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Show Play at American Features Gripping Situations TJOSE PETERS believed in man. Sne looked on the protestations of love of one of the species as gospel. She v.as one k of thousands who were yet to be stung by the asp of doubt, disillusionment. disillusion-ment. In that maddening moment when the mask fell from the face of the smiling too much smiling Lothario, she typified outraged womanhood, hoMing within her power and her palm the thing called retribution. And when that inscrutable in-scrutable force called circumstance put her own father, as an emissary of justice, jus-tice, on a trail that doubled back to his own home, there to find his daughter cowering, with the fear in her eyes that told him that she had looked on that which was the semblance of death, did j he execute the warrant which would publicly place on her forehead the brand of Cain? Duty was a fetish with Detective Peters; Pe-ters; love of his orphaned daughter was the one softening inlluence in his life of man -hunting. A mysterious telephone call, a desk sergeant ready to take Detective De-tective Peters's report and fate executes exe-cutes another maneuver fully as strange as anything she had contrived beforehand. before-hand. That, in brief, is the story of "From Headquarters," a picture presented at the American yesterday and seen by a greater composite throng of screen adherents ad-herents than has ever witnessed a dramatic dra-matic picture performance in this big theater on any single day in the history of the house. Critics have called "From Headquarters" Headquar-ters" a wonderful picture. They have not half expressed the wonder of the pro-! pro-! duction. With Anita Stewart and Earle Williams heading a cast of the screen's best, the play is enacted in so lifelike a manner that nothing along histrionic lhies equals It. Each one of the many tense situations is set out in all its gripping grip-ping exemplification. The stars are at : their best throughout, leaving nothing to be required along Hues of high-class acting. act-ing. The play is well photographed and ' superbly screened. "From Headquar-i Headquar-i ters" will be shown again today. Miss Peggy McClellen, New Performer, Will Appear as Addition to New-house New-house Revue Tonight. WHEN" the new revue opens at the Nevhouse tonicht patrons wilt be introduced in-troduced to a new performer. Miss Peggy McClellen, who has been brought here from one of the big San Francisco revues. Miss McClellen is sai.l to possess a most remarkable voice and she will be heard In several classical and popular ballads. Several new and snappy songs will be introduced tonight, chief among which is the big trench song, -Kicking the Kaiser Around," presented by Bob Robison and the chorus, tic veal appealing numbers will be sung by Evelyn Francoeur and the bright galaxy of revue maidens, while the popular Bromley sisters will offer some new specialty soi:gs and clever dances. Unusual and fetching costumes will add to the lavishness of the new show and a sparkling medley of the season's breeziest songs will climax the revue with a "down-to-date'' finish. |