Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 327, 28 November 1914 — Page 3

PAGE TUBES MOVIE" NEWS OF RICHMOND

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 1914.

SCENES OF BIG WAR DEPICTED ON FILMS TO AID LOCAL POOR

Palladium Brings Tribune

War Films to Richmond to Show Horrors of European Conflict.

Indications are that hundreds of people from neighboring towns will visit Richmond December 9 and 10 to witness the production of the Chicago Tribune's wonderful moving picture Alms of Belgian war scenes, shown each afternoon and evening of those two days, under the auspices of The Palladium, at the Murray theatre. These remarkable films were secured with great difficulty by the Tribone'8 staff photagrapher with the BelElan army in the field, and they furnish an entertainment of dramatic and sensational interest. This film, the first moving picture war views to be presented in this

country, was only recently brought to

the United States and was produced in Chicago for the first time about two "weeks ago. The Tribune in securing this film not only "scooped" every other American newspaper, but all the moving picture companies as well. The Richmond performances will be the Ant opportunity eastern Indiana and western Ohio people have had to view the film, and in consequence crowds that will tax the capacity of the Murray theatre are expected to attend every one of the several shows on December 9 and 10. For the privilege of showing this historic film, depicting scenes of the greatest war the world has ever had, The Palladium pays the Chicago Tribune $150, half of which sum the Tribune, under its contract with the Belgian government, contributes to the Belgian relief fund. All the Palladium's profits from these performances v ill be contributed to a fund which will be used to bring Christmas cheer to the poo rchildren of the city.

Amusements

"Pair of Sixes." The comedy that is sending one long hearty laugh around the globe will appear at the Gennett for one performance, Monday night, November ;:0, when H. H. Frazee's famous farce. "A Pair of Sixes," from the pen of Edward Peplo, author of "The PrincM Chap," and other successes, will be seen in Richmond for the first time. The comedy had a run of nearly u year at H. H .Frazee's Longacre theatre in New York city, and is now duplicating its success in Chicago at the Cort theatre, where the house is Fold out nightly. The company appearing here was organized for the week stand time in Canada's largest cities, and was to have opened at the Prim-ess theatre in Montreal for the Wihk oi September 7, but owing to the liad conditions induced by the war, the trip to the coast was given up nr.d the attraction sent on the night Htands until the time in the cities of the United States could be arranged. Consequently the personnel of this particular attraction is much superior to that usually found on the night btanils, anil moreover presents names which are familiar on Hroadway; in fact, of the cast there is not one who did not appear in a "Pair of Sixes" Curing its appearance a the Longccre theatre.

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Travel Festival. From every point of view, whether Brtiviir, scientific or humanizing, Lvman H. Howe's travel festival, which comes to the Murray theatre next Friday stands alone. Like Shakespeare, it is in a class by itself. By means of that modern science motion j. holography and the wonderful refcults Howe obtains from it, he enraptures eye and mind. Howe's exhibition is masterful. It is big with the bigness of life. It annihilates time nnd space so effectively that if the imaginative Jules Verne were alive today, he would gasp in astonishment

at the fact that his trip "Around the World in Eighty Days," which he conceived as a flight of fancy, may now b accomplished in as many minutes by "traveling with Howe." Moreover, the trip is made without a minute's inconvenience and without any of the hazards of trael. Musical Comedy. Musical comedy at the Gennett tor'.ght. Fascinating Flora, a popular priced musical comedy, opened at the tlenmtt this afternoon Sam Barnard, I he leading comedian amused the audience with his comedy singing and talking. Fanny McDonald, the prima donna, has a beautiful voice and a rharming manner. The quartet was rated good, and the chorus was well tostumed. "Mera the Medium. "Mera the Medium," an unusual film, will be the feature at the Murray on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It If. a most beautiful picture in. photography, and its story very attractive. There are few in this world that are Hot interested in the telling of fortunes In one way or another, and this picture has to do with the Interesting life of a medium. The film had lis inception in a remarkable picture tit one of the galleries in ill fated Louvaln, which town was destroyed by the Hermans in the strife now on in Europe, and the picture perhaps destroyed or else taken with other art treasures for preservation in Germany. The title of the picture was "A Glance Into the Past." and it tells of a moment tragic and terrible in the life of H celebrated fortune teller. There are jnany wonderful scenes and much mystery that arouses a thorough interest.

. Not since the days when, given the obscure part of a slavey, Josie Sadler walked away with the honors of the play has a role of that character attracted so much attention as Coddles in A Pair of Sixes." Coddles is true to life literally, for with nil the painstaking care as to details that a portrait painter gives to his picture has the characterization of an English maid-of-all-work in a Toronto home been reproduced exactly even to the ihoes she wears, the shoes of the Toronto

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prototype, patched, resoled and stuffed to fit the. feet of the present incumbent and who wears her gown but the real triumph is in the facial expression. Never have the possibilities of "changing one's face" been more graphically demonstrated than in the character role of Coddles. Without any apparent effort Coddles runs the gamut of expression from placidity to wild amusement, then to surprise, coupled with a sense of the ridiculous. Laughter next, surprise again, then tears and cringing fear. The keynote of the characterization is in the arrangement of the hair. Drawn smoothly back, it aids more than anything else in producing that expression of absolute simplicity just a trifle less than vacuity that proclaims the type. After that Coddles relies chiefly upon a remarkably versatile set of features and without grease paint contrives to create furrows and crow's feet at will. Her face in repose is singularly free from even a hint of lines except the forehead. The lines the audience sees there in the slavey are natural. There is a bit of make-up on each cheek, a smudge under the eyes to deepen the sockets, and the eyebrows are "drabbed." The rest is due to the ability of a remarkably clever character actress.

Lyric Leaders Next Week "Lights and Shadows' will be

shown at the Lyric Friday. i Pauline Bush is before us in this remarkable portrayal of stage life and , city slums. I It is a page torn from the life ofj Even Bentley Eve, who was just a i girl of the city slums, keping body , and soul together by selling flowers. But Eve had dreams and ambitions, : and in spite of her old nurse's dying advice, she started out to realize them. Her adventures, her struggles, her temptations and her final achievement furnish abundant material for ' "Lights and Shadows." I One of the big questions that is brought up in conection with Eve's story is this: Should a girl, just because her mother failed miserably in realizing ambition and happiness, shut herself away from the world, shun the pleasures and pretty things which fill the world of so many women? The life of Eve's mother was a tragedy. Eve had that knowledge to face and t fight when she entered the cafe and ' the "world." But you will admire

Eve for the stand sne tooK your sympathies will go out to her. "HUMAN HEARTS." This film will be shown at the Lyric Tuesday. If you are counted among those who were joyous patrons of the melodrama ten, or perhaps fifteen years ago, then, of course, you remember ' Human Hearts."

The reel will provide a rare treat

for the photoplay public, no matter wherher portions of the public are familiar with it or not It has action, grip and pathos, combined with some splendid realism. Those scenes showing Mr. Baggot, as the hero, Tom Logan, in the state prison doing time are necessarily correct and impressive. They were actually taken within the walls of a state prison, and show the hundreds of convicts and the life they lead. "HEARTS OF THE NIGHT WIND."

In "The Heart of the Night Wind," Mary Fuller comes to us in a real love story with a bigger plot and more action deeper mystery of hills, sweeter sentiment and stronger passions than in any play she has so far appeared. Adapted from the tremendously popular novel by Vingie E. Roe, it is a delightfully wholesome romance of the forest and the mountain, the towering pines and rushing streams, with Miss Fuller doing a role of winsome grace and beauty. She is, indeed, the heart of the night wind, a wild, mysterious and passionate little creature who wins your affection from the outset and holds them. As to the staging of the play, the Victor company, under the direction of Walter Edwin, went into the mountains of Pennsylvania, where a wealth of atmosphere was secured. Particularly fine and interesting are those scenes which show the logging industry as carried on by the rough woodcutters. These scenes have all been cleverly worked into story, with other scenes of the shade dstreams and the silent dells, they make a background perfect in every respect.

Cowboy Reel at Murrette

The Murrette's offering Sunday afternoon is "Shorty Fall Into a Title." Shorty goes to London with Ike Selby's Wild West show. One day the cook, by mistake, pours coffee lntp Shorty's hat instead of his cup, and is badly beaten up by the enraged cowboy: In revenge the cook puts a burr under Shorty's saddle. Selby's horse goes lame, he borrows Shorty's, ' and is bucked off during the performance. Discovering the burr, the owner of the show thinks Shorty has put up a job on him. Shorty is fired. Wandering in the park, the cowboy meets Lord Chatham, whom the suffragettes have a grudge against. His lordship persuades our hero to exchange clothes with him and the former goes to Chatham's handsome house where he gets into all sorts of trouble through ignorance of English etiquette, and drinks entirely too much champagne. Going for a stroll, he runs into a suffraget meeting. The angry women mob him, and he barely escapes to the wharf where the steamer is just setting sail for U. S. A. Leaping into the water in his Lord Chatham's togs, he swims to the boat and is hauled aboard by Selby's cowboys.

A Russian has invented a floating storehouse for fuel and other naval supplies which can be sunk out of sight in the sea at the approach of a foe.

A "Crook" on the Screen; She's an Out-of Doors Girl

Arcade Shows Old Melodrama

Sunday, "The Ticket-of-Leave Man" is scheduled for the Arcade. Bob Brierly visits London and meets Daltcn.'a crook, who is in league with a counterfeiter named Moss. Bob befnends May Edwards, a tea-garden singer, and is caught in the meshes of the law by the cunning Dalton, who tricks him into passing a counterfeit twenty-pound note. Bob is sentenced to serve four years in prison. Three yoair: later, discharged on a ticket of k-uve, he secures a position in Gibson's bill-broking office. Dalton and Moss discover where Bob is working and plan to get him in their clutches; but with the aid of Hawkhaw, the famous detective, the crooks are rounded up after many 'hrilling developments, it- which the Biegraph players rise lo their opportunity.

CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for their kindness shown us during the illness and death of our father and husband. Mrs. Kitson and Children.

LfTOMA HUTTON, BROMCrlO-MUTUAL STAR, "Crook" stories are Leona Hutton's specialty, though this talented young woman declares that never in her life lias she had an opirtunity to study first hand the tyie of woman which she impersonates. In "A Crook's Sweetheart" she did such convincing work that several of the other actors at the Is'ew York Motion Picture studios took it for granted that she formerly had been associated with prison reform or at least had visited courtrooms and jails to find her types. When they said as much, however, Miss Hutton who is a very attractive blond laughingly replied: "I never even read a 'shilling shocker.' I've lived out west all my life, and not many western women become criminals, you know. Really, I don't believe I ever saw a woman who was the accomplice of a crook. But maybe my sympathy from childhood with poor, abused Nancy Sykes has given me the ability to portray her sort." , Miss Hutton is an all round out of doors girl. She is perfectly at home in the saddle and can paddle a canoe like an Indian. Plays which require trips Into the San Bernardino mountains to secure wild and romantic settings are her delight. On one of these tours she rescued and adopted a tiny bear cub whose mother had been killed by hunters.

WHATSOEVER A WOMAN SOWETH Thursday the Arcade presents this photoplay. Robert Caldwell and Pauline Mar iowe are preparing for their wedding when the news comes out that Robert's father has embezzled from th bank. Pauline fears the disgrace of mairying a man whose father is a thief, so breaks the engagement against the advice of her own father, who admires Robert. She marries a rich man later. Robert leaves the city and s;oes away to make his fortune, final'y wins success and returns to his home years afterward to become the president of the bank from which his father stole. Pauline's marriage proves unhappy. Finally her husband dies, leaving her

BOYS TAKE TRUMP

Somerville Leads Students on Outing. About seventy-five boys, members of the Y. M. C. A. and Bible study class es took a cross country hike today under the leadership of Boys' Director J. .1. Somerville. The boys visited Thistlethwaite's falls, and tramped on up the river to Reid's Spring, where a picnic dinner was spread. The boys divided up into teams and played football and other strenuous games.

Get Rid of That Miserable Feeling. You may learn something from the experience of Mrs. William Troute, llion, N. Y., who was sick for a long time from a badly disordered stomach. "I felt miserable all of the time," she writes. "I was tired and had no appetite. A friend advised me to take Chamberlain's Tablets. I did so and ray appetite improved and I gained rapidly in health." For sale by all dealers. Adv. I

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Photo Plays

TONIGHT An Alice Joyce Feature "The Riddle of the Green Umbrella." "Buster Brown Picks Out the Costumes." (A reel of real comedy.)

Sunday "The Ticket-Of-Leave Man" (A biograph feature.) "Getting to the Ball Game." (A comedy for all)

Monday "Within An Ace." (A Dorothy Kelley Vitagraph) "The Hand of Iron."

Tuesday "Mask and Faces" (Biograph 2 reel feature) "The Subrette & The Simp" (A reel of fun)

Wednesday "The Prison Stain" (A Marian Sais Kalem feature) 'Slippery Slim and the Impersonator" (You all know him.)

LYR

! alor.n with one son, Arthur a very : j mi'.ch spoiled boy. When Arthur is 23 i sue returns to the home of her aged ! father. The son is given a place in a

law office, where he proves a failurev Caldwell arranges for Arthur to take a position in the bank. Arthur needs money and takes it from the bank. Then he falls in love v.i tha sweet i;irl, hut Caldwell has already discovered the theft. He feels it his duty to tell rt-uline. She repudiates her son as she bad her sweetheart years ago. Then Arthur's sweetheart comes forward and says she will stand by him.

(T Theatre

UMj Main, Near Ninth St.

Presenting Warren Kerrigan in 2 reel Terrace O'Rourke Series Xo. 2 "The Empire of Illusion" One Reel "THE GROOM'S DOOM Mmtay 4 BIG SENSATIONAL REELS 4 Presenting in 2 reels Robert Leonard and Ella Hall Series No. 2. "Tine Mastter Key" 2 reels presenting Grace Cunard and Francis Ford in "My Lady Raffles in "The Mysterious Rose

Tuesday Reels." "Human Hearts" Presenting King Baggot

Wednesday 2 reels with Mary Fuller in "The Heart of Night Wind." and one reel comedy

Ttairsdlaiy 2 Reels The Brand of His Tribe

one ree.1 comedy

He Married Her Anyhow

REPORTS GIRL LOST

James W. Croker, colored, living at Losantville, has reported to the local police the disappearance of his adopted daughter, Charlean Croker, aged 10. He secured the girl from an irstltution after it had been abandoned and expressed the opinion that some one formerly connected with the institution had induced the girl to her home. No trace of the girl has been found here.

GENNETT THEATRE Monday Nlght,Nov.

With the original city cast and production direct from two years at Longacre Theatre, New York City and Cort Theatre Chicago.

1YI O S T

Novel Thrilling Laughable Popular

25 Years

F A R C E

A comedy of business life in Three Acts "Funniest New York has ever seen" Alan Dale in N. Y. American. "Hilarious, humorous, witty" Amy Leslie in Chicago Daily News. "Cleveland laughed itself sore" Archie Ball in Leader. Prices 25, 50, 75c $1.00 & $1.50. Seats Now. Selling at Murray Theatre,

TONIGHT SUNDAY 16 Episode Last Episode The Perils The Million Dollar of Pauline Mystery.

Coming FlpMSiy

MATINEE & NIGHT

YMAN Travel

owes Festival

New ride on a runaway train Venice; Down into the Crater of Vesuvius, weird wonders of submarine life; through the gorges of Southern France.

Matinee, 2:30 p. Mghi 8:15

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PRICES Box seats 75c. Lower floor 50c. Balcony 50c and 25c Rear balcony 25c. Seats Reserved.

MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Cowboy EflMoUtt and his famous laughing horse DON FULANO The two Jesters on their great Siro-comic production Horse and Horse MERA The Medium 3 reel feature vaudeville and pictures Admission 10 Cents TONIGHT Mutual Girl SUNDAY Shorty Falls Into a Title With Shorty Hamilton Comedy Film