Show 1 r Theatres The articles under this head- head headIng headIng heading Ing are furnished this newspaper newspaper newspaper per by the publicity depart depart- departments departments departments ments of or the theatres Rookies ear Known for Laughs and Thrills Rookies Metro May Gold etro-Gold May wIl ers er's latest farce comedy which has Just opened at the tho Para Para- Paramount Paramount Paramount mount theatre should have been called Laughs and Thrills in Celluloid Never has the reviewer re seen seena seenI a a. picture so replete with com com- comedy comedy comedy edy and suspense It opens with witha a laugh and closes with a thrill that is almost blood There are fights and plenty of or them riots runaway army bal bal- balloons balloons balloons loons and daring dives toward earth with slim dependence on pack parachutes attached to the tho backs of ot the players Airplanes swoop out of tho the skies directly at the camera lens bank forty feet away with a thir thir- ty foot wing spread and give the appearance of ot missing the audi audi- audience audience ence enco by inches Director Sam Wood spent an entire week above the clouds with his players filming limIng the balloon se se- se quence Beneath the basket can be seen Hollywood as the players climb about the rigging of ot the bal bal- balloon balloon balloon loon and dangle by their hands The story stor a farce by b Byron Morgan is laid against the background back background background ground of or a citizens' citizens military training camp and the picture was filmed limed with the operation co-operation of or orthe the government and a number of or regular army officers assigned to training camp duty dut There are drills of ot every branch of or the army service as well as athletics and sham battles giving giving givIng ing an Idea of or what may be ex ex- expected ex- ex expected expected by those desiring to at at- attend attend attend tend one of or Uncle Sams Sam's training camps for his citizens The Tho cast is an exceptionally good gool one and Karl Dane and George K Arthur make their de debut de- de debut debut but as a film comedy team Mar- Mar Marceline celine Day has the role of ot the tho girl in question and Louise Lor Lor- Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine raine Is the vamp Both men fall In tn love with Marceline but Dane In his capacity of or a sergeant serg serg- sergeant sergeant has the upper hand over Arthur who is only a private and anda a green one at that If It this is an example of or what this new screen team can do lets let's lets let's have bave more morel |