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SATURDAY JUL -12, 1921.

THE STAR

LAST TIME TO-DAY

MAY ALLISON

in

THE WALK OFFS"

STARTING SUNDAY

HOOT GIBSON

REG. DENNY

IN

THE

THRILL CHASER

IN

"ROUND 16

LEATHER PUSHERS

THE CHINA MAIL.

CINEMA CHATTER

I

MARK TWAIN S

IMMORTAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE

THE PRINCE

AND THE

PAUPER

THE STORY OF A YOUNG PRINCE OF ENGLAND WHO ALMOST LOST HIS CROWN AND OF A YOUNG STREET URCHIN WHO NEARLY

# BECAME KING ::

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"The Film has caught the spirit of Mark Twain

and you owe it to your children and to yourself to take

them with you to see it,'

COMMENCING MONDAY AT

THE CORONET.

$

PROGRAMME, FEATURĘS:

TO-NIGHT.

CORONET-May McAvoy in

"Her Reputation," WORLD-Mae Marsh and Harry Myers: in "Daddies."

... STAR-May Allison in "The

Walk Offs."..

QUEEN'S-William Farnum

in "The Adventurer."

MEDIEVAL DANCE.

Staged By Theodore Rosloff.

The beautiful medieval dances which will be noted in Joseph M. Schenck's stupendous production, "Ashes of Vengeance," a romantic drama of France in the days of Charles IX, in which Nonna Tal- madge will be seen at the Coronel Theatre soon, were directed by Theodore Kostoff, famous hallet

master.

គឺរមឲបង់អៗឲបង់ពាក|ospecially

DIVORCE COURT SCENE.

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FASHION SHOW IN "THE WALK-OFFS."

Ten Is Served And Judge Entertains Ladies.

One of the most amusing features of "The Walk-Offs” à society comedy by Frederic and

Every detail of the historical romance was worked out with minute" fidelity to the period The Louvre ballroom scene, which shows the glittering extravagance of Catherine de Medici's court, is

elaborate,

Twelve hundred ladies and gentlemen of the court are seen dancing the minuet in this grand ballroom 25 the picture opens. The dances were exact reproductions of the dances of the period; even the music played for the dance was of the period. Manifestly, the pro- per staging of such a scene requir ed the supervision of a master of the dance; hence Director Lloyd engaged Kosloff to stage it.

Fanny Hation, which will be stated, by the way, is the largest The set in which this scene is shown at the Star Theatre for the last time to-day is the divorce and most magnificent the photo- court scene in which the trial is play patron has yet had the plea. lightly treated as a social function sure of beholding. It is 330 feet similar to a wedding. May Allison long, 90 feet wide and 70 feet high. is starred in this brilliant satire of great vaulted ceiling is in- wealthy society that has been cluded in the spectacle.

picturized by Screen Classics, Inc. by a distinguished cast in "Ashes Norma Talmadge is surrounded In addition to the principals, a of Vengeance." It includes not number of men and women attend less than twenty celebrities, not- the trial to amuse themselves and ably Conway Tearle, Wallace enjoy some of the choicer bits of Beery; Courtenay Foote, Josephine gossip and scandal available Crowell, Betty Francisco, Claire

there. •The proceedings occasionally interrupted to per mit tea to be served and the judge descends from

his bench to mingle with the throng and pay particular attention to the beau tiful women who grace his court

room.

are McDowell, Andre de Beranger, Murdock MacQuarrie, Boyd Irwin, Carmen Peillips, Winter Hall, William Clifford, Hector V. Sarno, Earl Schenck, Jimmy Cooley, Lucy Beaumont, Forrest Robinson, Mary McAllister, Kenneth Gibson, and little Jeanne Carpenter. Howard Truesdell, Frank, Leigh

The men are attired in cutaway coats and light trousers, spats of gray with boutonnieres in their lapels. The feminine spectators wear gowns of lace, silk and satin. One charming effect is a combina- tion of moleskin fur and georgette

ALICE TERRY.

Braves Terrific,Storm.

If there is any question in the crepe of the same shade, with aminds of picture fans as to the turban of far.

authenticity of storm scenes in May Allison typifies smart the movies, let them hear about fashion's dernier cri" with a suit the experience of Alice Terry of black tricotine, heavily embroi- during the making of Rex In- dered, with which she wears a gram's latest production for Metro, close fitting black velvet turban

Where the Pavement Ends" by with a band of gold brocade. A John Russell, which will be shown chinchilla fur stole swathes her at the Coronet Theatre,

beautiful white throat Effic It was the task of Alice Terry Conley, the divorcee-to-be, wears a stunning black velvet gown and a jaunt black tricorn hat.

Claire Du Brey, as the "vampire,"

her

to fight her way against a tropical storm through the jungle. .of Florida. The picture was made in Miami and the surrounding Ever glades during. September and

is also in a frock of black, em October, the hurricane months. broidered in blue sequins. Her

Rex Ingram deliberately await. hat is large and about shoulders is a mink cape which led the coming of a twister" be is matched in colour and texture by fore staging the scene. Then, the silken coat of the Pomeranian gaining from the weather bureau she, carries.

an approximate estimate of the Pugs and poodles, path the hurricane would take, he leashed and beribboned, blink at the divorce judge from the laps of set up his camera a few yards away. their mistresses, bark imperiously lable at any moment to tum on her And in the wash of that hurricane, or curt up impolitely in sleep.

and to crush ber beneath a tangle June Mathis wrote this scene of trees and jungle growth, Alice into the original play which was a Terry went through her big scene Broadway stage hit when produced in "Where the Pavement Ends." by Oliver Morosco. She was

Miss Terry and Ramon Nóvárro assisted by A. P. Younger, of her have important parts in this thril staff. Herbert Blache directed the ling and romantic tale of the South picture under the personal super Seas. The story was adapted for vision of Maxwell Karger, director the screen by Rex Ingram and general,

photographed by John P. Seitz.

Hobart Henley, who directed If you haven't forgotten Kink The Flirt." The Abysmal Baggot as an actor, once the idol Brute," "The Flame of Life" and of the film-loving public, we'll A Lady of Quality," and, who want to see The Thrill Chaser" once was popular as an actor, will Universal Hoot Gibson productios be seen to-morrow in person on showing or the Star, Theatre the screen at the Star Theatre. to-morrow. where Hoot Gibson's Universal inimitable Hoot are many, famous In support of the starring vehicle, The Thrill stars and directors of Universal Chaser, is showing. Healey is City. King Baggot is seen in shown in the picture directing important sequences of the story, Reginald Denny and Laura La directing Norman Kerry and Piante

Philbin of Merry-Go-Round.""

Some from Mark Twain's "The Prince and The Pauper"

MARK TWAIN FILM."

"PRINCE AND THE PAUPER"

COMING.

It is a sumptuous production, with hundreds of assisting players, and accurately transmits, through the medium of the screen, the true spirit of the book, That spirit, as most people know, is one of romance in the time of Henry VIII, the story depending on Pomp and pageantry which the resemblance of one boy to might have delighted the heart another-the Prince of Wales and of Mark Twain as revealed in Tom Canty, a beggar lad.- "The Prince and The Pauper," will j be presented at the Coronet Theatre

Sumptuous Production.

The tale is an appealing one and

on Monday next, and having for is suitable for young folks of all its principal player an astonish- ages,"so the screen caption tells ingly clever boy of seven years, us. As a book it-has- remained Tibi Lubin. It is easily con- ceivable that this Polish boy for many years the best thing of might have been equally delight its kind; as a picture. it holds the ful to the great, author.

same ligh place.

Thos. H Ince presents

The story of the hoy who was commanded to change clothes with the Prince that the latter might

taste a little of that, freedom for which he had always longed, pre- sents capital opportunities for ad

venture.

The Prince is mistaken for Tom Canty by everyone and is forced into the squalid life endur ed by Tom, who, thought by the King and his statesmen to be the Prince gone mad, is forced to assume the duties and respon- sibilities of royalty.

DARING ACTRESS.

HOOT GIBSON,

NEW STUNT FOR SCENE IN Goes Over In "The Thrill Chaser."

"HER. REPUTATION."

Doubles" For Her "Doubles.""

The trick of using "doubles" in long shots of picture productions is a familiar one, but Miss May McAvoy pulled an entirely new stunt during the filming of Reputation," Thomas H. Ince's new drama in which the dainty little beauty is starred..

Her

The picture might also be

Hoot Gibson gallops and spears his way through seven reels of rollicking comedy and dashing" melodrama at the Star Theatre tomorrow in his latest Universal feature. "The Thrill Chaser." carry one of the big "punches" of the story were filmed at Yuma, in the water was necessary for the Arizona, Some dangerous work

precaution of taking along two scenes, so Director Wray took the doubles for Miss McAvoy, a giri and also a young boy.

A number of food scenes which

The struggle of the Prince to make someone believe that what he says of his birth is true, offers one of the most appealing se.labelled. "The Gloom Chaser," for efforts of Tom to adapt while the 's exceptionally refreshing; the himself to kind of a picture that leaves one court etiquette contribute scenes of pleased-pleased with the star and several days and was ready to The company had, been working true comedy.

director and company concerned in its making, and pleased with make a tricky scene in which the himself for going to the show. onrushing flood waters when a star was supposed to be caught in Part of the picture is very funny levee of the Mississippi river gives and some of its titles are immense. way. To get the scene, Director The picture doesn't take itself John Griffith Wray had arranged seriouly and it is to be presumed to have flood gates of the big that the public isn't to take it seri-government dam at Yuma oponed. ously, either. It certainly is By driving a buggy across a neck acceptable entertainment, what of land where two feet of water ever the object of its creation.

overflowed from the spillway, an exceedingly realistic effect could be gotten.

CAN A MASK HIDDE A REPUTATION?

HER REPUTATION

with

MAY MCAVOY

On Every Tongue-

her name. Every whispered jest of her. Doomed-seared-her reputation in the mire because a veroumous press accused her. What matter if she was innocent?-- What matter if she was right?-

the world-the selfish, scandal loving world accused and greater than she have fallen before it.

Ah! But drama turna, a nape that should, that MUST be guarded in involved and with a climax at will call forth your Innermost sympathies Thos. H. Ince brings a great picture to a frium- phant clore.

FIRST

NATIONAL

PICTURES

Fram the story by TALBOT MUNDY and BRADLEY KING Directed by JOHN GRIFFITH WRAY.

Under the personal nupervis. lon of THOS. H. INČI.- Distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Inc.

An Extraordinary Big Picture at Usual Prices and Times

THE CORONET

Gibson' is introduced in the cow boy garb which is so much a part of him and his screen career.

The girl double was dressed in But he forsakes the regalia of Miss McAvoy's clothes. and start- cattleland early in the play for the ed to drive a pair of horses limited dress of a Roman guard through the water. In other words, the cowboy leaves the water made her so dizzy that....

The 'rush of the wide open spaces of his native she promptly fainted The boy haunts for the motion picture manuf facturing plants of Hollywood. He sed up with a wig and started off. was hastily summoned and dres trails his saddle up to the casting Unfamiliar with horses, he was so office at Universal City and casu nervous that the horses became ally asks for a job at $3,000 a week.

frightened and He is given a job as an extra al $1 a day. Hoot accepts the job, but says that he won't rescue any maidens on horseback or do any thrill stuff around trains for less than a thousand weekly.

promptly ran

almost causing a serious accident. away, upsetting the buggy and

The director was in despair. when little Miss McAvoy appeared, dressed in the proper costume and wearing her screen make-up.

From this point, for several reels, the scenes shift rapidly to differ ficked her whip casually and drove Steppink into the buggy, sho ent points around the big studio off through the water as the cameras lot Hoot, as a Roman guard in clicked gally away registering an

A Hobart Henley production, of

The Last Days of Pompeii," star-sually fine flash for the picture. "Her Reputation" is now run- ting Reginald Denny and Laura ning at the Coronet Theatre.

La Plante, wrecks everything.

In the ensuing chase he breaks

in on a set where King Baggot is

directing Mary Philbin and Norman day, the innocent victim of a news Kerry in a melodramatic something paper scandal. When she falls in or other and again incurs terrible love with the son of the editor of directorial wrath.

the paper which has ruined her. These studio shots are excepife, the plot develops in rapid tionally mirthful.

strides. Miss McAvoy's Spanish The action changes from farce dances are exceptionally fine while comedy to comedy-drame In the the opening scenes on an old latter half of the picture. Here the Spanish plantation of New Orleans cowboy extra deserts his vocation have been depicted with unusual and volunteers to "double" for an charm. Arabiad prifice, in a desert war. The locale shifts from Univeral the cynical son of the newspaper Lloyd Hughes plays the part of City to Arabia and a war is staged editor who starts investigations The cowboy falls in love with concerning the girl. The unusual the daughter of a Shelk, a situation way in which the two young not listed in his contract, but he people meet, are parted and wins the girl in spite of that.

[brought together again, how each Gibson does some excellent is the embodiment of what the acting in the featured role and other hates, how through, it all Billie Dove is very beautiful and their great love sweeps away capable in the role of the Arabian everything princess.

NEWSPAPER ROMANCE.

Coronet Theatre's Fine Picture.

elso-maka each successive scene in Her Reputa tlon" more absorbing than the Jast.

One of the most beautiful touches in the picture is the wedding fiesta вселе where Spanish beauties, handsome

the

For the first time on record a realistic picture, of the inside caballeros, gay old negroes and workings of the newspaper ganie frolicsome pickininnies bring back has been filmed.

warm hospitality and the, Hex Reputation," by Thomas taxurious life of New Orleans of H. Ince, opened at the Coronet the old days. theatre. Here is a picture which Her Reputation is one long can be viewed by anyone copnect series of thrills. Two pistol shots ed with the newspaper, profession precipitate the action. The waters without fear of seelag, some of a food are scarcely dried from incongruity, produced by a the screen when a police raid, fol- director who has never seen the lowed by a wild dash in a machine, Inside of a newspaper office and a wreck on a mountain road-keep who doesn't even know that hand the action moving until the climax.. presses have been abandoned by his reached in a gigantic. Forest fire.../ big dailies. Correct in every Eric Mayne is exceliantly cast, detail, tense with dramatic situa as" Don Andres Miro," the last of tions-the plot of "Her Keputa, a distinguished Spanish family. tion is refreshingly new, The picture is an adaptation fron

the novel of the same name, by Talbot, Mundy and Bradley King: John Griffith Wray directed.

May McAvoy gives a remarkable portrayal of a young girl who runs away from home on her wedding