glorified. But, to the contrary it is a most delicately poised tragedy exalting a sacrifice that may ha.e been pitifully wrong but is still understandably human.

"The Sacred Flame" tells the 4 DAYS MONDAY TO THURSDAY 'Sally of the Scandals' on Bill; Two Films Today fa HEAR AND SEE! FOUR SONS" FOX'S LITTLE MOTHER CLASSIC WM. MANAGER THOMAS D. SORIKRO of the Roches-Theater and his mechanical adviser, Michael Mungovan, are the Inventors of a new moving picture screen which they believe has many advantages over the ordinary screens used in theaters throughout the country. The new screen is the result of two years of experimentation. It Is to be used with vitaphone and movietone pictures.

It required four weeks for construction, and because of Its nature it has been called the relaxaphone screen. In theaters where the Movietone and the Vitaphone are installed, the mechanism reproducing music, talking and sound is located in back of the screen. The effect is sometime unpleasant because of the screen that Is used, it is said. Mr. Soricro has invented a screen that allows sound to penetrate it without the least obstruction, he explains.

Instead of music that may sound like radio static, he has been able to produce tones It is declared, that one would find It difficult to distinguish from those of a symphony orchestra playing behind a curtain. Another feature of this screen is that it presents a picture that shows an object exactly as the human eve sees it. The underlying principle Is the showing of the third dimension, in depth in the proper proportion. Objects and human figures no longer look like flat surfaces. It is said, but have the correct size and display the same depth seen by the eye.

The effects of this new screen arc obtained by the way the screen is set on the stage and by the screen Itself. The projection machine which flashes the picture on the screen Ih the same, and so Is the amount of light that Is used, but. by having everything properly adjusted these Improvements are niade possible. The new device is said to relieve eye-strain and In general to contribute to the comfort of the spectators. Since the Installation of this screen, which has been approved by the Western Electric Company.

Mr Bucklev. the vice-president of the United Artists Picture Corpora oays uaivin Sees Home for Moose as Pattern for Other Fraternal Orders The plan of the I-oyal Order pf Moose to rare for aged members and their wives may ultimately result In the elimination of the so-called almshouses of America, declares Patrick H. Galvin, district supervisor of the association, who believes that the Moose plan for its aged will meet with the same general acceptance as its earlier plan for children, "Twelve or fifteen years ago the I.rtyal Order of Moose established Mooseheart to care for children, who would otherwise have been a chnrgn on the county and the state." he explained yesterday. 'The plan haa proved so successful that other fraternities have adapted It for their own philanthropic efforts. Home Life Maintained "Mooseh'iven for aged members of the order was established five years ago.

Wo don't separate man "and wife, as so many Institutions lor the aged have been doing; rather we give them something as close to iue.t,! home lite as Is pos-slide, in piovlding small cottages with littlJ plots of land around them. aren't objects of charity, for they are really the directors of the institution. They work through committees and with the exception of the superintendent of the medical department, all the work Is done by the residents. For this work they are paid In accordance with the Hoik and not less than J10 a month. In this way, they not only have a voice In the management of the Instil ul inn, but they have a feeling of Independence In that the money is earned by them." The Instilutjon is known as Opportunity Home and Is located on the St.

John's Itlver 17 miles hor'n of Jacksonville, Mooseheart Legion of Rochester donated the drst co'. tage on the site, which is large enough for three persons, Other lodges hava since donated othei cottages In the group. It is expected that within the next five years about 200 additional acres may be purchased and many tnori buildings constructed. May Supplant Almshouses "If other fraternal 01 ganization." adopt thla plan as readily as sem.i the so-called almshouses of today may eventually disappear," Th aptfinriiit rt tm'hittra: Jnmft Hall. TrfttirU HiiNhntaH ChurtHi Mortrn, ifr Mrfkrr.

Jun lolljrr, unU $rmtrt of alt MMMl VRf MSN. jor Barbara" to the stage. Fifteen years ago, in early war days, Grace George achieved quite a success with it. The play was ten years old then, having been written in 1905 when Shaw, the propagandist was at his best. The discussion and B.

S. calls the play a discussion and not a play-is largely between Andrew Undershaft, maker of cannon and ammunition, and his daughter, Barbara, who seeks to help the world to salvation through the contrasting business of saving souls in the Salvation Army. The paternal I'ndershaft is a fair but reluctant winner when he proves poverty to be the worst of crimes and the greatest incitement to crime and holds convincingly to the theory that though virtue and prosperity may not invariably walk hand in hand, the chances of their success as a working combination ia set and provable. Even the Salvationists must depend for their support upon the donations of those who have made material success their aim. Poverty Is a crime and it Is our first duty not to be poor.

A Shaw play-any Shaw play- is a subscribers' holiday at the Guild They have given this the usual careful studied and cast production. Dudley Digges plays the voluble I'ndershaft. Winifred Lenihan the Barbara, Eliot Cabot the Greek scholar, Cusins. "The Wild Duck1' Whenever Blanche Yurka isn't working the Actors' theater sets about making plans for a revival of "The Wild Duck." Miss Yurka being at liberty just now, the revival has been accomplished and she is repeating her success as Gina. Ralph Rneder Is playing Gregers Werle, Linda Watklns Is the llerlvig.

John Daly Murphy the Old Kkdal, Frank Monroe the Helling. Alexander Moissi, the great German actor of Italian parentage, Is over for a tour with Tolstoi "Living Corpse" renamed "Redemption" in English. Being the second time for New York, the Moissi public has dwindled to Its German speaking section very largely. Still the response has been fairly generous. Moissi goes to Boston.

Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia and Morris Gest is confident that he will prove a sensation in each of these centers. He Is one of the world's outstanding character actors and most phases of his raie ait are revealed in the Tolstoi drama. The Reinhaidt mystery settings that appear and disappear in the daikness are used and the skillfully focused lighting serves to emphasize the drama. "Riders of the Dark," with Tim McCoy and Dorothy Dwan, and "The Devil's Cage," starring Pauline Garon, will be the two pictures at the Strand Theater today only. The former Is a story of California during the pioneer days and "The Devil's Cage la said to show the trials and heartaches of a girl cabaret dancer.

"Four Sons," a story of biothftly love, will begin a four-day showing at tho Strand tomorrow. Tho story opens In a Bavarian village where Grandmother Heinle (Margaret Mann) and her four sons (James Hall, Francis X. Bushman Geoige Meeker and Charles Morton) are living happily together The war comes and three of the sons answer the call to arms. The fourth, who bad pieviously sailed for New York, marries au American girl anil prospers. When America joins the war, he is.

torn between love for his fatherland and love for the country of his adoption. At last he Joins under the American colors, and sails to fight agiinst his brothers. Conflict, pathos and a succession nf dramatic highlights are said to be combined in the picture. June Collier plays the role of the wifo of Joseph, the boy who sailed to jL Sound gTS Ikyp HEAR SANTA JSLMi HEAR SANTA ARTHUR M. FIELD eight performances, beginning on Friday, Dec.

7, and continuing through Saturday, Dec. IS. The play will follow closely the Players' production of "Silence," which had the last performance of a successful run a week ago. The new play, the third of the regular series and the fourth given this year, is different in character from the last one. and the Players feel that their patrons will bo interested in a production of a lighter nat ure.

"Seven Keys to Raldpate" has been considered by the Players for a numher of years for their use. Not only did the play enjoy success in New York, but It also proved a "hit" on the road for a long time, A screen version of it was produced a few years ago. The cast selected by Robert Stevens, the director of the Players, could not be assembled before, however, so the organization delayed presentation of the comedy. George M. Cohan's ability as a playwright, the Players feel, 1., WPi displayed in "Seven Keys to Baldpate." The play Is light In tone and the story contains a deal of satire on mystery pieces.

But there Is a thread in the play itself, and the combination is said to prove entertaining. The Players CLAUS Mm tragedy of the Tabtets. Five years before' the play opens Maurice Tabret, a dashing young 'aviator had crashed. As a result of tint crash he has been a helpless paralytic, attended by his loyal young wife, Stella, his mother and an austere but devoted nurse. Miss Way land.

Brother Involved For the last year, his brother Colin, has been home from a Soutn Africa berth and has been (loin what he could, at the Invalid's Insistence, to brighten the days fov Stella, the wife. This night Stella and Colin have been to the opera to hear "Tristan and Isolde." Maurice Is happy In their report of the opera, but sadly depressed in remembering that it was following a performance of the Fame, tragic love story five years before that he and Stella became engaged. The bitterness of hid physical defeat is upon him as he Is wheeled away to bed. The next morning Maurice Is found dead. He had died during tha night, apparently as the result of a heart attack.

Nurse Wayland, however. Is prepared to make the charge that her patient has been deliberately murdered. Five chlor-aline tablets are missing from their place on a shelf. Maurice could not possibly have reached them without help. Forced to substantiate her charge, Nurse Wayland reports that she happens to be In possesses of the fact that Stella Tabret ha been for some months In love wi4i her husband's brother and thri the to bear him a child.

Jttella confesses the truth of the charge, but is equally insistent tip-on her Innocence. Her love for her husband, her devotion to his rare, have been In no way affected by her love for Colin. The happiness that Maurice had In her love is proof of that. Mother Saves Wife Little by little the circumstantial evidence is wound about Stella until It is patent that no Jury would believe her, stoiy. At which moment Mrs.

Tabret confesses quite simply that it was she who had given Maurice the overdose of Bleeping tablets. She, too, knew of the love that had grown up between Colin and Stella. In her heart was a great pity for her daughter-in-law and no resentment nf her. Her quarrel must be with nature If she would lesent the normal reactions of Bessie Love Positively no adTsnca I a prists. Matin, 10s Evcnins, 17a America.

This picture has a synchronized musical accompaniment, making it otie which will be beard as well as seen. "Sally of the Scandals," which stars Bessie Love, will be another attraction on the program. It tells of a young girl who becomes a dancer and is involved In a murder case. On Fliday and Saturday the in "Sally In Talkiaf Movistl of I He tails you what I t.aikforl the Scand FRI. SAT.

COLLEEN MOORE in "OKAY" AIM first ran of tha Was. Fat plrlnr Chicken a la King assume that many people have seen the play, but that the numerous unexpected twists of action will still bring surprises to the spectators, and that the comedy appeal of the play will also make It enjoyable. Rehearsals have been In progress for about two weeks. With tho Playhouse in use for the production rf "Silence" for pait of this time, the stage there was not available, so the cast was rehearsed in a room In a downtown office building. Since the last pel foi niunces of "Silence," however, It has assembled at the Playhouse, and the sets for "Seven Keys of Baldpate" have been used.

Arthur M. Field, reilienu bered by Playhouse audiences for bis woi in 'Alias the Deacon" and other productions, will have a prominent role In the play. Strand will show "Oh, Kay!" with Colleen Moore aul Lawrence Gray It depicts the adventures of a girl, who, when trying to escape from bootleggers, runs into a worse predicament as a make-believe bride. Also on the program will be "Chicken a la King," with Nancy Can oil. Intcrprcs Subscription Drive Closes This Week he explained.

"Opportunity Homo has been prospering long enougj now so that It's something more than a mere exper irnrnt. I think one of Its greatest advantages that It doesn't attempt to separate husband and wife, but cares for them together." Sevctul Rochester children are now at Mooseheart, Mr. Galvin states, and will be cared for until they are of an age to support them of Eddie Kane, her did tight rope walking and a final MICTORin ROCHESTER'S Ul FUN SPOT ior me, knew she was only excess baggaee and wishe.l in 1 on. r.uine ioiu ner she very Impoitant because he I "mm nerved him for hU H.u selves. By means of a cottage fund recently established it is now i possible for boys and gills educated Victoria Offers Two Photoplays 'Excess Chaney Film; 'Flits and Bits' Week's Burlesque TODAY SUNDAY TODAY TALL STAR 7 VAUDEVILLE ACTS With their goal of thru hundred copies early reached, campaigneis for the Interpies, annual publication of the junior rlass of the College for men of the University of Rochester are planning to finish their campaign this week.

The fourteen men who have been working under Gifford Orweti, circulation manager In securing the subscriptions are: Charles V. Blackmon, Walter T. Enright, W. Fairbanks. John P.

Guttenheig. 1.1 Mooseheart to go on to a university for liberal arts or professional training. Rev. James LalTcy, a graduate of St. Bernard's Seminal this city.

Is now Roman Catholic chaplain at Mooseheart. The first Catholic chaplain, Rev. William Donavan, is now a member of the faculty of Aquinas Institute. The activities of the Moose order In curing for its members within Mia 1 Oe Doubtt feature Daily Hp GREATEST AND BIGGEST SHOW IN ROCHESTER FOR THE MONEY didn't believe that. A movie director and his male star, Val Derrico, saw her and made her a big offr to play In pictures.

She accepted, scored high and soon became a star. Without her Eddie lost his interest and skill and finally bo-came the excess baggage hunseif. Stories about her and Val Derrico made scandal whispers. Eddie protested and he and Elsa quarrel. Trouble came.

In "While the City Sleeps" Chaney, without makeup, plays a daring detective who was a terror to gangsters. Through love for a girl he could not have an his du'y the sleuth got into seveial desperate situations. "Hits and Bits," the new burlesque, will measure up to the best the Victoria has offered in comedy, full-stage ong and dance features and specialties, it Is promised. Two of the most strongly heralded photoplays released this Fail will be offered on the Victoria screen this week, beginning this afternoon. They are "Excess Baggage," starring William Haines and featuring Josephine Dunn, who played opposite A Jolson In EXTRA DIG FEATURES 2 2 TODAY TOM MIX in "Paintrd Pot" and Th Plv Girl w.th MADGE BELLAMY outh.

She suspected, too, that "EXCESS BAGGAGE" MON, Ricardo Cortei in "Prowl of Sem" Th if Ming Redhead" With BUZZ BARTON WILLIAM "BILL" HAINES JOSEPHINE DUNN RICARDO CORTEZ there was to be a child and she knew of the utter misery the knowledge would bring to Maurice. She had promised him, just after Ins accident, that If the time should ever come wiien she was convinced there was no hope of his cure she would help him slip the spirit's leash and this she had done. She was content. Nurse Wayland la crushed by the confession. She, too, had love I Maui Ice secretly.

She Is prepared CONRAD NACEL in Slllilly Ur nd "Wruthound" with J. B. WARNER Al. HALL AND HIS 1 PrntliMi Kdward G. Hoehn, Norman How-i den, Milton Jacobstein.

Gilbert Kir by. Donald I.amb, Boswell S. Lsnglois. Giaham C. Mees.

Angelo Syracuse, Alfred B. Wang-man and Roger D. Wellington. The book, issued every Spring, contains a leview of college activities for the year, and pictures of: organizations and individual pictures of members of the junior class. Frederick Connor Is editor and Alan M.

Glover business manager. MUGIIAX ISLC.IVS IMtM AIiV: Work on the first vitaphone picture to star Thomas under bis new contract with Warner Biotlieis will commence shortly after the fltst of the year Meighan. who Is now in French Lick. irid. wbeie be is reading stoi mate- tial with Geoige A.le, will come to Califor nia immediately after Christmas.

Liberty THEATER DRIVING PARK na.r DEWEY Today and Tomorrow Milton Sills IN The Hawk's Nest A Nrw Kind of Underworld Tuesday and WadnaiJay REGINALD DENNY IN Good Morning Judge "Nfcinninf uttian" W.th JACK PERR1N WED. GEORGE K. ARTHUR in 'Detecltvei'' HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA 11 now to withdraw her rhatge and let the family physician declare the cause of death to have been hea I failure. I The Sacred Flame" Is not a play for the crowd, Certainlv not fui I the ctuwd that so frankly Insists SALLY PH1PPS in "NONE BUT THE BRAVE "Wull Fini" TUL'VDI tht Uo NUrv.l TOMORROW-MONDAY MONROE THEATRE MONROE AVE. AT COODM AN ST.

TODAY AND TOMORROW JANET CAYNOR AND CHARLES FARRELL STREET ANGEL Dua't M.m tht T.lLd IVlurt mi th Ymi ALSO WOMAN WISE Jun Collyrr in Rollicking Romance wt th Oitvnt "The Singing Fool," and Chaney in "While the City Sleeps." The burlesque offering this week will be "Hits and Bits," and it will employ the full strength of the Victoria company, headed by Babe Mullen, the Rochester burlesque star; George "Dutch" Teeters and Jimmy Dugan. As the special Sunday ahow today. Manager Joseph Woods will piesent the two feature pictures slid a pretentious minstrel offering in conceit form. The entile company will appear in this production, and Manager Woods 111-luimiees thai the offeiing will tune fiMtmes away fioin the ordinal)-. "Excess Baggage." the pictuie, is an adaptation of the noted Biuad-way stage success of the same title the same play with which the Cukor-Kondolf Company opened its season so effectively st the Temple Theater.

The picture retains the best elements of the original, it is said, providing a story that has amusing humor, good doniance, stirring drama and pathos. The title is a borrowed vaudeville expression and means in this sense a person in an art ho does nothing and is not needed. Elsa McKay, a pietty giil who merely adorned the vaudeville al LOIS, BILL 11 lr9ti W.lh PAT! PATTON OUR OWN SWEETHEART MORAN in "Hull Marry' BABE MULLEN REX BELL ia "Girl Shy Cowboy" r4 "DIAMOND HANDCUFFS" tth fcioanor Bdva BIG MUSICIRL REVUE upon going to the theater for relaxation through laughter only. But It Is beautifully written and beautifully played for those who enjoy the drama that ia Intelligently discrusive. The cast is mostly F.nglish.

Clare Fames playa Nurse Wayland, but tha mother. Mary Jerrold, and th daughter, Casha are from London. Old Favorites The week brought three Interesting revivals. The Theater Guild haa restored Bernard Shswi "Ma "HITS BITS" Today to Friday Mats. 15c.

Rah! Rah! Rah! Ml JIMMIE DUGAN GEORGE "DUTCH" TEETERS See Glorious Princeton on the Screen! Collegiate Romantic Fast Exciting Kllmrd no the Katue J'unc-tun Campus Amid the liiamotous College Traill'ions ALL ADDED FEATURE TODAY MON. TUES. WED. T-rrftvJAZZY GENERATION AL HALL HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA 11 11 A Extraordinary Scrien Ftatun 3 FRKE LECTURES hy piihlic rtquast, to intrrcttcd lisvc the puh-lic bcome in the lectures iven by Violet Craen MiJdIcbrooks, M. D.

on The Scientific Value snd l.swt ol FooJ snd Their Relation to SLTERLIFE HEALTH YOUTH That the hat decided to Jive this pnitiely lM urici. ftrar knw (til rrMrlahlt ttitrai aiinf Njtuftl ia nrrrrt N.il t(l ii'r. irtlwr t.Hl 10- If -4 ill. uliir mrnMi aJ M'iKIH f.lWIl i lUiiinnii Sunday, Pec. 2, I'.

M. Uo urJv, Dec. 4 -Wtd lec. 5 'a I XJ- A II a Hl i WILLIAM "BILL" HAINES "EXCESS BAGGAGE" JOSEPHINE DUNN RICARDO CORTEZ 3 BIG FEATURES ALL IN ONE SHOW 5hin: StMiW. Ilrtlta a Ftr.l Sbiul: II v)U Itfr.

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