Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 September 1918 — Page 13

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1ft18r

f\ SALOME" AT LUST 1 COMES IN FILM FORM

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The da Bara Is Central Figure In Stupendous Fox Production Due at Grand Thursday.

After six months of nnremlttlns activity at the southern California etudios of William Fox, "Salome," with Theda Bara in the title role, has been completed and is to be presented at the Grand next Thursday, Friday Vnd S a u a y "Salome" is declared to mark a new development of the spectacle picture. Madsiveness of effect ia not smother dramatic interest. 'Two elements are responsible for overcoming the common tailing of nuu:y productions, either cf screen or •tae\ where the settings are apt to overwhelm the senses," a ^preventative 01' Mr. Fox, liore to make arrangements for the showing of "Salome." explained, "Theda Bara's art in vajupire characterization and the elemental strength of the story, which has inspired anions the greatest of writers of music and literature, aro the guarantees the photo-play patrons will tiud something more fceskiea spectacular display. "The picture represents a fortune in investment, and it is stamped with the acknowledgment of William Pox per sonally that in making it he has put forth the ultimate that his resources are capable of. And I guess that's some ultimate. You'll see for yourself."*

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The statement of the representative teuches on the outstanding features of a production on 500 feet of which, reflecting historical scen«y, Mr. I'ox is said to have spent $."-0,000 alone, in places at the rate of $100 per foot.

Mith Mr. Fox the great dramatic Spectacle was much a labor of love, and "Salome." with faithful reproduction* of Old Judea, drew 011 his financial resources without reserve or hindrance. Five thousand players were .engaged for the super picture. Eipht hundred artisans alone were employed in building a reproduction of the city of Jerusalem, one of several replicas on a grand scale. Aside from Miss

Bara's costumes, ten thousand other Costumes were required to clothe the army of performers

Some idea of the expense of staging "Salome" may be gained from these Items: Two hundred loads of sand hauled from the beaches to the of Jerusalem twenty-five tons Of plaster and as rmrny loads of cohliieptnnefi were ii^«d. A hundred sculptors and mural decorators were kept busy during the erection of the settings.

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Kdwardi^ director of the picture, u, ed steam to produce hazy effects in Certain scenes, and for this purpose it WM necessary to install special boilers. Ten aeroplane propellers on stationary

pillars helped to produce the storm laJys nuiPtte

effects which are employed

Salome's wish is gfanted—that she

misrht kips the dead lips of the man

V lien by and the British forces recently marched into Jerusalem. The other is a reproduction of (Salome's boudoir, modeled after an old print. A fouaids tain hanked with wonderful lilies, ir.si

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Matt Moore to Play Opposite Blanche

111 the production ol' ltarry ('.arson's screen version of Rupert Hughes' story, "Tht* Unpardonable Sin." which ran as a serial in a magazine and has appeared in )iook form, Blanche Sweet "Will have as her leading man Matt

Moore, who has just been added to the "Garson forces. Mr. Moore's experience has been

First Prairie Kitchen In Film at Princess

With motor-propeller! kitchens for siOidiers in the field attracting so much attention in these days of war. it is believed that much interest will center in the promised "flare back" to one of the early devices of frontier days—a "chuck wagon." Harry Carey and his company used in filming "A Woman's Fool," a moving picture version of Owon Wlster's novel "Lin McLean." It will be seen at the Princess again today and Monday. Only those who have been 011 one of the great ranches at round-up time have even a nodding acquaintance with these strictly Western institutions.

Director Jack Ford and the memsr« of Harry Carey's company claim aa credit of helnp the

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In Pnthe fllm at the American today.

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Star of "The Melting Pot" and 'The 1 Typhoon" In "The Belgian" At the American.

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t. ho spurned her in life. |iuiette, who has been called the perScenically. two "sets" will arouse

especial admiration. One is an exact' fe production of the Gate of Jaffa, through which, incidentally. General

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Miss Sweet has completed the pur»

chase of gowns and wardrobe and will return to the coast within the week to start work on "The Unpardonable Sin." The picture will be made at the Sunset studio in Los Angeles, which Mr. Garson has leased.

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ne of these portable kitchens in moon pictures, and they pride them-,-elves that every smallest detail is corJert —and most of these western playSrs ar# perfectly familiar, through person a contact, with the customs of *e cow country.

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and exotic plants is in the center, i man, are the high spots in this play. On Monday and Tuesday "Social Ambition," a Selexart photoplay, will introduce Rhea Mitchell and Howard

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Stage and Film Stars Who

-in "Waifs" little Miss

ingenue of the screen, assumes

he role of the spoiled daughter of a multi-millionaire. She balks at his matrimonial plans for her. and escapes from the parental home via the window. What befalls her in the great city to which she flees, and how circumstances cause her to find happir ness as the sweetheart of a poor young

Hickman as joint stars. This picture offers a lesson in wifely devcrtion. How one woman, whose ruling thought in life is society, will seek to discard her husband when his fortune is lost, and how another clings closer than ever to him in adversity, is graphically brought out in a series of thrilling incidents in "Social Ambition."

On Wednesday and Thursday "Her Body in Bond" Will present Mae Murray in her own production.

The big feature for Friday and Sat-

gained both on the speaking stage and urday is "The Belgian," Sidney Olio a wide range of motion picture work, i cott s historic spectacle, with Walker Before his entrance into

Whiteside and

Piny held he spent six years on the ing the leading roles. stafce in dramatic work. Hi.s latest of the play screen appearance was with Eisie F^r- .human events, and the effect it has guson in "The Heart of the Wild." I on the lives of simple people living "The Unpardonable Sin" will in all 1 in a simple way in a simple town, probability be followed by "Told In the i A carefully selected cast of true types Hills," the first of Marah Ellis Ryan's and successful artists vitalize the distorts to be filmed. maxes with convincing force and

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The war element

"Valentine Grant

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LOBBY CHATTER by

MIQUE O'BRIEN

While the new Liberty theatre at I Eighth and Wabash avenue is being dedicated, the American will he closing its doors, to remain closed for three weeks. During this period the i o a o s a n doctors of badly arranged theatres w i e a w o k making a new ine i o o e

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BI-SIE FKHGUSON, IW «A DOU.'S HO IS IV' AT THE ORPHKL T.OUAKAS14

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Creighton Hale

stars in "Waifs," a romantic

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American. The one big improvement ,cone i n a e i s e imination of the brass railed boxes which never appealed to patrons of the house. Al-

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so nevV seats wide

enough to make a hit with Thomas Gibson Begga will be installed. The improvements will not cut down the stating capacity to any appreciable extent. for the old boxes were BO constructed as to take up more room than ordinary seats and this space will be conserved.

When the American ffc6P£fi# aTnnt the first of Oc$«*er, yjjxna,gar Sh^naoa

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Katzenbach expects to have the handsomest playhouse in Indiana.

Terre Trtaflte's latest contributions to vaudeville are doing very nice by all accounts. Chester Lafferty and Catherine Courath. the dancing juveniles "knocked 'em a twister" over in Indianapolis v. here they opened la: Thursday, and the Rwart twins and Helen McCombs made one of the big hits of last week's bill at th£ American theatre, New York.

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SCEIVB FROM PSOTOPtAf TO BE SEEN AT THE AMERICAN WEDXbS DAY AND THURSDAY#

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Opera company, an organization for the promotion of American music and

Ymcrican singers and composers. But

Lieutenant Sous.a a^sur®s us Gilbert ~:ird Sullivan operas will be included in th? repertoire of the organization.

Says Sotifjp: "Xo light or comic opera organization. however, can afford to overlook Gilbert and Sullivan, especially so during these critical times. The operas of Gilbert and Sullivan express the spirit and soul of our ally, Great Britain, as no other phase of England's

Lieut. John Philip Sousa is nne of' an. can. and their .lerformanco by the proinoteis uf

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•TC DAYTON, PRINCIPAL «OI'BRKTTK WITH THE "PA AM A GIRLS," AT T11K (.KWD TODAY.

MAC: LKK1H KG, IN (IM:i 1 !J *.T TUT: TTTPPODROMB MONDAY, I'lESUAY AM) WEDNESDAY.

toward cementing our bond of friendship."

Income tax returns show that 914 ftors, siiigers inn musician.-- make an

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SAI.OMK,*' WITH THEDA BAKA, AT THE GRAM) THl'RSDAV. FRIDAY A ND SATURDAY.

some years, last year at any rate. Then there are 170.000 troupes who don't appear to be making enough money to be affected by the income tax. Only

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Voted Dramatic Si -, -A Boll's Ho™ 0rpheumV«%

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The program for the Orpheum starts with production, "A Doll s Elsie Ferguson, which today and Monday. 1

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sen's "A Doll's House"^tn tk® fortunes of a thoughtlet^ jftaJiv reared by an indulge^ as

doll gtrl. She weds \a*.rVer who becomes ill. To money is required, and wit®' heedlessly forges her fati^me

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transformation and she th^"1" with wonderful clarity of *4 \VV\i

tlie husband later seek* amends for his conduct, rtreaU^^* that he has shattered her %tns she leaves his house forev. psychological emotions attends development of this theme, *i\PictuS" ized with unusual fidelity.

On Tuesday and Wedne«d(y Hayakawa will be seen in "The Iirave

Way," a photoplay in whieb tl ful spirit of the youth of Ja)Van deavoring to assimilate ths"A werlc

spirit of freedom and detaoc racy brought out in a most effective •. 5 The week-end star is George

han in the Art craft film proflu •tic^ra\y| one of his own plays, "HJt-tW Holiday." i —«0^\i»

In this unusual picture, Bttly* day is the replica of Billy SttOdf famous evangelist, he being aft advertised bartender, whose flhfl istics have won him enviable o^l He plays the bartending gamAII square, and refusing to supplsl to some minors at the beheetH employer, he finds himself Hi| job and drifts into a little town seeking employment

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In this town are two elemi dry, the other wet. When the beautiful daughter of th# of the drys, ho casts in his $ them and when the leader of ery element threatens vengean# liday is instantly on the job. I

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racier ebritV on -. u

One of the scenes required eigh° chorus girls. They surround i yi Kennedy, who plays the role ot Juli y leading woman of the troupo- In tp audience were 300 extras app'audii the work of Juliet and her chorus a1 aistants. Also in the audience we four members of the cast, posing as members of a Sabbath leasrne, o?' of them being the sheriff.'

Because of the heat, Goldwytt ha** cooling plant installed at the theai'ti For luncheon four tables were set length of the lobby and food brought from a nearby hotel. Je Austin, Miss Kennedy's leading nr.' 4 acted as host in the garb of cle' man, the role he piavs in "A IV Lady."

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Stage of Old Daly'i In Goldwyn Pid

While the Jiot wave was still rng records, Goldwyn was sft new mark for motion picture

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The event was the transfQU^. Daly's theatre, Breadvvaj".'into a picture set (or scenes in Madge -y. nedy's picture^»"A Perfect Lady." the stage play by Channing I'oHock Rennold Wolf. The playhouse wh Augustin Daly achieved his succes and the scene of Ada Rehan's trlum?' not so many years ago, became a bif| lesqiin house for the three day* Goldwyn players used it. S

Rhea Milchell Painb Real Screen Po

Not the least of 1 n sit ments In the stor£ of "Social tion." Selexart's melodrama, Goldwyn presents at the An this week, is found in the hi of Ttose. a dancc hall girl. Th} Is played by Rhea Mitchell. Who with Robert Hickman in the drama.

Sh'f is the centei of atuacti the' cheap resort, a place frequ by the lowest: tyre of mining followers and hangers-on. Yet girl attracts not by the means ployed by the usual girls in su placo. but by her lack of all that success to the sort of girl who her life in this manner. For Ro as sweet and unsullied as a schoi in spite of her environment

Surrounded by women wfhrt e i a s s a e e s s y w o claim themselves by a word, a lo a movement, Rost is Invested wit' charm of innocent: youth. She is ably a flower, a simple waysiide

this rank garden. This untisua dition is explained by the fact th is the foster-daughter Of the prietor and is not one the whoso presence me^i.s but one 1 the sordid desire for monetau'^i

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"The Sign Invisible," a First al Exhibitors feature with Lewis in the leading role, is feature announced at the Jpi Labor day and Tuesday* 1

Mr. Lewis In this picture If the role of Lone D.-er, wt.i*" regular name. He rescues th from many perilous positio^ situations are laid in the .-.p^ northwest. P'!

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