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Show Friday, January 27, THE OGDEN POST STAGE - SCREEN EGYPTIAN Saturday, George OBrien in Sharp Shooters"; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, I Aura La Plante in Silk Stockings. PARAMOUNT Now playing. John Gilbert in Man, Woman and Sin; Sun day, Monday, Tuesday, On the screen Two Flaming Youths and, on the stage, Function and Marco present Will King and hia Revusical comedy. ORP1IEUM Today and Tomorrow, Pantages Vaudeville; beginning Sunday, Richard Barthelmess in The Noose. OGDEN Saturday, Ruck Jones in Blood Will TtH"; Sunday, Monday, Rriant Washburn in Modern Daughters; Tuesday, Wednesday, Ross of Rust- One of the most complex complicated pieces of machinery in the world is one of the simplest to run, to George Bancroft, screen I refer to the railroad loactor. comotive. t,.e There are three lever engineer to worry about Thats auHa even easier than running an long tomobile. First, theres a big from lever that sticks up vertically When It s the floor of the cab. moves forthe shoved forward, engine When its Pushed backward, ward. the engines in reverse. This is the first operation and is done before tne engine starts. Then theres the throttle. Pullen-it backward, a little way and thelittle a gine starts slowly. Pull it more and tfce engine gathers speed. Push it forward as far as it will go, and the engine starts slowing down. the The only other lever controls delmost the is one This brake. air icate, because if it is opened wide, the engine stops too suddenly. Of course, there are many other things a good engineer has to know, but these are the fundamental operations in running an engine. Bancroft learned to run a locomotive (under the watchful eye of the real engineer) during filming of the Paramount railroad comedy, Tell It To Sweeney," which will be seen at the Colonial Tuesday and in which both he and Chester Conklin portray engineers. Both Bancroft and Conklin confessed separately and privately that running an engine had fulfilled an ambition formulated when they were boys. ! lers Roost LYCEUM Saturday, A1 Wilson in Sky High Saunders; Sunday, Mary Astor . in Rose Clipper - , cinatlng A Ilarp in Ilock. COLONIAL Saturday, Three in Exile, Half Pint Hero, ia the comedy; Sunday and Monday, Wallace Reery and Ramond Hatton In Fireman Save My Child," The Lighter That Failed is the comedy; Tuesday and Wednesday, George Bancroft and Chester Conklin In 'Tell it to Sweeney; day. Po,a Neri ,n The Woman on Trial. WHITE CITY GARDEN H Dancing Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Music by Jack Fansey and hia White City Rund. BKRT1I AN A Dancing Wednesdays and Saturdays. Music by OJie Reeve and hia orchestra. A SAILING MANS TEMPTATION ; ot Moran O'Brien George ATTMSCTION r WIU.IAM row i George OBrien anTT Lois MorarT, in the stellar roles of Fox Films Sharp Shooters, which ia playing at the Egyptian today and Saturday prove a delightful team with their humor and romance. Laura La Plante Stars in Comedy "Silk Stockings ; in Sharp which a woman will go if her child is taken from her through trickery and force. While the picture is one of essential drama in the romantic scale, the fashion element will also interest many women. . Miss Negri appears in the latest and most lavish gowns and fairly scintillates with gorgeous gems. work ia done by Commendable Einar Hanson, leading man; Arnold Kent, suave Parisian with a touch of villainy, and Andre $arti who por-rathe husband. In fact, the act-n-g throughout is of a smooth sort that is a relief to the Shooter T The story has a picturesque back- round of Morocco, New York and the 6 nited States Nsv; enhanced by the sweetness of Miss Moran, as a nautch girl, in a foreign dive and the subtle comedy of OBrien as the hard-boilsailor. Laura La Plante, Universals beauPola Negri, in a role superbly suittiful blonde star, will be seen on the ed to her exotic temperament, is due W03IAN and SIN Metro-Goldwy- two-by-fo- ur HERE HE Coming Soon The Most Beautiful . Picture of All Times "Seventh pol-lish- ed critical-minde- Heaven d. The direction is a matter of admiration. Mauritz Stiller, who made Hotel Imperial again infuses a Continental savor into his work, developing each sequence with a sure land, while bringing effects into play that add much to the picture. Miss Negri has repeated the success that attended Hotel Imperial and Barbed Wire. For the literary inclined, it may he mentioned that 'The Woman on Trial is based on a stage play by Ernest Vdjda, noted Hungarian dm matist. to win many plaudits through her finished performance in The Woman on Trial. The Paramount production opens Thursday at the Colonial theatre and will remain for a run of two days. 45he appears as a modern woman of fashion in Paris wedded to a rich husband whom she does not love. A dual theme is carried out, one indiMarshal: Yes, this is the fire decating the stars unquenchable love partment. Do you want to report a for an artist, sick and in poverty; the fire? other bearing on love for her child and New Bride: Oh, no, I just want to the extremity even to murder to order coal and wood foi the winter.1 as though I have awakened from a long sleep, like Rip Van Winkle, to find the world a bigger, better, happier and more colorful place to live I am sure that people living then will live lives as totally different from ouri as day is different from night. Id like to come back then just for a in. peek: Wouldnt you? to am I afraid wall what One car of scenery and a cast of comes predict which Kings Revusical comedy, to the Paramount theatre on Sunday, happen in a hundred years from now. 45, mostly girls. Monday and Tuesday ia that in an automat eating place in the dim and distant future. Queer things take place then, according to the comedians version in Haircuts and the humorous skit. shaves are obtained in the twinkling of an eyelash as easy as it is to cut a piece of lit. And other wondrous Direction L. Marcus Enterprises things happen. The skit gives Will King himself III! NOW considerable amusement and deep HI JOHN thought, too. He wonders what the world will be like a hundred years GILBERT from now. Probably, he says, not all the foolish things will happen as With JEANNE EAGELS they do in the revue, but the world will change just as it has changed in Star of Rain the last hundred years, he knows. in Even in my day on the stage, he 31 AN, says, I have noticed a remarkable change. Audiences have changed types of audiences, I mean. In the old days the idea of getting n A Mayer drama the crowds that now throng the moof infatuation of golden pastion picture palaces was unthinkable. sions on the rocks of a womans Movies were dim' little afairs, shown past! in dinky movie houses. And all the legitimate stage fun had CHARLIE CHASE to be obtained in regular theatres, The in Wsy of All Pants burlesque and the like. Paramount News Now what do we find? Huge edifices erected to the everlasting glory Jk of the motion picture. And as part of the program are revues that would SUNDAY : 3IONDAY : TUESDAY have been the last word or rather ON THE STAGE that was really never dreamed of more than a score of years ago. It all seems IS! STAN LAUREL A Fanchon & Marco Idea , COMEDY ys er Pola Negri Wins Plaudits in The Woman on Trial AMUSEMENTS - Greatest Show This Bancroft 3fasters Season Says Ashton Monster of Steam For New Comedy One of the funny scenes in Will AT THE THEATRES Featuring WILL KING 111 111 GIRLS! GIRLS! SHOWS Sunday Featuring LEW DUNBAR BESSIE HALL FRED PIERCE JUNE CLYDE 2:45, 4:10, 7. 9:10 Monday & Tuesday 2, 4:10, 7, 9:10 CARLOAD SCENERY PRICES Matinees 15c 30c 45 PEOPLE MIRTII AND MUSIC WE REPEAT: THE GREATEST SHOW EVER AT THE Evenings 15c 35c PARA3IOUNT wmi TIBBS and His BAND W.C. JANET GAYNOR 50c Matinee Prices Until 6:30 Mon. and Tues. IJjjj ONTHE SCREEN CHESTER FIELDS CONKLI "V and CHARLES FARRELL 0HAKIHGY0UT MAX? niAM-JAC- K. a paramount UTOKN :gx- - oimoH i Its at the Paramount this A big show and big laughs in this of a small town side show! THE Fine Show! --An- other PARAMOUNT NEWS IN IIIS REVUSICAL COMEDY' G-r- -r Now Playing ii iau rnv : BIG SHOW! COLONIAL SATURDAY THREE IN EXILE Jove Qmct Qdventtttin thi'Jbttkef CklL LAUftN LA PLANTE, VllK. STOCKINGS" 4 joovcr'N screen of the Egyptian theatre starting Sunday in her latest release, Silk Stockings. This is a story which is admirably suited to Miss La Plantes unique talent as a comedienne. She has always scored her greatest successes in light farce and Silk Stockings is an ideal vehicle. Miss La Plante became a comedienne by chance. Her first real roles were leads in very serious Western melodramas in which she played the innocent country girl beset by the villain and all his henchmen. By a lucky break she was chosen to play opposite Reginald Denny in a picture. Denny, of course, is noted as a comedy star. But when the picture was previewed it was discovered that Miss La Plante stole many of the This was especially true laughs. in Skinners Dress Suit" made slightly more than two years ago. After that Carl Lucmmle definitely groomed her for stardom in her own name. Each of her comedies has increased in entertainment value, and now she is recognised as the screens greatest comedienne. Supporting her in Silk Stockings which Wesley Ruggles directed are John. Harron, Otis Harlan, William Mcrcclla Daly, Austin.Tcmpo Ruth Chernngtonrigot, and Heinie Conklin GEORGE OBRIEN-LOI- W11UAM DEMARE ST S - JOSEPH MORAN RvyMnWlRMfl BLYSTONE production. release. Half Pint Hero Is the comedy. SUNDAY AND MONDAY FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD! With Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The boys landed in the net of popular approval with Behind the front and strengthened their hold with Were in the Navy Now. Heres their best yet a tale of two brave fire laddies who burn up the town. , THE LIGHTER THAT FAILED Is a Metro-Goldw- yn comedy. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY i TELL IT TO SWEENEY An Amazing Narrative of the Navy and the Ports of Far-OPlaces! With George Bancroft and Chester Conklin. A railroad story thatll sorely switch your affections to this new comedy team. ff Comedy and News IRENE RICH TERMINATES tion in New York and is returning to Hollywood this week. She was in the east for one week to examine the current crop of Broadway plays for possible vehicles and to visit Fifth avenue shops. Upon her return to California she will prepare for the ?&lo0o he,r new Warncr Inures for human intelligence. SWICKARD' ADDED FEATURES Irene Rich has terminated her vaca. A picture that grips from the, opening scene to the final fadeout The work of Rex, this wonder dog, is considered the greatest ever done by a canine actor. The horse endears himself by his remarkable sagacity and almost . Smmmrwtj MARION OSJU SHORT STAY IN NEW YORK Latest Tathe News Dorothy Gulliver in the Collegians No Raise in Prices Ilalliday at the Wurlitzcr THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THE WOMAN ON TRIAL With Tola Negri, in a A drama of 1928' Paris! A tale of the Latin Quarter and of the Champs Ely sees! Of artist and millionaire! Of and hate: Of love and But dont miss Pola Negris dynamic new drama, The Woman on TriaL Its one of the season's best! hap-pinne- ss Always a Good Show 1928 Coming Soon The Lone Eagle Comedy and News |