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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924.
LOOK OUT FOR THESE
PICTURES I
WILLIAM FOX
presents
"MONTE CRISTO"
by
Alexandre Dumas'
A Spectacular production in ten reels
with an all star cast
MARY PICKFORD
Tess of the Storm
Country
An entirely new and recently finished production of the famous screen classic the whole world loves.
THE
COURT DETAIL.
CORONET
The Problem In Big Drama.
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A scrup. of papre may be a very Universal City nupurtant thing. sent to New York for one! Several men bad to negotiate for days to get it, and then it was used in just a few.flashes of a picture,
THE CHINA MAIL.
CINEMA CHATTER
COMING TUESDAY.
Star Theatre's Big Picture.
PROGRAMME FEATURES.
TO-NIGHT.
CORONET "A Fool's Para-
dise."
STAR-"Forgive and Forget"
WORLD" Has The World
Gone Madge
QUEEN'S · "Sherlock
Brown."
STAR-THEATRE.
"Forgive and Forget" To-day.
What is said by persons who have already seen it in special) pre-release showings, to be one of the most gripping motion pictures ever made, is "Forgive and For- get" the new C.B.C. feature, showing at the Star Theatre for the last time to-day.
MARY PICKFÖRD in TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY
MARY'S NEW FILM.
Interest In "Tess of the Storm Country."
Heralded as "the story of a
Seldom has there been shown production features an all-star such a marked interest in a forth- woman's mistake this supreme" cast hended by Estelle Taylor and coming photoplay as that, evinced Pauline Garon and including such by local theatre-goers since the first distinguished players as Wyndham announcement of the coming of Standing, Raymond McKee, Josef Swickard,
Sunday
and
THE STAR
Matlitee
Night
Monday
The Greatest Mystery film ever produced. Who Killed
Andrew Prentice?
HOW
WHY
WHAT
WHO
did the butler explain his presence at the
· time of the murder
did Robock Armstrong attempt to prevent the marriage of Madeline Amos to Kenneth Winthrop
was the method used to commit the murder?
was with Andrew Frontion just before the murder --
WHERE as the most sensational svidence found †,
does the district attorney make his big WHEN
uniatako 1
How Many Questions Can
You Answer ?
It's the greatest mystery evor enacted on stage or mereen! You are hereby challenged to so if you can tell who was guilty i You won't know until the vory end-this in one picture that will keep you guessing from start to finish! It will hold you tense, breathless and aghast at its sanational myatory thrills and its atirring romauono! A tremendous chat, magnificent settings, a raal story! You'll miss the treat of your life if you do not see
ACQUITTAL
with Tremendous All Star Cast
-OOMING 800N-- "THE INSIDE OF THE CUP"
The positive film sensation of the age.
"FOOL'S PARADISE." To-day's New Coronet Picture.
"Partners of the Tide," which comes to the Star Theatre next Tuesday has a very interesting by the Misses Allen, becomes a story. Bradley Nickerson, adopted firm friend of Gussie Baker, the little girl next door. Fifteen years pass. Bradley is first mate of the Thomas Doane," owned by Granny Baker. Her business
Philo. McCullough, Mary Pickford in her own and a manager advises that the old ship Vernon Steele, and Lionel Belmoro, new version of "Tess of the Storm be sunk for the insurance money.
Believing that the public is in- Country," a united Artists releass A Swede seaman and Bradley dis- cover the plot and prevent the terested in stories of modern life which will be the attraction at the It is disaster. Bradley buys an interest in themes in which they might Coronet Theatre soon. in another ship. The Diving conceivably find themselves the
central characters, the producers perhaps the combination of a Belle. Later the **Thomas have concentrated on making favourite star in a Favourite playo Doane" is intentionally sunk. "Forgive and Forget" a story of which makes this screen event so
Bradley and Sam Hammond, a
notable, but it is also certain the! deep-sea diver, are in love with life as it is lived to-day.
As à resuit the finished produc- fact that Miss Pickford has greatly Tess comes forward as the heroic Gussic. The insurance company personification of the friend in need hires Bradley to make an investition teems with human interest elaborated on her triumphant his-
Climbing the highest mountain and lifts the cumbersome burdens gation for them, while Gussie im-and treats of a network of circum- of dive worry from the shoulders of plores Sam to hide the cause of stances in which men and women trionic efforts of eight yours ago peaks in the United States, to gain the erring child of opulence. This the wreck. Hammond plays a of to-day will find themselves las had a marked effect in intensi merely a flash in a dramatic motion picture is the latest adventurous. is not accomplished without a self- dastardly trick on Bradley while specially interested. Complexities tying the public interest. sacrifice, which all but wrecks the they are below the surface, which of human emotion; problems in It is well known that this exploit of the photoplay makers. prospective happiness of the almost proves fatal. That night modern marriage: love between a
The climber, Alvin Wycoff, camera- sacrificing ene, but without pausing Hammond is on board "The young girl and her fiancee and the celebrated star has gone to a great The peak was Mt. Whitney, Cal.; pan; the picture, Fool's to count the costs, she vanquishes Diving Belle," tampering with more mature love of a married expense in reproducing Tess of trouble from the sphere of bar Bradley's diving suit, when a fire couple both with their doubts the Storm Country" because of her Paradise, Cecil B. De Mille's breaks out. Bradley rows to the and their readjustments-all these ambition to improve upon it to latest Paramount production, which This occurs in "The Acquittal, superior in social standing.
Rimultaneously circumstantial burning ship. Finding Haramond situations.combine to make "For- all-star Universal Jewel production
Theatre to-day, as mayor and hoa plunged
Daddy almost suffocated, he places him-in give and Forget" a picture that such an extent as to insure its will be the feature at the Coronet
Critica of Bita Wonian's Inuous stage ovidence
It took days of travel by pack to the Star Skimmer, Tess's beloved fatlier, into the small boat. Hammond, regain will live in memory long after it popularity in posterity.
throughout the country agree she train to reach the towering moun; lay, coning Theatre. Actual curt documents, the deep woe of being accused ing consciousness, pushes off and has passed off the screen.
The story centres around a las succeeded in her purpose and tain, and four days for the round borrowed from the Supreme Court falsely of murder. Once more the leaves Bradley. Bradley dives into of New York, were used in the little heroine of the fisherrpen the water. Gussie rows out and young married couple-the woman it is freely predicted this great trip through the snow to the peak's Hassive court room seene, sad one, wields all the mighty influence of saves him. At last, realizing the young, attractive and admiration film dram will live as long as top, 14,501 feet above the sea a judgment handed down in a trial, the invincible warrior hold in her depth of her love, she gives him seeking-foolish and thoughtless there is such a thing as a motion level.
the husband, as too many modern
Do you remember the old fairy and written on artual court station method of endienting the worry the answer he has long awaited.
young husbands are, too wrapped picture screen.
tale of the "Magic Carpet" and ery, ok several days to obtain.wrinkles from her older's brow.
It is suid Miss Pickford reaches how it wafted lovers here and there up in the business of providing
That's the world?
the material comforts for his pretty the zenith of her dramatic powers over The presiding justice had
SCREEN IMITATION, officially sanction its use before it
wife to realize that she is seeking her interpretation of the charac-answer-und to gain the effect of could be taken from the files and
elsewhere the admiration and More Costly Than Original.
the carpet crossing mountains the sent to Universal City.
entertainment which she thinks heter of this sympathy-winning and trip to Mt. Whitney was devised: This is just an instance of the
is withholding.
mudy Mildred Harris and A strange paradox was
Stark realism marks the remark- minute detail of the sensational
How her own innocent but muthorities proclaim it truly mar- Searies are the passengers on the able jury trial screened in "The scene in one of the comes to her in a double dose. covered recently in the realm of most gripping mystery plays in the going the limit in testing her notion pictures, when it was disapparently guilty actions prove a vellous as an example of her "Magic Carpet." history of the serve. The story nettle. However, this Tess finds overed that, in one instance at boomerang that almost completely
make part of a wonderful stage pageant Acquittal," Universal-Jewel adap- called The Ice Queen, in which talion of Rita Weiman's famous keeps the audience guessing vainly way to foil fate itself in this case least, the cost of an imitation was wrecks their happiness, that she incomparable ability
to the Star Theatre, Presented until the foal scene. One by one and her two unwelcome, suitors far greater than the original lands the husband in prison and people laugh one minute and cry effects rivalling in beauty his glass stage play, which comes to-morrow to logical disappointments This freakish fact was established brings her to the realization of the next. Miss Pickford's won set in "Forbidden Fruit," wera by an all-star cast, headed by every person in the east is sus come
the when Enunett J. Flynn, the how really worthless are the derful ability to run the gauntlet of attained. pected of the marder that forms the through the cleverness of
so much William Fox director, who pro-things she has thought so neces- human emotions with:
This is only one of the novelties Norman Kerry and Claire Windsor. The play unravels a baffling backgrond-of-the striking play object of their ardour.
Summarizing, it is patent the duced Fool There was began sary to her happiness are pictured natural-realisu-is-the-secret-of-her-in-this picture. A long sequence
which the Its plot rivals that of "The Bat's be
intentions of Grace Miller White to range for certain scenes that in a swift succession of incidents unprecedented
an shows scenes in an oil town with mystery story in a creator of thrills and mystery,
exponent of the cinema art.
actual gushers: far-away Siam and audience is kept guessing, and the A specially notable all-star cast in creating such a lovable character purport to be taken aboard the told with a gripping force.
us Tess was to offer a convincings-Atlantic liner "Olympic.". Estelle Taylor does the finest presents the play, which
It was found that Flynn's all-work of her career as the young In this epochal photoplay she is the wonders of Angkor Wat and identity of the true criminal is not Wat Chang, two of the most revealed until the very end of the directed by Clarener T.. Brown demonstration of how the lowly. Norman Kerry the lover of night brighten the lives of the turcompany could have made the wife who thinks she hurts no one surrounded by a supporting cast of beautiful temples of the Orient. picture
Mary higher-ups and Miss Pickford journey from Californin New but herself by flirting; lovely little exceptional
Lloyd "Fool's Paradise' is by Bettlah scone shows witness after witness "Merry-Go-Round" with
her artistic presentation of the York and "shot" the scenes on the Pauline Garon is her young sister. Hughes in the leading male role, Marie Dix and Sada Cowan, and testifying, the testimony being Philbin. and who played opposite
suggested by Leonard depicted in action that makes up. Patsy Huth Miller in The Hunch-traits of this admirable conqueror Olympic" at less expense than who is just embarking on the which was originally created by the back of Notre Dame, plays the Demon Trouble has placed her was necessary to erect studio sets undertaking of marriage, and late Harold Lockwood, and Gloris Marick's The Laurois and the the principal part of the play rincipal male rôle, and Claire as the foremost exponent of representing the interior and decks Wyndham Standing is the bus-Hope as Toola Graves are especial-Indy. The leading roles are something the legitimate produc
the silent tramo several inches "of the ginnt liner.
band, Howard M. Mitchell hasly good while David Torrance, Windsor the principal feminine part.
higher.
Mildred Harris, Conrad Nagel, accomplish. Barbara Bedford, who headed the
When you see Tow, you will see sary lighting equipment could not to this picture, which was pro-Mudume de Boxlamere all give and Jalin Faye.
The trouble, was that the ces given his customary fine direction forrest Robinson, Dann, Hos portrayed by Dorothy Dalton, tion could never have hoped to
Jean Hersholt, Guy Saville and Theodore Kosloff, John Davidson cast of "The Speilere," Har trouble on the ran, and Tess accom- lase been made available on the duced by Harry Cohn. Mestaver, celebrated stage, star,
excellent performancea, Steamship itself. Ben Deels, saudeville headliners plishes her victories in a walk!
court room
10
WILS
and now a recognized picture player, Anton Vaverka, who played Tho
emperor in "Merry-Go-
Round, and other equally well- known artists appear in the mystery masterpiece.
SCREEN CLASSIC.
"Tess of the Storm Country."
As Mary Pickford draws the character of the heroine. of her latest screen triumph, "Tess of the Storm Country," her own new production of this famous film classic, she is a most formidable, little fee to Demon Trouble,
The battle she offers so cour- agoously against all the onslaughts of the elements of woo entering into the lives of those in whom she is interested so loyally constitutes nagrowing study-in-how-vjetory inay be achieved by occupants of the least advantageous hovel evan though completely surrounded by every force calculated to cristi contentment and happiness,
Whan in the course of stirringly dramatic events in this photoplay the trusting Caughter of a wealthy land-owner gelaw into deep-trouble Chronghi a' mingguided kore käfair,
Then, to top it .. one vilinious fisherman persists in loisting his undesired attentiona pon the girl while she is being amoyed by the advances of the Thus trouble village half-wit.
un-
admirable
heroine
and
to
success AA
brilliance.
**** TO-DAY till TUESDAY at
THE CORONET
Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular production
was
"A FOOL'S PARADISE"
with
Kamuela
The incident is
DOROTHY DALTON, MILDRED HARRIS, CONRAD NAGELSE caus
THEODORE KOSLOFF and JOHN DAVIDSON
The story of a woman marrying a blind man who believes her to be the woman
he loves, when in reality she is the woman he hates.
QX20
"MOKTER CRISTO
TRIAL BY JURY.
A
Realism Of Mystery Play.
A massive court room
It is the gripping story of a crime; a strange optical illusion by which an accusation is turned aside, and`s baffling mystery that grows, out of a man's acquittal. The audience follows every move in the search for the slayer. Practically everyone in the cast comes under suspicion, and finally a single flesh of action clears the most entire story with a unexpectedly
Clarence Brown directed the remarkable play. The striking feature is the absolutely true depicting of a court trial, from actual legal documents to every possible detail of such an event. Charles Furthmann, former deputy district attorney of Chicago Bat with the director throughout as technical adviser to check on every bit of legal deportment, especially. to select a jury that is true to life and count atmosphere,
The list of players, is specially Zotable, including Besides, Kerry BR30 Land Miss Windsor, Barbati
Bedford, where headed- Bpoilers cast Harry Mestaver, famous stage star, Ben Deely, Anton Vaverka and others equally. nowblower. The scene from newspaper phot famous recent wirikis, documents were borrowed. New York courts to add reSURI.
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