Show Buster Keaton Coming to Gem Buster Keaton playing Bertie the Lamb as costar with William H H. Crane in The Sap heard the great special production which comes to the Gem theatre for one week beginning Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda made his first departure from comedy to create the role of Bertie on the screen It is a role of distinguished tradition In the theatre having been created by Stuart Robson in the original production of the stage play The Henrietta In 1887 1587 and played by bv Douglas Fairbanks and Thomas W V Poss Ros In the modernized version The New Henrietta Tho The Saphead is adapted from The New Henrietta Mr Keaton had been playing with Roscoe Arbuckle in his horseplay productions productions pro pro- d for three seasons when he was seon seen by WInchell Smith who supervised supervised supervised super super- the production of The Saphead Sap- Sap head Mr Smith det detected under the tho i effects achieved acl by Mr Keaton a quiet subtlety of method that convinced him the slapstick actor would te a find in the more human field of straight comedy r It was th the same sort of ot discrimination tion that led Maxwell l Karger to take Alice Allee Lake from slapstick work into her triumph as a a. star in serious drama for Metro Or to take a striking Instance in instance instance in- in stance from the stage it was as the sort of ot selective e power po-er shown b by Belasco when he took tool David Warfield from slapstick to play in The Auctioneer Buster I eaton Keaton has been a member of the th theatrical world since he was 5 years vears old when he started on the tho ya vaudeville stage with his parents comprising comprising com com- the Knockabout of the Three He lIe was sixteen years In vaudeville playing all over the United States and Canada and most of the big cities of Europe Metro advanced him to stardom In Inthe Inthe Inthe the belief that he lie is the coming comedian comedian comedian com com- edian of the screen The producers feel that his work In The Saphead heal T Thas has Justified this belief At present he heis heis 1 is under contract to play in a ser series cs of slapstick comedies but he is expected ex ex expected ex- ex I petted In the future to return to roles I of the sort that he plays in The Saphead Sap- Sap ii head cad In The Saphead he Is Costar with William H H. Crane Others in the cast include Irving Cummings Edward Connelly Odette Tyler and Beulah Booker One of the most realistic screen fights t I ever staged on a motion pi picture ture lot was wasI j I that between Pell Tr Trenton and Irving I 1 Cummings for a scene in The Orchid now nearing completion The two men went at it hammer and tongs and the theother theother theother other stages were deserted to see the battle Both became so enthusiastic that it was necessary for them to go to the I hospitals for arnica and bandages when the battle was over Trenton who vho has played leads in more I than stage and screen productions and who has been playing in all an star casts for the past two years declares this Is the best fight he has ever had And I 1 needed the exercise too he I said |