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PAGE FOUR SECTION THE WICHITA BEACON SUNDAY, DECEMBER" 5, 1920 Railroad Jazzes DOG DID IT PARA YSIS IN CITY Bryant Washburn Mas returnV from London, where be the tx terior scenes for his first lndepend ent production, "On the Road to Loudon." He will make the Interior in Hollywood. He was accompanied by Mrs. Washburn and his technical MAYBE A TICKET WONT BE TAXED Rule Rene R. RIvlerre and Jay Chapman, press agents for Brunton and Hampton, respectively, are, according to their own announcements, to produce an, all-star production with a story adapted from Webster's Dictionary. Wonder who'll translate it for them? Annette Tried to Dodge "Safety First" To Get Results Vaudeville is being used by the New York Central Railroad to put BUT OF HAND ONLY staff.

Attitude of Republican over Its Safety First campaign. Three acts and a jazz orchestra, some Movie Audiences Applaud If 9 VWtv" l- Bf( vr, Yi ill former professionals, and all now in Loudly Elsewhere But No Noise Here. Congress Forecasted by "One Who Knows." tne employ pr the company, are pre sented at meetings, followed by And Got Ejected Annette Eellerman was put out of the Grunewald Hotel at 1 o'clock the other morning at New Orleans. The Grunewald has a strict rule against dogs. Annette had smuggled her pet canine Into her room, carrying it In a box upon arrival and tipping everybody within earshot to keep the tiny animal near her.

Some one "squealed" and the swimmer was asked for her key at once. The manager of the De Soto likes dogs, and to that hotel the diver went for the remainder of her stay here. speakers and a picture. CHll'iPnUII FRIDAY and SATURDAY HirtEUl UBIEJ DECEMBER 10 AND 11 MATINEE SATURDAY MESSRS. LEE AND J.

J. SHUBERT PRESENT Singing by the audience, led by Are Wichita motion picture de one of the performers, is a feature votees suffering with paraplegia? of the program. The vaudeville is credited with drawing the capacity is ine cerebrospinal axis of the theater-going citizenry of the Peerless Princess failing to audiences in all the cities and towns in this vicinity at meetings which would normally be attended by only I feWordi Most Famous CharacferCbmedians What the attitude of the new Republican congress will ho with retard to theater admission taxes is forecast iu an opinion expressed hy one of the most accurate observers of legislative movements nt Washing-Ion. He helieves an effort will ln made by the House Ways and Means Committee to eliminate the tax entirely on tickets commanding admission price of $1. Tickets above that price probably will be taxed the nanal rate for some time to come.

These are a few questions theater a lew railroaders. managers and those directly inter ested in motion pictures would like to BLACKWELL IN PERSON have answered. Of course no picture show manager ever knew what the mmmmw. Star 1 term "paraplegia" means. It sounds ELECTIONS BROUGHT JOY Will Make Wichita Visit "My Lady Friends" to him like it might be the distant fotfxfofyeousMusicalExtnivagc cousin of a parallelogram, which he i vaguely recalls from his probably too One of the latest of farce comedies, Movie Men Say None Now Will Sup port Censorship brief journey thru Geometry.

So, for urn a ie a fnrn. "My Lady Friends," will be seen at FlLllU AlLAMltfi the benefit of the managers only, it will be explained that "paraplegia" the Crawford Wednesday and December 8 and 0, and matinee Theater men are jubilant over elee It is quite likely that when the revision of the tax law is taken up in the next session of the congress a plan is to be introduced whereby ticket speculation will be made impossible. By this it is proposed charging speculators 100 per cent tax above the established price, it was also asserted. It was also intimated that nothing of a final nature with respect to the is a paralysis that affects the human tion results because they say It body and is most generally percepti CoMMJfror00 WrA -rot Cast. ble in the extremities, which is the Thursday.

It will introduce Carlyle Blackwell, the motion picture star, in the principal role. The play deals with a young man who made a fortune out of the sale of Bibles, he "highbrow" for arms and legs. )fe sM jZ? With this explanation out of tho way, you can ask any motion picture theater manager in Wichita about paraplegia and he'll say he doesn't means defeat of any national censorship. The magazine "Variety" has prepared the following announcement: In a resume of the election results thruout the country as they are likely to affect the motion picture industry, the concensus of opinion is that threatened Federal and State censorship will not have much makes alt the mohey that he ever expected to make, and then he starts to have a good time, with It, but unfortunately he cannot persuade his wife to see from the same viewpoint. She is not stingy but is of a saving Homer Dickinson, Grade Dcagon, Vivian Holt, Lilian Rosedale, Mabel Elaine, Dan Qulnlan, Earl Richard, Brazil Griffin, Dan McNeill Doris Wayne, Phillis Ray, Arthur Yule, George Youngman and Myrtle Vectorine.

MAIL ORDERS NOW. SEAT SALE DEC, 8, THE WORLD'S GREATEST BUN SHOW! No Seats Laid Aside. No Telephone Orders, Prices: 50c to Matinee, 50e to $2.00 Plus Tax know what it is, but his patrons most certainly are suffering acutely with Jlabd JuUenne ScotU George Melfords Production '3ehold mu Wife. A Pixa.mou.nt Picture, it. revision of the tax will be done until next October at the session of the Congress.

In the forthcoming short session It is admitted that there will no effort to redraft the existing law. In nil events the issue must wait until It has the attention of Senator Penrose, who now is ill, and who was the co-author of the bill with Senator Simmons (N. In the' opening of the Republican disposition. In other words, motion picture fans When he finds that he' cannot of Wichita will not applaud. Whether it's paralysis, laziness or an Indis make her spend his money as fast as he wants to, he proceeds to take position to be conspicious, no manager has yet been able to fathom.

And The defeat of those who had In under his protection three charming young ladies, who immediately start their campaigns and previous actlvi ties advocated Federal censorship Is to enjoy the world in all its glories, the worst part of the malady Is that it is local. Film salesmen and men whose business brings them in touch generally recorded. TWO DAYS, COM. MATINEE at his expense. campaign Variety was the first 10 announce the likelihood of a future Republican administration revising the tax law.

Olive Thomas' Death Brings Good Fortune To Another Star Girl CRAWFORD Naturally the young man finds with theaters in every nook and cor San Francisco. Congressman Charles H. Randall was defeated for Dec. 8 Thursday himself in many difficulties, espe ner of the world say Wichita picture re-election in a California district. audiences are the coldest they have cially as each of the young women falls, in love with him, so he is He is known as the "father" of the fever beheld.

obliged to call his lawyer to get him Federal Censorship Bill which caused a hostile feeling four years ago in It cannot be that the quality of pic out Of his troubles and in doing so this part of the country. II. H. FRAZEE PRESENTS CARLYLE BLACKWELL tne lawyer becomes Implicated. Lewis Selzulck has selected Mar In view of the fact that he repre tures shown is inferior to those shown elsewhere.

The half dozen or more theaters of this city rank up wtih the best in the country in the Of course, all plays of this POPULAR STARS COMING Douglas Fairbanks and Elaine Ham-merstein At Wichita Theater. Douglas Fairbanks and Elaine Hammerstein How do the names of these leading film stars Impress you as suitable for "drawing cards" at the wiehita Theater? Well, both of them tha Mansfield, the former "Follies" beauty, as the successor of Olive kind, everything is straightened out sented a district that was made op largely of persons connected with the motion picture Industry, a movement in the end and everybody is happy. matter of films, exploitation and sc Thomas in his li.st of stars. At pres the reissuing of 17 Norma Talmadge features which Selznlck holds. The success of the first Talmadge reissue, "Panthea," has been such that it is figured that the reissue of each of the 17 will bring the Selznick coffers something like $3,400,000, forecast on a $200,000 earnings for each of them.

Viuite some controversy has been ent Miss Mansfield is appearing as commodation. The same stars that was started this year to defeat him started whether a man can do then are scintillating at the Capitol, In California. Strand or Rialto on Broadway are the leading woman to Conway Tearlu under the direction of Hobart Hens-ley. When this production is completed she will be placed at the head things and the world look upon him as good, but the authors, Frank Mun-del and Emil Nyltray, have proved ncintniatine at the same time In Atlanta During the recent censor ship fight In Georgia, Governor E. Wichita's theaters, the plays are the same, the effects the same, but thn There is also in plan at present a nationwide campaign in behalf of conclusively that it can be done.

Dorsey came out strongly in favor of of her own company and elevated to stardom. H. H. Frazee, the well known thea will bo featured at the "House Of Music." During the first half of the week, Fairbanks will be starred in "The Mark of Zorrp." The last three days Miss Hammerstein, whose popularity Miss Mansfield, which is to be fi applause, Marmaduke I There ain't State censorship or motion pictures. It is also the plan of Lewis J.

to trical producer, has staged the play in a lavish manner and no exoense no such animal He was a candidate for the U. S. nanced by the reissue money. It is believed that with sufficient plugging secure, if possible, Richard Bartel- Time and again newspapers record ham honn annrorl trt tnalro thtav and the exhibitors of, the State used every effort to defeat I unnc IUJO iaiLB mess and Dorothy Glsh under con the new star will in six months' time develop a following equal to that instances oi auaiences one of the best gowned shows in the I tract. The means of reaching for him.

They were successful. rising at the conclusion of a laudable country picture and cheering. Surely these two stars is to be provided byj 1 1 which the Thomas pictures had. Chicago Congressman W. B.

Me- IN PERSON In His Latest Comedy Suocess "My Lady Friends" With a Cut of Unexcelled Merit NOT A MOVING PICTURE Prices Matinee 50c to $1.50 Night 50o to $2.00. Seat Sale Monday. '1 Mail Orders Now. folks are no more ieu.iwUl. Bugter Keaton hag tlnhheA hia than Wichitans.

Their sense of en- fIftn Metro comedy entltled (The Who Said Nothing Kinley of Illinois was elected to the U. S. Senate by a majority of over 600,000 votes, a good deal of credit joyment cannot De Keener uui Haunted House." He was supported here has increased with each of her pictures, wIU be seen in "The Daughter Pays." Recently there has been no end of rumors going about the country that Douglas Fairbanks has gotten tired of real work and the producing of pictures, and like the ninety-nine per cent of all such stories they have no. foundation. The fact of the matter "Doug" has just really begun to do his best work, he having at last been freed from the necessity of turning out pictures on iaea oi qumiij oy Virginia aox and Joe Roberts.

for his victory being due to exhibi They Know as weu as uu itu.ia Eaaio valne directed. the cash for Allan Holubar's production "Man, Woman and Marriage," has a grouch against his press agent. Of course the peevish attitude of Mr. Kaufman towards his ink stinger is not unusual, but the reason is. He accuses him of being too modest can you beat it? He says that publicity tors thruout the State, who backed that the nerrormers cau uui uoi But Indian Dress On Mabel J.

Scott? Somebody has put "the Indian them. They're probably Just as smart him for his friendly disposition to Alice Lake says she does not be ward the motion picture Industry. lieve, in the methods used by the pres as the majority or people mat bib tip a Wichita audience, but theyve enjoyed themselves and they aont Sign" on Mabel Juliene Scott! And stories say, the cost of the production ent nay pictue "ramps." Alice says she has a method of her own. Hello, Alice! Where you goriha be tonight? Baltimore O. E.

Weller of had the solid backing of all the she's quite peeved about it will be $250,000, and that he has al care who knows it They probamy times suffer in silence, but when Republican exhibitors and was elect It's all a matter of reputation. ready signed $400,000 worth of ed to the United States Senate over they're entertained they Just natural-. Buster Keaton says there ia rtlenr checks. his Democratic opponent she says. If you've got a good reputation yon enn try your very darndest to be "bad" and nobody pays any ly break out like a rasn.

nt niirA there are some who say, of room for talent in motion pictures. Producers Please get further de- CARLYLE BLACKWELL? Those who have followed Mack Sen "The picture show managers should tails. it mit I Boston Congressman Joseph Walsh of Massachusetts, the father a schedule, by reason of the fact that ho owns his own producing company, with all of his product marketed by the United ArtistB. Because of this, ho has been enabled to expend far more time on his productions, thereby making them far superior to any that he made in years past, and because of their greater degree of perfection has been enabled to attract more fans to his fold of Donularity. making his pic attention to you.

You can say "Golly," "Gosh" or "Darn" and get of the Penal Code amendment, and net's career, pie by pie, have noticed in his work, a decided tendency to produce big thrills, and some of his comedies are far more thrilling than away with it. You can even drink Home Brew and no one thinks any one of the best friends that the industry has in Washington, was re worry. Tney get our money. xuc latter part of this Is true. The picture shows do take in much money, but it must not be presumed the managers do not worry, and if you'll take the trouble to ask a few of the man the less of you, especially Polite Vaudeville elected by more than 80,000 votes in "stills" are part of every modern Three Show Dally 7:4 his own Congressional district humorous.

Now he Is putting bis ability to produce thrills to a purpose. He is making special melodramatic productions on a large scale. At the housekeeping equipment. tures more valuable and because of rn account of his activities favor If you're bad you can go to Wichita's Own agers you may know, they'll tell you ttrnt tho sound of applause coming to that it is possible for him to expend lnff motion pictures, the exhibitors in PUnrch' every gunday. contribute a present writing he hasn't stated how for more money on everything he thoir pnrii from a satisfied audience is that aismci wowra ui iuiui dime t0 cvery panhandler, and other- he intends to work in Ben Turpin pracncaiiy iuc uiin, I wise be "as good as good can Just as aweet music as the Jingle of Jsssid Hayrrard and Go.

Harvey, Haney and Grace "Air Ca.tie Kate" Marie Prevost and Charles Murray, and his bevy of bathing beauties but ing the campaign, aescrining luruier but just the game bad( every. silver across the marme siao at tne niS SUCCeSSlul euuru iu ircunii uni- body snys so, and that's that! does. He no longer works for a salary, he gets profits from his pictures which are sold individually from all other productions marketed by the "Rig Four," and Eolely on the merits of his productions. box office. he'll do it, never fear.

H. E. J. PRICES Hat. 0c Mi.

(Ig-40o War Tu Included tion pictures. "On the Course" Now Mabel's got the reputation of ADDlause encourages. Let the con Marlon. O. The attitude of Presi Eric von Strohelm who Is making being an Indian.

That is she can play Indian parts to perfection. When Mabel's an Indian, she is one. clusion of a picture be marked by an outward evidence of an Inward satisfaction on the part of the audience Morgan and Gafes "Just Nonsense" "Doug" is happier In his new nt dent-elect Harding on State censor- "Foolish Wives for Universal needed mosphere than ever before and when snjp js favorable to the industry. In a Monte Carlo setting so he built one right down to the last feather. Old and you'll see things begin to pick up he was told that there were rumors Helen Jackfsy "The Sensational Girl at a cost of $80,000.

When the bills Chief "Rldes-Iu-A-Flivver" couldn't a speech delivered from the "front porch" last August he said "I do not tell her from his own daughter. around the tneater. xne nsners get on their toea and begin to "ush" with think a oeople can De iorrnnaie wun She got this reputation away back Sf erling and Marguerite commenced to come in Carl Laemmle, president of the company, took one look, and grabbed the rear end of the first train for Los Angefes. He ia re greater alacrity, the projectionist will in the dim past of the motion pic various standards of censorship. I do not think we require one standard "oroieet" with even more skill, the or ture Industry about three years ago.

chestra will dig in with greater vigor, atfrsVi' "An Originality'V Pathe News fer one locality and another standard I DurInR thflt tIme ghe w(ll, tne cogt jn I ported to have said that he could for another." several Indian parts and made such have sent the whole company over to the organist will probably "organize" to better advantage. And then the that he was to retire from the screen, he Just grinned and said, "Oh such talk is preposterous." "The Mark of Zorro" is Fairbanks' latest United Artists release. According to a criticism by Louis Reeves, "The Daughter Pays," in which Miss Hammerstein is featured, leaves the path usually followed by stories of a daughter's marriage sacrifice to save her family and follows a development of new and live in a success of them that now, whenever I Monte Carlo and given each some pin a director thinks of an Indian he money to play the numbers with, and Constance Talmadge is to appear In manager he knows the picture has given satisfaction. Hereafter he will screen version oi tioyi uiay, thinks of Mabel, and then Mabel's uu saved money. Contented Woman," which will be telephone rings and if the director attempt to book pictures of this star or this type.

He will try to stage an even better production. He's humnn. has patience enougn to wait unuii n.i. i done by John Emerson and Anita Tks. Production is to start the first central gives him a connection, Mabel boJIeve aU you hear t0 have ner The applause has given him an in terest.

I'll; imsciously or not, it dig of the year. Into the question of how a man Jf. 1 Vh own company, which is to be backed The photograph o.i the first page by n0( not Charlie Eastern capital, of this section was posed by Miss Mr8- chaplin ggyg tnftt hereafter she should treat his wife so as not to be IjroiRUiii FJiliL I centive. The success of a picture cannot always be measured In silver. The fact thot it has pleased is what puts the hallmark on it When Yaryan used to knock that come, in the due course of time, a Mack Sennett's first comedy-drama, which Is to be directed by Dick hns been nomed "Heart Balm," and r-coic gust 10 snow uer wl not bm nergeif aB Mildred Harris she can appear before the camero phniin.

hut mnmiv miihi1 barely-tolerated pay envelope. The wins iemueis uuu ipi-uuo. iuo uui i Harris. will have Ethel Gray Terry in a featured role. old pill over the fence at Island Park i husband in this case Is not one who starts in with any idea of pleasing his wife by gratifying her whims.

He follows none of the lines of good hus- just ror armospnere. Tho nlptnra war nhfit twtw0An last summer there was no paraplegia. Address Lucius Ades, Sedgwick Bldg, Enclose Return Postage Men, women and children would leap Chpster Bennett is to direct Antonio scenes in "Behold My Wife," a photo- Nell Shlnman and her company I I WICHITA 1 pa A their feet and the feet of their to bands who do all they can to make Moreno in "Three Sevens," from the Piay adapted from Sir Gilbert Park- have returned to the Mayer Studios, neighbors and applaud and shout following an eight weeks' location book by Perley Poore Sheehan. This ICES: EVENING 50C TO $230 SAT. MAT.

25C TO $2.00 er's "The Translation of a Savage." in which Miss Scott as usual, plays trip in the North Woods, where scenes is Moreno's first feature picture, fol until their bands tingled and their throats grew hoarse. The same thing for "The Girl from God's Country' I lowing two yenrs of serial making. the part of an Indian maiden. was in evidence at the Thanksgiving were filmed, under the direction of their wives happy, only to have their efforts accepted as a matter of course and be despised in the end for their sentimental folly. There is a vital theme in "The Daughter Pays," whether or not it is clearly seen or vaguely felt Interest, however, depends largely Bert Van Tuyle.

Sidney Franklin has finished cut Marshall Neilan has finished FRIDAY-SATURDAY DEC. 17-18 SEAT SALE AT DOCKUMS ting "Parrot Company," which he "Dinty," the story of a newboy's hectic life in which Wesley Barry fur- produced from Harold McGrath's Whar An tha hathlnc beauties of wiaeiy reaa dook. j.uis is rranKiins nishes run, irecKies ana nnesse. Ke-ltha comedy film hall from? second independent production for porrs irom me coast mm me pic-i Wnat AlA tne pulchrltudlnous plp- upon capable handling of the story and upon the exquisite picture of First National release. ture is a "bear." MlcKey Weiian is th screen do before they be- AMERICA'S GAYEST MUSICAL SHOW now working on "Not a Drum p-j came womanhood assigned to Elaine Ham merstein.

football game. The motive and inspiration was identical. What they had seen pleased them. They applauded. Someone ventured the theory that the walls of the theater had a restraining effect on the demonstrative-ness of Wichitans, but certainly some of the loudest applause and most raucous cheers ever beard, emanated from the Forum when the boxers and wrestlers held sway last winter.

Why then do Wichitans refrain so religiously from applauding motion pictures? Does the darkened bouse Jimmy Dawson, former inmate of Heard." Did they Just grow up like Topsy, or what not? Reggie Morrle, production chief at Folsom prison, where he spent fen years, has been engaged by King VI-dor to play a part in "The Sky Pilot," Constance Binney'a next production is "Something Different" The film the Special Pictures Studio, conduct- Bessie Love is going to England early in the new year, to make scenes in "The Old Curisoty Shop," in which she is to appear, for Andrew Calla-gban Productions. was taken in Cuba. The press mnti with It i w- sentatives say that the proper "at of hla ahow girls and discovered that mosphere" could not be found in this Thelma Hlllerman was an artist country, wbadda they mean "at model In New York, have a depressing effect? Are some Robert Lorraine, English actor-aviator, has arrived in Hollywood from New York with Jesse I Lasky. Lorraine is on a trip around the world. mosphcre?" Helen Dale was a stenographer In too busy holding hands to be able to Iaitber Reed's story, "White Ashes," is to be released under the title "Lure of Youth," by Metro.

a law office In Los Angeles. applaud? Albert Kaufman who is putting np Marcella Pershing was a high If you know the real reason, slip school girl in a small Kansas town. the "info" to your nearest manager. He'll appreciate it Perhaps he has Irene Tyner was in the chorus of a traveling musical smow. the cure for paraplegia.

J. D. D. Dorothy Dee was a kindergarten teacher. Kay Hawley.

was a cabaret enter tainer In Chicago. THINK OF IT THE ELECTRICAL PIPE THAWER The electric system of thawing out a frozen pipe requires only a little apparatus which may be carried in one band. It is merely connected to the electric system by means of an ordinary socket and the current being turned on generates a heat in the pipe which quickly melts the ice. It is possible to thaw out sections of fif ft i ii 'I iNj; I lb n. i in This is the Same Company that Playad the Shubsri Theater, Kansas City, tor Two Veeks and Viil Return thare the next night after Wichita 'THE ORIGINAL COMPANY THERE IS NO OTHER 5 iNiHS IN NEW YORK 6 MONTHS IN CHICAGO I I Jf TV.

V. I II Ml! teen feet by this means. BALSA WOOD INSTEAD OF CORK Altbo it has been known for more than a hundred years, balsa wood la just coming into use as a sub stitute for cork in some of its capacities. It is the lightest commercial wood known and a pa raff ine treat ment make it available for many purposes for which cork has been heretofore exclusively used. Ie must be ftTffi WICHITA IS THE ONLY CITY THIS ATTRACTION PLAYS lVl li" IN THE ENTIRE WEST OUTSIDE OF KANSAS CITY MUNICIPAL SERIES ATTRACTION -ALL- PROFITS TO PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ASSOCIATION disposed of quickly after being cut for it rots rapidly when exposed to the atmosphere la the tropics where 'it grows, TROUBLE SELLING glBLES IN.

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