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14 TUE' KNOXVIME SENTINEL, "A CLEAN. CONSTRUCTIVE NEWSPAPER" SUNDAY, mArtui 12, 11,22 to I 4 I GOSSIP OF "LEGITIMATE" THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS I In desperation the other day. took a position as a cook a private home. Women must work, and, if there own line of endeavor is crowded, must take what they can get. She's a.

good cook, "I wish matinee girls could see what a line miliner a prominentroadway male favorite le in his leNer moments. Mrs. Fiske, Elsie Ferguson, William Faversham and Laurette 'ray. lor are among the, stage stars who will serve ed patrons of the new exchange. Famous Stage Star Heroine of Pathe Playlet 1 SIMIAIGIDISTItIcE Or HOLE OF COOK PICTURE 15 SHORT ROAD TO.

HUMAN BRAIN Spectator Instantly Can See All That the Actor's Story Has to Relate Id I Spectati That 1 to Re lat 1 1 I 1 I are being taxed with gentle indirect- nese for our censoring laws. It IS Intimated also that the cameras have no preconceived ideas, but develoP their rules as they Eli along. The consequence is that the 'rules are constantly being-added-to. Ono advantage of this method is-that be- fore long everything will be prohlbited except the of the poOr ,4 young shop girl. under a tyrannical floor One day', she is polite to a poorly dressed but handsome -1 -young man, little realizing that he is the proprietor's son, who tint guised himself 41 a laborer for a "lark." Stunned by her politeness be asks her to marry, him, whereupon the floor walker discharges her for flirt- ing.

At that moment the proprietor. a jolly old soul, happens along, joins their hands together, discharges the floor walker and beckons a clergyman, who performs the ceremony on the spot, having fortunatelY! brought his prayer. hook (and pre-4 sumably a marriage license made otit to along with him. No censor his yet this theme, though care must be used in working up the details. Of course the girl must compromise Iterself by going to the young mans home at night to deliver a package that he has forgottenbut so long as the hour is not later than MO Jhe censorthis farwill not object.

After all, there are enough varia, tiona on this theme to keep it i both at home and abroad for another twenty years at leastand who-cires what happbna after that? varia golne i other 4 'cares By GRANT GORDON. la Me Aleozvitlf Serstixel. LONDON, March ItEnglish Alm producers are out to capture the American publicand gosh, how they dread it Here, they are told, is the formula for enthralling the patrons of the American movie palace: Pretty faces, as insipidly-iiretty as possible. The less human intelLigence the face, portrays the 'bigger" it will go. Plots about "plain, simple people" but with the scenes of life-ot a "fl-do, nancially extravagant interspersed, by way of indicating that no expense: has been spared the production; "If.

there is one thing the American public won't tolerate it Is cheapnessgullible as they may be in motile Ways, they are quick to scent any attempt. at economy." 1 Plenty of sentimentslathers of it all sentiments except patriotism a virtue that the American doesn't, tolerate in any country but his Own. Tearsfloods of tearsdistasteful as they may be to -refined English feelings. But the tears must be offset by moments of laughter or of those tender morsels of artifice "such as kittens in a puppies biting a ball of worsted, and sows with litters of young pigs. scenes that are known in America as.

"human touches." -7- The American publicso the English producer is Informeddoes not want harrowing stories about the sufferings or the impoverished aristocracy its only reaction is to such themes as "why don't they get a Jcb?" Nor does it care to hear about marriages frustrated by differences in social degreesfor it can't comprehend why a gat should not rank with a king. Above all, the producer who would beguile the American audience must eteer 'clear of the illegitimate child there are no illegitimate children in the pure American movie drama. And even, in some states, there is a prejudice against impending maternity--however legitimate it may be. Girls that "fall" are barred, also, but there is a strong demand for girls who perilously skirt the precipice or skate dangerously on thin lee to the safe harbor of virtue. The reader has guessed by now that America is being kidded.

We by GRANT GORDON. STUDIO SNAP SHOTS A Shirley 'llason, halt, just completed "The Ragged Heiress" at Hollywood. It is the picture handled by the new Fox director, Hari), Beaumont Fox has bought picture rights to seven novels in the last six weeks. Activity at the FQX wes- tern and eastern studios grows apace. Myrta Bonillas, who Is in William Fernum's' picture, 'A Stage Romance, lived in Mexico for several years, and can speak Spanish.

She is also typically Spanish in appearance. .10 4.1 0 I Wi Stacia Napierkowska, the French-Russian actress, was attacked in her tent in the Sahara when "Missing Husbands" was being screened. Her assailants sought to abduct her. but she fought them off. Mary Carr has just completed work In a picture in New York, but she lo not permitted to rest.

She left at once for the South to make a number of personal appearances where "Over the Hill" is showing. Jack Ford, who has been working at New York studio, has left for Hollywood to make a big special for his organization. Ford hasn't been on the coast since last summer, having been on a vacation abroad. Carl Jones does some fancy stunts with his lariat and gun in his latest picture, "Pardon My Nerve" which will be a release of mid-March Mae Busch has a prominent part and Eileen Percy is his leading woman. Players at Hollywood are equipping their homes with radio They enjoy entertaihments from the San Francisco and Catalina Is lani broadcasting stations.

Shirley Mason has just put a radio in her bungalow. 1,. .0 i. i if .,4 ,,,4 s'' 1. -saw, 1 '111'1 14111 L00 1 1) 0114W AMP" COM7: Into it, are Daw cletble to the seve coo- 4- "vain-.

A comb Into it are Harry cit5t- 4 to for the seve con- VITAL FACTOR IN EDUCATION Arouses Thought, Stimulates Imagmatiin, Transports Audi. to All Parts ot World, The newest thing of great tance in the world in the Moving PictUre. It offers the most direct road Into the human brain and thought. What It is, what it does, what it-is destined to beall those ate questions important to everybody interested nig merely in moving pie- 'tures, but in education and In the human race of the future. Some will say that the moving picture does instantaneously what.the epoken ot Written word does slowly.

Others will say that it is the actual presentation of life and emotion before the very eyes of the beholder. A very good definition ot the moving picture. as you will aeee; is given John H. Hunsky, who has Just built-the Capitol Theatre in Detroit, one of the most magnificent theaters anywhere. Writing for the Detroit Times.

Mr. Runsky says: What a Theatre Does. Throughout history the human race worried with its problems and its struggles for life. has sought relaxation. a change In the mind's work that means rest for the brain.

The Greeks had their public squares, their famous philosophical promenades. The fighting Romans had their arenas. in which men and beasts. and even ships on real water, fought to amuse the mob. In the middle ages they had baiting, their their dog fights.

Spaniards still have their bull fights The Americans, as a nation, far removed from the brutality of the gladiatorial arena, or the bull ring, find their mental rest and their mental pleasure in the theatre. And in the modern theatre and its work you find' reflected the national personality, its intterest, its culture. What Is The Mov.ng Picture? The question is not asked now as it once was when men doubted whether "the movies," so called, would last. The moving picture is simply the shortest road into the human brain. It enables the actor to display all of his skill, and the spectator staatly can see all that the story has to tell.

Yon can do with the Moving picture all that can be done by the living actor, and a thousand times more. If you say that: the voice of the living actor is missing from the movink will admit it, artd regret' It. But I will answer that the al). oonee of the actor's voice increases the activity of the spectators' imagination, and the work that goes on in side the mind of the 4pectator is worth infinitely more that the spoken word of any living actor. TO arouse thought, stimulate the imagination, transport vast audiences as by magic, to all parts of the world, is a great, useful and educating work.

And that is what the moving picture does. An entire week of work by living actors and of close attention by spectators could not show as much as.can be shown-by the moving pieVire in two short hours. Glontic crowds of thousands such os no stage on earth could posaibly hold are seown and trought before the crowds in absolute reality on the screen. The moving picture is the groat educator and no man can say what good is done to this and to other nations in which the moving picture with its dramatic story is part, as it Were, of the daily mental Florence Reed, pictured, here from a recent photograph, who has won her way to the enviable position as a leading actress in modern emotional roles on the slage, will be welcomed back to the pictute screen in "At Bay." This is a three-reel revival of the feature with the same title, adapted from a very successul play by George Scarborough. MondayTuesdayWednesday THROSBIVG gouithsvicerPreli, of love, doVion, loyallysadomtion heroism iv sacrifice.

IDEAL OF SELF-SACRIFICE HAS GIVEN WAY TO SELF-EXPRESSION I STILL TRYING TO GET A NEW TYPE With the exception, of the ErnMett J. Flynn has pleted his past for "A Fool Was," which he is to make special. The principal players Lewis Stone, Irene Rich, Majorie Mahlon Hamilton Wallace McDonald, William V. Mong annd Lonsdale. After four weeks pt ing, Mr.

Fltnn has been ultable get the exact type he desires big part in the picture, although ral prominent actresses are being sidered. BABM 'a 1 .1 N4 i et) if ek, i trov IMPERIAL royal luxury its lavish beauty Imd algid7cent pomp and mileiticent pomp Well Known. Actresses Become fl Housemaids and Dressmakers, to "Tide Over" KEEPING WOLF FROEUDOOR With Fewer, ShoWs Running, 'Professional Employment is Being Curtailed intertoatintial News Sertlfet. NEW YORK, Machs11.z-Thousands of actors are outs of 'employment. 1 show girls and well actresses, ire becoming cooks, housemaids anna dressmakersr to tide them' over 'one tif the worst seasons Three of them; 'hard hit by the slump, have just organized the-Theatrical Wonmn's Exchange to help those jobless like society women have come to their aid annd shortly the "Stage Door will make its debut in New At the Stage.

Door Inn one may eat in a cafe served by waitresses with well known stage names. The cook a former Broadway star. At the Stage Door Inn lonely bachelors will find many of the beauties who used to dazzle them before the fectlights, ready to do their mending and their darning at moderate prices. Heres a Conundrum. "When is an actress not an actress? when she is out of a job," said Miss Hilda Spong today.

Miss Spong is one of the three, promoters of the project. turns facile hands to cooking, dishwashing, secretariat work, decorating, millinery or a thousand and one other occupations in which her professidn has trained her. "Miss Margaret' Allen, Miss Anne Clarendon and myselfall victims of the bad seasonhave decided to seize the bull by the horns annd embark on this venture, which we believe has every chanCe of success. "What we are doing is making an exchange, similiar to the woman's exchanges, you find throughout the country, where actors annd actresses can bring in the things they have made annd market themfrom pies to baby- clothes. We shall charge a $2 entrance fee and a 15 per cent commission.

This is 10 per cent er than the ordinary price charged. "The exchange will also operate as an employment bureau. "Actors and actresses are much more talented than the average pub, lie is apt to believe. Like every other self-respecting man and woman, they refuse t9 accept charity. They want to be self-supporting, regardless of the work they may be compelled to do.

"There is a celebrated actress who "-THEATRE Home of Peruchi Stoclf Co. Evening Performances 8:15 P. M. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2 :30 P. M.

Mon. Tues. Wed. One of the Season's Greatest Releases The Resounding Comedy Success "THREE LIVE GHOSTS" A Whirlwind Of Comedy There is nothing ghostly about the "3 Live Ghosts," a Cockney, an American and all officially reported dead, are unable for various reasons to establish their whose consequent adventure provide three acts of thrills and laughter. "Spoofy's" habit of acquiring anything he can lay his hands on from inutmeg graters to diamonds results in a siriest of situations of comic revelation and continuous surprise, which caused this comedy to be the big laughing success of the past year in New York.

Reserve Your Seats in Advance. Old phone 6067 New 343, Ticketi Reserved in Advance must be Called for one hour before curtain. Thurs. Fri. Sat.

"Tess of the StorneCountry" "Get the Lyric Habit" '1(1 99 I Habit ancient virtue of self-sacrifice is dead. It needs only a great cause and belief in that cause to revive it. "It needed the war to show us how many frivolous people could rise to the greatest heights of self-sacrifice. Those who faced death in the trenches were picked from a generation just as pleasure loving as their younger brothers and sisters are now. If the girls, of today needed to face the hardships of frontier life, they would do it.

But they are, not looking for discomfort." ttaz qw, PRODICOIA in ltS ealueti ttri--: fie; I tudest its preeouslileries tam- si ing with tte timrre I' of de It i I ftli; ''')f i ki.r Ptt ENLIGHTENING truths, the iliunderink assemblage Jur vv. GLIIIIFFITEI nista fer-2; the lawedge of SPECIAL PRODUCTION anpther d3y MAJESTIC itt7itifitidemuaressitt7 NALL colossal its Inspiring' romance end sumptuous settings. al? f7y71 awlyx11 i a FALL I ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK AT THE LOCAL THEATERS 'At The Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday "Three Live Ghosts." Thursday, Friday and Saturday "Tess of the Storm Country." At The Riviera. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Days." Friday and Live Ghosts," and a comedy, "Small Town Stuff." At The IStrand. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday "The Fall of Babylon: Thursday, Friday and Saturday William S.

Hart in "Traveling On." At The Queen. Monday and Affairs of Anatol." Wednesday and ThursdayShirley Mason in "Jackie," and a Ben Turpin comedy, "Bright Eyes." Friday and SaturdayBuck Jones in "Bar Nothing," and Harold Lloyd comedy "She Love Me Not." WHY IS A PHOTOPLAY PLANT LIKE A WATCH? The most beautiful and expensive watch is useless unless it has a good mainspring. The same thing Is true of the motion picture studio. Listen to Shirley Mason, a popular star. "I watched a jeweler take my expensive wrist watch apart one day and examine it.

It had lots of Jewels In it, annd all that sort of things, but It wouldn't go. Something was wrong and it had become a useless possession. The jeweler looked into it and said the mainspring was broken. Then the watch was fixed and it ticked away finely after that. "I often watched Mr.

NSturtzel, a production imanager here in Hollywood, and can't help thinking of my jeweled watch and its mainspring. There are lots of stars, georgeoum sets and 'ail sorts of pretty and useful things, but it a mainspring to make things go 'round. The manager is our human mainspring." WILLIAM, ELMER IN DUSTIN FARNUM FILM William Elmer is an outstanding figure in a cast that shines particularly brikht in Dustin Picture "Iron to which has just a private viewing in New York studios, having been finished the West Coast. Elmer Plays the part of an Eastern gunman who is "afraid of nothing," but who, when he meets Dustin. a known outlaw in the picture.

for the avowed purpose of killing him, his teeth chatter. his knees knock, his gun does a shimmy in his hand and he backs away and vanishes. This and numerous other bits are sail to be fine comedy work On Elmer's part. Elmer hails from Council Bluff, Iowa. He is an old-time stock actor, and has been in pictures for "The difficulty of holding up tile ideal of self-sacrifice to the young today," said Alice Lake, in an interview, at Hollywood, "is that so few really believe in it and so many who preach it don't practice it.

'Self-sacrifice' has given way to People are no thinking so much of shying their souls as of saving their health. They are not looking for opportunities to themselves just for the love, Of it. "But that doesn't mean that the THE REVIEW By to Thernoxottle Sesetinel. NEW YORK, Mar. 11.By.

far the most important stage presentation of a decade, if not of the century, was the first of the Shaw cycle under the embracive title of "Back to Methuselah," done in style the Theater Guild at the Garrick theater. This awe-compelling yolume, in type, spanning the space from the days Adam to the year 3100, has been, for stage purposes, divided into three parts and will be done consecutively. The first part includes "In the Beginning," with Adam, Eve, the Serpent and Cain as the characters. and the second part of the first cycle skips over a few centuries to present-day politicians. "In the Beginning" is subdivided into two setm, the Garden of Eden and an oasis in Mesopotamia a few centuries later.

We hear, in the first act, Eve listening to the siren voice of the serpent as the secrets of life add rebirth are divulged. By the death of a fawn, Adam and Eve are awed by the mystery of death itself, and as the curtain falls we feel sure Eve has listened not only attentively, but to a purpose, to the Serpent. In the second act, a few centuries later, Cain enters as a blustering, boastful murderer. and here some of the most appealing speeches are made. The second part of this evening- is highlyand at times tedioumly dIscoursive, the author propounding laboriously his promise that the span of life should be at least 300 years, to the end that man may live long enough to accomplish Somb thing.

There are fleshes of wit in the argument between' the stage creations of Lloyd George and Asquith. It was mainly a gAlest with nothing to relieve it except the easily recognizable caricatureszhich are not without moments of usement. But in the main it became tedious and tiresome before the act had passed one-half of its alloted sport. As a dramatic novelty and as an event in the theater, it takes high rank. And the Theater Guild has approached its task with courage and intelligence, and brought it to an effective cUlrnination.

Two more cycles are to follow on alternate weeks before the entire tome has been attend. The scenery is more or less impressionis- tic in the earlier scenes, and starkly 'real in tbelast half. Ernita Lascelles as Eve, read her lines more effectively than she costumed the character; It bordered on- the but was always In good taste. George Gaul. as 1 1 1 0 TMI I NG love, fest so coo PLAYERS TAKE PART and wine, with romance end madnesl FOUR, THOUSAND DANCING GIRLS with charm and beauty.

log00 HORSES and WILD BEASTS OF THE RIALTO, Dixie Hhles Adam, contributed one of the vital performances of the evening, and Margaret Wycherly, disguised as the Serpent, spoke clearly and impressively but fell short of expectations. In the latter scenes it was A. P. Kaye as Lloyd George and Moffat Johnson as Asquith who acquitted themselves most creditably. The courage of the Theater Guild is unquestioned, and their achievement in making this stupendous and magnificent production which will find place in the history of the American stage which will not soon be dislodged, is highly commendable.

Whatever shortccmings there are may be charged to the argumentative Mr. Shaw rather than to the producers of this eternal dialogue. One more playhouse has been added to the long list in New York. This one. the Earl Carroll.

with Mr. Carroll himself as the manager, the au-k thor of the dedicatory play and the director of the same, is one of the most artistic, most original and most beautiful in the city. Of the new playhouse, its creator and mentor, we have no quarrel. but of' the first play staged here, a Russian melodrama, "Bavu" by, name, it would be better to coVior with a mantle of charity, It is an unworthy vehicle with which to exploit the clever and versatile Mr. Carroll himself and his 4tiew playhouse.

It is stagily preiented, cumbersomely written, and while there are moments that border upon the thrilling, so little is left to the imagination that much of the effect is lost. Henry Herbert, Helen Treeman and others are competently cast, and act the stilter lines as well as may be. The villain was so much of a villain that it was reminiscent of the earlier and cruder days of melodrama. The staging was unique and however, and the story, so improbable and crude, does not deserve a synopsis. Rather than waste the space on this we prefer to compliment the doughty playwright and manager on his achievement as a manager in the great city of theaters.

He deservedly won praise for this at Irma. Coming very soon is "Just cause," which, it is predicted, is to be the natural successor in popularity to "Iran." Anna Wynne O'Ryan and Hen 'S. Woodruff wrote the book and Madelyn Sheppard the music, which is more than passing tuneful. Emanuel Reichter, the great German director and actor, is planning a spring season of what we have long needed, a truly repertory season. The model is dile theater In Berlin and the Comedic Francalse in Paris.

EllORMOUShirat The Remarkable Cast Includes: Constance Talmadge, Mildred Harris Chaplin, Tully Marshall, George Fawcett, Seena Owen, Elmer Clifton, Alfred Paget, George 05itigmann, Kate Bruce, Elmo Lincoln, Carl Stockade, Alma Rubens, Ruth Darling, Pauline Stark, Winifred Wesover and others, tioI7, jealousyt.intrigue, g'reed, treachery, craftiness end deceit. ThursdayFridaySaturday 0 mMondaY arch 0 2th sl, 1 Charles Frohman Presents ,4 1 OTIS 'SKINNER KINNEk In Tom Cushings' New Play 1..) I AND SAND tt' 1 i Founded on the Famous Novel 1 i By Blasco Ibanez. I 1 Box Office Sale Fridaay. L. 0 1 'Mall Orders Filled In Rotadoti Now.

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0 Mall Orders Fdled 'In Rotation Now. I 1 Prices 50c to $2.50 and War Ta ft Monday March 20th Novel "WILLIAM S. I -IN- TRAVELING HART ON 1 Ali Action Story That Never Lets' His only name was a cattle-brand. His only reputation bad! So it didii't seem so hard to shoulder the 'guilt of an- other's crime. But the soul-stirring sacrifice he madeonly jut tne soui-surring sacrifice Ile maae----oniy a woman knewl Up! 4 i.