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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924.

BETTY COMPSON CONWAY TEARLE

and ANNA Q. NILSSON

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"THE RUSTLE OF

SILK"

A magnificent picturization of Cosmo Hamilton's Novel

A shimmering, stirring romance in a setting of silks and satins.

F

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

at 2.80, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m.

at

THE CORONET

PROGRAMME FEATURES.

TO-NIGHT.

CORONET-"The Rustle of

Silk."

SCREEN THRILLS,'

And Poignard Duel.

For the first time in the history of the screen, actors equipped with both poignards and rapiers are seen in duelling scenes in the Joseph M. Schenck production, Ashes of STAR "Enemies of Vengeance," a First National pic- ture starring Nonna Talmadge, which is coming to Star Theatre next Tuesday.

Women."

WORLD "Kean."

QUEEN'S "The Moth."

THE CHINA MAIL

. CINEMA

IDEAL MOTHER.

WINS TRIUMPH ON SCREEN.

How Mary Carr Became Famous. In the theatrical Hall of Fame particularly that seldom-die- turbed niche devoted to those who have "made good" after having passed the meridian of life-there was placed recently the figure of a practically unknown woman- motion picture actress,

CHATTER

famous Philadelphia Stock Com pany in which Valerie Bergere: was leading woman.

:

Such may be the fitting tribute motion picture studios re-awakened to the woman who planned and the old yearning, so it was not long struggled for so many years until Mary Carr was again neting before

her--this tinie before the camera in success crowned efforts; a belated triumph by a stead of in the spoken drains. plucky wife and a loving mother of six children a tribute to the woman whose family had been overtaken by adversity, who had heard the call of necessity, and who dared to smile and strive for success in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds.

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"GREAT TREAT COMING,

Mary Pickford In "Tess Of The

Storm Country." --

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WEEK

THE STAR

BANNER WEEK

NEXT WEEK. THE GREATEST PROGRAMME IN OUR HISTORY Look them over, and maké It's point to see them all, SUNDAY: NOV. 2.

ITALIAN GRAND

MATINEE

at 3 p.m.

NIGHT

at 9,15

OPERA CO.

RIGOLETTO

TROVATORE

MONDAY ONLY MARY PICKFORD

60 ARTISTS

In the crowning achievement of her career,

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TESS STORM COUNTRY

THE

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

NORMA TALMADGE

In The Colossal Historical Romance

ASHES or VENGEANCE

THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY THOS. MEIGHAN

in

WHITE AND UNMARRIED

A Romance of a dashing Yankee bachelor who started. out the "do" Paris-and did:

NOVEL EFFECT.

Paintings Come To Life In Photoplay.

Bringing paintings to life. That is the feat Herbert Brenon

The producer wished to intro-

FOLLIES BEAUTY.

A Successful Actress. During those experiences Mrs.

Devotees to the cinema att are Carr, who then was Mary Kenne- van, appeared as Louise, the blind going to have the opportunity of secing Tess of the Storm Coun girl, in "The Two Orphans" as try again and therein lies a tale Carey in "Alabama," and in many of more than passing interest

In the first place, this was the other of the then popular plays

Her picture in which Mary Pickford used by stock companies. theatrical star was well in the scored one of those earlier big ascendant when William C. Carr, screen-tritumplis, which insured her an actor, wooed and won the aspir-immortal fame and inspired the ing young woman as his wife,

populace of the whole country to Scarcely had the rice ceased fall-proclaim her America's Sweet- Beneath the name, sufficient space should be left to permit of ing from her bridal veil when Mrs. heart." That was just eight years Carr heard the ultimatum from her ago, for this epochal photoplay had the following inscription:

"Mary Carr, creator of the role actor-husband that a wife's place its inning in 1914.

Now, in this 1922 in her new of 'Ma Benton' in the William Fox is in the home,; not on the stage."?

Mary Carr left the stage and, to Tess of the Storm Country," a motion picture, 'Over the Hill.' A

"went to naising United Artists' release, coming to quote ber, woman, a wife and a mother who babies. As the family grew, Mrs. the Star Theatre next Monday, handed down a treasure to the Carr did not forget her first love, Mary Pickford will be seen for a motion picture world after she and even in the midst of household serond time as Tess in an elabor

Miller had reached middle life. Despite duties abe found time to return to ated version of Grace

Thie the period when energy and the stage, if only for brief engage White's celebrated story. ambition are supposed to decline ments. Meanwhile the husband Queen of the Screen re-created and the bloom of youth has had turned his attention to the this lovable character before the departed, Mrs. Carr, appearing in motion pictire business, in which camera at the Pickford-Fairbanks a dual role of a mother of thirty he eventually became a studio studio at Hollywood and this note able revival is now being, presented and a grandmother of seventy, director.

was increased by internationally. gave to the silver screen the The family

Although this particular story sweetest and most perfect charac-seven little Currs, but death claimed terization of Mother ever beheld one. The others, in their various served to carry Miss Pickford to the by a motion picture audience.stages of infancy and childhood, foremost ranks of favourites among Mary Carra-Ma Benton will ever were oft-times used in pictures by photoplayers, she had earned her be a monument to that which is the director-father, and the mother rights to real stardom-before-ita sacred to every man, woman and accompanied them at first only as presentation. In fact, she at- child throughout civilized coun-mother, but later us an interested tracted wide attention when alie tries Motherhood."

Her repeated visits to made her debut on the speaking spectator.

stage at the age of five years. Her first role was that of a boy, Little Ted, and she did this so well that at the age of eight she went on the road in The Little Red School

THOMAS MEIGHAN'S NEW House" and a year later was størred Abandons the Studio.

LEADING WOMAN, in The Fatal Wedding," in which Family cares and householdte played the part of Jessie,the Not long after

„Talented Young 'Actress. duties so increased that Mrs. Carrie Mother abandoned the studio and another

Jacqueline Logan, the pretty on- ating the part of Betty Warren in interim of private life brought her ward she won the honour of origin."

a accomplished in filming The Follies girl who plays the leading three years ago, when adversityThe Warrens of Virginia, forced her to become the family David Bebisco production, which Rustle of Silk," his initial Para feminine rôle opposite Thomas bread-winner. Her worldly stock

was this star's first play on Now

mount picture featuring Betty Meighan in the Paramount picture which consisted of her family, fifteen dob York's Broadway:

"White and Unmarried," Tearle, To Broadway Unknown. lars and pluck.

comes to the Star Theatre next After completing her contract Compson and Conway With no announcement of hier with Mr. Belasco the lure of the which will be shown at the Coronet Thursday, is rapidly forging to the With one or two exceptions.

front as a motion picture actress.

Miss Logan, now sighteen years Ashes of Vengeance" is an his. Broadway's dramatic and motion plans, Mrs. Curr suddenly appeared movies gained an upper hand, and, Theatra for the last time to-day. picture critics had not known of New York, made application for under the direction of David Work

[she was eight years, she want on the screen, becoming a ance torical romance of France in the Mary Carr; nor had they heard of work as a notion picture studio, Griffith, she made her first app duce a small historical retrospect / old, has had a varied career. Where ̈ turbulent period of Charles IX and his ambitions mother, Catherine de Mary Carr's wonderful and vernd got it. Her muccess was auf- Medici, which was prodiced with satile children. Yet, when thoseficient to keep her family together prime favourite from the inception. into the action. For this purpose abroad with her mother, Marina and happy Mrs. Carr's sole for initial milary was $40 a week, he chose, two of the loveliest of Kelly, formerly a noted singer withi same critics attended a showing ambition was to be, the greatest but she was receiving $2,000 & infinite regard for accuracy.

At fifteen, she entered Norma Talmadge compusy was of the William Fox special produc-mother in the world and, as she werk very soon afterward and, over Fragonard's Louis XV paintings the Bostonian Grand Opera Com Colorado Collego at Colorado CROOKS BAFFLED.

initiated in the use of the joint tion "Over the Hill"-adapted has suid so often, present three since she has been climbing steadily, and literally brought them to life ou

Springs, Colorado, being the young, weapons by Mons. Cavens, of the from Will Carleton's famous Farm ladies and three gentlemen to the until to-day she is paid $10,000 a the screen.

The children also found week.

One of these paintings shows eat Freshman in the school. INGENIOUS DEVICE PRO-

National Military Schools of Brus Ballads and to come to the world."

last year Misa "TECTS SAFE.

sels, Belgium, Conway Tearle, Coronet Theatre soon-they vied minor parts in studio work, so the During the erstwhile star feneer of Oxford with each other in singing the family exchequer again assumed Pickford has received thousands of beauty of the period reposing in a "The Face In The Fog."

College, is one of those who wields praises of the woman whose path more rotund proportions,

requests, from admirers to re-enact swing in an exquisite garden of that in 1920 to study dancing and was role of "Angela" in the revival: of Meanwhile, Mary Carr had the beloved character of Tess and day; the second is called "Ls under-study of Margot Kelly in the Crime waves have necessitated both blades dexterously in "Ashes led down the other side of life's

reached an age when the world he has acceded to the wishes of, Lecture, and pictures a young Florodorn at the Century Then the invention of any a modern of Vengeance, another being hill.

She later assumed th Behind these criticisms and the talks in the past tense regarding her followers, being further; ac-} gallant of the day reading to the tre.

rôle herself and played it with anti-burglar device. Perhaps none Courtenay Foote, his opponent in

particularly thrilling duel warmest of appreciation by con- prime of life and life's possibilities: tunteil by a desire to improve upon, fady of his heart.

Brenon and his scenarista de success. Then she joined the is more effective than that which one

4 singer and charges & safe with thousands of fugla in the former's rooin at a tinuously crowded houses for a the time was rapidly approaching her artistic achievement to such au

tavern. The powerful dramatic whole year on a Broadway when precedent was demanding extent as to make the characteriza-veloped a small play-within-a-play, Ziegfeld Follies

from these two paintings, with dancer. volts of electricity.

The operation of one of these clashes and the wonderfully sweet dating back to the making of the that the wife and mother accept tion live.

In November, 1920, she left The version of 1914 was in five Betty Compson and Conway Tearle charged safes is shown in The love story of "Ashes of Vengeance" first scenes of "Over the Hill" in transportation for the down-hill side

of life. Then came the great reels and it was played, until all the in the chief roles. Every detail of New York for Los Angeles, and Fuce in the Fog, Paramount are staged in settings of incompar- the Fox studio-Mary Carr was.

Now both pictures was exactly repro- was chosen to play opposite Mr. picture coming to the Coronet able splendour, forty-eight massive to be found calmly facing two chance the opportunity to hand to "prints were worn out.

One posterity, through the medium of with the improvements made in the duced before the camera, including Meighan in White and Un The scene te having been constructed for the most important essentials.

She designs her own Theatre to-morrow.

In addition to the was the necessity for money with the motion picture, a faithful pic-film-making industry, it will be the formal garden and the lavish married."

possible to preserve the new cou: costumes. showing the electric safe is flushed production. on just after Petrus, head of a band principals named, the cast includes which to support the home; the turization of Mother.

A lesson in fidelity, motherhood deption so that it may entertain russian terrorists enters Boston Wallace Beary, Josephine Crowell, other, the task of being natural and love divine has been screened generations of the distant future:

To carry out the illusion of bring- Francisco, Andre de before the relentless eye of the

ing the paintings to life, the Blackie, Dawson's New York re Bolty

a little woman who was around Beranger, Carman Phillips and

caineranan resorted to an intricate camera. Broadway and New York forced to wait until after she had sidence.

other favourite

photographic process, whereby the players, know, and the entire country now Pelms, played by Louis eleven" Wolheim. hokis Blackie besides four thousand extras.

'make good."! is learning, how well she met and. Passed the meridian of life to "Ashes of Vengeance'

The ideal mother the Star Theatre for three days, spectator first Bees the original painting, and then this dissolven Dawson (Lionel Barrymore) and

mastered both problems.

of the screen and the wonderful beginning Thursday next. demands the royal jawels of the directed by Frank Lloyd.

Over-night fame came to Mrs. mother of the home has at last

The setting is quite grotesque and into the same picture peopled with Carr after a varied career includ- triomphed.

fanciful in construction and investi- the actors, but retaining the frame next few months, will have been ing happiness, disappointment,

ture and is said to be a faithful re- which encircled the original paint seen by more people than any other love and--reverses. As a young"

production of one of the notoriousing The entire effect is of the Dying picture ever made, is ofces of William Fox, the pro- dance hall cafes in "the other people of the picture coming to life obvious from the figures in tha girl in Germantown, Philadelphia,"

finl" of Paris.. she quickly gained recognition for

The decorative and moving about on the screen.

ducer. Already the picture hus scheme is snakes and akulls. The The Rustle of Silk" is the story done the unprecedented thing of chandeliers are As they rush for the safe Dawson

weirdly lighted of a humble daughter of the people groups of skulls. Over three hun- who falls in love with a groaning a year uninterruptedly or pushes hatton, shooting into the the Coronet Theatre for the last time Her first "legitimate" engagement, The Mill of the Half-gods" is the dred French types of all classes, statesinan, who shbsequently be. Broadway; it has broken records beits and handles of the safe many to-day. The principal rôles arb volts of live electricity,

The in plaved by Betty Compson and was for a very minor part in a fantastic name of one of the most tourist and sightseers, dancers. comes Prime Minister of England. [for attendance in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh;. stant Petrus touches the great steel Conway Tearle, featured players, stock company. Then, following unique settings ever staged a musicians, flower and cigarette The girl is the great-grand-daughter Detroit and other large cities, and

of a French noblewoman, and vault he is well-nigh electrocuted. with Cyril Chadwick and Anna Q months of hard work and steady Parisian café, which serves as the girls, people the setting. Blackie doesn't cut off the current. Nilsson heading the supporting application, she was given a more background for one of the scenes of Jacqueline Logan, ex-Follies girl Brenon's historical cut-backs not it has invaded London and Paris, either. until the arrival of the

cast. Othors are Lee. White, important part. From this the Paramount picture, White who plays the leading feminine only add to the beauty of the pic where extraordinary runs are re police.

Charles Stevenson and Tempe engagement she went into ingenue, and Unmarried." starring Thomas role appears as the principal dancer tard, but are of dramatic value to corded: Central Europe, Italy and The regular movie-goer has few

Piggot,

parts, and eventually into the Meigh, which will be shown at of the café. opportunities to see scenes na i- testing as this and others in "This Face in the Fog." It deals with The reign of terror in Russia, the fight of the Czar's Invourite to this camtry the murder of one of her friends here, her appeal to Blackie Dawson, the reformied New York gangster, and his successful efforts in save her and her royal jewels.

Only a well-balanced and highly talented cast could do full justice to such a scenario, and Cosmopolitan. Productions lins spared no expense in bringing together the actors and actresses who make this picture go big. Lionel Barrymore is featured

up

Car. Blackie is slow to obey, and Petrus the Crnel starts to torture

Blackie's wife.

**MI right," sis Dawson finally, The jewels are in the safe under the mantel flere.

Blackie Dawson: Seens, Owen plays the part of the Grand Duchess Tatiana: Lowell Shorinin is seen as Count Orloff: Touis Wolheim is Petrus the Crnet, and a dozen other favourites make up the personnel.

The Face in the Fog" is a pic- ture novel and unusual in its thermo, well done and well worth seeing.

Thomas Meiglian, the famous Panumount star, will be aron at the Star Theatre next Thursday in his new photoplayar Whito; and En-| Mouried." It ind Mr Meghan has an exceptionally fine part in this picture, that of a crook who re forms and who finds love after many exciting happeninges The support is headed by Jacqueline Logan, a former Follies beauty...

NOTABLE CAST.

The

WON

AN ODD SCENE!

There is a splendid cast in the Pammount picture, "The Rustle of histrionic ability through parti Fantastic Café Set For Picture Silk," which will be the feature at cipation in amateur theatricals.

A

Sunday at 6, 7.30 and 9.15 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday at 2.30, 5.15, 7,15 and 9,15 p m

the finished photoplay.

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LIONEL BARRYMORE

(The star of "ENEMIES OF WOMEN") in

THE

FACE IN THE

FOG

the greatest of all the famous Boston Blackie crook romance supported by SEENA OWEN and LOWELL SHERMAN

THE CORONET.

n

Miss Logan went to New York

gowns and helps dress the settings:

"OVER THE HILL."

Appeal For All Classes,

"Over the Hill," within the.

That

Russia have arranged for its recep tion-and-the-Orient hus it booked. Its singular lack of reliance upon local appeal makes it ideal for inter national consumption. While it is typical of small-town life in the Middle West, it is of a stratum of Life common to all countries, und deala with emotion and experiencce plain as day to every, people that have family life and family trou bles, The story of the acrificiale mother who supports a shiftless husband and six children, and rears the latter to adulthood only to be deserted a a rosult of having spoiled them, is an old one in the real life experiences of all people Bo are the return of the black sheep son to the rescue of his mother and the nerve-tingling climax of his challenge of tha actions of his.hypocritical brother, who has allowed their mother to go to the county poor farm.

The Russian peasant, tho British labouring man, the Gerinon artisaan, the Italian farmer cunt Bente in Over the Hill the big and irresistible human emotions liat have already made the picture so impressive 4 trimph, r.

Over the Hill" is coming to the Coronet Theatre Rool, and neeml certain to riyal ita, success in Now York, where it ran a solid year, and the successes it has attained in big cities all over the country.