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Show Wonderful Love Story at Wilkes This Week jl BLOSSOM SEELEY AND HER JAZZ BAND TO BE SURE CURE FOR BLUES 'i ! . I DRAMA AND V A QDTV1L.LE. ORPHBUM Vaudeville blU, with Kalmar and Brown. Fradkia and Marion Harris. IaRt times today. New bill opens Tuesday evening. PANT AGES Vaudevillo bill, with "Kray Kafa' All-girl Revue" am headllner. Three shows today 2:15, 7:15 and 9 p. m. feas reserved for 7 : l B perforin h nro only. New bill opens Wednesday afternoon. WIL.KBS "Where the Trait Divide." ' presented by the Wilkes Players. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. MOTION PICTURES. PARAMOUNT - EMPRESS Pauline Frederick In Tolstoy's "Resurrection"; "Resurrec-tion"; "Fatty" Arhuckle in his erw comedy, "Moonshine. " Continuous, 15:30 to 11 p. m. LIBERTY Today, "Dead Shot Baker," a wild and woolly western drama; also Billy West corned "The Villain." RIALTO Today only, Eddie Polo in "The Firing Squad." "The WlKa-rd'a Plot" and adventure of Grant, po-. lice reporter; an O. Henry picture i and the Untvereal Animated Weekly, jj t BROADWAY Sunday and Monday. J Virginia Pearson in "When False Tonguea Speak," and Hedda Nova in "The Clutch of Terror.' Tues-I Tues-I day only, George Walsh In "The i Yankee Way." f - - . f $eeleu yOrpKeum "The Grand Higl? Potentate of Syncopated Synco-pated M e 1 o d v," Blossom Seeley, and lier jaw band of five open ai the Orpheus, Or-pheus, ucxl Tuesday Tues-day evening in SeeL t-.- 'g Syncop a t e d Studio, an act thai out-Seeleys anything this popular singing comedienne has ever done. It means a riot of fun and music mu-sic for Orpheum patrons pa-trons a veritable feast of good things doue in the most approved manner. SIH'' ' - ' - ' ; so era l others. bhc is to practn-aii nil the theaters of the country v , ( Emma l.'alve used to he at tie M.V ropolitna opera in New York 4k, she sang 'I'annen.' But where ; Calve today? Where was she v,, she sang other parts? Where was tk when .she ventured far into the on, Iviog distriets of America! MauH Adams is .just about the same in p0 land. Oregon, as she is in PortWj Maine: she is beloved." m- DrsTIN PARNUM and Wi,frt. Kingston, his petite nit; lady, were the honor guests 11 a surprise party given by tfc, rauehers and cowboys of the Las Mors; ranch upon the eve of the companj departure foi Tucson, Ariz. Al r. and Mrs. P.eekworth Kibboy, n, owners , the ranch, were responsible for the unique affair, in which Mr Parnum and his company saw them selves as id hers see them. The piece de resistance of the cv( iiing was a take-off upon the movhn bv several of the cowboys, who en aided several scenes, burlesquing Mr Parnum and his supporting cast. ln the burlesque, Kewpie Ward, a 800 pound cowboy, was attired in Mjj, Kingston's clothes, in order to imitat, her. Dustin parnum 's double was played by Peewee Morgan, who topjke scales at 1Uo pounds. ( 'harles nV ard, the director, was impersonated i v Broome, vho brought gales of laucfi ter from the assembled audience by Sis frantic gesticulations imitating ' , Swickard directing his company. As movie actors the cowboys proves that they were wonderful ventrilo quists. JUST before one completes the walk through the foyer, and lob by of the Empire theater, N York, entering the auditorium, on the right wall is seen hanging an oil portrait of Miss Ethel Barrymore, painted by Sigismund do Ivanowski. The actress is seated beside a piano, front view, life size. The momn chosen is as if at the end of a strik-ing strik-ing exhibition of pianoforte. Miss Barry-more 's uppermost ambition ambi-tion as a young girl was to become a pianist. To this day, when she can be induced to sit down to a piano with a sheet of Grieg, Chopin or even a nciv piece of ragtime in front of ber. she is the most fascinating of all Ethel Barrymores. When home is reached at night after the theater it is on the piano stool rather than in an easy chair that Miss Barrymore plays away the strain of her evening's work, ami it always is a strain, much as she loves it, LORD READING, British ambassador ambassa-dor to the United States, former chief justice of England, together to-gether with his staff and their lamilies, were present at a private showing show-ing of "Masks and Paces," given for thero by World Pictures at the British embassy last Monday evening. Lord" Reading and all the others preV ent were intensely interested in the production, pro-duction, which was filmed for a war charity and which presents the greatest cast every assembled for the screen or' stage, together with many of the leafing leaf-ing .writers of the stage. " THERE can no louger be any doubt as to the winner of the unique contest suggested some time ago by some of the country's most prominent women, to see who could establish a time record for dressing, The honor for performance belongs to Miss Jane Vance, dainty little screen star. During a day devoted to "retakes," "re-takes," Miss Vance celebrated the opening of a new year not only by making mak-ing a new time record for dressing, but by breaking all cold-weather dressing records as well. "I had to make five complete changes, rehearse as many scenes and make. them for the camera, and T did it in an hour," said Miss Vance, in relating relat-ing her record-breaking stunt. ".It was zero weather, and we were working on outdoor location on the shores of Narragansett bay, which, you know, is about the coldest winter spot in the country, especially when the wind (Continued on Following Page.) One of the tense, emotional scene s in " Where the Trail Divides, ' ' which will be given by the Wilkes players with Nana Bryant this wee, opening tonight. the most dramatic, as well as beautiful I a omen in motion pictures today. In this picturizatiorj of "Rcsurrec- tion" no expense has been spared to! make the production one of the most I notahle or the current season. Miss j Prederick, whose dramatic powers are universally Recognized, will be seen as Katusha. ;i beautiful Russian girl who. after serving as the plaything for a disolute prince, becomes a social out- ;ist. und is eventually sentenced to banishment in Siberia for the murder of a man to whom she had adminis tered a deadly powder in the belief that it was a sleeping potion. Stricken bv remorse, the prince secures Katusba's pardon aud offers to marry ber, but she declines his offer, after having learned to love a simple peasant, who, by his conduct and gallantry, has won her love. Many of the -scenes of "Resurrection'' "Resurrec-tion'' are on a ponderous scale and they doubtless will serve to make this picture one of the greatest of its kind yet produced. In this strong dramatic role Miss Prederick will no doubt add to her laurels as star, aud increase the great number of her personal admirers. The photoplay was picturized by Ch&rles E. Whittaker and in the supporting sup-porting cast are included Robert Eliott. John Saiopolis and .Tore Austin. THE RIALTO show today offers a variety of programmes. here is Daredevil Eddie Polo in "The Piring Squad,'' a thriller and full of startling situations; Grant, Police Po-lice Reporter, in "The Wizard's Plot" and an 0. Henry story in pictures. Por the serious minded there is the Universal Univer-sal Animated weekly, with all the official of-ficial war news straight from the front and for the comedy end of the programme pro-gramme there is a Pathe cartoon comedy. com-edy. Por Monday only. Miss Margarita Pischer has a merry time with the conventions con-ventions in her latest American-Mutual 'production, "Ann's Finish," and .-as usual gets away with apparently ln-possible ln-possible complications like a nice Little lady. Por instance, a bold burglar breaks into Ann 's college through her bedroom bed-room window and catches Ann in silken pajamas. S The fellow has a pleasing face, Ann thinks, so when it develops that the watchman has seen Mr. Burglar entering enter-ing Ann's window and has given the alarm, she tries to save the fellow from capture by hiding him in her clothes press. The burglar is discovered and Ann, confronted, claims him as her husband. The complications become screamingly funny and Ann has her own troubles, but when it develops that the burglar is an amateur and really a millionaire, Ann sighs eontentedjy' and lets it go at that. A millionaire is all right even if he comes through a window. Billie Rhodes in her latest comedy success is on the same programme. ii k 7 '" 'rs'' came to San jJ Francisco," related Otis If Skinner to a newspaper man when he was presenting "Mister Antonio" in the California metropolis recently, "I appeared with Lawrence Barrett in Shakespeare at the old California theater. Barrett was a very much mannered man. He was extremely formal. His dignity was his dearest possession. ' ' 1 can see Barrett now, and I remember re-member him especially as we toured the south, when the hotels were food-less food-less and the whole country comfortless. comfort-less. Barrett wore a frock coat, with a curve in the back, and a silk hat was always on his big head. He was a great luminary, and we his satellites. I accumulated a lot of Barrettisms that troubled my whole life. It was an awful influence. I copied his manners, man-ners, but not his inspiration, which was something I could not copy. "Barrett had a tremendous voice, and he loved its range, which was remarkable. re-markable. "He was one of the most dignified figures in American dramatic history; always fighting for the best, the highest, high-est, for dramatic ideals, and against great difficulties. ' ' That type has gone, never to return. re-turn. Tt never can return. Lawrence Law-rence Barrett walked down Market street and was a king. Imagine a king walking down Market street now." PATRIOTIC week will be ushered in at the Liberty theater Wednesday, Wed-nesday, May 15, by the showing of an inspiring and enthralling war photodrama, "The Unbeliever." It will be run for one week. Members Mem-bers of the United States marine corps recruiting force are assisting in tne I production of "The Unbeliever," and every ounce of strength and force aud concentration that 1 have into each rehearsal re-hearsal and the final acting of the scene, I am pretty well tired out by the time the scene is really taken. "At noon we have an hour or so in which we eat lunch at the restaurant in the studio, and then in the afternoon after-noon we start in again on more scenes. At night we often take, night scenes. And at any moment of the day I must be prepared to hear the director tell me to get ready to leave within an nour's time for a 'location.' This location lo-cation may be fifty miles away, or it may be 500 miles away; but wherever it is I must be ready to leave for it almost instantly. "Then there are the stunts I have to do in the course of a picture's filming. film-ing. I must ride runaway horses, leap over chasms in mountains, put up a strenuous fight with rfhe villain in the play, and do all this in the course of a day Js work. "From all this, don't you think I'm right when I say that a movie star's life is far from being a life of case?" WH I LE Miss Maude Adams was presenting Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella" in Cleveland recently, re-cently, Archie Ball had an interview in-terview with "Gus" Hartz, manager of the Euclid Avenue opera house, and here is part of what Mr. Hartz had to say : "The public has been very anxious to see many actors, of course; but when you come to think of it, the public usually wanted to know something some-thing about "the play to be presented. I have seen very popular actors play before empty benches because of the selection of play. With Maude Adams it makes no difference. I have often believed that on a test, if she wanted to do it, she could put on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and still please her admirers. "Better that this, however, I believe be-lieve it would be quite possible not to announce the play at all. I believe that the name 'Maude Adams' displayed dis-played on the front door and in the announcements would bring the crowd to see and hear her. There have been few people of the stage so beloved by audiences. T believe that Maude Adams is unique in this matter, as in Rascal." Haskell is a monologist who gets all sorts of fun out of his act and whose ability to provoke grins and laughs is a marvel. The Tasma trio are veritable human tops, whose feats are wonderful to behold. Adding artistic merit to the bill is something the Laehmaun sisters do in a way that commends them to all vaude-they vaude-they call "A Divertisement de Luxe," an act of the highest class, in which singing predominates. FOR first-class vaudeville, Pantages is giving one of the finest demonstrations dem-onstrations this week that has been seen in Salt Lake for a long time, and the stunning beauties who make up the company in the head-liner head-liner look as though they had stepped out of a Fifth avenue beauty show:, declares Manager Newman. The girls make a great hit in "The March of the Nations," representing United States Aviator, United States Red Cross, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, England and the United States of America. Another number that goes big is "Look Them Over," a (bathing girl scene. Another exceptionally attractive at-tractive number is the "Maypole Waltz," as interpreted by Elsie Dohl-man Dohl-man and girls. The second feature of. the bill is the Lowdandes. , These skilled horseback horse-back riders execute a number of daring dar-ing stunts aud give a thrilling exhibition exhibi-tion of coolness and courage. Their horses are beautiful and exceptionally well trained. A lot of comedy is worked into the act, and the house thoroughly enjoys each appearance. As the third feature, "The Ragtime Soldier" as presented by Joh,-i and mae Burke, makes a big hit with the audience. "Military Monkeydoodles " is an apt name for the antics of these talented actors. Some of the catchiest songs have been sung this week by Joe Reed, a boy whose voice possesses a wonderful range and quality, and whose personality personal-ity goes over the footlights with a bang! His musical offerings are extremely ex-tremely good, and make a decided hit with the audience, judging from the applause he receives. ' ' Paint-o-graphy, ' ' an exceedingly-odd, exceedingly-odd, artistic and amusing little sketch, is the offering of Janet and Warren -eland. It is a decided innovation in vaudeville, and the two talented Burkes have an excellent opportunity to display their whimsical and charm-ins: charm-ins: fancies. 'The first showing of the superb motion mo-tion picture, "The Top of the World," is being made this week as an addition to the regular show, and it is more than meeting the expectations of the audiences. au-diences. Beverly Dobbs is the photographer, and he displays wonderful artistry in the different scenes. Alaska 's charm and rugged grandeur is portrayed with faithful attention to detail, and the mountain scenery is gorgeous. There will be three shows at Pantages Pan-tages todaj', at 2:45, 7:15 and 9 p. m., with seats reserved for the 7:15 performance per-formance Ouly. For the bill opening Wednesday afternoon, aft-ernoon, Manager Newman announces as the headliner "The Kinkaid Kilties," Kil-ties," in a "Scotch Revue"; "Oklahoma" "Okla-homa" Bob Albright, the male "Mel-ba"; "Mel-ba"; "The Five Metzettis"; June Mills and company; Sinclair and Tyler, and the Zara Carmen trio. The second sec-ond showing of the "Top of the World ' ' pictures will be made- as an addition to the regular vaudeville bill. THE management of the Paramount-Empress Paramount-Empress promises one of the greatest bills yet shown at the upper Main street home of Paramount Para-mount pictures today and for the three subsequent days in the form of a double-barrelled feature offering. Pauline Frederick in Tolstoy's immortal "Resurrection" "Res-urrection" will be the big feature, while the supplementary two reels come in the form of "Fatty" Arbuffkle's latest whirlwind comedy entitled "Moonshine," a broad burlesque on the popular Kentucky feud brand of melodrama. To all who have seen the late Blanche Walsh in her great characterization of Katusha in "Resurrection,'' the stage version of Count Tolstoy's immortal novel, the picturization of that story for Paramount, in which Pauline "Prederick "Pred-erick is starred, will be an attraction of more than passing interest. The fame achieved by Blanche Walsh in this extraordinary characterization will no doubt be duplicated "in the picture version by Pauline Frederick, one of THE lmng-debated question of whether love is ever strong enough and deep enough to overlook over-look racial barriers is the theme I around which the story of "Where the f Trail Divides" is woven, and this won-i won-i dcrfully thrilling, emotional drama will be prcsontud at tho Wilkes theater by the. Wilkes players, with Nana Bryant, this week, beginning tonight. Robert Edcson is tho author of the I play; ho has won distinction on the American stago as an intensely brilliant bril-liant actor, and has added to his lau-rols lau-rols by writing this powerful western drama, "Where the Trail Divides." It is a story of the days when the i west was new and civilization was cx-i cx-i tremely new in tho region west of the I Mississippi river. Thero Colonel Lan-; Lan-; dor, a rough, gruff, western cattleman, I lived, and by sonic strange freak of I fate became tho adopted father of a little white girl whose parents had been killed in an Indian massacre, and of a siunll Indian lad, called How, whose ! father and mother were dead. The children wero brought together, and the rough old colonel conceived the idea of their marrying and inheriting inher-iting his vaBt wealth, which he had gathered in the cattle business How, the Indian lad, loved the fragile white child with an idolatrous love, and, as they grew older, his love flamed into a passionate desire for her happiness. Hess loved him rather with a sister's loe than as a sweetheart, but as she saw her adopted father's heart was set on their marrying, consented to marry the Indian. Shortly before the wedding, Colonel Lander iiad his nephew, Clayton Craig, come out from Boston to the South Dakota Da-kota ranch. Craig immediately falls in love with his adopted rousiu, and tries to persuade her not to marry How. At first she does not allow the questions ques-tions which Craig has raised to dwell in her thoughts, but about four months after her marriage to How they begin to occupy her thoughts to the exclu-' exclu-' sion of everything else. She and How are living on a lonely ranch and Craig takes advantage of her loneliness to persuade her to leave her husband. With the nobleness characteristic of the redskin, llow surrenders Bess to Craig because he believes it to be for her happiness. During the eight months' of marriage with Craig. Bess learns to her sorrow-that sorrow-that the white man possesses no qual-itv qual-itv that is equal to the rrobleness of the Indian, and bitterly regrets that she ever gave up How. The climax is reached in an intensely emotional scene in the third act and the answer to the question of racial differences is solved to the intense satisfaction sat-isfaction of one red man and one white girl. This plav is expected to prove one of the biggest drawing cards of the Wilkes season, and the company has given much thought and study to the details of the story. The opening performance perform-ance will he" this evening, and the play will run through the week, with the usual matinees Thursday and Sa.t.r-i Sa.t.r-i day. WHEN Blossom Seeley comes to town, Old Man Gloom packs his grip and departs for other climes; for, be it known that Miss Seeley and her five kings of syncopation are the real as-sasins as-sasins of anything savoring of melancholy, melan-choly, ' ' says Manager Levy. So the blues and all other kinds of pessimistic perquisites will be absent at the Orpheum Or-pheum this week when Miss Seeley holds forth in her Seeley 's syncopated studio. But just to make the absence from Salt Lake of Mr. Gloom and all his relations re-lations the more certain, Dugan and Raymond are also coming. They will offer "They Auto Know Better," one .' of the liveliest and most laughable skits seen on the Orpheum circuit this or any other season. The happy p3ir do ; all sorts of funny stunts with a motor -ar and what Dugan doesn't think of. Miss Babbette Raymond does, in line of merrymaking. In the way of variety there is "In the Dark," a mystery melodrama, cleverly clev-erly written aud exceptionally well acted by a big cast of players. The piece is a well-concocted combination of everything that goes to make the successful vaudeville sketch. It's the sort of pla3'let that maintains interest throughout and fairly seta one's blood afire with its kindling fires of mystery and suspense. There are several other very good things on the new. Orpheum bill, including includ-ing Count rerrone, recently invalided home from the Italian army, and Miss Trix Oliver, a beautiful soprano. The ount is now in excellent voice and his . oming is looked forward to with great interest in musical circles. Another excellent attraction is no leas a pevrsonage than Loney Haskeil. known throughout the land as "That rnany surprises await those who see this impressive picture of the great struggle. strug-gle. "The Unbeliever" is the filmed production pro-duction of "The Three Things," the well-known story by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. The battle scenes and many others were staged at marine quarters at Quantico, Va., aud participated partici-pated in by United States marines and their officers. Even in these days when patriotism is rampant and martial music stirs the blood and 'makes the pulses pound; when the sight of the Stars ami Stripes brings the people to their feet cheering, and olive drab and blue are the only colors a man may wear and be popular, "The Unbeliever" Unbeliev-er" is declared to be the best war picture pic-ture ever shown. The scenes which show the actual-trench actual-trench warfare are wonderfully done and there is nothing in the picture which is found in the usual war picture. pic-ture. Many scenes of the marines in action are effectively worked into the story. The patriotic note in the play is clearly sounded without the introduction intro-duction of provincialism. Several scenes depict Prussian brutality in realisti-caflv realisti-caflv ugly form. The New York Sun says: "Patriotism "Pa-triotism will stir the audience where 'The Unbeliever' is shown." The Detroit De-troit Free Press says: " 'The Unbeliever' Un-believer' is a war picture that is surely sure-ly unique." The New York Herald says: "One of the most stirring and up-to-date war dramas yet seen on the scrceu. Every true American should see '.The Unbeliever.'" ROSCOE "FATTY" ARBUCKLE was the surprise and feature of the parade for the third Liberty-loan Liberty-loan at Long Beach, Cal., Liberty Lib-erty day. Since the comedian's efforts in a rally the night before had reaped more than $100,000 for the bonds of which sum he personally subscribed $50,000 he was very much interested in the parade that day. From a vantage point in a bank window, win-dow, Fatty was busy applauding 6000 school children as they passed by. But the boy scouts always on the job spied the jovial comedian. Quick as a wink, Fatty was surrounded surround-ed and captured by the youthful soldiers. sol-diers. They placed him ill "the center of a company of little girls in white, starched dresses and pigtails and little boys uncomfortably arrayed in knickerbockers knick-erbockers and stiff collars. Forgotten was the discomfort and long hike. The happy children greeted the embarrassed em-barrassed comedian like a long-lost father. fa-ther. In the middle of the company Fatty marched. And he carried a little American flag. When the parade passed the soldiers, sailors and marines who were drawn up at the park Fatty and his little companions com-panions aroused even more enthusiasm than the marching bands and martial music. Arbuckle declares the parade was more fun than finishing a two-reel comedy, despite the fact that the kiddies kid-dies marched too fast for him. t 'VE heard girls exclaim that I " they'd like to be movie stars be-I be-I cause it is such an easy life," said June Elvidge, motion picture pic-ture star, "but how little these young aspirants know about the real facts in the case. ,A movie star's life is far from being a Iff e of ease. Instead it is hard work, and lots of it, sometimes some-times as much as twenty hours a day. If a girl wants an easy life, let her become be-come a stenographer or a conductorette or something like that where her hours of work are fixed and where she knows pretty definitely from dav to day just abut what she will be called on to do. "Let me illustrate from my own life when I say that a movie star's life is far from being easy. I get up at 7 o'clock every niorning. By 7:30 o'elock I am through breakfast and ready to start for the studio. It takes me an hour to get to the studio, making it about 8:30 when I arrive there. Almost Al-most the very minute that I reach the studio the director hands me the day's schedule, telling what costumes I am to wear, what scenes are to be 'shot' in the feature being filmed, and what these scenes are to portray. While in the dressing room I ao over the schedule, sched-ule, and it nearly always takes my breath away because-there is so much to be done in a day" "The 'shooting' of a scene take? more or less time, depending upon the number of people in ir, the length of ! the action, the dramatic force of the j action and the speed with which the : players ra p the gist of the whole ' thing. Sometimes we rehearse a scene 'four or five times and, when 1 put FAMOUS PICTURE STAR IN TOLSTOY'S "RESURRECTION" 1 . 1 MERRY HIELANDERS COMING TO PANTAGES fcb.-""i-"" ZA V PARAMOUNT 1 Double moraj standard theme of new picture, at. Paramount-Empress todW- 'The Kinkaid Kilties," headlin irg the tj-w snowing opeuing at Pantages Wednesday afternoon. actress engaged lor a part in his tea- ture fell down in the matter of ability, I Miss Kcrlan was pressed into service fcUtd astonished everyone in the cast by I her natural ability. In fact, she did so well that Mr. Far-nuni Far-nuni has tried to prevail upon her to stay in pictures, but without nuccesa, as raurh life appeals more to this attractive at-tractive young miss than the allure-meats allure-meats of motion picture fame. MAX FISCHER, the well-known j violinist protege of Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil R. DeMille, hae gone to war. having left last week for the training camp at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. Jt was his violin and his music that was always used when music was required by directors at the Lasky studio?. Flynu bofnre the acrci was finally engaged. en-gaged. The scenea in which alien agents are seen show their connection with spy plots, reveal exactly what they did and the purpose which impelled them, and make a wonderful! effective exposure expos-ure of th'o unscrupuToua and criminal acts committed by them before they were driven out of this country, or sent to ,iail by the secret service. Very clever impersonations of notable not-able men and women have been made un the screen, but the picturization of Ambassador vou Herustorf f and his official of-ficial colleagues in ''The Eagle's Eye'' are quite the truest to life and personal characteristic s yet seen, cither in photoplay photo-play or drama. Seven shows will be given today, starting at 11 a. m. Moving pictures will be. taken of the crowd attending the 11 o'clock show. POSSIBLY the most puzzling thing that can haopen in a theater is a shock from earthquake, however how-ever slight. An alert manage meut is prepared for most things fire, panic or other disturbance but an unexpected un-expected tremblor is a difficult thing to handle. Charles Ray was enjoying a Sunday afternoon at one of Los Angeles An-geles ' newest picture palaces, when suddenly thiugs began to rattle and the picture on the screen became unaccountably unac-countably out of focus. The audience for a moment seemed undecided what to do, as the experience was novel and baffling. There was some slight confusion and a general movement to the exits. Ray was one of the first to grasp the situation, as years previously, when playing in the northern part of the state," he had encountered en-countered the same strange disturbance. disturb-ance. He at once jumped to his feet, and, with a good-humored pleasantry, put the audience entirely at its ease. IP there is one man, either in the "movies" or other walks of life, who has taken more bumps and bruises than Albert E., otherwise known as "Bud." Duncan, the latter would like to hear from bim, with the object in view of forming a Bumpee "s club. After suffering great indignities indigni-ties at the hands of the slapstick wielded by the "heftier" member of the famous comedy team of "Ham and Bud," the diminutive "Bud'' is now an individual star. "Bud," as, be is known to millions, is one of the smallest comedians now appearing upon the screen, and has been appearing in comedy parts in which the fun-making possibilities of his small stature are given free rein. His first stage appearance was in vaudeville with Kolb and Dill. Then he entered the moving picture field as "Jeff7 in "Mutt and Jeff," and almost immediately immedi-ately captured hjmself a following which is still the envy of rivals. WILLIAM S. HART, the redoubtable redoubt-able delineator of western types for Artcraft productions, produc-tions, has concluded hjs whirlwind whirl-wind tour of western cities for the Liberty Lib-erty loan drive and obtained millions of subscriptions. The big cities he struck were Los Angeles, An-geles, Salt Lake City, Spokane, Seattle, Seat-tle, Taeoma, Portland, Oakland and San Francisco, with many others en route. His tour was made at the personal per-sonal request of Secretary McAdoo, and be has not only given his time, but of his money to the cause. Bill, when he left on the tour, made this statement: "Every dollar T have is in bonds except $824, and that is in war saving certificates." He has determined de-termined to take all his earnings during dur-ing the war and turn them over to the government. DUSTIN FARNUM discovered, hidden hid-den away upon a 150,000-acre ranch in Arizona, a young woman wom-an who seems destined in the course of time to take her place among the well-known screen artists, who have been cast into fame through mere chance. The girl in this case is Janet Ker-lan, Ker-lan, the wife of one of the largest ranch owners in Arizona. Miss Kerlan was discovered by Mr. Farnum when an' nection with another case. Sinclair asks for and receives permission to prosecute pros-ecute Eric. He directs that Eric be called for a hearing. Hope is brought in by mistake. Thinking he is charged with the fnurder, Hope tells what he saw from behind the screen. The least suspected sus-pected person in the group is held for i the murder. THE lads of Boy City, Gal., where the delightful Judge Brown stories of juvonile life are being filmed, have wonderful times carrying ou the various trades in which they have become interested. Shortly after the unique settlement was founded, found-ed, the boys decided their city required a grocery store, and Frank Grant was elected proprietor. The store was opened almost immediately imme-diately with a stock of dried fruits and with fresh apples, peaches, pears, oranges and other dainties' which have a common attraction for all boys. The scales and other equipment were late in arriving, and the proprietor soon had occasion to sell a pound of dried apricots to Martin Pendleton, the juvenile restaurateur. Neither boy knew just how much it took to weigh a pound, but after considerable study they saw a way out of the difficulty. Thev found a can of salmon, which they knew weighed a pound. Using a piece of lath balanced over an upright stick, they tied nails to one end until they balanced an empty coffee can which was tied to the other end. With the can of salmon as a pound weight, they filled the empty can with dried fruit until the improvised scales balanced bal-anced with the salmon can. Boy City merchants have established a reputation for shrewdness and resourcefulness re-sourcefulness which is attracting considerable con-siderable attention to their unique, year-round institution. FOR the coming Red Cross drive in May the motion picture industry will put its shoulder to the wheel and push over the top the effort to raise $100,000,000 for the work of this organization. In connection with their part of the drive a two-reel picture pic-ture known as "The Spirit of the Red Cross," will be shown in even- theater thea-ter in the country. The scenario was written by James Montgomery Flagg and the picture was produced by Jack Eaton. Jesse L. Lasky, vice president of the Famous "Players-Lasky corporation, corpora-tion, is the chairman of the Red Cross motion picture committee, and he is making elaborate arrangements for this drive. ry HE EAGLE'S EYE, ' ' the new I serial photodrama produced I, by the Whartons, founded on a story by William J. Jrlynn, tne recently retired chief of the United States secret service, is very interesting and novel in its disclosures dis-closures of alien spy conspiracies. Chief Flynn's story is told in twenty enosides, each relating a complete spy plot. This attraction has been booked at the Strand theater and will be presented pre-sented there, oue episode each week, beginning today. A notable feature of this production is the impersonation on the screen of Count von Bernstorff , former German ambassador to this government; Captains Cap-tains Karl Boy-Ed and Franz von Pa-psn, Pa-psn, naval and military attaches, and Dr. Heinrich Albert, the chief purveyor pur-veyor of German propaganda iu this country. Each one of these conspirators is impersonated im-personated by a talented actor selected because of his striking personal resemblance resem-blance to the man he represents. This resemblance was erified by Chief fT THE THEATERS (Continued from Preceding Page.) is blowing o gale. Our automobile wa tli e only dressing room available. "As 'rapidly as 1 could make the changes we retook parts of scenes which had been spoiled for some reason or other. Any woman who complains be-caube be-caube she hasn 't the time to dress should try an experience like mine." VIRGINIA PEARSON, Fox film star, will be seen at the Broad-nay Broad-nay Sunday and Monday, in her latest super de luxe William Fox special feature, "When False Tongues Speak," Also Hedda Nova in "The Clutch of Terror." In "When False Tongues Speak," Mi6S Pearson plays the role of Mrs. Mary Page Walton, Wal-ton, who is married to a worthless man. She takes up settlement work aud becomes be-comes acquainted with Eric Mann, a reporter. re-porter. Walton wants to enjoy the attentions at-tentions of Helen Lee. He tells his lawyer law-yer to persuade his wife to sue for di-, di-, yorce. Mrs. Walton refuses. On visit-nig visit-nig her home one evening Sinclair, the lawyer, finds the reporter in her home interviewing her. Sinclair lies about what he saw and tells Walton he can sue his wife. The following night Mrs. WuJton, who has been living at the settlement set-tlement house, visits her home. Walton secrets Helen in a closet. Jimmy Hope, a crook, is also there hiding behind a screen. The lawyer calls and Eric is coining up the walk when he hears a struggle. Suddenly the tumult within l-cascs. Mrs. Walton rushes from the Buiuse, followed by Helen, Sinclair and rhtpe. Eric enters and finds Walton 'lcav Before Eric can escape the police arrivcnd arrest him. Mrs. Walton and Hclcu are also suspected. Meantime lininiy Hope has been looked up in con- |