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Show STAGE - SCREEN - Kota AMUSEMENTS Let the Doctor By! New Pictures of Ogden . Sennett Found Langdon First Scene Shot in Gene Halliday, Egyptian Organist, Has Laurel Has a Fever! Uncle Toms Cabin Vaudeville And Scenic Spots Come Playing Second Anniversary of Coming to Ogden To Egyptian on Sunday After Picture Made Items taken from a biogrtDhiwi On Broadway chart of SUn Laurel, Hal Motion pictures of Ogden canyon, the wells, and the leading industrial taken by Edward Elants of Ogden Denver Chamber of for the Commerce and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, on which is shown the Moffett tunnel, Denver, scenic points in Southern Utah and Salt Lake, will be shown at the Egyptian theatre for four days beginning next Sunday. This was the announce ment of Manager L. H. Peery this week. The pictures were made as an Gene Ilalliday Gene Halliday, the popular has presided at' the console of the Giant.Wurlitser in the Egyptian theatre for two years. His second an niversary was observed last week, with a party as compliments of the management. Halliday is one of the recognized organists of ability in the west. For the past nine years he has been at the consoles of the organs in the Seattle, Spokane, Idaho Falla and other western theatres. He is a pupil of Oliver Wallace and Eddie White, at the Console of the nation's recognized orgah-isi- i. Next month Halliday plans on siiending his vacation with both of hi former teachers. Ilslliday'a music at the Egyptian theatre has been one of the, big features of the excellent programs which Ogden..s theatre beautiful has offered its patrons. The management has been complimented upon numerous occasions by visitors from other cities upon the excellent music which is played to the pictures. tls Interesting: Stories About Screen Stars ALAN DROOKS (De Mille Player) Alan Brooks is a New Yorker from the tips of his toes to the topmost wisp of his sandy hair, having been bom and reared in that metropolis. His father, an expert accountant, planned to have Alan become a great lawyer. Alan agreed, but upon his graduation from high school, he became acquainted with some persons who were interested in the commercial end of theatre. Then but seventeen, he offered s job in s touring troupe, specializing in the most lurid melo-d- i ama, and because Alan was the only member of the Company who possessed a dress suit, he was promptly made the stock villain. For . three months he played the bad man; then he was offered s part in Henry W. The College Widow, V Savages which he played for three seasons. He ided to try the musical com edy field and joined the company of Stubborn Cinderella, playing a amail part and understudying John Barrymore who played the lead. This was followed by an engagement in a comedy role in another musical show, The M:dnight Sun." , Convinced ' that he w s tx la tx ad- vertising talking point for Denver and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, with the scenic points along the line. As Ogden is the western terminus of the railroad, and has one of the scenic attractions of the west in Ogden canyon it was decided that this city should also be included in the pictures. These pictures will be exhibited in all the principal theatres of the country. was not overly fond of musical comedy, he secured a part in Mary Roberta Rineharts play, ChecrtUp," followed by a high comedy role in The Reckless Age, both of which weTe financed by Cecil B. De Mille and Jesse Lasky. their last two theatrical ventures before entering the moving picture field. Brooks then went into vaudeville under De Milies management. writing as well as starring in all his skits. Alan has also appeared in an occasional play, having played an important part in Rachel Crowthers recent, hit, Expressing Willie," as well as in support of Lionel Barrymore in The Piker." Follow-n- g this, Brooks signed up with Cecil B. De Mille, his first screen appearance being in Young April," with Rudolph Schildkraut, Joseph Schild-kraand Bessie Love. This splendid actor is now at work in Pals In Para-disa Metropolitan production tased on Peter B. Kynes famous story. He has blue eyes, weighs 180 pounds and stands six feet two inches. Mack Sennett discovered Harry Langdon, whom he is now presenting in His First Flame," a Pa tliie feature comedy, right on the one and only Broadway. One evening, about three years ago, Sennett was a vaudeville pe at the attending Palace theatre in New York,L when To the sixty million moving picture fans in this country who confidently believe that a moving picture is photographed the way it is shown on the screen, a peek at the continuity sheet and daily work sheet of "Uncle Toms Cabin" would be a tremendous illumination. How the director and his assistance steer a straight course in a production of some two thousand script scenes and covering a year and a half in point of time is one of the mysteries of the ftiovies. there appeared on In Uncle Jorns Cabin, for inthe stage a small, stance, there are almost two thousand charscenes in over a hunlocated acter, with big, script dred different seta and locations. Mm sv Lamcoom expressive eyes. Each of these scenes, with their varim . He was tinkering close-up- s, medium and long shots with an automobile that suddenly col- ous camera angles must be shot sepand into of score a pieces. lapsed While the crowd roared, the vaude-villia- n arately. These shots must match, interlockstood abashed, his eyes apparwith one another in unbroken seing into nether the ently gazing away toquence, Often scenes showing perworlds, hit lipa tightly pressed sons leaving a house are filmed weeks his countenance a gether, revealing after the scenes of the same people confusion of distracted thoughts. in the interior of that house. The player was Harry Langdon, erstwhile medicine man with a tent 'The strangest scene sequence on record, however, is believed to be the show, later an opera bouse on but work of Harry Pollard, who is directnow landed Broadway. er, Right then and there the Pathe p:ro- - ing Uncle Toms Cabin," at Uni ducer, who had introduced the K ey- stone Cor the famous bathing studio in California. ana many other innovations to Langdons first Sennett Pathecoih-ed- y an eager public, 'knew that he had was titled Picking Peaches," and made another valuable find." He it was enough to prove that Sennett quickly secured the comedians signa- had scored again as a student of the ture to a contract and took him to the stars. ' sad-viaag- ed , median in Pathe comedies, indicS the seriousness with which he loot, at life in the great open spaces of thil world: Famous Relatives Rupert 0 Ilentzau, Miles Standish and Cantah Applesauce. Hobby Throwing eggs into B lights. Pastime I stand mute on m- - leni ' rights. Ambition To pick a sliver out of a fleas eye with boxing gloves on. .The tomato, form many years f United States in about 1800, was regarded generally as an ornamental plant Ow ing to lU relation to nightshade it was considered poisonous. After this prejudice was broken down the use of tomatoes soon became general. ter ita introduction into the versal City. On one night last week, almost a year after the stert of shooting this massive, production, the very final scene of the picture was photograph, ed and the next morning marked the shooting of the opening scene of the drama. Another month is expected to witness the completion of Uncle Toms Cabin," on which close to $2,000,000 will have been expended. It is d that it will have its early faQ opening on Broadway, New York. antici-pate- NOW PLAYING 0 0 Big Added Feature Royal Hawaiian Orchestra BEAUTY SPOTS 3 imp. Edition run wh the ore Th Sti Orchestra Bury ; ON THE SCREEN LAURA lost Show a ibu in the great ti,esc trib beprm titumal PRICES wived omean p to th eenved. STARTINH VJi i 0 4 THURSDAY 0 at 0 July Saturday-Sunday-Monda- y, 2-3- 0 0 4 Ogdens Ideal Playground For Young and Old Airplane d Another Big Anniversary Week Picture . . . One of a Thousand . . Thriiis. Bayard Veiller i s greatest story with Ralph Lewis, Marguerite de la Motte, Johnnie Walker and others. Powerful Gripping, Mystifying Well Equipped Playground Refreshments and Candy at City Prices Bowery for Picnic Base Ball. Ogden vs. Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 f i nearly Waite Dell be taper Alb fteh K Ha Th 0 W 0 0 Cons Hi f Fi 0 Ern Beei ttn 0 Roller Skating 00 Afternoon and Evening 0 Band Concerts 0 Sunday and Monday X A Lj 0 Let the kiddies swim in the safe swimming hole Merry-Go-Roun- Witho xe, NO RAISE IN - it is ad !oat"on Hie Love Thrill -- to abm" comedy picture 0 0 0 spend ible i . Pony Rides very defer i which 0 Days in hich Singers and 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nsieal o Lorin Farr Park 0 0 LIFE IN HAWAII stive Roal Hawaiian tx bx bx tx tx bxbx tx yx bx bx ; lotion he fi 0 ;01iam AND NATIVE with the - in playing leading roles and headed itraight for stanlom. Opposite Monty Banks in Play Safe," a Bathe feature comedy, Virginia has a role that calls for tears, laughs and some daring stunts. 0 0 0 unty. einng leRoye hestn, LA PLANTE 0 0 0 0 bets He. Ot Mye An ex ft 0 0 0 0 0 tevost Pro only yesterday that was a chubby baby ginia Lee hing playing kid roles in comedies and giving assistance to such grown ) stars as Bessie Barriscale and arren Kerrigan. And now shes a leautiful young woman of seventeen, Vir-Corb- !tmfer on :r in of tt is in the App Baby Star Grows Up It seems talons ew Met Roya ut e, Few tooths h 0 0 0 A ADDED FEATURES Van Bibber Comedy, Pathe News No Raise in Prices Society Architect Pathe Topics Gene Halliday at the Great Wurlitzer OGDENS COOLEST SPOT Mat, |