| Show n. n I BIG COM COMEDY DY AT T EMPRESS I fI f 4 I ft 6 f c t k 44 4 4 4 X c q 4 f- f 1 v c 1 r S jr 4 X t 4 S 7 VJ t 5 3 v 4 L y 4 4 i 4 4 V s I I 44 4 4 k e 4 7 s 74 t 44 47 d r 44 s 4 24 C S s A bi i- i i's 4 s 's 4 4 4 4 t 14 I C I Scene from the six-reel six Keystone comedy film Punctured Romance now at the Empress 0 d description ca can eV ever r be bo written N NO that will ill adequately r tell the story and visualize all of or the fun tun In Punctured Romance the six reel Ke Keystone Key ICey- stone stone- comedy film now running at al the Empress and featuring Mario larlo Dressier Dressler Charles Chaplin and Mabel ormand Normand together with a supporting company compan of ot sixty people The Tho film began Monday morning at the Empress and runs through until Thursday night at 11 The following s synopsis of or tho the story o of the will give Jh some Idea Ideo of the fun making making- possibilities used b by this trio of ot stars throughout I the si six reels Tulle a countr country maiden was throwIng throwing throw- throw In Ing blocks of or wood for tor her dog to fetch tetch to her Charlie a n. city chap wanders wan wall ders Into range and r receives an unusually unusually unusually un un- un- un usually largo large block In the ml middle dle of ot othis his face lace TIllie seeing the tho stranger Is in distress drags him to her home home- Hero the thc stranger discovers that Tillie's TIl- TIl lies lle's father has a bank roll With threats and promises he ha Induces her herto herto to get Jet the mone money and go to the city with t him I Their first stop IB is a a. cabaret where Tulle Tillie takes the thc first drink of or her I young oung life liCe Things go o along along- smooth smoothly I until they are disturbed by a n. pretty young youn damsel named Mabel who has followed th them m since arrival in the tho big city She turns out to bo be Charlies Charlie's city girl Irl anti he on getting g hold of or orthe the money that kept on her het person per per- son leaves with Ith her Imbibed imbibe too tre freely Jr antI and was va put out into the street She was as then arrested and ll thrown n Into Jail Her jailers discovering her hor name to be I TUlle TitHe Banks telephone to the tho big big- millionaire mil mu- I of or the city Dou Douglas Banks I and find that she IH hi his hiM nl niece cc whom i he jie has never seen She Sho Is escorted to her uncles uncle's beautiful mansion and here creates such n a scene that her undo uncle disowns her and orders h her r from the thc house No place to g go sho she looks for fora or a a. job and md secures one ono as a waitress Her uncle being helm too much distressed b oy by the incident goes away to do 10 some mountain climbing to forgot it t I Hero here he takes a terrible fall all and his guide thinking ho Is lead dead telephones to Mr h. h Banks's secretary who Immediately s goes es looking for or Tulle Tillie who vho Is the only l known living relative e In the meantime has 1115 made madeuS' madeuS uS' uS tise o or of the tho bank roll b by dolling up Mabel and himself and tho they are aro taking life lIro easy Ho lie and Mabel one day wan wander wan wan- tier der Into the tho restaurant where Tillie Is working nS and TitHe meeting tho one who is the cause of or her down downfall raIl faints taints Charlie and Mabel mako make their escape and sitting down In the parI park to rest Charlie buys UYi a a. newspaper which tells him of or the tue hunt that Is on for tor tho the missing heiress TUlle Banks Danks He lIe Immediately immediately Im Im- im- im mediately sneaks away awa away from Mabel Jabel and goes back to the restaurant ex explains explains ex- ex plains matters to Tillie's satisfaction an and drags her off otC to a n minister and tile tho they are arc married On going back to the tho restaurant the they met b the tho are aro by late lat millionaires millionaire's secretary sec see rotary who makes known to Tulle Tillie that she Is an alt heiress Tile The heiress and her newly acquired proceed to their new ne' homo home tho Banks mansion Here thc they entertain lavishly and a tc few cw days later lator give a grand hall ball This ended in a frightful fracas through the machinations of ol Mabel MaheL who has manI managed man mati- aged to secure a position as maid In I the thu household In tho the midst of tho the melee the tho uncle who was found to bo ho hoI only slightly Injured returns and has I the whole part party turned out Into tho the street Charlie discovering that TUlle Tillie has hag nothing in the tho way of ot w worldly goods renounces her hel and grabbing grabbing- Mabel's Mabels hand tho they leave pursued IJ by tho the now vengeful In the excitement that ensues the police of oC tho the city arc are called cC out as ns well wen wenas as the thc river police as Tub has pursued pursued pur pur- sued tho recreants nt to tho the water front and antI here her in tho the midst of ot nil all tho 1110 ex excitement CX- CX Tillie Is struck by 11 an automobile auto auto- mobile loaded with policemen and sh she automobile and load tako take nn an awful drop into the tho river below Here Is finally rescued and Mabel seeing tho the destruction that tho the conscienceless Charlie CharJie has rou wrought ht falls fills into arms Imploring her forgiveness forg s and the they both renounce Charlie as ho Is I dragged d away b by tIle the police Matinees begin nt at 11 n a a. a m. m and run until 5 p p. p m n. and the night shows run from rom 5 p. p m. m until 11 p. p ni m. m |
