Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1921 — Page 8
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SHADOWLAND’S BIGGEST STARS COMPETE HERE (Continued From rase Fire.) of the silver screen will be ou view. It will be star week on the local screen. -I- -|- -iI’EUHIKG PRAISES SCENE IN “EARTHBO I NI)” MOVIE. The scene In “Earthbound,” Basil King's great film story, In which one man pays the penalty for his affair with another man's wife, Is a bit of dramatic : acting which In tragic Intensity has seldom bean equalled on stage or screen. “Earthboond" comes to the Ohio Sunday for a week. Even General Pershing, who was being shown through the Goldwyn studio the day the scene was taken was startled by Its realism, and praised the work of the participants iu the highest terms. Nicholas Desborough. played by Wyndham Standing, had betrayed the confidence of his old friend Jim Rlttenslinw (Mahlon Hamilton). The two men meet half way up the long stairway In the prominent club of which both are members and Eittenshaw shoots on S'gbt. The shots bring to their feet the started men in the various rooms of the club, bringing them to the lobby to Mare fascinated at the victim, bewildered, dying even as he stands there, facing the one-time friend who shot him. Then, straight backward he falls, as a log would tapple backward he fails, as floor below. There Is no crumpling, but a sickening, unbending crash to the Steps. Drama, pathos, tragedy, are in this scene. It Is but one episode In a story which, throughout, stirs human emotion to the depths. “Earthbound” was filmed under the direction of T. Uavea Hunter. -I- -I- -ICHAPLIN'9 “THE KID” OPENS SEND AT AT CIRCLE. Charlie Chaplin ir. "The Kid," his first 6ix-reel movie eomdy, which has never been seen In this city before, opens Sunday at the Circle so? a week's engagement. The story was written by Chaplin himself, and is a medley of pathos and humor, with Chaplin sharing honors with a 5-year-old actor, Jackie Coogan. The story opens with the woman who, deserted by the man, cannot keep her baby and so abandons it In an automobile. The machine is stolen and the thieves leave the baby In an alley. The tramp finds the baby and tries to get rid of it, but without avail. He finds a note asking the finder to love and care for the baby, and takes it to his attic hovel. Five years later the kid, also a tramp, aids his adopted father in his work as a glazier by breaking the windows of the neighborhood. The woman, now a great singer, in her charities among the tenements, sees the kid. One day she finds him sick and carries him home, telling the tramp to get a doctor and she will return. The doctor finds the child very sick and orders him removed to an orphan asylum, where ho may have the proper care. The tramp fights for the kid and follows the wagon and rescues him. Meanwhile the woman returns and finds the note which she had pinned upon her baby, and knows that the kid is her child, and offers SI,OOO reward for his return. The tramp and the kid spend the night at’a dime rooming house, and the proprietor, seeing the kid. steals him and returns him to his mother. Disconsolate over the loss of the kid the tramp returns home, where he is found by the policeman and taken to the woman and the kid, so everything ends happily. Edna Purviance is leading woman for Chaplin. -!- -I- -IMART PICHFORD TEATS ITALIAN ROLE IN MOVIE. Mary Bickford has the role of an Ital-
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No God-no Sin no Future life" TWO men built their lives on this creed: “no God—no Sin —no Future Lifel” It flung one headlong into the future he scoffed at. It put the other on trial for his life. Then the murdered man came back from his world of shadows. Back to his wife and the woman who had invited him to sin. Passion still held him to the scenes of his transgression. Even in death he could not escape. He was earthbound! How far away are the dead? Is the spirit held to earth bv its desires? Is there growth and progression—even after the shadowy barrier has been crossed? Men and women, everywhere, stirred by intense personal feeling, have been asking—“ Does the personality change with death? How long do the old interests go on?” Basil King brings an intimate knowledge of men and women, of their wants and needs, to this great narrative. George Loane Tucker’s Maurice Tourneur’s Gouverneur Morris sta ement- tribute— deeply moved “There is a message in "The most interesting “That astounding drama ‘Barthbomid’ that the wide sub j ec t that has ever been which yesterday passed with world is greatly and deeply in- u ' eu unutterable dignity before our terested in. I sincerely hope screened. The production astounded eyes! Dignity, powthat every one who liked my 0 f ‘Earthbound’ marks a er > passion, drama —my heart ..S&'rtSV'to™ "•■ advance in,he an'hfs e,5 L S bound. art of motion pictures.’’ held me more spellbound.** I ..
lan girl in “The Love Light,” which opens Sunday at the Colonial. “The Love Light’’ Is the story of a little tlaliau girl In an Italian fishing village among the cliffs bordering on the Mediterranean in northern Italy. How the little girl presides over the family of her orphaned brothers, ho a great tragedy comes into her life, the final realization with its accompanying | sacrifice, makes not only an unusual story, but Is a startling innovation foi ] Mary Pickford herself, according to ou* leading trade critic in pre-release re- I views. “The Love Light” was written and dJ- | rected by Frances Marion, regarded by ! many as the leading scenario writer In the United States. The picture also has unusual interest for the reason that tile Idea was worked out while Miss Bickford and her husband, Douglas Fair banks, were on their honeymoon abroad She met Frances Marion in Italy, also on her honeymoon, and it was there that the story was worked out and it was in Italy that many o fthe properties and several players were obtained for the feature. The players and properties were brought to California from southern Europe especially for the picture where the Italian settings were minutely reproduced from photographs. “I am satisfied with the world as It is,” Whitman said. EARLE WILLIAMS RETURNS TO THE LOCAL SCREEN. Earle Williams opens Sunday at Mister Smith's in ‘The Romance Promoters,” for a week’s engagement.
EARLE WILLIAMS. The story concerns Quentard Lorris, ( who Is a man of tremendous wealth and one daughter. llis chief concern in life Is to saf-guard his beloved child from fortune-hunting men and match-making parents, so lie surrounds her with chaperons, governess-s, trustees and guardians. Betty, the daughter, soon objis-ts to this constant watch of her and complains to her father, who promises to relax his vigilance. There Is one more experiment he resolves to try, though, but he says nothing to Betty about It. The subject of this venture is a carefree college man, who Is brought to the millionaire’s country place as a civil engineer. Then things begin to happen. Attacks are made on the fortune and on the daughter's hand an,l In each ease the young man proves him-,*-!!' capable of warding them off easily Hand effectively.
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Through all these Incidents there Is a growing attachment of the engineer and the heiress, the former finally resolving ; to go away as the only way out of being disloyal to his employer. But fate Intervenes and everything ends happily j lor every one but the fortune-hunters. J -1- -i- -ISERLAL FAVORITE GOMES TO THE REGENT. Described as a “heart-appealing” story 1 of the Kentucky hills, “The Mountain Woman,” starring Pearl White, will be the feature attraction at the Regent all of the week, start- • Sunday. The picture Is founded on tlm Big novel, “A Pagan of Sr nB the Hills,” by ™ Charles Neville | j? c;. ; ( Buck, Louisville B * ■ V' • ':?■# , newspaper man. '■ illss White is seen- | in the role of “Alex - - k i an^er ” McGlveu , >, ' Jl 'XjSHF I reared as a boy in I d * ?the mountains. She | .v c r eers, because of her if wild beauty and I “hands off" toward Pearl White. all suitors. Her father is wounded by a young man, drunk with whisky. Alexander under takes to float the logs to Coal City and I meets with a series of dramatic adventures, barely escaping with her life when a hotel in which aha is sleeping Is acc'deutally set on fire. I.ater she is kidnaped by a man whom she had befriended. -I- -i- -ICABAXXE’S STORY COMES TO THE ISIS. “The Stealers,” William Christy Cabanne's super-production coming to the Isis next week, has been described as a preachment on faith. Mr. Cabanne wrote the story as well as directed the picture. --W' —■ D deals with the /. ' I blasphemous couL. v*. duct of a minister fy' 0f th ® P OS I'VI Who spite God for the Mr. 'looker. ing evangelist, speaking wherever be is permitted to pitch his tent. While he holds his audience spellbound through the sheer power of his eloquence, men and women confederates move among the worshipers, separating them from their cash and Jewelry. The minister regarded his plan of re ! venge as a great Joke on God. How he came to learn that to defy the Almighty was the power of one of his earthly vassals, and tow his filth was restored forms the powerful, dramatic and sensational climax to the picture, j William 11. Tooker, a finished character j actor, handles the role of the renegade I preacher, supported by a large cast. DOROTHY GISII OPENS SUNDAY IX NEW MOVIE, j "The Ghost of the Garret." Dorothy j Gish’s new picture, which will be shown ! at the Alhambra the first half of next ! week, might, from its title, lead one to believe that th* little comedienne is delving into the supernatural but she Isn't i Though ghosts have something impor-
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tant to do. with the story, It Is realty one of the best comedies little Miss Gish has ever had for the exploitation of her talents as a comedienne. Its thrills, however, are Just as plentiful as its laughable situations, though Its spooks are of the flesh and blood variety, with Dorothy as the chief spookess. As the heroine of the story, which was written by Wells Hastings, Miss Gish follows a band of crooks in pursuit of a stolen string of pearls. The thieves make their head- I quarters in an old abandoned house that | has the reputation of being haunted. To uvoid detection in the place Dorothy i hides out In the garret and plays ghost upon the criminals with such successful results that she soon has them on the verge of nervous collapse. Through accident her deception is discovered and she Is forced to barricade herself In the garret and send for help, which Is brought to her In the nick of time by the prompt and intelligent aid of a pet bulldog, i Other attractions will be Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle in a farce, “At Coney Island,’’ and the Fox news weekly.
Mountain Woman A Complete Picture—Not A Serial ‘J'rcm "A Pagan of the Hills" CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK \ Certainly no more Interesting f !\ Ingredients for a highly dramatic C ~°- ; story could be found than the ( v droll, hot-tempered Kentucky \ mountaineers, and their native V region with its picturesque cus- . toms - SNUB POLLARD 4A ' \ In "OPE*4 ANOTHER BOTTLE" Th House of Thrill* / [ j fiBSSSOffI as A,
Note the All Star Cast Wyndham Standing Naomi Childers MAHLON HAMILTON FLORA REVALLIS LAWSON BUTT ALEC FRANCIS KATE LESTER BILLIE COTTON CZAR—By Himself
NOTICE! Owing to the unusual theme displayed it is imperative that the entire audience is seated when the feature picture begins, PERFORMANCES START Sunday—l:3o, 3:10, 4:50, 6:30, 8:10,.9:50. Week Days-11:30, 1:10, 2:50, 4:30, 6:10, 7:50, 9:45. The feature picture begins fifteen minutes after performances start.
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Fine and Jail Term Given Tiger Victim Harry Germain, 100S Weßt Pearl street, was fined SSO and costs and sentenced to j serve ten days in Jail on a charge of operating a blind tiger by Judge Walter Pritchard in city court yesterday after- j noon. Germain was arrested by Sergeant Tooley and squad Feb. 5, when they j found a gallon jug almost full of “white mule” concealed In a piano in his home. WOODMEN MEET IN MAY. COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 12.—A State meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America will be held In this city May 3 and 4. There are 532 camps of Woodmen In the State and delegates are expected from all. Preparations are al ready going forward for the meeting.
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Negro Couple Fined SSO Each in Rum Case Albert Cans, negro, and his wife, Hattie. were found guilty of receiving liquor from a common carrier, and were fined S3O pach by Special Judge Ralph M. Spaan In city court late yesterday. The Gans were arrested Thursday night by Lieutenant Cox and squad, who found three jugs of “white mule”
William Christy Cabanne’s f /' jSpecial Production -ip It sShi- .'j FI t j ' V by A great story of a minister of the gospel who lost his faith in God and turned crook because of the trials and tribulations which he thought the Lord had visited upon him. Masquerading as a traveling evangelist he prospers for a time but in a powerful, dramatic climax his faith is restored and he is brought to realize the folly of mortal man attempting to defy the judgments of the Almighty. _ Played h Wm. H. Tooker and a Superb Cast HANK MANN COMEDY
The Funniest Girl on the Screen in a Picture That Smashes the Blues With a parrot that swore and a hulldpg with itching teeth, she invaded a haunted house on the trail of burglars—desperate cutthroats who bore off the pearls that she was accused of stealing! The rest is an orgy of thrills and laughs and shivers. ROSCOE (FATTY) ARBUCKLE IN “AT CONEY ISLAND”
whisky. The police testified two of the Jugs were broken after the raiding party arrived. William Gray, Auto Victim, JJuried Today William Gray, SB, will be burled today, funeral services being held at the home f his daughter, Mrs. Ranson King. 2934
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North Pennsylvania street, with burial st Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Gray died Thursday from eerehral hemorrhage, caused by an injury received when he was struck by an automobile last Thanksgiving day. Mr. Gray was born at Stewarton, Ayr. shire, Scotland. When 28 he came to the United States. He served In the Civil War as a fireman on troop trains. For many years he was in the employ of the 'tVFoi'lbp Work*