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21 DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1923. CLOSE-UPS LAUGHS FIRST AND LAST IN LLOYD'S "SAFETY LAST" Jealousy," has played the part of a Southern colonel of the old school -so many times and so convincingly that fans believe that he was born below the Mason and Dixon line and grew up with the goatee that adorns his chin. S.S.tfOSS BROADWAY The much discussed "box-office title" has been given a new significance by.B. P. Schulberg, president of Pre Pictures, who announced re- MOTION PICTURES By P.

W. GALLICO. Title of picture, "SAFETY LAST." Featuring HAROLD LLOYD. Directed by FRED NEWMEYER and SAM TAYLOR. Released by PATHE.

Presented at the STRAND THEATRE. As we park at our typewriter, havinir iust come from Harold jf T1 cently that he fy 1 was in the mar- II TODAY Lloyd's latest picture and first seven-reel comedy, "Safety Last," we wi AND ALL THIS WEEK ket for good I motion picture I titles. He is paying $10,000 a word for those i considered good enough. For a one-word title, $10,000 will lie paid, for a two- word title the reward will be Sf0 000 while hi. feel more l.ke a press agent than a reviewer or critic.

Our problem is to find the proper assortment of words that will make you attend the Strand without fail and get vour share of the laughter that is being dispensed there. "Safety Last" will not bear comparison with "Grandma's Boy" or "Dr. Jack" because it is a picture of a different type. As photoeomie entertainment it is in a class by itself. We have rarely heard people laugh and shriek in a theatre as they did yesterday.

Every time Harold teetered or scrambled cn the side of the tall building it sounded like the big dip on a Coney Island roller coaster. 09'. Noah Young The comedy is a combination of gags and thrills. But the gags result from legitimate situations, deftly planted. The picture, even Wallace fQr a three-word title the rate will receive a cut to bring the total purchase price to $25,000.

A trio of beauties who made a hit with Rupert Julian in "Merry- Go-Round," which is now being i cut and titled, has been transported AT THE FOLLOWING as a unit to Ihe Hunchback ol WILLIAM FOX THEATRES Notre Dame" production. Si? First National claims a cast of NEW YORK- celebrities in Frank Borzage's new film, "Children of the Dust." Mr. 2Q ACADEMY OF MUSIC 14tli St. and Irvine P'a-e JAPANESE GARDEN Broad ay at ifiit iff as its predecessors, has a story, and the story has its appeal. A boy (Harold Lloyd), a girl (Mildred Davis) and the boy's ambitions form the basis of the story.

The boy goes to the big city and gets a job in a department store. In his letters home he pretends that he is more than he is. And then one day the girl comes to town unexpectedly, and the boy has to make good. His adventures in the office of the general manager of the store are screamingly funny. In order to earn money the boy" arranges a pub-.

THEATRE and Broad HI NEMO I I I 110th St AUDUBON THEATRE 165th St. ami Broad ay CROTONA THEATRE Park and Tremont Bronx v. Borzage is famous for "Hu-moresque," Pauline Garon for 'Adam's Rib," Johnnie Walker for "Over the Hill," Frankie Lee was a hit in "The Miracle Man," and George Nichols is remembered most recently for his fine work in "The Flirt." Frank Keen-an. who plays K-W II STAR THEATRE I 07th St. and Lex me ton Ave.

VV 1 i -BROOKLYN 1 0 I II COMEDY THEATRE 1 I 194 Grand Brooklyn 9 Sft I I I FOLLY THEATRE I Graham Are. and Debet' ote Frank Keenan I Brook.yo 3 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lie yd i tam Aim rurtTrc is the leading role in "Scars of I .114 Pulton T. I 19 licity stunt.

His pal, a girder worker, is to climb the building. But when the great day arrives the pal is in dutch with a cop Noah Young) The policeman gives chase. "You climb to the first floor," suggests MOTION PICTURES TOM the pal to Harold, "and 1 11 sub for you as soon as I ditch the cop. But the ditching is easier said than done. And the boy goes up and up.

At each floor he gets into some new kind of trouble, each funnier than the other. Pigeons roost on his head, a tennis net drops over his shoulders, a dog attacks him, a. clock on which he tries to save himself breaks, at one window a gun is pointed in his face it is really a classic journey. Mildred Davis is unusually sweet in this picture. In fact, there is no difficulty in understanding why Harold "made her Lloyd.

We laughed ourselves weak at this film. If you don't, why then we don't agree on pictures. KEATON'S BABY SUPPORTS CONNIE "Dulcy," which Sidney Franklin is to direct. When Mr. Franklin began casting, Natalie Talmadge Keaton was offered the role for her son and accepted.

MOTION PICTURES BROOKLYN. Buster Keaton's baby is going into pictures. This nine-months-old youngster, whose list of relatives reads like the Blue Book of the screen, is to play in support of Constance Talmadge, his aunt, in forthcoming photoplay. MARK 33 Is Your Soul for Sale? Does the star in the movies place her soul on the auo tion block? RUPERT HUGHES a master story'teller, tears aside the veil of secrecy surrounding HOLLYWOOD. Goldwyn presents XTRAN "BRASS" ALL-STAR CAST.

Soloisls Ballet Orch. Broo MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES CENTRAL THEATRE Co: BTWAY 47EJ STREET Ari m. mm ma TWICE ATLANTA PROTESTS CHAPLIN'S HUMOR Atlanta, April 3. "It's an insult to ministers of the gospel," the Evangelical Ministers' Association of Atlanta declared, in Charlie Chaplin's "The Pilgrim" be withdrawn from the screen of a local theatre. The picture was branded as "an attempt to ridicule the Christian religion." DAILY SEATS RESERVED LAS CO IBANEZ SEATS ON SALE FOUR WEEKS IN ADVANCE "GLIMPSES the MOON" TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION IV0LI onw f2SSt B.

S. MOSS CAMEO 2d. Jut East at Broadway. ELMER CLIFTON'S DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS A Hedkinsoa Picture. SEVENTH BIG WEEK Kieht Shows from 10 a.

m. RIVOIJ CONCERT OHCUKSTB. Paramount Ptcturrs with THEODORE ROBERTS. Mystery Bv Radio Film. Daily 11 A.

Sp'I Radio Film Showing L4LTD with Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Barbara La Marr, Mac Busch, Lew Cody and 35 FAMOUS STARS OF THE SILVER SCREEN. Next Sunday at the Capitol theatre tranII Harold ai 47 II "SAFETY LAST" a ayav gtrand symphony Ori-hfra. I YRIC THEATRE. WeBt 42d Street. L.arVll TWICE DAILY.

2 THE MIGHTIEST FILM ACHIEVEMENT QUEEN of SIN STATK OF MARYLAM DA "The COVERED WAGON" Daily Sailings from Pier 32. N. Foot Canal tt P. West 13rid 6:30 P. M.

Due Albany 6 following mornine. Sailings from Troy 4 P. M. From Albany 8 P. M.

Due New York 7 following Direct rail connections to all points North. East and West. Fare S3. 50 one tray: CS Round Trin. EXi'KKSS FREHiHT SKKV1CE.

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Canal 9000 A Paramount picture. CRITERION way at I Twic D'ly. z3u, 83 44th St. I Sun. Matinees at 3 RL.SEKVLD JSKATS FOR TheCovered Waioti New York's ReKt Entertainment CRITERION THEATRE Now Showine ADELPH1 THEATRE TICKET SERVICE ISO! Broadway.

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