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SIXTH SECTION PAGE EIGHT THE PIT R'G II GAZETTE' TIMES, SUNDAY, MARCH .27, 1921." Hoare Psterr and Porence Vidor B.Luin6 Pcbe.D'cl Duclry and Jalfe4- i'i i ns r.rx I -Saw- UiC I bccnc Madonnas- And Ul POPUUR ACTOR'S ROLE GOOD DO YOU KNOW? lT Mag Murraij in The Gilded Uqaopcr Scene U'm( Lipr x4iV Cecil B. DeMilie's "Forbidden Fruit," which is the feature: The" Garden. North Side, the first, four days of this Is a stupendous photoplay and of such excellence as to entitle it being termed a masterpiece of which any. producer might well be proud. The story is embellished by a vision of'Cln-derlla in which Mr.

DeMilie's genius is displayed to the finest advantage. It is colorful, strongly effective and produced on a scale of magnificence unexampled even in this day of big productions. Agnes Ayers, the leading woman player, is a suffering wife' living in a tenement. Clarence Burton plays the role of her husband, a gambler and crook, and Theodore Roberts is an oil king who has an important part in the girl's career. Friday and Saturday the program will be headed by "Midsummer That Rita Weiman wears Chinese clothes -when 'writing her stories? Thjit Helene Chadwick's hair is bobbed? That Theodore Roberts is known as the Duke of Hollywood? That Gouverneur Morris wears horn-rimmed glasses? That Gertrude Atherton types her own stories? That Will Rogers hardly ever wears a necktie? That Tom Santschi may support Pauline Frederick in her next picture? That Ruth Stonehouse was born in Denver? That Edith Storey drove an ambulance in the big war? That Mary Thurman (was born in Richfield, Utah? another splendid production.

There also will be comedies and other screen attractions. III' a' lf I 1 iC-T T-t Yale Honor Film Director. Tale University is honoring Rex Ingram with the degree of bachelor of fine arts in recognition of his remarkable work in directing "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." This which is one of the high points of the cinema, is to be shown only as a road attraction. House Peter. House Peters, who was selected for the leading male role of Blair Cornwall, a sturdy Canadian cattleman, in "Lying Lips," has been one of the outstanding' figures of the silver screen for a number of years.

His work in "The Great Redeemer," a recent Maurice Tour-neur production, was hailed as one of the triumphs of the year. It is said that the creation of the role of Cornwall affords him even greater scope and opportunity to create an unforgettable screen character. I 1 III I 1 STRONG PICTURES DurKe in ducat ion ql A- 1 II jiHTon sills in The faith Healer" tant by the Grand orchestra under the diree- has been better suited to her vivacious and tion of David Broudy. The profjram also will captivating personality than that of Eliza-present a Mack Sennett comedy, "bungalow rianks of a York musical revue. Trouble Grand News Weekly and "Topics this photopiay.

How she meets an old of the Day. colonial family and falls in love with a couple of its. staid members how she re- ceives an education in deportment while she Lyceum. tutors the family in the manner of attiring Ths r-tT- niim t-i- themselves correctly is told in Ave reels of an7 MaPage ChbeenJ aatJ fothe na a vaiifMi ta wit fi nifiilunt star Tn ni Request SurprUes Actor. Robert Brower, 72-year-old character actor now working in "The Lost Romance." has received a "fan" letter from Xew York requesting his "Gosh' remarked the elderly TO HOLD SCREENS Neilfi' Wife Divorces Him.

Gertrude Bambrick, wife of Marshall Xeilan, the producer-director, has been granted a divorce. Mrs. Neilan receives property valued at $50,000 and $200 a week allowance from her husband's income. Joe King has been engaged as lead of a. girl who has sipped the froth of life.

ing man for Alice Joyce in her next nrtri will hn b. tcottirA nnriir thi "Work will begin in a few day. Friday and Saturday Dorothy Gish win player, "that fellow must be a col-be seen in "Hying Pat. 'lector of antiques'." production, week in Ioew's Lyceum, with Alice Lake in the stellar ro'e. Toe story is strongly dra IN MOVIE HOUSES life of the sreat city all are at her feet.

And yet at heart she is a simple girl. She is good. Her greatest ambition in life is a little flat and a cook stove and a Wby. But life doesn't always give what one wants. The Gilded Lily has very thing except the things she Two men rome into her life and the ending of Jhe play furnishes a real thrill.

It a "surprise" ending, and yet upon reflection it becomes as logical and as certain as the ending of a fairy taie of childhood. matic throuphout. Miss Lake is as Mary Smith, a beauty of the -Follies. Charles Kverard, the son ot vveaithy parents, but has missed its substance. How these lies meet and merge and how the conflicting motives and elements are reconciled form a tensely dramatic story, filled with the elements that appeal to the finest emotions an 1 deepest sentiments.

Ann Forest has the part of the girl who seees the errors of her ways and wins the pure love of the healer. Fontaine la Rue. Winnifred Greenwood and Robert Brower, the aged nero, also are in the cast. An excellent comedy and the news weekly also are on the program. OLYMPIC Beginning This Ve-eks.

Continuous 3OA.M.T0 11 PM CUILDrVLN ClDULTS War, TAX Productions of an Elaborate Nature With Popular Players Coming. Savoy. Embodying a them of particular heart ana Included DIRECTION WENR.Y E.WILK.INSO NTS Mary secretly. This is the foundation of the story and around the efforts of th young I man's parents to annul the marriage ajpama of unusual interest ia built. Young i-Jverard la kidnapped and Bent to sea and nothing is! left undone to keep the couple apart.

Mary Smith makes things unpleasant for the irate parent who stole her husband. She returns to Broadway's cabaret life and for a time it looks as If she isn't a worthy young woman. Thn a disreputable lawyer and a woman accomplice figure in the wtory and their scheming: to discredit the legitimacy of Mary's little hoy iM responsible for fome of the sensational incidents. Jack Ivuierherty is sevn as young' Kverard. Tue picture is foi- lowed by a diversified vauuevilie bill of live acts.

sympathetic appeal, with Thomas H. Ince to personally supervise and direct it and with Florence Virfor and House Peters in the leading role, Laps.1 the feature booked for the Rowland and Clark Savoy Liberty. "What is consideed the greatest screen production of Thomas H. Ince. "-Lying Iips." will he offered in the Rowland and Clark Liberty this week.

With a theme of tremendous appeal to win the sympathies of BILLS WELL BALANCED is considered one of the outstanding film masterpieces of the season. Critics generally the audience, it would not be Ince if he did admit that it is certain to be one of the. nnt nut thi-ui nr tA mr. accord- admit that it if? certain to be one of the not put a thrill or two into it. So aeeora- Mae I most notable screen productions of ISlL In ingly he planned one of the meet spectacular scenes ever photographed.

The story of "Lying Lips'- calls tor the English social butterfly to cross the Atlantic to Canada in order to rest preceding her marriage to a East Liberty Cameraphone. Murray LILY man ot mie in a The Last Liberty Cameraphone has booked; the main it is a story of a beautiful girl in search of a wealthy husband, who toys with the love of a red-blooded man who loves but once and generally gets what he after. Florence Vidor. as the woman, gives the part the vibrant life so essential to the proper portrayal of the rote. House Peters, the man in the case, fits his part like a glove.

Playing, fair with a woman who won't play-fair soon causes him to r-: sort to other means. For every ache of the heart caused by a frivolous woman, he makes her pay tJ, for thi.t week tleorse Arltsa in "The Devil." man who loves but once. Too late she real The screen debut of Mr. Arli3B is epochal. By G.

T. REEL. Some very strong- productions are listed for showing: in the principal movie houses of Pittsburgh this week, "-several of the films having been pro-" nounced by critics in other cities as -being of unusual caliber in point of ilramatic construction, appeal of subject, exceptional settings and splendid acting by capable and well-balanced The highest traditions of the stase. hia rare izes that she would never be content with the life a woman of very moderate means, forced to live among a new kind of people and away from the whirl and gay life of patents, his consummate artistry, his mar- vtlous acting art focalized in "The Devil. making it a perfect performance, a dra- matic event of supreme importance.

In ''The Mr. Arliss becomes immortal. In tut linrlnr in iril nrp in miicf pnri(iin pnn Khe hastily returns ine I ceptions of lavish settings, this screen mas-1 and pay dearly. But her payment only ends I home. The man follows.

The rescue of the in bowing- to the will of the man whom she woman after a shipwreck and the supposed later realizes was the only man she ever 1 rieath of the man is a big dramatic moment, One of the most thrilling scenes ever The climax is reached when she takes her depicted on the screen is the sinking of an place before the altar to become the wife of ocean-going liner. The explosion of of wealth and social position. At boilers, the frenzied rush of the fear-crazed this moment the man whom she truly loves passengers for the lifeboats, the capsizing i enters the church and she see him. The of these boats and fiinally the breaking up! gcene that follows is a climax of tremendous of tm vessel make- the most realistic -cene. strength, in present day motion pictures.

Clyde Cook 1 terpiece Tar fc-urpaees the wonderful stas success. To have seen Mr. Arliss on the stajfe in levil" was a treat never to be forgotten to see him irt' this wonderful production will be mirrored in the memory for The cast includes Sylvia Hreamer, Kdmund lowe, Lucy cotton ami Koland JCottomley. 0 JParanioioi Picture OTUkfV ATTRACTIONS OLVMPIC SYMPHONY ORjCHESTPA 'Pictorial Review Comedy L. News Vcczy Sinograms Pc uXcPcrCorTn-an ccs with -Cull Orchestra, 'fchis picture will not shown dcjain in Greater Pittsburgh for a penoadr 30 dys.

in Tne Jockey also is on ine program. Alhambra. Blackatone. Regent. i Bebe Daniels in her late.n pictur-.

"Dack The Faith Healer." based on William and comes to the Blauk.stone this Vaughn Moody's stae play and acclaimed week. "Ducks end Drakes" was written by It Is as a charming, a fun-loving, choru girl who is very- real beneath her rouge and powder, tliat llillta Burke will be fceen in her newest comedy-drama. "The Education of Elizabeth." which will he the feature at- traction in the Alhambra. East Mon- i day, Tuesday and Wednesday. No role that another 'The Miracle will be shown Elmer Hams and was origmauy mreiKiea Miss llurke has- had in recent productions this week in the Regent, the Rowland I for the stage, but It shaped up as un un-Clarke theater at Penn and Highland ave- usual entertainment that it was decided to nues.

Milton Sills it the featured player, produce it for the screen first and the stage and it is doubtful if this brilliant actor waa afterward- iliss Daniels' newest starring ever seen to better advantage. The story is vehicle tells an amusing story of a young that of a sheep herder in the hilla of New girl who is making one. frantic stab for Mexico who feels a "call" to go forth and the pleasures of life before settling down to heal the slek and suffering. It follows him what she considers the humdrum of matri- I HER HUSBAND IS BOSS through his ministrations to the sick and mony. One of her favorite of NEXT ATTRACTION THE WITCHING HOUfV with- ELLIOTT DEXTPv 10 ratifying a craving for excitement afflicted and pictures the great temptation that came to him and how he conquered it in the knowledge that his own ministry did not prohibit him from the exerci.e of human love and with this narrative of a devout man's labor of love for humanity is the story of another lifethat DC call random numbers on the telephone, engaging in a quiet flirtation should the answering voice be agreeable and masculine.

iueh promiscuity, while divertinar. could easily have gotten Teddy into danger and this fact Rob Winslow. her fiance, determines to drive home to her flighty mind, lie enlists as aides in the plot three fellow club members, two of whom had already figured in some of Teddy's clendestine 'phone parties." The resulting conspiracy carries the star into many complications with uch 3ID BLACICSTCWt ORCH- casts. In the latter will be seen women and men of the screen who Jiave reached the front ranks through "heer merit. There will be women litars-iV-llQ have not been-seein in.

new 'i-ph-tures here for some time, as well as men who are rated among the best actors in films. Mae Murray is coming in "The Lily: Milton Sills in "The Faith Healer;" House Peters and Vidor, "Lying -tjps;" Bebe Daniels, and Drakes; Alice 'Lake, "The Greater Claim;" George Artiss. "The Devil;" Billie Burlce, 'The Education of Elizabeth;" Agnes Ayres, 1" Forbidden Fruit," Supplementing these promising feature pictures will be new farce comedies, cinema views of the news of the -world, paragraphed wit and wisdom, screen novelties and special music Details of the programs follow: -Minerva. "Madonnas and Men." an unusually massive and elaborate motion picture production that caused ethustastic eomment from press and public at its premier presentation recently in Xew Torfc. has been booked for th Minerva.

Fifth avenue, this week. "Ma-donnas and Men" boasts of one of the most impressive casts ever assembled for a fa-tur production. Evan Burrows Fontaine, wno won favor as the roost prominent ber of the Ziegrfeld "FolHei." appears as a dancing Edmond Lowe, one of Be-iasco's leading men. ha a strong role in this production. Fairy Blnney appears in a captivating rote.

Beatuifui Raye Dean is presented in -a wonderfully effective part. nders Ranoolf has the hnest role of his successful career, and tiustav von Seyfrititz appears in a most remarkable example of haracter acting. "Madonnas and Men" wa.s directed by B. A. Rolfe from an original tory detailing the madness of pleasureeek-Ing in ancient Rome and modern New York.

The lust for pleasure is rfiown in ail its startling; realism- One sees the Roman Coli-peum. the Roman Amphitheater and the sac-rlncing of the Christian martyrs. Then, in the main and modern part of the story, come 'the prominent white way cabarets, the roof gardens and the dressing rooms of the midnight show favorites, as well as the homes of millionaires. Elaborate and massive in the "Madonnas and Men" comes to the Minerva a big achievement of the silent drama. That it will be accorded the HERE IS CONNIE'S SISTER ALL THIS Ml Cotot- ZZte, 7tuort vyct personality on.

tke bewildering rapidity as to bring the laughs In an unbroken stream. Jack Holt is the leading man. A spirited new comedy, a beautiful Bruce scenic and the Pathe News will be other features of the week, accom-1 panted by splendid orchestral music. liwKiCKtke Mac Murray. Sbfportect by JflOC HOLT in.

Grand. Jtarely ha the announcement of a moving picture production elicited sud! anticipatory pleasure as that for-'The Faith Heater." which is to give the realism of vibrant life to the screen in the Grand this week. Be-rinnins tomorrow (Easter Monday) morning DUCKSdLDRA.KES Mae Murray's husband dictates his wife's actions a sood portion of the time. for. you see.

Miss Murray, who is the star of "The Uilded Lily," is wedded to Robert Z. Leonard, who also is her director in films. Miss Murray made her state debut when she was 91'rlsOelslnto straits tKrouK. an oveF vorked penckaict a- 10 o'clor-k and in continuous performances i until 11 o'clock each flight, this seven-reel i special promises to enthrall not only the ha Qomoy wews weekly -5GC(nig 1 aged 14 as the Nell Brinkley- girl in bitual votary' tne nim. out ai.o uie multitude of devout churchgoers who do not attend the theaters.

"The Faith Healer." how- Tfcodo: frberts MXTivm- fact iKAeJLoHeSfvcdlUl tut ever, is by no means a religious piftureyin Iaire Bittaer. Faire Binney. who plays the Follies. Among her screen successes of the past are "The Delicious Little Devil," B. C.

of Love," "On With the Dance." "The RiRht to Love" and "Idols of Clay." leading I the sense that it offers any sectarian propa- DC panda. It Is caiica a Drama hhiiiiiik iop role in "Madounaa and Men." is a sister of Constance Binney. She Is a native of Morristown. N. J.

She appeared on the- stasre previous to her screen and holy sieal beoeuse its basic theme is the love of a simple shepherd who believes himself divinely appointed to heal the pick and 1 a vayward girl of the world who has seen Koiii, iiu-n wi- iiiouk lif. tt was adaDted to the in which she played the role of. bv th wldow of author. William Kitty. She played opposite Tom Meig- Moodv.

in collaboration with Milton nan in "The Frontier of the Stars and Si)Ist wbo pi'yg the titular role, ai Z. she appeared w'ith Georpeal Carpenticr ail Covington. It follows closely thJ story iti The Wonde.r Man." Slip is an out- of orlirlnal stage success of the same doors girl who swims, plays golf and name. Not the least interesting feature of rides. the production will be its musical concoml- -r fenn O- 5 rt a.

d. 3If Ave Downtown. -f LidertV Sdy RegenT She picture that viU rillyour eyes QTlore spectaculir and thriUinq tKan vitn wars ana near: wttn happiness I TN'X mur woWiw theater same entbusiastk- reception that has come to It in other, cities seema a foregone con-tdusion. Olympic. The greatest play in which Mae Murray 'lima ever starred; the greatest drama Clara BerJirer ever wrote: better than "On With 'th Dance," better than "Idols of Clay" ''all this is claimed for "The Gilded Lily," which.

with Mae Murray in the title this week in the Olympic. Mae Mur-ray is. seen as the glittering star of stars among ail New York's famous dancers. She is hostess of a fashionable club. She Is famous for her clothes, glittering headdresses, 'flashy gowns.

She is in famous for the stones thev tell of her. She dances divinely. She typifies the light, heedless, frothy life of th. The men who make the night Jhortas hP Snces greatest contribuupn to the Screen 6Glt)HlHG TOMOtfiOUi MORNING, THt VMtHt MTTKACTI0M fOtUSTCK WtCK Nil 1 ill .,1111 fi ll 7 im.viiai 1 1 v.ooucto4 II I II uuuu SVLS il il 't' a owftft 1 1 FILM ACTORS REALLY WOI I imiin -pi 1 1 1 1 111 1 1JH 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 VII 1 1 A DRAMA OF FLAMING LOVE AND HOLY BATTLE OF TENDER PASSION AND DIVINE INSPIRATION SWEM REELSUPERB PARAMOUNT SPECIAL TONE POEMS OF APftOPfttATE MUSIC BY i 0 9i a 1 I COAIiD SYHtttOOTttCIIESTGA EXCLUSIVE PRESENTATION OF A MASTERPIECE mi 1 ELOQUeMT AND TOMEFUU MACK SENNETT COMEDY BUNGALOW TROUBLES'' GRAND NEWS WEEKLY "'TOPICS OP THE DAY" Lying Lips possesses all the necessary requisites of a photoplay extra ordinary. Its theme is an appealing one and Guilds up to a climax of tense dramatic power.

The shipwreck scene is one of the most vividly depicted incidents ever brought to the screen and stands out as the crowning achievement of Thomas H. Ince. The management of the Rowland Clark Theaters considered it a master business stroke when they secured for first and exclusive Pittsburg presentation the sensational Thomas H. Ince success, "Lying Lips." This screen drama will be considered the greatest contribution of 1921. The story of life on the primrose path and of broken hearts made whole; of the man of divine faith and the woman who had sinned.

Mtllaa Sills. -Why. they really work Ward, don't they?" Newcomers to a motion picture studio often make that remark in a manner denoting surprise and revelation. One miisrut reasonably infer from this that a great many people are under the impression that a motion picture studio is a place where everybody lolls in the lap of luxury. The above remark was overheard wnile a visitor to the studio was wutch-mg- the companv at work on "The Faith Healer." "The visitor seemed nsibly impressed and greatly surprised by what he saw.

It was so different from what he had E-XT VJCEK.) DOROTHY PHILLIPS Winston, xx 9ie wrvel picture cf 1921 AN WOMAN -MARRIAGE' INTlDE THE CUP' APRIL -J AN-VMOMAN -MARRIAGE' 1 Hit..