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The Herald Statesman from Yonkers, New York • 5

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SATURDAY 21. 1928. THE YONKERS HERALD PAGE FIVE ATTRACTIONS AT LOCAL Lost And Found Film Feature For 4 Days At Proctors; Fine Vaudeville LEADING COUNTRY STORE THEATRES want to groan and shriek and and cheer haa forgotten' how' to Thomas H. Inch has brought brand new in thrills to the TOMORROW: I TO 11 P. CONTINUOUS BBS.

including- Langdon McCormick's Melodramatic Sensation Stornri WITH '7 AND NOTABLE CAST, WITH A COMPLETE SCENIC PRODUCTION wave 'feel. fome-thing screes in the magnificent steeplechase in The-, I Hottentot. It took -two months to film but it waa worth for it's doubtful If anything of the kind I can he reproduced. Eighteen men laid' up in the hospital Is a big toll even for a modern picture production that stops at. nothing short pf desth to get a' thrill for the Mary Miles inter and Tom -Moore, either of them, always assembles a large attendance their plays, and here both are leading in the play-! I The" Cowboy and the Lady today, 11 and its a corker" for all seeking diversion by looking over photoplay that haa fun and thrills, oft he West.

This ia entirely; different from--the, usual run of wwteruer. and it to intereating- than the beat of; all' I the A special added attraction today to I more White- in of. Plunder 'the. aerial that brings the daring. Pearl back to' her- Aral love-in the movies.

Thie week-end' ia special one nt the New Orpin-urn. FOR ORPHEDM Vew Attraction -Monday Night -Cowboy Lady Hottentot Tomorrow WHe Against Wife Monday The New Orphrum theatre has Th Cowbby and the Lady- tbrday, and will have The Hottentot tomorrow, and Wife Agsinst Wife for Monday and These heed liners are onea of specie merit; and the -added attractions will bo up to the standard' General. Manager Poth bah act since hie experienced firm of amusement purveyors decided to give. Yonkers the bent at New pheum; and' at popular Besides 11 that ia announced. In the foregoing paragraph there can he said, that there isn't any more, for on Mon-, day.

night, next the management will holfl country store, will be conducted rather different- fro the usual country store, idea, for ona will be allowcj on the stag except Ihe man to announce who are going to bring home the -30 baskets of groceries and' fruit, a week's supply. Every one in the New Orpneum Mon day night next, will have opportunity to be presented one of the 30 baskets Of foodstuffs. And in addition to that, tha show will be longer than usual, an extra all to help make. Monday nightsVat- the Nepperhan Avenue playhouse extraordinarily: popular, a ffne place to-go, during the spring of this year. The play Monday la Ip Wife Against Wife, a conflict of two loves in the studios of Faria and New Y'ork, best described in these few words; It mirrors the that stir all Em Pauline Starke and STAN Home Peters FOUN id .4 (kV; Of3 A DRAMA OF LOVE AND tV, 0 I A FLAMING 4 BIG DAYS--4 STARTING Sunday, April 22d The Outstanding Film Treat bf the Year women, and men 'in a highly dramatic Starke, play.

UabriaJle Gautier in this play, baaed dnttcerge' Brosdhursi's successful production, "Thp' Price." ltVa atory of thrilling scenes, love. in Parisian studio that, must forgotten when the artist gets back to little old Infinite' patho appeal. Ja promised Pauline Starke's enacting thw role of the young model reeking a end finding a. heartbreak, Yonkers has interest in this picture hy reason of the fact that Whitman Beniielt "shot some, of-' the scenes' in his Riverdale avenue studios. tomorrow' top is the funniest of all the long comedies reeled up for the screen Madge' Bellamy and Mae-Lean lead in it, with fDoug" aa tha fellow, who would rather run a yacht than ride in a steeplechase, but must ride instead of salt Thirteen home across country, down hill, through plowed Helds, over ditches; leaping alone walls.

Sweating; crowding, panting horse-flesh. Kars flat, nostril distended, straining muscles. Crouching ridere, whistling breathy muttered imprecations, flicking whips. o-oa you Hottentot! it, boy! Good boy, Come o-on, you Hottentot! He's magnificent. There Shrieking, frenxied cheers! Hottentot win! Hottentot! Hottentot! Whe-w! Anyone who can ait and look at that race and not grip the arms of his chair and.

crouch forward, and Vhile good riewi it contained in the a nnBjan cement' of Lott and round at -the photoplay, feature for Proctor' theatre for the four starting' tomorrow', still better iitwi it to- be 'found in the list of talent comprising -vaudeville program 'for the early -half next week, beginning with the 1 matinee on Monday. Iost Found 'is; a of love and dangcr. vrhose scenes are -lid' In' the dar-a-way South Sea islands, immortal ih song hml story as a.retiilt of visits of famed poets 'and authors. A wonilerfull well balanced cast lends- iuielf 'jeflndively to the stiry abounds with kiftl ijl rrplcte' wi'lii-heart' then- whom there -is jiAi more 'i-apuble or-popular screen artist today, plays the. leading male Tolc, opposite the, -ilramnttc Jaiiline Starke, of Salvation Nell fame.

The whose cirorls arc. augmented by of Antonio Moreno -Antonio of the shiny black hair and' debonair- manner. -The- picture -teas 'adjudged by patrons of York's t'apitpi theatre to be one of the most entertaining of the current season. -Their' judgment, always reliable. may he taken for what.il is worth.

The most unusual feature connected with-the filming of the' picture is that it was actually made in the Sea Islands. For once, the 'photo-play fans may is assured of real scenery, nether titan studio stuff, as the more blase are tu term it-. Yonkersitee will lie given their last opportunity tonight to You Failure-- the sidesplitting lilm feature which hae held sway here since Thursday last. Manager. Klicr announced thie morning that the lull of vaudeville which he eaiiaed so many to apeak their commendation, in no uncertain tones during, the past few days has.

been held over fur the week-end, and is not to lie supplanted by other features until the' presentation of the Sbxtet of act, hooked for Oral perform-i anees on Monday. Chief of these is Sadie," the hig time offering that haa had em all talking since it was first seen in New York. Sadie- is unquestionably the 1 most1 entertaining act of its kind on the stage today. Not. exactly a musical comedy revue en miniature, Sadie might more appropriately be called a satire, and a to THIS House Peters, Pauline Starke and Antonio Mareno IS THE FIRST MOVING PICTUR TO BE FILMED IN THE SOUTH SEAS I THREE DAYS VAUDEVILLE HEADLINERS GALORE AND A HOST OF NOVELTIES, PRESENTING brIii lliaht one at on all the Broadway musical successes of the put season' and the season how.

drawing to a-dose. Sallie Wayne, Edward Tierney and Jantea Donnelly are thus tarred players -and deservedly So, To reach and every one of the4rm is ap artist tried and. found'fibt wanting. Sadie Orte'of Tho-e Girls, is the full name of the if the must be told, Sudjo ia some young 'lady, and then; some. Salty, Irene, Mary all' tjie rest of em have ljad their: innings.

But, now. along comes Sadie. Sadie berezea in like a small cyclone or a baby Slip certainly, most certainly1 jn a clash all by her The! second iug possessed of a reputation -such 'as that enjoyed hy -Sadie, will undoubtedly strike a chord of popular approval with Yonkers audiences. It ia the offering qf a groiip of local miisiciaus who prowess is-' well known to local devotees bf terpsicliore amt who play undyr the name Knsatnt Orchestral The orchestra -ia actually one of the heat ever heard in this vicinity, and ia deserving of its tremendous patronage. Ha followers and.

well-wishers are legion, and have increased' in number steadily ever sinoe it won'-the Opportunity Contest at Proctor's nearly one year ago. Four other acts, all of unusually high- standard, go into the making of Uie remainder of the show. Not the least of these is the act uf Murrey and Alan, favorites for a number of years, who. have hit on a corking number in Jestrni of Jigo," JtWOuld liertotally'unfair to ay that they do not taka advantage of the Kgyptian craze in evidence since the tomb of King Tnt himself waa discovered not so long ago, The Singer Sisters, jn a variety surprise, hare one of vaudevilles neatest and prettiest offerings, efforts are always, hailed with delight, and have never yet failed to please, no matter how discerning and discriminating the audience. Noel licster and Company are to offer another highly attractive number.

Lester and hia collaborators have fur long been known as enlertainere supreme and should prove more than popular with local fun lorere. The entire bill looks to be one that will long he remembered as one of tha most meritorious ever presented in Yonkers. which leads to dissipation anil costly pleasures. Grandfather iaU-h, hupiiy at the marriage and cunltdcnl that it means a new and pure life for Anthony, gets the surprise of his life when he pays, him an unexpected visit and finds the home of the newlyweds the scene of reckless revelry and de-Imuchery. He la so overcome with grief and rage that he diea a week later.

Gloria and Anthony attend th reading of the will, wandering how many millions they-have Inherited, Their confident- changes to consternation upon learning tint they are left penniless. Before long they ore reduced to dire poverty, with the wolf at the door. How Anthony falls into bad company and wars hia frienda, aid ihe struggles of Gloria to make a livjng and regain decency, follow in aituntiona abounding with Ik element of surprise and atrong drama. A sprifial line of added attractions will precede every allowing of The Beautiful ami Itomned all four dare. iCr i' OWN Kressent Orchestra A Rare Combination of Melody and Syncopation Sadie---One of Those Girls A Satire en the Sensone Stage Success, with Sally Wayne, Edw.

Tierney and James Donnelly The Abysmal Brute Starts Run At Strand Today, With Denny Leading iA ADVENTURE, WITH TFB KIND YOULL LIKE MURRAY ALAN JESTERS OP S00 YEARS AGO. The Message of Coue With Emile Coue Tho Little Maa of Naniy to Toll Soith Yonhcre What ta Do Every Day ia Every Way. NQEL LESTER CO. A VARIETY SURPRISE. BIG WEEK END 01 SO.

YONKERS South Yonkers has Douglaa Msclewn and Madge Bollamy, and Emito I lVillarJ Mark and over many others to mak this week-end wry at-tractive the Broadway The Hottentot, is theIileading feature today in all ita horaei-acy measuring up close -to it- in mteret js the fart that. Goue is-showing in pic-: turea just how Yonkers, folk! should feel better, every day in every no matter how healthy they think eloped in all its phases -in this picture. Cotie personally -appearing in- it na ihe they may be. -Auto suggestion it de-otheis in' ths; picture out his advice. Th Willard Mack play come to-1 morrow and stay Monday and Tuesday.

Its your, and min.r I The prominent, setor-ptaywright has role in this producUon; He says I've been pretending for years in rea tif to he a playwright why not In the films Reports from th private wings' of Your Friend and Mine," prove that not only does Mack come out well -a. Ted. Madiaon, but Enid Bennett; Hunt-ley Gordon Rosemary Theby and other I stare of the. aereenehip' to faring out nil the fin point of the Mack atory. All the drama, tense excitement and unrelenting suspense that were found in the stags play of "Your Friend and Mine have not only teen carried over to the.

new but. have- been! heightened in the Swift-1 ness of aetionp-nqveity in plot atrne-1 turn and situation; and elaborate nets of staging are. the characteristics of the motion picture, "Your 1 Friend and Mine." Several of the scenes are acted in setting that art staggeringly beautiful Among these ia one whirh takes I place in New York Latin Quarter, where an elaborately staged soiree takes place, Striking tableaux, group of classical dancers, scenes from noted plays, demonstrations of hypnotism-all these event are part of the -brilliant program which th host arranges for hia guests. They mak a striking seen in the photoplay. MABEL JDUMlfB SCOTT.

H7f ABYSMAL BRUTE A.irNlVCRSALieWCL well on hia. way an' th leading matinee idol delineator of he man" roles nff result of hia characterization of Th Abysmal Brute. Mabel Julienao Scott, as leading lad; duplicates her past performances Behold My Wife and Th Poarei Id, wail -other hi tha east who contribute remarkable characterization are David Torrance, Buddy Men enger, Hayden Stevenson, Charles K. French, (Vaufurd Kent and many ot here. in THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENT EVER T7 JL.

BROADWAY THEATRE Senth Broadway, It oar Lawrence Street TODAY HIRrSA DOUBLFeXtUREPROGRAX UNUSUAL CLAUDE MARION -STILL 'ARGUING." REGINALD DENNY HAS BOXED WITH WILLARD Reginald Denny, th fighting star of lxndon'a great story, whirh in movie" form ia now playing the Yonkers Strand, during the time Willard was getting into shape, prior to hia recent visit to New York UKy, almost daily boxed with the big boy." They are great friends and the Strand management, through Jark Skelly the loral sport" man haa extended aa invitation to Jess and hia party, to see Denny in The Abysmal Brute some evening neat week. Denny ia no email maa. His height ia feet I inch. He weighs RIO pounds and is 9d year nf age-The following measurement tell you that Denny ii the Perfect linn. Hotght ft.

1 tneh. Wslaht 1(0 pounds. Cheat (normal! at In. thaal (eapanded 41 in. Watat II In.

Hlpa 40 1-1 In. Neck IT 1-1 in. Bleeps. II In. PWrearm II la.

Thick ft In. Feminine hearts will beat faster, and masculine minds will thrill anew, through a pilgrimage to the Yonkers Strand Theatre, to-day, Sunday. Mon-day or Tuesday, where the Robert Henlya production of Jack London' widely read novel, "The Abysmal Brute, ia being presented. The love-making ability, plus the ever-dominant, pleasing personality of RrginaM Denny, the star, will maka an instant hit with the fair sea, while the masculinity of the atory, plus a series of thrilling prize- ring sequences, make the play equally as fascinating for the male sex. Written by one of the worlds greatest authors, made by on of the screen's greatest, directors, and enacted hy a cast of the nth degree, there is no reason why Tha Abysmal Brute shouldn't be tha cinema entertainment that it ia.

There ia heart- interest, where thn girl falla in love with the ring rha pion; comedy, through the boxer's shyness -of women; thrills, in th Srize fight episode, and an element of rama throughout. Prize tighter have more often than not hern muchly maligned characters in fiction. In hia great atory London endeavored to show that pugilist's life may be aa rlean and aa honest and worthy aa that of man in any other That spirit- hai heen made the 'motif of tne screen version of the atory. Much praise rould be written in behalf of Denny portrayal of Ute title role, but sn filed it to aay that he (s The Hottentot 99 With Douglas MacLean and -Madge Bellamy i The Screen's Steeplechase Stonier! of WiUie Comet's Comedy Stag Succait. TOMORROW, MONDAY aad TUESDAY Your Friend and Mine WITH Willard Mack and Enid Bennett SINGER SISTERS SONGS A LA CARTE.

ralf 14 I-: In. Tleirh 74 1-J In. Reginald Denny is due in New York from the coast on Monday, making the trip Fast, express purpose of seeing Willard box with Floyd Johnson in New York City on May 12th. It is possible that he will come to Yonkers during ihe time Willard is training here, and give tha "big hoy good stiff workout. WOMENS CLUB TO AID PLAY WEEK PROGRAM The Women's Club of Yonkers an-nnnniwa that it will rn-operate with Ihe Playground and Keerentinn Association in its effort to make Play Week a hig surees here.

Thnnslay neat ia to be Children' It is also the date for thn regular monthly meeting of the Women's Glub. In the afternoon at th Women's Institute, 3M Palieaii avenue, a program of entertainment will lw given for children and grown-ups. All interested are invited to attend. Ten will he nerved. ACTION I ALL FOUR DAYS.

"3- "OMAR, THE TENTMAKER The NEW BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED HERE First Showings HamOton This Afternoon, Last on Tuesday Flapper Is Glorified in This "Big Reel The Hamilton Theatre management expects the largest attendance to-day bf anv in its history for Saturday, and flic same large assemblage is anticipated fur to-morrow and for Mon-Uay and Tuesday. There are two rca-snns, one because "The Beaut ifnl and Damned" arrived there at 1 o'clock tn-tiy. and the other ia that, while many Mw Robin Hood the past seven day, some, more than once, many Hamiltonians have not had a new show there on all that lime and want to gel bark to their obi sent in the Main Street nlny house. The why of the flapper ia one of the -problems uf "The Iteaiitifu land mnrd. Prescott Filagerehl like them and plainly allows so in "The gieautiful and Ihimned.

Life nt it wildest and New York at it heal which mean its worst figure in tiie plot of Warner Brother latest production. The Beautiful and Dnmncd. Marie irevost. admired hy thousands a a atar of screendom. has tha starring role in this picture.

Mia act the mrt of a beautiful but aellisk ami cold flapper, the kind seen everywhere on the main trwU of any American lonn. "Th Beautiful and Damned adapted for th srreeu from F. Beull FiUgeraWa "heat aeller novel of the same name, haa been enjoying unusual popu-hrity Iinmum of it Irttlmful flUpprra nd ih fMt which critic consider a great lory. 1 1 It eonrerna filoria cillsort, Lively flapper, and Anthony Patch, young niembemnf the Ml rhqi who ia waiting for the deat of hi I grandfather, old Adsm ,1 atch, millionaire and social reformer, lie fall In lo with Gloria, and the two ndopl aa their motto, wall till Utamlpn PaBh dies." Gloria la marriel lull still a flapimr. They btgin roursa of Ida TOMORROW THE GREATEST OF ALL COMEDIES, THE HOTTENTOT WITH Douglas MacLean nnd Madge Bellamy Pont Miee th Yachtsman Aa a Jockey! Big Fuat Bg HAMILTON THEATRE TODAY, TOMORROW, M0EDAY AND TUESDAY Tto Solution of tho Stases The Beautiful and Damned Stirring, Fascinating Story of New York's Whitt Way and Smart Sot With Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan Also Harry Myers, Parker McConnell, Clarence Burton, Walter Long, George Kowa, Charles Mcllugh, Louitie Faxcnda, Kathleen Key and Cleo IUdgeley.

Sensational, Unuttual and Extraordinary -Story of Adventure and Romance JACK LONDONS "The Abysmal Brute Starring REGINALD DENNY If You Ever Loved, You Certainly Will Love Reginald Denny aa' the Abjmmal Brut. TODAY HERES A SATURDAY OF SATURDAYS AGAIN THE COWBOY AND THE LADY Fna aad hr ilia af tha Croat Oat Weal. Alee Pearl Whit ia Mora of Plunder," Hot La leal aad Grealeet Serial. MONDAY aad TUESDAY WIFE AGAINST WIFE With Several Other Attraction. Your whole family should nee thlu big.

clean, lnapinng atory of real men nnd women rugged action Is inter aperaed with love momenta and dramatic aituatlons, aa (Inc as you could wbth for START OF THE COUNTRY STORE BASE1TS OF GROCERIES FOR THIRTY. YOULL ADMIT SPECIALS IN ADDED ATTt COMING WEDNESDAY YL dcrald Advert i8cmcnt BringJResultt, 4 I 4 i 2, -i 1., am.

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