SATURDAY MAY 81, 1⁄2 1224
TWO BIG ATTRACTIONS 1
AN EXCELLENT COMEDY
PROGRAMME !«
Mack Sennett's
Comedy Melodrama
"The Crossroads of New York"
BUSTER KEATON-
in
NEIGHBOURS"
THE CHINA MATL
SCREENLAND
GEORGE ARLISS. IN NEW PROTOPLAY.
"THE WOMAN ON THE JURY,"
JAZZ FAMILY NOW
OCCUPIES SCREEN:
الا.
A modern jazz family now atups, forward to claim the attention of the movies
Warner Fabian's, astounding story of an indulgent mother who gives her daughters complete freedom in three beautiful the expression of their individuali- ties comes to the screen in the First National picturization of "Flaning Youth."
loving family pure more for The members of this plesaura- cigarette smoking. hooch drinking and "necking parties" than for the, conventions. And the gay mother: only smiles as they gratify their whims.
Your Last Chances to see.
MAE MURRAY,
:
dressed in the costume of Eve on the South Sea Islands, in
"IDOLS of CLAY"
To-day at 3.30 & 9.15 p.m.
To-morrow at 6 & 8.15 p.m.
A CHAPTER IN HER LIFE
A Universal-Jewel
"The Man Who Played God."
We have just seen the com- pleted print of "The Woman on Almost any raport of the doings the Jury." In our advance com- of George Arliss, noted screen and ment we told you that this pro- atage star, is interesting, but the mised to be another great success: announcement that his intest for First National's own produc photoplay, "The Man Who Played ing organization. We will go fur- God" in which he has the star ther, now that we have seen the role, and in which he again proves: actual picture that you are to sell his astounding versatility as an exhibitors, with the statement actor constitutes real news for that it is unquestionably one of the motion picture theatre-goera the greatest emotional dramas of this efty.
that we have ever seen, andi This announcement comes from Infinitely more human than any the management of the Coronet we can recall. It is absolutely free Theatre who tells of having book from heroles and artificiality and. ed "The Man Who Played God," a has another advantage of being up United Artists Corporation re-
to the minute in its appeal, with lease, for next month, and with it an exploitation value that scarcely comes also the statement that a picture in a thousand can claim. George Arliss will be seen in an
If there are any of you that entirely new type of characteriza-have questioned. Miss Breamer's. ability to interpret this great role, "Admirers of Mr. Arliss and you are going to be very much his splendid artistry," "have surprised. She rises to truly seen him previously in the great heights at times and her role of the designing, scheming work is always of a sustained high and crafty cynic as the statesman quality. We feel that we need not OO and the diplomatist, and as the repeat that amazing supporting high class comedian. In 'The Man cast, for those names should be Who Played God' they will see him imbedded in your memory if you tion that love is a thing not to be TASTE OF BIG CITY LIFE. BEST CHARACTERIZATION:
in still another role that of the have been taking advantage of trifted with, and the fally, of the romantic lover in a higher emo- these box office names in your sell-care-free life of the modern jazz- "Suds" might well be called tional picturization."
ing talks. It is. another triumphmad flapper is brought: home. "The tale of a shirt." Mary Pick- ford scores a big success in her adapted from a phy by Jules of Harry O. Hoyt is excellent and "The Man Who Played God" is in lighting effects, the direction latest United Artists picture at Eckert Goodman founded the Coronet Theatre with her Gouverneur Morris's story of the Fairfax, editorial director, with it was personally cut by Marion latest film offering. Rather should same title as the picture. It was the result that it is one of the "Suds" be crowned the "Queen of arranged for the screen by Forrest smoothest moving pictures you Photoplays" and doubtlessly it Halsey. The work of direction ishave ever scen. will be shortly by the enthusiastic by Harmon Weight. audiences who see Miss Pickford
Commencing Monday, June 2 at THE CORONET
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PROGRAMME FEATURES.
TO-NIGHT: ..
CORONET.—Mary Pickford in "Suds."
WORLD-Marie Prevost in "The Beautiful and
· Damned."
ESTAR-Mae Murray, in
"Idols of Clay." QUEEN'S-Rillle Dove in
"Youth to Youth,"
NEW BUSTER KEATON-
FARCE
tion.
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Colleen Moore is to be seen as the youngest and most capricious of: the daughters Pat Fentriss and the unfoldment of the many romances on which she embarks is said to offer one of the most start- ling exposes of twentieth century character development over de- picted on the screen.
ing-that brings about the realiza-
Of course, Pat has an awaken
THE STAR
Wesley Barry, the freckle-faced Mona Fentriss, the gay and over the filming, of the Warner Bro- Myrtle Stedman is to be seen as high life in the Big City during screen idol, was given a taste of
portrays Carey Scott, the man "School Days," which will be indulgent mother Milton Sills thers production, Gus Edwards who brings common sense into the shown at the Coronet Theatre, life of little Pat. The two other next week end. Fentrisa sisters, Dee and Connie, are played by Sylvia Breamer and Betty.Francisco.
important screen offerings of the The picture, one of the most
the direction of John Francis current season, was filmed under Dillon.
"THE WHITE MOTIA,"
A proview of Maurice Tour
what we have seen of the picture scheduled for next week, and from. neur's "The White Moth" is.
sequences on the screen, we be in the making and some of the lieve that it is going to be another, of the really big ones.
The reproduction of the masque ball in Paris is unquestionably on of the most elaborate things ever several hundred people in it an put on the screen. There were the costumes ranged from th quaintest, representing animals, and most luvish of jewels. and goblins, to the richest of silks behind-the-scene septences are The And realistic and there are pretty girls almost without-number to gladder the eye.
The picture reveals life in a rural community, and then shifts Mr. Arliss is supported by a casted by Elliott Dexter, Phillips For the first time Wesley glimpses Other important parts are play. to the locale of New York City. of exceptional strength. Ann Smalley, Walter McGrail, Forrest, one of the most popular Lyon and Gene Corrado.
Ben the vast and commodious Pennsyl women of the screen, has the
vania railroad station, and he con- leading feminine role, with Effie
staggered him. Then they put fessed that the first look almost shannon, Edward Earle, Ivan
him down Fifth Avenue, him into a taxicab and whirled when he took a squint at the tall buildings, he said that they would look better if they were laid flat But it is not merely a series of on the ground.
#pictures," for it is decidedly-an From this scene Wesley was action.atory with love interest as York last week from Hollywood to Scores of butlers and servants has become the idol of Paris and Clarence Badger arrived in "New whizzed into a palatial residence. dominant as it possibly could be
It centres around the woman who sboor several of the opening scenes were at his command. The butler who plays with men's hearts, tute, Une Night in Rome, which the telephone, and poor Wesley, of Laurette Taylor's new Metro, pic-announced that he was wanted on demanding everything and giving
BADGER IN 'NEW YORK.
The story deals with a world- in this her most recent photoplay.famous musician who suddenly The story of "Suds" is all laid becomes deaf. Embittered against about a dominon, ordinary shirt the whole world he is a changed which is left to be washed in a man within a few months, and is small laundry in the slums of driving wife and friends from him London by one Horace Green- by his despair and cynicism. To smith, a cheap actor,
offset his deafness he has learned The role played by Mary Pickip-reading and through this ford is that of Amanda Aflick, knowledge, and just as he has Simpson, Mary Astor, Margaret the wou-begone alavey in the determined on suicide, he learns Seddon and J. B. Walsh'also in the Jaundry, Amanda, having receiv-of another life tragedy greater list of players. Fast moving farcical humoured the shirt when it was tossed even than his own.
Little Miriam His mind Hushes all through "Neighbours," over the counter to be laundered, taken from his own grievance Battista and "Mickey" Bennett the fourth of the Buster Keaton promptly falls in love with its against the world he begins the also are among the players, play- comedies which comes to the owner. It is some months before game of playing God. So engrossing the roles of waifs toward Coronet Theatre, commencing on the shirt is called for but in the ing does his work for the better-whom the embittered musician Monday, June 2.
meantime, Amunda washes Itment of others, become that in a plays God. In this howling two reets of twice a week "to keep his memory short time he becomes his normal Admirers of Mr. Arliss are merriment, the slender, young clean," and for the edification of self. funmaker whose serious counter the other girls, weaves such come to love another and offers in this picture," says the manager shes have been filmed, Mr. Bad very much, was flabbergasted. though he is engaged to another He believes his wifo has going to like him better than ever he will direct. After the New York not having talked over the wire nothing. Then the rich american ance never loses its sombre look, wonderful romances about herself her freedom, Through a trivial of the Coronet Theatre. "It is bis is given many opportunities to and force that she has the other accident he regains his hearing as best; with a wonderful story, J. Hartley Manners, her husband his ear,
youth falls in love with her ger, accompanied by Miss Taylor and But he finally put the receiver to and his older brother decides arouse amusement by the ridi- girls in the laundry believing them suddenly as he lost it, and at the splendid cast, remarkable cire und sagthor of "One Night in Rome, dropped the receiver and described to stop the affair, but and is be culous situations which pack and practically believes them her- same time learns that he has tion, beautiful sets and the best of will leaves for the Metro studios in what he meant to convey as making love to "The White Moth
When he replied he but finds the “ "Neighbours." There is wealth self. In many a side splitting misjudged his wife. of furious action with the slap-scene Amanda tells the girls how
photography."
Hollywood to complete the picture. though he were talking to some-himself. stick not hindered by an excess of her father, the Arch Duke, ha subtlety
sent her out into, the world to be,
one close beside, him.
As the successor of Fatty loved for herself alone and not for Arbuckle in the field of rough and her vast fortune that when "ready comedy, Buster Keaton Horace returns for his shirt it will proves that he is thoroughly cap-be the signal that all is well and áble of handling the slapstick of that the man has proved his love screen comics with just as great and she can return to her rightful effectiveness as his rotund pre-station in life. decessor.
Miss Pickford has already earn In this latest of his laughtivi-ed the right to be called the ties. Buster centres his career of screen's foremost artist, but with jovial trouble about the rough and the performance ay Amunda
Lumble belligerence of two Afick she has put this right in a families whose adjoining back-niche where it probably can never yards form a sort of no man's land bo touched by any of the present of constant irritation In his on coming screen stars. efforts to win the girl of his love beth families have an active and avgressive time with Puster put to many acrobatic absurdities before the wedding day' arrives. But just when everything seems about to be settled happily, the
One moment she has you rock- ing with laughter over her tribula- tions when she brings Lavender, the ex-laundry wagon horse into her little tenement room, and in the next, crying with her when you see her spurned by the man
family fraca flares forth gally about whom she has woven the and the lovers find that trying to wonderful. romance concerning
to get married is just as exciting, herself. ::
as trying to live peacefully with The character of "Suits" is peace-hating neighbours,
entirely different from character ever presented by any Any artist on the screen at the con census of opinion is that only Mary Pickford could have done this characterization.
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Petite Virginia Fox as the bewitching daughter of the family next door forms the centre of the controversy which sets the wheels of frivolity revolving at a rapid pace, while the huge bulk of three- hundred and fifty-pound-
The entire play is one of the Roberts keeps the elapstick crack-ever offered to the local public and most enjoyable entertainmenta ing merrily,
Miss Pickford, now that she la "Neighbours" was written and producing independently, has directed by Buster Keaton, and shown that she is not stingyin Eddie Cline for Joseph M. the matter of lavishing money on Schenck. It is exclusively distri-her aupporting cast and sets: buted by Metro Pictures Corpora~
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tion.
"ENCHANTED COFTAGE."
The picture was directed by Jack Dillon and photographed by Charles Rosher, and the scenario. was written by Waldemar Young, "The Enchanted Cottage" is my players as Albert Austin, Mme. The cast includes auch well known greatest acting picture..
That's a pretty strong state-Rose Dlone and Harold. Goodwin. ment for Richard Barthelmess, The picture will continue to play atar of such actable screen auc-at the Coronet Theatro till Sunday,
cessen Tol'ablo David" and
"The Bright Shawl," to make, yet he is so ta earnest about it that be: has affixed his signature to the declaration
SANDBA?
“Sandra," a current novel by "The Enchanted Cottage" is an Pearl Doles Boll, has been elected. Aseptation of Sir Arthur Wings the story of Barbara La Marr's Pingro's charming post war initial starripu, picture for Eirat romance of a crippled young army National release. The production veteran and a homely Hittle Eng wil be made in New York under lish governess filmen under the the auspices of Sawyer and Lubin direction of John B. Robertion, the producers of the Barbara Lo May McAvoy appears in the lead. Mert series which First National ing Kamining role opposite the star recently contracted for, bakke
MARY PICKFORD
in
SUDS
LAST TWO DAYS Today, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 To-morrow,
'at, 6, 7.30 & 9.15 AT THE
CORONET
also Felix the Hypnotist.
Don't Miss
them!
After partaking of the comforts of the palatial residence, including one of the finest shower baths he had ever had the pleasure to enjoy, he donned his tuxedo, put on his straw lid, threw his arm and hopped into a high powered motor, "School, James!" called Wesley to the chauffeur. And he was whizzed to a private school where only the children of wealthy people are to be seen..
NEW
LOIS WEBER PRODUCTION.
A picture of deep spiritual meaning comes to the Star Theatre to-morrow.
It is "A Chapter in Her Life," Universal's screen transcription of Clara Louise Burnham's popular novel, "Jewel," directed by Lois Weber.
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“A Chapter in Her Life" is tho story of a little child, whose instinctive understanding for right and wrong was clearer than
CLEVER COMBINATION.
stories because he did not believe After discarding two other them quite strong enough for the high standart being set by First National and in accord with Con-t stance Talmadge's success in "The Goldfish," Joseph M. Schenck has assembled a combination for her: new picture that certainly ought to insure success,
Learning to Love" is the title and how you can exploit that one-and it is an original by John Emerson and Anita Loos, the most 'successful combination of comedy. writers the screen has known. was written especially for MIŠK Talmadge, of course.
Sidney Franklin, who has directed Constance in, qne other picture and Norma in five, includ ing "Smilin' Through," hoạ been" engaged by Schenck for a long period and will handle the mega- phone on "Learning to Loye
ABRAHAM LINCOLN." What is conceded to be one of the acquired knowledge of her the most interesting me valuable elders and she educated them to motion pictures ever made
Abraham Lincoln "has been the fact that so-called wisdom was frequently without foundation and secured by Associated First National Pictures, Inc., for world therefore false.
It would take a woman director wide distribution as a result of a of strong maternal instinct and deal, concluded recently with the sensitive to the finer points of the producers, Al and Ray Rockett. story to make of it the pictureThis assures the presentation of that it should be--and a director this most waluable historical and who understood children
dramatic film to all types, and classes of audiences in every corner of the globe. It is under- stood that during the past few weeke practically all of the big been bidding for the production.
First National's decision to distribute "Abraham Lincoin" is in such a picture. Universal chose in keeping with Ita policy to Claude Gillingwater, famous for handle productions of only the his. "Three Wise Fools," on the highest grade, according to the stage and many successes in the announcendent of Richard Port- past two years in pictures for the land, production manager, who lending mato cherretur, now said that the releintalake Chan not child "discovery. of Miss Weber's.
Fyet been determined Jane Mercer, was selected for the role of Jewel," child heroine, Another discovery, Jacqueting Gadsden, Robert Frazier,
In picking Miss Weber, Univer sal felt confident that the choice was the best. She was allowed to write her own continuity of the story in order that ite
ring theme would live fully motion picture distributors have
Players of excellent ability and proven calibre would be necessary,
Raymond, Ralph @Yooralby; and < Thatcher, Beth Rayon and Fred; Thomson were chosen for other priricipal ro ext
JUDGMENT" SCENARIZED.