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Show 2 THE OGDEN POST Stage Screen THEATRE-GRAM- Amusements S Marie Prevost Uses Egyptian Beauty Spot to Some Purpose in Man Bait world over, and to the maker of picSea Breed ture this is disappointingly true, bu nothing seems to attract crowds like Coming: to a suggestion of something naughty and mysterious. Even as children BY Vibrant with the lure of the South we seemed to recognize the value o such deceitful advertising, so, o: Seas powerful with a story of love pungent with the COLLEEN MOORE course, boys came to our circus from and regeneration miles around, and broke down the tang of the ocean FBO's new Gol Breed of the Sea, gates and fences in their zest to pay Bond special, (An Authorized Biography) comes to the Egyptian theatre nex us a cent for admittance. inAnd First of Series of Movie Star Stories side we had rows of innocent chickens Thursday, Friday and Saturday with and dogs in coops, and my athletic a new and refreshing note of enterbrother rubbing his feet in sawdust tainment. With all the dramatic abi Colton Moore veritable Cinderella leap from dire and turning on a trapeze. Nothing ity and vivid personality of Ralph Ince, who plays the double role of the Little Eva's hinges muiit have been poverty to prosperity. An unusual less innocent than that I brothers as well as directs the twin to amount of these romance attaches Very early my brother Cleve and wonderfully well oiled when I first mw "Uncle Tom's Cabin. The pul jieople and much credit, but I cannot developed a crime complex. Then picture, the film is something far out is a tribute to the leys and guy ropes which carried the say 1 ever went without a meal or was a certain gorgeous dolly that ha of the ordinary, and beautiful blonde angel up into the flies suffered any real hardships as a girl. been in the family for generations. genius of Peter B. Kyne, from whose the didnt cause a single deceiving sound. That phase of a picturesque past has My aunts had played with it. and my story of Blue Blood and Pirates disThat was when I was four. It was to be omitted in telling about myself, father had even included this dolly production was made. Ince, whohistrimy first theatre and my initial intro- for my father always provided a very in his boyhood games, and had infinite played both his directorial and duction to the fascinating realm n good income, and we always had an respect for her traditions. Although onic talents in FBOs recent circus illusion. Although I certainly couh exceptionally comfortable home. In I loved my own dollies dearly, this drama, Bigger Than Barnums, has not have understood all the words o: Atlanta, Georgia, especially, my par- particular china-headindividual held achieved even greater laurels with this the play, I seemed to sense the mean- ents rented a very spacious old south- no sentiment for me. sparkling sea tale. mansion ern One extensive surrounded father readby was whole of the day my drama for It made ing grounds. We had plenty of good ser- ing aloud from an English paper. was something tangible about this love a strong impression on me which I hat have never forgotten. And little Eva's vants too, one colored mammy cook The recent execution of a crimina business to be found in books. mothbeen a but reader, we great was always remember she because described in detail. Our oatmea particularly plaintive death whispers to old Uncle had skillfully confined my library Tom, and her ascent to heaven were was discovered smoothing the cake and cream seemed to be occupying er to the Pollyanna Elsie Dinsmore with our bare whole her hands. as frosting a matter so real that I cried loud and lustily attention, but, Now the big trees on our grounds of fact, my brother and I were taking type of stones. as the audienco were filing out. My When Knighthood Was In Flowat Atlanta provided a new outlet for in every detail regarding executions. mother couldnt quiet me. And directly after breakfast we took er is a charming love story, I once the childhood. of Brother imagination The theatre manager was a frienc father telling grand of my parents, and as my mother let and 1 had just finished reading The the beloved family doll out to the or- overheardso my bided her I and white chard, face mother, Swiss placed my time until pink of Robinson, and, Family her shrieking offspring out the door downward on make block could with this book. This a of course and necesscorned after away the wood, that he suggested, Ter haps if the baby off her head. was my first love story, but it rouse could see Little Eva in the flesh you sity of dwelling like civilized human choppedchildhood crime complex also my imagination, and all the piano box My could convince her that she didn't beings in an ordinary house. We de- included an elaborate to termined in one have a tree system of fib- plays later produced had very deep like but that it was only make the really die, which was all own. I imag- - and profoundly serious love scenes. bing Robinson my fascinating family. believe. as I was at that time, no piece ined I was two persons, one good and Some of the fancies of my childhoot Slight My mother thought that was a good of lumber I one bad. My bold self I called Mary seem to have grown right up with me. and ardor, my dampened so with tear streaked face, my helped the boys idea, When m I cant quite believe that I am now a my good, Kathleen. drag the cumbersome and body shaking with sobs, I was car- boards from a nearby lumber mother me caught mature young lady, a picture, star, doing wrong, yard ried around to the theatre door. The and haul them into the big trees. stoutly maintained that Mary was married, and mistress of my own up manager went with us and explained There we nailed our tree houses to- to blame and not myself! We lived home, for my little girl fancy for dolls the situation to the pretty young acgether, always lowering and raising in Florida for several winters, and and toys still persists. Its still my tress who played Eva. Very gladly, ourselves rope ladders when we our home was only two blocks from pet hobby to find new and unusui she consented to comfort me and tell had to gobybelow for supplies, and Tampa Bay. My brother and I were dolls and toys, and on the me she really didnt die at all. She the much easier out more forbidden to go into the water be- at home I have a wonderful doll bouse scorning showed me the long ropes which had plebian method of shinnying up and cause it was dirty and reported to be which I wish I might show to every carried her up into the flies, and I down. in child the neighborhood unhealthy. So, down on the pier, I youngster in America. Ive had lots must have grasped something of the could doAny and we aspired to be pushed brother in, and then he climb- of fun collecting all the furnishings that, idea for I stopped crying. ed up on the bank and pushed me in. for this doll Individual. and on my recent Then we could swim and splash about trip to Parishouse, Going back four years, I was born with my husband, also initiated My my play as long as we liked, and go home to searched in Port Huron, Michigan, and my real mates reading out quaint shops in order to Cop and Robber games, name is Kathleen Morrison. My fam- and at into report we had quarreled and pushed replace the old furniture with pieces the convent I where to went ily consisted of my grandmother school, the sisters chose me to read each other in the water when we were still more originaL (mothers mother) my mother, my aloud to the angry. Of course my "Mary self I was delighted with the tiny carve afternoon sewing had been the quarrelsome person. vory pieces father, who is an efficient engineer by class. I nevergirls I found in Paris shops. liked sewing, and to profession, and my brother Cleve who escape doing my fine seams, I de- Fortunately, our crime complex seem- For instance, I picked up a beautifully js a year and a half younger than termined to be a magnificent reader ed to have died a natural death be- carved statue for the entrance hall o: myself. Very shortly now you will no that I would always- be chosen for fore we reached our teens. doll house and a carved ivory When I fell in love, I seemed no my see Cleve in pictures too, although at hat not two inches long, to place ench, I Very probably put a lie great part. present he is only doing "bits. eneath the curving stairway. For deal of drama and realism into longer to care about holding the batsays the directors don't seem to think our simple stories that would have ting record for the neighborhood. my library, I found a small table he is quite as good as he considers amazed the author if ho could have Brother and I always went to early about one inch square, also of ivory, himself to be! morning mass on Sunday, and to serv- and holding the tiniest red and white overheard. ices during the week as well, so quite chessmen We were something of a nomadic ever saw. And in a From Atlanta we moved to Tampa, I became romantic over a awn shopyou for called work naturally him fathers family, abroad I discovered two fac-orwhere father opened a y choir to different cities, and 1 soon became ilorida, boy, so angelically beautiful in very tiny books: one of these, The to make some sort of irrigation his neat black robes accustomed to packing trunks and getLives of the Saints, was even to be used in the orange collar and vestee. and i ting used to hotels and new homes. engines The other was a dictionary, As in London and Seattle Shes such a good little soul, said t takes a powerful magnifying From Port Huron, we moved to Hills- groves. he rain pours steadily in Florida grandmother, when I went hurriedly o reau these little books, and I glass dale, Michigan, where we lived three during certain don' so I the months, guess off to church, fearful of being late. see how years and then went to Atlanta, Geor- need for irrigation human coulc any typesetter overwas I wonder why she has taken such set the gia. My parents started my piano rated and he didn't engines but youd be make an unusual interest in religion, puz lave to findletters, practice at five. I took up this study on this enterprise. However,any money the that dictionary con-aifam-ly zled my mother, with perhaps my all the words found in a big readily and worked hard toward became south for several winters shrewder understanding of the natural volume. coming a concert pianist. At fifteen, after that, and they spent the rest tendencies of the oncoming generaI was pronounced graduated in music f the In San Francisco, some months ago, year in Detroit where my tion. from the convent I attended in Flor- ather had found a tiny Chinese cabinet carvei his central business s. For months I gazed at my romantic rom gold. A mexican official sen ida, and that meant I had gone very I was in the Sacred ideal as he his lips in song. me a little set of chairs and a table thoroughly over harmony, a mastery leart convent placed Tampa, and stayed The boy livedparted in another part of the made of their beautiful silver of difficult pieces, and the reading and there at school infor filigree four years. My city so our set didnt know him, but work. In a London shop, hidden on a composition of music. More study at irother also attended this same school he must sensed my rapt adora- what-nthe Detroit Conservatory of Music folin a dark corner, I found a or a time, but later went north with tion, for have one day, in passing out of uxurious lowed this, but events of the next few my parlor set made of gold with parents and entered St Michael's church, he ventured to say Hello. porcelain seats years, which brought me into moving college in Toronto where he stayed the chair backs. This His family must have moved away let the chairs and and table are only pictures, cut the possible concert two years. I after for didnt see him again: hree inches high I use in that, career short. And now, for the past None my dollthree years, I have not practiced at ever hadof the rest oftomy family has but that shy Hello, reciprocating the house drawing room. And you can do affection with the anything Ifelt, provided all my ro see a tiny Buddha there too and a all, and have only hod time to snatch theatre, but to me the life of the mantle thrills for the next two an occasional few minutes at the iminutive Swiss clock and a floor Of course being in love alwaysyears. ilayers was always alluring. I never leads amp. In the kitchen piano. is nissed one of the Lucille Love ser- to other complications, so Some of my friends in filmdom have during one there including hot watereverything faucets. My ais, Grace summer I became and I starring Cunard, domestic lived miracle lives, and have mndo a leld an ;s been hard to find some of those enormous childish adoration Instead of being aextremely A good things. or the star. And I was very deeply frized miniature stovetomboy. had been I bought a diminutive monkey who hurt when I wrote asking her for a to me for Christmas, so I luggedriven this isngs from a little palm tree out in and received no answer. In around to the picture back yards the those days the moving picture com- whertver the neighborhood patio my doll house. Am boys were playing, and out there adjoining is a too, miniature sunken didn't realize how much that made pancakes for the crowd. A genpanies a goldfish pond, and parasols meant to children, so, because of erous dose of baking garden, made powder MARIE somebodys carelessness in throwing the cakes rise high and wide, and and ain radio not an inch long. The the property room at the First my childish appeal into a waste-baske- nothing short of an act of Frovidence oys PREVOST, National studio have vied with one 1 switched saved us affections from death by the indigesto my another in carving or constructing THE Marguerite Clark and kept them fast- tion route. ened there for years, because my apI saw some pictures of Pavlowa some tiny piece of furniture for my STAR and just now they are help-nto peal Marguerite for a picture dancing about this time, and this, in oil house, me provide tiny plants for the OF brought a prompt response. I there- addition to my newly found object of upon determined that if I ever be- love, influenced me to become ethereal roof garden and tennis court which f UP IN came a great actress, and little chil- instead of tomboyish and unfeminine. am building on the roof of my mansion! Of course, they haven't forgotdren wrote me letters and asked for My dancing was self MAPLE'S ROOM, taught, with ten to present me with some little that would pictures, barefoot receive a on they the glides IN dewy lawn durphoto by return mail. Much as I en- ing moonlit evenings and sore throats rish shamrocks which I have put in HER joy being free from work on Sundays, and colds to follow. I was sure there (Continued on Page 8) I always reserve a few hours in order LATEST to answer fan letters. In Tampa there was a professional SUCCESS, stock company playing new bills each MAN BAIT. week, so brother Cleave and I organ-f- d a competitive company. I wrote HERES the plays and did both leading man and villain. By wearing two suits of A clothes, one over the other, that was STORY simple. In an old baggy suit I was easily recognized as the villain, and THAT w hen I took it off in our buriapped WILL dressing room, and entered the arena SONG resplendent in a dress suit, it was SURE obvious that I was the hero. Our MAKE 3 LESSONS 3 stage was made from several old YOU piano boxes, and we ravaged all the neighborhood clothes closets to make By The FORGET up our wardrobes. I particularly re member a lovely pale blue evening YOUR WATERMAN METHOD gown mother had bought for a brilTROUBLES. liant function to be given at the Tampa Bay hotel. When her search MANY for the new gown led her out to the Dance Song Morrison barns, she saw me sweeping OTHER in the train up and down over the dusty Time. GOOD piano box floor, endeavoring to put Are Always over tragedy. Tragedy ensued! THINGS Brother and I seemed to Life have a; ON THE pretty good idea of a showmans PROGRAM. knowledge of advertising for we used gnu-gree- n paint in billing our BE SURE American Stock Company on bams Call 32S9-- J and fences. However, neighborhood AND SEE IT! interest in our drammers soon waned, and we decided to organize a circus and use some tricky, come on advertising bait This is what I devised for the banners used in our 506 First National Rank Bide. street parade: Big Circus in back yard, NO BOYS V. L. CAVANAUGH, Mgr. Admittance, one cent Human nature seems the same the of the ; TIIE STORY OF MY LIFE -- ed The nimrod baita hia hook with a wiggling worm to lure the poor fish to the flying pan, but Marie Prevost uses a beauty spot on her cheek as bait to draw the male variety of the finny tribe to her web in Man Bait, her current Metropolitan starring production, which is now playing at the Egyptian theatre. The speck of ebony courtplaster does the job in the story, but whether it would suffice in real life is open for argument. Miss Prevost, as the sophisticated salesgirl, injects plenty of fire and verve into the role. She has an excellent supporting east including Kenneth Thomson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adda Gleason, Louis Natheaux, Eddie Gribbon and Betty Francisco. The pictorial version was adapted by Douglas Z. Doty from the stage play and Donald Crisp directed. BERTIIANA Regular Dances Every Wednesday and Saturday OLIE REEVES AND HIS ORCHESTRA Music You Will Like CZtDY?'HM Next Thursday. EfaXScflScS Fay, Saturday MIGHTY THE A DRAMA OF ELEMENTS AND OF ELEMENTAL LOVE! i sun-por- - ch . illus-rate- sur-iris- with Margaret Livingston d.. . Ralph Ince ed and ns l of-ice- ot Dorothy Dunbar A mighty drama of a land where human desires are unchecked! A vivid conflict of men of souls of the CVil in a of ad sctting trPic beauty! 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