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Show THE OGDEN POST that this would an imjsfjun 0f papal supremacy lie finally broke with' Home in 1534, of at which time Parliament ruled that t hi marriage to Catherine was invalid, (('oniinued from Page Two) and that succession to the throne must ot j annui and Hnglish go to the issue of Anne Uoloyn, who history, guided Universal . his ship of state through a period he married following his divorce from . , t e with dangers from foreign Catherine. Reginald Denny a pteture, e pgnant lnVasion and conquests, where jealous Cheerful, Fraua, w me iir piciu Parliament at the same time made i y other than a r amous riajers-iass- ara- - Bnj innjve watchfulness counted him supreme head of the Church of the crack t for much. production to in England, and, when Sir Thomas More I Iew l 0 . mount theatre was born in 1492 and was and Ui&hop Fisher refused to concur, Jr Henry also been given the nest week oi originally destined for the church, he promptly ordered them executed. inn which in a measure explains his in Henry always insisted that his quar.r, beginning December unts further 51001 .01 Universal's com-- 1 tense interest in church affairs, lie rel was with the 1ope and not the bounded confidence in this farce waa Kngijgh, heart and soul, and, as church, and he has often been desig-eddirected by william A. aeiter one historian has it, "English mental- - nated as an e Catholic. menHe His and physically. suppressed all monasteries with morally tat attainments were great and he incomes of under 200 pounds yearly. . . . his astuteness in world poli-- 1 This action roused the northern coun- I showed , . The Biltmore hotel, Los Angeies, tjcs j,y accing as a mediator between ties, which revolted. Henry promptly tne setting lor farles of Spain and Francis 1 of crushed this revolution, at the same has been chosen the Laemmle Alumni banquet, wnicn I Krance, holding always the balance of I time suppressing all remaining mon-i- s to be given to the veteran president jj0wer, leaving these two rulers in asteries, and it was at thia time that of Universal on the occasion 01 ms COIUtant apprehension as to which I Thomas Cromwell rose to a power sixtieth birthday, January it. tne wa EnRjanJ was going to turn, until! second only to that of the king him-Ur- s and directors of today who were eviintually he allilHl himself with self. working for Carl Laemmle ten years j prance Henry's every marriage had a direct at all times followed the un- - hearing on the policy of his reign. In ago will be guests of honor. Mary Henry Pickford xnd Doug r airbanks will te I pleasant custom of beheading any of 1536, hie ordered Anne Boleyn execut-hoand hostess on this sixty-yea- r displeased him, and this led for the crime of "infidelity, and confined to affairs of the day following her execution, an dinner. not was policy was also effective in his nounced his betrothal to Jane Sey but state, Edward Meagher, who has complet- - famUy affairg he ordered executed mour, whom he married ten days later, ed the adaptation of James Oliver and who was apparently the only woCurwoods "Back to Goda Country man he ever loved. for Lynn Reynolds, has been assigned Indisputably the Prince of Temptto adapt "Thunder must have dictated to Henry his ers Soofs" marital policies, as no one but His by Sylvia Frances Seid, for the use of Hienry MacRae. Satanic Majesty could have counselled the atrocities perpetrated by Henry on Ivan Moskine, star of the Universal his various wives. He was a veritable Film de France triumph, "Michael Bluebeard. Jane Seymour died within a year following her marriage to Strogoff, arrived in New York on Monday on the S. S. Berengaria, and Henry, leaving one son, who was later left almost immediately for Univer- to become Edward VI. Henry's fourth wife was Anne of Cleves whom he Kieity. of Prince About the only thing he seems to have learned during his adolescence was an belief in his own importance, while his persona! conduct an only be described as dissolute. He became involved several love uffuirs which included Olympe Man-ina niece of Muzarin's, who was lustily married to the Comte de His next affair was with Mile. !c lu Moote and was short lived, when he returned to the Comtcss de only later to become greatly enamoured of Marie Mancini, another the Pope, as he held jPsiUOUS AiCOIlipllCCS i,e Tempters over-masteri- 111 i, I Sois-son- py Sois-son- I About this time, Anne of Austria, alarmed by these rapidly succeeding ive affairs, insisted upon laiuis' ini mediate marriage, with the result that in 1660 he was united to Maria Ther-- , a young woman who is' reported 0 have been possessed of absolutely 0 attractive qualities, either of e or personality. On Mazarin's death in 1661, Umia assumed the reigns of government, y ispluymg a rare and unexpected us well as intelligence, despite the fuct that his was a rule of despotism. lie was possessed of much ignity, an indomitable peracrverance, and France, who had been Med to the 'one by wars, was eager for peace and repose. During the first half of Ixniia reign, France flourished industrially, aided to a large degree by Colbert, who helped immeasurably to 'restore y, anti-Pop- 1 1 fea-ur- 1 1 en-rg- st I ... I the evil counsels of d Maintenon, who could vvell have been described as un wilier accomplice of the Prince of Tcmptei s. last analysis it might he Raid tii.it I wills' reign in a way resembled that ot Henry Ylll, in that its earlier lie iv again mil In- mvii thr w il years were splendid, rising to a zenith tnniM-- l of he Prince nf Trinpicrs, only to wane to poverty, defeat and i vi ii famine. iu-and also in wlia! wax prcbably Iuis XI died in 1715, Louis most nets, the and historians say that in his last in the bastille and days de Maintcnon treated hint with mpiiMiiment ventual banishment from Frame of the utmost cruelty, deserting him enComte de Montespan. The Prince of tirely just prior to his death. 'einpteir must have been in a par ticularly evil mood in 16S-- when Isitiis married Madam de Mainteiion, only ' on Mvr;c ix months after the death f Maria that elide nor ie Is li.n-ilieresa, Mvause that marriage was the signal for the revocation of the nnd ile.iih Hie sintering edict of Xuntcs, which resulted in tin of I'bri-- pniiire t has beiil l. The Siibj.-cresumption of the ersccution of the givai luvorlte vvilh eomposiTii. Prob-'luguenots with the final result thut lit gmilisl uilislei pieii of this 1!) three hundred ami fifty thousand of Is by Ilaeh. the passion uiii'-lkind these intelligent, industrious people of eotisisl ti be said (o Tin may eserted France for other nations. oil Savior l.e-of the words There can he no question hut that tl.e this policy of Louis was inspired by llie cross. 11 In a - 1 f da.-taiil- ly I Ia--!.'- r e !i n 1 e pns-iwi t COLONIAL THEATRE Friday, December 30 country; but prosperity and finances came the desire for conquests, and in 1677 war was resumed with Spain, Louis, himself, taking the field. The French forces invaded the Spanish Netherlands, eventually ac quiring a portion of French Flanders and Francne Comte. At this time triple alliance was formed between of Holland 'Ingland, states-generand Sweden, arresting Iaiuiss career of conquest, and he waa forced, in 1668, to surrender all of Franche w-it- soon divorced. William Desmond, star of the Uni versal aerials, The Riddle Rider, and "The Return of .the Riddle Rider, is occupying his time between pictures with a tour of the Keith vaudeville houses in a sketch entitled The Dude He is supported by beautiBandit. ful Mary Mclvor. s, of Mazarins. niece I s. of I ho word, hut certain it is that Miiiti'-in- ii .(ms fliUI:t(i aiil e M.iinteinm m the eyes of the world, veil going to the extent of driving through coi Hi' led Flanders with his t wo inistu rs and his wife suited in t le same cmriage. SILKEN SHACKLES With Irene Rich. BRINY BOOB An Educational Comedy. al At about this time (1540), Henry accused Cromwell of high treason and ordered him executed on the same, day that he (Henry), married Catherine Howard, niece of the Duke of Nor folk. Within two years she was also executed on the charge of infidelity, but it must be said in Henrys defense that all evidence seems to point to First National the fact that in this instance the wo Norma Talmadge, the screen star, man was guilty. has turned novelist. She has written In 1543, he married his sixth and "Kiki, based on the highly success last wife, Catherine Parr, who surful First National motion picture of vived him. In 1546, he ordered the that name in which she starred. The I execution of the Earl of Surrey, son book, illustrated with scenes from the I two of his six wives, Anne Beleyn and of the Duke of Norfolk, this being the is just off the press of the . Catherine Howard, .last of a long list of judicial murders, Shotoplay, Hodgkinson the Duke of Norfolk himself being corporation, he Shortly after his accession in 1509, married Catherine of Aragon, his 8aved onjy by Henry's death in 1547, publishers. Meantime, Miss Talmadge I has put aside her pen and launched brother Arthurs widow. At this time when he must have been welcome into the production of her next ve-- 1 he appointed Wolsey his prime minis-- 1 with open arms by the Prince of hide, a modern screen version of "Ca- - ter. Wolsey, in many ways, acted as Tempters. a check upon his royal master, but mille." was eventually dishonored and ruined KING LOUIS XIV Mrs. Fannie Coogan, an opera star I because of his loyalty to Henry, whoBe have been the Prince 0: ' must It of yesteryear, who used to sing as unpopular policies were always Tempters himself who suggested the Haye in the old Chestnut street ed on his prime minister. phrase, "The king can do no wrong, Saturday IlIS LAST RACE" Comte. Activated partly by revenge, he made German alliances, bought the friendship of Charles II of Englund, and there followed a scries of wars and conquests which left Louis at the zenith of his career in 1684. A1 Europe feared him, even his own country bending the pregnant hinges of the knee, admiring and obeying him implicitly. n His was essentially a gov eminent. He made all appointments and the laws, acted as his own prime minister, and even arrogated unto himself the right to dispose of al properties within the boundaries 0 nis realm. During this long war era, Louis ha innumerable amours with various women of the court, but there were only four- of these affairs which ever assumed any importance in his life or in the affairs of the nation. Probably his first real love was for Iouise de la Valliere, who undoubtedly lovec Louis deeply and sincerely. She was Letat in time supplanted by Msdame de There Montespan, and Louisr desertion un more calculate! I doubtealy broke lot Vallieres heart. "by probably nothing the Edward) "Eighth, Shortly after Johnny Hines arrived King Henry in a Montespan strongly influenced the on the west coast, where he will film I Hall, said that at this time "a shadow I Pa?e either a man or woman and fate of France, living with accom-to mood become an history receptive his brain and with fell All across his next First National picture, Wolsey in Louis the most open fashion, and Prince of than P Tempters board, the comedian speedily es-- 1 gone the last hindrance was removed, W ame of - and I bringing up the children whi;h she ' supreme to assumption vices and turned his virtues on tablished an open-a- ir laugh factory him had by and its eight in all whose legitthorityhis arrog to accompanying the lawn of his Hollywood bungalow. excesses, his learning casuistry, which a fawning, subservient imacy was established by a special Under the shade of a gigantic urn-- 1 accomplishment to cunning, and hisance I the law of the land, act, which was later repealed. It was people accept brella, Johnny gathers with his staff I bravery to implacable cruelty. sue during Louis long association with lie murdered wives he once loved, Louis XIV was born m 1638, of gag men to construct the comedy who Louis diei Montespan that a Madame Scarron scafIII, his to sent the best friends wher, and sequences for his forthcoming picture, I Anne of Austria as came to them to act, in a fashion, as Among the experts engaged in the fold with no whisper of regret. No ln 1643, leaving Hines Laugh factory are Pete; Milne, man or woman was safe who thwarted regent. Anne had for her minister, a shield from public gossip, and also Del Henderson, Charles Hines, George his will. In 1521 he ordered the exe- - Mazarin, probably one of the ables as a governess to the children. This was the woman who was to be ytesTnen in the history of France. later Amy, Horace Woodmansee, Frank cution of the Duke of Buckingham, Nevertheless known to the world as Madame Louis during minority Crane and Tenny Wright, augmented probably for no other reason than civil war was in progress; encourag-ett- a. de Maintenon, Louis' last mistress Lor-was unfortunate 1 that the comedian's that gentleman noisly by parrot, a direct descendant of Edward the j by Spain, which sought to shake and eventually his wife. We might Third and therofore a possible claim- - off the authority of the crown, and a add here that a great many historians ' ant to the throne, and, as such, a pence was not established until 1659. hold that de Maintenon was never Warner the finances and prosperity of the M. H. Warner is back at the office Penace to Henrys reign. Bucking- - ) the wEfaadK ISSZSSl xrnis' mistress in the accepted sense young king is waa but with treason, charged again after a battle with a severe tack of grippe which placed him in generally believed to have been innocent. His death strength- for a week. The Warner chief than hurt Henry, as all rather so he fned better got says quickly Just by him and realized that here was thinking what a great season Warner aeare(i monarch who would avenge to the Bros, are having. As a man thinks, limit any seeming interference. is II. M.s motto. Heniy claimed that the fact that Frank Cassidy, who piloted Warner Ws children by Catherine of Aragon Idled, proved that the allegiance was an unnatural one, and endeavored to have the Pope annul it It was the failure of Wolsey to find a way to rid j. Henry of his wife that ruined him. was determined to divorce Henry SATURDAY Catherine, but refused to plead with With Robert McKim, Noah Beery, Pauline Stark, Tully Marshall, Alec B. Francis and Gladys Brockwell. Sunday and Monday , . FOOTLOOSE WIDOWS With Izouise Fazenda and Jacquelin 1Ogan. one-ma- Tuesday and Wednesday I THE MIDNIGHT LIMITED With Gaston Glass and Wanda Hawley. A railfilled full of the things to a road melo-dram- thrill you. - blam-Fann- ie Thursday and Friday THE SOCIAL HIGHWAYMAN With John latric and Dorothy Devore. A ; J at-ha- m en-b- ORPHEUMl STARTING SUNDAY comedy-dram- a of racial prejudice and human love. A tale of the fighting A great ed Sixty-nint- h New Yorks Irish regiment IT STARTS WEDNESDAY, 1 January 5 New Years Bargain Sale of Reel Laughs Lyceum Theater Special New Year's Day Program Buck Jones Bros.s floating broadcast station across the continent having completed a good job, has been assigned to the Warner Philadelphia office where Joe Hebrew, district manager, is knocking 'em down in one alley and setting em up in the other, and you can bet the entire Sesqui thats a fact 30 Below Zero First Run in Ogden. SUNDAY Richard Dix la the Zane Grey Story The Vanishing American MONDAY Art Acord in The Rustlers Ranch TUESDAY Betty Bronson I Advices from the West Coast studios of the company indicate that Dont Tell the Wife, Paul L. Steins second directorial effort for Warners, is developing into an unusually brilliant comedy. Irene Rich js being starred in this production, with Huntly Gordon as leading man. Lilyan Tashman, William Demarest and ' Otis Harlan lend admirable support Rex Taylor adapted the picture from the famous play, Cyprienne, by Sardou. Another picture that went into pro-- 1 duction this week is Hills of KenThe tucky, starring first sequence. In which Jason Dorothy Dwan and Tom Santchi play important roles, has already been shot Howard Bretherten, who recently contract by the signed to a long-terWarners, is wielding the megaphone. The film is based on the story, The Untamed Heart, by Dorothy Yost Edward Clark is responsible for the continuity. The balance of the sup- porting cast will be announced soon. Rin-Tin-T- it from us its great! THE UNIVERSAL SUPER COMEDY II 'ahe if from Me WARNER BROS, present Private IyMratphy s . in. Rob-ard- s, Not So Long Ago It's a Paramount. --take With This Humdinger Comedy Theres Also a Whirlwind WITH m WEDNESDAY Thomas Meighan . The NewTClondike A Paramount Picture. THURSDAY Anna Q. Nilsson A Miss Nobody First National Picture. FRIDAY Evelyn Brent in Flame of the Argentine White Flannels, a story of the tennis courts, will be started in the course of a few days. Louise Dresser and Jason Robards have been prominently cast in the photoplay which Lloyd Bacon will direct from the conWhite tinuity by Graham Baker. Flannels was published in the Saturday Evening Post, and comes from the pen of Lucien Cary. Another film which will be started in the immediate future is The Gay Old Bird, in which Louise Fazenda 'will be starred. Herman Haymaker will direct as soon as Charles Whit- - aker finishes the adaptation. Comedy George Jessel A Wild Roomer Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Gordon, NatCarr Pathe News and Gene Halliday at the Wurtilitzer SOME SHOW! I luk, Directedby IlOYD BACON. 2) USUAL PRICES! SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION k A Beautiful Short Feature for the Ladies, showing The Latest Paris Creations in Technicolor. Gee! Business Is Good PRICES: Nights, 35c and 10c; Matinee, 25c and 10c. |