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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1923

THE

STAR

TO-DAY

at 2,80, 5.30 & 9.15 p.m.

JACK PICKFORD

IN .

"GARRISON'S FINISH"

SUNDAY, at 6 and 9.15 MONDAY, at 5.80 and 9.15

"WAY DOWN EAST

PROGRAMME FEATURES.

TO-NIGHT.

Corunet-Jackie Coogan in

**Trouble."

World-Priscilla Dean in

""'The Flame of Life." Star.-Jack Pickford ja

*Karrison's Finish. Grand-Macklin Arbuckle in

The Prodigal Judge. ¶¶ÆÏ

DRAMA OF BIG BUSINESS.

- FIEROINE OF FAMOUS LE

ROY SCOTT NOVEL.

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PENROD."

BOOTH FARKINGTON'S

CHOICE.

THE CHINA MAIL

CINEMA CHATTER.

FRECKLES BARRY.

MAKES SACRIFICE FOR ART.

Freckles Barry has learned the meaning of the phrase, Art for Art's sake.

AN OCEAN OF LAUGHS.

KEATON'S "BOAT.",

A SMALL TOWN IDOLI

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CLASSIC OF THE STICKS.

Comerly of the hilarious sort The opening scenes of Mack Sen- plentifully besprinkles with molo nett's six-reel super comedy, A dranu, and with a genuinely inter-Small Town Idol," ure sotim that It was in a scome for Penrod dating plot, to say nothing of thrills kind of a town where the railroad Marshall Nealan's picture, when Freckles and little Maurice Levoy wero scheduled to put on a lively scrap during the children's pageant. Give us a real scrap," said Mr. Neilan to the young gladiatorn.

every few minutes-doubs "The Boat," in which "Buster Keaton is seen in his latest two-rvel super comedy,

Buster spends practically most of the two reels on the broad Pacific.

It

truck and a struggling stream pro vide the sunburnt inhabitanta: with their only ideas of motion.

THE

GRAND

Í

SATURDAY & SUNDAY at 9.15 p.m.

VITAGRAPH presents

MACKLIN "ARBUCKLE

his famous Characterisations

"THE PRODIGAL

JUDGE"

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FILMING BIG GAME.

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device by several cuméros at oue time, are admirable, astonishing.

VARJHTY OF ANILIALS.

Ben Turpin is the hero Jimmy. Finlayson is the villain; charming Phyllis Haver is the country maid At the word, Mauris rushed in

a comedy that gives Buster and shapes hercine bênours with on Freckles, Biff. And while we ample opportunity to demonstrate Marie Prevost, who in scen in later should like to report that it was his versatility and his inventive episodes when the plot shifts to a Freckles' blow, still we have to stick genius.

city wherein Turpin, unjustly accus- to the frets and say it was Freckles'.

The action which follows the ed at home, takes mfage and be chin that stopped the blow. launching of Keaton's home-made comes associated with the piquant Whereupon the little freckle faced ship is fast and furious. Buster, Marie in a thrilling motion picture: star became acquainted with a Jot knowing nothing of the antice of production of which she is the of other little stars and counted Neptuno sails to sea nad is caught, feminine principal and he is the them as he reclined in an ungraceful with his wife and family, in tho puissant hero in chape. pasc on the floor...

storm. The rescue, while intensely On the fame of this film Ban thrilling is interspersed with much returns in triumph to his village comedy, and the finish is novel as home, But things have moved well as exccodingly funny.

rapidly there during his absence. The lovely maid is about to ho con-MAJOR DUGMORE'S GREAT demned to matrimony with the wicked villain and a scandal of tremendong consequence has brokenj

There was shown recently in family group, baboons, giraffes, out in the village church. Charley Edinburgh, The Wonderland of zelos, cleriants, and lions. Murray, the castable, is Iardly Big Game," a remarkable serice of Major Dugmercedes was an often able to quell the riotons deportment filing of vald animal life in Africa, 4s posible to photograph the beasts of the citizens, and Turpin is, by a compiled by Major A, R. Dugmore, as they drank at the pool of water. requence of atmage accidents, nearly FR.G.S. Of recent times nioving Most interesting is the sight of the lynched-not for hin acting, but for pictures of "wild" animals have zebras, positive something, they his glibness with his gun. Of course been common interludes in the tat know not what, was wrong, remain everything reaches the hea of tran-run of cinema-house fare; but this ing on the alert in ti a distance till quillity like the straggling stream, is something novel. There is no at last they conquered their fears ur and the "finis" is a fade-cut with fear in Major Dugmore's achieve uld bear it no longer and rushed wedding bells celebrating the most ment, as he pointed ant, of the in a body to the pool. So, too, with novel and picturesque story that shadow of a: Zoo fence making the giraffes and a host of others. Mack Sennets has yet given to the bathos of a superficial thrill. What! The most exciting, adventures,

It was as it should be, as far as the script was concerned but when the Breno was completed Frecklee kept his position on the foor. It took Marjorie Daw's smelling salts to bring him to.

ACTOR'S APPETITE.

LAOCHABLE INCIDENT

DURING FILMING.

In "Freckles Barry the screen has found the ideal impersonation | of Penrod," the boy chameter ira- mortalized in Booth Tarkington's stories. The opinion eumes, nut In the filming of Metro's special from Marshall Neilau, who has production of "Uncharted Sets," made the film version of "Penrod."one of the players is called upon to but from Booth Tarkington himself, devour a sandwich of, respectable The Indian author was largely proportions and a glass of milk with: responsible for the selection of a great show of gusto. The scene "Freckles" Bany for the title role, was set for shooting the other day

"I submitted a list of nearly forty at Metro's Hollywood boy actors and other child players shortly after noon, to Mr. Tackington," said Mr. Neilan, and from the photographs attached to the list Mr. Tarkington made his choice. Mr. Torkington was familiar with the screen work of "Freckles Barry, Marjorie Daw and Lena Baskette, the vamplet in 'Poured, and chose them at once for the leading chilt roles.

studios

"Bat-but I've just had a hearty! lurob," mildly protested Janes Quinn, the possessor of the alleged·| appetite.

But Director Wesley Ruggles in- xisted and Quinn became a cartyr to the cause to the extent of con- uning the generous sandwich and milk for a "long shat.”

"Now we'll have to repeat

TOMORROW

AT

THE CORONET

NORMA

TALMADGE

IN

THE ETERNAL FLAME

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ASKED FOR COLD TEA."

screen.

WANTED-A MOTHER.

ACHIEVEMENT.

The variety of animale filmed in- cludes buffalo, zebras, a rhinoceros

is presented is a unique and lasting, however, were witir a huge rhino- The record of the great benste of the ceros and with elephante. world living their natural life in the former moved; straight for the haunts to which they were horn, the camera, before he could be deflected, result of a daring expedition to the remotest districts of Africa.

and made Major Dogmore's knees, he tells us, knock together so badly he had to sit down and rest thein whenever the experience was over. With the elephants it was worse, for herd stood almost on top of bis ill-concealed concealment fat beer-

JACKIE COOGAN'S NEED.

A little New York, girl got wor

ABSOLUTE INTEREST. ried over Jackie Cocgan after she

Of absorbing interest to everyone, saw him in "Trouble," his latest the film catches and holds the atten. First National offering, in which helion from the screening of the first is seen at the Coronet Theatre. So picture till the last. Major Dug

animal was to have constructed discover him, and waving their Haven't you any mother? le concealed house of branches trunks precariously over his bead. have seen every one of your pic and leaves wherein, when the That time also be thought himself tarea but the Bad Boy, and I animale could be induced, or when well out of it l feel very sorry for you because rather, their suspicions could be Julled, he turned the handle of his you're all alone.

AND BUSTER GOT IT. Buster Keaton and his company "'Penrod," Mr. Neilan pointed

it for were an the tin. The train halted How "Big Business relaxes and out, is not merely the story of the a closeup, coolly announced the at Santa Barbara, Cal, for a few she wrote hisa a letter in which she more's method of photographing the ingly burg an end, too nisur, bita to

country boy or the tale of the city director.

oments and a little old man board. | asked :— spends its swollen profits on the boy-ho is every boy. In creating midnight pleasures of Broadway is the character of Penrod Mr. Tark become toune vigorous this time. Buster Keaton company. He car- Quina pennitted his, protest toed the gar containing the Metro- vividly shown in "Mary Regan. ** ington bus not, as so many others But after much argument, he sub-ried a covered basket.

When the capitalist and his son.

have done, portrayed a certain 15 mitted, crammed one mare of the Hiq manner wasn't exactly fur. and their friends so relax and down into the fundamentals of every washing it down with nak

or class of boy. He has reached hateful orders of bread and meat,tive and it wasn't bold either. Approaching Buster, be winked aud begin to squander the money which boy and has pictured characteristics

'Then it was decided that Alice broadly asked: Ins come without exertion there that are immediately evident in all Lake, star of the production, should creep in from the underworld creu- Anerican youths. The story might participate in the scime to the extent turns hideous of soul, but with the small town.

have taken place in a large city or al of watching the food being comin- It will therefore beled. Quinn, pleading for mercy and braing of diplomats who begin cun appreciated by those who have tugging at a rapidly tightening bett, ningly to plat the reaping of dis- always lived in the city ne well as held out for some time, but finally

those who have never left the equn-submitted. hanest harvest.

To his credit as an try town.

artor it may be said that he gave

Such is the stage upon which is set "Mary Regon," Anita Stewart's newest picture. Miss Stewart has the part of a girl whose mother was

a society woman, and whose father

is serving a penitentiary sentence

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In portraying Tarkington's story all the appearances of a hungry man on the screen I lave not atteinpted and a sick one. to detract or improve upon it.” To

"Now, for another shot" be attempt to out-Tarkington Turkinggan the director. ton would be just as foolish as to But there was no other shot. The

"Uncharted Beas" is a screen.

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MONSTER'S 3,000 MILES SWIM.

Freckles Barry returned to Los

That's too bad, but it's more or camera and recorded their likeness long a fact.

for our enjoyment. The great diffi. "Like to buy some ice cold Off stage, Jackie has a regular culty he had was the keen scent of FRECKLES' ́ALLIGATOR. tea?"

mother and a regular daddy, too, these wild creatures and the fashion He lifted the cover of his basket but only once has he been caught in which their ever-alert norves were kept on a seemingly impossible qui cautiously and permitted a glimpse baving a mother in his pictures. of mouse brown bottles couched in In The Kid," if you recall it, tie by that sense of scene and some cracked ice.

Charlie Chaplin acted as mother occasionally by the unavoidable "How much?" asked Buster. and father both, although in the last noise of the camera. How be over "Five dollars & bottle, was the few feet of film Edna Purviance did came bis difficulty was simply by Angeles from a vacation in New reply, accompanied by another wink: come forth and claim him for her wonderful patience, and so, to our Yark to commence work on the eyes, we can seem in our chairs in filming of "Penfod," Marshall Four bottles were purchased and] own.

He had a mother in "Peck's Bad the

us close to Neilan's latest production which the old man extructed a promise not to open the iced tea" until after Boy."

the beasts as the photographer, was adapted from Booth Tarking но close us to see them, as fon's stories for release by Associat But in "My Boy" his mother was station. He said he might get in a mythical conebody who died at and far closer than any bunters of with the strangest pet any film star the train had pulled out, of the

he has secured them, life-size.ed Firet National Pictures, Inc., sen, and in "Trouble", he is once

Music Hall

try to out-Shakespeare Shakespeare, tortured Quim was tattering down Booth Tarkington is undoubtedly the street, deaf to all entreaties. trouble otherwise. for theft. She has determined that the greatest painter of American

When the train had left Santa more a motherless orphan until he big game have ever been successful has ever brought to the film colony.

Freckles not only carted in she shall live a lawful life to repay oyhood. ns indicated by the version of John Fleming Wilson's Barbara. some miles behind, the is adopted from the asylum by the in attaining. But at what a cost in

that same patience! For 70 nights, eighteen inch alligator-but an alli her father's debt to society. Un-traph of his 'Penned stories. It gripping story of the perpetually bottles were opened and in them wife of a childless, brutal plumber.

has been my ambition to picturize frozen "ico fields. It appeared way found-

Despite this, however, be has all Major Dugmore expected lions, for gator that had a record. willing to force a husband to share these chameters as this author has originally in Munsey's Magazine.

This alligator swam across the Yep, it was just iced tea that the the instincts of a dutiful san and the 70 nights he awaited them in the the stigma of her father's name, the so successfully visualized them with It was prepared for the screen by star of the comedy, "One Week," picture gets its title, from his extremnest danger, and on two occa continent, 3,000 miles.

And the

The fact is that during the entire has refused to marry a young detec-| his pen."

'George Elwood Jenks.

Thad bought.

attempts to shield his foster mother son they appeared. from the troubles that beset her.

consequent pictures, taken by transcontinental train trip Mr. Gator was confined in the wash bowl (an extra ode) of the drawing room suite; and he swam lustily throughout the entire journey.

tivo.

Peter Loveman an attorney, is the head of one of the gangs which, dressed in evening clothes, and sur- rounded by splendour, prey upon the wealthy. He sees i Mary an ideal tool. "She is young, beautiful, educated and refined. He decides to juse ber in throwing his net over Juck Morton, the son of a rich man. Young Morton in incline to be wild.

'Loveman induces young Marton's father to send him away to the mountains under the care of Brad- ley, an agent of Lovenan. Love-

man takes care that the resort to which young Morton is sent is that: at which Mary Regan is spending |

holiday. They are thrown toge- ther, and Mary, while knowing Loveman is plotting against both herself and the boy, forms an attach- ment for him, Becking to save hi from the reckless pace at which he has been going. When he becomes : infatuated with her she agrees to wed him, and they contact a secret. marriage At a seashore hotel the elder Morton comes upon them within a few hours after their mar riage, and, because Mary has agreed not to tell of their relation, the father foross them apart.

From this time forth the story| renotvou itself into Mary's attempte to keep her young husband, out of the hands of Loreman and hi erowd, who are trying to get lie money, and still to keep secret her marriage to Jack, Loveman duR- -stantly threatens her, but her goo

friend, Clifford, the detective, always has on yo ta her safety,

At last, however, the Lovernan crow get Mary and Jak together a "private room at a big Brondway cabaret whore, they are ready to make way with the girl and clean up the last of the young man b money, when the detective plays his master card.

SHOWING

FOR

THE

LAST

TIME

TO-DAY AT

2.30,

5.15,

7.15,

9.15.

SHOWING

FOR

THE

LAST

TIME

TO-DAY AT

2.30,

5.15,

7.15,

9.15.

JACKIE COOGAN in TROUBLE

BUSTER KEATON in THE BOAT

and BUSTER

USUAL

PRICES

THE CORONET

USUAL

PRICES

NORMA TALMADGE.

FAMOUS COURT COQUETTE

ROLE.

Norma Talmadge, of great beauty atid. many talents, again registers her histrionic versatility, this time as an of the most alluring and lov- able of coquettes, in her portrayal of the Duchess of Langeaus in the [big spectacular production of "The

Eternal Flama."

The story, by Balzac, ie kid dur- ing the reign of Louis XVIII. in the Second Restoration Period. With the passing of a season, the court growa cuion as to why the Duchess has become a bitterly cyni cal coquot conferring her favours equally among her admirers, accept- ing the honing of all Paris, yet giving nothing in roturn. It was s period of extravagant frivolition, magnificant Lisions, yet her life was without reproach.--.:

Then General Armand de Mon- trivesu, an intimate of Napolcon, became the fashion in Paris by the stinnge law of contraries. A man of battles and grim realities, utterly universed in the trays of women and love be was in Foutafunding figure among the brainless cokcombs of the court, and therefore the mark of the patrician coquettes milerë

pero Nital of Do Manta. Preau look richess Fonkives a con- quest which changes the course of her whole life and ewalu in ʼn romaNOO au splend

of the Immortal Beauties

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