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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924.

Forthcoming Attractions

A FRANK WOODS PRODUCTION ⚫

RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED

Based on Sir Walter Scott's Novel "The Talisman"

"The King" with Wallace Beery

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the role he created in "Robin Hood."

MARY, PICKFORD

in

TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY"

An entirely now

and recently finished production

of the famous screen classic the whole world lores.

The Crowning Achievement of Mary Pickford's Career,

THE CORONET

JEWEL SCENE. Incident in Washburn's New Film.

One incident of "A Full House," the Paramount comedy-drama starring Bryant Washburn which - will has shown at the Star Theatre ve Tuesday and Wednesday.

ally happened sonic years ago n New York City. This is the rituation where King, a crook, slits the stocking in which Susie, a dis- honest maid has scereted some valuable rubies. Only in the New York ease it was a detective who recovered the jewels..

**Look

Washburn is star and Lois Wilson his leading woman. Mr. Wash- burn is a husband of a day who goes on a business trip only to he involved in a mast amusing series of complications in which figure the love letters of another man, a would-be vampire. stolen jewels, thieves and policemen.

"A Full House" is another of the entertaining comedy-dramas in which Bryant Washburn has appeared so successfully. Those who have seen the film in other cities acclaim it the best he has ever done.

Included in the cast of fun- makers are such well-known This particular scene-is-one-of-names-as-Guy Milhan, Hazel many that bring their share of Howell. Vera Lewis. Catherine laughs in the Alice Eyton screen Wallace, Lottie Williams, John version of Fred Jackson's uproari-Wild, Z. Wall Covington and Frank ously successful farce. Bryant Jonasson,

Andrew Prentice was murdered. That fact alone has been estab lished. Who did the deed and why, remained a mystery to the police, Detectives assigned to the case seemed to be dumfounded. They have not yet found anything which suggests a motive or a clue.

The aged millionaire, about whom so much has been written the past few months, was slain in his State Street mansion. This crime startled the entire town at the time, moreso because he had Rever been known to have an enemy; and he was noted for his philanthropies,

Police officials almost despair of tracking down the actual slayer. Meanwhile, at the lust scusion of the Grand Jury. Kenneth Win- throp, one of the victim's foster- sons was Indicted.

It will be difficult according to present indications to make out a strong ease against young Win throp, the police are forced to admit. Somebody had to be the goat, motive or no motive. For a time. the Mayor threatened a shakeup on the force unless the "coppers" showed some results.

Immediately after the Mayor's threat. Winthrop, his foster- brother Robert Armstrong, als an adopted son of the victim, aud several servants in the household were arrested. A series of grill- ings at headquarters, convinced the police that all but Winthrop were innocent and there doesn't séem much reason to hold him.

Not since the days when the notorious gambler Rosenthal was slain in New York by the equally notorious Gyp the Blood, Lefty Louie, and two other gunmen, for which Police Lieutenant Becker. together with these assassins paid. the death penalty, has public interests been so stirred by, a murder.

An air of mystery surrounded the Becker case, but a motive. graft, was readily established Despite a lapse of more than ten years, there are people who insist that Becker was innocent, though his trial revealed the sordid fact that he had shared heavily with the slain gambler from a number of dens of ill fame. On this motive alone, conviction resulted.

By some strange coincidence, another man named Becker was

THE CHINA MAIL

CINEMA CHATTER.

STAR'S BIG FILM.

"To Have And To Hold” To-day.

FROGRAMME FEATURES.

TO-NIGHT.

CORONET—“The Acquittal.”

STARTo Have and te

Hold."

WORLD “A Lady of

Quality."

QUEEN'S — "The. Daughter"

GROBAROMA

Storm

WALLACE REID);

Most Versatile Of Players.

The versatility of Wallace Reid, Paramount star [the popular

appearing next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the Star Theatre In The World's Champion," his latest Paramount starring vehicle, was strikingly shown during the filming of that picture when he stayed at home on a certain day when he wasn't needed, and invited a friend to enjoy his.day's" Vacation with him.

Adventure is the keynote of "To Have and to Bold," the big picture which is showing at the Star Theatre this evening. Based upon the novel by Mary Johnstone, "To. Ilave and to Hold" is staged in the time of Jame 1.. when adventure was to be had for the secking. The story is woven round the lives of Lady Jocelyn Leigh, the King's ward and Captain Ralph Percy, a Virginia settler, and a glimpse Lof its frame-work will convey a good idea of the glamour which The film possesses. The hand of

It was a day of varied delights, Lady Jocelyn is coveted by Lord

According to the friend, who after- Curial, the King's favourite, who certain death. Even the breath-wards related just how the time wins his royal master's consent to less events do not exhaust the an engagement, through removing one of his royal master's enemies young couple's adventures for there is stil the great climax in a duel. During the revels to enacted in England.“ To Have celebrate the engagement. Lady and to Hok is a paramount Jocelyn escapes from the Court picture and this fact is ample and takes her maid's place as one guarantee of realistic staging and of a band of prospective brides skilful filming. The acting also is shiling to Virginia. Landing at Jamestown she is embroiled in an unpleasant incident from which

The

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was spent. A plunge in the swim- ming pool at Reid's palatial Holly- wood home sharpened appetites fur, breakfast,

their

After they had dined, they went to the music room and played for an hour on the pipe organ and of a very high standard, Betty plan the star alternating be. Compson and Bert Lytell taking tween the two with equal skill.. the leading roles. "To Have and Following the hour of music, Reid she is rescued by Captain Ralph to Hold is a picture which should, took his friend to the den and Perey, hero of the Settlers for create a deep impression with local amused him with tricks of magic while waiting for lunch, and while having ropulsed not long before a cinemagoers.

in the den he also uncovered serious attack by Indians.

sheaf of poetry written by himself. two young people are married but

For the first time in their lives. Eighteen holes of golf at the trouble begins for them when Lord Carnal arrives from England to Lloyd Hughes and Gloria Hope, Hollywood country club followed claim Lady Jocelyn. Among the who in private life are Mr. and lunch-of course the friend lost exciting incidents which follow Mrs. Hughes, are playing together and on the way home Reid took his are a thrilling escape from Lord in the same picture. Mr. Hughes guest for a spin through the Carnal's ship: a rapier duel in is leading man and Miss Hope has beautiful Beverley Hills district. which Captain Ralph wounds his the second important feminine Before dinner, Wally entertained enemy: a fierce storm which part in Mary Pickford's new with his violin and saxophone, sweeps the open bout containing version of "Tess of the Storm finishing with a few snatches on the three people out to sea; clash Country," a United Artists release the banjo, guitar and mandolin. to the Coronet The two men spent the evening with pirates; an explosion aboard coming soon a raft; and a rescue from almost Theatre,

playing balk line billiards.

Sunday ,and Monday

THE STAR

Matinée.

and Night

LAURA LA PLANTE

In

"The DANGEROUS BLONDE"

A KNOCKOUT-OF FUN AND THRILLS:

You'll admit this blonde is dangerous when you see her Ju this whirlwind love story; Her dimple and wick swept -down all before her as she went after those, gay letters.

her father had so fadiscreetly written.

Chuckles and thrills galore; Oceans of pretty girls, gorgeous gowns, high jinks among the gay, white cabaret. lights;!ff's new, happy, fresh, funny, clean and speedy.

LAURA LA PLANTE.

Dangerous. Blonde". Coming

Here.

from Hulbert Footner's Argosy Magazine story, “A New Girl in Town," produced by Universal as the "The. Dangerous Blonde," which comes to the Star Theatre · to-morrow with Laura Là Planto. in the stellar role.

It is not an ordinary, situation to

Robert F. Hill, who made her find a father carefully teaching his daughter how to flirt. That is first vehicle, "Excitement," direct- something fathers usually neglected. The cast includes Edward. to do. Probably it is more because Hearn, Arthur Hovt, Margaret they feel it out of their province Campbell, Philo McCullough, Eve than because they feel it is im- Southern, Frederick Cole, Rolfe moral. At least there are many Sedan and Dick Sutherland, who- instances in fact, and in American did their work well.

Arthur Hovt is especially good and French literature as well, of mothers teaching their daughters as the father. He introduces his the gentle art of self-preservation. charming daughter to a group of But the situation of a father lounge lizards to get rid of them. teaching his daughter how to She "varps" them away nicely, "vamp" certain of his masculine and enjoys a little romance her. acquaintances is nicely incorporat- self, which makes the story ed in a fascinating comedy drama | Interesting.

WHO KILLED ANDREW PRENTICE?

KENNETH WINTHROP

adopted son accused of crime

*Scene Cat No. 13

and a millionaire benefactor, as he had been legally adopted in his youth, and was understood to have been made an heir.

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Their relationship, as testified by the servants, was one of genuine affection, and never had a cross word been heard between them. During the open stages of the trial, Winthrop admitted that he, in the company of Edith Craig. who was rumoured to have been secretly engaged t: Prentice, was with the aged man.

MADELINE WINTHROP

wife of the

defendant and third figure in the pizzling Furlangie

Society Murder Mystery Develops

New Sensation-. Grand Jury Investigation Results In Indictment Of Slain Millionaire's Adopted. Son

christening, and had stayed overnight to care for the mother of the infant.

SOPHIE S'AVER maxt to thPrentice home who discovered

the crime

Robert Armstrong, one of Win- throp's accusers had started the wedding ceremony between Made lice and Winters, held several weeks before the murder, having denounced the, groom, charging him at the time with clandestine relationship" Edith Craig.

EDITH CRAIG

Secretary, and secretly the

fiancee of the millionaire

ANDREW PRENTICE

the murdered, millionaire- never known to have had

an enemy.

Prentices butler. whom the police have grilled a dozen times.

the floor, brokin, showing exi- then his accusations if he could dence of a struggle. The clock produce the letter before the had stopped at eight minutes to court His failure to do so, in- It had a very fine stantly produced a tendency to twelve. mechanism, and a clockmaker in lessen the value of his testimony, the neighbourhood, according to

as the fury could only conclude, the potice, examined it frequently that he was holding something out and had always found it to be on them. accurate.

Belloving then that this letter contained facts favourable to her husband, Madeline determined to private detective agency which obtain it at all costs. She hired a promptly ransacked Armstrong's

The taxi driver who had driven with the pair away from the house, to prove the charge, no one paid because a clock in the window of As he was unable testified that it was midnight, nay attention to him, the word a neighbouring butcher shop had The butler, a long faced, solemn having been passed at the time both hands pointing vertically, at apartment, but obtained no re individual who had been in the that he was deeply in love with the figure twelve on the dial. sults.

ROBERT ARMSTRONG second adopted son.

will aid State in

tion.

personally, she decided, despite the cost.

It was almost midnight when she entered his apartment. Arm strong was startled at 'sooing her, but he greeted her courteously almost warmly. He told her he would do everything in his power to aid her if he could, but that he had not received the letter.

She pleaded with him as only a her feet by an intensive love for woman can when she is carried off the one dearest to her who is in danger."I have never received it, Madeline, Armstrong repeat-

declared his love for her, would do anything for her, now, because she was the bride of another man, he : would not give her this letter which loomed up so big and neces- sary for her happiness.

Then came another turn in the wheel of fate. The detective agency unearthed a new angle destined to change the entire course of the proceedings in one swift flash. The certain web of. circumstances that tightened viciously about young, Winthrop was to be shredded like a spider web struck by a stick,

The day that the attorney for the defence was to have summon- ed up his case, placing Winthrop's fate entirely in the Jury's hands, was less than two days off

Madeline visited her husband in his cell, the previous evening, tó cheer him. She told him that she was more certain than ever before that he was innocent-that-she would prove it to the satisfaction of the court on the following morning.

Hardened jail keepers, indiffer ent to such touching scenes 'be. cause of years of like experiences, turned away, teary eyed when Madeline embraced him through the bars of his cell, before they parted. Secretly, everybody in the jail felt that he was guilty, yet every guard wanted to see him turned out, a free man, for the sake of his brave little wife..

Immediately with the opening » of court, the second last day of the trial, Madeline, accompanied by the butcher shop keeper and a private detective, dashed breath- lessly, into court, with several.. large packages.":

Judge Baker allowed her to speak despite the protestations of the district attorney, who insisted that the defence had closed its

case. Her excitement was" (80 Intensive she could merely point to the packages which her party had carried into the court. In a moment they were unwrapped, disclosing a circular dialed ment scale, and a Western Union clock,

The butcher hastily informed the court that his clock always' hung on the wall to the rear of his shop lights are extinguished, it is shop, and that at night, when his impossible to see a trace of it.

The meat scale, he explained, store, and when not being used, clock was set hourly by Western

"He is innocent, and I will prove the dial points vertically, convey. The opening stage of the trial Union, and had never been known mail robberies occurred about the but still she pleaded. babies. But the startling, revela- would not need his services that narrowed itself down to a matter to vary more than a minate or jima that the aged millionaire was it before the entire world," she ing an impression of a clock face

trejoined."

recording twelve o'clock. The tions published at the time clearly night. The butler came in for his of specific time. That Winthro, two. Experts far this corporation murdered. Working on the pos sibility that the letter sought was showed a motive, as this Recker share of the grillings by the police was in the house with the coroborated his testimony was madly fu love with another but after a dozen or mere intensive tonaire that fateful night, WAS

in one of the mall SACKS CITYCinally, to show her doubt to detective corroborated the hut. All undelivered letter then loom or by the robbers, Madeline urged his responses, and her intensive cher's statements, and produced

convicted of heinous murder, employ of the family for only Madeline, and his jealousy was The shopkeeper stated that his By some coincidence, à series of adly responded to her entreaties, usually hangs in the front of the

about a year ago, he having slain his wife, the mother of four small

three weeks, testified that Win-quite-obvious: throp Informed him that, Prentice

nothing of the actual commission

of the crime.

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woman, who had borne him a child, sessions at the station house, and clearly admitted by his lawyers. ed up as a big, but totally mysteri the manager of the detective zeal to obtain the letter, the number of photographs-of-the- and who naively testified on, the fover the scene of the crime, they. Evidenco to convict, pointed to a ous facto in the tris.). The butler agency to communicate with offered him everything her very shops to uphold his contentioại y :: stand that once her lover would discharged him as knowing rid himself of his wife, he had

matter, almost of an exact minuto. testified that he was glycin a letter federal inspectors and the police soul and body, dll for the After pale (Beemed that it promised to marry her pa

Iman.

day to acquit, and the fateful letter Miss Craig testified that it was by Prentice of that fateral night in othed,cies This so failed to mere unknown cant be ardeid "wohld almost Lara mere formality no later than eleven-thirty at perhaps the last words he had bring any resulta.

But he did not have the letter was recovered by a postal inspec The Prentice murder is stranger A glib tongued maid who had night when she left the company written, addressed to Robert Arm Finally, in almost sheer despora- How could she obtain it? Madeline for who gave it to Armstrong, to than any of these mentioned, and theen if the household for almost of Prentice and Winthrop enter strong, Armstrong denied retsiy more absorbing because it is fifteen years, readily proved her ing a cab which Winthrop had ng although the butler was, tien noveral days defore the fatis fed from kis apartmanpreet when it was addressed tho airhort impossible togonjecture innocence by her frankness and ordered, and that soon after, a certain he had malled it, mention of Kenneth Winthrop was to have crushed. She felt her cause sink Manager of the Coronet Theatre motive. Winthrop's position with reputation. She was absent from matter of mere minutes, he joined ing a specific mail box. ***

been entrusted to the jury, she hit with her heart, hopelesstr; that has the complete solution to offer the victim was fer more than one the house, at the time, and had a her, and they rode away,

Both sides agreed that Arm-upon a bold scheme, Armstrong Robert Armstrong the man who when The Acquittal & will, be between a befriended young man perfect alibi, as she was attending A library clock we found on strong could undoubtedly streng would have to hand her the letter, but a few months previously had shown by him to-day,