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SCTttUY. Oakland' CrtDunc OCTOUCK I9L VT 3 I Bebe as a Boy. Washing the Air. tures, which has Just started under the direction of Chester Franklin. It has as its plot basis the exciting and profitable business of.

booza smuggling from Havana to the United States. The e'ory was written by Nina Wilcox Putnam, oFF I im Iau Death Claims Mother of Noted Family Will Rogers Is Able to Get By With It Will Rogers gets away with The new air-washing plant recently installed at the Paramount. Ixmdon, studio is now complete. It was put to Its first hi tes-. the recent frKgy weather, and triumphantly Justified all the enpee-tations entertained of Ita efficiency Pi coping with the Brtttsh fog.

Ce.be. In boy's erothes; Bebe In straight hair without a suspicion of curl; Bebe with her ears uncovered to the air for the first time In nany. many pictures-such are amongst the novelties to ka found in the new Iwniels fea well-known Saturday Fvening Post Ired Myton did the An Independent tar Tom Moore. concern will i Conway Tesrle has returned to the stage. Jackie CooR.in'a second starring picture, ilv Hoy," Is completed.

Grace Dnrmond is cant opposite Gareth Hughes In his new production at SUtio. Marcia Mannn has the lead In J. I Frothingham's forthcoming picture, "The Wan Who Smiled." William Farnum has returned to picture making after a years sojourn abroad. He is working in California. "The Demi-Virgin," Avery Hop-food's newest farre, has opened in New York.

It is a dramatization of Hollywood film-colony life, glim of which were gotten during the summer when Hop-wood was writing pictures for Lasky. Pauline Frederick's leading man In "Judith Blue Ike Ttanch" is Tom Sautschl, who- Just completed a sei'lei orAt'0-reel outdoors stories for FWhe, in which he was 1 ill 2 mishettieek Adaption, Costuming, Research under dward KnoblOClc Third FINAL Week Hi mm Zlon Myers, the delightful Car-mel's genial brother, who wrote "Blue Kyea," a Broadway hit. home for a spell front New York. Lawson Butt Is bringing a company to Ban Mateo, where ha Igto produce. "The OM Neet" Is rounding Ita fifth big week in Kansas City, and more to cornel Elinor Fair has Just returned to bos Angeles from a sis weeks' location trip to Ban Mateo.

Bhe was playing opposite Hebart Bos-worth. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hatton entertained with a delightful little party at their home last week. The honored ones were members of the "Jack o'Lantern" cast.

A delegation of British motion-picture exhibitors will arrive In Los Angeles next month on a tour of Inspection of the film Industry. A solution of legal complications having bean reached, Charles Itay is again showing In Toledo, Ohio, after a two-year absence. Mr. Ray's reopening there in "45 Minutes From Broadway" occasioned front-page newspaper Rpaee. eugene Lrenw manage Telephone lUclde 48 ASH ruilllrd "Ronton" THE DAY 8:44 9:04 9:11 sti'horraii 9:20 7:05 9:34 Har ii miiik.

7:211 9:50 7:3510:04 7:4710:15 r. 1H ilii'ii! I -IM FRABBLID -JK THEATER Direct ion aikerman karris STARTING TODAY (3 Days Only) murner. ,7, i "w.o their faces he Onds they like it, and yell until they're hoarse. That Rogers, now making Paramount pictures, has not the touch that made him famous in the Zieg-feld Follies is shown by the following transcript of a speech he made recently at a banquet of the Reserve City Bankers' Association at the Alesandria Hotel, Los Angeles: "Gentlemen: "I have asked several Just what this Reserve City Bankers' Association Is and from all I can hear of It. It la the drunken end of banking! "Ho, loan sharks and interest hounds, I am glad to be with you tonight, for you are the finest looking gang of Bhylocks I ever saw.

"You are, without a doubt, the most disgustingly rich audience I ever played to, unless It was the Los Angeles Cafeteria Owners' Association, who are Just greasy rich. "I don't know why It was I was Invited to a bankers' dinner unless It Is that I have tried to bor-ow mora money on less security than anybody In town. "What do you pay the working people for keeping their Why per cent? What do you get for It? Oh. per cent, 10, 20, 100 per cent; depends on how hard up the man Is. "If only shows you what little difference stands between what the world callssuccess and failure.

A pawnbroker loans on old watches, shotguns, old clothes everything that a family don't need- and he Is looked down on by society. The bankers loan on a man's business and then foreclose. We call them financiers! "Now, all I have heard talked at this convention Is. 'We are I don't blamo you, for if I had your dough I'd be an optimist, too. I'd he anything for that much money! "So, good-byn, paupers.

You are the finest gang thut ever foreclosed a mortgage on a widow's ISM III r'cn New Sem-Benelli Story I p- Formation of the Associated Corporation has Just been announced. will distribute both fori-ign uml American film The Initiul offering will be "Te.nrs of the Sr.i," a spectacular super-production now In the final procers of titlitiR preparatory to nil early This story is from the pfn of Sini Jteneljinoted, famous' by Jack and Lionel Currymore. No definite dute, as yet, has been set for the release. Bull Fight in Films. The two leading film manufacturers of Barcelona have been appointed to film the royal bull will shortly tuke place In Madrid, for the soldiers' fund.

All the. most famous toreadors and matadors aro to participate on litis occasion, and the king has expressed a desire that a permanent record should be made of the colorful proceedings. Continuous from 12 11. nt. to 11 p.

in. A GLORIOUS ALL-STAR BILL Approximate Time of Appearance First Photo Play IWlll America's a I Most. it Theater PAUL In a niiicil) iia ril TOPICS ()F DANCING" DIT BROWNS of'' i Ja.ti mi'l 12:13 13:12 3 32 1:10 3:39 1:19 3:43 2:034:32 KNEELAND POWERS "lit for Till' STUART LAURENCE I 'Mil II nil H. ti Katherine Griffith, well known actress and mother of a popular movie famil. died at her 1232 Gower street, Ias Angeles.

Monday night, following a stroke received as she was acting a scene for "Penrod" at the Marshall Neilan Studio. The Griffith family has ben a professional institution for twenty years on the stage and. screen. The deceased is survived by ner husbamd. Harry Griffith, well known character man In pictures, two sons.

Gordon and Graham, both popular child players, and Gertrude Sutherland Griffith, daughter, secretary to the president of Occidental College. The late Mrs Griffith was particularly well liked by the picture colony and has appeared in pictures here for the past nine years. With Man- Pickford she played the part of Aunt Polly in "Pollyanna" anil in "The Little Princess" she had nn important part with Mary. Among the other stars with whom she ha appeared" on the screen ere Clara Kimbatl Young. Prisollla Dean, Olive Thomas and Earl In "Per.rod," her last work on the screen, the son Gordon and the father also tako part.

Gordon is perhaps the best known child of the family, having appeared In many bitr successes, his lat work being ith Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Fauntelroy." In "Penrod" he plays the part of Wesley Barry's pal. Katherin Griffith "died with her make-up -on." the way every professional prefers to pass in ro the Great Reyond. Immediately following her stroke at the studio she became unconscious. A physician was immediately called and she was taken to her home where she passed away several hours later, never regaining conscious-nous. The deceased was forty-flve ears of age and had spent, more than half her life appearing before it mourned by the entire film col-, ony.

Plenty' of Marshall Nellan's script for the plcturlzation of Hoolh-Tarkington's "Penrod" calls TWiy thirty-six characters. Supporting Wesley lArry In the title role will be lifteenounpsters and twenty' grown-ups. giving' the little freckle-fared star one the larficst supporting roles seen in re-' cent productions. A kaleldffsci.r'lc. mixture of races and nationalities will be found among the youns players, including two darkies, one Irish youth, one Kalian boy, a boy, a French youngster and various types of American youths to bo found in a small town such as that in which the story of "Penrod" is laid.

1 Noted Dancer Retained. Normn Talmadge has engage Atthui" Keel low. who 'he dance numbers of the Shuberi production. -I'lfesine show of 18i-l," and who has put on various solo Un tines "iintl ballet numliers in several ltroadwny musical muse-dies, to each the old F.ngllsh dances to twenty members of her com pa ny ami hers. If for her forthcoming picture.

"Smilin' Thr.itiBh." iNor'na w-lUi donee, an 1S60 polka, an Kn'-jlifh walta and the rdd lancers. At the recent national convention of the dancing muster-', held at the Hotel Aster in New York, 1 ret low was engaged by the board of directors to instruct the convention, made-up of hundreds of jjii'fir Log .1 from r11 vVoiid; in. tn'oOislV Gills Are Successful. 1- are -potting -advanced and resitoiii-'ilile- that some of the 111 alniV.sWgo to the ex-, teme of thetnselv. incorporated.

An instance of business fHivalgamatfon on a small scale is thtf-alliance of Kennedy and Kennedy of Hollywood, California, a concern composed of Miss Clara Genevi-ve Kennedy and her sister, Kdith The first -named member of the firm in 'no case mild either he referred to as the senior part ner--is a writer, and the second short -story a scenario writer. Transmutiiut. themselves Into a trust. tlie two young women forthwith started production and'- distribution. The result tVm picture Viola liana.

is tlie sale nf a stoiy to Metro. mo-for Circus on the Screen. Jack director of Hamilton-White comedies, has received special permission from the management of the Sells-Flnto circus to use the ground of the affair for scenes in his latest all-star comedy for Kdnrational. I.ige Cttnley is featured in the picture. HERMAN BRISCOE "i tie'- I'lr tteliwirnnl" HAZELLE BLACK CO! In trliJ 51k nic find t-f onitlity I'lliKT TIMK MARY MILES MINTER "HER WINNING WAY" 2:154:45 lV'auHhil Plii'l.

iil.l.v Coming Wednesday Katurilirv, Inclusive NELL SHIPMAN THE GIRL FItOM (ioi)'S COUNTRY' V. EST Jerome Storm, the well-known director, received a wire from New York. It said: 'The Rosary is one of the flneet pictures evr made." Llla Lee. lending says she'll have ta d.et to keep thin, if Will Roger, doesn't making laugh so much. They're both One Glorious Day," a para mount special Alan Hale Is the villainous T)ick Hatton.

star and producer of the Prairie Productions, is Just completing ni, second picture, "The Hellhound of the West." has to (o ith Podge AM ty. Kansas, in its early and obstreperous period. Mae Marsh has made her debut on the legitimate stage in "Brit-tie," a comedv which' had its premiere at Pin infield, N. J. The performance attended by a number of film notables, headed by D.

W. tirlfflth. The role of Herman, the chum of Hooth Tarkinirton's Penrod, is being played byunnhine Sammy, who WB4 loaied to Marshall Neilan for te.ii "Penrod" production. The JuvVnile actor Is the comic little colored boy who has played in a ujfmber of Snub Pollard prodUyOons. 1 Lesteruneo started work this week On "Silver Spurs," a drama dealing with California during Us most romantic period.

The authors are Henry McCarty and Leo Meehan. Ellis Parker Butler, author of the famous "Pigs Is Pigs." and (iuiib, pelecative" seriee, Is writing the scenario on the next I'hllo Oubb story, which Webster Cullison will produce, featuring Victor Potcl. Maryon Aye and "Bob" Reeves have responded to the peremptory command ft "Heady! Action! (U)!" Their first picture under ajolnt starring contract, made ith Cactus Features is The Yellow Streak." It is laid in West. Maryon Is the girl who thij-'- new "moralWy Iclause." History, in Serial: (Continued From rag 1-W) between the screen and the school. A child's disinclination to study will disappear when he has is served to him in the form of entertainment.

He says: "Universal has taken this step a because it realizes that youth ust be served. Youngsters crave action and adventure in s'ory and on -screen! What could lie more fitting to give them screen entertainment based upon historical' incidents and woven around characters they are taught to respect and admire? "In our fortheomnig 'Winners of the we have chosen John C. Fremont the first of this illustrious band to be immortalized on the heels of Fremont's trail. Accord 'serial' recounts the adventures of a band of hardy pioneers, traveling across the plains and through the Itoclties In their prairie-schooners, on the heels of Fremont's Irall-breakers. "Included in the 'serials' are all the picturesque activities of the 'Forty-niners' during the gold-rush period, and all the stirring adventures of the Indian-Infested wilds.

We are taking every precaution to assure the authenticity and accuracy of every incident narrated in this production. Costumes will be the settings will be accurate, and we nhall sacrifice, none of the picturesque glamor of tha 'Roaring Forties' to any conventional motion picture technique. "The preparation of the script has been entrusted to Ford 0110 of our most -scenario writers and -himself, a ib iw.iHi,nit- niners' Who did so tnoeh to furnish, the pages of our history witii fitie of lis most glorious episodee. We shall endeavor dvseW't a cast that shall be especially suited to I the roles wherein they are ran; it is not enough to merely say, 'This character is FrelnHtit, (hat one Is Kit Carson, the actor I must look like the original person ,1 to the last detail. 1 "Mr.

Heebo has spent several months reference vol- times dealing with the characters and exploits to he screened. Some of the more Important works lo which he has bid re- course aro 'The Life of Kit Carson' by Anderson, Atherton's The History of no i.ewis and Clarke 'The Santa Ke. by Hayes, John C. Fremont's' "Memoirs of My F.ldridge's 'The P.eginnings of Han llrady's 'The, Conquest of the and 'The. Old Fe by Jiiman.

"We feel we are. advancing the causo'of Americanism to a considerable degree by inculcating in the. minds of those millions of children who are fond of molio a reverence and appreciation of those hardy, oour-uu-Piins and daring hrrocs who helped to make our country rlnriouB Knd it" is today. the In Winners of the West' we have succeeded in placing on the screen several of the' most inspiring episodes of that most glamorous in our country's devclop- ment. 'the biirkskln era.

Players Return (Continued Fton.i Tage 1-W) Anita herself during the past summer. Not all the many trunks contained Miss Stewart's wardrobe for her coming pictures, however Mies Stewart purchased gowns for manv of the r-ayer. with whnnj she lias been, and will hereafter be, associated In the making of her pictures. Included among the gowns In one particular wardrobe trunk are several sport suits with jacket, skirt and knickers to match. "Certainly I am going to wear knickers," says Anita.

"There la nothing like a long walk to keep one fit, and nothing fits a long walk better than the knicker suit. "Goodness knows. I am not at all Inclined to.be lasy, but after a hard day at the studio a big. comfortable car is so restful. However, I intende to force myself to walk.

Hack East knickers are very 'modish and before another season 1 predict that the hills around Los Angeles will be dotted with glrit weailns the bifurcated garment." -c- i v'My j. 1 See DOUG, as the daring, dashing, swashbuckling hero of Duma thrilling novel Never has there been a picture so crammed with entertainment 1 million 71 First Uakland Hisi .4 ii'. A I JT-'? a ft, if SAV'! -c di 5eular Regular n.i rices .1 Prices zL yj reels ol thn an i 1 fT.f..Minjii. fntk-hrtmf 1 1 unman 1 11 1.1111 1 iuwi 1 1 in 131 m. .1 11 nn km AJ Wfi wHt mp.

iikc the woihl's nP-i fttimni-v adventure ftory ot the youth who risked ,1 alh with a smile to favc a queen By tlie picture the honor, In CW Franklin has ever shown. if IN THE WORLD 4 ilk. a r.l I. --'A t. X' ailfc i 'A -a II JV if vt VJ A.V M.

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