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Show Theater Engages Fashion Models UNDISMAYED by the advent of warm weather, the management of tho Paramount-Empress is putting on an attractive and expensive series of j threo bills during this week, in addition j to the fall styles review, which starts! Wednesday. With living models, on1 revolving platforms, and otherwise amid appropriate stage dressings, the womankind of this city will be regaled afternoon and evening with glimpses of what Dame Fashion has decreed lor the coming season. The Keith-0 'Brien company, which is putting on this Rhow, which will take the place of the regular short reels, is credited with having imported im-ported $51)00 worth of , gowns for the occasion. 1 The three bills, in addition to the st vies review, are today, Monday and Tuesday, Donald Brian in "The Smugglers Smug-glers ' ' ; Wednesday and Thursday, re turn showing ol! Gerald ine Farrar in "Carmen''; Friday and Saturday, Wallace Wal-lace Heid and Cleo Hidgley in the latest success, "The Selfish Woman." Donald Brian, famed stage star, and one of the three stellar attractions of the recent success, "Sibyl," returns to tho screen in an excruciatingly funny l comedy produced by the Famous Pla'-I Pla'-I era Film company on the Paramount programme, ' ' The Smugglers. ' ' This laugh-film will bo the main attraction at-traction at the Paramount-Empress today, to-day, Monday and Tuesday. As the title of this photoplay comedy clearly indicates, it is replete with adventures, ad-ventures, thrills and episodes, both amusing and stirring. But underneath tho fabric of romance and ,drama that are connected with tho innocent smuggling smug-gling of valuable pearls by John Battle-by Battle-by Watts is a strong foundation of laughter, for the director of the production, pro-duction, the we!.! known Sidney Olcott, has never permitted the star or his support, sup-port, to take themselves too seriously, and the result is that the comedy of the plot is ever present and irresistible. A wealthy American promoter, John Battlcby 'Wsitts, was, according to the story of "The Smugglers, " the first man to turn chopped hay into a breakfast break-fast food, but not the first man to bn bent under a bale of a million dollars. Rather than go tlirough life under this heavy load, Watts decides to go through a good part of it, instead. He obtains the first thing a man needs to rid himself him-self of nionoy a wife; then ho takes her and her sister Amy to London, where he increases the party considerably consider-ably by adding the Hon. Cholmonderly Brompton to it, after the latter 's marriage mar-riage to Amy. They leave England for Paris, and engage a suito of rooms in one of the fashionable hotels. One day as the quartette are passing down the boulevard, tho eagle eye of Mrs. Watts catches sight of a dazzling daz-zling string of pearls on view in a jewejer 's shop window. Watts requires more than a little persuasion to induce him to purchase this trifling souvenir for his wife. He has not tho necessary twenty-thousand dollars about his person, per-son, so he sends his wife and Amy back to the hotel while he and Brompton cash a check at tho bank. The men are hurrying down the avenue when Brompton Bromp-ton observes a glittering mass of bogus splendor displayed in a cheap jewelry shop. He clutches Watts as he recognizes recog-nizes the exact duplicate of the pearl necklace they had .lust seeu. Watts is immediately inflicted with an idea; he rushes into the store and purchases the "pearls" for twontr'' cents. Before returning re-turning to the hotel, they stop off at the bank and the jewelry shop, and in there obtain the necklace, and an extra box for the imitation. Looking with longing eyes through tho window is Sally Atkins, from the chorus. As the jeweler withdraws tho necklace' from her sight a feeling of sadness comes over lior ; soon tears are streaming down her rouged chocks, and as she sees the men about to leave the shop she drops her purse in her hurry to leave. Watts discovers tho purse, and the name inside: trusting it with no-one no-one save himself he takes it to her. Watts presents Sally with what he thinks is the imitation necklace, but which in reality is the. real one. Watts discovers his mistake too late, and he and his party depart for America with the imitation. Mrs. Watts, failing to reeosrnize the deception is persuaded to smuggle it into Xew York. Sally Atkins At-kins is in the steerage of the same vessel, ves-sel, and during the customs inspection many odd and amusinsr things are revealed, re-vealed, the strangest of all being that neither of them has the ri-rht one. How the necklace is finally recovered and the despair! ng husband satisfactorily satisfac-torily explains to his wife, first, why he had driven her false pearls; second, why he had given anv kind of pearls to an actress, and third, why he dared breathe without her nermission. are illustrated il-lustrated verv mirthfully in the final Hashes of this screen laugh festival. The star is supported hv an excellent east, inchidine Olive Tell, fyril Chad-wick. Chad-wick. -Margaret Oreene, Harold Yos-I Yos-I burgh and Kita Bori. |