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Show THE Stage Screen ATRE-G- SCENE FROM THE STUDENT PRINCE The Hlack Iirate Comes to the Colonia With the news that Dougin Fair hanks latest screen .offering, The Black Firate, will be the feature attraction at the Colonial theatre, coined the mhled word that this picture is en tirely in color nnd ranks ns one of the' moat elaborate cinema spectacles o the year. Fairbanks is us usual the romantic adventurer achieving no end of thrills through his hazardous, always inimitable, and frequent nmu.ting stunts." Ilis ingenuity and athletic powers are big factors in his struggle to win a captured damsel from a shipload o' y pirates. This situation forms the dramn of the play us well as the backbone of the story. As was the case with the highly popular Unbin Hood" and The Thief of llagdad, the story of The Flack Pirate" is an original from the jam of Klton Thomas. It was adapted to the screen by Jack Cunningham, scenarist many other noteworthy pictures. Direction is by Albert Parker, who 1ms directed several Fairbanks features. Never before in his career, in the opinion of critics, has the star appeared in a photoplay vehicle that has given him such splendid opportunity for histrionic ami interest compelling art. The fact that the picture is in color has made possible splendid atmosphere besides. The Black Pirate" comes heralded as presenting everything for general entertainment high ad audience venture, appealing romance, gripping melodrama and mystifying intrigue. -- Orplicum Has Great Hill for Holidays s, monkey-busines- s, Texas Streak at the Lyceum Xmas Day The Texas Streak," a hilarious and breezy western comedy, packed with entertainment and delicious scenes, will be the feature attraction at the Lyceum theatre Christmas Day. With smiling Hoot Gibson ns the star, the picture is utterly devoid of anything but entertainment. It travels like a prairie fire, from the ownwith ing scene to the final fade-ou- t, waves and ripples of laughs coming one upon the other almost without in- Tourists crossing the Great Amer- its - np-pt- AT1TH0IORRHEUM A GREAT HOLIDAY BILL DANCE FASHIONS A WHIRL OF DANCE DIVERSIONS turreted bazar-line- d al, 7 7 ton-lort- A New Lxpcricnce Guilty or not guilty? Not guilty, suh. Have you ever been Rastus No, suh; I never stole nuthin before. Everybodys going to the Foliiv mens Ball at the White City tonight W FARGO AND RICHARDS IN THE LOCAL GIRL ?7 7 JOLLY THESPIANS ORIGINALITIES 7 7 7 POLLY AND OZ CLEVERNESS PERSONIFIED 7 A MERRY 7 7 LITTLE PIPIFAX AND CO. CHRISTMAS TO ITS ALL IN FUN ALL 17 57 7 MARY ASTOR AND LLOYD HUGHES IN HIGH STEPPERS Come Early Thursday Laddie the Egyptian Sunday Courtship La llocques Picture It Pays! - Friday - Saturday GRIPPING er THRILLING AMAZING o 's ROMANTIC Merry Christmas!!! Added Features ROD Theatre 28-2- 9 LAST CHAPTER R0QQ1IE Ve CRUISE THE JASPER B Gene Tunney in The Fighting Marine Andy Gump Never Again MESSRS SMUBERT PARENT THE in lOOfP.EOPUc An Unusually Good er When I was in China I saw woman hanging from a tree. Shanghai! Oh, about six feet." Jail!" walls, bhked-mu- d mosques and crocked, streets. In the group of film stars accompanying the caravan were Lewis Stone, who has the principal role of El Hakim which is the Arabic for desert healer Barbara Bedford, Walter Pidgeon, Tully Marshall, Katherine McDonald, Ann Rork, Arthur Rankin and Albert Conti. Old Love and New is an adaptation of The Desert Healer," the E. M. Hull novel of 8,000,000 road-er- s, which tells of an Englishman, his love of life blasted by tragedy, who goes to the Algerian resert to lose himself among the natives and there finds the big romance of his life. Maurice Tourneur directed, assisted by Ben Silvey. Marion Fairfax, Coming to the Orpheum next Tuesday and Wednesday. who produced this stirring drama for Next Tuesday ut the Orpheum the- noming to Ogden is said to be the First National release, made the adapatre will mark (he beginning of the finest singing aggregation of all The tation from the novel. Sam E. Rork two days' engagement of The Student Student Prince" companies. presents the picture. There is a mighty male chorus of Prince," nnd also what will undoubtedly become thenlriral history is Og- sixty trained voices included in the Customer: Have you the same den. Never in the history of the the- personnel of one hundrpd. razor you used on me yesterday? been so The Student Prince" was adapted atre has a musical-offerinMain Street Bather:1 Yes, sir, the lighly praised by public and critic from Old Heidelberg, a play Richard same identical one." Munsfidd used for years .,s a starring Then give me gas." Customer: alike, nnd so great has been Us who an vehicle. It recites the story of a the Messrs. Shulx-rt- , Did you say am, Waiter nresenling the operetta, were forced Prince who went to Heidelberg to to put nine companies on the road to finish his education only to fall in sir! meet Ihc extraordinary demand to see love with a waitress at an Inn. For Yank No. I haven't been over its beauties nnd listen to the charm Ih's barmaid the Prince was willing to here long enojgh for that." Boston renounce a throne, but the fine duplic- Transcript. and grace of Us score. It ran for 17 months in New York; ity of court intrigue tore him away I should think you'd be ran for over m months in Chicago, and from his love and happiness. ThroughLady: in the other large cities of the United out the operetta there is a note of ashamed to beg in this neighborhood." States established new records for tenderness that brings tears to the Tramp: Dont apologize for it, Mum, I've seen worse." ength of engagement. The company auditor's eyes. of John Bowers in the title role is Rapid-Fir- e Coming to superb. No better type could have been cast for the part. The remainder in of the supporting players is One hour in which to snve the fam-i- y With little Gene Stratton, grandfortune by marrying aboard nn old daughter of the famous novelist, headschooner, and he had no idea where he ing a beautifully balanced cast of was going to get the girl! This is players nnd stealing many of the only one of the many thrilling situ- acting honors as she did in "The ations in Rod I a Koeuue's new De Keeper of the Bees, the most recent. Mille starring vehicle, The Cruise of Gene St rat novel to roach he Jasper II." which Janies Horne the screen comes to the F.gyntian thedirected from Zelda Sears and Tay atre for an engagement beginning iurnett's adaptation of the famous next Sunday when Ijiddie will have )on Marquis novel. its initial premier in this citv. James Mr. I oi Rocquc has the role of a Meehan, whose name is rapidly young descendant of a pirate of the gaining lustre as one of the foremost Spanish Main who cannot inherit the young directors of Hollywood, is agdn 'amily fortune unless he marries on responsible for th handling of his the day he becomes of age. He has celebrated mother-in-lawwork, and iveiT a rapid life, but until the day he the photo play version of this perenattains his msjority, he has not fallen nially ponular story is a masterpiece in love. Then things begin to happen of faithful and skillful reproduction of and the action is rapid and highly di- that spirit and warmth which aniLaddie as a book mated the book. verting. One of the opening scenes shows had a circulation of more than a milhe 'irutii.nl ancestor of the young lion copies. As a picture it is safe man battling with another pirate for to say that it will charm twenty the love of n fair captive maiden. Of times that number. No writer, ancourse, La Rocque is the battler and cient or modern, has had such reic puts up one of the finest contests markable popularity as the late Mrs. ever witnessed on the screen. Porter, and the current F. B. 0. Gold Mildred Harris supports La Rocquc Pond Special was adapted by Jeanette n the romantic comedy, which is pluy-m- g Meehan from what many critics esat the Egyptian today, Thursday, teem her most notable work. Bess riday and Saturday. Jack Ackroyd Flowers, as Pamela, is a radiantly beautiful English girl, while the work and Snitz Edwards are in the cast. 2 Nights Tuesday, Wednedsay, Dec. Curtain S:15 Promptly The plot is a particularly novel one. Hoot plays the role of an unlucky motion picture cowboy who goes on location with u movie trouie nnd is stranded a long, long way from Hollywood when he loses his railroad ticket home in a dice game. Equipped with chaps, sombrero nnd horrendous revolvers from the studio wardrobe, he cuVa a great swath in the little western town in which he finds himself, and with the assistance of his two pals, who are also stranded, he wins a name for himself as a desperate mal hombre" and a great two-gu- n man. Then he takes advantage of this spurious reputation by receiving a bounteous salary as a guard for a gang of surveyors who arc being harassed in their work by neighboring ranchers who resent the encroachment of the development company in their region. Gibson's performance as the is delightful. He is given splendid assistance by Slim Summerville and Jack Curtis as his two Blanche Mehaffey plnys the pals. feminine lead. Judge Rastus Judge its ORPHEUM terruption. cow-punch- Mirage Claimed When Caravan Appears On the American Desert ' Five acts of Pantages vaudeville of the highly entertaining order, and snappy thriller on the screen, is the makeup of the big holiday hill, which opens for a three day run ut the Orphoum tomorrow. One of the best dancing acts of the season makes the vaudeville program one of exceptional merit. "Dance Fashions" the act is termed, hut it could be more aptly styled lieauty in Dance. With five pretty feminine steppers of varied talent and two masculine doggers, the act is outstanding upon the hill. Four Jolly TheRpiuns is not u misnomer, for herein four with bald lieuds glistening in the light, strut their stuff with a youthful 'vigor which would put many of the younger school to shame. It wus they said, and therewith proved the theory of regeneration. Fargo und ilichurds in The Girl" supplied the comedy of the eveTheir nmusing ning in abundance. skit, the dumb girl and smurt boy order, found ready response, respite the fact thut :hey carried a saxophone and threatened to play it. Polly and Oz were clever in their impersonations, and Little Pipifax and company pleased with a skit incorporating some clowning and tumbling. Why Women I.ove is tbc title of the picture playing in conjunction with this great bill. It is a stark drama of the restless ocean, and was adapted from Willard Robertson famous play, The Sen Woman. The cast is hended by such notables as Dlanche Sweet, Roltcrt Frazer, , Dorothy Sebastian, Russell Simpson, Kdward Earle, Alan Roscoe, llert Sprotte, Charles Murray, Fred II. Warren and Herbert Prior. old-timer- Amusements ican Desert recently thought they were witnessing a mirage when they perceived a long taruvan consisting of camels, an elephant, Arabian steeds and a small army of Arabian tribesmen making towards what appeared to be a populous Algerian desert village. ,It was no mirage, however, but simply the company of "Old Loves and New, Marion Fairfaxs new picture, which is coming to the Orpheum theatre here next Sunday. The company spent three weeks making location" scenes in this desert oasis. An advance group of artisans built a replica of an Algerian village, with blood-thirst- for Don Q," The Covered Wagon and A R Show at Usual Wmm - Prices IPCCRY'SI eGYPCian a. MAIL ORDERS NOW PRICES INCLUDING TAX: Lower Floor (Send self-address- $3.30, $2.75; Balcony $2.20, $1.65 stamped envelope with your cheek anti order.) ed Seat Sale, Thursday, December 23 SOME OF THE GREAT PICTURES COMING HERE SOON: Vera Reynolds in Corporal KJite; Reginald Denny in "Take It From Me: Marie Pre-vo-st in Maii Bait ; Seventh Heaven; The Return of Peter The Music Master : One Increasing Purpose; Summer Bachelors; Is Grimm; Zat So?; Cradle Snatchers ; Tom Mix in The Great K. & A. Train Robbery, and many others. PICK OF THE WORLD S GREATEST PICTURES |