Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1919 — Page 15

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IN "PAID IN FULL"

Eugene "Walter*! Successful Drama in Its Film Form Opens At ,.»« Orpheum Today*

Pauline Frederick is the star to the Paramount production.. of Eugene Walter's play, "Paid in Full," which will be shown at the Orpheum today. $ Monday and Tuesday* The play in •m Its stage form has had notable productions at the Grand. The story runs 'as follows:.^"

Joe Brooks Is' a shiftTe'SS ctfrtt who keeps his wife in poverty in a modest *J«.t, He blames everybody but hlmi self because he does not get ahead and one day he steals a large sum of money from his employer, a savage

old ship chandler. When the theft is discovered Brooks begs «tois wife to square matters with the old man who I agrees to grant Brooks immunity rrom I punishment provided, the wife pays I the price.

Mrs. Brooks Is secretly loved" by Jiznsy Smith, a breezy westerner, and when he hears of the incident he of,'jfers to repay the old man the sum stolen from him and when he refuses, he threatens to kill him If he takes advantage of the suffering wife. Then he hands her a letter exonerating

Brooks and after she has given this to her husband, she leaves him. Brooks then shoots himself and the Widow finds happiness in Smith's love.

The supporting cast is excellent. Robert Cain is Brooks, Wyndham Standing is Smith and Prank Losee is s Captain Williams. Others in the cast are Jane Farrell and Vera Beresford.

On Wednesday and Thursday Lila Lee will be seen In another Paramount production, "Puppy l/ove." Harold Goodwin plays opposite the star, while Charles Murray, & comedian well known in Paramount-Mack Sennett comedies, appears as a hod carrier, Lincoln gtedman, a well knd'wn actor, has an excellent comedy pafrt. Others in the gfcst include Helen Dunbar, Josephine Crowell, Emma Gerdes and Alice Knowland, all players of ability.

The bill for Friday and Saturday is "Poor Boob," a Paramount photoplay, in which Bryant Washburn is the star.

The story deals with the fortunes of a youth who leaves his home town as a failure, and later decides to bluit the citizcns into believing he is a millinoaire. Luck is with him, and he not only succeeds in his bluff, but also puts himself well on the road to for-, tune.

When Al St. John Crew the Whiskers

The exigencies of the moving picture require many strange duties from the actor as in the case of Al St. John, the agile "villain-comedian" who is -always trying to plunge Fatty ..rbucklo into some dilemma In the pictures.

Fatty was soingr to tfrodue®"'*. travesty western picture and he told St. John that he would be called upon to play the part of a bearded bad man and that it would be necessary to grow whiskers.

One day as the Was Wearing completion the news came that Buster Keaton one of Fatty's funny film Assistants who had been away with the army in Franuce for ten months, was due to come back to the fold. Sure enough that afternoon Buster walked in and was greeted with a howl of delight by the company. One of the first to wring his hand was Al St. John, a greeting that was acknowledged rather coldly by Buster, "What's the matter. Buster, don't you know me?" asked Al, rather hurt.

Takfn* a Toslc at the "hearted man, recogntion gradually came. .'"Good Lord," yelled Buster, "it's my ©W side kick. Al." "Never mind, AV* said Fatty with a smile, you can get shaved next Thurs-" day and then your wife will begin to speak to you again."

Claire Anderson is Of the Comedy School

It is an axiom among film folk that there is no better training school for actresses than comedy slap-stick comedy, if you please. There are a number of reasons. The work is fast, and it calls for strongly marked characterizations. Then, too. the comedienne is usually no more than a "feeder" for the comedy star. While he is getting the laughs, she is carrying the burden of whatever story there IS.

Many prominent actresses started hi comedy. Pretty girls abound there, for a homely or only passably attractive girl would not be tolerated. Among recent instances of stars who have risen from comedy ranks are Priscilla Dean, the sensational "Wildcat of Paris," Billie Rhodes, Ora Care we and Betty Compson.

Claire Anderson, who plays the leading feminine part in "The Blinding Trail," Monroe Salisbury's latest Universal attraction, which will be seen at the Amerian, is also a recruit from comedy. Miss Anderson, a Detroit girl, played in a long succession of Keystone farces before going in for dramatic pictures, .X,,

THOMAS MEIGHAN IN "PEG.*

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CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN SELECT PHOTOPLAY AT THE LIBERTY.

WIND-UP OF SEASON AT THE HIPPODROME

Nfcw Charlie Chapin Comedy, "Sunv nyside," One of the Features of the Week-End Bill.

Tha coming week will finish the vaudeville season at the Hippodrome, the house closing for the suipmer next Sunday night, June 29. An unusually meritorious vaudeville program has been arranged for the first half of the week and in addition to four acts of vaudeville on the last half the latest Charlie Chaplin comedy picture, "Sunnyside," has been added, giving the bill an added attraction that will no doubt make the closing week a regular mid-season business week.

On the Monday bill will be Hudson and Jones in their «riginal oomedy conception with song r.nd dance divertisment "On the Bridal Path." The Wille Brothers, two superb physically perfect specimens of manhood who have attained perfection in the art of equilibrium, give an exhibition of daring, strength and equipoise. Another comedy feature will be Andrus and George in "The First Hundred Years Is the Hardest." Ferguson and Sunderland, in songs and dances, consisting of an agile young man and a dainty young lady, have a neat repertoire of clever comedy, good song numbers and artistic dancing. Grace Wallace and Ben in a "Musical Diversity," and the International News Weekly, complete^ the first half of the week's bill.

The big number of the closing bill, starting Thursday, will be Charlie Chaplin's latest picture release "Sunnyside," the third of the series of eight of his First National productions. The picture is in three reels and is best described as "new stuff," real comedy all the way through, with a thread of pathos running through the story. Charlie appears in the character of a "hired man" for a small-town hotel and general store and his manifold duties give ample opportunity for new and ingenious comedy business that brings a harvest of laughs.

The vaudeville program, consisting of four acts, the Chaplin picture, taking the place of one act, consists of The Mclntyres, "America's Premier Marksman and the "Human Target" Clay Crouch, formerly of the team of Lemaire and Crouch and star of many musical comedy successes, in blackface comedy and songs. Mrs. Bobby Folsom and Al Brown, introducing vocal and instrumental music of the most popular character, and the Wheeler Trio in & sensational acrobatic offering.-

Made the Jump From Light Opera to Drama

From light opera to straight dramatic characterizations is quite a range, but one negotiated by David Torrence, who appears in •"Three ^aces East.'*

Torrence started his career as a baritone in comio opera. As such he sang principal roles in/The Geisha," "The FencWg Master,'*.' fTh® Strollers," "Dorothy" and kindre^ musical offerings. Later he went into dramatic worlCj, Oddly enough, he suffered such a case of stage fright that he might have been the veriest amateur rather than a seasoned player. "It was due to the change from opera to straight drama," Torrence remarked, in relating the experience. "Tou see, I made my first dramatic appearance with Richard Mansfield. •'Beau Brummel' was the play, and 1 was cast for the part of Simpson, valet to the prince of Wales. "My opening speech was a feeder,* and ih return Mansfield was to deliver a bright comedy line. When I faced the star that night for the first time, I forgot my lines. I stood there gazing dumbly. This continued for a few moments, though to tone it seemed like ages. "Then Mansfield, with a rising inflection of anger, announced: 'I am surprised that his highness, the prince of Wales, should have in his employ a numbskull like you.

Simpson, go to the palace and ask the prince to write his message, as I cannot speak the deaf and dumb language.'

Trembling and quite abashed, Torrence made his exit. The next night, however, he delivered his lines without hesitation, and not only received the commendation of the actor, but remained with him for many years.

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN, WHO WILL BB SEEN IX A SEW COMEDY AT TUB AMERICAN AND AT THE HIPPO

DROME, STARTING THURSDAY.

LOBBY CHATTER by MIQUE O'BRIEN

There was a dash of war stuff in each of the three splendid photoplays offered at the Orpheum, the Liberty and the American the first part of the week, though only in the case of "The Unpardonable Sin" was the war stuff more than incidental. In "The Red Lantern" it was the Chinese Boxer movement that w^s introduced to make the story more tragic.

For some time to come we are bound to have echoes of the world war in "Wt'B O'BRIEN plays and pictures. Many films were made for war time consumption, evidently under the impression it would take several years to lick the Huns and that in the interim theater goers and movie fans must be fed with plenty of hate creating propaganda. Thi3 is only natural. The war was the most dramatic event of the century. It isn't at all to be wondered at that dramatists and scenarioists seized upon it as inspiration for intended masterpieces. The playwright may now turn his attention to more trivial matters, but the film producers will have to dispose of the war stuff on hand. Only don't give us too much of it at a time.

The newspapers chronicled briefly last week news of the deatfi of Susie Kerwin at the home of her sister in Philadelphia Twenty years or more ago the death of Susie Kerwin would have been a shock to thousands of theater goers in every city she annually

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"The Crouch" Comes to The Princess Today

"The Grouch" is the title of Montagu Love's new World Picture and it will be shown today and Monday at the Princess. "The Grouch" ts a' thrHHnsr production and it gives Montagu Love splendid opportunitiea for the display of his genius. The locale of the story is in southern swamps in a locality peopled by the descendants of a band of pirates who infested the section in years gone by. The chief of the band is infatuated with Fleurette, a girl of the swamps who is exotically beautiful. Fleurette manages to escape from him and meets Donald Graham, an ex-convict, who is so bitter at life, and his divorced wife who had him sent to prison, that he has become morose and gloomy and is known as "The Grouch." Graham saves Fleurette from the band that is after her but because she is a woman he hates to have her around. The manner in which this hate changes and the way in which Graharp's desire for revenge

works out, constitute enthralling photoplay.

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TERRE HAUTE, INDn SUNDAY, JUNE 22,1919.

Stage and Film Stars Who' Will Be Seen Here This Week

munyr. XOBJUULSD U EW Gounvvx COAIEOY AT TIUC AazEiucax*

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Where the Stars Were Thirty Years Ago

Minuie Maddern played Mrs. Coney in "Featherbrain" at the Madison Square theater, and shortly afterward married Harrison Grey Fiske and retired from public life for four years. She had been on the stage since 1S77, when she played Little Fritz in "Our German Cousin" at Wallack's theater.

Henry Miller played Rodolphe de Chamery in

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Marquis" at the

Lyceum theater, and Colonel Kerchival West in "Shenandoah" at the Star theater. He had been on the stage since 1810, when he played Arvlragus in "Oymbeline" at Booth's theater.

Minnie Dupre6 played Fanny In "Editha's Burglar", at the Madison Square theater. She had been on the stage since 1887, when she appeared in "The Unknown."'

Chauncey Olcott played Frank Hopkins in "The Old Homestead'" at the Academy of Music. He had first appeared before the public as a ballad singer in 1880.

Henrietta Crosman played Celia in "As Tou Like It" at Daly's theater. She has been on the stage since 1883, when she played Lily in "The White Slave" at the Windsor theater.

Lt. John Philip Sousa Organizing His Band

Lieut. John Philip Sousa has engaged two vocal soloists for the forthcoming transcontinental tour of his world-famous band. They are May Stone, formerly a soprano with the Boston Opera company, and Mary Baker, a. coloratura soprano, who has achieved distinction on the concert stage. A number of important instrumental soloists have also been engaged to add diversity to the band programs. Louis P. Fritze, formerly flute soloist with the Philadelphia orchestra, will occupy that position under Lieutenant Sousa's direction. He has played flute obligatos with great success in concert for Mme. Galli-Curci and other famous operatic stars. Frank Simon, perhaps the foremost cornetist in America, and H. Benne Henton, widely known in musical circles as an exceptionally talented saxaphone player, and Joseph Green, who has achieved a great deal of popularity as a xyophone player with one of the prominent phonograph companies, will also travel Witt), the band as soloists.

OX WITH THE DANCE.

Lottie Pickford and Kenneth Harlan, who have held the dancing championship for the last two years, have two very keen rivals in Jack Pickford and Viola Dana. The Pickford-Dana alliance is making a specialty of shimmying*.

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Augustus Thomas Directing Own Stories

Augustus Thomas, author of "As a Man Thinks" and thirty-nine other successful plays, is deeply immersed in the production of his latest drama built exclusively for Four Star pictures. 6,

Mr. Thomas and Harry Raver, the producer, have spent much of their time at the Biograph atudio since the new play went into work. The author observes every detail of direction. So long as all is going well with the Thomas idea of plot development. Mr. Thomas sits astride a studio kitchen chair with his arms crossed on the back of it, his clean-shaven chin rest ing on the crossed arms as he surveys the scene.

But when, suddenly, Mr. Thomas rises from his seat, stands erect, cracks his heels together, blinks his eyes rapidly and coughs twice—when these things happen there comes a pause in the action. "Any suggestion?** inquires Director Irving. "Mere trifle/* says the author. *Tou see—er—the idea is that our longhaired friend yonder is supposed to be ... a red—a crimson-minded scoundrel with a bomb in his pocket and a revolution under his hair. Now —er—how would he behave in certain given circumstances?" "He's too mild about it?** suggests the director. "Well," pursued Thomas, *!he reminds me of a Y. M. C. A. secretary at Amityville, Kansas. He has an ingratiating grin. He mustn't ingratiate. He must repel. He's got to be true to type—a furtive, slinking, slimy rat only out of the sewers because the lights are low temporarily.'*

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"The Pest," latest Offering" of the Former Keystone Comedienne, is Shown At the AmericaiXi'

Mabel Normand's latest Goldwyn comedy, "The Pest," will be snown at the American today, Monday and Tuesday. In this picture Miss Normand assumes the role of Puckers, who is by turns rollicking and wistful.

All sorts of adventures "befall her. but the funniest and most dramatic of all happens when she is invited to a party glverf by the daughter of the country Judge. Vainly she hunts for something with which to cover up her rags, and finally goes to the party wearing the same old sweater and threadbare overalls, with the addition of a cameo ring found among allot of odds and ends.

Once at the house, Blanche! the judge's daughter (Leota Lorraine), gives Puckers an old dress, expecting her to make a laughing-stock of herself. Poor Puckers does this unmistakably. In the midst of the hilarity the judge (Alec B. Francis) notices the ring worn by the waif. It is this discovery that starts th*» solution of a strange mystery which brings about a discovery which takes Blanche from her lofty perch and completely revolutionizes Puckers. "The Pest" is a pl-ty/ which gives Mabel Normand not onM" every opportunity to touch both exS'emes of emotion, but presents her in a variety of guises.

The Literary Digest eptgrams STtfl Kinograms will also be shown with the Normand filnt.

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Blinding Trail," with Monroe Salisbury will be shown. In this picture there ai*e two leading women, Helen Jerome Eddy and Claire Anderson, while Arthur Maude, the distinguished sta^re actor Alfred Allen, one of the finest of character impersonators Johnnie Cooke, a comedian of remarkable attainments, and others prominent in filmdom's "Who's Who," have fitting parts,

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Charlie Chaplin's latest First National comedy, "Sunnyside," will be shown. Mr. Chaplin impersonates the hired man of a small town country store. The film is in three reels.

Mary Thurman Now Does the Emotional

Mary Thurman, whose face and figure are known to every photoplay fan who' has laughed at Paramount-Mack Sennett comedies, makes her first dra matic, appearance in "Poor JLOOD,- a Paramount picture starring Brya Washburn, which will toe seen at the Orpheum,

Miss Thurman's ambition for jears has been to try real acting, and here she is given an opportunity that she more than grasps. In the greater part of the picture Miss Thurman has a character role, and her ability to look, unattractive will amaze those who remember her as possessing an un usual beauty. She was forced to make up to weigh two hundred pounas, and she succeeded so admirably, it is said, that no one would recognize her as the slim maiden who has flashed through so many of the Sennett creations

In the leading feminine rol« of "Poor Boob,*' which was written by Margaret Mayo, is Wanda Hawley. Others in the cast are Theodore Rob erts, Raymond Hatton, Guy Oliver, Jane WolfT, Charles Ogle and Jay Dwiggins. Donald Crisp directed.

Henry Miller Talks About Careless Actors

Henry Miller has scored a big hit in "Moliere," the historical play by Phillip Moeller, in which he is assisted by Blanche Bates, Hotbrook Blinn and Estelle Winwood. Mr. Miller has been intimately acquainted with actors so long that anything he may say about them is interesting. "The actor," he remarked reoently, "does not spend half the time and energy pecessary for the mere acquisition of virtuosity that the violinist or the pianist does. You know there was a day when every actor of Importance played Hamlet some time or other in his career. Then audiences looked at his performance with a^deflxute standard in mind. "Well, that day seems to have passed completely. None of the spirit of competition in histrionic art is evident among the players because appreciation of it seems to have disappeared. Fat men are engaged to play roles designed for fat men because it is religiously believed that fat men are the only ones who can play such parts, ad the actor who was accustomed to look upon character parts much in the manner of the artist or the mnnician who paints one sort of picture today and another tomorrow, or who plays one composition one day and another the next, has become extinct."*

LIKE A CAMEO,

The "Cameo Girl" wa» the name given to Ruth Roland when she was at Balboa studio about three years ago. A visitor, after watching Miss Roland work, remarked to Chief Cameraman William Beckway: "There's isn't a mark on that girt. She's as clear cut as the goddess on dollar." "She photographs like a cameo.1* replied Beckway, and the name has stuck to Ruth ever sinca. «...

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BEST WEEPER WHS IN THIS PDOIM

Hiss Constance TaTmadge In Horg Contest in "Happiness a La Mode" At the Liberty,

In Constance Talmadge's Select' photoplay, "Happiness a La Mode," in which she will be see at the Liber^p today, Monday, Tuesday and Wedneeday, the star portrays a young wifs with an unfaithful husban^, who sue* cumbs to the wiles of another woman and asks his little wifey for a divorot She gets the divorce and is allowed three months in which to file her final decree.

Wifey was just clever enough to realize that the way to win back her man was to trade places with her rival. Th» ether woman was now' the promise# wife and she was now the "outside"^ g!rl, the romantic sweetheart. Her plan worked, and during the three months which were to elapse before the final decree was to be filed, hubby was ever at her^, heels. This was exactly what she wanted, but she con-, tinued to refuse to resume bet1 former'' status as his wife.

Her plans are brought to a fruitful, conclusion when she invites him to dinner and pretends to fall ill after the meal.* He takes her home and sendst for the doctor, who pronounces that' she has a nervous breakdown. Her' maid puts her to bed and then goes for the medicine. While hubby is tenderly caring for her, the feminine rival appears on the scene and, seeking to win* the sympathy of the man, starts to. weep. But little wifey is not to be out-, done and also bursts into a \flood of tears. Who is the best weeper? See "Happiness a la Mode" and learn how* things turned out.

The picture was produced under tlMf! direction of Walter Edwards. Among* the members of the supj orting cast are| Harrison Ford, Betty Schade, Myrtle •Richelle, Paul Welgel, Thomas XX Persse and A. Fremont. 1

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday,! Gladys Brockwell will b© the star in' the Fox photoplay "Pitfallg of a BigJ City." It is the story of a romance of' the shims. It s! ows the misery and wretchedness of »owest tenement life,-.* but also /reveals the human souls of Vthe honest and dishonest folk who liv^ there.

The vaudeville features for the first half of the week will be contributed toff OJga DeRaugh in a musical comedy, y I "Miss Gloyanna from Havana Austin and Delaney in a musical and Up talking act, audi jDuvaJ a&d Leo 4a 2 a k a e a I

B$ck to Horse PlayK $ For Charley Murray

Much to his regret, Charles Murray, loaned by courtesy of Mack Sennett to play a character role in "Puppy Love" with Lila Lee, the Paramount star, was obliged to pack his kit bag and return to the Sennett studio when that picture was completed. Not thai Charlie didn't like his familiar quar* ters, but he did welcome the plung* into the 'legit" as he calls it The famous Irish comedian is full of the wonder of the Lasky plant and never" tires of telling others about the great' times ne had while wording there.

Incidentally, Murray's work in tha picture lends much clever comedy to

this Lila Lee story. He has th« role of the hod-carrying dad of Miss Lefe, and his antics in the fashionable home of the wealthy lady who is his nextdcor neighbor are said to be ludicrous in the extreme. He gets in wrong at the start by asking the hostess If the assembled guests ar© all her boarder* and has some, trouhle .eiiuaring self.

"Romance of Tarzan" At Popular Prices

"The Romance of Tarzan," -second of the Tarzan stories featuring th» mighty Elmo Lincoln and )3nJ4: Markey, will be shown at the Crescent I again on Tuesday, "The Romance Of Tarzan" was shown some time Art «t' the Grand opera haueo and the Cwi cent theater will show this feature for' the first time. "The Romanoe of Tarzan" will be shown for the first time at popular prices, 10c and 20c. The management of the Crescent theater wishes to Impress upon the x^ablio that the "Romance of Tarzan" is the concluding chapters of "Tarzan of th» Apes" and has nothing whatever to do with "Tarzan of the Apes'* with the i exception that lt Is a continuation of the life of Tarzan taken from the jungles back into civilization and back again into the Jungles. i 1

Constance Talmadge In Attractive Negligees

Constance Talmadge is seen in many beautiful negligees in her latest Select Picture, "Happiness a la Mode," at the Liberty, and in which she is presented, as in all her other Select Pictures, by Lewis J. Selznick.

One of pale blue pussy-willow taffsta trimmed with gold-colored silk grosgraln ribbon and pink rosebuds is par-* ticularly exquisite. Another of mauvecolored georgette embroidered in gold-' eu-brown chenille, with a chio Dutch cap to match is equally as beauti These and several others are shown, to advantage when Miss Talmadge Barbara Townsend, the beautiful n lected wife, "plays sick" in order •win back the love of her husbahd, W foe: a "vamp.

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