Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 39, 26 December 1914 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 26, 1914 FAGE THSE15 JL U MOVIE" NEWS OF RICHMOND

Romance at Arcade

' Th Arcftdn, Sunday, shows "The Btamunc of a Toor Young Man." I-nmqu. a sea rover, finds the PMrqut de Champeey killed by (jmtlve In his West Indian home, and tnl thfl dead, mnn's fortune. Later Jn PRrlti there Is brought to hla home t manager of his estates, under an Itiiumrd nnmo, the younp Maximo de C'hnmprey, who hna succeeded to his JiiUwr'n title. Mnxlme and his sister. Vhom h bus plneed in a convent, are ?xnnlUn. The young man falls In ovo wtlh Mnrjruerlte, granddaughter f Lsroque, who Is engaged to MonUur Bevallnn, n fortune hunter. Jlnvnllnn is loved by Heleuln. MurEiioiite'M governed, mid plots with lier to wxpoxe Mnxlme ua a fortune liunter, She finds a letter In his room V'hleh rpveals his Identity mid seems to prove thulr c.hnrge. Marguerite Joven Mnxlme despite her disdain, and Itoe with hint to the haunted tower tf Klfen, They are accidentally locked In, and Marguerite nceusea Mnxlme t)f trying to compromise her. HELEN HAZARDS SERIES. Monday the Arcade continues the "llnstirda of Helen Series." i Tom O'Crady, section foreman, Is' fllsehnrjted when tlie carelessness of Ida men brings about the derailment cf (ho Beaumont, local. While disconsolately trudging down the track, the c-ld man comes upon a valuable packet?" lost from the express cur of the Almoin Flyer. At the same moment, llelen, telegrapher at Quarry, receives a wire from tho express messenger, requeuing her to institute a search for tho package. Later, Helen comes upon O'Grady Just after the man has been knocked tinconsclous by Durham and Keeson, yoggmen. Stealing the package, the crooks hold up the crew of a freight, engine nnd compel the engineer to Send his locomotive ahead at full Fpeod. Learning O'drady's story, Jlelen climbs Into the cab of a loeoJnotlve standing on a siding. At her order, Duncan, the engineer, takes tip the chase. Traveling on a parallel track they overtake the freight engine. "When alongside of the stolen engine Helen leaps into it from her locotnotive, although a slip means a hor-; rlble fate. She attacks the robbers, taking them by surprise. A wrench hurled by Dt:ncan, stuns Durham. Keeson is subdued by Helen and the engine crew! The brave girl recovers the package, and her story results in O'Grady's reinstatement. Duncan falls madly in love with Helen and iif-ks her to marry him. Tint Helen, whose next Hazard will be released, Saturday, December 12th, lias no intention of marrying or some time to come. WEDNESDAY'S OFFERING. "Save from a Life of Crime." Becoming imbued with a lawless ppirlt. Tom, a street waif, of twelve, holds up an old woman with a toy pistol, robs her of a dollar and gets i! ,iv. Kxhibiting the money to some of his companions, the boy proceeds to give them all an ice-cream treat. The feast Is Interrupted by the police, who nab Tom. II'' is taken to court charged with highway robbery, and the Judge places him on probation. The probation officer sees Tom has the making of a good man in him, should he he placed in the proper environment, and whr-n Mr. Barnes, a wealthy philanthropist, with Helen, an only daughter, expresses a wislv to p.dopt a boy. the officer suggests be Interview Tom. The lad makes a very favorable impression on Mr. Haines, and the latter .adopts him. Amidst the surroundings of refinement and wealth, the boy grows up to Tie a fine young man, with an aspiration to heroine a lawyer. Ten years later, he becomes a very prominent end successful one. He fylls in love with Helen, and she with him, but realizing his bumble origin, Tom keeps f-ilent. At a Christmas gathering, the is avoiwm by Bonner a man of She Breathed Sulphur In Her Fearless Acting EM ID MAR KEY, KAY 5EE-MUTHJAL STAR, f I Kttbl Mar key of the Broncho, Kay ?ee and Domino Companies of the New York Motion Picture Corporation fs tho daring young woman who, in 'The Wrath of the Gods," the great Japanese production depicting the destruction of the village of Sakura by volcano and fire, was injured in the fralphur smoke. She was pinned under a mas of falling lava, and so intent wh8 the young actress in making her wene realistic that she lay there breathing in the sulphur fumes until nearly asphyxiated. Miss Markey cannot be taught c.iiiIttou. She throws all thought of her (jwu safety to the winds when she Is striving for a thrilling effect in a picture. She is a fearless rider aud swimmer; also she is an all round aottress who can play any kind of emotional role, do exciting athletic stunts nd be fascinatingly pretty, all at once.

Difference Between Getting a Bundle or a Package Depends'

SIDNEY BRACY snd FAN B0ORK6 x-n ? Thl-Hhoxtser-Mzifual F2-nx Melee On the face of it which very clearly is where Bracy got it this picture Jepicts a Chinaman's woe. Yon put an Irish washerwoman and a Chinese laundryinau in active competition, and there's bound to be trouble. It matters not whether it's in real or reel life. In a recent Tbanhouser-Mutnal release, "Sid Nee's Finish," Fan llourke, splendid nnd very charming young girl of Irish antecedents, played opposite Sidney Bracy as a Chinese laundryman. The film Is supposed to be and ia a ;omedy to every one but Bracy, which Is why this story is written. All went well with the picture in the making until it came to tho, scenes !n Miss Bourke's "laundry." A number of "property" laundry packages had been made up and reposed peacefully on the shelves. These were to be spilled and thrown around at the right time. The packages at the bottom of the piles were bricks similarly wrapped up. They were intended solely to hold the lighter bundles in place. By an Inadvertence of the property man the bundles were transposed. Then the tight scene was staged. Result: One slightly broken jaw, two teeth gone, a bole in Ms left cheek and two or three lamed fingers all sustained by Sidney Bracy is a result of a collision between his face and the wrong bundle. It almost was "Sid's Nee's Finish." Bracy is slowly recovering, and now be vows that never again will he play a Chinese part opposite an Irish woman's, whether she is merely of the stage sort or really is Irish.

wealth and social position, but she ! refuses his proposals of marriage. j "WHO GOES THERE." j Thursday's program is a comedy. j When Lieutenant Newman, known as Toppy to all of his friends, brought himself to the point of proposing, and realized that his suit was accepted, ' he was the most surprised person in the world. Kate knew how very bashful he was, so she took things into her, own hands, and proposed tin elope-1 ment, writing him to meet her at Mrs. j Hadley's boarding house in the village, near where the military camp; was established. Both Lieutenants Upton and Enrigbt planned to elope with their sweethearts, and they also arranged to meet the girls at Mrs. Hadley's. Kate's scheme worked and Toppy secured his leave, but Upton and En-1 right were met with a flat refusal when they went to the colonel with a similar request. They were forced to make some arrangement for the girl's protection, however, so they asked Toppy to look out for them. He accepted, little kuowink what complications would ensue. LAW OF THE RANGE." The days of the "free range" on the Western prairie are over. Today barbed wire fences enclose the old cow country where stock, in days of yore, roamed at will over hundreds of square miles with no restraint but the watchful eyes of the cowboys. Even as late as the SO's, however, in certain wild sections of the southwest each man wa3 a law unto himself, and the handiest gunman usually had "the law" on his side. In 1SN2 Tex Foster was known as the cattle king of the Cimarron Range, in New Mexico. Foster had grown up in the West and still pulled a ready gun on occasion. Age seemed not to have impaired bis wonderful vitality nor dulled his keen brain. In the length and breadth of N'ew Mexico no man was better known than the old cow man, and ho who could best him in a trade must be a David llarum of the first water. "Tex" brooked no opposition, and the cowamn who crossed him eentually had cause to regret, his independence. Either Foster picked a fight on some slight pretext or else haled the offender up in court, where the judiciary, fearful of incurring the displeasure of out! so rich, so pwerful and so quick a trigger-puller, gen erally returned a verdict satisfactory to "Tex." Foster inspired fear and respect, but had no friends except those who wished to share in his prosperity. New Mexicans hated him with greater cordiality than any other man on the range. For a Weak Stomach. Mrs. F. P. Tritsch, Home, N. Y : writes, "About Ave years ago my stomach was very weak. I could not eat sol- , id food. Friends told me that Chamberlain's Tablets were just what I ; needed. I took three or four bottles of j them and my health has since been of j the best. For sale by all dealers. ! Adv. Lyric Movies Next Week Hail to the "Big Sister!" Too long has she been neglected. Who is it that sees to it that "little sister" is ready; for schoi 1 or the party? Who is it. that gives her good advice and sees that she follows it? Big sister. Who is it that does most of the housework when the cook and the : maid have gone- off to poin the suffrage parade? Big sister. Who is it that, puts pupa's slippers out before, the lire and sees that he gets his smoking jacket, his pipe and his evening paper? Big sister. Who Is It that usually marries last of all and does not do so even then un til she is sure that mother and father will be comfortable in their declining years? Big sister. Gentle, uncomplain ing, eager to please and to see others, happv. who is it that sometimes stints;

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herself to see that little sister and little, brother have full stockings when Christmas conies? Big sister. Plain, yes, that she may be; the boys may not call upon her with such frequency as they do upon lighterhearted little sister. But who is it that makes the better wife by reason of her self-sacrifice and attention to household matters? Without a doubt, big sister. "The Accusation. Wednesday the Lyric flashes "The Accusation." Rosemary Theby and Harry Myers play the leading roles in "The Accusation." a two-reel domestic drama which is to Vie released on Christmas Day under the Victor brand. "The Accusation" tells a vital story in gripping fashion. Moreover it has a touching human veing running through it with a powerful emotional appeal to thos whose symnaihies are with the weak nnd the fallen. It's story is logical aud clearly told and the entire drama splendidlv enacted. The story of the photoplay is as follows : James Dayton and John Dix are rivals for the hand and affections of pretty Cora Lund, the only daughter of Colonel Lund, a retired army officer. Colonel Lund has spent a lifetime in the army, and has seen service on many battlefields. Young Dayton, because of his frank, unassuming manner, quickly wins the grizzled old veteran's reg.i i d. In this judgment Cora Lund also con curs. Something secretive in Dix's manner has created an unfavorable impression against the man in her mind and, being a woman, she persists in her dislike, "just because." "HER ESCAPE." A thrilling story is shown at the Lyric Friday. "Her Escape," a two-reel melodrama in which Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney enact the leading roles, will be released under the Rex brand on Sunday, December 27th. Mr. Chaney not only suggested and wrote the scenario of this virile photoplay, but has enacted the principal male role in it with characteristic vigor. Joseph de Grasse, the producing director, has crammed the feature with action from start to finish. The photoplay introduces the spectator in turn to life in the slums of a great city and later to the home of one of the redeemed outcasts, a girl who has struggled upward in the social scale of affluence. The moral of the play is at. all times subservient to the slashing action which fills every foot, of film. Tom Walsh, his daughter. Pauline, and his son, Pete, live in a tenement known to the police as a nest of crooks. Tom nd Pete force Pauline to act as their "look out" in various small robberies, by means of which they make a living. Pauline, however, is good at heart and, although forced to meet crooks and ex-convicts in her ACTOR AT MURRAY IN COOK STOCK CO. Fatil Appears at Next Week. Murray All

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"At Dawn" i Murrette

Sunday's offering at the Murrette will be "At Dawn," a stern story of justice in the Philippines. Sykes, an American, goes to the Philippines as a teacher, leaving behind him the girl to whom he is engaged. He is living with a native girl Mindanao, when, some time later he receives word from his fiancee that an aunt has left her a fortune and that she is arriving at dawn next day. Unable to persuade his native sweetheart to go away quietly, and fearing less to lose his fiancee than the money she hps inherited, he poisons the Filipino girl. Before he enn dispose of the body, however, a United States lieutenant and his sergeant stop at the cottage to inquire their way. They immediately recognize in the man's uneasy manner that same untoward thing has happened. And presently they find the dead girl. Sykes explains the circumstances, and says, "What's another Filipino more or less?" The lieutenant tells Sykes to take the sergeant and point out to him the trail. The two officers exchange sins behind the murderer's bark, and as the sergeant follows his guide, he takes a lasso from the wall. At dawn, the American girl arrives. Slie finds the lieutenant in Sykes' cottage, and presently the sergeant returns alone. She asks for her betrothed, and the lieutenant tells her that he is dead that men die very suddenly out there. father's squalid apartments, has little iiking for the life. Tom and Pete plan a new "job" and appoint Pauline to keep watch for patrolmen and passersby. While acting as "lookout" Pauline becomes interested in a band of Salvation Army singers and enters into conversation with the captain of the band. The captain gives her a pamphlet to read i which greatly influences her life. Stock Company At Murray Starting Monday matinee at the Murray theatre the Oscar F. Cook stock company will open an engagement of one week with daily matinees. This company conies direct from an engagement of forty weeks at the Indiana theatre in Marion, and twentyfour weeks at the Ten: -de theatre, Fort Wayne, and Mr. Cook guarantees to theatre goers of Richmond a company far superior to many companies that have appeared at the Murray. In Mr. Cook's support will be found many well-known people, including Miss Pauline LeRoy, who has so many friends in Richmond. Miss LeRoy is without doubt one of the most popular actresses that has ever appeared in Richmond in stock. Billy Single comes to Mr. Cook from the Willard theatre. Chicago: T. I. Fahl from the Eva Lang Stock company, Denver, and Miss Cecil Wood Clarendon, also comes from the Eva Lang company. For the opening play Mr. Cook has selected a special version of "Tho Three Twins," entitled "Tom, Hick and Harry." The play is one of the funniest every written, and should prove a sucess here. Between the acts there will be a number of vaudeville features which will include the Fahls. There will be a special matinee on Xew Year's day when all seats will be received. "THE ROSARY." Wheeler Oakman, the young leading man of Director Colin Campbell's cornpan v. is adding to his big score by bis work in "THL ROSARY," the great Selig feature now under preparation. Mr. Oakman merged into his robe with the same naturalness which has won him laurels in the past. DISMISS SUIT. KATOX, O., Dec. 2J. Following a compromise, the suit of Kdward Hunger against the D. IT. Railway company was dismissed from the common pleas court. While employed as an engineer by the company, Hunger fell from an engine and suffered the loss of one band and several finger on the other band. He filed suit and was awarded $H.0uo damages by a jury which beard the evidence. The defendant took the case to the court of appeals, where; the decision of the lower court was reersed and the case sent back for re-trial. F I N Murray ack . Next Wednesday Murray Theater I G A Don't Talk War We Are Neutral The Greatest Laugh Producers the World Has Ever Known S Musical Comedy Has Ccme to Stay, So Has Murray and Mack A L L A Riot of Fun Tonic For Depression Prices 25c, 35c, 50c, and oc. Curtain Rises 8:15. Sale Seats Murray Theatre.

Finnigans Ball At Gennett

Grand opera was succeeded by comic opera, and comic opera by musical comedy. Legitimate drama gave way to farce comedy. Dramatic, melo-dra-matic, travel and educational motion pictures are falling prey to the ravages of- the comedy pictures. The J answer. The people want to laugh first, i last and all the time. This has been the nucleus of Murray & Mack's suc- . cess. They have always aimed to 1 make people laugh, therefore it Is not to be wondered at. that "Finnigan's j Ball hold the undisputed record of financial and popular success of recent theatrical history. daughter ia the most popular sensation on earlh. "Fini nigan's Ball" was conceived for philanthropic purposes; to cheer mankind and to make them forget their real or ; imaginary troubles, in which quests these two eccentric "near human" I characters have been eminently sucI cessful. Everything is offered that I will afford rest to the weary, business- ' tired brain of men and women. ! "Finnigan's Ball" conies to the Gen- '' nett next Wednesday. Go see it. Certainly, the show Is nonsensical, so are the comedies, but you've laughed at them twenty years and you'll continue : to do so. MOVIE FLASHES JEFFERSON ACTS. Thomas Jefferson and Adelaide Thurston in "Shadows of a Great City" is the next B. A. Rolfe Photoplay production after Mabel Taliaferro In "The Three of Us." For the legitimate; this melodrama was written by the late ' Joseph Jefferson, the foremost Ameri-! can comedian of his day,- in collabora- j tion with L. R. Shewoll. WANTS HER MONEY. Marie Dressier, who stars in the Alco release, "Tillie's Punctured Romance," for which Aleo paid $100,000 recently, asked the Xew York Supreme Court to appoint a receiver for the film so she could receive at once $200,000. But Justice Xewburger ruled against her. ANIMAL YARNS. "The Primitive Way" is the way the script of that play went when Director Thomas Santechi stepped too close to the bear pit at the Selig Jungle-Zoo in IjOS Angeles. He had the photoplay in his iocket. The baboon, housed with the "Sun" bears, reached through the bars and seized the manuscript. A rock persuaded him to drop it. when the mother "Sun" bear and her two children seized it, dividing the photoplay into three different parts. When a keep er arrived with the key and a club, it was found that the primitive children of the cave had devoured ten scenes from "The Primitive Way." The halffinished production was held up a day until the tangle was straightened out. Mrs. Austin's Bag Pancake, deliciout light cakes for breakfast. The ersis off PayBine TOPJIGMT! S3 A 2 lied Broncho: Majestic: At Pawn 5 Cents

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Miss Sidney Hamilton With Murray and Mack at Gennett Theatre, December 3ft. AIR Today Alice Joyce The Star of the Movies in "The Pride of Silence" A 2-Reel Kalem That Thrills From the First Foot of Film. He Wanted His Pants A Howling Lubin Comedy Tomorrow "A Romance of a Poor Young Man" 2-Reel Biograph. The Biograph is the peer of them all when' it calls for strong dramatic action. "It's a Bear" An Kdison Comedv. Monday "The Stolen Engine" Fourth Kpisode of "The Hazards of Helen"' "The Kings Move in the City" 2-Reel Kdison Drama.

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2-Reels of the Greatest Picture Story Ever Written THE MASTER KEY 2-Reel Drama "The Call of the Waves" MONDAY 2 Reels 2 "The Fortunes oi Puargaret" One Reel "Wiihin ihe Gates cf Paradise"

-si TUESDAY "The Big ihter's Xinas" One Reel "Innocent Dad" WEDNESDAY Two Reels "The Accusation" One Reel "Hunting in Crazy Land"

GOES TO CHICAGO.

Lylllan Brown Lelghton. comedy and dramatic star of the Sellg Jungle-Zoo, will be Been in that dear Chicago during a holiday vacation soon. Matinee Monday December The Oscar Cook Stock Company Complete production of popular plays. Monday Matinee and Night Tom, Dick smdl Harry Or The Three Twins Nights 10. 20 and r,0c. Matinees 10 and 20c. Seat Sale Saturday at the Box Office. FHOTO I PLAYS TUESDAY "Was His Decision Right?" 2-Reel Lubin Drama. it The Man That M?ght Have Been Vitigraph Drama. WEDNESDAY Saved From a Life of Crime" 2-Reel Vitigraph Drama. "SoDhie's Fatal Wed ding Kssanay W. Comedy. THURSDAY it Who Goes There?" 2-Reel Kdison Comedy. it The Serpent Comes to Eden" Kleventh of the "Tlelovvd Adventurer Series" FRIDAY "Convict, Costumes and Confusion" 2-Reel Vitigraph Comedy. Hearst-Sehg News Pictorial No. 75 ssssssnJssssnKraiZEOTFf Theatre Main St., near 9th. Reel Bear Escape THURSDAY The Createst 3 Reel VVet'ern "The Law of the Range" FRIDAY Two Reels it Her Escape One Reel Tf iiu oioie iuc unite: